Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Cloud Storage AND CLOUD SECURITY

For cloud services, security first - growth second, is the winning strategy
Forbes
I had an opportunity to interview the CEO of Egnyte, which has tackled the numerous security concerns that cloud storage introduces. Vaneet Jain describes the enterprise focus they have at Egnyte. Central policy and administrative controls can tie in ... 

The Truths, Untruths, and Fuzzy Truths of Cloud Security
Wired News
I recently wrote two articles about the growth of cloud computing: The Perfect Storm for Cloud Computing, and Enough Already! Cloud Computing Is Here to Stay. Both articles were written with the intention of concreting the fact that businesses and IT ...

World Cloud Computing Industry Trends Examined in New Research Study Published ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
New market research study "State of the Cloud: Analysis of Cloud Services, Companies, and Applications" elaborated by Mind Commerce Publishing has been recently published by Market Publishers Ltd. The study suggests that the understanding of business ...

Cloud Computing is New Wall Street Boom Says NIA
MarketWatch (press release)
2012 will be remembered as the year in which cloud computing started to become widely adopted worldwide. Cloud computing is expected to create 14 million new jobs globally by year 2015. In the consumer space, Gartner is predicting that cloud services ...

Radware Wins TMC's 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
MarketWatch (press release)
"Our ADC-VX is designed to help our cloud provider customers achieve significant savings while enabling superior business agility to support dynamic network needs. Receiving the Cloud Computing Excellence Award is another proof point for Radware's ...

TwinStrata Increases Cloud Storage Gateway Market Reach to Australia via ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"We're delighted that Cloud Solutions Group has joined our select group of CloudArray cloud storage gateway resellers," stated TwinStrata vice president of sales, Ann Doyle. "IDC predictscloud services spending by Australian companies will quadruple ...

Etherios Set to Expand Enterprise Cloud Computing Services Globally
MarketWatch (press release)
CHICAGO, Mar 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Etherios, a leading enterprise cloud computingservices company, today announced it is expanding to serve a growing base of customers in North America and worldwide. Fueled by an investment from salesforce.com ...

Aryaka Named "Top Cloud Storage and Data Center Vendor for 2012" by CRN
MarketWatch (press release)
"SaaS-based WAN optimization vendor Aryaka is banking on what it calls its WAN optimization-as-a-service platform, which has been tailored for speeded-up cloud computing environments. Aryaka can take that cloud WAN optimization to new heights.

Social Media and Cloud Computing Top Internal Auditors' Technology Hot List ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MENLO PARK, Calif., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Increasingly, internal audit professionals must possess a strong understanding of hot areas of technology such as cloud computing and social media - and the risks they bring - in order to ...

Media Invited to 'All About the Cloud' -- Leading Annual Forum for Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
... and digital content industries, in partnership with OpSource, Inc., the leader in enterprisecloud and managed hosting, invite media to attend All About the Cloud--the software industry's most comprehensive ISV conference on cloud computing.

Nasuni Test Uncovers Dangers of Cloud Storage Provider Lock-In
MarketWatch (press release)
In the report, Nasuni provides details and results from tests in which it moved data directly from one cloud to another using cloud compute resources. Nasuni virtualizes cloud storage and is able to deliver non-disruptive cloud-to-cloud migration in ...

Piston Cloud Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Mar 20, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack company, today announced they have earned a spot on the AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 winners list. Inclusion in the OnDemand 100 signifies ...

PowerOneData International Now Offers a Cloud Computing Based Smart Grid Solution
MarketWatch (press release)
When combined with P1DI's Smart Meter technology, GENII(TM) a highly innovative, cloud computing based, meter to mouse application, gives electric utilities the most comprehensive package of functionality ever offered in an AMI solution.

Honeywell Introduces Attune(TM) Advisory Services, Connects Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MINNEAPOLIS, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today introduced its new Attune(TM) Advisory Services, a suite of professional services that combinescloud-based tools and analytics with a global network of operations ...

In the cloud, your data can get caught up in legal actions
ITworld.com
Such actions create additional risks when that data is in the cloud . With cloud computing, data from multiple customers is typically commingled on the same servers. That means that legal action taken against another customer that is completely ...

Oracle has some cloud convincing ahead
ZDNet (blog)
Oracle's third quarter earnings conference call will have a healthy dose of Exadata hardware chatter, but a survey indicates that a little more elaboration on the cloud computing story is in order. The fiscal third quarter will be an interesting one ...

Power your mobile strategy with a cloud
ITworld.com
March 20, 2012, 7:27 AM — Mobile devices will soon be driving cloud computing -- and vice versa. Here's why: It's very sensible to use a private cloud for security, management and other aspects of mobile applications. But getting there will require ...

Making Cloud Computing Work
Fox Business
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Cloud Computing Industry Attempts to Police Its Own With CloudCode
Technorati
Cloud computing as an industry is a little too much like the wild, wild west, far too unregulated for companies whose mined data is as important as bags of gold nuggets. Wanting to provide some measure of security, cloud servicesorganizations and ...

Technorati

How to Launch a Cloud Computing Initiative
NuWire Investor
The market has been responding to this need in the form of “cloud computing”, a new marketing term that encompasses outsourcing a major piece of your cost-laden exposures to a more acceptable “pay-as-you-use-it” business model.

Cloud-bound agencies must do their homework on security, accountability
GCN.com
By Henry Kenyon Cloud computing may be catching on in government, but many organizations are still contemplating their first steps. And they face a range of challenges in getting started, a panel of experts said during the AFCEA Belvoir Industry Days ...

Egnyte offers hybrid cloud computing service for enterprise file-sharing
V3.co.uk
by Daniel Robinson Cloud computing storage firm Egnyte has unveiled a new service for enterprise customers, aimed at meeting the need for employees to share documents in a scalable and secure solution that combines on-premise andcloud-based storage.

V3.co.uk

Cloud Computing: Three Million New iPads Sold over the Weekend
SYS-CON Media (press release)
After Apple said early Monday that it would start paying a $10.60-a-year dividend and buy back stock to spend down its massive cash horde - something some people say Steve Jobs would never have done - and after its stock closed at over $600 for the ...
 
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Research and Markets: How Western European Telcos Meet the Cloud Computing ...
SunHerald.com
Pyramid Research believes it is critical for operators to educate clients on how they can benefit from cloud computing, as demonstrated in a case study of Orange in a recent Pyramid report. How Western European Telcos Meet the Cloud Computing Needs of ...

Intacct Named to OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies List for Third Straight Year
MarketWatch (press release)
The award is given to cloud computing vendors that are disrupting large markets and challenging entrenched players with innovative systems and rapid growth. Intacct will be honored by AlwaysOn at the OnDemand 2012 event on April 4 in Cupertino, ...

AMD Opteron 3200 Chips Target Cloud, Web Hosting
eWeek
Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out a low-cost, low-power Opteron chip aimed at Web hosting and cloud computing environments. The Opteron 3200 family, which is being shown this week at the World Hosting Day event in Germany, is AMD's latest effort to ...

Moving data into Amazon's cloud is easy—getting it out, not so much
Ars Technica
Nasuni conducted five series of tests, in each case moving 12TB of data between two cloud services. The results, announced today, show that moving data out of Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) takes far longer than moving data out of Windows Azure ...

AMD Launches New Opteron Chip For Cloud Computing
Investor's Business Daily
By DOUG TSURUOKA, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 01:13 PM ET Chipmaker AMD unveiled a new processor Tuesday geared to Web hosting and cloud-computing customers. The product is part of AMD's (AMD) ongoing Web/Cloud initiative. But the Sunnyvale, Calif ...

Cloud Infographic: The Cloud Computing History | CloudTweaks ...
By cloudtweaks
Cloud Infographic: The Cloud Computing History A nice infographic produced by Salesforce illustrating the history of Cloud Computing. Source: Salesforce.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

eDiscovery Will Follow the Cloud Computing Boom
By Charles Skamser
Cloud computing is expected to create 14 million new jobs globally by year 2015. In the consumer space, Gartner is predicting that cloud services will be on 90% of personal consumer devices by year 2015 so that consumers can store, ...
The eDiscovery Paradigm Shift

Flying high: Microsoft praises Nervogrid's white-label cloud services ...
These award-winning white-label cloud services are already having a huge impact on the way leading IT service providers and telcos deliver cloud services to their customers throughout the Nordic and Benelux countries.
Cision Wire

CLOUD COMPUTING « EHRScope.com
Cloud computing is widely popular in today's emerging computing world, on the basis of its prime functionality to provide disruptive hosted services over the Internet. Cloud Computingmeets the specific needs of the individuals ... Nirvanix, a cloud storage provider, has its prices from around 20 cents per gigabyte of storage each month, wherein uploads as well as downloads made by its users would be charged additionally. What next? With so much clutter in the informative world of ...
EHRScope.com

Nasuni Test Uncovers Dangers of Cloud Storage Provider Lock-In ...
“Enterprise IT professionals increasingly want to know that any data they store in the cloud is not 'stuck' in that cloud” Nasuni virtualizes cloud storage and is able to deliver non-disruptive cloud-to-cloud migration in the same manner that ...
Enterprise Communications and...

Cloud Computing – The Ultimate Wave | The Business Cloud Blog
By bshell
Cloud Computing – The Ultimate Wave. ... Stay tuned for part 3: Force #3: Mobile Device Proliferation. Tags: bandwidth, brian shellabarger, cloud computing, cloud services, Exchange hosting, Hosted Exchange, Intermedia ...
The Business Cloud Blog

China's Three Telcos Invest 47 billion in Cloud Computing » M.I.C. ...
By Star Chang
China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile have decided to invest a sum up of 300 billion yuan (US$47.4 billion) in data centers in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, to create a hub of cloud computing and other internet-related ...
M.I.C. Gadget

Google Cloud Storage adds several highly requested features ...
By Scott Knaster
By Navneet Joneja, Product Manager Google Cloud Storage enables you to use our storage and network infrastructure to store and access your data with high reliability, scale and performance. Today, we're launching several frequently ...
Google Developers Blog

Seven Cloud Computing Trends to Watch in 2012 (Part 2) | Cloud ...
By Olafur Ingthorsson
Cloud hosting providers will continue to offer a la carte pricing to allow companies to purchase only the level of service they need, but most web hosting providers will also offer packages incorporating the most popular cloud computing services. ... Web hosting providers will continue to expand their cloud services to include these new trends and better serve the needs of their customers. Overall, 2012 ... Print. Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage Tagged With:Cloud Security ...
Cloud Computing Topics

GreenPages Technology Solutions Brings independenceIT's Proven ...
By David Marshall
The solutions will be made available as part of GreenPages' Virtualization & Cloud Computing and Managed Services offerings. iIT's cloud computing solutions will give GreenPages' customers the ability to quickly and easily access all of their ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...

Dropbox: Rising Leaders In Cloud Storage — Infographic Labs
By David
MIT graduate Drew Houston co-founded Dropbox back in 2006 when he got tired of keeping track of his USB flash drive. He knew there must be a faster, more convenient and safer way of not just storing data but also sharing it. Today Dropbox ...
Infographic Labs

What is Cloud Computing?
By Richard May
The number of 'as a service' products that can be included within the Cloud umbrella are limited only to the imagination of the business and the technology available to them, with more Cloud services being created on a daily basis.
Cloud Computing | Cloud Providers...

Sweet! Lenovo and SugarSync Launch Lenovo Cloud Storage by ...
By info@dailydisruption.com (Daily Disruption)
“Lenovo Cloud Storage plays a fundamental role in our plan to expand Cloud services, bringing even more new capabilities to consumers and businesses around the world.” Easy, Secure Access & Automatic Updates. Lenovo Cloud Storage ...
Daily Disruption

Cloud computing is entering its teen years - Digg
Cloud computing is growing up, and it's time for IT management to loosen its grip. It won't be an easy transition, and each environment requires its own solution.
digg.com/news/.../cloud_computing_is_entering_its_teen_year...

Cloud Storage Options Rapidly Expand for Businesses and ...
The cloud storage market is hot: IDC is projecting that the market for public and private cloud storage will be in excess of ... Executive Editor, Cloud Computing ...
it.tmcnet.com/.../276388-cloud-storage-options-rapidly-expan...

Is cloud computing a risky business? | Visual.ly
The old concept of decentralized data combined with parallel processing ( remember mainframes) seemed to have eased the data congestion by opening doze.
visual.ly/cloud-computing-risky-business



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