Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Social + Mobile + Cloud = New Paradigm for Midsize Business

Social + Mobile + Cloud = The New Paradigm for Midsize Business
Wired News
The continued rise of Cloud computing. With Forrester alone estimating enterprise cloud computing to grow to over $240 billion by 2020. It's hard to find ANY current IT project today not considering cloud-based deployments. 

EMC's Gelsinger Talks Cloud Storage, Pricing Pressure
InformationWeek
Here, he discusses the limited role for his company in cloud storage, why EMC won't get into thecloud services businesses, and how IT needs to use big data better. For one thing, he says IT has got the patterns of monitoring and data collection down; ...

Cloud computing: You can't outsource your compliance obligations
Computerworld
Even if your cloud provider is at fault should your company fall out of compliance, the law will come after you. By Thomas J. Trappler Computerworld - When it comes to moving functions to the cloud, there's no such thing as being too thorough.

EMC Unveils Long List of New Cloud, Storage Products
eWeek
If all of these 42 products and/or services have a common tie, it is that they are rooted in EMC's push to move enterprises from conventional data center hardware and software to a hybrid cloudmodel. The refresh includes products across EMC's entire ...

Cloud Management Plays Big Role in 42 EMC World Product Announcements
NetworkComputing.com
EMC has kicked off its customer and partner event with 42 product announcements across its storage, backup, virtualization and management portfolio, and a major push into cloud computing. Along with the usual storage and backup rollouts, ...

New Report on Building the Business Case for Cloud Computing Available from ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ORLANDO, Fla., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) and Intacct today announced the availability of a new cloud computingresearch report, titled: "Building the Business Case for Cloud Computing.

eFuture Becomes a Provider of Mobile Cloud Services for Nestle Water(R)
MarketWatch (press release)
Cloud service is eFuture's seed business, and consists of cloud services based on cloud computing architecture, such as Sales Force Automation ("SFA"). SFA is a mobile-based platform built for the fast moving consumer goods ("FMCG") industry.

Consider Cloud Computing Services Before Your Users Do
NetworkComputing.com
Cloud computing is here, get over it. Services are being used, business value is being gained, and budgets are being cut using cloud platforms, be they private, public or other. It's not something you can hide from, and the longer you drag your feet, ...

Constant Hosting Selects Gemini Technologies' Cloudian™ to Power its S3 ...
Sacramento Bee
"We are thrilled to have full Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage with Cloudian. No other cloud storage solution can offer a comprehensive solution that meets our customers' and partners' demands," said Brian Haun, Cloud Services Director, ...

Appcore(R) and IP-Converge(TM) Bring Cloud Computing Offering to Market in the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The solution chosen for deployment was Appcore Onsite(TM), an IaaS solution which incorporates hardware, software, networking and support into a single cloud computing on-site platform. Appcore Onsite's easy-to-use software modules include Launch to ...

A new dawn for cloud computing
InfoWorld
But I'm pretty convinced that reliability concerns about cloud computing are going the way ofcloud security worries: If you know what you're doing, in most cases the public cloud is probably at parity or better with the risk posed by your own ...

Cloud Security Alliance Expands Leadership Team With Its First Chief Operating ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
“As a growing international organization, we have set an agenda that is designed to support the rapid growth of cloud computing and the concerns of cloud security,” said Jim Reavis, co-founder and executive director of CSA. “We are fortunate to have ...

New EMC Product, Program and Practices Expand Partner Cloud Opportunities
Sacramento Bee
Today at EMC World, EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) announced new initiatives and products to enable the company's worldwide network of channel partners to accelerate their customers' journey to cloud computing. Together with the EMC VSPEX ™ Proven ...

Largest-Ever Wave of EMC Innovation Makes Hybrid Cloud Transformation a Reality
MarketWatch (press release)
Today's announcements extend EMC's leadership in two of the most transformative trends in IT history--Cloud and Big Data-- and make it easier and faster for customers to benefit from the shift to Hybrid Cloud computing. The sweeping refresh spans key ...

eGroup Delivers Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
MT PLEASANT, SC, May 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- eGroup announces eCloud v2.0, its newest public cloud computing platform. eCloud v2.0 delivers efficient, flexible and cost-effective ways for IT departments to meet escalating business needs.

The Morning Download: Dark Linings in the Cloud
Wall Street Journal (blog)
One of the most beloved truisms in business technology circles is the idea that cloud computing gives CIOs a hammer to hold over technology vendors. Because cloud computing is based on monthly or annual subscriptions, vendors will be more accountable ...

Cloud dancing: CIO perspective on SAP's cloud strategy
ZDNet (blog)
The acquisition enabled SAP to bring in an external cloud executive willing and able to disrupt the status quo, an important step in the company's long evolution to embrace cloud computing. An historical perspective. For years, SAP has had an identity ...

ZDNet (blog)

Sigma Systems Unveils Cloud Service Broker SaaS Platform
eWeek
As small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) look to reduce costs and speed operations through Sofware as a Service (SaaS) offerings, converged broadband services provider Sigma Systems is launching the Cloud Service Broker, which is designed with an ...

Yes, CIOs Need More Cloud Choices
Wall Street Journal (blog)
CIOs should welcome more competition in the cloud and can benefit from the prospect that Google and Microsoft are building cloud computing platforms for businesses. GigaOm blogger Barb Darrow, who wrote that vendor newcomers to the cloud are trying to ...

Government rolls out cloud computing standards for Irish firms
Siliconrepublic.com
The National Standards Authority of Ireland in partnership with the Irish Internet Association (IIA), this morning launched the new standards, entitled, "SWiFT 10: Adopting the Cloud - decision support for cloud computing". The standard is designed to ...

Siliconrepublic.com

EMC Moves Enterprise, Cloud, Services Business To The Channel
CRN
By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN EMC on Sunday opened its EMC World 2012 conference with its first Global Partner Summit, during which the company introduced several initiatives aimed at making it easier for its solution providers to build their cloud practices ...

Five secrets your cloud provider won't tell you about multi-tenancy (and how ...
ComputerworldUK
Low-cost cloud computing and storage can be a boon for IT managers with tight budgets looking to get as much computing power for their money as they possibly can. One of the major ways this is achieved is through multi-tenancy.

Acumatica Cloud ERP Expands Partner Team to Support Growing U.S. ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Business Wire Acumatica, a provider of Cloud ERP and financial software, today announced three key executive moves to help the company continue growing its software business, both in the US and internationally, through partnerships with experts in ...

Rightsizing the Cloud Service Provider
Channel Insider
One of the issues that solution providers have with investing in the cloud is all the money needed upfront to create a cloud computing service. The amount of capital required effectively puts building cloud computing platforms out of reach for many ...

Sigma Systems Unveils Cloud Service Broker
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO and BOSTON, MA, May 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Sigma Systems, the authority in provisioning converged broadband solutions, today unveiled the Sigma CloudService Broker, an integrated SaaS service fulfillment solution for the selection ...

Acumatica Cloud ERP Expands Partner Team to Support Growing US & International ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MCLEAN, Va., May 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Acumatica, a provider of Cloud ERP and financial software, today announced three key executive moves to help the company continue growing its software business, both in the US and internationally, ...

EMC Atmos updates Big Data storage by simplifying global scale, expanding ...
CTR
EMC Corp. announced Monday a suite of enhancements to the EMC Atmos Cloud platform that transform the way service providers and enterprises manage Big Data in large, globally-distributed cloud storage environments. EMC also announced new Atmos Cloud ...

Open Source Finds Its Way Into Mobile, Cloud, Big Data
eWeek
Mobile computing, cloud computing and analyzing huge amounts of data are among the top IT trends in 2012 and are also the focus of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2012 that begins May 21 in San Francisco. About 40 percent of the new ...

Silver Peak Simplifies and Lowers Costs for Transitioning to the Cloud With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
This ensures unmatched scalability and simplicity for moving data and applications from the enterprise data center to the public cloud, and ensures fast and reliable ongoing access tocloud services. "The proliferation of 'big data' and cloud-based ...

Nuix Expands Investigator Range of Solutions to Help Investigators Find ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Nuix Investigator extracts the what, when , where and who of the case from hard drives, forensic images, smartphones, memory cards, all email formats, cloud services such as Hotmail and Gmail accounts, and corporate repositories including Microsoft ...

watercrunch: Cloud Computing Comes to the Watershed
By Robert Osborne
Apple's billion dollar farm in Maiden, North Carolina is a testimony to their bet on cloud computing. While the big name high tech titans battle in the clouds with our data, researchers are wondering how to tap cloud computing to help manage ...
watercrunch

Egnyte giving paying Box customers free cloud storage ...
By Stephen Robinson
Egnyte was founded in 2006 and provides file sharing and online storage services includingcloud computing infrastructure and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Egnyte and Box are among many companies competiting in the cloud storage space.
SocialSteak - Social Media & Tech News

Cloud computing in healthcare – turn here for answers - News - Site ...
By John Spilker (Microsoft)
Businesses large and small are hurdling faster and faster to cloud computing. The reasons are clear. Cloud computing offers the scalability, flexibility and cost advantages needed to help businesses stay competitive during these challenging ...
News

Cloud Storage and Cloud Backup - Part 3
By Michael Stewart
Last week saw me write about the topic of cloud storage security. I left off speaking to the concept of “Trust No One” (TNO) architecture. However, if you select to use a cloud service that does not itself provide encryption or might not support a ...
Kensington Security

Real World with Cloud Services: Interview with Jeremy Mahler of ...
By Tony Tai - MSFT
As part of the Real World with Cloud Services series we spoke to Jeremy Mahler, Director of Technical Operations at Hickory Farms, about why, after trying for almost a year to develop an effective collaboration environment with a leading ...
Why Microsoft

Understanding Cloud Storage Systems | Cloud Spectator
By Kenny
Home » Cloud Computing » Understanding Cloud Storage Systems. You are sure to have heard about the revolutionary new Cloud Storage System. If you are not entirely sure what the cloudactually does and you are keen to find out more ...
Cloud Spectator

Revolutionize Business Telephone with Cloud Services and Models ...
By admin
However, the advent of cloud services has made the communication system more powerful enabling it to accomplishing various tasks. Compared to the old system, the cloud computing is more practical and advantageous to customers.
Business & Finance tips

Bare necessities: Services needed or required by SMBs | Thoughts ...
By Maks Strajher
How can cloud computing address these issues and support SMBs in daily business? Publiccloud computing can offer substantial benefits to the SMBs as follows: Pay as you go business model: Most cloud services are available on a ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

International Journal on Cloud Computing: Services and ...
By cfptech
Mobile Clouds for new millennium, mobile devices. Social Clouds (Social Networks in the Cloud) Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Architecture CloudApplications in Vertical Industries Cloud storage and ...
techcfp

Consider Cloud Computing Services Before Your Users Do | Tech 4 ...
By Jose Ricardo
Cloud computing is here, get over it. Services are being used, business value is being gained, and budgets are being cut using cloud platforms, be they private, public or other. It's not something you can hide from, and the longer you drag your ...
Tech 4 Business

IBM at the Open Source Business Conference – May 21-22 ...
By Anirban Chatterjee
The conference has tracks dedicated to mobile, big data and cloud technologies in open source, as well as a track devoted to the legal issues surrounding open source software. IBM is thrilled to be holding a joint keynote with Rackspace on Tuesday ... Jessica Benjamin. Posted by Jessica Benjamin. Tags #ibmscforum, analytics, BIG DATA, cloud, cloud computing, datacenter, expert systems, ibm, infrastructure, smartercomputing, watson, workload optimized system. Comments: 0. 1 ...
Smarter Computing Blog

Open Science Data Cloud Two-Day Tutorial: Introduction to Data ...
By Walt Wells
Introduction to Data Intensive Science and Cloud Computing ... Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a commercial provider of utility cloud services, and groups can set up their own utility clouds with OpenStack, as well as other applications.
Open Cloud Consortium

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Adam Miller, CEO of ...
By candicearnold
Cornerstone OnDemand is a company that provides cloud-based talent management software solutions to nearly eight million people in 179 countries. The company boasts such heavy-hitting clients as Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Turner ...
Sramana Mitra

Businesses must overcome cloud fears to experience benefits ...
By CopperEgg
The demand for improved server performance and increased operational efficiency has driven major changes in businesses around the world, pushing decision-makers to implement next-generation technologies like cloud computing and ...
CopperEgg


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