PCWorld
The cloud storage concept isn't new: Google's had online "drive" storage with G-drive since 2004. Dropbox and an early incarnation of SkyDrive (then known as Windows Live Folders) started in 2007. Google Docs has been viable since 2010.
Who needs cloud computing?
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais With all of the chatter around Google Drive and the like, you may be wondering whether you should have a cloud drive somewhere. Some people live blissful digitally disconnected lives -- free of smartphones, free of Facebook, ...
Google Drive: The Newest Cloud Storage Service Compared To Competitors
Huffington Post
Among the most popular, and the easiest to use of the cloud services, are Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive and Amazon's Cloud Drive. If you're already using one of these, then Google Drive gives very little reason to switch over. But let's say you're just ...
Cloud storage booming, but trouble brewing
InfoWorld
By Woody Leonhard | InfoWorld No matter how you slice it, there's only a finite number of people and companies that will put their data in the public cloud, but that hasn't stopped the competition -- for a free service, no less!
Microsoft head: How 'the cloud' could save Europe
CNN International
London (CNN) -- Europe's struggling economies could find themselves thrown a lifeline from the "cloud," according to Microsoft International's president Jean-Philippe Courtois. Cloud computing -- where businesses access computing services from a ...
Cloud computing: Legal standards up in the air
Christian Science Monitor
Cloud computing in the US is a 'Wild West' of legal standards. Do federal or local laws apply to cloud computing data? Can law enforcement access your data without your knowledge? By Michelle Maltais, Los Angeles Times (MCT) / April 26, 2012 A visitor ...
Christian Science Monitor
Google Drive: A step closer to no-fuss cloud storage?
Washington Post (blog)
All joking aside, cloud storage and cloud-based services that store your documents, photos and videos on remote servers are massively important to the future of your technological life. That shift was obvious this week as Google loudly introduced its ...
Cloud storage, used hard drives pose threat from data residue
ITworld.com
It's a warning to be careful what you leave behind on someone else's hard drives when you switchcloud providers or even move around virtual servers and storage within an existing cloud. A study published this week recounts the findings of Britain's ...
Can Dropbox, Other Cloud Providers Survive Google Drive?
PCWorld
By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld The 800-pound gorilla has landed and is leveraging its existing relationship with hundreds of millions of users to port them to their cloud storage and file sharing service Google Drive. Can smaller cloud storage players ...
Google Drive Cloud Storage: 10 Things You Should Know About It
eWeek
Google has been talking about its intention to introduce a cloud storage service for at least six years. And rumors about the imminent release of a storage solution to take on companies like Box and Dropbox started percolating vigorously in the past ...
OS33 Master MSPs Enable Rapid Adoption of Cloud Services for Smaller MSPs
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- OS33, the feature-rich IT-as-a-Service Delivery Platform, today announced that smaller MSPs looking to deliver cloud services to their end-clients now have virtually barrier free entry into the market ...
Frost & Sullivan: Cloud Computing's Popularity Boosts Cloud Infrastructure ...
Sacramento Bee
By Frost & Sullivan MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 26, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- As a new technology,cloud computing has many technical and operational challenges. Nonetheless, large enterprises invest heavily in the technology due to their advantages of ...
CIOs' Cloud Strategy Must Include Public Cloud Services
CIO
Sometimes stated, sometimes unstated or sometimes said under an executive's breath was the objective of curtailing developer use of public cloud computing. The target of that objective most commonly was Amazon Web Services.
Converting Your Product To Cloud Service: Lessons Learned
InformationWeek
The main thrust of the report is about how leading technology companies need to convert their products into cloud services and products, but are struggling to do so. Implicit is the possibility that if leading technology suppliers are troubled by the ...
Internet2 Expands Net+ With Education Cloud Services
Wired News
Savvis is identifying three universities to test its cloud computing and storage offerings. The project will begin in June 2012. With these new offerings, Internet2 members now have a consolidated place to look for cloud services focused specifically ...
Google Drive: Watch out, cloud computing in U.S. like 'Wild West'
Bellingham Herald
By MICHELLE MALTAIS - Los Angeles Times With the advent of Google Drive, we talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are very terrestrial.
Google's 'cloud' good perch
Boston Herald
By Jessica Van Sack But with its belated attempt to enter the “cloud” storage wars, the search giant may have a big winner. The reason lies not just in what the product looks like today, but in its potential to “demote the PC,” as the late Steve Jobs ...
Leading UK Cancer Charity Chooses Wyse to Transform Cloud Computing, Making ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, CA and LONDON, Apr 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced that its technology solutions will support the work of Cancer Research UK, Britain's leading cancer charity, ...
Leading Mid-Market VARs Embrace NetSuite Cloud for Growth
MarketWatch (press release)
The high-profile Value Added Resellers (VARs) with long, established histories with on-premise ERP such as Microsoft Dynamics GP and Sage, that decided to embrace the tidal wave of demand generated by NetSuite's enterprise cloud computing solutions ...
SAP's Cloud Computing May Not Be Profitable by 2013, Welt Says
Bloomberg
SAP AG (SAP)'s cloud-computing business won't be profitable this year, Welt said, citing an interview with Chief Financial Officer Werner Brandt. It's too early to say whether the business, software sold as an on-demand service, will be profitable by ...
Google Drive adds another player to cloud wars
Washington Post
With the announcement of Google Drive on Tuesday, the world of cloud storage got much more crowded. But which cloud service is right for you? Here's a breakdown of the top features of seven of the leading cloud services. Google Drive: Google Drive, ...
Google and Microsoft Stir Cloud Storage Free-for-All
Redmond Channel Partner (blog)
The personal cloud storage landscape this week grew with Google throwing its hat in the ring -- but not without the competition attempting to rain on its parade. Google Drive arrived Tuesday, making it the latest personal cloud storage offering to join ...
Skytap Streamlines VM Cloud Access
NetworkComputing.com
Here, Skytap has created a java-based browser app that uses Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to the Skytap cloud services, which allows you to remotely access a virtual machine, all without having to install software on your desktop.
Linux Foundation Backs 'Open Cloud' With CloudOpen
Wired News
Will open source rule the cloud's data center? The Linux Foundations wants to make sure that's a yes. Photo: Drupal Association/Flickr As the heavyweights of the IT industry swarm on the OpenStack cloud OS and the OpenFlow networking protocol, ...
Salesforce Inaugurates New Cloud for Government Services
eWeek
Knowing the financial crunch the public sector has suffered in recent years, Salesforce has stepped up its development of cloud services that government can use and has packaged them into the Government Cloud. For years, Salesforce.com has been ...
OS33, LevelCloud, Target Small MSPs for Cloud Services
MSPmentor
Adding another layer to its go-to-market strategy, OS33 today has introduced a program designed to get small MSPs into the cloud services market. The new program calls for OS33 “master MSPs,” or OS33-based cloud application services aggregators.
Cloud Computing: Google Drive
Kapitall Blog (blog)
Google announced their cloud data storage service, Drive. By doing so they are jumping right into the game against Microsoft's (MSFT) SkyDrive, Apple's (AAPL) iCloud , and Amazon's (AMZN) Cloud Drive. Their service's major strength is its integration ...
Kapitall Blog (blog)
Gartner Report: Five Trends in Cloud Computing that will Impact Your ...
CloudTimes
By CloudTimes On April 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment Although the potential of cloud computing is impressive, the scope and depth of impact and the level of acceptance over time are uncertain and require frequent revisions of the strategy being taken by ...
Five Cloud Computing Trends Until 2015 | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Florence
Hybrid cloud will play an important role in cloud computing. Hybrid computing offers combination and coordination of off-site cloud services with an on-premise application or infrastructure services. It may be able to unify all platforms into a ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
By Florence
Hybrid cloud will play an important role in cloud computing. Hybrid computing offers combination and coordination of off-site cloud services with an on-premise application or infrastructure services. It may be able to unify all platforms into a ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
Will Google Drive cloud storage adoption or IT headaches ...
By Dave Raffo
Just because Google Drive is aimed at SMBs and consumers doesn't mean the cloud storage service will have no impact on enterprises. Google Drive will almost certainly add to the consumerization of IT that Randy Kerns recently wrot...
Storage Soup
Cloud Storage, Which Is Best For You
By Brent F
With Cloud Storage gaining more and more popular with companies like Dropbox, SugarSync and Box we take a look at what would be best for you. They are differ in many ways, Box for one, has a great Android tablet UI, where Dropbox goes ...
Nibletz
Google expands its cloud-computing offerings with 'Drive' | Daily ...
By inspire
Google expanded the digital world of cloud computing on Tuesday, announcing the rollout of Google Drive.
Daily Inspire News™
Cloud Computing Concerns in the Public Sector - Webtorials
By Webtorials
This Cisco paper briefly examines issues that often present barriers to public-sector implementations of cloud services. In particular, it focuses on reliability and resilience, privacy and security, and standards and development. It also discusses ...
Webtorials
Seven10: A Riskless Approach to Hybrid Cloud Storage ...
By Terri McClure
For Seven10, expanding into cloud storage is a natural extension of its capabilities. It has been providing policy-based data management and migration solutions for years—enabling users to seamlessly store data on the most cost-effective tier ...
Enterprise Strategy Group
Google expands its cloud-computing offerings with 'Drive ...
By Aaron Vaughn
(CNN) -- Google expanded the digital world of cloud computing on Tuesday, announcing the rollout of "Google Drive." The service, which will give users 5GB of free remote storage and additional space for a monthly fee, puts the Web giant in ...
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Greenpeace Asks: Is Cloud Really Clean? | March Communications
By Doug Flora
Part of the problem is, claims about green cloud computing are vague and poorly understood to begin with. As Jeff Norman recently noted in CloudTweaks, while many adopters see virtualized servers andcloud storage as better for the ...
March Communications
Comparison Of Free Cloud Storage And Sync Services - AddictiveTips
By Haroon Q. Raja
With the recent release of Google Drive, along with all the existing cloud storage and sync services out there like Microsoft SkyDrive, Dropbox, SugarSync,
AddictiveTips
Join the cloud
By Blogging Team
But what is it and do you need to join the cloud? At its very basic description, cloud computing refers to shared resources (such as software) being stored in one remote location. Cloud services allow you to share programs and information with ...
York Shop Talk
Free Microsoft Cloud Computing For University Scientists | Publicyte
By Mark Drapeau
This agreement is a significant step in making cloud computing more accessible and affordable for all researchers and instructors, and is a key step toward supporting the National Science Foundation's Data Sharing Policy and Data Management Plan ... “Our work with Microsoft around the use of Windows Azure cloud services in support of large data management and research will allow the Internet2 community to work with Microsoft in new and innovative ways, and allow for greater ...
Publicyte
Mid-Pacific ICT Center: Internet2 Adds Cloud Services with Microsoft ...
By Mid-Pacific ICT Center
internet2+cloud services The Internet2 research and education network will underlie a range of newcloud services targeting the research and academic community announced today. Level 3 Communications, CenturyLink's Savvis unit, Dell, ...
Mid-Pacific ICT Center
OS33 Master MSPs Enable Rapid Adoption of Cloud Services for ...
NEW YORK, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- OS33, the feature-rich IT-as-a-Service Delivery Platform, today announced that smaller MSPs looking to deliver cloud services to their end-clients now have virtually barrier free entry into the market through OS33 Master MSPs. Logo. OS33's Master MSPs, including ... OS33, the leading full-featured cloud computing IT delivery automation platform, has been tested and proven by thousands of end users. With OS33, MSPs can provision ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine - Your...
Is Samsung Also Planning a Cloud Storage Announcement for May 3?
It may not end up called the Galaxy S III, and it may not be exactly the hardware we're expecting, but Samsung definitely has something to unveil for us on May 3.
pocketnow.com/.../is-samsung-also-planning-a-cloud-storage-...
Gartner Outlines Five Cloud Computing Trends – What They Really ...
Though Gartner claims that cloud computing has high potential to change the way we work, ...Business leaders see cloud computing as a way to circumvent IT ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2259351
An exciting few days for personal cloud storage – and SkyDriveThis week, we've seen a welcome update from Dropbox, a new chapter for SkyDrive and the ...
windowsteamblog.com/.../an-exciting-few-days-for-personal-c..
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