Tuesday, March 27, 2012

In Cloud Computing, Money Isn't Everything

In cloud computing moves, money isn't everything
GigaOm
26, 2012, 12:05pm PT  While saving money is a commonly reason cited for moving IT to the cloud, it is really not the overriding driver at all for most companies, according to new research. What's more important than cost savings?  ...ability to standardize their software and business processes across the company . . .

GigaOm

Cloud computing plusses: Backup, document sharing
Chicago Daily Herald
By Jim Kendall Let's begin with Jason Burton's simplified explanation of cloud computing, which, he says, is your ability to “access data and software that is stored on another system, away from your business.” The remote servers housing information ...

MessageSolution Showcases Managed Service Provider Archiving, eDiscovery and ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
MessageSolution, the global technology leader in enterprise information archiving and eDiscovery, will be exhibiting its award-winning MSP Hosted Multi-Tenant platform, cloud computing and on-premise archiving solutions at Microsoft Hosting Summit 2012 ...

Investing in Cloud Computing Companies
Investment U
by Gary Spivak, Investment U Research Cloud computing is simply any technology service, such as an application, infrastructure or platform that is offered to customers over the internet. [Editor's Note: I'd like to introduce our readers to one of our ...

Investment U

Gladinet Cloud Version 4.0 Released
MarketWatch (press release)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Gladinet has announced a new platform to provide cloud storage solutions for collaboration, file storage, backup and team workspaces. Gladinet Cloud version 4.0 also seamlessly integrates ...

Intel rises to the cloud
BetaNews
By Joe Wilcox Cloud computing presents both challenges and opportunities for personal computing giants. Microsoft is "re-imagining" Windows for cloud-connected devices. Meanwhile, Intel rethinks its microprocessor strategies for mobile devices and ...

BetaNews

Beebe: Cloud services will force acquisition reform
FierceGovernmentIT
"Cloud first" cannot reach its full potential without changes to federal acquisition policies, said Hank Beebe, chief information officer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. "[Cloud computing is] going to force, in my opinion, ...

Cloud Computing On Horizon For Smartphones
CRN
By Edward J. Correia, CRN Many IT departments have been committing acts of virtualization for years. Servers, storage, networking and desktops all have fallen victim to our erstwhile inventiveness, while demonstrating with relative ease that ...

Cloud Computing: Opscode Gets $19.5 Million Round
SYS-CON Media (press release)
"The widespread adoption of scale-out IT infrastructure, including virtualization andcloud computing, has created significant IT complexity and a skills shortage in the enterprise. While today's next-generation technologies have made accessing vast...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Opscode has head in clouds with new funding
Computerworld (blog)
Cloud-computing management software startup Opscode is announcing a big funding boost. Its open-source Chef product and service seem to have given some hungry VCs a healthy appetite. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers run the numbers.

Emerging Markets Lead the Way in Cloud Application Adoption
MarketWatch (press release)
MUMBAI, India, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Large companies in Latin America and Asia Pacific are the most aggressive adopters of the cloud computing paradigm, while their European and US counterparts remain conservative about shifting ...

Using personal cloud storage with fast-moving Gladinet
The Australian
USING personal cloud storage such as SkyDrive and Google Docs can be annoying as the storage is web based. And accessing personal FTP storage is cumbersome. While Microsoft offers an attractive web interface for its SkyDrive cloud storage system in ...

Big end of town ready to take the plunge with cloud computing
The Australian
Research firm IDC says cloud services revenues are forecast to climb from $470.3 million in 2010 to $2030m by 2015 at a compound annual growth rate of 34 per cent. Much of this growth will come from organisations using cloud computing for the first ...

HP and IBM Battle for Cloud Equipment Market Leadership; Cisco Closes the Gap
MarketWatch (press release)
This report provides quarterly revenues and market shares for computing systems, storage systems and networking infrastructure that are used to support the provision of public and private cloud services. The fourth quarter of 2011 saw cloud equipment ...

Cloud Software Startup Opscode Adds $19.5M to Fuel Growth
Xconomy
Today's exhibit is Opscode, a cloud-computing software provider that just scored $19.5 million in new venture financing. The funding round, led by Bellevue, WA's Ignition Partners, will help Opscode grow its engineering team, which already has a branch ...

Amazon to provide Indian cloud services over Tata infrastructure?
CFOworld
By Sophie Curtis Amazon could be preparing to launch cloud services in India, after it emerged that the company has been buying up infrastructure from telecommunications provider Tata Communications in its home markets. Speaking to Techworld at the ...

Cloud computing to create more than 20000 new jobs for Philly by 2015, not ...
Technically Philly
Cloud computing is projected to create 20000 new jobs in the Philadelphia region across numerous industries by 2015, not just information technology, according to new analysis by analyst firm IDC. The report's findings indicate that professional ...

NatGeo moves its media archive to the public cloud
Computerworld
By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - The National Geographic Society announced that it will now back up and archive its large unstructured multimedia files on Nirvanix's Cloud Storage Network. Physical storage upgrades, along with the data migration ...

Cloud Computing: Yahoo Promised Proxy Fight
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Yahoo said late Sunday that it has named three independent board members in an attempt to foil Third Point, its largest stockholder, from staging a proxy fight at the next stockholders meeting whenever that is.

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Think Education goes for smarter strategy with cloud computing
The Australian
WHILE many businesses take a gradual approach to the adoption of cloud computing, one Australian company has used it to re-design its entire IT infrastructure. Private education group Think Education has shifted about 70 per cent of its systems on to a ...

Opscode lands $19.5 million; cloud infrastructure automation
ZDNet (blog)
“This is an extremely exciting time for Opscode as it creates and leads the infrastructure automation market during a period of major IT transformation, driven by the rapid adoption ofcloud computing and the 'DevOps' movement,” Connors said.

Cloud Plans: Open Letter To Enterprise Application Vendors
InformationWeek
I'm sure you've been following the hype about cloud computing, but let me assure you that it's more than just hype. As the CIO for my organization, I think that cloud architecture is the future for both our internal infrastructure and our external, ...

Offshore cloud computing security under a cloud
The Australian
Dr Zia said there was no exact data on how many Australian organisations used overseas-based cloud-computing providers, but outsourcing was a widely adopted trend. He said organisations could take advantage of cloud services from other countries at a ...

Morphlabs, Dell pitch all-SSD private cloud — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
The company's newest offering, which is part of a partnership with Dell, targets service providers that want to add private cloud computing capabilities that interoperate with AWS as needed. ...appeal of a private cloud — or at least a hybrid cloud that lets companies keep some applications and data under their purview — is one reason Amazon partnered with Eucalyptus, which will makes it easier for companies to link Eucalyptus-based private clouds with public AWS cloud services.
GigaOM

Baidu To Launch Cloud Storage Service | TechNode
By Gang Lu
Looking at the cloud storage sector, we got startups such as Kanbox, YUNIO, QBox and so on, and big ones like Everbox from Shanda, Kuanpan from KingSoft, DBank from Huawei etc. We just got one big one, Baidu which currently is testing ...
TechNodeTechNode | TechNode

Research And Markets: Global Public Cloud Services Market 2011 ...
TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Public Cloud Services market to grow at a CAGR of 29 percen,Research And Markets: Global Public Cloud Services Market 2011-2015 Report Features Players Such As Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., ...
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Encrypted Cloud Storage – The missing piece | Porticor Cloud Security
By Ariel
Encrypted Cloud Storage – The missing piece. March 26, 2012 By Ariel. Cloud computing brings many advantages including elasticity, flexibility, and pay-per-use. But when looking at cloudsecurity, and specifically encrypted cloud storage the ...
Porticor Cloud Security

Mark your Calendar: Key Spring Federal Cloud Computing Dates
By Laura Greenback
Now that Spring has arrived, it's time for cloud providers and tech companies that do business with the federal government to mark their calendars with the season's key cloud dates, opportunities and deadlines. March: Progress on Shared ...
SIIA Digital Discourse

SAP Newsroom – Cloud Computing for Wholesale Distributors: You ...
By Karen Lynch
It's cloud illusions I recall. I really don't know clouds at all. Sound like something you can relate to? Figure 1. Let's take a moment and talk about cloud computing; what it is, and how it can help your company be more nimble, efficient and profitable. ... That said, many public cloud servicesare offered on a pay-per-usage model, or subscription model. These pay for service solutions are typically feature/function rich, and used to conduct enterprise business transactions. PrivateCloud ...
SAP Newsroom

Quest » Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing ...
By primmc
Co-author: Jack Dongarra This book is the first modern, up-to-date distributed systems textbook. Starting with an overview of modern distributed models, the book exposes the design principles, systems architecture, and innovative applications ...
Quest

HOB, Inc. Takes Aim at Cloud Computing with Secure Remote ...
By David Marshall
HOB, Inc. today announced it has addressed the debate of public versus private cloud computing. Enterprises are progressively recognizing the advantages of central data storage. This trend is being driven by the promise of cloud computing.
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...

Gladinet Cloud Version 4.0 Released - Press Release
By Gladinet
Online Collaboration, File Storage, Team Workspaces and Backup Solutions for Google Cloud Storage, Google Docs, Windows Azure, Amazon S3, Rackspace, OpenStack.
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Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » Mythbusters: Cloud Computing Is a ...
Cloud computing gives you a new way to access many different types of software, no matter how small your company It seems that everyone's talking about how.
blogs.cisco.com/.../mythbusters-cloud-computing-is-a-deploy...

Cloud Roundup: Cloud Computing Expected to Produce 14 Million ...
... 5 revealing that spending on cloud services will produce nearly 14 million jobs ... As companies continue to adopt cloud-computing practices, more than 2 ...
mozy.com/.../cloud-roundup-cloud-computing-expected-to-pr...

INSA Report: Cloud Computing for the Intelligence Community
The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) released its newest white paper, “Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the ...
www.infosecisland.com/.../20688-INSA-Report-Cloud-Compu...

Seven Cloud Computing Trends to Watch in 2012 (Part 1) | Cloud ...
With 2012 well underway, a few new trends in cloud computing have already been identified. At all levels of implementation, cloud hosting continues to ...
cloudcomputingtopics.com/.../seven-cloud-computing-trends-t...

SAP-Commissioned Study Estimates Cloud Computing to Create ...
Report Cites Megatrends Mobile, Social and Big Data to Propel the Growth of Cloud Services. WASHINGTON, DC - March 14, 2012 - Cloud computing is a ...
www.sap.com/corporate-en/press.epx?PressID=18503

Oni Launches New Cloud Services for Enterprises Using CA ...
Now, we will be able to rapidly deliver cloud services in a cost-effective way, ... For more information about CA Technologies cloud computing offerings, visit: ...
www.ca.com/.../Oni-Launches-New-Cloud-Services-for-Enter...

NEC UNIVERGE® Cloud Services Unified Communication-as-a ...
UNIVERGE Cloud Services UCaaS completely changes the way you purchase communications and redefines the way you communicateĆ¢€“ truly empowering ...
www.necam.com/Services/Cloud/doc.cfm?t=CloudUCServices

Managing Datacenter Identities for Cloud (Cloud Computing Central)
Managing Datacenter Identities for Cloud Among top challenges for cloud , I discussed Security as the top concern. I also detailed the top concerns with regard ...
https://www.ibm.com/.../managing_datacenter_identities_for_c...

HOB, Inc. Takes Aim at Cloud Computing with Secure Remote Access Product Line
MarketWatch (press release)
HAWTHORNE, NY, Mar 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HOB, Inc. today announced it has addressed the debate of public versus private cloud computing. Enterprises are progressively recognizing the advantages of central data storage. This trend is being driven ...

Nirvanix Offers Direct Connections to Cloud Storage within Equinix Data ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"By offering direct connections to our Cloud Storage Network, Equinix customers running a cloud computing environment or a SAN storage infrastructure can now establish an immediate and direct connection into our public cloud for on-demand storage ...

Cetrom Brings Custom Cloud Computing Solutions for Law Firms to the ABA ...
MarketWatch (press release)
VIENNA, Va., Mar 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cetrom Information Technology, Inc. (Cetrom), a leader in providing comprehensive Cloud Computing solutions, announces it will bring its custom Cloud Computing solutions for Law Firms to the American Bar ...



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1 comment:

what is cloud computing said...

Currently I work for Dell and thought your post is very impressing. I think Cloud computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. A simple example of cloud computing is Yahoo email or Gmail etc.

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