Friday, July 6, 2012

Online dating site dumps Amazon cloud services

Online dating site dumps Amazon cloud services
Computerworld
After the second outage in June, WhatsYourPrice.com decided to terminate its use of Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud computing service.

Tip: Find the best cloud storage system
Houma Courier
Answer: There's not really a “best” system, but there probably is one that will work best for you. If you buy media from Amazon, iTunes or Google Play, stick with the matching cloud storage. Google Drive, iCloud and Amazon don't count purchases from ...

Cloud Computing: Companies Worry about Unexpected Costs and Fees
Formtek Blog (blog)
Estimating the costs of cloud computing can be tricky. Just because you're using the clouddoesn't mean that you'll be saving money over other ways to do the same thing. Use cases, for example,that require cloud machines to be kept running 24×7 show ...

Healthcare Cloud Computing (Clinical, EMR, SaaS, Private, Public, Hybrid ...
Sacramento Bee
Recently, cloud technology has started replacing these legacy systems and offers easier and faster access to this data as defined by the way it is stored i.e. public, private or hybrid. Cloud computingoffers significant benefits to the healthcare ...

Arrow ECS EMEA Launches ArrowSphere: Unique Cloud Services Platform for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, Jul 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], today unveiled ArrowSphere, a cloud services aggregation and brokerage platform for the European solution ...

The next generation business: Data is the new platform
GigaOM
The New York Stock Exchange has amassed a data mart of every stock market tick dating back years, and has located it within a special-purpose compute cloud. This allows would-be computer trading algorithms (from third-parties) to trial-run ...

GigaOM

Sonata Software Strengthens its Focus on Cloud Offerings
MarketWatch (press release)
FREMONT, California, July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Sonata Software today announced that it has expanded its Cloud based services offerings through alliances with Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services. Sonata's Cloud Computing Center ...

China Announces Online IP Crackdown: What About Cloud Storage?
Business Insider
The announcement itself, and the latest intellectual property enforcement campaign, is not very e...

Cloud computing to pass $5B in health fray by 2017
Government Health IT
Video may have killed the radio star, but the cloud is expected to rain on its parade, according to a new July report by MarketsandMarkets. Report authors announced Monday that the global healthcarecloud computing market is projected to precipitate a ...

Standard contracts increase with cloud products' maturity
ZDNet (blog)
Cloud contracts significantly differ from the past, which used to ensure customer stickiness for a pre-defined period of time, Mayank Kapoor, data center and cloud computing industry analyst of Frost & Sullivan's ICT practice observed. Cloud contracts ...

Amazon Web Services Loses Dating Website Client Due to Repeat Outages
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Cloud computing is sexy. However, as the recent outage at Amazon's cloud computing services illustrates, it can also produce a lot of unhappy customers. In the past month, Amazon's Internet-based computing services (AWS) have suffered two major outages ...

Healthcare cloud computing market set to be worth $5.4 billion
OfficialWire (press release)
In 2011, infiltration within the healthcare cloud computing market was approximately 4% and the market was valued at $1.7 billion. A large number of healthcare organisations are allocating funds for migration to cloud computing in the next five years ...

Amazon and Cloud Could be Headwind for EMC, Storage Vendors, Says ISI
Barron's (blog)
ISI Group's Brian Marshall today ponders the question of whether Amazon.com's (AMZN) cloud computing facilities, “Simple Storage Service,” or S3, and similar offerings from Google (GOOG) and Rackspace (RAX) could dent some sales of traditional ... At ...

HostingCon: MSPs Meet Cloud Computing, Storage Services?
TalkinCloud (blog)
... evaluating cloud services and cloud computing strategies. Channel-friendly names like OnApp, Symantec, Parallels and SoftLayer will attempt to grab the spotlight at the conference. And watch for some surprises from Nirvanix, a fast-growing cloud ...

Stoneware Announces Classroom Management from the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
INDIANAPOLIS, Jul 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Stoneware, the leader in Unified Cloud computing, announced the availability of the first "on-demand" Classroom Management solution, which enables Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs in schools ...

Cloud News: VMware, Microsoft, IceWEB, Riverbed
Data Center Knowledge
“DynamicOps' multi-cloud and multi-platform capabilities help to strengthen VMware's position as the infrastructure and management vendor of choice for cloud computing.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed and it is expected to close in the third ...

Google's Cloud Computing Infrastructure Service
Midsize Insider
Eventually, it could offer a simple, open, and easily accessible cloud computingservice that is geographically diversified to avoid outages caused by localized problems. When more mature, such a service might be attractive to midsize businesses.

Midsize Insider

Apica Launches New Blog Devoted to Excellence in Cloud Performance
MarketWatch (press release)
The blog's inaugural posts include: -- "Cloud computing gives you a golden opportunity for capacity planning." How the dynamics of cloud computing allow users to gauge their system's limits through capacity planning in a way that was never possible before.

G-Cloud director Denise McDonagh on driving government cloud computing ...
V3.co.uk
Leading public sector IT chief on future plans for growing service,Cloud Computing,Government,Finance ,Government. ... "The programme is to act as an enabler [to cloud services] and to give the departments the information they need. It's about that ...

V3.co.uk

CTEX, VCE, and Zuora Establish A Strategic Alliance Agreement
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Focused ...

Will Google's New Engine Compute?
Wired News
Google signaled its intent [to go big on the public cloud/come after Amazon] when it removed the “beta test” tag last fall from Google App Engine and launched Google Cloud Storage, a separate service dedicated to housing large amounts of data, writes ...

Amazon Web Outage: Cloud Still Beats Most IT Departments
TalkinCloud (blog)
Although Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently suffered an outage, most cloud services providers (CSPs) still beat on-premises server reliability. ... Cloud Computing News and Information for CSPs, MSPs and VARs. Subscribe: Newsletter · RSS · Twitter ...

Singapore firms favor public over private clouds
ZDNet
Chung Hao Ning, country leader of cloud computing at IBM Singapore, who was at the event, said public cloud services ranging from infrastructure to software generally see greater acceptance among small and midsize businesses (SMBs), compared to ...

Usage Will Break The Cloud Storage Taboo
TechWeekEurope UK
Organisations are happy to adopt cloud services such as Salesforce, which clearly – like any application – use storage. So cloud storage is already in use. And if they start to use it more consciously, organisations can get real benefits. At least ...

TechWeekEurope UK

Cloud Implementations: Change Management Need, Challenges, Best Practices
CMSWire
Cloud Computing is the latest in the series of technological innovations that started four decades ago with mainframes/batch transaction processing during the pre-1970s. It later passed through online processing in the 1970s, rise of PCs in the 1980s, Dot.

PPI Bill to impact cloud computing
ITWeb
“The cloud storage is often in a foreign country and this has considerable implications for how companies handle and transfer data,” said Kelly. He added that if a company outsources a service, such as payroll, and the service provider uses cloud ...

ITWeb

Data protection chief issues cloud computing rules
Irish Times
THE DATA Protection Commissioner has issued new guidelines aimed at companies who wish to use cloud computing services. The use of cloud services – which are usually delivered by a third party on an on-demand basis – creates data protection issues if ...

Answers To Gartner's Six Cloud Computing Risks - CloudTweaks.com
By Haris
Cloud computing has been the subject of ever-increasing hype. Anything exposed to such publicity is always accompanied by criticism, whether it be constructive or destructive. Gartner, an information technology research and advisory firm, ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Art. 29WP issues Opinion on Cloud Computing - Electronic ...
By Panos Korkovelos
Art. 29WP issues Opinion on Cloud Computing · Norwegian regulator set to auction 2X45MHz in 2GHz... Project bonds for ict infrastructure amongst other... EP says final no to ACTA · Commission clears the creation of a JV by KPN Grou.
Electronic Communications Regulation...

Avoid Failure When Marketing Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing ...
Cloud computing creates a simplified environment, with solutions that are affordable and quick to deploy. Your prospects want to know how your software works and they don't want to be asked qualifying questions before they even get a ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Last week's Storms Raise Questions about Safety of Cloud Computing
By Elizabeth Hyman
A look at the week of July 2 in public advocacy for the IT channel: Electrical outages caused by storms over the past weekend at an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Va., are forcing federal officials to reconsider its shift to cloud computing ...
CompTIA Blog

Hurricane Warning: How Cloud Computing Can Help You Recover ...
By broyer
I think few would debate the proposition that “the cloud” is becoming pervasive. From deliberate, time to value implementations by SMBs to agile all-in deployments by enterprises, the cloud's resiliency in the context of IT culture is something ...
Venyu Blog

Mass. Ethics Panel Rules on Ethics of Cloud Computing · Robert ...
By Robert Ambrogi
Ethics Panel Rules on Ethics of Cloud Computing. No comments · Posted by Robert Ambrogi in General. Read a post I wrote about the ruling here: Mass. Joins Other States in Ruling that Cloud Computing is Ethical for Lawyers. Tags: cloud ...
Robert Ambrogi's LawSites

Four Principles Guiding the Construction of Cloud Computing Data ...
By Lisa Kuk
As in any other region in the world, Cloud Data Centers in China must become operational in a very short time window, as well as be able to scale according to user demand for services. At the same time they must be cost-effective both from a ...
Data Center

Enterra Insights: Big Data Drives Excitement Over Cloud Computing
By Steve DeAngelis
Reuven Cohen, a self-proclaimed "digital provocateur," believes that the excitement surrounding the emergence of cloud computing is really more about access to Big Data than anything else. "Big Data," he writes, "is the new cloud." ["It's Not ...
Enterra Insights

Maximizing the value of cloud for small and medium enterprises ...
By Sreekanth Iyer
View all posts by Sreekanth Iyer →. This entry was posted in #cloudchat, Industries and taggedcloud, cloud-computing, cloud-services, cloudchat, ibm, ibmcloud, provider, small-medium-enterprises, SMB, SME. Bookmark the permalink.
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

Sonata partners Salesforce, Amazon for Cloud - CXOtoday.com
By Pankaj Mishra
Sonata Software has expanded its Cloud based services offerings through alliances with Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services. Sonata's Cloud Computing Center of Excellence (CoE) will creatively bring together Sonata's product ...
RSS Feed - CXOtoday.com

Former Apple VP working on cloud computing startup | MacNews
Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering, is working with at least two other former Apple employees to launch a cloud ...
www.macnews.com/.../former-apple-vp-working-cloud-comp...

Current Trends in Cloud Computing Reveals CIO Optimism ...
Cloud Computing Survey Findings Show Strong Optimism on Cloud Adoption and Benefits, and Potential of Cloud BI to Address Remaining Challenges.
bizcloudnetwork.com/current-trends-in-cloud-computing

New York's Shake Shack and Cloud Computing - Direct2Dell ...
New York's Shake Shack and Cloud Computing. Dell.com » Community » Blogs .... We see this ...
en.community.dell.com/.../new-york-s-shake-shack-and-cloud...



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