Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Cloud, App Economy Converge to Create Extremely Lightweight Businesses

Cloud, App Economy Converge to Create Extremely Lightweight Businesses
Forbes
With the rise of cloud computing, we're seeing more of a new breed of extremely lightweight company, unencumbered by capital investments, acting as a broker of services assembled from offerings drawn from or supported by third-party providers.

Forbes

How Mobile Changes the Voice Industry: Thoughts From ShoreTel Investor Day
Forbes
I recently attended the ShoreTel investor day in San Francisco at AT&T Park to learn more about the evolution of voice as mobile and cloud computing become more prevalent in all markets. ShoreTel recently announced plans to acquire M5, a cloud hosted ... 

Cloud Services Provider CenterBeam Selects HP to Support Customer Demand
MarketWatch (press release)
based CenterBeam provides midsize businesses with enterprise-class cloud computingservices, including hosted customer relationship management (CRM), hosted collaboration, virtual data center services and data storage management.

Ipanema Technologies Appoints VP of Cloud Services
MarketWatch (press release)
Van der Wal, who heads a newly-formed cloud services business unit, is responsible for defining Ipanema Technologies' cloud services strategy leveraging Ipanema's technology to penetrate new markets. "Today companies embrace cloud and Internet ...

Yes Virginia -- Cloud Computing Will Create More Jobs than the Internet!
Forbes
They accessed cloud applications for email, HR, marketing, collaboration and more. In less than a year, the company grew revenues to $5M and added 30 new employees. They expect to double revenues this year — and add another 30 employees.

Forbes

Dimension Data Extends Cloud Footprint to Amsterdam and Sydney
SunHerald.com
NEW YORK -- Dimension Data plc, the US$ 5.8 billion ICT services and solutions provider today announced the availability of new Public Managed Cloud Platforms™ (MCPs), its integrated platform for the delivery of cloud services, in Amsterdam, ...

Blancco Highlights Role of Data Center Equipment Erasure in Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Data Center World 2012, LAS VEGAS, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- With continued adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud computing solutions, 92% of key IT decision makers in a recent corporate survey indicated that they intend to ...

Cloud computing draft code released
Stuff.co.nz
The emerging cloud computing industry is opting for self-regulation in a bid to close down cowboy operators who may lose customers' data. Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service over a network such as the internet.

While You're in the Cloud, Can We Intrude?
Fox Business
Cloud computing has become a little bit like trendy fashion wear: Early adopters are aggressively moving in-house IT to “the cloud” while those with a more cautious style are taking the “hybrid” approach, keeping some data in house and moving other ...

Cloud computing vital for CIO career prospects: report
iTWire
Australian CIOs have tied their future career prospects very much to the mast of cloud computing, with recent research revealing that they believe cloud computing is shifting the focus of their role away from primarily technology onto vital business ...

Microsoft Inches Closer To Delivering Cloud-Based ERP
InformationWeek
The crux of the news: Dynamics NAV 2013 and Dynamics GP 2013 will be enabled for Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, and they will be generally available by the end of this year. A beta release of NAV 2013 is expected by May, ...

Okta Boosts Single-Sign On for SaaS
eWeek
My tests showed that “out of the box” Okta was able to successfully manage the login process for nearly all of my test cloud services. In the case where Okta did not already have an application in it's library of nearly 1250 cloud-based services the ...

Cloud Computing: Apple to Pay Dividend
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Breaking with tradition - and changing the definition of a growth company in the process - Apple Monday morning said it would start paying a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share in the September quarter. At $10.60 a year that would currently be about a ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

CRN Names Bluelock to 2012 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors List
PR Urgent (press release)
... cloud, today announces it was named one of the 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors by CRN. The comprehensive list highlights the most innovative companies across the five majorcloud categories: cloud platforms, cloud infrastructure, cloud storage, ...

Cloud conversation shifting to new concerns
FCW.com
By Camille Tuutti Discussions around federal cloud computing no longer center around whether to make the migration, but how to do it in a smart way, according to a General Services Administration official. Delivering a keynote at the Cloud Standards ...

Salesforce Service Cloud and Customers Take Home Four 2012 CRM magazine ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) , the enterprise cloud computing ( http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/ ) company, today announced the Salesforce Service Cloud has won two CRM magazine 2012 ...

CaymanSecurity.com Introduces Secure Cloud Hosting Services
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
CaymanSecurity.com announced yesterday that they will now provide affordable, easy to usecloud services that allow the average user to store and share files. (PRWEB) March 19, 2012 A simple way to build world class private clouds is being offered by ...

How cloud computing saves businesses big money
AGBeat
Cloud computing has long been a hot topic, but many still don't grasp what it is or understand the cost savings associated with operating in the cloud. It's not a sci-fi term, it's a simple tech term that can save businesses big money.

M-Files Cloud Vault 2.0 Lifts ECM off the Ground and into the Cloud
Houston Chronicle
M-Files Inc., the developer of M-Files flexible enterprise content management (ECM) software and the cloud-based service M-Files Cloud Vault, today announced the immediate availability of M-Files Cloud Vault 2.0, which includes major new enhancements ...

Jolicloud Me, A Personal Cloud Organizing Serivce, Opens In Beta Today
TechCrunch
Today marks another step in the evolution of cloud services for consumers: Jolicloud, the Paris-based company that was one of the first to move on offering users a “cloud-based desktop,” today moved on another product that extends what users can do in ...

How GSA is securing its cloud apps
Computerworld
GSA says the combination of a unified directory service, single sign-on software that covers bothcloud- and premises-based applications, and two-factor authentication is allowing the agency to meet regulatory mandates for information security.

Merciless Cloud will slay storage arrays - Nasuni chief
Register
In effect, the enterprise storage array will be replaced by a cloud storage gateway controller. It's in Nasuni's interests to push this message, as it is in the cloud storage gateway business, as well as to emphasise that cloud storage can be reliable ...

Cloud Computing Can Serve As an Effective Tool for Small Businesses
ARC Advisory Group
Now a days, the much talked about subject is cloud computing. Cloud computing is being heralded as bringing about a marked change in the business models of organizations and bringing the small businesses at par with the global players.

Virtela Announces Advanced Automation & Predictive Analytics for Virtualized ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DENVER, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Virtela, the world's largest independent managed network, security and cloud services company, today announced that its award-winning automation and predictive analytics platforms have been extended to ...

Small Business Looking for Easy Road to Cloud Computing
MSPmentor
Cloud technology is supposed to simplify the IT environment, so it should not be a surprise that SMBs also seek simplicity in how their cloud solutions are delivered. According to results of a new Dell-sponsored survey of 400 companies with 50 to999 ...

Cloud Expo New York: The Cloud and the Network – a Match Made in Heaven
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The importance of an enterprise-grade network at the center of cloud services cannot be overstated. Without it, private clouds are closed systems and public clouds are vulnerable to security breaches. The optimum cloud is one that is network-based, ...

Cloud Computing Stocks Still Climbing; Up 21% In 1Q 2012
TalkinCloud
by Joe Panettieri on Cloud computing stocks continued to rally during the week ending March 16, 2011. Indeed, our Talkin' Cloud Stocks Index — which tracks 20 SaaS, cloud services and cloud computing companies — rose 1.23 percent for the week ending ...

Citrix releases desktop as a service improvements for providers
Computerworld
One of the new features is an app orchestration technology that allows service providers to automate the design, configuration, maintenance and launch of cloud services through a single console. "Basically, they can manage more customers with less ...

Amazon cloud integration in Building Applications in the Cloud
TechTarget
The fact is that application integration is one of the more complicated aspects of cloud computing, as Christopher M. Moyer told us recently while we discussed issues of iPaaS and application integration. Moyer, vice president of technology at content ...

University Relations program – IBM Cloud Computing Workshop at ...
By Joydipto Banerjee
IBM India recently organized a cloud computing workshop at one of India's premier technical institutes, Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Kharagpur, at the annual technology festival, Kshitij 2012. This is just one of the many industry-academy ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew J. Schitz, CEO of ...
By candicearnold
Cloud storage is a cost-effective way for businesses to secure data or quickly recover them when they've been lost. And there are ... MJS: I'm best known for having been CEO of two successfulcloud computing companies. The first one was a ...
Sramana Mitra

Enterra Insights: HP Blog Provides Primer on Cloud Computing
By Steve DeAngelis
Here is where cloud [computing] can help. Consuming public cloud services for 'context' services leaves a smaller IT team available to focus on the delivery of the 'core' services required by the business. Virtualizing and automating the ...
Enterra Insights

Top 5 Best Cloud Storage Packages
By iharrison30
And so now most of us have turned to Cloud Storage, the Cloud Computing revolution that has been stomping all over our digital lives. However this is not simply just for backing up purposes, with the ability to practically carry our computers in ...
Techmedia Fusion

Rational Survivability » Security As A Service: “The Cloud” & Why It's ...
By beaker
Cloud Computing Image (Photo credit: Wikipedia). If you've been paying attention to the rash of security startups entering the market today, you will no doubt notice the theme wherein the majority of them are, from the get-go, organizing around ...
Rational Survivability

Cloud computing - Infrastructure v platform (as a service) - Microsoft ...
By HowieT
Cloud computing - Infrastructure v platform (as a service). MSDN Blogs ... There are also other supported models, if a customer has very sensitive data that they don't want to necessarily put into Public Cloud Services. One solution is to use a ...
MSDN Blogs

Cloud Computing – The Ultimate Wave | The Business Cloud Blog
By bshell
Cloud Computing – The Ultimate Wave. ... Stay tuned for part 2 – Force #2: the Bandwidth Explosion. Tags: brian shellabarger, cloud computing, cloud services, data center, datacenter, Exchange hosting, Hosted Exchange, Intermedia ...
The Business Cloud Blog

Transitioning a Full Enterprise to - Cloud Computing Journal - Sys ...
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in New York City, June 11-14, 2012, and in Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8, 2012. The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Cloud Services Provider CenterBeam Selects HP to Support ...
By David Marshall
HP today announced that cloud services provider CenterBeam has selected HP Converged Infrastructure to support the increased capacity demands of its cloud service offerings and joined the HP CloudAgile Program. ... based CenterBeam provides midsize businesses with enterprise-class cloud computing services, including hosted customer relationship management (CRM), hosted collaboration, virtual data center services and data storage management. The rapid expansion of ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...

New Cloud Computing Pros & Cons – Stephen's Lighthouse
By admin
Cloud Computing Pros & Cons. A couple of links about the current thinking in cloud computing: The Library Cloud Pros and Cons. Library Journal Digital Shift. By Edward M. Corrado & Heather Lea Moulaison ...
Stephen's Lighthouse

Download Gladinet Cloud Desktop 4.0.856 - FileHippo.com
Gladinet Cloud Desktop mounts cloud storage as local folders. Users can access their cloudfiles in Windows Explorer. Supported storage includes Amazon S3, AT&T Synaptic, Box.net, EMC Atmos onLine, FTP, Google Docs and Picasa, ...
FileHippo.com

How Have Cloud Services Impacted Your Business? - Honeywell
By John Smith
What plans do you have to move to cloud-based services in your organization? They're not the fluffy white things in the sky. These days, when someone says “cloud,” almost everyone thinks of IT and cloud computing. Most of us don't realize ...
Honeywell

OVER 5000 AFRICAN STUDENTS TO BENEFIT FROM ...
By admin
Eight secondary schools in Africa have now received the PC as a Service solution, a cloud-computing solution that provides schools with a low-maintenance, easy-to-use model that is optimized for mobile broadband networks.
Mobile World

Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement ...
7. as standards for cloud computing emerge, thoughtful ... beginning with the question of whether or not an open source cloud storage solution is right for you.
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2204760

Are you paying too much for cloud services?
Burns believes there is somewhat of a misnomer about paying for cloud services. While many consumers think they are paying for resources they use in the ...
www.networkworld.com/.../031512-cloud-services-257338.ht...

New Cloud Computing Pros & Cons – Stephen's Lighthouse
Cloud Computing Pros & Cons. A couple of links about the current thinking in cloud computing: The Library Cloud Pros and Cons. Library Journal Digital Shift ...
stephenslighthouse.com/2012/03/.../cloud-computing-pros-co...



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