By Dana Gardner | March 21, 2012, 9:21am PDT Summary: Business units' demand for speed and agility is leading them to circumvent IT and acquire cloud services, more than half of them from unmanaged clouds. Cloud computing may be taking the business ...
Execs to IT: Take these cloud services and manage them
InfoWorld
By Ted Samson | InfoWorld If the BYOD (bring your own device) trend wasn't flummoxing enough for IT admins, now they're increasingly contending with BYOC (bring your own cloud), where end-users enlist public cloud services -- think Amazon Web Services ...
EMC Expands Cloud Services, Applications Offerings
eWeek
Businesses' rising use of virtualization, cloud computing, mobile and big-data applications have all dramatically altered how organizations deliver and manage information. That compelled EMC to offer its security-advisory services, and it's now helping ...
RingCentral Integrates With Cloud Services Box, Dropbox and Google Docs
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN MATEO, CA, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- RingCentral, Inc., a leading provider of cloud business phone systems, today launched RingCentral CloudFax(SM), the first ever cloud-based, fully integrated fax service offering the ability to send ...
EMC Expands Cloud Services to Accelerate the Transformation of IT Environments
MarketWatch (press release)
EMC® today announced an expanded portfolio of cloud services to accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimization, and management of cloud computing. The new cloud servicesalign to the following critical elements of delivering IT-as-a-Service ...
Miami Cloud Computing Conference in April to Address Flood of Digital Information
MarketWatch (press release)
PORT WASHINGTON, NY, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cloud computing end-users and technology thought-leaders will be gathering at the Downtown Miami Hilton, April 16-17 at the Cloud Computing Association's (CCA) two-track conference focusing ...
NEC Launches UNIVERGE Cloud Services UCaaS
MarketWatch (press release)
IRVING, Texas, Mar 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today made public its plans to launch UNIVERGE Cloud Services, a set of enhanced Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings recently announced by NEC Corporation (NEC) ...
EMC Extends Cloud Services Portfolio
NetworkComputing.com
The company says the new additions to its cloud services portfolio will accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimization, and management of cloud computing, and will align to such critical IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) elements as cloud infrastructure, ...
Box, Rackspace, Terremark, Amazon Web Services and Google Among Cloud ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The most prominent companies in cloud computing are scheduled to exhibit and speak at CloudFair 2012. The most prominent companies in cloud computing will exhibit new products and services at CloudFair 2012, the largest cloud computing conference in ...
Another Cloud Computing IPO That'll Price Big
CNBC.com (blog)
The hot IPO this week is — what else — another cloud computing-type company, ExactTarget (check ticker when live: I've used "cloud computing" as a generic term, but companies like ExactTarget are really about interactive marketing, ...
NEC to add earthquake sensors to its cloud services
Computerworld
By Jay Alabaster IDG News Service - NEC said Wednesday it will add small earthquake sensors to the growing set of devices that work on its cloud-based network platform. The company said it will team up with a small Japanese firm called aLab, ...
CIO, Meet The CFO: 5 Ways To Get More From Your Cloud
Forbes
Cloud computing may be the most disruptive technology for businesses since the Internet.Cloud doesn't just optimize IT departments, it has the power to change how a business operates. The transformative power of cloud computing, however, ...
Amazon comes out on top in cloud data transfer speed test
InfoWorld
A study investigating the amount of time it takes to transfer 12TB of data from one cloud to another shows there can be up to a 25 times difference in transfer speed among providers. Nasuni, which provides cloud storage using various public clouds, ...
Cloud Washing and Its Effect on the Cloud Computing Industry
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The imposters are nothing more than "cloud washing." True cloud computing is three things: virtualized, scalable and automated. Businesses in the market for cloud services should investigate the vendors and resellers delivering the service to identify ...
Oracle: Hardware business decelerates, cloud combat coming into view
ZDNet (blog)
Meanwhile, Oracle battle plan for cloud computing comes into focus. Oracle delivered a solid third quarter, but worries about the hardware business are multiplying among analysts. On the bright side, Oracle's other big question mark—the cloud ...
Cloud Computing = Green IT … Right?!
Billing World (blog)
But a common assumption, even in the green IT community, is that cloud computing is the only way to achieve green IT. This is, at least on the surface, true, but the reverse is not: Cloud computing is not always green. Let me explain.
The Cloud, Day 25: The Cloud Is Becoming Mandatory
Computerworld
The goal has been to figure out whether or not relying on the cloud is a good idea. The reality, though, is that the cloud may not be optional. The mobility trend is driving demand for the cloudand in some cases making cloud services mandatory to some ...
Minimize Privacy and Security Risks in Cloud Computing
Albany Times Union
Robert J. Scott, Managing Partner, of intellectual property and technology law firm Scott & Scott, LLP, will discuss how to minimize four categories of cloud computing risk in his presentation – Privacy and Security Risks in Cloud Computing - at [SNW ...
BMC Software Survey Signals Comprehensive Cloud Strategy is Needed to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The survey, published in a study entitled “Delivering on High Cloud Expectations,” reveals increasing tension between business and IT stakeholders. With a growing demand for publiccloud services, CIOs are rightly concerned that business teams are ...
A Cloud of One's Own
New York Times (blog)
Cloud services from Apple, Amazon and others help alleviate the storage problem, but they come with annual fees. The services from iTunes and Amazon are free for lower capacity storage, but then jump to $25 a year and up. Seeing an opportunity, Western ...
New York Times (blog)
The Consumerization of Cloud Analytics
Datamation
Now users of cloud analytics are getting on board. One of the most pervasive trends in the technology world is the 'consumerization of IT'. THINKstrategies believes this same pattern is beginning to emerge in the business intelligence (BI), ...
Use a tiered cloud strategy to skirt outages
InfoWorld
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld Two seemingly unrelated events in the cloud computing space should make you think about taking a different approach to your sourcing strategy for the cloud. The first event: Cloud outages, such as the recent Microsoft ...
Oracle's Crystal Ball Still Cloudless
TheStreet.com
By Chris Ciaccia 03/21/12 - 10:53 AM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Oracle's(ORCL) third-quarter earnings were better than expected, but its cloud computing business continues to struggle to gain traction, losing out to companies like Salesforce.com(CRM), ...
TheStreet.com
Cisco, Benchmark And Venrock Back Cloud Storage Company CTERA Networks
TechCrunch
CTERA Networks, a company that provides managed cloud-based storage and data protection for SMBs, has raised an undisclosed round of funding led by Venrock, with a strategic investment from Cisco Systems and participation of existing investor Benchmark ...
TechCrunch
Dell delivers one-stop cloud computing service based on OpenStack
V3.co.uk
by Daniel Robinson Dell is looking to position itself as a one-stop provider for cloud computingwith the launch of a reference platform based on OpenStack and Ubuntu, running on Dell hardware and backed by its service and support know-how.
Avoid Flying Blind Into the Cloud: A ScienceLogic Video With CTO Antonio ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RESTON, VA, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Business and IT professionals who feel that they are flying blind into the cloud have a new on-demand cloud computing Webinar to consult, guided by ScienceLogic(TM) Inc. CTO Antonio Piraino and ...
Eucalyptus Selected as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA BARBARA, CA, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of its OnDemand Top 100 winners.
Quantum Enables Major Leap Forward for Cloud-Based Data Protection
MarketWatch (press release)
Finally, it is the basis of a multi-faceted plan to make the benefits of Quantum's cloud-optimized technology available through other public and private cloud services this year, including new Quantum-branded offerings. All of this reflects a strategic ...
HTC likely to launch cloud computing music service in 2H12, say ...
HTC is expected to venture into cloud computing music service that will provide cross-platform, cross-device mobile music experience to end users in the second half of 2012, with its subsidiary Beats Electronics responsible for planning, ...
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia
InfoWorld
By Ted Samson | InfoWorld If the BYOD (bring your own device) trend wasn't flummoxing enough for IT admins, now they're increasingly contending with BYOC (bring your own cloud), where end-users enlist public cloud services -- think Amazon Web Services ...
EMC Expands Cloud Services, Applications Offerings
eWeek
Businesses' rising use of virtualization, cloud computing, mobile and big-data applications have all dramatically altered how organizations deliver and manage information. That compelled EMC to offer its security-advisory services, and it's now helping ...
RingCentral Integrates With Cloud Services Box, Dropbox and Google Docs
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN MATEO, CA, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- RingCentral, Inc., a leading provider of cloud business phone systems, today launched RingCentral CloudFax(SM), the first ever cloud-based, fully integrated fax service offering the ability to send ...
EMC Expands Cloud Services to Accelerate the Transformation of IT Environments
MarketWatch (press release)
EMC® today announced an expanded portfolio of cloud services to accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimization, and management of cloud computing. The new cloud servicesalign to the following critical elements of delivering IT-as-a-Service ...
Miami Cloud Computing Conference in April to Address Flood of Digital Information
MarketWatch (press release)
PORT WASHINGTON, NY, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cloud computing end-users and technology thought-leaders will be gathering at the Downtown Miami Hilton, April 16-17 at the Cloud Computing Association's (CCA) two-track conference focusing ...
NEC Launches UNIVERGE Cloud Services UCaaS
MarketWatch (press release)
IRVING, Texas, Mar 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today made public its plans to launch UNIVERGE Cloud Services, a set of enhanced Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings recently announced by NEC Corporation (NEC) ...
EMC Extends Cloud Services Portfolio
NetworkComputing.com
The company says the new additions to its cloud services portfolio will accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimization, and management of cloud computing, and will align to such critical IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) elements as cloud infrastructure, ...
Box, Rackspace, Terremark, Amazon Web Services and Google Among Cloud ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The most prominent companies in cloud computing are scheduled to exhibit and speak at CloudFair 2012. The most prominent companies in cloud computing will exhibit new products and services at CloudFair 2012, the largest cloud computing conference in ...
Another Cloud Computing IPO That'll Price Big
CNBC.com (blog)
The hot IPO this week is — what else — another cloud computing-type company, ExactTarget (check ticker when live: I've used "cloud computing" as a generic term, but companies like ExactTarget are really about interactive marketing, ...
NEC to add earthquake sensors to its cloud services
Computerworld
By Jay Alabaster IDG News Service - NEC said Wednesday it will add small earthquake sensors to the growing set of devices that work on its cloud-based network platform. The company said it will team up with a small Japanese firm called aLab, ...
CIO, Meet The CFO: 5 Ways To Get More From Your Cloud
Forbes
Cloud computing may be the most disruptive technology for businesses since the Internet.Cloud doesn't just optimize IT departments, it has the power to change how a business operates. The transformative power of cloud computing, however, ...
Amazon comes out on top in cloud data transfer speed test
InfoWorld
A study investigating the amount of time it takes to transfer 12TB of data from one cloud to another shows there can be up to a 25 times difference in transfer speed among providers. Nasuni, which provides cloud storage using various public clouds, ...
Cloud Washing and Its Effect on the Cloud Computing Industry
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The imposters are nothing more than "cloud washing." True cloud computing is three things: virtualized, scalable and automated. Businesses in the market for cloud services should investigate the vendors and resellers delivering the service to identify ...
Oracle: Hardware business decelerates, cloud combat coming into view
ZDNet (blog)
Meanwhile, Oracle battle plan for cloud computing comes into focus. Oracle delivered a solid third quarter, but worries about the hardware business are multiplying among analysts. On the bright side, Oracle's other big question mark—the cloud ...
Cloud Computing = Green IT … Right?!
Billing World (blog)
But a common assumption, even in the green IT community, is that cloud computing is the only way to achieve green IT. This is, at least on the surface, true, but the reverse is not: Cloud computing is not always green. Let me explain.
The Cloud, Day 25: The Cloud Is Becoming Mandatory
Computerworld
The goal has been to figure out whether or not relying on the cloud is a good idea. The reality, though, is that the cloud may not be optional. The mobility trend is driving demand for the cloudand in some cases making cloud services mandatory to some ...
Minimize Privacy and Security Risks in Cloud Computing
Albany Times Union
Robert J. Scott, Managing Partner, of intellectual property and technology law firm Scott & Scott, LLP, will discuss how to minimize four categories of cloud computing risk in his presentation – Privacy and Security Risks in Cloud Computing - at [SNW ...
BMC Software Survey Signals Comprehensive Cloud Strategy is Needed to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The survey, published in a study entitled “Delivering on High Cloud Expectations,” reveals increasing tension between business and IT stakeholders. With a growing demand for publiccloud services, CIOs are rightly concerned that business teams are ...
A Cloud of One's Own
New York Times (blog)
Cloud services from Apple, Amazon and others help alleviate the storage problem, but they come with annual fees. The services from iTunes and Amazon are free for lower capacity storage, but then jump to $25 a year and up. Seeing an opportunity, Western ...
New York Times (blog)
The Consumerization of Cloud Analytics
Datamation
Now users of cloud analytics are getting on board. One of the most pervasive trends in the technology world is the 'consumerization of IT'. THINKstrategies believes this same pattern is beginning to emerge in the business intelligence (BI), ...
Use a tiered cloud strategy to skirt outages
InfoWorld
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld Two seemingly unrelated events in the cloud computing space should make you think about taking a different approach to your sourcing strategy for the cloud. The first event: Cloud outages, such as the recent Microsoft ...
Oracle's Crystal Ball Still Cloudless
TheStreet.com
By Chris Ciaccia 03/21/12 - 10:53 AM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Oracle's(ORCL) third-quarter earnings were better than expected, but its cloud computing business continues to struggle to gain traction, losing out to companies like Salesforce.com(CRM), ...
TheStreet.com
Cisco, Benchmark And Venrock Back Cloud Storage Company CTERA Networks
TechCrunch
CTERA Networks, a company that provides managed cloud-based storage and data protection for SMBs, has raised an undisclosed round of funding led by Venrock, with a strategic investment from Cisco Systems and participation of existing investor Benchmark ...
TechCrunch
Dell delivers one-stop cloud computing service based on OpenStack
V3.co.uk
by Daniel Robinson Dell is looking to position itself as a one-stop provider for cloud computingwith the launch of a reference platform based on OpenStack and Ubuntu, running on Dell hardware and backed by its service and support know-how.
Avoid Flying Blind Into the Cloud: A ScienceLogic Video With CTO Antonio ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RESTON, VA, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Business and IT professionals who feel that they are flying blind into the cloud have a new on-demand cloud computing Webinar to consult, guided by ScienceLogic(TM) Inc. CTO Antonio Piraino and ...
Eucalyptus Selected as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA BARBARA, CA, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of its OnDemand Top 100 winners.
Quantum Enables Major Leap Forward for Cloud-Based Data Protection
MarketWatch (press release)
Finally, it is the basis of a multi-faceted plan to make the benefits of Quantum's cloud-optimized technology available through other public and private cloud services this year, including new Quantum-branded offerings. All of this reflects a strategic ...
HTC likely to launch cloud computing music service in 2H12, say ...
HTC is expected to venture into cloud computing music service that will provide cross-platform, cross-device mobile music experience to end users in the second half of 2012, with its subsidiary Beats Electronics responsible for planning, ...
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia
[Infographic]: International Cloud Computing Policies
By David Strom
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped ...
ReadWriteWeb
WHD 2012 – Cloud Services Firm LuxCloud Launches Public Beta ...
By Nicole Henderson
Cloud service distributor LuxCloud announced on Wednesday in the first session at World Hosting Days that it has launched the public beta of its new reseller cloud service Hosted365. ...Cloud services distributor LuxCloud has launched the public beta of Hosted365, its new resellercloud service. Related Topics: cloud computing, luxcloud, reseller, world hosting days 2012. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud service distributor LuxCloud announced on Wednesday in the first ...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
Cloud Computing - The Ultimate Wave | The Business Cloud Blog
By bshell
Cloud Computing - The Ultimate Wave. ... transformation. The question is: Will you be riding the wave, or watching from the shore? Tags: brian shellabarger, cloud computing, cloud services, Exchange hosting, Hosted Exchange, Intermedia ...
The Business Cloud Blog
SAP-COMMISSIONED STUDY ESTIMATES CLOUD COMPUTING ...
By PalFX
Report Cites Megatrends Mobile, Social and Big Data to Propel the Growth of Cloud Services. March 21, 2012 PALFX: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – March 21, 2012 - Cloud computing is a powerful catalyst for job creation and has greater ...
PalFX - Information Services
On-demand Cloud Computing Video
By Antonio Piraino, CTO
ScienceLogic CTO Antonio Piraino and featured analyst John Enck, managing vice president at Gartner, give advice about cloud computing migration and management.
ScienceLogic
SAP-commissioned study estimates cloud computing to create ...
By Blackmere
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - March 21, 2012 - Cloud computing is a powerful catalyst for job creation and has greater potential for employment growth than the Internet did in its early years, according to a new study by the Sand Hill Group, ...
Blackmere Consulting
CTERA Networks Adds New Investment Round for Local, Cloud ...
By Richard
Computing data and power is moving to Cloud Computing - We'll keep you informed ... “As business users are drawn into unsecured consumer cloud services, enterprise-grade cloud storage is quickly becoming a must-have for service providers and enterprises,” said Liran Eshel, CEO of CTERA Networks. “CTERA makes it possible for these organizations to create services that have consumer ease-of-use, enterprise security and choice of infrastructure. This recent round of funding, ...
Cloud News Daily
Social media, cloud computing top internal auditor's hot list ...
By Allan Maurer
cloud 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 perform their jobs at a high level, according to a ...
TechJournal South
BMC Communities: Blog: Cloud Computing: BMC Forrester Cloud ...
By forums@developer.bmc.com
Up to Blog Posts in Cloud Computing ... In the survey, 71% of respondents thought that IT operations should be responsible for ensuring that public cloud services met heir firm's requirements for performance, security, and availability.
Cloud Computing
Some check points if you are considering cloud computing services ...
By Rosanna Clarke
For IT professionals and leaders in education, there is a lot to consider when choosing to take advantage of cloud services. Yes, it's cost saving, time saving and has lots of other great benefits, but there are important things to check with your ...
FE blog
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