Thursday, August 2, 2012

Amazon Web Services boosts database cloud computing

Amazon Web Services boosts database cloud computing
ZDNet (blog)
Consistent, reliable volumes that can deliver rapid response times are crucial for a number of database-driven tasks -- especially in the wake of cloud computing -- and Provisioned IOPS aims to fill this crucial role in the market. The Provisioned IOPS EBS ...

Compushare Releases New White Paper: "The FFIEC Takes on Cloud Computing"
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA ANA, CA, Aug 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Compushare, the nation's leading Technology Management Provider for the financial industry and pioneer of Compushare Cloud Computing (C3), the only fully hosted cloud computing solution ...

Data Mobility, Security Top Cloud Computing Concerns
eWeek
The biggest concerns of IT decision-makers dealing with public clouds are the loss of corporate data and control of data, a reflection of the known threats and risks of data leakage into the public cloud, according to a survey of more than 150 chief information ...

Dropbox Toughens Cloud Storage Security
Datamation
Details have emerged on the Dropbox breach that started with some suspicious spam and ended in an overhaul of the cloud storage provider's security practices. A few weeks ago, some users began receiving spam on ... While Dropbox's disclosure raises cloud security concerns, market enthusiasm for cloud services continues unabated. This week, Box.com, a business-flavored cloud storage ... Tags: cloud computing, cloud security, Cloud Storage, DropBox · Exploring the Private Cloud for Your Organization. icon ...

Rackspace Debuts OpenStack Cloud Servers
PCWorld
Amazon Releases Desktop App for Its Cloud Storage Service · Google's New Business Cloud Storage Takes on Amazon ... Starting Wednesday, when new customers log into Rackspace to requisition servers, they will interact with Rackspace Open Cloud services, which is based on the OpenStack Nova compute component. Rackspace has run the Swift object storage ... "When a customer signs up for a new cloud server, it will be powered with Nova cloud computingfabric. Historically, it has been powered using our ...

Cloud Computing: Windows 8 RTMs
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Windows 8 was released to manufacturing Wednesday morning, a hallelujah moment for Microsoft that nowadays means OEMs and manufacturing partners are getting the final code on which Microsoft's future depends. The new "re-imagined" operating ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Silver Spring Networks Unveils SilverLink(TM) Cloud Services
MarketWatch (press release)
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Silver Spring Networks, a leading networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks, today announced SilverLink cloud services, the energy industry's first insight-as-a-service ...

Cloud Storage Still Needs Maturation
Channelnomics (blog)
Cloud storage may be all the rage, but as cloud solutions take flight, there's turbulence: Dropbox recently experienced a security mishap that raised questions about the efficacy and safety of leaving important data in the cloud. ... Posted in Channel Business, Cloud Computing, News, Security | Tags: active directory, Box for Enterprise, Box.net, Box.net funding, cloud maturity, cloudreality check, cloud storage, cloud storage security, cloud syncing, Dropbox, dropbox breach, Dropbox for Teams, enterprise cloud storage ...

Rackspace Lets You Build Your Own Cloud. Why Won't Google?
Wired News
Rackspace, a major seller of cloud services, says that it's now running its cloud services on OpenStack, which is essentially cloud computing's version of Linux. This means that customers can set up their own OpenStack software and run it in their own data ...

Wired News

5 Hidden Costs of Cloud Migration: ISACA White Paper
MarketWatch (press release)
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Aug 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloud computing promises low cost of entry and fast return on investment, but that ROI can fall short of expectations if hidden costs are left out of the equation. A new white paper from global IT ...

HP And Rackspace Launched More Attacks On Amazon's Cloud Today
Business Insider
As it promised, HP is taking on Amazon's cloud-computing service—with an open-source approach that allies it with Rackspace. It officially opened a cloud-storageservice today that goes head to head with Amazon Web Service's S3. HP's Object Storage lets ... The leader of the OpenStack project is Rackspace, which has also today launched a few new CloudStack cloud services including a database cloudbuilt on MySQL and another compute service that runs wholly on CloudStack. Users can host Windows or ...

Business Insider

Cloud Computing: NetApp and Fusion-io Team Up
SYS-CON Media (press release)
NetApp and flash storage start-up Fusion-io are going to create software-defined "solutions using server-side flash and caching software products when used in conjunction with the NetApp Virtual Storage Tier." They are "collaborating on low-latency, ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing: Apple Loses Chip Designer to AMD
SYS-CON Media (press release)
AMD has poached the director of Apple's mobile-focused Platform Architecture Group Jim Keller, credited with architecting several generations of the ARM-based chips found in the iPad, iPhone, iPod and Apple TV. It will be Keller's second go-round at AMD.
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Rackspace CEO: 'We're playing a different game' than Amazon
GigaOM
As of Wednesday, all new customer workloads will deploy on the company's open source cloud computing platform, leaving the company's legacy platform for existing customers that want to take their time transitioning to the new cloud. Now, the competition to ...

GigaOM

HP Brings Cloud Storage Out Of Beta, Offers 99.95 Percent SLA
CRN
HP's new cloud storage offerings are coming out of public beta even though the HP CloudCompute offering remains in beta, because the company feels they are ready for production, said Marc Padovani, director of product management, HP cloud services.

People Are Getting REALLY Angry Over OpenStack, A Key Cloud Tech
Business Insider
There are countless billions of dollars at stake in cloud computing, so it's not surprising that sometimes things get a little testy between cloud IT vendors. Even still, this story about the going-ons within the OpenStack organization is harsh. Allegations have ...

Business Insider

Samsung Launches US Music Hub With Cloud Storage, Streaming, Radio, Store
Billboard.biz
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Samsung launched its Music Hub service in the U.S. on Tuesday. It's an effort to capture some of the buzz around Spotify with a feature that combines a cloud music locker, unlimited song streaming, a radio player and a music store.

AGIMO looks for cloud suppliers
ZDNet (blog)
The Australian Government Management Information Office (AGIMO) has finally gone to market for "datacentre as a service" vendors that can provide cloud services to agencies. Last year, AGIMO released a discussion paper looking at how the IT industry could help the government provide ... These services must conform to the definitions in the government's Cloud ComputingStrategic Direction Paper. AGIMO hopes to launch the list by the end of October 2012, but is concerned that it might receive too many ...

Amazon takes aim at IO bottlenecks
GigaOM
Amazon appears bound and determined to speed up IO for its cloud customers. New Provisioned IOPS (Input Output per Second) block storage volumes will ...Even many Amazon partisans admit that it's early in the game for cloud computingso there's time for a new leader or leaders to emerge. Robert Shear is not one of them. “I think they're lapping the other guys ... I recently spoke with... Amazon pitches better-than-ever cloud deals. Amazon is offering customers unprecedented deals to stick with its cloud services.

GigaOM

EPAM Systems Leverages the Cloud to Enhance Its Global Delivery Model With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
To enhance its delivery model, EPAM selected Nimbula Director to create a geographically distributed community cloud that addresses its need to increase its productivity, quality and cost-effectiveness of delivering services and project and infrastructure ...

Imogo's cloud based applications optimized for new Samsung Galaxy S3 and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
(OBB:IMTC) , the leader in secure mobile cloud services, announced today that their new cloudbased applications, which allow people to work from any device at anytime, anywhere with an internet connection, have been optimized for the new Samsung Galaxy S3 and ... Imogo is an innovative provider of cloud computing solutions for organizations seeking to securely integrate mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones into their enterprise ecosystem, increasing productivity and lowering their IT costs.

Rackspace Open Cloud Offers Easily Scalable Computing -- and Freedom From ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN ANTONIO, Aug 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Rackspace(R) (NYSE:RAX) , the service leader in cloud computing, announced the unlimited availability of Cloud Databases andCloud Servers powered by OpenStack, along with a powerful and ...

Control Panel Software facilitates cloud computing management.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)
LONDON -- Virtual Internet, a leading managed web host since 1996, has launched a new product to assist with the management and utilisation of cloud computing. The team at Virtual Internet have announced the new product called Virtual Datacentre ...

Cloud Computing Has a Silver Lining for the Global Memory IC Market
Equities.com
NEW YORK (GBI Research) - Despite suffering from significant oversupply problems, the global memory integrated circuits (IC) market will be driven on by data centers and the advent of cloud computing, expects a new report by international business ...

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Maintain Ultimate Control of Cloud Backups
SYS-CON Media (press release)
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Kimber Barton, Principle Sales Engineer at StorageCraft, will walks through offsite backup storage options, including StorageCraft Cloud Services, and the StorageCraft technologies that give you the power to maintain ultimate control over your ... The recent Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloudevents of the year combined!

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Dropbox: Yes, we were hacked — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
The whole “Dropbox of the enterprise” meme started when dozens of companies touting IT-friendly cloud storage all glommed onto Dropbox's huge popularity in the consumer market to position themselves. Dropbox claims 50 million users but ...
GigaOM

Your Store in The Cloud -Google Cloud Storage API
By Ajay Ohri
In our previous post we provided an overview of Google's cloud infrastructure and talked of the Google Prediction API. To use the Google Prediction API we do have to use the storage from within Google Storage API. Google Cloud Storage is a ...
ProgrammableWeb

Sync documents to Google Docs and other cloud services with ...
By Jack Wallen
Allway Sync is a backup wonder that syncs to a number of cloud services, including Amazon S3, Dropbox, and Windows Azure. Get instructions on installi.
on TechRepublic

Research Study: Cloud Financing And Associated Justification ...
By Humayun
Research Study: Cloud Financing and Associated Justification Queries surrounding cloud computing financing and associated pecuniary rationalization have lately. ... The multitude of available options aimed at fuelling the relevant cloud services translates to the important development that ventures nowadays are ankle deep in investigating the dynamics of cloudfinancing. Justifying the ... cloud computing comic · cloud computing · The Lighter Side Of TheCloud – Storage Overload ...
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Cloud Computing: You Don't Buy A Farm if All You Need Are The ...
By broyer
The catalyst to the post that follows was his participation in a cloud storage Twitter chat where discussions swirled around hybrid clouds, cloud storage and the viability of cloud computing for SMBs. Even now, Hess was shocked to find there ...
Venyu Blog

State of the Cloud: Analysis of Cloud Services, Companies, and ...
By admin
The report includes a cloud computing case study and ROI assessment. It also includes a comparison of cloud services providers with analysis of major companies/offerings including Saleforce.com, Google, and a SWOT analysis of Amazon ...
Healthcare Store Online

Compushare Releases New White Paper: “The FFIEC Takes on ...
By admin
SANTA ANA, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/01/12 — Compushare, the nation's leading Technology Management Provider for the financial industry and pioneer of Compushare Cloud Computing(C3), the only fully hosted cloud computing solution ...
Nearshore Journal

Google to offer 100 GB of free cloud storage to Chromebook ...
By Adrian Diaconescu
According to newly discovered lines of code, Google is preparing to offer Chromebook and Chromebox users 100 GB of free cloud storage.
Android Authority

Contract Technical Writer, cloud computing lab proc doc, 4 months ...
By Andrew Davis
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Emerging markets ready to adopt paid cloud services | Enterprise ...
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A global poll conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and Ipsos Public Affairs showed that emerging economies are ripe markets for cloud computing services, including paid services.
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Cloud Matters - HP Cloud Services
HP Cloud Partners with TwinStrata for Cloud Storage Promotion ... misguiding to those who do not have a lot of experience with the concept of cloud computing.
https://blog.hpcloud.com/

Open Cloud Computing, Cloud Hosting, Cloud Storage by Rackspace
Complete public cloud platform to support your websites, applications, file storage and backup. Sign up now for a free account!
www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/

Dropbox confirms user info was stolen, adds new security measures ...
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www.engadget.com/.../dropbox-confirms-security-breach-new...

Appcelerator Cloud Services on AWS Marketplace
Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) provide a wide array of automatically scaled network features and data objects for your app. Integrate services such as push ...
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/.../ref=mkt_wir_2012072...

Developing Economies In Love With Cloud Computing ...
Cloud Computing Companies and Information Database ... In addition, 33 percent classify their usage of cloud services purely for business motives. The figures ...
https://www.cloudtweaks.com/.../developing-economies-in-lov...

Can Ireland be the European capital of cloud computing? - IDA ...
The cloud computing market will be worth €207bn worldwide by 2016, according to Gartner. IDC estimates that spending on public and private IT cloud services ...
www.idaireland.com/news-media/.../ireland-cloud-computing/

Do You Have the Cloud Computing Skills You Need? | Build Your ...
A new survey finds that the need for cloud computing skills is expanding. Visit Computing Now to view recent presentations and videos from CLOUD 2012 to ...
buildyourcareerblog.computer.org/.../do-you-have-the-cloud-...

Private Cloud Computing, Hosting & Storage Solutions | Logicworks
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Cloud Hosting and Cloud Storage Provider Internap
Internap has developed a full range of highly flexible enterprise-grade cloud hosting services including private cloud, public cloud and cloud storage to give your business the edge it ...Latency: The Achilles Heel of Cloud Computing (PDF ) ...
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Government Cloud Computing Services | CSC
CSC offers government cloud computing services that can accelerate enterprise ... Discover how your government agency can benefit from cloud services.
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