Tuesday, May 29, 2012

How to Unlock Cloud's Transformative Power

How to Unlock Cloud's Transformative Power
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Optimizers focus primarily on IT flexibility and scalability–the best recognized cloud benefits and the main reasons why most companies consider cloud computing to begin with. This enables them to significantly improve their current products and ...

Has cloud computing come of age?
Livemint
Cloud computing essentially allows a user with just a screen, keyboard and Internet connection to work from anywhere without needing to worry about software upgrades and the like. We've heard all this before, of course. Given that the application ...

Cloud Computing Company Rackspace (NYSE:RAX) Ranks Great Place To Work
The Real Estate Media
Cloud Computing company Rackspace has made the UK's Great Place to work list ranking in at 12 on the “Large Company” list. It marks as the eight appearance on the award list. The Great Place to Work list is run by the Great Place To Work Institute.

CompTIA Small Business Spotlight: Cloud Computing Evens Playing Field For SMBs ...
HostReview.com (press release)
Cloud computing platforms are an enabling technology that can foster the growth of new startup companies and improve public services. Currently, the United States is the undisputed leader incloud services. Three common sense actions can help the ...

The top SA cloud adopters
Moneyweb.co.za
JOHANNESBURG - Tablets are a major driving force behind the 'bring your own device' (BYOD) phenomenon and the resultant need for cloud services. By the end of last year, only 9% of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in SA were making use of cloud ...

Rackspace ranked 12th in the UK's Great Place to Work list
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, May 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) , the service leader in cloud computing, today announced it has been ranked 12th at this year's Great Place to Work awards during a ceremony in the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval ...

Canadian Web Hosting Deploys Juniper MX Series Routers to Complete Expansion ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Canadian Web Hosting (http://www.canadianwebhosting.com), a leading online web hosting provider in Canada announced today that it has acquired and deployed Juniper MX 3D routers with their Junos operating system to solidify their CA Cloud services and ...

Cloud computing: 14 million jobs by 2015?
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Charlie Osborne | May 28, 2012, 4:40 AM PDT Analyst firm IDC has released a new report which indicates that public and private spending in cloud computing will increase exponentially over the next few years, resulting in an available jobs boost of ...

Tax Issues In Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
The continuous evolution of cloud computing has provided many benefits to business, but it has also affected some of the present tax rules. Through cloud computing, accountants can access information and software anywhere, but location is an important ...

CloudTweaks News

Buying into the cloud for business
The Australian
BIG German enterprise software firm SAP has struggled with cloud computing but lately appears to have found some serious lift skyward with its acquisition of SuccessFactors and Aribe. SAP spent years trying to get its cloud-based Business ByDesign ...

Cloud Computing will Create Nearly 14 Million New Jobs by 2015, Says ...
DABCC.com
Research from analyst firm IDC indicates that spending on public and private cloud will create nearly 14 million jobs worldwide, over 200000 of which within the UK. This research illustrates a global extension of a similar report that the Centre for ...

Cloud lifts the ceiling on high-end computing
ComputerworldUK
Pharmaceutical modelling company Schrödinger underscored the massive potential of cloud computing in April by commissioning a 50000-core utility supercomputer in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Although few business applications could take advantage of ...

Telco Watch: Court ruling destructive for Cloud computing?
ARNnet
The ramifications of the Optus TV Now court case could affect the mammoth Cloud computing industry in Australia. When Optus TV Now was launched in July 2011, the telco probably didn't expect to withdraw the service less than a year later.

How the cloud will change IT and finance from foes into friends
TechRepublic (blog)
But cloud computing is about to bridge that gulf according to David Goulden, CFO at storage andcloud infrastructure provider EMC, by providing them with a common language to discuss business issues. As organisations shift to accessing the majority of ...

Research and Markets: Cloud Computing for IT Professionals - 2012 Contains ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Many business executives are excited over cloud computing's potential to increase efficiencies while lowering costs. But as an IT pro, you can't afford to have your head in the clouds. It's up to you to understand the cloud's risks as well as its ...

'HelpingDoc' portal using CRM on cloud computing, scouts for VCs to fund expansion
pharmabiz.com
HelpingDoc, an online portal which kicked off its operations via CRM (customer relationship management) system using cloud computing, has been able to garner a positive response from over 1000 doctors in the region of Delhi.

Go Away – You're Not Serious about the Cloud
CloudTweaks News
Your business has no chance of cloud prosperity. You've chosen to ignore several key tenets of successful integration into the cloud computing sphere, and you now find your business in an IT rut. Should you still continue to be reading this, ...

CloudTweaks News

Straddling the Cloud with in-depth understanding
CIOL
BANGALORE, INDIA: Cloud computing offers a host of advantages to business enterprises, a few being - improved agility, reduced capital and operating expenditure and faster time to market. No wonder that a lot of organizations are looking at going the ...

A Prenuptial Guide to Successfully Marrying Big Data and the Cloud
CTR
At the same time, cloud computing is muscling its way into the hearts of many more devotees these days, and it's beginning to show. Today, the amount of information that currently resides only in the cloud may be small, but a recent study by IDC ...

Open source boosts cloud computing
ITWeb
By Alex Kayle, Senior portals journalist Open source software is driving innovation in cloud computing, mobile apps and big data, CloudPro reports. This is according to the Future of Open Source Survey, which found that 40% of significant technology ...

Making the most of your personal cloud
Fudzilla
Cloud services are the new black. Millions of geeks and ordinary Joes are finally starting to appreciate the benefits of accessing their stuff anytime, anywhere and on any platform. Cloud is quickly becoming the USB drive of the internets, ...

Brocade and EMC form cloud-based network management partnership
Cloud Pro
Brocade Network Advisor SAN management software, sold through EMC as Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition (CMCNE), now integrates with EMC's new ProSphere 1.6 cloud storagemanagement software. The companies said that storage administrators ...

IBM`s New Cloud Offering Bolsters Smarter Commerce Strategy
TechWeekEurope UK
IBM has announced new software designed to improve data sharing and automate marketing and supply chain processes in the cloud, part of an ongoing effort to build on its cloud computingstrategy. At its Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Madrid, ...

The Cloud And The Final Frontier: Any Device, Any Data, Any Time
The Network
As NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) soars further into the 21st century, technological advancements in cloud computing, telepresence, and IT infrastructure trends are helping the robotic exploration center develop an "any device, any data, ...

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Ositov, CTO of OS33 ...
By candicearnold
No longer the wave of the future, cloud computing has become an integral part of the way we live and work. Companies ... Now, OS33 basically runs the infrastructure, and we developed software that integrates different cloud services. SM: OK.
Sramana Mitra

Small world (III) - Towards a European cloud computing strategy
By Chantal Mak
The assembly will, among other topics, address cloud computing, in preparation of an EU-wide strategy for the supply and development of cloud services. An important aspect of the strategy is the legal framework for cloud computing: ...
Recent developments in European...

The Cloud Preview: NVIDIA Flaunts Upcoming Cloud-Based Game ...
By Humayun
The Cloud Preview: NVIDIA Flaunts Upcoming Cloud-Based Game Demo It's been a few weeks since NVIDIA announced their powerful line-up of cloud-hosted GPUs in. ... Cloud Computing Companies and Information Database ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Netcetera Launches Cloud Desktops | Netcetera Hosting
By David
We are delighted to announce that Netcetera has launched our latest product, Cloud Desktops. It provides fully functional, personalizable, and ... My organization already uses cloud computing; I want to learn more about cloud computing ...
Netcetera Hosting

Enterprise Drives New Features in Cloud Collaboration ...
By Josette Rigsby
The number of cloud storage providers has increased dramatically over the last couple of years. Many attract new users by offering free storage in hopes that users of the free services will convert to paying customers. While selling services to ...
SiliconANGLE

Social Cloud: Cloud Computing in Social Networks
With the increasingly ubiquitous nature of Social networks and Cloud computing, users are starting to explore new ways to interact with, and exploit these ...
www.slideshare.net/.../social-cloud-cloud-computing-in-social-...

Putting a Channel Face on the Cloud - Cloud Computing news from ...
Cloud Computing - Channel Insider ... More Cloud Computing Coverage ... cloud service providers looking to recruit channel partners to resell cloud services that offer ... 1: Variations on aCloud Storage Theme in the Channel (2012-05-22) ...
www.channelinsider.com/.../Putting-a-Channel-Face-on-the-Cl...

Cloud Computing Statistics and Predictions for 2012 - SSD Cloud ...
In December 2011 Gartner and IDC released their latest cloud computing (and Big ... is vehement about a rise in people utilizing cloud services, and says he is ...
www.cloudproviderusa.com/cloud-computing-statistics-and-pr...

BMC Cloud Computing Management - BMC Software
Cloud computing management for the evolving cloud environment. ... Across the cloud lifecycle, you'll deliver cloud services with more agility, savings, flexibility, ...
www.bmc.com/solutions/.../cloud-management-software.html

Tips for Contracting Cloud Services - CareersInfoSecurity
Cloud services contracts often provide little to no wiggle room for organizations. In planning to usecloud computing services, what steps do organizations need ...
www.bankinfosecurity.com/tips-for-contracting-cloud.../op-1

Government and Cloud Computing - The Network: Cisco's ...
A study by the MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange estimates that the government could save $12 billion a year through greater use of cloud services, which ...
newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?articleId=855034...



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