Monday, June 11, 2012

The cloud will cost you, but you'll be happy to pay

The cloud will cost you, but you'll be happy to pay
GigaOM
9, 2012, 12:00pm PT Today, conventional wisdom suggests that cloud computing will bring increased efficiency to computing markets, which will then decrease costs. Cloud computing will allow organizations to cut IT spending and help relieve ...

Cloud computing: Oracle becomes a believer
Christian Science Monitor
Cloud computing will allow Oracle to lease its business software and distribute it over the Internet. CEO Ellison says Oracle now has world's 'most comprehensive' cloud computing. By Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer / June 9, 2012 Oracle CEO Larry ...

Christian Science Monitor

NetApp unveils cloud storage solution FAS2220 for mid-sized enterprises
Economic Times
NetApp has launched a new low-cost cloud storage solution - FAS2220 to help mid-sized businesses keep pace with the growing demands of cloud data storage while managing the volume of data being generated. The storage solution being offered by the ...

Oracle Unveils Suites of Cloud Services to Compete With Salesforce, SAP
CloudTimes
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has introduced suites of cloud services including OracleCloud Social Services, a business social platform, Oracle Cloud Platform Services and Oracle Application Services. All these solutions are fully managed, ...

CloudTimes

Managing virtualized and cloud-based environments
Philippine Star
Virtualization also improves readiness for cloud computing, which brings with it its own set of benefits while enhancing those from virtualization. But while virtualized and cloud-based data centers do deliver significant and demonstrable benefits, ...

How 'systems thinking' is making the cloud transparent
GigaOM
10, 2012, 10:30am PT No Comments Given my current obsession with understanding everything I can about how cloud computing is beginning to look, feel and behave like a variety of other complex adaptive systems, I've started paying close attention to the ...

ServerCentral Triumphs Over Cloud Giant in I/O Performance and Network Speed
PR.com (press release)
In pursuit of a robust and adaptable cloud infrastructure, PreEmptive turned to cloud servicesagency Teledata Solutions Group and the Intelisys Cloud Services team to deploy a dedicated private cloud service from ServerCentral. Chicago, IL, June 10, ...

Vice President of the European Commission Speaks About Cloud Computing Through ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
EuroCloud organizations from UK, Italy, Germany, Austria and 10 other European countries all organized local EuroCloud venues and joined the ISL Groop web conference to watch and hear the speeches of the eminent guests, experts in the cloud computing ...

Top HP Canadian partners commit to Cloud Centers of Excellence
eChannelLine
By Mark Cox Last week, OnX Enterprise Solutions, a Toronto-based national Canadian VAR that also has a growing presence in the US market, announced the recent opening of its HP CloudCenter of Excellence at their Toronto office.

Eric Zimmett's Tech Talk: The Death of Physical Storage
State College News
The cloud – or cloud computing – is really just a metaphor for the Internet and personal storage on a network. So it's not exactly new. But increased bandwidth has made cloud storage more practical for both personal and business applications.

Africa, the mobile-centric society
BusinessTech
Having local cloud infrastructure is key enabler to drive adoption and success, Hatfield said. In February, Dimension Data launched a range of cloud services aimed at making it easier for businesses to adopt cloud computing. The group further added on...

BusinessTech

Samsung Galaxy S3: 50GB Free Dropbox Offer Does Not Stand for Verizon and AT&T...
Mobile & Apps
By Johnny Wills | June 10, 2012 12:16 PM EDT If you are a big fan of cloud computing and planning to purchase Samsung's latest flagship model, then you might need to reconsider buying the smartphone from Verizon Wireless and AT&T as the two major US ...

Mobile & Apps

Peakcolo Announces Expansion of its Patent-Pending Cloud Infrastructure
Melodika.net (press release)
Parsec Data Management, Inc. selected the WhiteCloud Services® from PeakColo to provide its customers with a premier Cloud computing infrastructure. "We believe that the PeakColo WhiteCloud Services are an excellent addition to our current line of ...

Bright CEO Matthijs van Leeuwen to Present “Extending HPC Clusters into Amazon ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Every on-site HPC cluster running Bright is automatically cloud-ready, at no additional cost and without the need for expertise in cloud computing. Alternatively, Bright users can create an entirely new cluster in Amazon EC2, and manage these resources ...

Samsung Galaxy S3 On Verizon And AT&T Won't Come With 50GB Free Dropbox Storage
International Business Times
By Kukil Bora: Subscribe to Kukil's RSS feed Adding to the appeal of its new flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone, Samsung announced during the device's launch in London last month that it would come with 50GB of free cloud storage through Dropbox for two ...

International Business Times

Microsoft criticised for obscene dance act at conference
Telegraph.co.uk
By Katherine Rushton, Media, telecoms and technology editor The computer giant founded by Bill Gates has been forced to apologise to staff and customers after an event to celebrate its Azurecloud computing platform featured a vulgar routine littered ...

Citrix enters agreement to purchase Bytemobile
ITP.net
The company hopes that the acquisition will significantly extend its market reach, and enhance the broader Citrix strategy of powering mobile workstyles and cloud services. "The cloud and mobile revolutions are rapidly converging, and mobile operators ...

ITP.net

Verizon and AT&T won't honor Dropbox 50GB promo for Galaxy S III
Android Community
When Samsung announced their new Galaxy S III smartphone back in May we all learned new users would also receive 50GB of cloud storage free for 2 years from the folks at Dropbox — a good deal indeed. While worldwide users are already enjoying this ...

Android Community

Microsoft Offends at NDC: 'The Words Micro and Soft Don't Apply To My Penis'
PC Magazine
Intended to get the crowd psyched up for the company's presentation on Windows Azure – Microsoft's cloud computing platform – the dance presentation and "Azure girls" start off with a fairly silly and (typically) lame routine that looks like the cross ...

Microsoft sorry for dancing girls and obscene song lyrics at Norway software ...
NEWS.com.au
The presentation to the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo last week was intended to promote new advances in Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform, AllThingsDigital reported. But before launching into the technical details, Microsoft warmed ...

NEWS.com.au

TechCrunch: FAA Chooses Office 360: Microsoft One-Ups Google In Battle For ...
NewsFactor Network
In early 2011, former US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and team helped institute a “CloudFirst” policy, which aimed to speed up the government's internal adoption of cloud computing and services. Since then, many government agencies have ...

Apple's war with Google heats up
Livemint
... Google Inc. More than ever, the consumer electronics juggernaut finds itself in a pitched battle with the online search giant—in smartphones, cloud computing and the never-ending competition for the hearts and minds of the best software developers.

Verizon and AT&T Galaxy S III customers are getting screwed out of 50GB ...
VentureBeat
Such is the case with Verizon and AT&T, both of which have opted out of an opportunity that would give their customers 50GB of free space on cloud storageservice Dropbox, reports DroidLife. The promotion was originally announced along with the ...

VentureBeat

Verizon & AT&T Galaxy S3 customers at disadvantage
Phones Review
A touted extra from Samsung regarding the Galaxy S3 was a free 50GB of DropBoxcloud storage but we have now learned that this offer will not be extended to Galaxy S3 owners on Verizon or AT&T. The Samsung Galaxy S3 Android smartphone has already been ...

Phones Review

DataOne Asia teams up with the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines
Tempo
Manila, Philippines – DataOne Asia, a leading independent provider of managed technology services for enterprises, recently hosted a forum on cloud computing with the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) to discuss the tangible ...

Microsoft apologises for godawful song and dance routine
CNET UK
Microsoft showed off a set of updates to its Windows Azure cloud computing platform in Norway this week, and to do so it employed a troupe of dancing girls for a high NRG song and dance routine, GeekWire reports. The video after the break has to be one ...

CNET UK

IBM boosts Smarter Computing initiative to help customers tackle Big Data
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
“IBM has recognized the need to start approaching the management of the growing data volumes in a strategic, smarter way, through built-in intelligence, automation, and the cloud, to gain greater performance, reliability and better economics.

Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)

News Digest: June 11
Federal Times
GSA's Integrated Technology Services awarded a dozen blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) for up to $76.6 million for three categories of cloud-based infrastructure — cloud storage services, virtual machines and web hosting. Two evaluation teams that ...

Microsoft Apologizes for Naughty Dance Routine
All Things Digital
As reported by GeekWire, the dance routine took place at an event in Norway that was intended to promote some new advances in Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing platform, advancements meant to deliver a “hybrid cloud” combining the best of both ...

Verizon and AT&T drop Dropbox 50GB promotion
VR-Zone
Dropbox currently partners with various cellular carriers to add an extra 48GB of cloud storage, but AT&T and Verizon have opted to not partner with Dropbox. The promotion runs the length of an “average” contract, and neither carrier has any comments ...

VR-Zone

Microsoft apologise for bizarre conference presentation that featured penis ...
JOE
The corporation gave a presentation to the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo last week in order to publicise their Azure cloud computing platform but apparently thought it necessary to warm up the crowd in advance. They did so with a combination...

JOE

From MIT's blackjack team to the quantified self: Jeff Ma's new startup TenXer
VentureBeat
“Our focus is really going to be around mainstream style cloud services,” says Ma. Twitter could fit that bill: how many tweets, how many retweets, and so on. Zendesk is another. Project management, which seems to be almost entirely a cloud-based ...

VentureBeat

Microsoft's SmartGlass May Be New Gold Mine
Seeking Alpha
Microsoft also wants Xbox Music to compete against iTunes in the future, which will allow consumers of music to download music from the cloud through either the users Windows phone, Windows 8 devices and especially through your Xbox 360.

AT&T and Verizon Galaxy S III ditch 48GB Dropbox promo
SlashGear
In Europe, where the Galaxy S III has already gone on sale, those signing up to Dropbox via the app pre-loaded onto the phone get 48GB of extra space above and beyond the free space the cloud storage service typically offers. That can amount to as much ...

10 Random Reasons Why Cloud Computing Will Succeed
By Kevin Tea
At the beginning of the year many research analysts predicted that 2012 would be the year that cloud computing adoption became mainstream. They said that about 2011 but there seems to be a growing maturity in the cloud market, a.
Web2, Cloud Computing, Social...

Oracle Unveils Suites of Cloud Services to Compete With Salesforce ...
Oracle Unveils Suites of Cloud Services to Compete With Salesforce, SAP Oracle has officially launched its public cloud market, Oracle Cloud, thus entering a segment that has long shunned by the world's number two software major and the ...
WebSpherePower Magazine

EMC-Terremark ink joint cloud agreement - All VoIP News
By AllVoIPNews
With the introduction of cloud computing, the IT industry has a new path for applying Shared Services business models to better utilize a company's financial and operational resources. Together, it creates the need to understand how these ...
All VoIP News

BayAreaTech » Blog Archive » Mtg: Using the Cloud as Part of Your ...
By admin
Cloud computing offers organizations of all sizes the ability to embrace and implement business continuity and disaster recovery plans at far less cost than traditional approaches, and organizations that move workloads to the cloud often do so ...
BayAreaTech

Cloud security co. Qualys files for IPO - AfterDawn
Cloud security co. Qualys files for IPO The cloud security provider Qualys has filed for an IPO, looking to raise $100 million. Qualys provides a cloud computing based platform for companies to secure their IT infrastructure. The IPO will bring a ...
AfterDawn.com

Cloud Announcements: Microsoft Gets It, Oracle, Not So Much ...
Krishnan Subramanian writes that the two big cloud announcements this week show that Microsoft gets it and Oracle is blowing smoke. In short, Oracle's news for me is a disappointment. I expected them to come up with a solid PaaS offering ...
Inside-Cloud

Looking for Cloud/IaaS hosting recommendations - Web Hosting Talk
By waxxo
I am going to consolidate a bunch of dedicated servers and VPS during the next couple of months and I am now looking for a cloud hosting solution that allows me to set up several VPS as a virtual data center (IaaS) at some point. The idea is ...
Web Hosting Talk

Buy Oracle Now As Success In Cloud Computing Will Likely Support ...
Firstly, cloud computing has lower margin than the traditional software business. Customers can get cloud services at a variable cost. However, it takes vendors ...
seekingalpha.com/.../648131-buy-oracle-now-as-success-in-cl...

Airline Cloud Services | HP Industry
Explore how HP Converged Cloud Services help you lay the foundation for your ... Learn how HP can help you build the right cloud computing solution to feed ...
www8.hp.com/us/en/industries/travel-transportation.html?...



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