Tuesday, June 5, 2012

4 Tips To Ease Cloud Bill Shock

4 Tips To Ease Cloud Bill Shock
InformationWeek
Consider this advice for managing people, governance processes, and automated tools to prevent end-of-month cloud bill surprises. By Beth Stackpole InformationWeek There's no magic potion for stamping out cloud computing's copious hidden costs.

Cloud computing vendor lock-in: Avoiding security pitfalls
TechTarget
It's important to ask a few questions about how your security controls are architected so you can prevent cloud computing vendor lock-in. Below are some questions to ask and a few strategies for keeping the services you buy --not to mention your data ... 

CDW Demonstrates Cloud Computing Benefits and Options for Implementing HP ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The center offers customers live cloud computing demonstrations, which may be viewed real-time from any CDW or customer location, as well as in person at the center. CDW's HP Cloud Center of Excellence features HP CloudSystem, a complete and integrated ...

Marsh Launches Innovative Insurance Solution for Cloud Computing Risks
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Jun 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- To assist companies in managing the risks associated with cloud computing, Marsh today announced the launch of what is believed to be the industry's first insurance solution designed to protect companies ...

SF cloud powerhouse Salesforce buys Buddy Media for nearly $700 million
San Jose Mercury News
By Jeremy C. Owens San Francisco cloud-computing powerhouse Salesforce girded itself against assaults by large software companies Monday by officially announcing Monday an agreement to buy enterprise social-media company Buddy Media for nearly $700 ...

Special Session at CONNECTIONS(TM) at TIA focuses on Cloud Services Market for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... firm Waterstone Management Group are hosting an invite-only research and networking session at CONNECTIONS(TM) at TIA that features discussion and analysis on the emerging business models for SMB (small and medium business) cloud services.

Is Cloud Computing the Way Forward?
AllAfrica.com
By Frank Kanyesigye, 3 June 2012 ICT experts from international companies are backing the use ofcloud computing as a means to consolidate the country's agenda to be the ICT hub in the region.Cloud Computing is the logical computational resources ...

Special Session at CONNECTIONS™ at TIA focuses on Cloud Services Market for SMBs
Sacramento Bee
Waterstone Management Group will augment that market view by presenting perspective and case studies to illustrate how service providers can monetize the cloud services opportunity. About Parks Associates Parks Associates is an internationally ...

Moving to the Cloud and Need to Protect Sensitive Financial Data? Infinitely ...
MarketWatch (press release)
According to Adam Stern of Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computingservices for growing companies, the rationale for migrating to the cloud is sound, the questions are valid, and the answers are becoming ever more ...

ASUS shows off its Open Cloud Computing with a dash of sci-fi, teen angst (video)
Engadget
By Jon Fingas posted Jun 4th 2012 9:06AM ASUS has been touting Open Cloud Computing as the glue that unites its new devices at Computex, but it hasn't been very specific as to what that meant. Rather than just give us the dry details, though, ...

I'm still confused about Asus Open Cloud Computing [video]
BetaNews
I'm scratching my head trying to grok the computer maker's cloud strategy, which looks good in this video but far removed from the reality I live in, or you. It's an idealized future of everywhere sync and help holograms that's more Star Trek than ...

Symform and KOMO Newsradio Debut "CloudCast" Radio Series
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, WA, Jun 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Symform, a revolutionary cloud storage and backup service, and KOMO Newsradio today launched a new educational radio series called "CloudCast." The CloudCast program provides an educational overview ...

Cloud Computing Jobs to Rise, Says New Research
Midsize Insider
Cloud computing jobs are set to rise in the next three years, according to new research from analysts at IDC. The massive job growth in the cloud sector, estimated to be in the area of 14 million jobs across the globe, will result from an "exponential" ...

Marsh introduces product to protect against cloud computing failures
Business Insurance
NEW YORK—As more companies turn to cloud computing to manage their data storage needs, Marsh Inc. announced Monday morning the release of an endorsement product designed to shield policyholders from the financial damage cloud system failures can ...

How to keep cloud projects agile, simple
ITworld.com
By David Taber, CIO | Cloud Computing Add a new comment June 04, 2012, 12:37 PM — Now it's time to work on an issue that underlies all of those problematic behaviors: saying "Yes" too often. Saying "No" will keep a project on track and your ...

Does the 'private cloud' make sense?
InfoWorld
I actually found myself agreeing some lot of it -- but not with the blanket conclusion that "privateclouds suck." Let's take Bloomberg's points one at a time. His first is that people associate "thecloud" with public cloud services, where customers ...

Appcara Debuts Its AppStack(R) Release 2 Platform, A Dynamic Application Layer ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Incorporating a real time Dynamic Application Environment layer that eliminates the need for server templates or scripting, AppStack Release 2 changes the rules of cloud computing. With AppStack 2, enterprises and service providers gain exceptionally ...

NASA buys into consuming cloud services
GCN.com
By GCN Staff NASA is shifting its emphasis away from developing cloud services and toward being a “smart consumer” of commercial cloud services, Michael Hardy reports in Federal Computer Week. The agency announced the shift in May at the Uptime ...

IBM Takes its Collaborative Development Software to the Cloud, Mobile Spaces
eWeek
At its Innovate 2012 conference in Orlando, Fla., IBM introduced a series of new software and services to help developers better collaborate while creating apps for the cloud and mobile environments. ORLANDO, Fla. -- Taking a page from its Jazz ...

Technology Integration Group Aims To Whet China's Cloud Appetite
CRN
Now, in its eagerness to become a cloud-computing powerhouse, the country is building data centers with an eye on the future. Yet, much of China's data center infrastructure is underutilized due to a lack of killer cloud applications, ...

Is Cloudee Boxee's pivot into DVR in the cloud?
VentureBeat
Set-top box and streaming media software startup Boxee just launched a new cloud storage service appropriately called Cloudee, the company announced via a blog post today. Cloudee, which is currently in beta, appears to focus primarily on saving and ...

Bell to grow cloud computing in $1.1 billion deal
Calgary Herald
A weekend deal involving BCE Inc. and its financial backers will see Bell Canada add a minority ownership stake in 11 data centres in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario to its holdings. Bell will contribute $180 million of the cost of acquiring Q9 ...

BIME Releases Version 4 of Acclaimed Cloud BI Service
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Complete stack of BI tools from data warehousing to interactive analysis and visualization - First intuitive and fast business intelligence front-end for Google BigQuery MONTPELLIER/FRANCE (PRWEB) June 04, 2012 BIME, the leader in cloud business ...

Mirantis to Discuss Continuous Deployment for OpenStack
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Mirantis to Discuss Continuous Deployment for OpenStack Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) June 04, 2012 Jason Venner, senior director at Mirantis, a leader in engineering services for OpenStack™Cloud, will be a featured speaker at Cloud Computing Expo East ...

Healthcare to Benefit Most from Cloud Computing
CloudTimes (blog)
By Xath Cruz On June 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment John Sculley, former Apple CEO, believes that cloud computing is powerful enough to completely revolutionize healthcare systems worldwide. Sculley told The Guardian that he was quite confident that cloud ...

CloudTimes (blog)

Data Storage Signs Midwest Distributor Agreement With Fortress Data Management
MarketWatch (press release)
GARDEN CITY, NY and BURR RIDGE, IL, Jun 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Data Storage Corporation (OBB:DTST) , a long-standing leader in cloud storage and cloud computingfor over 10 years focusing on data protection and business continuity ...

IBM Expands Collaborative Software Development Solutions to Cloud, Mobile ...
MarketWatch (press release)
IBM is supporting cloud delivery, development and operations with new solutions, including: IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise provides an agile cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) ...

The New Paradigm: Cloud Services, Cloud Tools | Maxa Blog
By max
This article was originally published in Software Developer's Journal. Cloud Services In the past year or so, we have witnessed a major shift from.
Maxa Blog

Asus launches Windows 8 devices and cloud-computing solution ...
Email Print. TAIPEI, Taiwan--Asus opened its pre-Computex press conference with a unified cloud-computing solution, but it was the slew of Windows 8 devices--ranging from a twist on the AIO form factor to a convertible notebook--that drew ...
Latest in CNET: Crave

Cloud Computing – Final Observations | Blogging Idol | Blogosphere
By Don Sheppard
I believe the answer to this question is the same as for any other use of IT, since Cloud Computing is really just an expansion of the tools available to the IT architect and designer. Determining the best approach to IT requires good planning, good management ... There is little doubt that some cloud services will prove useful and be around for a long time while others are less interesting and will disappear. This is also true of the many products and services from vendors that claim to be ...
Blogging Idol | Blogosphere

Cloud Computing File Versioning with JustCloud :: JustCloud News
By admin
Cloud computing providers offer many features as part of their services to the public and businesses worldwide, whether it be automated scheduled backups, mobile device syncing, drag and drop, or file sharing to name just a few. But there is ...
JustCloud News

The Forces of Big Data and Cloud Computing – MicroStrategy World ...
By BigData
The Forces of Big Data and Cloud Computing - MicroStrategy World 2011 Monte Carlo In part 3 of MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor's keynote in Monte Carlo, he discusses the explosive growth of big data and the computing power of ...
Big Data Buzz

Guest Article: In a world of cloud services, are HL7 interface engines ...
By iHT2
It has been suggested that due to the advent of web services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and cloud computing, interface engines no longer serve as the proper tool for system integration. Is the interface engine dead? Yes, it is, if the ...

[asr-forum] CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Green and Cloud ...
Cloud Computing(http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2012/), November 5 - November 8, 2012. ... Cloud computing has become a very hot topic over the past few years. One of the main requirements incloud computing environments is a high ...
ASR: Architecture, Systèmes, Réseaux

The Consumer Is the Hero of the Cloud | Conduit Blog
By Adam Hanft
The cloud is everywhere. It's all over Apple's messaging, beckoning us to join their iCloud. It's the central benefit of companies like Dropbox, which offer cloud storage. It billows up from the media. The term has become so commonplace, so accepted, that it seems like we're all techies now. The journey of the ... There was even a book written in 1966, The Challenge of the Computer Utility” by Douglas Parkhill, about the modern-day characteristics of cloud computing. (Geek alert: The ...
Conduit Blog

Moving to the Cloud-Intelligent Network
By Brajendra Thakur
Kerravala starts the paper by outlining our argument that cloud computing is highly interdependent with increasing network value and tighter network integration. Kerravala lists ... It is the optimal delivery platform for cloud services. As he notes ...
Seamless Enterprise

Cloudee beta gets Boxee into the video sharing and cloud storage ...
By Terrence O'Brien
At its heart Cloudee is a cloud-based video hosting and sharing service, not terribly dissimilar from YouTube at first glance. But, the vision here is more focused and more narrow than simply having a public space to post your viral clips and ...
Know All That!

Public Cloud Computing: Which vendor is your ... - Nearshore Journal
By admin
If you don't think this is a good idea, then you may want to consider a private or hybrid cloud. Even though you are outsourcing the infrastructure, you will still have some management responsibility as everything above the hypervisor is for you ...
Nearshore Journal

Appcara Debuts Its AppStack Release 2 ... - Cloud News Daily
By Richard
Incorporating a real time Dynamic Application Environment layer that eliminates the need for server templates or scripting, AppStack Release 2 changes the rules of cloud computing. With AppStack 2, enterprises and service providers gain ...
Cloud News Daily

An Example of Cloud Computing in Astronomy Education and Training
In a number of previous posts, I have described how cloud computing can be effective in supporting “high-burst” or one-time computing needs. Generally, the ...
astrocompute.wordpress.com/.../an-example-of-cloud-computi...

NIST releases final version of cloud computing guide | FedScoop
Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations (Special Publication 800-146 ), NIST's ...
fedscoop.com/nist-releases-final-version-of-cloud-computing-...

What are Cloud Services?
Broadly speaking, cloud services can be defined as any service delivered using cloud computingarchitecture. Software programs, files and data are stored on ...
cloud-services.tmcnet.com/.../292609-what-cloud-services.htm

Around the Web - Cloud Computing: Is it right for you? -- ZDNet
Summary: How do you know if cloud computing makes sense for your organization? And if it makes sense for your organization what sort of services should you ...
www.informationweek.com/.../2f462b7253342b7138393364...



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