Monday, April 2, 2012

SMB cloud adoption begins to acclerate, study finds

SMB cloud adoption begins to acclerate, study finds
BetaNews
The number of cloud services is expected to double over the next five years, and the number of small business using at least one cloud service will triple during that same period. Cloud computing offers small business the opportunity to access the...

BetaNews

Gluu : Cloud Federation appliance
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
If you want to have your staff, who are on your LAN and logged in via AD, access remote Cloud services then you might want to 'federate' this directory with the counterpart in the Cloud Provider, to achieve various security and replication features.
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

OneOps, TwoOps … Exploring cloud ops
GigaOM
31, 2012, 3:00pm PT 1 Comment Those of you who follow me on Twitter (@jamesurquhart) may have come across frequent recent discussions about new operations methods enabled bycloud computing. The most common terms in these discussions include DevOps and ...

Small Biz power from 'The Cloud'
Times Daily
Virtual markets are powered by “cloud computing,” aka “the cloud,” and accessed via the Internet. Historically, as trade expanded markets, products led the way because services were difficult to convey to the last mile of consumption.
Times Daily

Brennan IT selects Equinix as data centre partner
iTWire
By partnering with Equinix we are guaranteeing access to the capacities, quality facilities and services we need to cost-effectively expand as the popularity of our cloud services continues to rise.” Stevens said the relationship would see Brennan IT ...

Vt gubernatorial candidate hits 'cloud tax'
NECN
Brock says that a growing number of Vermont businesses use such servers for so-called "cloud computing." He says many of them are being hurt by the Tax Department's push to collect sales taxes on the software they use. Brock says the department has ...

Media Alert: Gartner Announces Business Intelligence Summit 2012
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The summit delivers insight on the latest hot topics, such as effective BI strategy, cloud and SaaS options for analytics, big data, predictive and prescriptive analytics, dashboard design, and more. The Gartner BI Summit is co-located with the Gartner ...

Cloud fines could reach £100 million for companies
CFO World UK
By Derek du Preez | Computerworld UK | Published 13:00, 01 April 12 Companies enjoying the benefits of cloud computing may find that they increase the risk of receiving hefty fines, which could reach hundreds of millions of pounds, under future EU data ...

Across my Desk
AutomatedBuildings.com (press release)
Cloud computing to replace the personal computer as the 'device' of choice by 2014; something it has coined the 'personal cloud'. The global analyst believes the personal cloud will begin a new era that provides users with a new level of flexibility ...

vScience Announces Workshop and Conference Series to Support Hands-on ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
vScience, LLC (http://www.vsciencellc.com), today announced the kick-off of its new workshop and conference series focused on intense technical training for IT professionals currently working with virtualization and cloud computing environments.

Security issues hinder govt cloud initiative
Business Times (subscription)
AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY reports PUBLIC sector companies here consider data security and privacy issues to be the main challenges in the government's use of cloud services to interact with citizens. 'At the national level, ensuring data security will be ...

Technology has made customer experience better
Livemint
a Memphis-based logistics company—is excited about the positive changes that newer technologies such as cloud computing could bring in the logistics sector. As a member of the five-person executive committee, which plans and executes the corporation's ...

CEO Series: Josh McKenty, CEO Piston Cloud on Company Progress, OpenStack and ...
CloudTimes (blog)
By Martin Tantow On March 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is an enterprise OpenStack company. Founded in early 2011 by technical team leads from NASA and Rackspace, PistonCloud's technology is built on OpenStack,...

CloudTimes (blog)

Aress Software Participated in the Prestigious WorldHostingDays Global 2012 ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
They have recently become an openQRM Enterprise partner in their quest to grow further in thecloud computing side of business. OpenQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform on cloud. OpenQRM is not just yet another ...

Microsoft and Apple working on Secret Anti-Google Cloud OS
Ghacks Technology News
Now though details have emerged of a previously secret new cloud OS collaboration between Microsoft and Apple. Based loosely on work started by Microsoft Research, the new OS will put the cloud at its heart with search, file storage (both locally and ...

Big Data, Buildings, and the Internet of Things
AutomatedBuildings.com (press release)
You can create and sell your own Ninja Blocks to connect to the Ninja Cloud. The Ninja Cloudconnects this sensor information to social and cloud services. Sensor events can send tweets, SMS, or email. Ninja photos and video can move automatically into ...

The Data Center Diet
Bank Technology News
While I can see many benefits in deploying cloud computing, I think CIOs should be far more interested building infrastructure environments that are cloud-like. In some industries like financial services, data should not be in the public arena.

Observe World Backup Day 2012 with five easy solutions for stashing your files
Digitaltrends.com
Cloud service – Today, everything can be uploaded onto the cloud, and the storage services are endless. Dropbox and SugarSync, are some services to name a few. One simple, free option is simply using Google Docs. Just upload all of your important Word ...

Digitaltrends.com

The Market Curve: The Life Cycle Of New Technology Markets
TechCrunch
Today, this market has broadened into a larger paradigm called Cloud Computingwith corporations shifting nearly every aspect of their IT infrastructure into the Cloud. This could not have been imagined during the Hype Cycle of this market.

TechCrunch

News Digest: April 2
Federal Times
A $10 million NSF project at the University of California, Berkeley to research how useful information can be extracted from large data sets using machine learning, cloud computing and crowd sourcing. • XDATA, a program through which DARPA is investing ...

Chartered Accountants meet on Monday
International News Network
James Lockyer – Director of Education at Association of Corporate Treasurers, UK, Nadeem Naqvi – Managing Director , Karachi Stock Exchange, Nahil Mahmood – Chief Information Security Officer, MCB Bank Limited and President, Cloud Sccurity Alliance ...

International News Network

Going Paperless: Document Management Opportunity for MSPs
MSPmentor
Does your company rank among the world's top cloud services providers (CSPs), cloudaggregators, cloud integrators and other channel partners working in the cloud? Prove it. Participate in our 2nd annual Talkin' Cloud 50 survey.

Locus Technologies makes move to Asheville for data visualization
Asheville Citizen-Times
The company has focused on cloud computing, storing massive databases in the invisible network that can be accessed from many computers instead of storing data on a single mainframe machine. Locus has just launched its first software tool for public ...

Riverbed: Accelerating Cloud Services | Niea Milwaukee 2009 Again
By TerranceV
Riverbed: Accelerating Cloud Services. Posted by TerranceV | Business | Posted on April 1st, 2012. Cloud computing has become an important new tool for IT managers in controlling the cost and complexity of business-critical applications ...
Niea Milwaukee 2009 Again

Director of Sales | IaaS company in the cloud-computing space | Job ...
Director of Sales Are you an enthusiastic, hands-on sales leader that enjoys working in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment Do you have experience selling software to enterprise accounts Are you looking to join a company developing the ...
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Cloud Expo New York: Redefining Cloud Computing… Again | JAVA ...
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, David Linthicum, Founder and CTO of Blue Mountain Labs, will look at what cloud computing is, and what it should be. The way it's defined today and how should be defined tomorrow.
Java Industry News

Let's talk about cloud — seriously! | Thoughts on Cloud Blog
By Marcus Erber
“A cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water, various chemicals (or water and chemicals) suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body.” – Wikipedia. Today, I would like to discuss this ... Marcus is an IBM senior IT architect and cross-brand technical consultant for cloud computing, following assignments as lead architect in a number of international outsourcing transformations and engagements. View all posts by Marcus Erber → ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

Seminar: Building Solutions Using Windows Azure - Dr. Z's Blog ...
By zxue
Cloud Computing Seminar at HCS Campus Cloud Computing – Developing Solutions Using Windows Azure. In this session, we will first discuss what cloud computing is and what Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service ...
MSDN Blogs

Our New Play for Monday is MELY! - Sunday, April 01, 2012 : Stock ...
A provider of Cloud Computing Solutions for the last 3 years on an International basis with servers in multiple countries including the United States, Canada, and Europe. ...[8]Microelectronics Technology Corporation Next Generation Cloud Application Hosting: Market Update 1.1 Trillion Per Year New Revenues Projected Spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide from 2011 to 2015, according to a new study by the analyst firm IDC ...
Stock Newsletters

Oracle Fusion Middleware to provide the impetus for the enterprise ...
By tdomf_50b0c
Good virtualization characteristics of cloud computing, enterprise business required scalability, flexible deployment, cloud computing design patterns can quickly optimize and innovate, thereby significantly reducing IT complexity to help ...
IT Events

Deloitte identifies 8 human capital trends to transform HR and ...
By GaryMetzger
Converging transformative technologies, such as cloud services, social media, mobile and analytics, are driving many companies to advance their human resource (HR) capabilities and enhance performance in 2012, according to a Deloitte ...
Education And Training

All the bottom line action | Rust Report
By admin
The relationship will see Brennan IT transition many of its NSW-based cloud services to Equinix's Sydney data centre, while also providing Brennan IT with the opportunity to take advantage of Equinix's global platform of state-of-the-art ...
Rust Report

Selecting a 3PAO with assessors that have the Certificate of Cloud ...
By Matthew Metheny
The CCSK is not a guarantee but does offer one source to ensure that the assessor has the essential knowledge of cloud computing and security/risk management “best practices” as be applied within a cloud environment (across all of the ...
(ISC)2 Blog

Transparency AZ » Blog Archive » Jolicloud Me to Integrate Content ...
By admin
The move marks Joliclouds effort to enter the emerging field of personal cloud services that offer users access to all of their data through a single finder. The company already offers a browser-based desktop and a cloud OS for low-cost ...
Transparency AZ

Building Trust Between Cloud Computing Providers and Suppliers
Two of the leaders of the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative, Dawn Leaf, NIST Senior Executive for Cloud Computing, and David McClure, GSA Associate ...
gov.aol.com/.../building-trust-between-cloud-computing-provi...

Cloud Computing Security | Cloudline | Wired.com
I recently wrote two articles about the growth of cloud computing: The Perfect Storm for Cloud Computing, and Enough Already! Cloud Computing Is Here to Stay ...
www.wired.com/cloudline/tag/cloud-computing-security/

Study: Cloud Computing Becoming Pervasive | JAVA Developer's ...
IT needs to step up now and change its approach to cloud services. ... Seventy two percent of CIOs believe that the business sees cloud computing as a way to ...
java.sys-con.com/node/2215498

Global Knowledge Training Blog » Types of Cloud Services – As ...
Types of Cloud Services – As Defined by ITIL. Author: Michael Scarborough 21 March 2012 1262 views No Comments. The popularity of cloud computing during ...
globalknowledgeblog.com/.../types-of-cloud-services-as-defin...

Cloud Services Strategy: Security First - Growth Second
Cloud Services Strategy: Security First - Growth Second Cisco, Juniper, Oracle, ... Cloud storageis one of the most rapidly growing services for small to large ...
infosecisland.com/.../20787-Cloud-Services-Strategy-Security-...

Should I use Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) Solution? | Cloud ...
Cloud computing adoption is not as simple as it sounds. Chances are, you need help. There is ...
www.cloudbusinessreview.com/.../should-i-use-cloud-services-...

CloudStack -- Open Source Cloud Computing Software
... clouds and data center operators can quickly and easily build cloud services within ...CloudStack users can take full advantage of cloud computing to deliver ... source cloudoperating system which delivers public cloud computing similar to ...
www.cloudstack.org/software.html



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