GigaOM
By Barb Darrow Apr. 9, 2012, 7:28am PT 2 Comments The battle for cloud storagecustomers — well, make that paying cloud storage customers — is fully on. By all accounts millions of people store at least some of their data in the cloud.
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BMO Study: Cloud Computing Still a Mystery to Half of Canadian Businesses
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Apr 09, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- BMO Financial Group released today the results of a recent BMO study asking Canadian business owners about their knowledge and appetite for cloud computing. The study conducted by Leger ...
The six best personal cloud storage choices for your stuff
ZDNet (blog)
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 9, 2012, 7:55am PDT Summary: Dropbox just added more free storage for their customers, so are they the best personal cloud storage? Or is its Google's mish-mash of cloud services? Apple's iCloud?
NTT DATA Forms New Global Cloud Services Business Unit
MarketWatch (press release)
NTT DATA further supports client's needs to flex their business to meet changing market conditions through this continuum of secure public, private and hybrid cloud solutions. “NTT DATA Cloud Services demystifies cloud computing and offers enterprises ...
Nirvanix Offers Cloud Storage Test Drives at NAB
Sacramento Bee
By Nirvanix SAN DIEGO, April 9, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Nirvanix, the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services, today announced that it is featuring a promotional offer of 1TB of cloud storage for free for 30 days to qualified NAB ...
Email Archiving Expands to Social Content and Embraces Cloud Storage
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Vendors are now expanding on their archival functions to include social conversations and more vendors offer cloud storage. "This market has changed significantly over the past year, and many vendors are now evolving to accommodate archival of social ...
Eucalyptus and Amazon work together to expand cloud adoption
ZDNet (blog)
By Dan Kusnetzky | April 9, 2012, 3:46am PDT Summary: Offering a common set of APIs, management tools and cloud services will make it far easier for organizations to move workloads into and out of cloud services. The folks at Eucalyptus reached out and ...
Major Cloud Provider Selects Mellanox and Supermicro for New Large-Scale Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
“Supermicro's high performance, energy efficient server and storage platforms enable rapid, scalable and cost-effective deployment of Cloud Computing and HPC environments,” said Tau Leng, general manager of High Performance Computing at Super Micro ...
How to negotiate a contract with a cloud or SaaS provider
ITworld.com
By Mary Shacklett, ITworld | Cloud Computing Add a new comment April 09, 2012, 8:00 AM —Cloud and SaaS services are rapidly gaining traction with enterprises and SMBs -- yet IT, which is usually responsible for negotiating contracts with these ...
iWeb.com Launches New Cloud Computing Service
WebHosting.Info
The iWeb Cloud Service allows customers to utilize the resources they need, when they need them most and for just as long as required. iWeb.com, a provider of internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, recently announced the launch of its new ...
SMB to Boost Use of Paid Cloud Services
MSPmentor
And 63 percent of SMBs using cloud services today expect to grow in sales in the next 12 to 18 month, with 55 percent believing IT will power their growth. Looking forward, 50 percent of SMBs say cloud computing is going to become more important for ...
How to Tell If Your Cloud Provider Can Read Your Data
TidBITS
by Rich Mogull With the tremendous popularity of services like Dropbox and iCloud there is, rightfully, an incredible amount of interest in cloud data security. Once we start hosting our most sensitive data with cloud services (or any third-party ...
CipherCloud Gateway for Cloud Data Protection Awarded FIPS 197 Security ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
"CipherCloud is the only company that offers format and operations preserving encryption solutions for cloud services, like salesforce.com, that have received the FIPS 197 accreditation," said Varun Badhwar, vice president of product strategy at ...
Beyond virtualization: Envisioning true cloud computing
InfoWorld (blog)
When an OS kernel can instantly request, adapt, and use additional compute resources without going through these back alleys, we'll be closer to the concept of true cloud computing: server instances with no concern for underlying hardware, ...
Q&A: IBM Global Business Services CTO Talks Cloud
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Kerrie Holley, CTO of IBM's Global Business Services division, sat down with InformationWeek last month to discuss IBM's focus, cloud computing, and the tech industry trends. What follows is an edited transcript of ...
7 Salient Trends and Directions in Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing is a rapidly evolving field and as more enterprises join the platform, new trends are emerging. In this post, I will cover the major trends in cloud computing for the immediate future (2012-14). While cloud based storage services such ...
How to get out of a contract with your cloud provider
ITworld.com
Termination clauses for many cloud services contracts are usually 30 to 90 days advance written notice. Make sure that this termination clause is present in the vendor contract, and if it isn't, add your own. Boilerplate contracts.
Cloud BYOD Means Less Capex
SYS-CON Media (press release)
... effect for cloud computing - when people bring their own devices to work, the company's not paying for them and thereby reducing its capital expenditure. I gained this little insight during an interview last week with a cloud-services executive; ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Vt legislative fight continues over 'cloud tax'
BusinessWeek
The Appropriations Committee in the Vermont House is considering legislation that would call for $1.9 million in refunds to businesses that have paid sales tax on so-called cloud computingin the past six years. The bill also clarifies that starting ...
Options IT Completes Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Apr 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Options IT, provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud services platform for the exchange, banking, trading and investment communities, today announced that it is one of the first cloud infrastructure ...
Mercedes Revs mbrace2 With Cloud Updates
Wired News
But the real “best or nothing” here given how much more tech is in cars today is the use of thecloud to deliver wireless updates as they become available. While Mercedes-Benz mbrace has always enabled drivers to access select functions remotely ...
Deltek: Some agencies more ready for the cloud than others
Washington Post
Though Internet-based cloud computing is one of the most significant trends for the information technology industry, not all federal agencies are equally ready to make cloud purchases. For years, the Office of Management and Budget and the federal ...
Will Facebook Shift Instagram Off Amazon's Cloud?
Data Center Knowledge
That's an interesting question, as Instagram has been running its infrastructure on the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform. There are signs that this will change. “We will try to help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook's strong ...
Network-attached storage cloud gives firm flexibility, data protection
Search Storage
A Chicago law firm that first turned to cloud storage to clear capacity for a temporary project now has three network-attached storage (NAS) appliances attached to a public cloud for its main primary file storage. Matt Donehoo, director of information ...
Egnyte brazenly targets Box's customers with “Box Buster Buyout” program
VentureBeat
In an incredibly brazen move, enterprise cloud storage provider Egnyte has introduced the “Box Buster Buyout” program, which is designed to steal away Box's customers by essentially paying them to switch to Egnyte. Egnyte helps businesses with various ...
VentureBeat
Who Wrote OpenStack Essex? A Deep Dive Into Contributions
ReadWriteWeb
By Joe Brockmeier / April 9, 2012 6:00 AM / 0 Comments 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 ...
What The Cloud Doesn't Do
TechCrunch
IaaS is progress and cloud computing makes everything else obsolete. To suggest otherwise is to be labeled a Luddite. Yet reality doesn't mesh with this simplistic vision. Real companies face much more complex compute infrastructures that still include ...
TechCrunch
Hostreview.com NTT DATA Forms New Global Cloud Services ...
“NTT DATA Cloud Services demystifies cloud computing and offers enterprises the business flexibility, global insight and the technology strategy required to leverage the cloud to its fullest benefit,” indicated Mouchawar. “Combining the talents ...
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Making Big Data into Small Data | Cloud Computing Journal
Without it, private clouds are closed systems and public clouds are vulnerable to security breaches. The optimum cloud is one that is network-based, where cloud services are actually embedded in the network. A network-based cloud allows ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud Host IIJ, ACCESS Developing Cloud Storage Delivery ...
By Justin Lee
Stratosphere will first research and develop a suite of software to implement the SDN concept, which is a new technology concept that enables network virtualization and automatic operation in a cloud computing environment. Another SDN- based cloud ... This is particularly the case for those operators who provide multi-tenant cloud services with virtualized computing resources deployed on physical computers in multiple data centers in widely separated regions. The SDN concept ...
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Google Provides Cloud Storage Free of Charge | welcome to ...
By admin
Google one of the largest, if not the largest, search engine in the internet joins the bandwagon of providers giving cloud storage free to its users. Recently, it launched its free cloud storage where users can upload and save up to 20000 songs ...
BMO Study: Cloud Computing Still a Mystery to Half of Canadian ...
By Blackmere
The study conducted by Leger Marketing found that: While not an entirely new IT service model,cloud computing is a rapidly growing information technology trend, marketed as the provision by a third-party of shared software, data storage and ...
Blackmere Consulting
By Blackmere
The study conducted by Leger Marketing found that: While not an entirely new IT service model,cloud computing is a rapidly growing information technology trend, marketed as the provision by a third-party of shared software, data storage and ...
Blackmere Consulting
Why You Should Move Your ERP into The Cloud | Cloud Computing ...
By Olafur Ingthorsson
While a lot of systems are being migrated into or integrated with the cloud, you might think that your corporate ERP systems are staying on the ground. ... Mobile Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing Topics. Cloud Computing - Mobile Cloud ...
Cloud Computing Topics
Which Next Gen Companies Are Transforming the Cloud? Find Out ...
By Rhianna Collier
SIIA today announced that 4 early stage cloud computing companies have been selected to participate in the NextGen showcase at SIIA's All About the Cloud conference. All About theCloud-the software industry's most comprehensive ISV ...
SIIA Digital Discourse
Why did your company employ cloud services? - Spiceworks
By Ashli
Why did your company employ cloud services? April 09 - 12:13PM. Cloud computing can benefit companies of all sizes, but this article from ZDNet offers 8 Reasons Why Cloud Computing is Even Better for Small Business. Do you agree?
Spiceworks Community
AngryFile: Backup Files To Cloud & Restore To The Same Paths ...
By Waqas
The advent of cloud computing has made a big leap forward towards content sharing. Services like ... The total available free cloud storage is 1GB, but you can get additional space (25GB) by subscribing to the premium service for $5 USD.
AddictiveTips
Necessary IT evils no more | Smarter Computing Blog
By Bil Sherrin
Expert integrated systems: Everything but the kitchen ...
Smarter Computing Blog
Why Proprietary Cloud Platforms are Doomed | The Convirture Blog
By Convirture
It has come to pass — a free and open source cloud platform courtesy of Citrix contributing CloudStack (acquired in the Cloud.com deal) to the Apache Software Foundation. That, of course, is in addition to the open source cloud-computing ...
The Convirture Blog
DynamicAccounting.net: Microsoft Dynamics GP Cloud services ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Mark Polino)
Microsoft Dynamics GP Cloud services casts shadow over Partners - Dynamics Blogger. Janakiram M.P. suggests that Microsoft Dynamics GP Cloud services casts shadow over Partners. We're seeing more people think about how the cloud ...
DynamicAccounting.net
HP Awarded U.S. Army Contract for Enterprise Cloud Computing ...
The Army will use this contract to acquire specific cloud computing services to consolidate data... HP provides cloud services that deliver on-demand, secured, ...
www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2012/120403a.html
Prince Lobel Tye LLP: Look Closely Into the Clouds: Cloud Computing
On most occasions, resorting to cloud computing is an attempt to eliminate the need to buy additional hardware, avoid the ongoing chore of keeping your ...
www.princelobel.com/news-publications-261.html
Cloud Computing Link Round Up – April 2 | The Mozy Blog
Scalability is one of the primary calling cards for both cloud computing and ... IT departments need to step up now and change its approach to cloud services, ...
mozy.com/blog/misc/cloud-computing-link-round-up-april-2/
The History of Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing has evolved through Grid and Utility Computing, Application Service Providers, Software as a Service and now Cloud Computing.
www.cetrom.net/blog/the-history-of-cloud-computing/
Dedicated and Cloud Computing Blog » Blog Archive » Virtual ...
The foundation of any cloud computing is virtual image. Many hosting providers and enterprise business have been useind cloud server hosting for quite some ...
blog.bodhost.com/.../virtual-image-for-cloud-computing-web-...
Stage Directions | Vectorworks Launches Cloud Services
News Vectorworks Launches Cloud Services Written by Jacob Coakley ... files will be automatically synchronized to their private cloud storage, allowing them to ...
www.stage-directions.com/.../4137-vectorworks-launches-clou...
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