Tuesday, May 1, 2012

More Competition in Cloud Computing

Big Deals Point To More Competition in Cloud Computing
Wall Street Journal
(ORCL) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) in cloud computing, but last week a venture-backed company from San Francisco stepped from the shadows to snap up one of the richest contracts in business for software to manage sales, marketing and customer ...

Piston Cloud Computing to Integrate Cloud Foundry and OpenStack
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced a new community open source project to allow the Cloud Foundry(TM) platform-as-a-service to run on OpenStack.

Hughes Cloud Services & Hosting Showcases Its Comprehensive Enterprise IT ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Hughes Cloud Services & Hosting LLC (HCS), a provider of secure, comprehensive cloud hosting and management services, will showcase its corporate IT offering at Interop Las Vegas 2012 Booth #804, ...

Cincinnati Bell Launches Cloud Services With Apptix and Parallels
MarketWatch (press release)
"Purchasing and maintaining software and hardware can be daunting and expensive for many SMB customers," said Stuart Levinsky, General Manager of Cloud Computing at Cincinnati Bell. "Cloud Solutions from Cincinnati Bell allow businesses to focus on ...

Nirvanix Simplifies Cloud Storage with "One Click to the Cloud" at Symantec ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Nirvanix, the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services, today announced that it will demonstrate the simplicity of moving data with One Click to the Cloud(TM) at Symantec Vision ...

'Cloud' Computing Technology Should Make Sharing Medical Images Easier and ...
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (Apr. 30, 2012) — Patients find "cloud" technology a faster, more efficient way to store and distribute their medical images than current options, according to the preliminary findings of an image sharing project led by The Mount Sinai ...

LG debuts cloud storage service with emphasis on media streaming
VentureBeat
South Korean electronics giant LG has introduced LG Cloud, a service that lets users store and access content across Android phones, smart TVs, and PCs, the company announced today. LG Cloud arrives in beta form on tomorrow.

VentureBeat

VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering
InfoWorld
By Brandon Butler | Network World In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computingannounced it will work to support integration of VMware's open source platform-as-a-service offering Cloud Foundry with OpenStack, the open source ...

Oracle Engineered Systems Power CISDI to Establish Cloud Computing Platform
MarketWatch (press release)
-- CISDI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD ("CISDI INFO") has selected Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exadata Database Machine for its cloud computing platform. The move is designed to help improve CISDI INFO's capabilities to offer complete ...

Comparing Google Drive to other cloud services
Calgary Herald
Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, formerly Microsoft Windows Live Skydrive, Box, SugarSync, SpiderOak - the list goes on with how many cloud storage platforms exist today, each offering some amount of free storage for storing and accessing files remotely.

LG enters cloud storage sector
Digital Spy
LG has announced plans to enter the online storage sector with the launch of a cloud service. The Korean firm will take on Apple and Google with LG Cloud, a means of sharing content between TVs, smartphones, PCs and tablet devices.

LG launching all-in-one cloud storage and streaming
Android Community
More cloud storage options anyone? Between Google, Microsoft, Apple, DropBox and many others the choices for cloud storage are quite broad, but today we have learned of another. LG is set to announce their new all-in-one cloud storage and streaming ...

Android Community

LG jumps aboard the bandwagon, launches cloud storage service
Digitaltrends.com
LG has introduced LG Cloud, its own cloud storage system which offers 5GB of space for free, and will sync between computers, Smart TVs and Android smartphones. Cloud storage solutions are the in-thing at the moment, with everyone from HTC and Apple to ...

Digitaltrends.com

Cloud computing platform launches a network of new businesses
TechTarget
He is a finalist for the Cultural Innovation and Technological Advancement awards. You have transformed Mohawk Fine Paper in many ways through the use of cloud services and a cloudbroker. Can you tell us about how the cloud project you deployed is ...

Growing Up Google: How Cloud Computing Is Changing a Generation
Mashable
David Politis is the founder and CEO of BetterCloud, the leading provider of Google Apps extensions that create security and management. Follow David @DavePolitis. A few weeks ago, a school administrator shared a story about how he tried to block ...

Master MySQL in the Amazon Cloud
PCWorld
By Sean Hull, Infoworld For many MySQL database admins, Amazon Web Services represents the brave new world of cloud computing--one fraught with disappearing servers, disk I/O variability, and other shared resource challenges, not to mention questions ...

The New Google Drive: Cloud Storage for Businesses and Individuals
Midsize Insider
Cloud storage is the hottest trend in cloud computing, because the technology offers large amounts of storage space for low costs. The new Google Drive has been rumored to exist for months, and Google has recently released the new Google Drive for ...

GraphOn Further Extends Cloud Computing Position with New Web Server Patent
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Apr 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GraphOn Corporation , a leading worldwide developer of cloud application delivery and Web-enabling solutions, announced today that it has been issued a new patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office ...

Radware Collaborates With IBM to Help Customers Achieve Superior Value From ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MAHWAH, New Jersey, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) , a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and clouddata centers, today announced it is collaborating with IBM to ...

LG Cloud: another multi-platform cloud storage service
Geek
It's cloud storage, and just about every Android smartphone OEM is working on their own implementation of Apple's iCloud service. Up next: LG, who have revealed some details about their new service called — you guessed it — LG Cloud.

Geek

Quark Summary: What CFOs Need to Know About SaaS and Cloud Integration
Forbes
Organizations have escalated their adoption of cloud computing and SaaS applications in the past 3 years. As part of the broader trend in consumerization of IT (CoIT), business leaders have slowly tipped the balance of power in determining technology ...

VMware, Piston partner on OpenStack layer for Cloud Foundry
ZDNet (blog)
By Paula Rooney | April 30, 2012, 6:16am PDT Summary: VMware has partnered with enterprisecloud computing vendor Piston Cloud Computing to develop an OpenStack interface to VMware's Bosh developer toolchain for its open source Cloud Foundry Paas.

Public Cloud Storage Boom Brings Dangers to Light
Midsize Insider
Microsoft's SkyDrive and Google's much anticipate Google Drive are offering free cloud storageto entice small and midsize businesses. While anything free can perk up immediate interest, it never comes without a catch. According to InfoWorld, these two ...

Cowboy Cloud Computing in the "Wild West" of Digital Legal Standards
Midsize Insider
A kind of "Wild West" of digital legal standards and cowboy cloud computing that often leaves midsize IT wondering who's the sheriff, who are the bad guys, and whether there really is a man on a silver horse coming to save them.

LG beats Samsung to a cloud storage service
Inquirer
By Carly Page KOREAN PHONE MAKER LG has become the latest company to join the cloud storage race, beating rival Samsung to the punch. Imaginatively called LG Cloud, the LG cloud storage service enables the sharing of content between smartphones, ...

Looking At Cloud Strategy Through The Lens Of Value
Forbes
If the innovative ways that businesses are using cloud computing haven't set off alarms within your organization, it's time that they did. Enterprises that look at the cloud solely through the lens of technology will be left behind by more agile ...

Huawei throws R&D dollars at gesture control, cloud storage, being ...
By Sharif Sakr
Separately, the Chinese telecoms company is also putting development cash into a cloud computing project that promises to "change the economics of storage by an order of magnitude." Roese provided scant few details on this particular ...
Engadget

Green Parent Chicago : EarthTalk: Cloud Computing's Substantial ...
By Christine Escobar
Dear EarthTalk: Why is Greenpeace upset with some leading tech companies for so-called “dirtycloud computing?” Can you explain? -- Jeremy Wilkins, Waco, TX Leading tech companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft are now offering ...
Green Parent Chicago

Huawei investing in gesture control, cloud storage research
By Kevin Krause
Huawei investing in gesture control, cloud storage research ... In similar news, the company is also said to be investing heavily in new research into cloud computing, accumulating over 15 petabytes of data in the process. Huawei has teamed with CERN for the research, which the Chinese brand believes could “change the economcics of ... It's no surprise that Huawei is looking to gesture support and cloud services as the future. The two trends are rapidly emerging as some of the ...
Android Phone Fans

DevLabs: C++, Cloud Services, and You - Somasegar's WebLog ...
By S.Somasegar
I'm excited today to announce a new DevLabs project: Microsoft Codename “Casablanca”. You can learn more about the project and download the bits from the DevLabs site. I've previously discussed some of the major trends that have ...
Somasegar's WebLog

dailywireless.org » Samsung and LG Announce Cloud Services
By Sam Churchill
LG's cloud service allows users to upload their content to the company's servers and stream it to all of their devices. It will be compressed to save your phone's data cap but remain in high definition for televisions. The free beta begins in South ...
dailywireless.org

LG Introduces Own Cloud Services for Phones, Tablets and Smart ...
By Kellex
It's another cloud service! Just what we need! So yeah, LG has announced LG Cloud this morning as the “first real streaming multimedia cloud for all three screens.” (I don't know why, but that title is hilarious.) This new cloud service will allow ...
Droid Life

The 3rd Cloud Computing Executive Roundtable 2012 – Singapore ...
By Marc Jacob
Website: http://www.mig-events.com/ccer2012/ Event Date: 24th May 2012 (Thursday) at Singapore Marriott Hotel 1st June 2012 (Friday) at Hong (...)
Global Security Mag Online

Cloud Computing: 'Google Totally Slimed Sun': Gosling | JAVA ...
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computingand Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of .... Cloud Storage: Myths and Realities. POWER PANELS: ...
Latest News from JAVA Developer's...

Cloud computing, tablets changing IT landscape | TrackVia
By admin
Cloud computing's app making software capabilities are a big selling point for the technology, and many companies are pairing the solution with other emerging IT trends, including mobile devices such as tablets.
TrackVia

Know All That! – Growing Up Google: How Cloud Computing Is ...
By David Politis
David Politis is the founder and CEO of BetterCloud, the leading provider of Google Apps extensions that create security and management. Follow David @DavePolitis. A few weeks ago, a school administrator shared a story about how he ...
Know All That!

HP Blogs - Why is Cloud Computing Relevant to your Business ...
By Srini
It also lists 4 "deployment models" (private, community, public and hybrid) that together categorize ways to deliver cloud services and 3 “service models” (infrastructure, platform and software) for how Cloud Services can be consumed.
Applications Services Blog articles

Beyond the Hype of Cloud Computing: The Experts Speak | Small ...
By Carolyn Crummey
Four experts in the field of cloud computing speak at the Small Business Summit 2012. Check out this video for a recap.
Small Business Technology

Reach for the Clouds? Cloud Computing and Online Presentations ...
Cloud computing is evaluated and the potential benefits it provides for online presentations is explained.
basecase.com/.../cloud-computing-and-online-presentations/

LG enters the cloud storage arena, connecting your Android device ...
LG clearly doesn't think we have too much choice in cloud storage, as the company has launched the imaginatively titled LG Cloud. The stand out feature on this ...
www.androidcentral.com/lg-enters-cloud-storage-arena-conne...

Questions to ask cloud computing providers | Business Insurance
Questions to ask cloud computing providers. April 22, 2012 - 6:00am. Advertisement. Read more in the Mid-Market Executive Channel. What's This? • Are cloud ...
www.businessinsurance.com/.../questions-to-ask-cloud-comput...

The 2013 International Symposium on Cloud Computing ... - WikiCFP
CloudWEES 2013 : The 2013 International Symposium on Cloud Computing in Water and Environmental Engineering & Science.
www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid...



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