Forbes
(Percentages add to greater than 100% since companies may be paying for multiple cloud solutions in different ways.) The diversity in financing for cloud services means organizations are still exploring how cloud investments will be made. Ultimately, the ...
Forbes
Cloud Computing: Businesses Favor Private Clouds
Formtek Blog (blog)
In fact, more than half of businesses working with Cloud Service Providers (CSP) are opting for private clouds while about a third are choosing public cloud services. That's based on a report by CA Technologies called “Service Providers Put Their Heads in ...
Oracle: Cheapest Pure Play On Cloud Computing Market
Seeking Alpha
Oracle (ORCL) is the leading producer of enterprise software and a leading producer of computer hardware and products. On June 6, the company announced that it will be focusing its products and efforts on cloud computing namely through platform as a ...
Roundup: Six Degrees Acquires Cloud Computing Centre
Data Center Knowledge
London's Six Degrees group announced it has raised £8 million (~$12.5 million) in new funding from Penta Capital and that it has completed the acquisition of Cloud Computing Centre (CCC), a Surrey-based managed cloud hosting expert. CCC's cloud ...
Cloud Computing: AppFog Promises Cloud-on-the-Cheap
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Two-year-old AppFog, which started out in life as PHP Fog, is proposing to rent outcloud infrastructure that it in turn rents from Amazon, Azure, Rackspace and HP charging only for the total amount of RAM used in deployments. It doesn't matter if it's coming ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
How Cloud Computing Has Shifted Engineering Hiring Demands: Part 2
Data Center Knowledge
Knowing how to communicate effectively and “think outside of the data center” are both important as we move into a world of cloud computing and data center distribution. Beyond personality shifts, hiring managers and organizations are looking for engineers ...
Data Center Knowledge
Microsoft Investigates Azure Outage In Europe
InformationWeek
The Windows Azure cloud compute service was unavailable to many users in Europe for 2.5 hours on Thursday, starting at 11:09 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time. ... Research: 2012 State ofCloud Computing · Cloud Storage: Changing Dynamics Beyond Services ... services, points to "more of an infrastructure issue" where some undetected single point of failure in a network switch or other device temporarily disrupted availability, said Chris Leigh-Currill, CTO of Ospero, a supplier of private cloud services in Europe.
Nexcom Chooses Windstream Hosted Solutions for Cloud Services
NASDAQ
Nexcom, based in Charlotte, has increasingly relied on cloud computing to succeed in business, offering applications that enable its clients to better track compliance and sales. The company had previously relied on another firm to host its servers, but said ...
Weather Acquires Cloud Aggregator intY
Sacramento Bee
CASCADE is a key enabling technology allowing service providers and resellers to bring together cloud computing applications from multiple vendors in an integrated solution, with one touch provisioning, billing and management of all services. ... Mark Herbert, Business Development Director and Founder of intY said, "intY now has the ability to execute its global plans to revolutionize the way Cloud Services are aggregated and delivered through service provider and reseller channels to deliver proven success in ...
Chart: Apple, Facebook spending a lot on infrastructure
GigaOM
We're smack in the middle of earnings season, so what better time to look at what our favorite providers of consumer cloud services spend on capital expenditures?... Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been coveringcloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for GigaOM since 2009. He has written ... And that is where Cloud Storage and Disaster Recovery solutions help organizations in implementing a comprehensive disaster recovery solution which is easy and affordable.
GigaOM
Cloud Computing: DocuSign Raises $47.5 Million D Round
SYS-CON Media (press release)
DocuSign, which claims to be the global standard for legally binding, secure electronic-signatures, has raised a $47.5 million D round led by Kleiner Perkins, an investment that will put Kleiner partner Mary Meeker, once Wall Street's leading Internet analyst, ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Competitors – More And More Are Out For Your Cloud Computing Leads!
Business 2 Community
Just this week, InfoWorld published a slideshow highlighting the big-name entries into the cloud-computing race. While Amazon continues to dominate, the arrival of new tech giants could only mean you'll have a lot more heavy contenders to compete with for ...
Business 2 Community
Amazon Rules the Cloud, But the Best Supported Platform Can Still Win
OStatic (blog)
With the advancement of numerous open source cloud computing platforms, and commercial offerings taking shape around these platforms, there are finally signs of real competition for Amazon in the cloud computing space. There is no question that Amazon Web ... According to the Amazon Web Services blog in a summary of 2011 usage of its cloud services, individuals, businesses and organizations are putting data in Amazon's EC2 S3 storage service at an incredible rate. The blog reports: "As of the end of 2011 ...
MegaPath Brings Innovative Communications and Cloud Services to Southwest
Embedded.com
PLEASANTON, Calif., July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MegaPath Corporation, one of the leading providers of managed data, voice and security services in North America, today announced the opening of a new Phoenix, Ariz. field sales office. As part of the ...
Actionable Strategies to Publish Cloud Computing Paper
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
New York, NY, July 27, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Actionable Strategies, a boutique consulting firm serving clients globally, has been selected to publish a white paper on the future of Cloud Computing standards for the Cutter IT Journal. The abstract was developed ...
Megaupload Lawyers Ask for Judge to Restore Business
CIO
However, there are concerns about the known drawbacks to cloud-computing models, specifically security and control, that are making private cloud models the best choice for many organizations today. Private clouds are emerging as a way for enterprises to take advantage of ...Perimeter E-Security, Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Jaquith gives you an insider's view of what customers should ask for - and expect - when adopting cloud services. Mobilizing Your Collaboration Strategy. A project-based approach to ...
Q&A: Microsoft's Roskill Outlines Office 365 Opportunities, Cloud Incentives For ...
CRN
In his tenure as Microsoft's channel chief Roskill has overseen the overhaul of the company's partner program, now known as the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN), and helped define the channel's role as Microsoft expands into cloud computingand other new ...
CRN
This Week in Cloud, July 26 2012: Cloud skills wanted, VMWare acquires Nicira ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
A 2011 Cloud Adoption study by BitNami, Cloud.com, and Zenoss of 500 IT professionals, found that one of the biggest inhibitors to cloud computing is a lack of training. ITprenuers and CA ...How to get what you paid for after signing on for cloud services.
Microsoft Adds HIPAA Compliance Features to Azure for Cloud Health Data
eWeek
Microsoft will offer BAA agreements in Azure for Web and worker roles in Cloud Services as well as tables, queues and binary large objects (BLOBS), which store unstructured data, such as video, audio and images. Companies also can obtain BAAs for ...
Cloud Computing: Xamarin Gets $12 Million A Round
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Computing: Xamarin Gets $12 Million A Round. Xamarin's focused on mobile apps with Visual Studio and C#. By Maureen O'Gara. Article Rating: Select rating, Give it 1/5, Give it 2/5, Give it 3/5, Give it 4/5, Give it 5/5. July 27, 2012 01:28 PM EDT. Reads ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
IDG Enterprise AMD Cloud Computing KnowledgeVault
CIO
The IDG Enterprise AMD Cloud Computing KnowledgeVault offers busy IT executives high-level insights and research on cloud computing trends. The brief videos and other resources in this KnowledgeVault cover the building blocks of cloud computing, how ...
Which Governance Framework Is Right For Cloud Computing?
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing is revolutionizing how organizations use technology worldwide and for a good reason, it leverages on economies of scale more than any application of technology in recent history. And with the economic stability of the world swaying back ...
Virus Computer WARNING!! Backup your Files with Cloud Storage
The Barrie Examiner
... files today. and do you know that approximately 85% of your files on the Hard Drive Computer, will not be safe because the Computer Virus attack. so the best solution is to save your important files in On line Storage media or also called theCloud Storage.
The Barrie Examiner
SixCloud Web Hosting Acquires 'Cloud Computing Center' in UK
Greatresponder.com
GreatREsponder.com on July 27, 2012 : SixDegrees cloud and web hosting company announced on Thursday July 26, 2012 that it have finalized and materialized the acquisition of cloud computing center or CCC based in Surrey UK. CCC is a mid size web ...
Greatresponder.com
Ethernet group crafting cloud, SDN specs
EE Times
Specifically, the effort aims to define ways users can ask for and get on an ad hoc basis the kinds of Ethernet services they need from carriers when using cloud computing services. “When you are setting up and operating cloud services, there are some issues ...
EE Times
Skydrive not most reliable cloud storage provider – still good
myce.com
From the recent consumer previews of Office 2013 and Windows 8, we've learned that Microsoft's cloud storage platform Skydrive will play an important role. Recently we reported about an user who saw his Microsoft Live account blocked, losing access to the ...
How a Private Cloud Help Applied Materials Save Suffering Engineers
CIO
The plan IT devised--move the CAD systems to a private cloud--was risky. Theoretically, it could provide everything engineering needed--reduced complexity and errors, improved cycle times, and real-time collaboration. But "we couldn't find anyone who had ...
Why government CIOs need to get their head in the cloud
ITWorld Canada
In order to effectively transition from siloed government IT systems to one centralized system, government CIOs have been turning to cloud computing services to help move forward with the new delivery model. But anyone familiar with the complexity of government IT knows that moving toward cloud services in the data centre comes with new management and IT policy headaches – especially when it comes to security. McAfee and the Security and Defense Agenda, a Brussels-based think-tank, recently released a ...
Red Hat's Top 4 Priorities for 2013: Cloud, Virtualization, And…
The VAR Guy
4. increased revenue from channel partner relationships, including original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), IHVs, ISVs, cloud computing providers, value added resellers (“VARs”) and system integrators, and from our own international expansion, among other means. Hmmm… now let's dissect each ... Question for Egan: Are there specific sales pitches that channel partners should use when trying to shift CIOs, IT departments and cloud servicesproviders (CSPs) from CentOS to paid, subscription-based Linux?
Nine Questions Every MSP and CSP Should Anticipate
MSPmentor
Again, these are questions that customers and prospects may ask of you, or that you should proactively address to elevate your game when it comes to selling cloud services: Why should our business leverage cloud services? And what's the difference ...
How Cloud Computing Can Cut Costs For Your Small Business
By Under30CEO
Ever since Henry Ford first designed an assembly line at his car manufacturing plant, automating workflow has been paramount in the success of American businesses. Cloud computing represents the most significant step in the streamlining ...
Under30CEO
Cloud computing rejuvenates small businesses « CopperEgg
By CopperEgg
The flexibility of cloud storage structures allows small and medium-sized businesses to migrate as many or as few mission-critical applications to the cloud and be charged accordingly, rather than being expected to pay large consistent fees, ...
CopperEgg
AppFog Promises Cloud-on-the-Cheap | Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud Computing: Leveraging Cloud Storage. By Pat Romanski. “Every organization has a storage hog, maybe many, and they get all the blame for the growth in storage capacity. Withcloud storage we've provided organizations with a way to ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud Services With High Security On The Cloud
By GetCloudServices
Cloud computing or better yet, cloud services are not new. 2011 saw big giants and small companies alike, embracing this revolutionary technology that makes computing so much simpler and less costly. When everything, from software, ...
GetCloudServices Cloud Server,...
ESaaS - Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
Our primary activity here is matching vendors and other innovations to the best practice standards defined for Cloud Computing by organizations like NIST. For example one of the key areas that NIST highlights is offline replication. In short ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices
International Journal on Cloud Computing: Services and ...
By cfptech
Mobile Clouds for new millennium, mobile devices. Social Clouds (Social Networks in the Cloud) Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Architecture CloudApplications in Vertical Industries Cloud storage and ...
techcfp
Evaluating Security Concerns with Cloud Computing | ERP Software ...
By Roger Borek, Borek Business Solutions
Cloud computing is real and companies of all types and sizes are jumping on the bandwagon. With the total market size from various analyst firms ranging from $10B to $25B, there's no stopping it. Cost and flexibility are certainly key in driving ...
ERP Software Blog
The Jelastic Spotlight: Max Matveev and DragonCalc « Jelastic ...
By Judah Johns
Jelastic — Rock-Solid Java in the Cloud, Java Server Hosting, Java Cloud Computing. java,cloud, paas, hosting, ... They were one of the first companies to adopt Cloud computing concepts and put them into practice. Then, a few years ago, ...
Jelastic — Rock-Solid Java...
The fuzzy mud puddle test: can your cloud storage provider access ...
By Jaap-Henk
Cloud storage providers (like Dropbox, iCloud or SpiderOak) store your data in encrypted form. But depending on who stores the decryption key (and how), the cloud storage provider may still be able to decrypt your data, and hand it over to ...
Jaap-Henk Hoepman - on security,...
8 Mistakes to Avoid when Securing Cloud Services | HealthWorks ...
By ShahidShah
8 Mistakes to Avoid when Securing Cloud Services. Like it? 0. comments. 0. Posted July 27, 2012. Keywords: cloud computing, eHealth. There's solid demand these days for services like DropBox.com or Box.net that allow easy but secure file ...
HealthWorks Collective - The...
Brightcove Q2 '12 Revenues Climb 41%; Zencoder Acquired For ...
Brightcove said the Zencoder deal "signals our expansion into standalone cloud services that developers can use as building blocks for custom systems." That could suggest Brightcove will launch a third platform with a suite of cloud services, ...
VideoNuze Analysis
Amazon will keep on raising its cloud spending — Cloud Computing ...
By Barb Darrow
Amazon didn't wow the street with its Q2 earnings news but the company will definitely keep investing in its cloud infrastructure. For its upcoming quarter, it plans to spend a strapping $800 million to $900 million capex money on technology, ...
GigaOM
Securing Cloud Services: A pragmatic approach to security ...
Cloud Computing represents a major change to the IT services landscape. Cloud services, such as SalesForce, Amazon Web Services® and Microsoft® Azure®, offer enterprise grade computing power to businesses of all sizes, without the ...
IT Governance - Latest Products
AT&T's Top MSP Makes Private Cloud Services, VDI Push ...
By Joe Panettieri
Cloud Computing News and Information for CSPs, MSPs and VARs ... 7.27.12. BTG (Breakthrough Technology Group), AT&T's top revenue generating solutions partner, has been pushing aggressively into the cloud services market.
TalkinCloud
Cloud computing bookshelf: Great summer reads
With record-high temps scorching most of the U.S., it's the perfect time to turn off the computer, grab a book and hit the beach. So we asked a few of our cloud ...
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