Tuesday, May 8, 2012

15 Cloud Storage Tips and Tasks

Top 15 Cloud Storage Tips and Tasks
PCWorld
Some shine when it comes to streaming a cloud music collection from the Web, but stink at syncing desktop folders. Other cloud services are great for sharing photos, but useless for reviewing a document's revision history. Because not all cloud storage ...

EarthTalk: 'Cloud computing' often uses dirty power sources
Kansas City Star
By E/THE ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE Dear EarthTalk: Why is Greenpeace upset with some leading tech companies for "dirty cloud computing"? Tech companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft are offering unprecedented amounts of data storage and access to ...

Xerox's Cloud Computing Capabilities to Aid Airline Safety
MarketWatch (press release)
Xerox (NYSE:XRX) business cloud services are solving this problem by helping airlines share critical information, such as their flight plans and passenger details, with aviation agencies of destination countries. By blending its cloud capabilities with ...

Cloud Computing, Data Analytics Top Investment Priorities for Businesses
eWeek
The study shows cloud computing emerging as an investment priority. When asked what types of investments companies were likely to make in technology, 40 of the respondents cited cloud computing. That's close to automation of business processes (46 ...

Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference to Feature Acquia CEO in Application ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BURLINGTON, MA, May 07, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, today announced that CEO Tom Erickson will participate in a panel discussion on application development in cloud computing during the invitation-only ...

Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage at Interop 2012
Albany Times Union
Enterpise-grade Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage for SMB Prices from GNAX at Interop 2012. Global Net Access (GNAX), a leading cloud computing and cloud storage provider will present its cloud computing and cloud storage solutions at Interop ...

Free 20GB cloud storage for MobileMe subscribers extended to Sept. 30
Ars Technica
When Apple introduced iCloud in October of 2011 along with iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S, the company explained that the cloud service was meant to replace MobileMe—itself a successor of Apple's old iTools service launched in the year 2000.

KPN and MindTree Jointly Invest in a Cloud Services Aggregation Platform
MarketWatch (press release)
'Cloud Services Aggregation' enables KPN and MindTree to logically bundle top of the bill and third party services, tapping into the main business drivers that CIOs, business managers and end users focus on. "The KPN cloud aggregation and delivery ...

Governance Meets Cloud: Top Misconceptions
InformationWeek
While cloud computing takes some IT responsibilities off of your plate, governance isn't one of them. Experts say you still need to do the heavy lifting to ensure strong security and access policies. By Beth Stackpole InformationWeek The biggest fact ...

How Cloud Computing Can Benefit Disaster Response
Emergency Management
This is especially true if the concept sounds mysterious and cryptic — cloud computing often sounds complex The truth isn't nearly that exciting. Cloud computing is more like regressing to the early days of network design. The “cloud” in cloud ...

Marvell's All-Encompassing Cloud Services Solutions Power the Connected ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and LAS VEGAS, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) today announced an end-to-end cloud services and infrastructure platform that accelerates the connected lifestyle for businesses and consumers.

Quickoffice Gains Foothold in Enterprise and Cloud Services Market in Q1 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
The app gives users a single interface across their multiple mobile devices and cloud services, seamlessly syncing files for easy document creation, editing, collaboration and sharing. Quickoffice advanced its enterprise market position with the launch ...

McAfee and Intel cloud computing security strategy unveiled
TechTarget
SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp. and its subsidiary McAfee on Friday unveiled a cloud security strategy they hope will overcome enterprise security concerns about cloud computing by bringing together Intel's hardware-based security with McAfee's security ...

Pentaho CEO to Present at Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Delivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced that its CEO, Quentin Gallivan, will present at the Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference 2012.

Could Oracle Blow Up the Cloud?
Wired News
Will an Oracle win over Google on API copyrights sabotage the cloud as we know it? Photo: Axel Bührmann/Flickr A San Francisco court has spent the past few weeks considering a copyright question that could weigh heavy on the future of cloud computing, ...

Career advice: Careers in the cloud
Computerworld
By Allan Hackney Hackney is this month's Premier 100 IT Leader, answering questions about cloud computing as a career, abandoning IT, what to include on a résumé and more. If you have a question you'd like to pose to one of our Premier 100 IT Leaders, ...

Computerworld

Open-source cloud frameworks: A work in progress
InfoWorld
Nimble and fast, open-source frameworks can simplify application deployment in the cloud. But they're not for everyone By Robert L. Scheier | Computerworld When IT consultancy OpenCredo set out to launch three new applications within seven months for a ...

The Economics of the Cloud
BusinessWeek (blog)
Even traditional businesses use Amazon.com's cloud services because of their low price. But others have opportunities to get into the act by offering more security and protection. IBM has created a cloud service that will indemnify customers against ...

Multi Community Cloud Services - Moving Beyond the Community Cloud
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Ajay Budhraja Community cloud services are services that are shared by multiple members of a community. They centralize the functions and can provide specific mission requirements. The mission requirements can be related to specific policies and ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Could an Oracle Win Against Google Blow Up the Cloud?
Wired News
“The problems that would face cloud computing are many of the same problems we'd see, frankly, all over the internet if APIs were copyrightable,” says Julie Samuels, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has been following the trial.

Wired News

Google Drive: Cloud Storage For Small Business
Practical Ecommerce
Google's entry into the cloud-storage market includes editing, collaboration, and sharing features that may make it attractive for small and mid-sized businesses. Recently launched, Google Drive competes with existing cloud-storage services like ...

Green Cloud Computing: Budding Possibility or Weedy Fiction?
Midsize Insider
Green cloud computing seems a natural extension of the technology--what could be more efficient than moving big data centers out of thousands upon thousands of businesses and storing them in a central location? Instead of each midsize or enterprise ...

The Mobile Cloud to Dominate the Future of Mobile, Cloud Computing
PR Newswire (press release)
FARMINGTON, Conn., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Global Information Inc. is pleased to announce two significant new reports in the field of Mobile Cloud Computing The mobile cloud is a crucial and inevitable development that will have a massive ...

Cloud Storage Provider Intronis Gets New Funding Round To Expand Business
CRN
By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Cloud storage provider Intronis just closed an internal round of funding aimed at helping continue its fast growth through solution providers and MSPs. The $2.938-million round included funds from the company's existing ...

Proper security and protection measures enable rapid cloud adoption, say HP ...
ZDNet (blog)
By Dana Gardner | May 7, 2012, 9:33am PDT Summary: If the cloud computing platform is not continuously available, then the business justification as to why you went there in the first place is significantly mooted. Join the next Expert Chat ...

Wyse CEO to Discuss Global Trends and Best Practices in Cloud Computing and ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/07/12 -- Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced that President and CEO Tarkan Maner will deliver a keynote address at a congressional briefing on Cloud Computing - A Primer on ...

Cloud storage makes file access easier
China Post
NEW YORK--Moving digital files between your work and home computers can be a pain. Add smartphones and tablet computers to the mix, and you've got yourself a giant headache. Google Inc. unveiled its solution to the problem last week, while two other ...

Scribe President and CEO Lou Guercia to Speak on Cloud Integration at All ...
MarketWatch (press release)
All About the Cloud features executives from ISVs, resellers, platform and infrastructure providers, along with industry leading analysts, venture capitalists and media gathering to explore, debate and discuss all aspects of Cloud Computing.

Structure 2012: What's next in cloud computing?
GigaOM
7, 2012, 5:55am PT No Comments GigaOM's fifth annual Structure conference examines how cloud computing is changing the way business is done around the world. Here's a glimpse at some of the questions we will answer and topics we will cover: Does the ...

John Martellaro on MacJury: Cloud Services and a Wish List
The Mac Observer
The Mac Observer's Senior editor John Martellaro joined MacJury host Chuck Joiner to look at the new cloud services that have sprung up to compete with Dropbox as well as discuss his wish list for new products. Joining John and Chuck was Mark Fuccio, ...
 
The Mac Observer

Cloud storage, big data and collaboration: connecting the dots
GigaOM
7, 2012, 11:55am PT No Comments As enterprises begin to adopt cloud services and with big data evolving quickly, there are hurdles to incorporating these new capabilities into the business. A potential enabler of big data is cloud storage, ...

Cloudscaling Joins Open Data Center Alliance
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The Alliance works to speed the migration to cloud computing by enabling the solution and service systems to address IT requirements with the highest level of interoperability and standards. San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 Cloudscaling has ...

MIC TORINO: Seminar on Cloud Computing - News from the ...
By Microsoft Innovation Center
Comments 0. MIC TORINO, with Microsoft, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, and the patronage of UNINFO, are organizing a seminar on the topic of innovation, with particular reference to cloud computing and the latest solutions for industry and ...
News from the Microsoft Innovation...

Quickoffice Gains Foothold in Enterprise and Cloud Services Market ...
By michaelellis
Quickoffice Gains Foothold in Enterprise and Cloud Services Market in Q1 2012. Product family expansion addresses emerging markets demand, fueling aggressive corporate growth. Monday, May 7th, 2012. Dallas, TX – Quickoffice, Inc., the ...
Quickoffice

Building mobile multimedia services: a hybrid cloud computing ...
By Ralf Klamma
Mobile multimedia services are in high demand, but their development comes at high costs. The emergent computing paradigm cloud computing has great potential to embrace these issues. In fact, we are at the early stage of the coalescence ...
beamtenherrschaft

AWS Marketplace – a Store for Cloud Services | Inside-Cloud.com
Amazon's Werner Vogels writes that the new AWS Marketplace is an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWSCloud. Marketplace has software listings from ...
Inside-Cloud

May #cloudchat: What questions should you ask your cloud provider ...
By Katie Keating
He is a member and metrics co-lead of the National Institute of Standards for Technology (NIST)cloud computing working groups (under the US Department of Commerce). He is an International Telecommunication ... This entry was posted in # cloudchat, Managing the Cloud, Security and tagged CIO, cloud, cloud-adoption, cloud-computing, cloud-services, Cloud-Standards-Customer-Council, ibm, ibmcloud, provider, security, service-level-agreement, SLA. Bookmark the permalink.
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of ...
By candicearnold
SM: Let me get another piece of clarification here. So, Microsoft is playing this game both at an isolated platform-as-a-service level as well as an integrated platform-as-a-service plus infrastructure-as-a-service, is that correct? PR: That's correct ...
Sramana Mitra

How Green is the Cloud?
By Rich Freeman
IT and environmental experts have long described cloud computing as a sort of two-for-one deal. In addition to benefitting corporate balance sheets by lowering hardware and management expenses, they say, the cloud also benefits the ...
nttcom.tv

The Amazon Effect: Zuora, Citrix and the Acceleration of the Cloud
By Brent Leary
IDC projects worldwide revenues from public IT cloud services to reach approximately $73 billion in 2015. So now that the cloud (in all its many faces) is front and center, more technology vendors are exposing their internal IT architectures and ...
Brent's Social CRM Blog

An IT Forecast: Where Cloud, Mobile and Data Are Taking Us ...
A thorough piece on CNET by Gordon Haff looks at the interconnectivity of cloud computing, mobility and Big Data, and sees these three forces as instrumental in shaping the future of IT. "Through the lens of next-generation IT, think of cloud ...
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Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop V Meets June 5-7 at the ...
Government, industry, academia and individuals are using cloud services. NIST's role in cloud computing is to help accelerate the secure and effective adoption ...
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Cloud Computing and the Drummond Report – Canada Cloud
Our program is setting out to establish the link between the business value of Cloud Computingand the cost-cutting recommendations made in the report, ...
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