Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Amazon's S3 cloud storage service hits 1 trillion files

Amazon's S3 cloud storage service hits 1 trillion files
CNET
Can cloud storage scale? You bet. Amazon's Jeff Barr notes this morning that its S3 online storage has blown past one trillion objects. by Andrew Nusca Amazon's Jeff Barr noted this morning that its S3 online storage service reached 1 trillion objects, ...

Cloud services and a changing workplace
The Guardian
They changed "cloud" into meaning a virtualised datacentre. That's underwhelming if we think of this massive inflection that's going to change our industry." Roese uses storage as an example. Today, we think of cloud storage as scalable but expensive ...

The Guardian

CloudBerry's Alexander Negrash, Marketing Manager, Interviewed by Cloud ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Cloud Storage Reviews interviewed the Marketing Manager at CloudBerry, Alexander Negrash, about CloudBerry services and the online data storage market. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 12, 2012 Cloud Storage Reviews (http://cloudstoragereviews.co) interviewed ...

MG Bryan Pioneers First-of-Its-Kind Cloud Computing Asset Performance ...
MarketWatch (press release)
REDMOND, Wash., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- MG Bryan Equipment Co., a leading heavy equipment and machinery OEM for the oil and gas industry, is using cloud computing for remote asset management of high-tech fracturing equipment.

Panzura Uses Award-Winning Global Cloud Storage System With Rackspace Cloud Files
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Jun 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- From the 10th International CloudExpo, Panzura, a leading provider of global cloud storage solutions, today announced that the company's Global Cloud Storage System can now utilize Rackspace Cloud ...

Centralizing healthcare big data in the cloud
Computerworld (blog)
In a previous blog, Reduce healthcare costs with cloud computing, I covered the notion of hospitals transforming their data centers from cost centers to profit centers by implementing cloud services for their affiliated physicians.

Computerworld (blog)

Cloud computing roundup: Peer 1, Interxion and more
DatacenterDynamics
Colocation provider Interxion said it will launch a new Cloud Test Lab based on Eucalyptus, a widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform for web 2.0 business, enterprise and government organizations. The lab will be used by enterprises system ...

DatacenterDynamics

Cisco's Cloud Connected Solutions, Unveiled
NetworkComputing.com
While some of the features are standard Cisco fare wrapped up in a cloud moniker, others are aimed at supporting public- and private-cloud applications. One such product is the Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000v, a virtualized version of IOS-XE software ...

Cisco Accelerates Businesses' Transition to the Cloud With Innovative Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Cisco Cloud Connected Solution helps organizations easily and securely take advantage ofcloud computing and accelerate the deployment of cloud services while delivering an optimal user experience at the lowest cost. -- Cloud Connectors: new ...

TM Forum and Open Data Center Alliance Collaborate to Tackle Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
MORRISTOWN, NJ, Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TM Forum announced today that its Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC), a group of major corporations focused on developing standards and best-practices for cloud services based on enterprise ...

MEDIA ALERT: PerspecSys Executives David Canellos and Mike Morrissey to Detail ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Organizations are facing significant challenges when looking to adopt mission-critical cloud applications, especially at the enterprise level where sensitive data is at risk. At Cloud Computing Expo 2012 (June ...

BYOD and Cloud Storage: How Dropbox Has Changed the Game
NetworkComputing.com
It's been said that cloud storage and online collaboration are exploding, driven by the influx of multiple employee-owned mobile devices and the impacts of the consumerization of IT. In the age of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), how can organizations ...

Navigate your cloud storage services with Otixo
ITworld.com
June 11, 2012, 9:17 PM — Cloud storage is exploding. Old standbys like Dropbox and SkyDrive keep getting better, while new competition like Google Drive keeps things interesting. But with this glut of high-quality online file storage services, ...

Interxion Launches Eucalyptus-Based Cloud Test Lab
MarketWatch (press release)
Eucalyptus Systems provides the most widely deployed, on-premise cloud computing platform for web 2.0 businesses, enterprises, and government organizations. This Test Lab is developed for enterprises and systems integrators looking to deploy private ...

GlassHouse Introduces Accelerated Cloud Enablement (ACE) Service
MarketWatch (press release)
Based on GlassHouse's comprehensive portfolio of cloud services, this service addresses the escalating market demand for rapidly deployed, secure and manageable private cloudenvironments that meet defined business objectives.

Amazon pitches MySQL in the cloud for $19 a month
InfoWorld
By Mikael Ricknäs | IDG News Service Amazon Web Services has introduced a micro version of its cloud-based database service RDS running MySQL and priced from $19 a month, the company said on Monday. Just like Amazon's other cloud services, ...

Cloud Computing Prices Are Falling, but Comparisons Still Difficult
Midsize Insider
Is one hour in Amazon's cloud worth the same as one with HP, Dell, IBM, or Microsoft? It's hard to tell, since there isn't yet a single, defined unit of "cloud computing" that midsize businesses can use for ease of reference. Instead, they're left to ...

Varonis transforms file servers into cloud storage
Cloud Pro
It's called DatAnywhere and gives users the same collaboration experience that cloud servicesprovide, without having to move data into the cloud. The company also claims users will not have to manage an additional user directory or a different set of ...

The ubiquity of cloud technology
The Guardian
It is the ability of the web using the clouds of connected devices to provide data that can then be processed and used and if need delivered back to us in a user friendly way that will see this change. The more things that become connected and data ...

The Guardian

Illuminate Ventures Expands Cloud Computing-Focused Investing Team
PR Newswire (press release)
OAKLAND, Calif., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Illuminate Ventures, a venture capital firm at the forefront of early-stage enterprise cloud investing, today announced that Rebecca Norlander has become a Venture Partner and Sarah Brown joined the ...

Cloud drives change in telecoms
ITWeb
By Tessa Reed, Journalist Cloud computing is shaping the telecommunications industry, increasing data consumption and presenting new opportunities, says Nashua Mobile's Tim Walter. Cloud computing is one of the biggest trends shaping the ...

ITWeb

Cisco router software connects enterprises to the cloud
Network World
Cloud Connected Solution also includes a Cloud Services Router (CSR), a virtual router that lets enterprises extend their VPNs into the cloud. Cloud service providers can offer CSR, which runs on a Cisco UCS server, as a "network-as-a-service" product, ...

Risk management for cloud computing deployments
TechTarget IN
When you consider the recent trends and studies on cloud computing, it's clear that after the Internet, it's the turn of cloud computing to shape the future of computing. The question is no longer “To cloud or not to cloud”, but more of “when will the ...

Cisco Live: New Cloud Routing Software, Services
CRN
By Chad Berndtson, CRN Making good on the promised cloud-centric product and service releases it had teased at Cisco Partner Summit in April, Cisco on Tuesday confirmed newcloud-enabled routing and cloud services offerings under a new brand called the ...

Cloud Computing: The Chasm Between Expectations and Reality
IT Business Edge
As the role of cloud computing is growing significantly in its ability to deliver business applications, many IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure to support the migration of their business applications to ...

GigaOM Structure 2012 Conference Nearly Sold Out
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Over 1000 attendees and dozens of speakers from Amazon, Box, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Netflix and more expected at the world's most influential cloud computing conference San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 12, 2012 GigaOM, a global technology ...

Savvis opens doors to Canada-based public cloud
ITWorld Canada
Symphony is part of a class of public clouds that provide additional layers of data security. They are often integrated closely with private clouds or on-premise infrastructure. Dan Patton, general manager of cloud services at Savvis, describes it as a ...

Former Apple chief urges firms to adapt to cloud computing era or face extinction
V3.co.uk
by Dan Worth Businesses must adapt to the huge growth of cloud computingservices in order to ensure they do not fall by the wayside, according to the former chief executive of Apple, John Sculley. Speaking at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London, ...

V3.co.uk

New Role for Cloud Computing: Federal Budget Cutter
By Rich Freeman
New research indicates that wider adoption of cloud computing could save the U.S. government as much as $12 billion a year.
nttcom.tv

Cloud Fundamentals Video Series: An Update on Cloud Security ...
By trusted-cloud
Security standards for cloud computing are of high interest to many organizations around the world eager to adopt cloud services that are implemented and operated using a standards based approach. Cloud providers that choose to leverage ...
Cloud Computing | Microsoft Trustwort...

InfoQ: A Distributed Access Control Architecture for Cloud Computing
By Abdulrahman A. Almutairi, Muhammad I. Sarfraz, Saleh Basalamah, Walid G. Aref, Arif Ghafoor
The growing popularity of cloud computing draws attention to its security challenges, which are particularly exacerbated due to resource sharing.1 Cloud computing's multitenancy and virtualization features pose unique security and access ...
InfoQ Personalized Feed for Fergus Neff

Researchers forecast emergence of new cloud computing model ...
By CopperEgg
The adoption of cloud computing is rapidly increasing and disrupting the IT landscape in a number of ways. As more organizations around the world leverage the hosted technology to improve efficiency and reduce IT expenses, the cloud ...
CopperEgg

Did NASA ditch OpenStack for Amazon? — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
She mentioned a few specific cloud computing efforts, including a project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that uploaded 250000 photos of Mars onto Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform as a service. The resulting Be A Martian initiative served up ... Further OpenStack development is desirable and would increase the interest of commercial providers which ultimately benefits NASA and other seekers of cloud services. So NASA was stepping back from development ...
GigaOM

A future historian tells us the path to cloud computing | Thoughts on ...
By Massimo Chiriatti
A future historian tells us the path to cloud computing. June 12, 2012 2:52 pm by Massimo Chiriatti. Back in the 2000s, the cloud was first conceived as a pay-by-the-hour idea, and was born in the habit of borrowing computer resources and ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

Building secure GovCloud SaaS – Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
A key topic and audience for our upcoming GovCloud 2.0 webinar is the opportunity for Cloudhosting firms and ISVs to work together to create new 'Government SaaS' solutions. Given the nature of public sector requirements it's no surprise ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

Amazon S3 Cloud Storage Hosts 1 Trillion Objects - Data Center ...
By Data Center Knowledge
Amazon S3 Cloud Storage Hosts 1 Trillion Objects. ... Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing ... The question was answered quickly, as Amazon S3 became the Carl Sagan ofcloud metrics, adding billions andbillions of objects. Now ...
Featured Articles on Green Data...

International Journal on Cloud Computing:Services and Architecture ...
By cfptech
ISSN : 2231 – 5853 [Online] ; 2231 – 6663 [Print] http://airccse.org/journal/ijccsa/index.html Call for paper Cloud computing helps enterprises transform business and technology. Companies have begun to look for ... Cloud Computing Architecture Cloud Applications in Vertical IndustriesCloud storage and file systems. Networks within cloud systems, the storage area, and to the outside. Virtualization in the context of cloud computing platforms. System integration, virtual compute ...
techcfp

Ortega Pittman: Enterprise Cloud Services Episode SDRN-1232-4 ...
By axmc
Benefits of External Management Ortega Pittman HP – Marketing Useful links: Enterprise Virtual Private Cloud | Private Cloud | Server & Virtualization Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed.
SDRNews

After a year exclusive to Android, Amazon launches Cloud Player for ...
By Tim Conneally
Amazon's Mp3 store is one of the fiercest competitors to iTunes, and Amazon Cloud Player is naturally now a competitor to Apple's iCloud service. Amazon Cloud Player comes with 5GB of free cloud storage, the same amount that Apple offers ...
BetaNews

Schulich expert discusses security, compliance and privacy ...
By Michelle Cholak
Cloud computing seems to be on everyone's mind these days. In a recent webcast, InformationWeek.com reported that despite potential savings, concerns about security are one barrier to implementing cloud initiatives for many companies.
Schulich News & Events

Choosing the Right Cloud - KuppingerCole
The rise of cloud computing has changed the rules for optimising your IT strategy. However within cloud computing there are many choices. Making the right choices can save time and money making the wrong choices can increase risks.
KuppingerCole

The WOW Cloud: Cloud Computing - What Is It?
Cloud Computing, Pop Culture, Technology, Flashbacks, and my simple place ... As a result, consumers of cloud services may see increased reliability, even as ...
www.thewowcloud.com/2012/.../cloud-computing-what-is-it.h...

Q&A on Performance, Scalability & Cloud Computing
Ask any questions you like on the topics we find near and dear: business, startups, consulting, scalability, performance & cloud computing.
www.iheavy.com/.../ask-me-questions-scalability-performance...

Oracle launches PaaS and SaaS cloud services | Datacenter ...
Infrastructure supporting cloud services includes Exadata and Exalogic ... Ellison has famously dismissed the expression “cloud computing” in the past, but ...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/.../oracle-launches-paas-and-saa...

Ask Eartha: Efficiencies of cloud computing | SummitDaily.com
Dear Eartha: I've heard cloud computing is a greener and more energy-efficient option for businesses. Can you tell me if that's true? —Darnell (read more)
www.summitdaily.com/article/20120531/NEWS/120539995



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