Saturday, May 5, 2012

Cloud services and your docs: Know your rights

Cloud services and your docs: Know your rights
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Last week saw a flurry activity among cloud storageservices. Microsoft unveiled a massively improved SkyDrive service just one day before Google unveiled their long-awaited Google Drive. Even Dropbox got in the act by updating ...

CBS News

A Cloud-Computing Gem in the Making
msnbc.com
The company is not only focusing on the exploding market for tablet computers in the corporate sector, but is also further heading out into the cloud-computing space, which is another high-growth industry. New niche acquisitions Dell recently acquired ...

Intel, McAfee Promote Dynamic Plan for Securing the Cloud
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter Intel and McAfee on Friday announced a broad new secure cloud computinginitiative aimed at businesses that may be delaying cloud adoption because they're concerned about protecting sensitive data and meeting compliance obligations.

How to get started with the Amazon Cloud Drive app
CNET (blog)
by Matt Elliott May 4, 2012 9:51 AM PDT Follow @themattelliott Another week, another cloud storage application. Following last week's introduction of Google Drive, Amazon earlier this week released a desktop application for its Cloud Drive service.

BroadCloud Selects Piston Cloud to Power Hosted Private Clouds Built on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BroadCloud, a leading provider of managed hosting, private IT cloud solutions, and managed security solutions, today announced it has selected Piston Cloud Computing's Piston Enterprise OS(TM) ...

NIST Hosts Cloud Computing Workshop V
Cryptome.org
SUMMARY: NIST announces the Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop V to be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 5, 6 and 7, 2012. The format is a two-day forum followed by a one-day hands-on workshop. This workshop will provide information on the US ...

Appreciating the Nuances of Cloud Storage
Channel Insider
It's not uncommon for enterprise IT organizations to discover they are spending millions of dollars on cloud services such as Dropbox.com. By providing that capability in a way that leverages a secure cloud computing platform that offers both shared ...

Cloud Computing in Higher Education
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud computing can be used in everything from the internal IT organization using the cloud for business continuity planning, or storing archived copies of data off to acloud storage area - even students' papers and music that can be stored and ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Google users get new cloud storage service
gulfnews.com
By Naushad K. Cherrayil, Staff Reporter Dubai: Computer users can now download Google's new cloud storage service "Google Drive" which was launched globally last week. It is a service to store files online and share them among various computing devices ...

Leading Cloud Solutions Provider Releases Archiving Application for Salesforce ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- eDynamics, a leading provider of cloud computing solutions for organizations in regulated industries, has today announced the launch of Archive for Chatter, a Salesforce AppExchange listed application ...

OpSource CEO Treb Ryan to Present at All About the Cloud Conference 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
The conference, presented by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) and OpSource, is the most comprehensive ISV conference on cloud computing. Through keynote sessions, panels and product demonstrations, All About the Cloud will ...

Citrix Defends CloudStack's Value Vs. OpenStack
InformationWeek
My problem was in CloudStack's proponents suggesting it's the best because it's the most compatible with Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure. "So Amazon-ness is the litmus test for cloud success, and CloudStack has got it," I wrote, citing comments ...

State companies helping Army with cloud computing
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Charles Wells, the project manager in charge of the Army's cloud project. IEA is responsible for providing cooling for the computer equipment in cloud “nodes.” The US Army has turned to cloud computing, and to Wisconsin companies, to improve its ...

Cloud Computing: You Can Kiss That Old 19-Inch Rack Good-Bye
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara A growing throng of Open Compute Project (OCP) disciples converged on Rackspace headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, this week to overturn the established sixty-year-old EIA 310-D rack standard inherited from railroad signaling relays ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Avasant Chairs California Cloud Computing Seminar
PR.com (press release)
El Segundo, CA, May 04, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Avasant Chaired the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) Southern California Cloud Computing Seminar “Driving Value: Leveraging the Cloud” on March 28, 2012. The seminar was held at the ...

Cloud Computing: Informatica Upgrades Its iPaaS
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Informatica, which already counts its Cloud processing upwards of a billion cloud integration transactions a day, has upgraded the stuff. It reckons its new Cloud Spring 2012 release will deliver the industry's most comprehensive ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Amazon Spiffs Up Cloud Drive Storage with New Desktop App
eWeek
Instead of having to go to the Cloud Drive Web site each time, users simply click on a desktop icon to access all their stored files in the Amazon cloud. Amazon, which made available one of the first enterprise cloud storage services nearly seven years ...

Premio Showcases Open-Source Cloud Computing Platforms with Off-the-Shelf Data ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--With a spotlight on its cloud computing platforms in booth #508 at the 2012 Interop Expo May 8-10 in Las Vegas, Premio (http://premioinc.com/) is demonstrating how data centers or enterprises who wish to offer reliable, ...

Interior awards $35M cloud email contract to Google vendor // May 1, 2012
Nextgov
The Interior Department late Monday awarded a $35 million contract to Onix Networking Corps. to move Interior's 90000 employees to the cloud-based Google Apps for Government email system. This could mark the end of a multiyear legal squabble between ...

This Week in Cloud, May 3, 2012: Government saves $5.5b from cloud, Cloud ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
The study was created from interviews with 108 federal IT managers and CIOs and was published by MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange. The study also found that if they had been more aggressive in cloud adoption, the government could have saved $12 ...

LG Jumps into the Mobile Cloud Storage Race, Launches LG Cloud
CloudTimes
Just like Apple, Google and Microsoft, which are offering cloud computing-based services, the South Korean company also launched a similar product. LG has announced the launch of itscloud storage service, LG Cloud, in beta testing starting first of ...

Cloud Computing: Inktank to Commercialize Ceph Big Storage
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Piston Cloud Computing was an early adopter of Ceph and is using it as the block storage device for its OpenStack-based Piston Enterprise OS distribution, but apparently wishes it didn't have to do the heavy lifting to get it fully integrated.
SYS-CON Media (press release)

ElasticHosts expands cloud portfolio
ComputerworldUK
The new offerings are aimed at helping all sizes of business easily access and manage theircloud services, while offering scalability and strong disaster recovery protection. Check out our Business IT Hub for opinions and briefings.

Free Ebook: Cloud Services Brokerage for Dummies®
CloudTweaks News
Read Cloud Services Brokerage for Dummies® to learn about the state of cloud computing today, how CSBs add business value, what's important to think about when considering a CSB, and predictions about what's to come. You know firsthand that the ...
CloudTweaks News

Tavaxy: Integrating Taverna and Galaxy workflows with cloud computing support
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Tavaxy offers a set of new features that simplify and enhance the development of sequence analysis applications: It also allows the integration of existing Taverna and Galaxy workflows in a single environment, and supports the use of cloud computing ...

Nirvanix Closes $25M Funding With Plans To Expand Cloud Storage Reach
CRN
By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Cloud storage service provider Nirvanix on Thursday said it has raised over $25 million in a new round of funding it plans to use to expand a new cloud research facility and double the number of data centers in which its storage ...

Are rogue cloud users a risk for states?
GCN.com
“Capitals in the Clouds Part IV — Cloud Security: On Mission and Means,” focuses on the key security concerns faced by state CIOs and their security staffs as they incorporate the clouddelivery model into the tools they use to support state services ...

Salesforce.com Announces Timing of its First Quarter Fiscal 2013 Financial ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that its first quarter fiscal 2013 results will be released on Thursday, May 17, 2012, after the close of the ...

The battle to stop Amazon Web Services starts here
InfoWorld (blog)
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld Piston Computing plans to build a bridge to EMC VMware's CloudFoundry, meaning it will link Piston's own OpenStack-based cloud IaaS offering. What does this mean for cloud development? It's the start of many other such ...

Tax negotiators settle controversy over taxing cloud computing — for ...
By Nancy Remsen
House and Senate negotiators reached consensus on how to address the controversy over taxing what has been given the shorthand name of cloud computing. The deal was part of an agreement reached on a miscellaneous tax bill.
vt.Buzz

Netapp: Storage infrastructure for cloud computing ...
By MrMukMuk
Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a reality, and forward-thinking IT organisations are moving quickly to evolve existing IT infrastructures to include cloud capabilities that provide IT as a Service (ITaaS). Shared cloud infrastructure has created new requirements for secure multi-tenancy, service automation, data mobility, ... Cloud storage infrastructure requirements - NetApp storage technology enables cloud computing - Partners for success. © 2011 AMEINFO (www.ameinfo.com) ...
weareallmukmuks.com

Cloud Expo East Five Weeks Out | Cloud Computing Journal
The only place to be June 11-14th is the NY Javits Center at Cloud Expo 2012 East. Join us there as delegates from all over the world come to listen to and engage with speakers and sponsors from the leading Cloud Computing, Big Data and ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Re-Invent Cloud Computing with IBM Solutions [Video] | SiliconANGLE
By Saroj Kar
On his company role in providing cloud services to industries, Arseneau said IBM is capable of designing systems to bring the benefits of cloud computing while avoiding the security and risk for small, medium to large sized businesses.
SiliconANGLE

Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #54 | Zenoss Blog by @tbalinas
By Travis Balinas
However, if internal IT does not change around the usage of most cloud services, enterprise IT won't get the full benefits. Indeed, many initial uses of cloud computing resources in such organizations will end up in failure. The dirty little secret is ...
Transforming IT Operations

Dropbox partnership will give Samsung Galaxy S III customers 50GB ...
By Phone Arena
While no S-Cloud of its own was announced last night, Samsung is still not leaving Galaxy S III customers to dry. It has partnered with Dropbox to give them not 25GB of cloud storage as HTC does, but double that amount for two years...
PhoneArena - News

DocTrackr lets you control your documents — wherever they are ...
By Barb Darrow
That's the target audience for DocTrackr's new service, which lets users retain control of Word, Excel, PDF or other documents even when they've been emailed to others or put into cloud storage. “You can even destroy your digital documents,” ...
GigaOM

Four reasons why I hate the term “cloud” | Thoughts on Cloud Blog
By Chris Dotson
In addition to cloud services being offered by different vendors, IBM internally offers a private development/test compute cloud, a private storage cloud, a private desktop cloud, an analyticcloud, and many others. These all meet ... I don't want to sell short the promise of cloud in any way; after all, the difference between a diamond and a lump of coal is simply one of arrangement, and the cloud computing model is leading to some amazing new business models and strategies. But you ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

Microsoft supports SA startups with free cloud services
By IT News Africa
000 of free cloud computing over two years? ... Microsoft supports SA startups with free cloud services ... The initial focus of the BizSpark Plus program is on the Windows Azure Platform, which helps cover a startup's cloud computing costs.
IT News Africa news alert

Microsoft Can Help You Manage Your Online Information - Cloud ...
By trusted-cloud
The Trustworthy Computing blog shares Microsoft perspectives about cloud computing. From security in the cloud to the evolution of IT, we show how Microsoft works to build a trustworthycloud.
Cloud Computing | Microsoft Trustwort...

Connectria Announces IBM AIX Cloud | Ping! Zine
By Ping! Zine Editor
The IBM AIX Cloud closely follows the launch of Connectria's IBM i Cloud, demonstrating Connectria's continued innovation and leadership in Cloud Computing. Connectria's IBM AIXCloud Hosting is designed to run on the reliable IBM Power ...
Ping! Zine

Of Cloud Computing and e-Science | e-Science Community
Why am I thinking about cloud computing and e-science during the busiest time of the academic year? Well, I have the Boston Globe and Google to thank for ...
esciencecommunity.umassmed.edu/.../of-cloud-computing-an...

Cloud Computing: A Catalyst for Business - InFocus
Cloud computing is one of the high tech industry's most significant and disruptive developments of the past few decades, changing the way organizations build, ...
infocus.emc.com/.../cloud-computing-a-catalyst-for-business/

What is Cloud | Cloud Storage Providers | Online Cloud Storage ...
160x600 3 With the appearance of the Cloud Storage and Cloud Servers, backing up your significant files online via Internet has become so much easy than ...
blog.eukhost.com/.../cloud-storage-provider-how-to-choose/



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