Thursday, April 5, 2012

HP's Cloud Strategy Takes Aim At Amazon

HP's Cloud Strategy Takes Aim At Amazon
InformationWeek
Don't tell anyone this, because I may yet be proved wrong, but I think I understand Hewlett-Packard's cloud computing strategy. I just listened to Biri Singh, head of HP Cloud Services, at the Wells Fargo Tech Transformation Summit in San Francisco. 

An Open-Source Food Fight in the Cloud
BusinessWeek
By Ashlee Vance on April 03, 2012 To date, the four horsemen of the cloud appear to be Amazon.com (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG), and VMware (VMW). The first three companies have built their own cloud computing services that consumers and ...

Liaison Technologies Releases “Cloud Services Brokerage for DUMMIES” as Free ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ATLANTA, Apr 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Liaison Technologies, a global provider of securecloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, announced today the availability of “Cloud Services Brokerage for DUMMIES®” as a ...

Nirvanix Helps Cloud Storage Customers Facing Dallas Tornadoes
Sacramento Bee
By Nirvanix SAN DIEGO, April 3, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the severe damage caused by tornadoes touching down in the Dallas area, Nirvanix, the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services, today announced that it is ...

TechBits: Facebook energy app, Dell's cloud acquisition, UAE Internet ...
Washington Post
___ Online: http://social.opower.com ___ Dell buys Clerity in latest bet on cloud computingROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell has bought business software company Clerity Solutions, the PC maker's latest bet on cloud computing. The Round Rock, Texas, ...

Open Data Center Alliancesm Releases Five New Usage Models Focused on IT ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Alliance set forth a plan to better manage security and infrastructure across cloud computing while identifying the specific innovations and standards required for widespread adoption of cloud services. By adopting these innovations, there could be ...

NephoScale Adds Seven New Cloud Service Offerings
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, CA, Apr 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- NephoScale continues to enhance its cloud services line card with the addition of seven new cloud server plans and is making thecloud more affordable with price reductions of up to 50% on existing ...

What cloud computing needs to take the next step
GCN.com
By Kathleen Hickey The General Services Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed compliance standards for agency acquisition of cloud computing technology, but they still need to develop performance metrics ...

SME Demand Leads to Carrier Cloud Opportunities for Operators in India
MarketWatch (press release)
"As it becomes crucial to quickly ramp up profitable revenue base, they are now targeting enterprise/small to medium enterprise customers with suite of cloud services." Cloud computing is a buzzword not only among telcos but across all industry sectors ...

Megaupload says case could affect other cloud storage services
InfoWorld
By Jeremy Kirk | IDG News Service A verdict against Megaupload in the US would mean othercloud storage providers can be held criminally liable for illegal content stored by customers on their networks, an attorney representing the shuttered ...

US Army to Deploy Clouds, Modular Data Centers
Data Center Knowledge
In a move to modernize its infrastructure, the US Army will spend up to $249 million to deploy private cloud computing services and modular data centers. General Dynamics, HP and Northrop Grumman are among the service providers selected for the Army ...

Data Center Knowledge

Dell Makes A Wyse Move To Grab More Of The Enterprise Computing Value Chain
Forbes
[1] [2] Dell is clearly looking to diversify away from its PC business, and it seems cloud computing is the way to go for the Round Rock, Texas-based company. The details of both the acquisitions were not revealed by Dell. These acquisitions will put ...

Technology Companies Angry About Tax On Cloud Computing
Vermont Public Radio
(Host) A number of technology companies are angry that the state is charging a sales tax on business they conduct via what's come to be known "cloud computing." (Carapezza) The federal government prohibits states from collecting a sales tax on services ...

Northrop Grumman Awarded Army Private Cloud Contract
MarketWatch (press release)
APC2 will be the Army's preferred vehicle to consolidate data centers and establish privateclouds to provide on-demand provisioning for storage and systems. "Northrop Grumman'scloud computing solutions have been optimized to address the unique ...

Work entirely from the cloud with Box
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) We're surrounded by cloud storage solutions -- Dropbox, SkyDrive, and SugarSync, to name a few -- but most of these options do little more than let you put your documents online. To do any meaningful work, you need to use your traditional ...

CBS News

A cloud-computing market forecast
WebWorkerDaily
This report takes an in-depth look at each of the three areas of cloud computing, using examples of companies like Salesforce.com and LivePerson to detail each sector. The PaaS segment is expected to nearly triple from a smaller base, although all ...

GigaOM Structure 2012 Announces Initial Speaker Lineup
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Fifth-annual Structure 2012 set to be most influential cloud computing conference of all time, with visionary speakers from Box, Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Zynga, Verizon and more to headline San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 04, 2012 GigaOM, ...

eFortresses Launches CloudeAssurance 1.0: the first Cloud Security Rating Platform
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
CloudeAssurance 1.0 is intended for both global enterprise and government cloud customers. With the global cloud services revenue projected to reach $148.8 billion by 2014 and $241 billion by 2020, Information Security will either become a nightmare or ...

CIOs to the cloud: Let's not rush into things
FCW.com
By Camille Tuutti The federal government's migration to cloud computing is no longer in question. But that doesn't mean agencies will rush into it and treat every situation as a foregone conclusion. In some ways, the decision-making process has gotten ...

Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) Announces First Integrated Set of Cloud Services ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Today, the not-for-profit Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) announced the availability of Tukey, which is an integrated set of cloud services designed to help scientific researchers work with big data. Today, the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) announced the ...

HP Takes Developer Slant With Cloud Offering
InformationWeek
By Michael Biddick InformationWeek Software developers were among the first users of cloudenvironments. Amazon, Microsoft, and Joyent all cater to developers with their public cloud services, and Hewlett-Packard also will emphasize developer tools in ...

Cloud – Vision to Reality at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Elizabeth White 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 ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Seniors Get 24x7 Healthcare On The Cloud
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
It relies on Odyssey CareAssess, a technology developed by Avia Health Informatics and migrated to the cloud in partnership with Melbourne-based cloud services company, AustralianCloud. The entire project is hosted on Ninefold®, the Australian public ...

Ctera rocks up at BYOD party with big boy's cloud storage
Register
By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Employees using their own laptops, tablets and smartphones under bring-your-own-device policies at work can securely access enterprise cloud storage facilities through gateway supplier Ctera.

News International infrastructure head: Architect for failure when using ...
ITworld.com
The media company, which publishes The Times, The Sun and The Sunday Times, has put 200 of its 1200 servers on the Amazon cloud so far. While it recognised the benefits of using Amazon's cloud services, News International has also highlighted some of ...

McClure: Cloud services require acquisition officers to retool
FierceGovernmentIT
Some cloud computing contracts don't have pricing elasticity truly built in, which could be a challenge as programs look to layer their applications and scale out an existing cloudinfrastructure, said McClure. Acquisition officers are “kind of hacking ...

Survey: SMB Customers Making the Shift to the Cloud Now
Channel Insider
The fundamental challenge solution providers in the channel face as it relates to cloud computing is that many of the bread and butter applications that their business is built around are the ones that are heading for cloud.

5 takeaways from the CloudStack-OpenStack dustup — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
Citrix stunned its OpenStack partners with news on Tuesday that it is setting up CloudStack as an Apache-based rival to the OpenStack cloud platform. There's been a lot of jawing and some bad feelings on both sides: OpenStack wasn't ready ...
GigaOM

Megaupload verdict could affect other cloud storage providers ...
By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Jeremy Kirk)
A verdict against Megaupload in the US would mean other cloud storage providers can be held criminally liable for illegal content stored by customers on their networks, an attorney representing the shuttered file-sharing site said on Tuesday.
Computerworld UK Public Sector

Dubai Internet City Official ICT Partner for Cloud Computing Forum ...
By Samer Marzouq
Dubai-United Arab Emirates- April 3, 2012 – (ME NewsWire) Dubai Internet City has announced it is the official ICT partner for the second edition of Cloud Computing Forum MENA, a two-day executive level conference and exhibition. Organised by Keynote World ... Meanwhile, the globalcloud services industry is expected to generate US$177 billion in revenue by 2015, up from US$89.4 billion in 2011, as per studies conducted by research analysts at Gartner. At the forefront of the ...
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iWeb Blog » iWeb.com Launches New “Kinder” Cloud Computing ...
By iWeb-Andre
“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 amounts for data transfer fees using other cloud platforms. So we decided to build a ...
iWeb Blog

Self-Service and Governance: The Yin Yang of Cloud Computing
By Dave Roberts
In eastern philosophy, “yin yang” is the concept that polar opposite forces are really interconnected and interdependent. These forces exist in relation to each other and cannot exist in isolation. There are many examples from the natural world, ...
ServiceMesh

HP Awarded $249 Million U.S. Army Contract For Enterprise Cloud ...
By Kelly Petty
HP Enterprise Services was awarded a $249 million contract by the U.S. Army to provide the DoD and other federal agencies with enterprise cloud computing services under the Army PrivateCloud contract (APC2). The APC2 is an IDIQ ...
News & Insight for the DC Area Executive

Power of the Decentralized Cloud – Symform
By Praerit Garg
The Revolutionary Cloud Storage Network symform · Your Challenges · Our ... Amid the hype and reality of cloud computing, we are witnessing the largest build out of centralized data center infrastructure in history. Due to the increased ...
Symform » Cloud Storage & Online...

Kevin Crowe, Long View - Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
Our first profile is Kevin Crowe, Director Cloud Services for Long View, and this is a perfect start because within our overall theme of growing Canada to be a world leader in the field of Cloud, they are a shining example. Not only is Longview ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

PerspecSys Breaks Down Security Concerns That Inhibit Cloud ...
David Canellos: PerspecSys is a privately held company based in Toronto, Canada that specializes in eliminating the security barriers that inhibit enterprise companies from embracingcloud computing. Many companies want to move to the ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Terremark Launches Enterprise Cloud Private Edition
This private cloud solution is built on the leading enterprise-class architecture of Terremark's flagship cloud computing offering, the Enterprise Cloud, but is designed as a single-tenant environment to meet the security compliance requirements ...
All DABCC Virtualization & Cloud...

OCC Announces Tukey – An Integrated Set of Cloud Services for ...
By rlg
The OCC announced the availability in beta of Tukey, which is an integrated set of cloud servicesdesigned specifically to enable scientific researchers to manage, analyze and make discoveries with big data. The integrated services include: ...
Open Cloud Consortium

Latest trends of the cloud computing world | Rickscloud
Cloud Computing Expert, Technical and Business Strategist ... projects that spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs ...
www.rickscloud.com/latest-trends-of-the-cloud-computing-wo...

Cloud Storage Provider StorSimple Named to OnDemand Top 100 ...
And recently, cloud storage provider StorSimple received such recognition, as it was ... that ...
it.tmcnet.com/.../280766-cloud-storage-provider-storsimple-na...

David Navetta on cloud computing contracts, cloud computing ...
David Navetta talks about cloud computing contracts and cloud c computing breaches in this video interview conducted at RSA Conference 2012. Navetta ...
searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com/.../David-Navetta-on-cloud...

Using R for Cloud Computing – made very easy and free by ...
I really liked the no hassles way Biocnoductor has put a cloud AMI loaded with RStudio to help people learn R, and even try using R from within a browser in the .
www.decisionstats.com/using-r-for-cloud-computing-made-ve...

Dell buys 'cloud' computing company Wyse - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Dell on Monday said it is buying Wyse Technology to expand its business offerings in the Internet "cloud" in the face of softening demand for ...
news.yahoo.com/dell-buys-cloud-computing-company-wyse-...

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars for the week of April 2nd ...
CLOUD ARCHITECTURE | CLOUD INTEGRATION | CLOUD NETWORKING | CLOUD SECURITY |CLOUD SERVICES | CLOUD STORAGE ...
cloudcomputingarchitect.com/.../upcoming-cloud-computing-...

HPC in the Cloud: Caringo Enables Three Different Cloud Storage ...
Flexible, vendor neutral, cloud storage architecture leveraged by unique vertical cloud solutions.... Dedicated to covering high-end cloud computing .... Autodesk Unveils New Design Suites and Cloud Services for Manufacturers · RightScale ...
www.hpcinthecloud.com/.../caringo_enables_three_different_...



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