Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Rackspace launches new OpenStack-based cloud portfolio

Rackspace launches new OpenStack-based cloud portfolio
ITworld.com
By Ted Samson, InfoWorld | Cloud Computing Add a new comment April 16, 2012, 6:11 AM — Rackspace has unveiled an "early access" limited-availability edition of its updated public cloudenvironment, built on the open source cloud platform OpenStack. 

LogMeIn Takes on Dropbox With 'Cubby' Cloud Storage
PCWorld
By John E Dunn, techworld.com Cloud storage leader Dropbox might have serious competition at last. LogMeIn has announced the beta of its rival 'Cubby' service, featuring higher data limits, a P2P data sync feature and the promise of user-managed ...

Sprint to Deliver Innovation with Wholesale Cloud Services, Enabling Resellers ...
MarketWatch (press release)
According to industry analyst firm IDC, worldwide public IT cloud services revenue is projected to hit $45.5 billion by 2013(1). With about one-fifth of both small and midsize businesses (SMBs) surveyed by IDC considering increased use of cloud ...

Symform Upgrades 200GB Free Cloud Storage Offering
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, WA, Apr 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Symform, a revolutionary securecloud storage and backup service, today announced an update to its market-leading 200GB freecloud storage offering. Starting today, all business users receive 10GB of ...

NAB: Cloud computing is ready for its closeup
GigaOM
By Barb Darrow Apr. 16, 2012, 9:00am PT No Comments Few industries are better suited to the cloud computing model than film and TV production. Show business is project-oriented with myriad production shops and contractors collaborating on short-term ...

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SENATH to exhibit at Cloudcor's 4th Annual Cloud Slam'12 Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Apr 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloudcor(R) today announced that SENATH, an Australian based global provider of SaaS and PaaS cloud offerings, is a featured exhibitor (Booth #8) at Cloud Slam'12 Cloud Computing Conference and ...

WFT Cloud, accredited by SAP Insider for helping SAP customers migrate to ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
WFT Cloud, the first certified SAP Cloud Services Partner, recently accredited by SAP Insider as the preferred Private Cloud Provider for moving landscapes to cloud. WFT Cloud continues to expand their footprint across the globe to help SAP customers ...

SpiderOak Announces First 100% Private Enterprise-Class Cloud Services
MarketWatch (press release)
SpiderOak Blue is the world's first truly private enterprise-class cloud storage system. Companies benefit from fully owning and managing all of their data regardless of where the data resides. SpiderOak Blue offers the same zero-knowledge privacy ...

Cloud9 Real Time CEO Gets Published on Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
Come together in the Cloud. Use this informative "How To" guide for transition and guidance. Rob reflects on writing about Cloud Computing technologies, "Together in the Cloud was a real labor of love for me. I see the disconnect that business owners ...

SpiderOak launches secure storage cloud for businesses
Computerworld
By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - Cloud storage service provider SpiderOak is taking on Dropbox, Box and other more established services with what it calls the first truly secure data backup and collaboration cloud for businesses.

SpiderOak Secures Enterprise Cloud Storage
NetworkComputing.com
SpiderOak is jumping from the consumer cloud storage market into the corporate space with two cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises. Security is based on what it calls “zero knowledge” privacy protection, ...

Service Leader in Cloud Now Offers Open Cloud, Including Compute, Storage and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN ANTONIO, Apr 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Rackspace(R) (NYSE:RAX) , the service leader in cloud computing and a co-founder of OpenStack(R), launched new cloudcapabilities featuring the world's first large-scale, production ready next ...

Cloud Computing for Small Business
NorthFulton.com
SaaS is part of the "Cloud Computing" portfolio that includes IaaS (Infrastructure-As-A Service), the most basic cloud service model and offers users virtual access to data, and PaaS (Platform-As-A Service), which offers users both computing and...

NorthFulton.com

Why open source is the key to cloud innovation
InfoWorld
Open source is now increasingly undergirding cloud computing, so why is free software advocate Richard Stallman saying, 'don't do it'? By Thor Olavsrud | CIO.com In the 25 years since Richard Stallman wrote the GNU General Public License, free and open ...

InnoVergent's Paul Cammisa to Speak on Cloud Computing at Information ...
Florida Newswire
ALPHARETTA, Ga., April 16, 2012 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — InnoVergent (www.innovergent.com), a technology consultancy firm and reseller and system integrator ofcloud computing accounting software, announced today that InnoVergent founder Paul Cammisa ...

CloudPassage Featured at Cloud Fair Annual Conference
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Wacker's session will zero in on the security and compliance challenges of cloud computingand how they can be overcome. Security and compliance remain major challenges to adoption of public cloud infrastructure hosting. Technical differences in public ...

VMware debuts new services to enhance cloud computing, virtualization across ...
CTR
VMware Inc., provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure offerings, announced Monday formation of VMware Accelerate Advisory Services, a group of former chief information officers (CIOs), chief technology officers (CTOs) and industry ...

Healthcare SMEs use cloud services to reduce cost
Business Standard
Hyderabad-based Razi Healthcare, which has 50 primary care hospitals across India, has adopted iON – a branded on-demand cloud computing offering from Tata Consultancy Services – to digitise patient-care profiles with electronic medical records (EMRs) ...

IBM's Hardware Cloud Play
DailyFinance
By Keki Fatakia, The Motley Fool IBM (NYS: IBM) has developed an innovative way to prevent an increasing shift toward cloud computing, which it anticipates will eat into a large part of its future profits. The result is a new offering called ...

DataDirect Networks (DDN) Technology Visionary Jean-Luc Chatelain to Present ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Chatelain will also discuss opportunities around exploiting cloud storage technologies to connect media consumers worldwide as social engagement continues to drive video, imagery and rich information creation. Since joining DDN in 2011, Chatelain has ...

'High performance' emerges in cloud offerings
ITworld.com
April 16, 2012, 2:31 PM — As the public cloud IaaS market continues to evolve, providers are expected to add increased functionality, including high performance computing to their offerings, which is exactly what SoftLayer did today.

BSNL launces six internet data centres for cloud services
TwoCircles.net
"BSNL will offer managed co-location, managed hosting and cloud services through these IDCs built, operated and managed by Dimension Data for BSNL," the firm said in a statement. Cloud computing is expected to be the future of information technology ...

Aframe's Cloud Video Production Network Goes Live In North America
MarketWatch (press release)
WH Platts in Atlanta, Charleston SC, and Charlotte NC Aframe made today's announcements timed with the start of NAB 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it is showcasing its solution in the North Hall, booth #N 3222 KL in the Cloud Computing Pavilion.

Nimbula Named a 'Cool Vendor' in Cloud Management by Leading Analyst Firm
MarketWatch (press release)
This is the latest in a series of accolades for Nimbula which includes being named one of the top cloud enablers gaining mind share in the Cloud Computing Journal and inclusion on CRN's Coolest Cloud Vendors list. According to the Gartner report, ...

Cloud Computing: IBM Buying Varicent Software
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Blue figures it can be used horizontally, and combined with other stuff in its grab bag delivered through on-premise or cloud models. Les Rechan, the general manager of business analytics at IBM, said the Varicent purchase would advance Blue's efforts ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

SMBs Launch into Cloud Computing and Virtualization
InfoWorld
Given their value and importance to SMBs, it is critical that companies select the best-suited partners to help guide their virtualization and cloud implementations and technologies. VMware and HP, longtime partners and well-established leaders in ...

JMR Introduces New Suite of Cloud-Ready Servers and Workstations at the NAB ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
And to add endless scalability and seamless cloud computing, JMR's has introduced two new SilverStor™ 3 and 5 Slot PCIe Extenders. Cloud computing is crucial to the needs of today's professional content creators and high traffic studios.

Mirantis Joins Dell Partner Program for OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
While Dell provides hardware, software, services, reference architecture, and deployment guide to enable OpenStack adoption, Mirantis designs specialized, custom solutions to meet unique and complex enterprise needs in cloud computing.

What Will Your Cloud Computing Look Like?
Midsize Insider
Some companies operate their own cloud. The technology is evolving to a standardized service, but the standards are not clear yet. The largest IT companies offer cloud computing with a wide array of IT infrastructure. In an article on ComuterWorld, ...

The Trade Politics of Cloud Computing — Slaw
By Jack Newton
A number of US companies had expressed concerns that various departments in the Australian Government, namely, the Department of Defence, The National Archives of Australia, the Department of Finance and Deregulation, the Australian ...
Slaw

Household Cloud Storage :: JustCloud News
By admin
Designing a cloud storage system for the home alone has been something in demand for a long time, and a group of companies seem to have cracked it finally, although it is not cloud storageas we now know it. The product itself is basically a ...
JustCloud News

“Waiting For Cloud Standards Is Like Waiting For Godot ...
By sourya
Tags: Christian Verstraete, Cloud Computing, cloud computing stakeholders, cloudmanagement, cloud security, cloud services, cloud solutions, Converged cloud, Converged infrastructure, HP, Hybrid Cloud, Hybrid Delivery, Managed cloud, ...
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Cloud9 Real Time CEO Gets Published on Cloud Computing - Press ...
By Cloud9 Real Time
Robert J. Chandler, Author of Together in the Cloud SAN DIEGO, April 16, 2012 -- Together in theCloud is a new book hitting bookshelves at the end of April.
eReleases Press Release Headlines

Mobile Cloud Adoption Challenges in the ... - Cloud Computing Topics
By Guest Author
The Cloud computing bandwagon continues to gain acceptance in the enterprise segment. Whether it's SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) or IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), solutions built on the cloud have proven ...
Cloud Computing Topics

FUJIFILM unveils cloud storage service « Storage Bytes Now
By admin
At the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas this week, FUJIFILM launched acloud storage service called Permivault that provides on-premises and off-site storage for disaster recovery and archiving. Permivault is hosted ...
Storage Bytes Now

Two Cloud Storage Solutions For iOS Compared | ChrisWrites.com
By Henry
Apple's limited storage options on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can often be problematic for some, who like to have the amount they need rather than the amount that's given to them. It also just simply might not be enough. The number one ...
ChrisWrites.com

Big Data and Cloud Computing: Watch Out for These Unknowns ...
By Molly Keyes
Cloud computing provides the underlying engine, typically through the use of Hadoop. Because these commodity server instances can be rented as needed, big data becomes affordable for most enterprises. We always make discoveries as ...
The Future of Enterprise Computing

SAP on the Cloud » How to Make the Transition from Tradition to the ...
By Brad Smith
About this Blog. The sky is no longer the limit. Thanks to cloud computing, the power to streamline business processes, collaborate on actionable insights, and make informed decisions can be yours right now. Not in one year, not in six months.
SAP on the Cloud

In the TechKnow – Cloud Computing – Back to the Future ...
By billschiffler
Cloud Computing is all the rage. Why is this old concept the next new big thing? What is cloud computing? How are you already using it today? Also the Nokia 900 phone and Nokia's rapid response to the connectivity issues. We also take ...
WebTalkRadio.net

Making wise cloud computing decisions
By Deborah Collier
On Friday, April 13, 2012, a Washington Post article cited three key components, which include “a clean, seamless migration; proper security and control; and quality 24-7 support,” for businesses and government to consider when deciding to ...

Mid-Air Collision? The CIO/CFO Cloud Computing Debate ...
By Keith Tilley
As cloud computing starts to become part of companies' IT strategies, what effect has this had on the CIO/CFO relationship? Do the views between the CIO and CFO remain opposing? Is this conflict holding up adoption of the technology?
Business Computing World

Get Digital: The National Conference on Cloud Computing and ...
By ciara@mediastreet.ie
Free National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce to take place at Dublin City University on Wednesday, 25th April as part of National Cloud Week. The National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce is a free national ...
MediaStreet News & Opinions

Linux Today - The six best personal cloud storage choices for your ...
"Recently, Dropbox the popular cloud-storage company doubled the amount of ... is offering some kind of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud services lately.
www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2012041100539RVDTNT

Spotlight on cloud computing | ITworld
Is there a 'best' way to set up your private cloud storage? Given that cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely ...
www.itworld.com/cloud.../263794/spotlight-cloud-computing



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