Friday, April 6, 2012

Army Cloud Plans Include Containerized Data Centers

Army Cloud Plans Include Containerized Data Centers
InformationWeek
Among other goals, the five-year APC2 deal aims to help the military move to cloud services and shutter data centers as part of the government's federal data center consolidation initiative. The Army plans to close 185 data centers by the end of 2015.

Going to the Cloud? You Don't Have to Go All In
Wired News
A beauty of the cloud is you don't have to put all of your eggs in one basket. Photo: Mrs Logic/Flickr When I talk to people about cloud computing, and especially to solution providers and business executives, they tend to have the belief that you are ...

Comparing participation in the open source cloud communities
ITworld.com
The dynamics of the open source cloud computing market are changing. Eucalyptus, which is a private cloud Infrastructure as a Service model, recently announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services to ensure interoperability between the two systems.

iWeb.com Launches New "Kinder" Cloud Computing Service
MarketWatch (press release)
"Our customers asked for cloud services, and we heard them loud and clear. We also heard horror stories from businesses that had been charged outrageous fees for data transfer using other cloud platforms. So we decided to build a kinder cloud; ...

Choosing Up Sides in the Cloud Operating System Wars
Channel Insider
There's still not much clarity when it comes to all things cloud these days, and the confusion surrounding the emergence of so-called cloud operating systems is not helping matters. Much of the debate about cloud computing will be managed can be traced ...

Is cloud computing the next big energy saver?
GreenBiz.com (blog)
By Eric Louie Cloud computing already has cut some businesses' IT costs. But a new report has found that it also could be the next big thing to help reduce their energy use. The fourth annual Energy Efficient IT Report -- by technology products and ...

GreenBiz.com (blog)

IT Outsourcing and Cloud Services Provider itelligence Receives 2012 SAP ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
This proves our strength in delivering top quality services in our data centers by combining high flexibility and scalability of cloud computing technologies with our customer centric approach and high quality of security and availability," said Oliver ...

Cloud Storage Forces Re-evaluation of Backup and Recovery
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: The use of cloud storage adoption is on the rise, but so too are the concerns over costs. Slowly but surely the shift towards cloud storage is progressing. A new survey of 600 IT professionals conducted by Symform, a provider of cloud storage ...

CA ARCserve MSP Licensing and D2D On Demand Now Available via the Ingram Micro ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"In crafting its new MSP 2.0 licensing program, CA Technologies has again demonstrated a keen understanding of the MSP business model and a clear willingness to work with us in pursuing the huge market opportunity for cloud services," says Viktor ...

How cloud computing could boost Amazon's margins
GigaOM
By Derrick Harris Apr. 4, 2012, 3:00pm PT 10 Comments According to analysts at Morgan Stanley, Amazon's cloud computing division could be a shining star (even if not too bright) on the company's long road toward increased profit margins.

GigaOM

5 ways my small business benefits from the cloud
BetaNews
By Ed Oswald We have talked a lot about cloud computing recently here on the pages of BetaNews. That's not surprising since it is one of the fastest growing segments of the tech industry today. Missing, however: A more personal story on how we're using ...

BetaNews

Ex VMware cloud exec to launch OpenStack-flavored Cloud Foundry PaaS
ZDNet (blog)
By Paula Rooney | April 4, 2012, 12:00am PDT Summary: Derek Collison, former CTO and Chief Software Architect of VMware's Cloud Applications Platforms, and lead developer of the VMware initiated open Cloud Foundry PaaS, plans to launch his own ...

Register for a Free Cloud Computing Focused Webcast
Sacramento Bee
This webcast will take a brief look at the history that has led to cloud computing and some of the main drivers that brought us to where we are today. We will investigate where things are going (or could go) based on what drove us here in the first ...

IIJ and ACCESS Form R&D Joint Venture for Next-Generation Cloud Platform ...
MarketWatch (press release)
However, particularly for operators who provide multi-tenant (*3) cloud services with virtualized computing resources deployed on physical computers in multiple data centers in widely separated regions, restrictions due to physical networking and ...

CornerStone Signs Cloud Reseller Agreement With Verizon
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK and TROY, NY, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CornerStone Telephone Company, a provider of advanced communications services, is now working with Verizon Global Wholesale to provide cloud-computing services to CornerStone's business ...

Yandex introduces Cloud Storage before Google, Offers 10GB
Ubergizmo
Since there were rumors about Google being interested in putting up Google Drive, a cloud based storage system similar to DropBox with 5GB free, Yandex apparently has been in the works to move faster than the global search giant.

Ubergizmo

The Cloud Makes Data Management Adoption Feasible for Mid-Market Companies and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ATLANTA, Apr 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Liaison Technologies, a global provider of securecloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, contends that increased customer interest and recent research conducted by Aberdeen Group, ...

Cloud Inches Forward; Where's the PaaS?
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Roger Strukhoff As we inch toward the next Cloud Expo in New York, the world inches toward cloud computing. The progress has an inevitability to it, as it seems just a matter of time for the day when "computing" equals cloud computing.

SYS-CON Media (press release)

ePlus Technology Achieves Cisco Cloud Builder Designation
MarketWatch (press release)
(NASDAQ:PLUS) announced today that its subsidiary, ePlus Technology, inc., has achieved the Cisco Cloud Builder designation within the Cisco Cloud Partner Program, supporting the expanding role of the network in deploying cloud services.

Google deprecates old App Engine datastore in favor of High-Replication version
InfoWorld
[ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of cloud computing in the InfoWorld editors' 21-page Cloud Computing Deep Dive PDF special report. | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter ...

Aspera Delivers on the Promise of the Cloud at NAB 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
As part of the official NAB conference program, Aspera president Michelle Munson will be presenting the advanced capabilities, new workflow possibilities, and cost advantages of these solutions at the Cloud Computing Conference ...

Five Cloud computing trends that will impact Cloud strategy
eChannelLine
By Mark Cox Continual monitoring of cloud computing trends, with regular updates to the enterprise's cloud strategy, will be essential to avoid costly mistakes or miss market opportunities over the next few years, according to analyst firm Gartner.

Citrix Shakes Up Cloud With Split From OpenStack
CRN
The move was seen by some as undercutting OpenStack, the open-source, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, cloud computing project co-founded by Rackspace, and strengthening Rackspace rival, Amazon. It also set off much discussion on whether the OpenStack ...

Yandex cloud service offers 10GB of storage for free
CNET (blog)
Disk (English translation) is the latest in a growing lineup of cloud storage sites, letting people store files online and access them from computers, tablets, and smartphones. Files stored locally and online can be synchronized among multiple devices ...

Eucalyptus Releases a Blueprint for the Future of Hybrid Clouds
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA BARBARA, CA, Apr 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced a free white paper, "Blending Clouds: A Blueprint for Your Hybrid Future.

Best cloud services for email, movies, music and more
CNET UK
The chances are that you're using a cloud-based application without realising it. If you have an email account with a webmail provider like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo, then you've joined the cloud computing club. Webmail services are the most popular ...

CNET UK

Cloud Provider Deploys VPN Server Cluster at Data Foundry
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Golden Frog selected Data Foundry's Texas 1 data center because it provides a unique ecosystem for cloud services due to its high-density capabilities, 17 network carriers, and safe location in the Central United States. This announcement marks Golden ...

Yandex Beats Google To A Free Cloud Storage Service
WebProNews
Disk, a cloud service that offers 10 GB of free storage. Like any cloud service (Dropbox, SkyDrive, iCloud), any files that are uploaded to your locker are accessible from anywhere that's internet-connected – across multiple devices. “Yandex.

Tech 3.0: Save your favorite pages in cloud storage
NorthJersey.com
Cloud storage bins — massive hard drive repositories that are increasingly populating the Web frontier — make it easy to sort, store and retrieve Web pages, articles or snippets of stories I come across online. And the cloud ensures that I can ...

Red Hat, IBM sign on for OpenStack — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
HP is expected to talk up its cloud projects next week and Biri Singh, HP's SVP of cloud services, will speak at the Open Stack conference in San Francisco. Bryce also noted that Citrix, the CloudStack news notwithstanding, continues to work ...
GigaOM

AWS - Amazon Web Services - for Newbies | Cloud Computing ...
There is no longer any question that the cloud computing model will be the prevailing style of delivery for computing over the coming decades; Forrester Research predicts that the global market for cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4 ...
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
You can use tools like Cerebrata's Cloud Storage Studio or upload the files from code. For example, I've created an action method taking care of uploading static content for me: [HttpPost, ActionName("Synchronize")] public ActionResult ...
OakLeaf Systems

Cloud computing - Delivering the right services to the right users ...
By HowieT
In previous posts we have covered how cloud enables organisations to segment users, roles and workloads and to place these in the most appropriate place. Highlight secure workloads can be run on a customers own datacentre, shared ...
MSDN Blogs

Cloud Computing Predicted to Drive $1.1 Trillion in Increased ...
By Cindy Bates
The cloud holds tremendous potential to help small businesses grow in some expected and possibly unexpected ways. Many of us are aware that the cloud can be an equalizer of sorts, unlocking historically cost-prohibitive services and ...
SCORE Small Business Success Blog

Automated Versus Manual Tools For Cloud Migration ...
By Rick
Automated Versus Manual Tools For Cloud Migration Back in 2010 most specialists thought ofcloud computing mostly as “capacity on demand” with the. ... Cloud Computing Companies and Information Database · CloudTweaks.com – Cloud ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

iWeb Launches New “Kinder” Cloud Computing Service » Village ...
By Tami
iWeb Launches New “Kinder” Cloud Computing Service. ... “Our customers asked for cloud services, and we heard them loud and clear. We also heard horror stories from businesses that had been charged outrageous fees for data transfer ...
Village Gamer

Defining the impact of cloud computing on digital/web agencies
By Guest Writer
For those unaware of what the service entails, cloud computing is the shift from locally-stored data, servers and programs to the 'cloud', a series of external computers that can be accessed anywhere from the web. It's likely that most people will have had experience with cloud services, from web-based email services like Hotmail to storage services. Essentially, you access huge amounts of data stored on the cloud through the web instead of through a hard drive. Naturally, this has ...
Craving Tech -Technology and Reviews

Cloud Computing Drives Mobile and Vice Versa | Document ...
By Healy Jones
The press is starting to understand something that we've known here for a while at OfficeDrop - Mobile and Cloud Computing go hand in hand. Check out this chart on top reasons for an enterprise to adopt a cloud strategy:
Document Management Blog

Cloud Computing: A Secret Weapon for SMBs | The Cloud Infographic
By Ivan
Microsoft has just released a clean, but very useful cloud computing infographic showing youcloud computing trends among small and medium businesses (SMBs.) ... What Small Business should Demand from Cloud Services ...
The Cloud Infographic

Cloud computing to create almost 10 million jobs in Asia-Pacific ...
By fmmonteverde
"Both China and India are adopting public cloud computing at unprecedented speed, which accounts for 12% of the global public cloud services." "We tend to think of China and India as emerging markets, but they are actually early adopters of ...
Asia's Source for Enterprise...

Ubuntu Server is No Longer the Best OS for Cloud Computing. « Not ...
By Robbie
Okay, so now that I got your attention….let me explain. Over this past year and a half (maybe a little longer), I've seen Ubuntu Server explode in number and types of deployments, specifically around areas involving cloud computing, but also in ...
Not Lucky All The Time, But Smart...

US Army grants HP $249 million contract to deploy private cloud ...
US Army grants HP $249 million contract to deploy private cloud services ... US Army grants HP $249 million contract to deploy private cloud services. HP is in the Army now. Today, the Palo Alto company announced that it has received a $249 million contract to provide the Department of Defense and other federal agencies with enterprise level cloud computing services. The new initiative will allow the military to consolidate its existing data centers, and the services will be deployed to ...
2dayBlog

Security Considerations for Cloud Computing (Part 3) - Broad ...
When we refer to broad network access in cloud computing, we mean that the ... to need to support a DMZ between the private cloud services and the Internet.
www.windowsecurity.com/.../Security-Considerations-Cloud-C...

Cloud computing seen as key to business success
Financial decision makers believe that cloud computing will be important to the ... surveyed had either already implemented cloud services or have plans to.
www.computerweekly.com/.../Cloud-computing-seen-as-key-t...



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