Friday, August 31, 2012

Cloud Computing for the Poorest Countries

Cloud Computing for the Poorest Countries
New York Times (blog)
In Tuesday's article on Amazon Web Services, I wrote about lots of different data-crunching companies, mostly in the developed world. In the long term, however, as companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft sell computing everywhere, the most dramatic ...

New York Times (blog)

Eucalyptus CEO Says VMware Not Ready To Challenge Amazon In Cloud ...
CRN
Virtualization giant VMware made headlines this week when it announced it would join the OpenStack Foundation to make its cloud services compatible with the foundation's open-source standards. While many hailed the move as an extension of VMware's ...

GSA Announces Cloud Email Services for Federal Government
U.S. Politics Today
30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. General Services Administration announced that it is now offering cloud based email services, making it easier for government agencies to move to cost saving cloud services. Through 20 blanket ...

Four big cloud providers respond to four big cloud computing questions
TechTarget
But does that hold true when the customer is dealing with a cloud provider? In the relatively new realm of enterprise cloud computing, the answer is both yes and no. Executives from four topcloud providers -- Microsoft, Amazon.com, Rackspace and ...

People think cloud computing involves actual clouds
Grist Magazine
... get confused between weather and weather-related metaphors. To wit: A new survey has found that a shocking number of people believe that cloud computing involves actual clouds, as in the things in the sky where rain comes from. WebProNews reports: ...

American Diversified Holdings Corporation (ADHC) Confirms Cloud Computing ...
Equities.com
"Image customers today are trying to manage all sorts of cloud services such as email, web portals, BlackBerry, mobile apps, storage, etc. from multiple vendors with multiple passwords and logins. Now Business Cloud Box can seamlessly integrate these ...

VMworld 2012 Highlights Progress in Virtualized Networks, Phones, Cloud
eWeek
VBlocks are preconfigured, converged-function cloud computing systems that can run hundreds to more than 6,000 virtual machines, depending on customer needs. In three years, VBlocks have become a $900 million business for Cisco (which supplies ... The...

eWeek

ManageIQ EVM recognized as Best of VMworld 2012 Finalist for Private Cloud ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
30, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- ManageIQ (www.manageiq.com), a leader in enterprise cloudmanagement, today announced it has been named as a finalist in the "Best of VMworld 2012" for private cloud computing. The Best of VMworld 2012 awards winners ...

Will cloud computing kick the IT door in for women?
PC Advisor
Poke your head into most data centers today and youre bound to notice a distinct gender gap. While women still represent only a fraction of IT workers today, some experts believe that cloud computing will offer the wedge in the door that women need to ...

Oracle, Red Hat team on CAMP cloud standard
InfoWorld
Although the use of PaaS services has grown dramatically in the past few years, through services like Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Microsoft Azure, each vendor offers its own console to users, making the migration of workloads from one ...

Nobody Has Any Idea What the Cloud Is
Gizmodo
Nobody Has Any Idea What the Cloud Is A recent survey has unearthed an interesting/borderline depressing fact—one in three people think cloud computing has to do with literal clouds. That's right: many of us think we need an umbrella to access SkyDrive.

Should Microsoft, Apple, And Google Give Users More Cloud Choices?
Fast Company
The companies are using their platforms to push their own cloud services instead of, say, Dropbox or Box. Is this anticompetitive? The lead lawyer in the Microsoft antitrust suit and Box's Aaron Levie sound off. Next year, IDC ... To log in to a ...

Fast Company

The very best cloud storage apps for iOS
Know Your Mobile
Your guide to the iPhone's best cloud services. Published on ... This cloud storage service ties in with the world's most popular word processing package seamlessly, which is great news for anyone who likes to work while away from their desk. It also ...

Cloud Security Alliance Forms Big Data Working Group
Dark Reading
“Everyday 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are being created resulting in a myriad number of data security and cloud-computing security concerns,” said Sreeranga Rajan, Director of Software Systems Innovation at Fujitsu Laboratories of America. “By ...

Cloud UC strategies: Hosted unified communication service models diverge
TechTarget
Cloud computing is the new architecture that binds IT and networking into a single system, and its primary value isn't cost management or opening IT to public hosting. The value is the flexibility thatcloud will bring to the way we empower workers ...

When You Move To The Cloud, Plan For The Storms
Forbes
Cloud computing infrastructure plays a rapidly increasing role in business-critical online operations. A recent study of ... It is essential to evaluate the roles and failure modes of cloud services in your application, and how they affect durability ...

IBM Brings Big Data Analytics, Cloud to US Open Tennis
eWeek
IBM continues its tradition of providing technology to drive the US Open tennis tournament, this year bringing its big data analytics and cloud computing prowess to the fore as well as adding a new iPad app.

The Shifting Role Of IT In Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
The Shifting Role Of IT In Cloud Computing. The line between cloud computing and information technology is hazy, but it is always safe to say that they complement each other, with cloud computing representing the latest paradigm for remodeling IT services.

CloudTweaks News

FedRAMP certification eases government customers into the cloud
TechTarget
Until recently, government agencies that sought cloud services had to shop around for a cloudprovider that could live up to their strict, sometimes unique requirements -- with few guarantees from a provider, other than its word, that a particular ...

Dell to bring cloud onshore
The Age
Kremer later told IT Pro Dell's existing facilities offered a range of cloud computingservices, from self-service, self-configuration at “very aggressive price points” - a market dominated by Amazon Web Services - to full consulting and managed ...

The Age

Indian government is catching up to the cloud: Andrew M Dutton
Times of India
SAN FRANCISCO: VMware's general manager for Asia Pacific and Japan, Andrew M Dutton, says the response to cloud computing from state governments in India has been proactive, compared with the "'UPA government which is preoccupied with other ...

IFA 2012: Toshiba launches inaugural cloud storage device
ITProPortal
"Whilst cloud storage is becoming increasingly popular, many consumers still prefer traditional storage hardware as they're concerned for the security of their data. STOR.ECLOUD eliminates these worries as it combines the best of both worlds. It ...

ITProPortal

Idea Cellular launches 3G dongle with cloud services
Myiris.com
Idea Cellular, India`s 3rd largest mobile operator has launched 3G dongle with cloud based services, today. This product in its category offers three key features including internet access; storage capacity of 2GB on the cloud, making it convenient for ...

Government eases into cloud with caution
Stuff.co.nz
The Government will encourage its own agencies to access software hosted in the "cloud" in New Zealand but is eschewing overseas-based cloud services such as Google Apps for now. The approach, revealed in a Cabinet paper issued yesterday, is likely to ...

Classic Rock Is Most Popular For Cloud Streaming
Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Most Americans say they don't understand cloud computing, but they know enough to say they'll mostly use it to stream classic rock. Citrix published the results of a poll of ... An early example of cloud storage might be Hotmail, which stored all your ...

Ultimate-Guitar.Com

Half of Americans think cloud computing is affected by stormy weather
New Statesman (blog)
The Independent councillor said that the Government should be doing more to harness clean industries for the Connemara area and he named wind energy and cloud computing as two obvious examples. “Connemara in particular could become a centre of ...

Why Businesses Shouldn't Trust Apple's Cloud Services
DABCC.com
Add in synchronized bookmarks (including on Windows systems), a basic photo backup courtesy of Photo Stream, and even cloud-based backup and sharing for iCloud-enabled apps, and the service is a steal. To learn more and to read the entire article at ...

What Makes A Cloud Project A Tech Success?
TechWeekEurope UK
That's because the fundamental premise of cloud computing is delivering IT services where the technology is under the covers, and users are enabled without having to get hung up on how the system works. ... Cloud services treat users as customers ...

TechWeekEurope UK

IBM debuts zEnterprise EC12, its secure system for cloud computing and ...
CTR
With operational analytics and near real-time workload monitoring and analysis, clients can use the new zEC12 for a variety of workloads, including hybrid clouds that can take advantage of the System's 25 percent more performance per core and 50 ...

OpenStack grows up: Names SUSE and Cisco execs to leadership ...
By Barb Darrow
Lew Tucker - VP and CTO, Cloud Computing, Cisco - Structure 2011. The OpenStack Foundation ...He was CTO and VP of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems' before becoming CTO of Cisco'scloud efforts two years ago. After choosing its ...
GigaOM

Does Bad Weather Affect Cloud Computing? [Humor] - How-To Geek
By Jason Fitzpatrick
Indian government official Vishwa Bandhu Gupta deserves a Master Class Troll Lifetime Achievement Award for his performance in this five minute video and complete bamboozling of a poor reporter. Before we ridicule the reporter for buying ...
How-To Geek

Some Americans believe stormy weather interferes with cloud ...
By Mike Flacy
While many Americans use cloud computing every single day, that doesn't mean they necessarily understand it. ... However, over 90 percent of that group admitted to several common actions that uses cloud storage for user data. These actions included online banking and shopping, browsing social networks ... main deterrents to cloud computing. However, some respondents do believe that businesses can lower costs with cloud services as well as increase consumer engagement.

The Economics of Cloud Computing
By sheva370
The Economics of Cloud Computing Publisher: Cisc | 2012 | EPUB + PDF | ISBN: 1587143062 | 150 pages | 3 Mb This concise book delivers the insight and t.
Wow! eBook

SAS Furthers Cloud Computing for Business «
By Richard Snow
With all the hype about the cloud, customers are still confused about differences between hosted services, software as a service and cloud computing. Nevertheless, cloud computing is one of six technology developments that Ventana ...

Are Enterprises Ready for Private SaaS & PaaS? - Cloud Computing ...
John Yung is CEO at Appcara, where he leads the company's Cloud application integration and mobility vision. Prior to Appcara, he was Vice President of Cloud Computing Business Solutions at Savvis, where he led Symphony VPDC ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Survey: Most Americans Think Cloud Computing Has to do with the ...
By Staff
Also, one-third believe that the cloud is a thing of the future, even though 97 percent of these people are using cloud computing for everyday functions such as banking and file sharing. The survey also revealed that a lot of Americans like to ...
Your Black World

OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8 ...
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
[See Derrick Harris's BiqQuery story in the Other Cloud Computing Platforms and Services section below.] Meanwhile, I encourage folks that are comfortable with SQLBI to stretch the envelope a bit into the world of NoSQL like HBase.
OakLeaf Systems

John Fox Interview: How Industry Professionals Use The Cloud ...
By Catherine
I use cloud computing as a means of uploading scripts and collaborating on pre-production. I have often used cloud storage for sharing daily renders, project files and rushes and for sharing OMF exports for sound designers and XML ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

American Diversified Holdings Corporation (ADHC) Confirms Cloud ...
By admin
A recent report by Forrester Research called “Sizing The Cloud:” indicates that the cloud computingindustry is projected to grow from $40 billion in 2010 to over $241 billion by 2020. This increase will provide massive opportunities for ... “Image customers today are trying to manage all sorts of cloud services such as email, web portals, BlackBerry, mobile apps, storage, etc. from multiple vendors with multiple passwords and logins. Now Business Cloud Box can seamlessly integrate ...
Nearshore Journal

Companies leveraging the cloud need wider range of skills ...
By CopperEgg
Some businesses may feel that once they adopt cloud computing solutions, they no longer have to put in any additional work because the vendors themselves take care of any cloud performance or other issues. However, Forbes contributor ...
CopperEgg

beehive.govt.nz - Government moves ahead with cloud computing ...
By Admin
Internal Affairs Minister Chris Tremain says the Government is taking the next steps towards the adoption of cloud computing, paving the way for improved services and significant cost savings. Cloud computing will enable government ...
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Horizon Data – The future of Enterprise Cloud Computing ...
By John
A few days ago, during VMWorld 2012, VMWare presented Horizon Data an amazingly robust enterprise suite that combines many VMWare technologies (Project Octopus, Project AppBlast, ThinApp, VMware Horizon Application Manager and ...
Momentum Design Lab - San Francisco...

5 Informative Cloud Forums - SSD Cloud Computing News and ...
By Courtney C
Google Cloud Storage. There is no better place to start than learning the basics from Google. On Google's own discussion board, users can learn and ask questions about anything related to storing data with Google. Business professionals can get a sense for how Google operates their own cloud services and compare. Beginners will be able to comprehend basic cloud information by applying it to Google products they are already familiar with. 2. Cloud Computing at TechNet ...
Cloud Provider USA

VMware vCloud Suite for Cloud Computing & Cloud Management
Virtualization has dramatically reduced IT costs while greatly improving efficiency . Now business units need rapid access to IT resources to support faster ...
www.vmware.com/products/datacenter...suite/overview.html

6 cloud storage companies - Box (1) - FORTUNE
Techies have made cloud storage - yes, storage - exciting. Here's how the services stack up.
money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2012/08/.../index.html



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