Saturday, June 2, 2012

Cloud Reliability and Security Still Open Issues?

Are Cloud Reliability, Security Still 'Open Issues'?
Wired News
Will the cloud ever be as reliable as Old Faithful? Have your say, below. Image: Mike Miley/Flickr In a new report, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) notes 23 “open issues” regarding the cloud computing, including computing ...

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Cloud Computing & Big Data Future Prospects Reviewed in New IDATE Report ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Jun 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloud computing has been generating considerable hype these days. Every participant in the data centre and IT ecosystem has been rolling out 'cloud' initiatives and strategies from hardware vendors, ISVs, ...

Cloud Computing - What Is It?
AllAfrica.com
As a result, consumers of cloud services may see increased reliability, even as costs decline due to economies of scale and other production factors. With cloud computing, organisations can monitor current needs and make on-the-fly adjustments to ...

Cloud Computing & Big Data Move Center Stage at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Pat Romanski Cut through the cloud computing clutter and make business sense of Big Data. Join us in New York in 10 days' time and attend the largest Cloud Computing and Big Data event in the world - the 10th International Cloud Expo at the Jacob ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

For Cloud Computing Solutions, Look for Business Outcomes, Not Definitions
SYS-CON Media (press release)
From an IT perspective, cloud computing is really a management layer, mostly on top of virtualization, that supports a portfolio of service capabilities like security, elasticity, provisioning and configuration management. Customers can pick just one ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud computing's sad state: Innovation is in scarce supply
InfoWorld
Second: Let's rebrand our old technology as a private cloud. The lack of innovation and creativity incloud computing is beginning to bug me, and it should bug those of you in enterprise IT. Here's how to spot technology providers that are, er, ...

Will Cloud Computing Firm NetSuite's Shares Take Off?
Investor's Business Daily
That's cloud computing, which we've talked in other DSAs about businesses such as Salesforce.com are doing. NetSuite's target is small and medium-sized businesses. Sales rose 30% last quarter — the best showing since 2008. Looking ahead, analysts see ...

BGI Aims to Make Cloud Computing Easy With a New Resource
GenomeWeb
By Matthew Dublin BGI has ramped up its informatics resources with the addition of a new cloud-computing resource that comes packed with bioinformatics tools. Called EasyGenomics, BGI's newcloud resource contains popular workflows for whole genome and ...

"Cloud Computing Market to be Worth $37.9bn in 2012" Says Visiongain Report
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Visiongain's analysis indicates that the cloud computing market will reach a value of $37.9bn in 2012. With ever increasing proliferation of cloud services adoption by both enterprises and end-users in recent years, the demand for cloud computing is at ...

Cloud Computing: HP Names Veghte COO; Imports New Software Savior
SYS-CON Media (press release)
HP doesn't have much of a strategy, at least nothing that doesn't resemble what everybody else is doing and that - as of last week - is to focus on Big Data, cloud and security - all of which depend on software. When HP reported its second fiscal ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

An evolutionary WAN path to cloud computing with WAN Virtualization
Network World
Previously, we covered the network benefits of WAN Virtualization and how WAN Virtualization delivers benefits “beyond the WAN” to areas like security, backup, file access, DR/business continuity, and private cloud computing.

Keeping Your Cloud Collaboration Services Options Open
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: There's lots of pressure on IT folks these days to address three issues at the same time: mobile, cloud computing and social networking. That's a lot for even the largest of organizations to take on simultaneously. But business users are being ...

The Hybrid Cloud: What Is It, and How Do You Get There?
NetworkComputing.com
Hybrid cloud. You're all aiming for it--that's what vendors, analysts and respondents to a soon-to-be-released private cloud survey are saying. The upcoming InformationWeek survey found that 61% of those building a private cloud and currently using ...

WGI Holdings, Inc. Issues Letter to Shareholders
MarketWatch (press release)
We have decided to enter the growing business of "Cloud Computing" and the opportunities that surround this area of IT. Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on ...

Cloud Computing: Dell's Testing ARM Servers
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara The dense, cheap widgets aren't generally available. They aren't ready for prime time yet. Instead Dell's got a seed program happening called Copper that won't brighten Intel's mood any since Dell is the second-largest maker of x86 ...

Cloud Computing: Elliott Turns Screw on BMC to Sell
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Elliott Management, the $20 billion hedge fund that now owns 6.5% of BMC and wants it to sell out to anybody that'll better its $6.8 billion market cap, filed a 36-page PowerPoint presentation with the SEC Thursday laying out its case ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Gobbler Links With Cloud Storage Firm Box
socalTech.com
Los Angeles-based Gobbler, the online, cloud-based backup and collaboration startup headed by Chris Kantrowitz, said this week that it has tied together its platform with online storage provider Box. The company said that they will link Box's content ...

BIME CHINA Partners with China Mobile at 4th China Cloud Computing Conference
PR.com (press release)
BIME China also participated in The 4th China Cloud Computing Conference at the China National Convention Center which took place 23-25 May. BIME CHINA, the award-winning cloud BI platform, is now fully integrated into China Mobile's Big Cloud Platform ...

Storm Cloud: The Disruptive Force of Cloud Computing
Triple Pundit
Phil Wainewright, writing for his SaaS blog at ZDNet, believes cloud computing technology is both inherently good and inherently bad. “There's a reason we call [game-changing technologies] disruptive. They displace established industries and bring ...

Triple Pundit

NIST issues cloud computing guide
FederalNewsRadio.com
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is trying to demystify cloud computing for federal agencies. They've just published the final version of a document called Cloud ComputingSynopsis and Recommendations. In it, NIST aims to provide a ...

Apica WebOverload Named Best Cloud Solution by EuroCloud Europe
MarketWatch (press release)
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jun 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Apica, a leading load testing and performance monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, was awarded Best Cloud Service in the Nordics by EuroCloud Europe for its load test tool, ...

DRFortress Lauches First Local Cloud Services for Hawaii
TalkinCloud (blog)
by Brian Taylor on DRFortress, a cloud services and co-location provider based in Hawaii, announced the launch of DRFcloud, “the first local, pay-as-you-use, cloud computing services based in the State and available throughout the Pacific Rim.

Five common mistakes of constructing a cloud presence
TechTarget
As IT pros gain cloud computing know-how, they begin to question how cloud can work for them. Leaning on the cloud for IT services should be a strategic decision. When you register, my team of editors will also send you alerts about public, ...

What is this thing called 'cloud'?
Sydney Morning Herald
An industry report by software provider Sage claiming cloud computing is an "enigma" to business has been met with ridicule but also as a market opportunity by analysts and commercial rivals. The 2012 Sage Business Index reported over half of companies ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Can cloud computing be utilised in occupational health?
PersonnelToday.com
Cloud computing provides a means of storing and accessing personal data and other information technology resources over a network. Nic Paton investigates whether or not it is something that could be of use to healthcare practitioners.

Healthcare IT Professionals Get New Options for Storing, Retrieving Critical ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BURLINGTON, Vt., June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Two leaders in the healthcare IT industry have brought cloud storage and sophisticated routing capabilities to healthcare IT professionals, empowering them to own, share, and access their ...

Ontario seeks public cloud provider for Web workloads
ITWorld Canada
HAMILTON, Ont. – The Ontario government next month will issue a request-for-proposal to make its most significant move yet into public cloud computing, according to its CIO of infrastructure technology services. Speaking at MISA's gathering of ...

'Europe two years late' to the US cloud party
Register
"The opportunities for cloud computing value are valid all over the world, and the same is true for some of the risks and costs," said Paolo Malinverno, a veep at Gartner. "However, some of cloud computing's potential risks and costs - namely security, ...

Cloud Computing Bible
By BigData
Its potential for lowering IT costs makes cloud computing a major force for both IT vendors and users; it is expected to gain momentum rapidly with the launch of Office Web Apps later this year. Becausecloud computing involves various ...
Big Data Buzz

Can The Cloud Help A Marketing Professional? | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Jeff Norman
Cloud computing's natural talent in rendering everyday essential business maneuvers automatic, more flexible, and more timely makes it a downright essential for successful modern-day marketing campaigns. Here are a few reasons why.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

DRFortress Lauches First Local Cloud Services for Hawaii ...
By pstomenhoff
DRFortress, a cloud services and co-location provider based in Hawaii, announced the launch of DRFcloud, “the first local, pay-as-you-use, cloud computing services based in the State and available throughout the Pacific Rim.” The announcement follows the company's successful ... DRFortress maintains both DRFcloud and the Nirvanix cloud storage hybrid node at its data center in Hawaii and on redundant nodes on the mainland. “Previously, Hawaii organizations interested in ...
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HP, Oracle, Microsoft prep for cloudapalooza — Cloud Computing ...
By Barb Darrow
Next week, legacy tech powers Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Microsoft will vie for the spotlight as they set forth their cloud computing game plans at closely scheduled events. All three have prodigious resources and all three lag far behind ...
GigaOM

The Data Center Journal Larry Vs Cloud Computing
By Rakesh Dogra
The CEO of Oracle Corp, Larry Ellison has been a staunch opponent of cloud computing but of late, he seemed to have softened his stand on the issue as seen here.
The Data Center Journal

Study: Mobile, Cloud Computing Factoring Into Disaster Recovery
It's almost hurricane season--or, for enterprises, time to check the status of business continuity and disaster recovery plans. This year, advancements in mobile technology are enabling businesses to include technologies such as cloud ...
All DABCC Virtualization & Cloud...

Convergence of Cloud Services and Big Data | Blogging Idol ...
By Chris Lau
The 10th international Cloud Expo showed up in a search result on twitter when the term “cloud services” was entered. Happening on June 11 – 14 ... Computing Industry”. Tags:analytics cloud computing cloud expo cloud services gartner idc ...
Blogging Idol | Blogosphere

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 ...
By candicearnold
I think “cloud services brokerage across multiple legacy systems” sounds like a reasonable description of the essence of what you do. Correct? Alex Osipov: I wouldn't just say legacy because we support all the cloud storage options nowadays ...
Sramana Mitra

CloudFail.net » Blog Archive » UK Cloud Services | LON | Priority ...
By cloudfailbot
UK Cloud Services | LON | Priority Maintenance | Control Panel and API | Thursday, June 14th, 2012 from 12:00AM – 2:00AM BST. June 1, 2012, 9:20 am. The Rackspace Cloud system engineers will be performing updates to our Cloud ...
CloudFail.net

Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #59 | Zenoss Blog by @tbalinas
By Travis Balinas
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of May 28th that are ...
Transforming IT Operations

Cloud Computing Can Cut Business Energy Costs Says E.ON
By Emma
The energy provider, E.ON, says millions of SME's are not aware of how they could save business energy by using cloud computing.
Utility Exchange - business electrici...

The New Larry Ellison Loves the Cloud | SiliconANGLE
By Josette Rigsby
“The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the ...
SiliconANGLE

Computer Science & Engineering: An International Journal (CSEIJ ...
By cfptech
Cloud Application, Infrastructure and platforms; Design Tool for Cloud Computing; Cloud Business; Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing; Cloud based, Parallel Processing; Virtualization on Platforms in the Cloud; Location ... Mobile Clouds for new millennium, mobile devices; SocialClouds (Social Networks in the Cloud); Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing; Cloud Computing Architecture; Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries; Cloud storage and file ...
techcfp

Cloud computing investment 'to hit $1b' |Industries |chinadaily.com.cn
China spent $286 million on cloud-computing infrastructure last year, and the amount will ...Unicom offers cloud services to enterprise 2012-05-18 10:34 ...
www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/.../content_15422282.htm

Hostreview.com Flexiant Cloud Orchestration Underpins Self ...
Flexiant, a leading European provider of cloud orchestration software for on- demand, ... CloudOrchestration Underpins Self-Provisioning Cloud Services For ITEX. ... By using Flexiant CloudOrchestrator as the basis of its new cloud computing ...
www.hostreview.com/.../120529-flexiant-cloud-orchestration-...

Waco Tribune-Herald Embraces Cloud Computing with Digital ...
Springville, UT (PRWEB) May 22, 2012. Digital Technology International (DTI™) announced an agreement with The Waco Tribune-Herald, a Robinson Media ...
www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9529099.htm



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