Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Cloud Pricing: Amazon, Microsoft Keep Cutting

Cloud Pricing: Amazon, Microsoft Keep Cutting
InformationWeek
Look for cloud computing prices to continue falling as vendors compete for enterprise IT workloads. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek During the first week of March, two tech giants dropped theircloud computing prices within two days of each other.

HP Touts Unified Cloud Services
PCWorld
... with a number of new cloud computing offerings, emphasizing a single architecture that can be used across both in-house and public clouds. "Regardless of whether we're helping people build acloud, or if a customer consumes cloud services from us, ...

Cloud Computing: How To Sell The Change To Your IT Staff
Forbes
Cloud computing is revolutionizing the way companies do business, but at a cost: alienating CIOs and their support staff. Too often, cloud marketing is designed solely to capture the attention of CEOs, CFOs and others who are divorced from the ...

Oracle Buys Collective Intellect to Boost Cloud Services
Fox Business
By Jennifer Booton Oracle (ORCL) inked a deal to buy cloud-based social media managing platform Collective Intellect on Tuesday as it prepares to launch a cloud service suite on Wednesday that will directly compete with rivals like Salesforce.com (CRM) ...

OnLive Integrates With LG Smart TVs, Expands Cloud Services
PC Magazine
By Jeffrey L. Wilson LOS ANGELES—OnLive, one of the faces of the on-demand cloud gaming movement, announced at E3 that it will bring its service to smart TVs, and further expand its Web and social components. OnLive plans to demonstrate its streaming ...

Nirvanix Adds Switch SuperNAP Data Center to its Global Cloud Storage Network
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN DIEGO, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Nirvanix, the leader in enterprise-classcloud storage services, today announced that it added the technologically advanced Switch SuperNAP data center as the tenth node in its global Cloud Storage ...

Ingram Micro Extends Cloud Leadership With Addition of 56 Unique Cloud Service ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Additionally, Renee Bergeron, vice president of Managed Services and Cloud Computing for Ingram Micro North America, provided the more than 400-plus partners attending the 2012 Cloud Summit with an update on the distributor's strategic direction and ...

HP Expands Converged Cloud Portfolio
MarketWatch (press release)
HP Enterprise Cloud Services - Virtual Private Cloud, an IaaS platform, is delivered from secure and energy-efficient next-generation data centers equipped with HPConverged Infrastructure technology. Leveraging HP's enterprise-grade cloud computing ...

Kidney Matching Migrates to Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
BOSTON, MA, Jun 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The National Kidney Registry's new SMELAC matching system has been successfully migrated to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform, significantly boosting paired exchange match processing ...

Europe's Most Exciting New Cloud Conference Announces New Speakers
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
For the first time in Europe, GigaOM's flagship cloud computing conference will bring together hundreds of global innovators shaping the future of technology. Visionary executives, government leaders and entrepreneurs are lining up to speak at ...

TwinStrata CEO to Discuss How Cloud Storage Overcomes Limitations of SANs at ...
Sacramento Bee
By TwinStrata, Inc. TwinStrata, Inc., the leading innovator of cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that company CEO Nicos Vekiarides is a featured speaker at Cloud Computing Expo.

US agency turns to cloud computing to increase availability of applications
Computerworld
The agency, though, needed a tool to help move its legacy applications to the cloud. It developed theCloud Services Innovation Platform (CSIP) to meet that goal. The CSIP is designed to facilitate the migration of existing scientific modeling ...

Eze Castle Integration Market Survey Finds Eight Out of Ten Hedge Funds and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BOSTON, Jun 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Eze Castle Integration, Inc., a leading provider of strategic IT solutions and private cloud services to hedge funds, today announced the results of its independent "Cloud Adoption Trends in the Investment ...

Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace Now Features dinCloud's Hosted Virtual Desktop
MarketWatch (press release)
The new distribution agreement was announced by Ingram Micro North America's vice president of managed services and cloud computing Renee Bergeron earlier this morning at the distributor's third annual Cloud Summit (#IMCloud2012) in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Samsung Adds Cloud Gaming to HDTVs
PC Magazine
By Will Greenwald Samsung is bringing video games to its HDTVs with cloud computing. The company is partnering with Gaikai to add the Samsung Cloud Gaming service to the company's current 7000 and up series HDTVs. Gaikai's cloud gaming technology ...

Cloud Computing: Dell Boomi Eases Cloud Integration with Summer 12 Release
SYS-CON Media (press release)
"Summer 12 simplifies and improves integration processes, capitalizing on the efficiency offered by cloud computing," Nucci added. "And the security enhancements also give IT teams further assurance that their data and IP is secure, whether moving ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

EFOLDER Introduces Cloud Recovery Service Supporting Both STORAGECRAFT and ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The new eFolder(TM) Continuity Cloud is the only cloud recovery service supporting both StorageCraft and Dell AppAssure image recovery from a single cloud services provider. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 05, 2012 eFolder is pleased to announce the general ...

Marsh Launches Product for Cloud Computing Risks
Insurance Journal
Improvements in technology and the need for greater efficiency have led to heightened interest incloud computing—the delivery of information technology services, data storage, and/or software applications using the Internet and central remote servers.

Amazon Web Services Now Available via Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace
MarketWatch (press release)
"Ingram Micro and AWS are industry leaders in the cloud services marketplace and this distribution alliance marks a strategic milestone in the maturation and growth of the cloud computing within the IT channel," continues Bergeron.

Oracle to buy cloud firm Collective Intellect
MarketWatch
Oracle has made good on its recent promises to embrace cloud computing. The company recently bought the cloud-based customer service company RightNow Technologies Inc. for $1.43 billion and agreed to acquire human-resources software maker Taleo Corp.

Oracle to launch first cloud service suite
MarketWatch
(NASDAQ:MSFT) , Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) have all launched cloud services. Oracle hopes its offering, which integrates cloud software to manage business from customer contact, marketing, transaction and accounting, ...

The right way to transform your business via the cloud
InfoWorld
1 question I get: What's the best approach to transform my enterprise to gain the benefits of cloud computing? The answer depends on so many factors that having one right answer is impossible. As much as we might wish otherwise, ...

DLT Solutions and Eucalyptus Partner to Accelerate Government's Cloud Adoption
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--DLT Solutions, a leading value-added reseller in government information technology (IT) software and services, and Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced ...

Patterns for Cloud Computing at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Liz McMillan You are interested in cloud computing, but where do you start? How are vendors and companies defining cloud computing? Do you know the differences between public, private, community and hybrid clouds? What do you need to know to figure ...

Cloud Computing: Compuware to Speak on Cloud Performance at Cloud Expo NY
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Organizations face the challenge of monitoring and managing performance in cloudsevery other day. Not only is APM different in a cloud, but all clouds are not equal either. During this session, attendees will learn how to do APM in different types of ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Marsh Launches New Product to Protect Against Cloud Computing Risks
ClaimsJournal.com
To assist companies in managing the risks associated with cloud computing, Marsh announced the launch of what is believed to be the industry's first insurance product designed to protect companies against first-party losses stemming from a cloud ...

Cloud Services Advice From Former White House CIO | MSPmentor
By Joe Panettieri
Former White House CIO and current Salesforce.com EVP Vivek Kundra will offer cloud computingand cloud services advice today during Ingram Micro Cloud Summit.
MSPmentor

Cloud Storage Basics « SoutheastContinuingEd
By Austin Bollinger
Hello everyone, My last post explored my favorite cloud computing companies such as: Dropbox and Google Drive, but many people are still asking, “What is it and is it safe?”. This post is dedicated to helping you understand what the Cloud is ...
SoutheastContinuingEd

HP Blogs - Can Cloud Computing solve 3 challenges faced by ai ...
By HP_ES
As part of its cloud computing solution, HP introduced Converged Cloud Services for Airlines which is comprised of a hybrid cloud computing model that leverages 3 layers of cloud computing, Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service, and ...
Enterprise Services Blog articles

Avnet Technology Solutions Introduces Stellar Cloud Solutions Team
By IT Channel Insight
“Avnet invested more than a year of research and development into the creation of Avnet CloudSolutions, analyzing the short and long-term cloud computing opportunities in the data center. Avnet will leverage this knowledge to help our ...
IT channel & Managed Services...

Europe's Most Exciting New Cloud Conference Announces New ...
By gigaallison
For the first time in Europe, GigaOM's flagship cloud computing conference will bring together hundreds of global innovators shaping the future of technology. ... Scientist at salesforce.com; Willie Tejada, SVP and GM of the Enterprise Cloud Division at Akamai; Zorawar 'Biri' Singh, Senior VP and GM of Cloud Services at HP; Eirikur Hrafnsson, Co-Founder and CEO of GreenQloud; Ross Mason, Founder and CTO of MuleSoft; Devesh Garg, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Tilera.
About GigaOM

IBM Debuts New DevOps Software and Cloud Services @ Edge ...
By Maria Deutscher
IBM Edge is making it very clear that the IT giant is angling for big data, but that's not the only thing that ended up on the drawing board. This week Big Blue introduced several new DevOps tools, some as-a-service, looking to attract enterprise ...
DevOpsANGLE

cloud computing and journalism | Media Dojo
By John Gauntt
I found this nugget last night much to my surprise. I didn't know they shot it in video at the time. The past nine months have seen me underground doing the next installment from Cloud Computing for Media People. This research will culminate ...
Media Dojo

Cloud Startup: Meteor To Speed Up Web App Development ...
By Muz
Cloud Computing Companies and Information Database ... Straddling the ongoing OS fragmentation divide through a web app may sound like the best thing to do when developing such an app but straddling the interaction between the client, server, multiple devices and a ton of cloud serviceswhile still having to deal with legacy infrastructure isn't as easy as it should be. This is exactly ...cloud computing comic · cloud computing · The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Storage Overload ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Irish firm Auxillion looking to take advantage of cloud computing boom
By Fergal Gallagher
Auxilion has been launched following a one million euro investment and will target Irish and international small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) which require cloud computing support. Auxilion, is a new Irish owned cloud computing ...
Digital TimesDigital Times |...

Irish firms adopting cloud computing without realising - Prosperity Blog
By admin
“Business owners remain generally confused about cloud computing, yet they are adopting cloud services because of the clear benefits they offer. “Especially in the current economic environment there is an onus on providers to work with their ...
Prosperity Blog

HP Expands Converged Cloud Portfolio with New Services | Web ...
By Justin Lee
The new services include solutions for delivering converged cloud services for the airline industry, building hybrid cloud environments, managing the next generation of cloud applications, increasing office productivity with cloud print solution, and closing the IT cloud expertise skills gap. ... Using HP's enterprise-grade cloud computing offering on a per-server basis, airlines are able to scale quickly to meet the needs of the business, reducing capital and operational expenses.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

Google Cloud Storage | drupal.org
Google Cloud Storage allows you to replace the local file system with Google Storage. Files uploaded into Drupal will still be managed by Drupal, but instead of ...
drupal.org/project/google_cloud_storage

The Cloud Storage Showdown: “Avengers” Style — CloudLock
Although only launched four years ago, it is astutely in touch with user sentiment and has paved ...
blog.cloudlock.com/.../the-cloud-storage-showdown-avengers...

Report: Cloud computing enhances data security | Simply Security
You are here: Home / Cloud Computing, Cloud Security / Report: Cloud computing ... "Yet when companies embrace and invest in cloud services, they find the ...
www.simplysecurity.com/.../report-cloud-computing-enhances...

UK Cloud Adoption - Cloud Computing & Virtualization 2012 ...
UK Cloud Adoption - Cloud Computing & Virtualization 2012 .... CompTIA EMEA 2011: The ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uT78wdLl-w

Oracle Corporation : Oracle CEO Preps Cloud Services To Keep ...
The company has inspired a number of younger rivals that chose to deliver software as a service using the Internet, a model these days called cloud computing.
www.4-traders.com/.../Oracle-Corporation-Oracle-CEO-Preps-...



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