Thursday, July 19, 2012

Amazon Web Services Conference

Amazon Web Services Conference: What Customers, Developers Need to Know
eWeek
Amazon plans to shed some additional light on its Amazon Web Services—the company's cloud computing platform—during its first-ever user conference. The re:Invent conference, which will run Nov. 27 through 29 at Las Vegas' Venetian casino and resort, ...

eWeek

Microsoft's New Office Software To Use Cloud Computing, Adapt For Mobile ...
Seeking Alpha
The new version is being developed to embrace cloud computing and has been designed to fully integrate with all types of mobile devices. ... Devices running Office will now use as their default storage drive Microsoft's new "SkyDrive" cloud storage service.

Emerging Markets Ready to Adopt Paid Cloud Services -- and Likely to Share ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Holleyman's next post will delve into the significance of the finding that it is common for business users of paid cloud services to share their log-in credentials. In that post, he will outline four different ways piracy can occur in the context of cloud computing, ...

TZO Turbo Charges Hosted Cloud Services
MarketWatch (press release)
"With Cloud Tracker enabled, we've seen DNS look-up times for Cloud Services and CNAMEs greatly reduced. In some cases, from 700+ms to sub 40ms response times. When developers are building a Web presence based on speed, customer experience ...

Cloud Computing: Rackspace to Extend Open Ecosystem of Cloud Technologies
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Rackspace Hosting on Wednesday announced that it has upgraded its CloudTools Marketplace to enhance the customer experience for accessing the ecosystem of cutting-edge applications, tools and solutions. John Engates, chief technology officer at ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing: RightScale Makes Its First Acquisition
SYS-CON Media (press release)
RightScale CEO Michael Crandell says, "Knowing the cost of cloud services is critical whether companies are making their first foray into cloud computing, planning to deploy additional resources or managing their overall budget for cloudspending. With our ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

HP Cloud Services: Best Storage Service Level Agreement (SLA)?
TalkinCloud (blog)
Indeed, HP (NYSE: HPQ) is promoting a 99.95 percent SLA for its first two cloud services — Object Storage and Content Delivery Network (CDN), both of which shift from public beta to general availability on August 1. HP has been ... Talkin' Cloud is also seeking to understand if HP partners can resell the new cloud storage and CDN services. And if so, what types of ...NEW: Check out our FAQ for questions and answers about cloud services providers (CSPs) and the cloud computing market for VARs and MSPs.

IDriveSync heats up Cloud Storage with Facebook Integration, Visual Sharing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Pro Softnet Corp., a world-class provider of cloud storage, online backup, compliance and remote access solutions for consumers and business, today announced the completely redesigned ...

Well played, EMC.
GigaOM
The cloud computing and big data spin-out we reported Monday (or something very much like it) seems destined to happen, and Maritz will stay on board to ensure it stays true to his vision. Tucci has ... That's just not how successful cloud servicesare built.

GigaOM

Survey: Emerging Markets Ready to Adopt Paid Cloud Computing Services
SYS-CON Media (press release)
That's a promising sign for the global cloud computing market." Yet BSA's survey also uncovers cause for concern: Around the world, 42 percent of those who say they use paid cloud services for business also say they share their login credentials inside their ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

HP Cloud Object Storage promises 99.95% monthly uptime rate
ZDNet
Hewlett-Packard has announced the move from public beta to general availability for two publiccloud services: HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network, beginning on August 1st. The announcement comes after HP has concluded it ...

BRIC IT Market, Cloud Computing Market in India & Augmented Reality in the ...
Exec Digital (press release)
DALLAS, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ReportsnReports.com adds new market research reports on Augmented Reality in the Cloud, Cloud Computing in India and IT Market in BRIC for 2011-2015. A. IT Market in BRIC 2011-2015 This report forecasts the ...

ARM rides open cloud computing testbed
EE Times
SAN JOSE – A handful of vendors have created a trial version for ARM-based servers of the OpenStack cloud computing software now available for testing online. The open source offering fills in another small piece of software puzzle for the low power ...

Yahoo! Japan Acquires Stake in Cloud Storage Firm Basho
CMSWire
Japan is making a big move for the cloud computing market, with its acquisition of cloud-storage firm Basho. Yahoo! Japan has invested in the data center infrastructure business in Japan through its subsidiary IDC Frontier. Earlier this week, US-based cloud ...

Verio Offers Flexible Computing with Cloud Services
Seattle Post Intelligencer
With the ongoing evolution of what small businesses require to succeed in today's economic climate, Cloud(n) provides SMBs efficient, reliable cloud services that are risk and hassle-free. Verio's Cloud(n) is ideal for SMBs with fluctuating resource needs, who ...

Counting the cost of cloud
ZDNet
One of the essential characteristics of cloud computing is "measured service." Resource usage is measured by the byte transmitted, the byte stored, and the millisecond of processing time. Charges are broken down by the hour, and billed by the month.

Microsoft Corporation's (MSFT) Office 2013 is Social Media and Cloud ...
PT News
With emphasis on social and new applications for reading, making notes, meetings and communications to provide users with a cloud-based service, Microsoft has clearly boarded thecloud computing bandwagon. The latest Office suite also offers an online ...

Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition 2.0
PC Magazine
Small and lightweight due to cloud storage of malware signatures. Many additional tools for malware cleanup available if needed. Very good at protecting a clean system against new threats. Cons. Doesn't work well when cut off from Internet. In testing, many ...

A Comparison of Cloud Storage Options Amazon S3, Backblaze, iCloud, Google ...
Dslreports
"Cloud" is the new industry buzzword, but really, it is just a new name for what we've already had for the past 10+ years: online server storage. Of course the term "cloud" can mean many other things, but in the consumer space, the marketing speak is typically ...

Chinese company launches new cloud computing terminal
ZDNet
Summary: Starting this month, netizens in Shanghai could get rid of their clumsy desktop cases and opt for a terminal device provided by 3Tcloud, a pioneer incloud computing technology, according to a local newspaper's report. Liu Jiayi. By Liu Jiayi for View ...

ZDNet

ScaleXtreme Joins the Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace to Support Open ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Rackspace is redefining great service for the cloud computing era and the Cloud Tools Marketplace is going to be a big win for customers," said ScaleXtreme CEO Nand Mulchandani. "We're pleased to be featured in the Marketplace, which will make it easier ...

GSA considers creating a cloud services brokerage
Nextgov
“One emerging concept in cloud computing is that of a 'cloud broker' or an entity that manages the use, performance and delivery of cloud services and negotiates relationships betweencloud providers and cloud consumers,” GSA officials wrote in a request ...

Cloud Computing Health Care Market Worth $5 Billion by 2017
CloudTimes
Cloud Storage Facilitates Recovery of Data - TwinStrata Study · hollywood-sign-cloud ... Google Taking on AWS, Launching Further Cloud Services at Developer Conference · redhat-logo-cloud Red Hat ... By studying the health carecloud computing market from 2012 to 2017, MarketsandMarkets came up with a conclusion that a cloud computing supplier in the health care industry such as Merge Healthcare, GE Healthcare, Dell, CareCloud, and Agfa Healthcare holds at most 5% share of the total health care market.

CloudTimes

Study: Privacy Commitment Key to Selection of Cloud Providers
MarketWatch (press release)
Small and midsize businesses are embracing cloud services, but are closely scrutinizing privacy policies and practices when choosing providers. REDMOND, Wash., July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Attracted by the opportunity to improve efficiency while cutting IT costs, small to midsize businesses (SMBs) are rapidly adopting cloud computing, yet they continue to express concerns about privacy in the cloud, according to research released today by Microsoft Corp. Consequently, data protection policies ...

Cloud Storage Facilitates Recovery of Data – TwinStrata Study
CloudTimes
Google Taking on AWS, Launching Further Cloud Services at Developer Conference · redhat-logo-cloud Red Hat Introduces JBoss Enterprise Platforms for Fast Cloud App Deployment · mcafee_top100 ... In cloud adoption, 73 percent of the respondents who agreed to the survey indicate that they have implemented some form of cloud computing, while 28 percent of have worked in cloud computing for over three years. Another interesting finding in the report is that the storage in the cloud seems to conform as the ...

CloudTimes

Yahoo Japan invests $6.1M in cloud provider
ZDNet (blog)
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Basho said IDC Frontier, one of Japan's largest datacenter infrastructure operators, will introduce its Riak distributed database and cloud storagetechnology into its cloud computing environment as part of the partnership.

Rackspace Revamps Cloud Services App Store Ahead of ...
By Matt Weinberger
Today sees the launch of a revamped Rackspace Hosting's new Cloud Tools Marketplace, which takes the app store concept and applies it to the Rackspace cloud services partner ecosystem. In other words: Need a cloud management ...
SiliconANGLE

Social Cloud: Oracle Continues To Expand In The Cloud ...
By Emma
Oracle Continues To Expand: Buys Involver Buzz Buzz We have gone through the massive cloud computing crazy rather unharmed by everything. Cloud computing is.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Superconductor: Visualizing Opinion 05/2012 on Cloud Computing
By Voltage Security
I tried to read and understand the EU's recent Opinion 05/2012 on Cloud Computing (PDF) but apparently wasn't in the mood to understand such rules and regulations. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow. Until then I'll have to be satisifed with the ...
Superconductor

Have mountains of digital data? Look to cloud storage
By webadmin@intel.com
In today's highly mobile world, users want to access corporate data from smartphones, tablets, notebook computers, and other devices. They want to get there via various access points, including those in unsecured public networks. And they ...
The Data Stack

Data Center Infrastructure: The Achilles Heel For Cloud Computing ...
By James Young
It's official—information technology's future is in the “cloud.” The benefits are both diverse and compelling—from rapid deployment and try-before-you-buy to disaster recovery and mobile-application delivery. Even governments are getting into ...
CommScope Blogs | Get the latest...

Appcelerator introduces private cloud services to court bigger ...
By Kathleen De Vere
Mobile app development platform Appcelerator has expanded its cloud services offerings. Developers working with Appcelerator can now opt to have their own private, dedicated, cloudservice servers that can be set up either virtually or at ...
Inside Mobile Apps

What Can Cloud Computing Do for Your Business?
By Trevor
Cloud computing solves many of the issues brought about in the typical office setting by removing the office setting.
Untethered Office

GSA considers creating a cloud services brokerage » FISMA Focus
By jim
“One emerging concept in cloud computing is that of a 'cloud broker' or an entity that manages the use, performance and delivery of cloud services and negotiates relationships between cloudproviders and cloud consumers,” GSA officials ...
FISMA Focus

Cloud Services: checklist for hiring
By GetCloudServices
Cloud Services 300x199. There are many factors which come to the mind; however, we will discuss a few important aspects: Take Small Steps First: Always begin with small steps. Take cloud computing as a first trial. Observe the response ...
GetCloudServices Cloud Server,...

SyncAge: Secure Cloud Storage for Designers > Structure Studios
By Noah Nehlich
Every week, we hear from members who have lost their most important work. Laptops are stolen, hard drives crash, the wrong file gets deleted–and even if you've been trying to keep up with manual backups on your own, files slip through the ...
Structure Studios

The Evolution of Cloud Services | iNovia Capital
By Kevin Swan
So much, in fact, that the vision Nicolas and Daniel had of the market is now referred to by Gartner as Cloud Service Brokerage. A currently small market that Gartner predicts will be the largest category of growth in cloud computing by 2015 ...
iNovia Capital

VMworld 2012, the Leading Virtualization and Cloud Computing ...
By David Marshall
VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that VMworld 2012 US makes its return to San Francisco August 26th through August 30th at Moscone Center. VMworld 2012 Europe will be held ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...

BRIC IT Market, Cloud Computing Market in India ... - HTML5
BRIC IT Market, Cloud Computing Market in India & Augmented Reality in the Cloud Analyzed in New Research Reports. DALLAS, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire ...
www.html5report.com/news/2012/07/18/6444909.htm

BRIC IT Market, Cloud Computing Market in India ... - BetaNews
ReportsnReports.com adds new market research reports on Augmented Reality in the Cloud,Cloud Computing in India and IT Market in BRIC for 2011-2015.
betanews.com/.../bric-it-market-cloud-computing-market-in-in...

c# - Free Cloud storage provider with an API WITHOUT auth ...
Anybody knows a FREE (some free volme, 2-5 GB i mean - continuously, not just the first year like Amazon S3) cloud storage provider which has an API that ...
stackoverflow.com/.../free-cloud-storage-provider-with-an-api...

Infosys' S Gopalakrishnan to head govt's cloud computing panel ...
It will suggest a framework to promote cloud computing service in and from the country ... In case of public cloud, services (either free or offered on a pay-per-use ...
articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/.../32589238_1_public-...

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