Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Cloud Access Becoming Next 'Must Have' for Mobile

Cloud Access Becoming Next 'Must Have' for Mobile
Wall Street Journal
(MSFT) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) are scrambling to meet consumer demand for cloud services that let people on the go store and sync data between their mobile devices and computers. Last month, Google introduced Google Drive, a consumer cloud for storing ...

Clouds, Cloud Storage and EMC
NetworkComputing.com
When EMC talks about cloud computing, it isn't necessarily referring to the same kind of cloud the rest of IT is talking about. EMC's cloud is focused on the company's products that reside in your data centers, or in its cloud partner data centers like ...

SAP to acquire cloud-computing developer Ariba in US$4.3B deal
Financial Post (blog)
SAP AG, the largest business-management software maker, agreed to buy Ariba Inc. to add a cloud-computing applications maker in a transaction valued at about US$4.3-billion. SAP offered US$45 a share for Ariba, whose board of directors has unanimously ...

Financial Post (blog)

Wyse and Rise Forge Partnership to Help Channel Partners Expand Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Through this new relationship, current Wyse partners will be able to utilize Rise's award-winning DataCenter on Demand product portfolio to provide business-class cloud services to their customers. Access to the Rise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) ...

Variations on a Cloud Storage Theme in the Channel
Channel Insider
On the face of it these are about a channel centric an initiative as it gets in the cloud. Instead of building its own cloud, EMC is going to rely and promote cloud storage services built by its partners. It will be up to EMC partners to decide if they ...

Box cloud storage hits a glitch
GigaOM
22, 2012, 9:27am PT 3 Comments Cloud storage provider Box experienced a snafu early Tuesday when users reported via Twitter that they could not access their stored documents. Reached for comment, a Box spokesman acknowledged there had been an issue.

GigaOM

The First Forensic Software Solution to Provide Recovery of Cloud-Based Evidence
MarketWatch (press release)
WATERLOO, ONTARIO, May 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Internet Evidence Finder (IEF), the market leading computer forensics solution, now supports the recovery of evidence fromCloud services. IEF v5.5 supports the recovery of cloud-based evidence ...

Money, not technology, drives cloud growth, IT shrinkage
InformationWeek
May 22, 2012, 12:00 AM — Cloud computing may be the biggest thing ever to hit IT, but not for good solid technical reasons, and not because it gives IT the chance to show it really does know what their companies really need from technology to make the ...

Microsoft, LG paired in cloud computing
Korea Times
By Cho Mu-hyun LG CNS, a Korean firm engaged in software development and information technology outsourcing, plans to partner Microsoft in exploiting the rise in server-based, or cloud computing. The announcement extended a series of agreements between ...

Korea Times

NetEnrich Recognized as One of the World's Top Cloud Service Providers
MarketWatch (press release)
25 in the 2012 Talkin' Cloud 100 report. "Cloud computing continues to revolutionize the business landscape, making it possible for companies to be more agile, and work smarter and faster," says Justin Crotty, senior vice president and general manager, ...

Wyse CEO Delivers the Global Vision Presentation With a Focus on Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Mr. Maner will be a keynote speaker during the awards ceremony and will discuss the impact ofcloud computing on organizations the world over, and how to embrace the cloud as a means for social, economic and educational change.

Which cloud model will prevail?
Financial Times
“Cloud computing is one of the biggest game-changers in computing since e-business emerged 15 years ago,” says Steve Caniano, who is in charge of AT&T's hosting, cloud and application services businesses. “It helps companies directly align business ...

Financial Times

Sage Releases Intuitive Construction-Specific Cloud Service
MarketWatch (press release)
It is built upon Microsoft's industry-leading cloud services platform, Azure, which provides the highest available levels of data integrity and confidentiality. The Sage Construction Anywhere platform provides the administrator control over who sees ...

Top 10 Reasons to Love Cloud Computing
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Roger Strukhoff is a writer for Cloud Computing Journal, Computerworld Philippines, and CloudEcosystem.com. He is founder of Samar Pacific Inc., a publishing services & research firm with offices in Illinois and Makati City, Philippines.

SYS-CON Media (press release)

American Technology Services (ATSTM) Named as One of the World's Top Cloud ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--ATS TM announced today that it was named to the Talkin' Cloud100 (formerly the Talkin' Cloud 50) for the second year in a row. The top 100 cloud service providers generated more than $2.3 billion in combined cloud services ...

SAP Agrees to Acquire Ariba for $4.5 Billion
New York Times
By WILLIAM ALDEN SAP, the German business software giant, has agreed to buy Ariba, a provider of cloud computing services, for $4.5 billion. Ariba shareholders are being offered $45 a share, representing a premium of nearly 20 percent over the ...

Cloud Computing: Google Closes Motorola Mobility Acquisition
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Google said first thing Tuesday morning that it's closed on its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. It's been waiting nine months to clinch the deal and get its hands on Motorola's patent portfolio.
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Nexonia and Intacct Integrate Cloud Applications
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The companies also announced that Nexonia has joined the Intacct-Ready™ Partner Program, a robust ecosystem of pre-integrated cloud computing-based applications. As part of the new partnership, Nexonia has completed full web services integration with ...

EMC CEO Tucci: Cloud, Big Data Transforming Business, IT
eWeek
Now, the industry is moving into the era of cloud computing and big data, and EMC, the dominant data storage company of the past couple of decades, will be a significant player, Tucci said May 21 during his keynote address at the show, ...

Rise To Cloud And Profit
Investor's Business Daily
Cloud computing is the online storage of information within a network of data centers. A decade ago, businesses had to buy and maintain a block of their own in-house servers. The process was expensive and tough to plan. Now firms can get as much or as ...

IBM Accelerates Business from Supply to Demand with New Cloud Offerings For ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MADRID, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- At the Smarter Commerce Global Summit, IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced new software designed to improve data sharing and automate complex marketing and supply chain processes in the cloud.

ownCloud: Universal access to local data
ITworld.com
By Brian Proffitt Add a new comment Personal cloud storage may seem like the domain of big vendors, thanks to Google's Gdrive, Microsoft's SkyDrive, and perennial favorite Dropbox. But one open source project is looking to differentiate itself in ...

Managing Your Business (and Your Life) in the Cloud
Huffington Post
Something called "cloud computing." For those not familiar with the term (or who would appreciate a little geek-speak refresher), cloud computing essentially means that software installation as we've known it -- installed from a CD-ROM and requiring ...

3 easy steps to creating your cloud strategy
InfoWorld (blog)
If you have no cloud computing plan, you've essentially decided to fail. Here's how to succeed By David Linthicum | InfoWorld You're in IT and have yet to create a cloud computing strategy for your business. Now what? You can wing it, which is what ...

Adaptivity, Nimbula Partner to Accelerate Move of Legacy IT to the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
Currently available to early adopters, the Adaptivity Blueprint4Cloud(TM) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform focuses on making the right cloud computing planning and design decisions. When the platform launches to the general public in the third ...

Cloud Leadership Forum 2012 to Offer Senior Decision-Makers Unmatched Insights ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"With more than a third of IT budgets being devoted to Cloud Computing(1), it has clearly become a key driver in developing new business opportunities for the enterprise. The Cloud Leadership Forum offers attendees the opportunity to hear real-world ...

Private Clouds are From Mars, Public Clouds are From Venus... Sort Of
Forbes
Our survey respondents made it clear that they while view private cloud as a natural next step from x86 server virtualization, they don't think it necessarily has much to do with public cloud services at all.” More than 70% of respondents say they view ...

Forbes

Adoption of cloud-based security solutions at the crossroads
SecurityInfoWatch
This is a small view into the many applications available as managed services and virtualized infrastructure: the signature success of cloud solutions. As an evolutionary progression of network accessible voice, data and media content, cloud computing ...

EMC ramps up cloud services and support
Channel Pro
EMC (NYSE:EMC) has marked the start of its first global partner summit by announcing the launch of several cloud programmes and services initiatives, as well as the expansion of its channel-only product line. The storage giant treated partners to a...

Channel Pro

Terremark Expands European Cloud Infrastructure Capacity
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The London data center provides the robust physical infrastructure that helps Terremark meet the increasing demand from customers for advanced cloud computing, security and IT infrastructure services. As with the cloud deployments in its cloud-enabled ...

Cequel Data Centers Expands Cloud Services with TierPoint ...
By Justin Lee
With this acquisition, Cequel is able to expand on its cloud computing services, including cloudbackup and disaster recovery, as the company continues to broaden its customer base beyond companies looking for colocation and data center ...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

Cloud Computing in a Technological Age « EHRScope.com
Cloud computing has come to rescue the healthcare industry from the qualms that have plagued many professionals, vendors, and even patients over time. This technology helps expedite aspects of healthcare such as data processing, ...
EHRScope.com

Cloud Fundamentals Video Series: Data Center Security - Cloud ...
By trusted-cloud
The Trustworthy Computing blog provides perspectives on the security, privacy and reliability topics relevant to organizations, with a particular focus on cloud computing and the evolution of the IT environment. Read more about the Trustworthy Computing blog > ... It goes without saying that the physical security of the data centers where cloud services are hosted is a very important aspect of security to all of the customers I talk to. After all, if an attacker can gain physical access to the ...
Cloud Computing | Microsoft Trustwort...

What Cloud Computing Means for a Marketer | Lead Views - a B2B ...
By Shreesha
Although cloud computing broadly encompasses many types of services delivered from the Internet, I'm only discussing those that automate business functions in an immediate and scalable manner. All the other good services we often hear about (e.g., infrastructure as a service, ... In summary, if you are not taking advantage of cloud services, you are probably not as quick and agile as your competitors. These services enable speed, a critical success factor for any business. Related ...
Lead Views - a B2B Lead Generation Blog

HP Blogs - Discover the first Cloud Computing Technical Stand ...
By Nadhan
The Twitter Chat covered various topics including converged cloud and identity management. As I mention in my post on the Top 5 phases of Iaas Standards Evolution, cloud computing standards, like all standards, go through a series of ...
Enterprise Services Blog articles

Cloud Computing: ITC Bans Moto's Microsoft-Infringing Android ...
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of .... Cloud Storage: Myths and Realities. POWER PANELS: ...
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Cloud Computing to Join the Search for the God Particle | Tech 4 ...
By Jose Ricardo
Cloud Computing to Join the Search for the God Particle. Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, went active in 2008, speculation has been rife that the elusive Higgs boson, ...
Tech 4 Business

KPMG: Authorities looking at taxing cloud computing, new resource ...
By admin
KPMG: Authorities looking at taxing cloud computing, new resource available. May 22, 2012. Tweet. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Name *. Email *. Website. * Copy this ...
Big4.com

EMC buys Syncplicity to serve as Dropbox for business — Cloud ...
By Jo Maitland
Storage giant EMC has acquired cloud-storage startup Syncplicity in an attempt to compete with consumer-focused offerings such as Dropbox and for storing business users' files. Cloud-based storage has become the primary villain in the ...
GigaOM Pro

Carahsoft Adds Cleversafe Cloud Storage Software To GSA ...
By Gino Troiani
The software is also intended to help agencies meet data storage policies and initiatives for cloud storage, data center consolidation, security and multi-site disaster recovery, the companies said. Cleversafe's dsNet software distributes data in ...
ExecutiveBiz

Dialogues: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Cloud Computing and ...
By toinho
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Dialogues. Tuesday, May 22, 2012. USA Africa Dialogue Series -Cloud Computing and African Universities - A Word from the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Interesting article. Something to think about .
Dialogues

Cloud Fitness: Delivering Agile Cloud Services - The CA Cloud ...
CA Cloud Computing. ... You'll be well on your way to delivering agile cloud services. And wouldn't you ... 5 Essential Tips to Quickly Deploy Cloud Services ...
community.ca.com/.../cloud-fitness-delivering-agile-cloud-ser...

Cloud Services and Virtualization Boost SMB Survival
A Symantec survey reveals that as cloud computing, small business ... So it's fortunate that as SMBs adopt of virtualization and cloud services -- and as mobile ...
www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/.../cloud-services-and-virtu...



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