Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Amazon Reshapes Computing through the Cloud

Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing
New York Times
Amazon's efforts are just the start of a global competition among computing giants. In June, Googlefully introduced a service similar to A.W.S. Microsoft is also in the business with its offering, Windows Azure. If only for competitive reasons, Amazon ... 

Amazon Cloud Drive arrives in the UK
ZDNet
Amazon has released its Cloud Drive app in the UK, where it will compete with similar services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft's SkyDrive. The release occurred "towards the end of last week", a spokesperson for Amazon told ZDNet UK.

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Washington Post (blog)
Pity Google? One upside for the Android software maker in Apple's patent victory over partner Samsung is how that decision could spill over to a federal antitrust investigation into Google, according to one analyst. Google is being investigated by the ...

A cloud's real carbon footprint
Broadcast Engineering (blog)
The percentage of total power consumed in servers is greater in private cloud computing than that in public cloud computing. In both public and private cloud storage services, the energy consumption of storage hardware is a small percentage of total ...

Does the US understand cloud computing?
ZDNet
51 percent of respondents, including a majority of Millennials, believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing. 95 percent are actually using cloud services today via online shopping, banking, social networking and file sharing, even though ...

VMware Focuses On Private Cloud, Dumps Unpopular Pricing
InformationWeek
VMware is pushing deeper into private cloud computing, the company made clear as it kicked off its VMworld conference in San Francisco Monday. The cornerstone of VMware's approach is a package of its core data center virtualization products integrated ...

IBM Unveils zEnterprise EC12, a Highly Secure System for Cloud Computing ...
Sacramento Bee
Services and Financing for zEC12 One of the hallmark benefits behind IBM System z is its powerful business continuity features, especially important today in light of the industry's ongoing appetite for resilient cloud computing environments. To help ...

Sony to Boost Research Spending on Cloud Computing, Displays
Bloomberg
Sony Corp. (6758), Japan's biggest exporter of consumer electronics, plans to boost research-and-development spending on cloud computing and display panels as it tries to rebound from four straight losses spurred by slumping TV sales. The company's ...

Cloud Computing: The Cloud's Roller Coaster Ride of Hype to Productivity
Formtek Blog (blog)
... 2006 · January 2006 · Cloud Computing: Businesses Report Dramatic ROI From Cloud Services » ... Interestingly, Gartner places 'Public Cloud Storage' nearing a low point of the 'Trough of Disillusionment'. And 'Infrastructure as a ... The relative ...

TwinStrata Simplifies Cloud Storage Delivery and Access with New Subscription ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TwinStrata, Inc., the leading innovator of cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that customers can now purchase both Google Cloud Storage and TwinStrata CloudArray® through a ...

Rackspace Acquires Email Application Integrator Mailgun
eWeek
Cloud computing specialist Rackspace announced it has acquired Mailgun, a provider of Web services for integrating email inboxes into applications. The move is aimed at enhancing Rackspace's product portfolio—making it possible to integrate cloud ...

Cloud computing removing duplication, fostering collaboration and taking ...
Calgary Herald
Cloud services also offer businesses a platform for growth by permitting them to design and launch complex implementations with almost zero upfront capital investment. And because the technology is constantly refreshed “in the cloud,” the frequent ...

SOFTBANK TELECOM And VCE Team On Japan Cloud Strategy
Sacramento Bee
28, 2012 -- TOKYO and RICHARDSON, Texas, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SOFTBANK TELECOM and VCE today announced a strategic alliance designed to accelerate the adoption ofcloud computing by companies of all sizes in Japan. ... SOFTBANK TELECOM is ...

Trend Micro Launches Trend Ready for Cloud Service Providers Program
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The Trend Ready for Cloud Service Providers program helps educate enterprises about the risks and benefits of cloud computing, and provides an approach to adopting public cloud services without compromising data security." Craig Hurley, NTT America's ...

Pabst CIO Ben Haines brewing cloud-first IT
ZDNet
BlackBerries were tossed---along with the servers that went with them---for Apple iPhones and cloud mobile device management tools. Haines' method is to replace commodity infrastructure with cloud services. Over the weekend, Pabst cut over from its San ...

ZDNet

Missing Trends, HP and Dell Need a Reboot
NewsFactor Network
Scrambling to catch up in the arenas of cloud computing, touch-based computing and "Big Data," PC makers like Hewlett-Packard and Dell are in desperate need of a reboot. The latest reminder of HP's ineptitude came amid its report of an $8.9B quarterly ...

Cloud Storage: Tame Your Fears
Windows IT Pro
Those are all examples of cloud computing, and they're becoming more and more common in the workplace. You might already be in the cloud. But, you might say, it's one thing to host email or non-essential files offsite; it's quite another to go ahead ...

Windows IT Pro

VMware Cloud Product Transition Faces Hurdles
Investor's Business Daily
VMware (VMW) took the wraps off new product bundles and software licensing pricing aimed at making the company a bigger player in cloud computing, as analysts see a company in transition. At the VMworld user conference in San Francisco on Monday, ...

Splunk targets cloud-server data with Storm
GigaOM
What everyone playing in this space realizes is that the intersection of cloud computing and big data is going to be huge. Many people love using cloud servicesand also love the idea of capturing and analyzing all the data they're generating while ...

GigaOM

SkyDrive Brings Its Cloud Storage Service to Android
Lifehacker
SkyDrive Brings Its Cloud Storage Service to Android Android: Microsoft promised an SkyDrive Android app and today they've delivered. If you've wanted to access all the files in your SkyDrive account, you now can from your Android smartphone or tablet.

Airtel, Microsoft partner to provide cloud services to SMBs
Zee News
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it has partnered with Microsoft India to offercloud computing services to small and medium business enterprises (SMBs). Bharti Airtel will deliver Microsoft's cloud-based Office365 solution to SMBs through its ...

Zee News

New OMB Reporting Guidance Hopes to Clarify Agency Cloud Investments
govWin (blog)
New guidance from OMB will affect how agencies report cloud computing investments in their FY14 Exhibit 53 and Exhibit 300 reports. Come next February we should have a much better idea of both the status of cloud adoption across the federal government ...

govWin (blog)

VMworld: Quantum Rolls Out Q-Cloud Storage
DABCC.com
Q-Cloud uses Quantum's DXI-Series deduplication appliances on-premises as targets for the backup and Quantum vmPRO virtual backup for backing up virtual machines. The DXi-Series appliances now include a cloud storage gateway that enables ...

Storm of Confusion: 51% believe stormy weather interferes with cloud computing
Stark Insider
Cost was cited as the top deterrents to using the cloud, a result I found surprising given all the free consumer cloud services out there (Gmail, Pandora, Flickr, Facebook, almost all online banking, etc.) “The cloud.” I can't think of a buzzword in ...

Stark Insider

Tier 3 spiffs up cloud management
GigaOM
More granular cloud management features will make it easier for companies and service providers to set up group policies and lessen server sprawl in their environments, says Tier 3 CTO Jared Wray. Tier 3 Founder and CTO Jared Wray. Tier 3 says its new ...

GigaOM

Cloud Technology Partners Responds to Exponentially Increasing Demand for ...
RedOrbit
Cloud Technology Partners Responds to Exponentially Increasing Demand for Cloud Services – Names Industry Notable Francesco Paola Vice President. August 28, 2012. Repost This. BOSTON, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Cloud Technology Partners(TM), the ...

IBM buys Kenexa for $US1.3b
The Age
Oracle and SAP have both recently been buying "cloud computing" companies. Such technology allows businesses to run software remotely rather than installing software in-house. Computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard have also been busy ...

The Age

Calculate 'return on agility' to find the cloud's real value
InfoWorld
The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services ... Most people who create a business case for cloud computing -- or any new technology or approaches, for that matter -- don't bother with the deeper analysis because it's both hard and complex.

Primus Launches Enhanced Cloud Computing Platform
Digital Home
The PrimusCloud Server platform provides enhanced levels of end-client management capabilities and has two distinct levels of storage performance – standard cloud and premium cloud. Primus created a single cloud product that spans the different grades...

Digital Home

Learn why success greets NYSE Euronext's Community Platform for Capital ...
ZDNet
We'll learn about how this innovative cloud and groundbreaking business model targets the needs of Wall Street IT leaders, how the business of the financial services industry has received them, and explore how providing cloud services as a business has ...

United States : VMware Defines New Operating Model for the Cloud Era ...
Equities.com
VMware s Cloud Ops IP helps IT transition to a new operating model for cloud computing that promises to accelerate delivery of new business value and innovation. Part of the comprehensivecloud solution VMware unveiled today, Cloud Ops draws on ...

Cloud Security: Fears And Challenges | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
By cloudtweaks
Recent studies have shown that more than 60% of IT managers admit to security as the main stumbling block to their integration of cloud computing, with data protection and a perceived lack of regulation being their chief concerns. In another ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

The Birth of the Cloud Computing Era: HP Expands with vCloud ...
By Amber Harris
HP's Converged Cloud has expanded with VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and was unveiled at VMworld 2012 on Monday. The software intertwines VMware's virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into one SKU, which ...
SiliconANGLE

Does Agentless Security for Virtualization Also Work in the Cloud ...
By Christine Drake
Trend Cloud Security Blog – Cloud Computing Experts. ; Home · About ... Regardless of where you are with your cloud deployments, you want security that can easily adapt as your cloud computingneeds evolve and change. At this year's ...
Trend Cloud Security Blog - Cloud...

Most Americans Confused By Cloud Computing According to ...
By David Marshall
For example, 51 percent of respondents, including a majority of Millennials, believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing. Nearly one third see the cloud as a thing of the future, yet 97 percent are actually using cloud services ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...

Building an End-to-End Windows Store App - Part 2: Integrating ...
By S.Somasegar
Building an End-to-End Windows Store App - Part 2: Integrating Cloud Services. MSDN Blogs > Somasegar's blog > Building an End-to-End Windows Store App - Part 2: Integrating Cloud Services.... These days, however, many applications benefit from consuming and integrating with a variety of backend services running in the cloud, and I'd like mine to do so, as well. In this regard, one of the top areas of feedback we've received from developers is the desire for a turn-key set of ...
Somasegar's blog

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/27/2012+
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
It also brought a name change from hosted service to cloud service for the compute deployment unit. There is a little bit of confusion about the use of cloud services because, to make the deployment of a single virtual machine as simple as ...
OakLeaf Systems

Nirvanix, TwinStrata Launch Cloud Storage Starter Kit | TalkinCloud
By Chris Talbot
Cloud storage vendors Nirvanix and TwinStrata have teamed up to jointly launch an enterprise cloudbackup and archiving service with a flat $48 annual fee. ... Cloud Computing News and Information for CSPs, MSPs and VARs. Subscribe: Newsletter · RSS · Twitter · Facebook · LinkedIn · Home · Talk With Us .... Cloud Computing FAQ. NEW: Check out our FAQ for questions and answers aboutcloud services providers (CSPs) and the cloud computing market for VARs and MSPs.
TalkinCloud

Private Cloud 2.0 – Windows 8 – Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
Therefore this is likely to go hand in hand with their accompanying Private Cloud strategy, and this paper does an excellent job of explaining the IT spectrum that stretches from the 'extra enterprise' right through to consumer IT devices and ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

7 Deadly Sins Of Cloud Computing | Business Computing World
By Mike Small
7 Deadly Sins Of Cloud Computing. ... Cloud computing provides an increasingly popular way of procuring IT services that offers many benefits including increased flexibility as well as reduced cost. It extends the spectrum of information technology (IT) service ... easily be used or migrated. Cloud services (built using cloud platforms, platform as a service [PaaS] in particular) may be based on a proprietary architecture and interfaces making it very difficult to migrate to another provider.
Business Computing World

Cloud Computing Security and Your Small Business | paixoes e ...
By Amargyla Outhavarium
Cloud Security has a very significant role in not only big business but also small business. Running a small business can lead you to be a successful person in the future. Cloud computing is believed as helping you dealing with data security ...
paixoes e desejos

Otixo Provides iOS WebDAV Access for CX Cloud Storage
By CX
Otixo Provides iOS WebDAV Access for CX Cloud Storage. Posted by CX · Tweet. Have an iPhone? Want WebDAV access? Check out Otixo, one of CX's latest partners, which enables users to save files from a WebDAV-enabled iOS app to ...
Blog.CX.comBlog.CX.com | Sync,...

IBM Unveils zEnterprise EC12, a Highly Secure System for Cloud ...
By WDM Group PR Network
IBM Unveils zEnterprise EC12, a Highly Secure System for Cloud Computing and Enterprise Data. ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New, cutting-edge System z® capabilities for security and analytics dramatically boost cloud ...
Press Releases

SOFTBANK TELECOM And VCE Team On Japan Cloud Strategy ...
By WDM Group PR Network
28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SOFTBANK TELECOM and VCE today announced a strategic alliance designed to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing by companies of all sizes in Japan. SOFTBANK TELECOM will work with ... of VCE™ Vblock™ Systems. SOFTBANK TELECOM is standardizing its Cloud Services on Vblock Systems, which bring together leading technologies from VMware, Cisco and EMC into an intelligent converged infrastructure system with seamless support.
Press Releases

VMware vCloud Suite for Cloud Computing & Cloud Management
Simplify the monitoring, management and security of your datacenter with VMware vCloud Suite, an integrated cloud infrastructure solution.
www.vmware.com/go/vcloud-suite/

Do You Need Cloud Computing? | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
Cloud computing, often referred to as cloud storage, is a service that allows users to ... Cloud services such as Smart Recruiters allows small and medium-sized ...
https://www.cloudtweaks.com/.../do-you-need-cloud-computin...

The Story of Cerebrata's Cloud Storage Studio | Cloud Zone
In the last post about our Cloud Storage Studio/e product, I mentioned how we stopped working on that product in favor of a desktop based product. In this...
cloud.dzone.com/articles/story-cerebratas-cloud-storage

Cloud Computing Lead Generation via Existing Consumers
A change is coming in the tech world, precipitated by the ominous cloud – cloud computing, that is. Some businesses have already taken up the challenge of ...
it.toolbox.com/.../cloud-computing-lead-generation-via-existin...



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