Friday, August 17, 2012

Cloud Services Drive Fast-Growing Outsourcing Market

Cloud Services Drive Fast-Growing Outsourcing Market
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The growth of cloud computing within the outsourcing market was also detailed in a Gartner report, released August 7. While it still represents just a fraction of the global IT outsourcing market, of around $251.7 billion in 2012, cloud computing ...

Taxachusetts Releases Ruling on Taxability of Cloud Computing
BostInno (blog)
The Massachusetts Department of Revenue concluded that the sale of cloud computing services that does not involve the license of software to customers (i.e., customer's use their own software or open-source software available for free on the internet ...

TDS' Vital Support Systems Begins Cloud Services Rollout
CRN
"With us, they can put everything on the cloud infrastructure, or certain parts and pieces, or use ourcloud to get storage or backup or network services. ... [Related: TDS Telecom Mounts Cloud Services Push Behind Channel Acquisitions] ... Corp. and ...

A Round of Applause for Adobe's Creative Cloud
PC Magazine
Anyone who reads me regularly knows that I am not a huge fan of cloud computing and its implications. I'm even less enamored by the idea of paying a monthly fee to use my word processor. That said, I must admit that Adobe may have found the sweet spot.

Resilient Cloud Computing Infrastructure makes Leading PHR Service ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Top web PHR provider ZweenaHealth.com ensures reduced downtime and availability in critical scenarios with resilient cloud computing on its online PHR platform. Zweena remains accessible in situations where most services would typically go offline ...

Winners Stand to Profit From 'Cloud Runaround'
CNBC.com
Just as this file is copied or cached thousands of times across the Internet, so are cloud servicesexpected to be replicated over time, becoming more Internet-like. That's the goal, anyway. Cloud computing (explain this) isn't supposed to be a data ...

Cloud computing firm Iomart buys Melbourne Server Hosting in £7m deal
BBC News
The Glasgow-based hosting and cloud computing company Iomart has bought a firm based in Manchester to expand into the north of England. Melbourne Server Hosting is being sold for £7m to Iomart Group. It brings 600 customers, from JJB Sports to the ...

BBC News

Rackspace delivers OpenStack "Alamo" for private clouds
ZDNet
Rackspace, a leader in public cloud computing and a co-founder of OpenStack, made available this week an OpenStack private cloud distribution that it claims can be installed in 30 minutes. The private cloud offering, code named "Alamo," which ...

Colo5, LLC Now Offering Cloud Computing Services
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
"As a premier data center provider, offering cloud computing services allows us to provide a more comprehensive experience for our clients," said Ernie Bono, Vice President of Colo5 Cloud Services. "Colo5's commitment to customer service allows for us ...

How Filepicker lets content flow without worrying about bandwidth
GigaOM
The way it works is actually pretty simple: App developers integrate with Filepicker by inserting a few lines into their source code, and Filepicker gives them API access to a broad range of cloud services where consumer content is stored. Users can ...

GigaOM

Cloud to create 2 million jobs in EMEA [TradeArabia]
Equities.com
Cloud computing will create nearly 14 million new jobs globally by 2015, including over two million in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), according to an IDC report commissioned by Microsoft. In line with this, leading international cloud companies ...

The Lawyer's Guide to Cloud Computing: Part 3 (of 4)
Westlaw Insider
Cloud Computing & the Law In the last blog post, I discussed the importance of research when choosing a data hosting provider, the potential difficulties of implementation, and cloud-computingsecurity. In this post I will explore the implications of ...

More Ways To Make Sales Leads Out Of Current Cloud Computing Customers
Business 2 Community
With the use of cloud computing showing no sign of a slowdown, another new type of service is gaining popularity as more companies (and even government agencies) are shifting to the cloud. And as with every new kind of support service, it can lead to a ...

Business 2 Community

Wozniak's Cloud Computing Concerns Starting to Scare Businesses
Midsize Insider
Unfortunately, what he had to say about cloud computing a few days ago in Washington, was not something most people wanted to hear. According to an ITWorld article, Wozniak said, "I think it's going to be horrendous. The more we transfer everything ...

People And Patterns: Getting Cloud TCO Right
TechCrunch
And I rarely leave a meeting without talking about cost – and more specifically, how to figure out whether the cloud is cheaper or more expensive than running applications in an on-premises data center. Weighing the financial considerations of owning ...

Sony's next-gen Reader brings Evernote to the table for cloud storage
Pocket-lint.com
Sony's tweaked its Reader device adding cloud storage and a more powerful battery as it looks to take on other eReader devices. The Sony Reader PRS-T2 is a follow-up to 2011's PRS-T1 but comes with a couple of major tweaks that demand we put down...

Pocket-lint.com

Cloud Server Dashboard Achieves VMware Powered Status
AllAfrica.com
"Our cloud services are underpinned by VMware's leading virtualisation and cloud tools, vSphere and vCloud Director," says hosting manager Justin Elms. "Cloud Server Dashboard provides a set ofcloud computing services across a common platform, ...

Box Opens the Floodgates: How to Get 25GB Free Space Today
Technorati
The online storage wars just heated up today, as cloud storage service Box.com has begun offering up a great deal more free space than usual - as long as you're a newbie to their service. In the battle to get you and I to store our personal and office ...

Technorati

BATM Advanced sees boost from cloud computing products
Total Telecom
Telecommunications and medical products group BATM Advanced Communications Thursday reported that it fell into a pretax loss at the interim stage as it lost business with the data networks company Nokia Siemens Networks, known as NSN, but said that it ...

Gartner: Cloud Computing's Most Over-hyped Terms
CIO India
The overall cloud computing industry is past its peak of inflated expectations, Gartner says, but other aspects of the cloud computing industry are at various points of the lifecycle. Hyper-Hyped Some of the biggest buzzwords in cloud ... Instead of ...

Rackspace Launches OpenStack-Powered Private Cloud Software
TalkinCloud (blog)
The Rackspace Private Cloud Software “allows businesses to utilize their existing investment in their own data center resources to run an open cloud solution for additional control and customization and also take advantage of Rackspace's data center ...

HP upgrades, rebrands old Lefthand Virtual SAN Appliance in cloud computing ...
eChannelLine
HP has announced virtualization solutions aimed at enhancing the movement of virtual machines (VMs) and data in cloud environments. One of them, the HP StoreVirtual virtual storage appliance (VSA) is an enhanced and rebranded version of an old ...

10 Ways Cloud Computing Will Improve Our Lives
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing is not just revolutionizing businesses, but also affecting the daily lives of the normal everyday Joe. This is because in our day to day interaction with the internet, we are bound to come across aspects of cloud computing whether we ...

Microsoft Assigned Patent for Cloud Computing Resource Broker
Equities.com
16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been Assigned a patent (8244559) developed by four co-inventors for a "cloud computing resource broker." The co-inventors are Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, Wash., Harold L. Cochrane, Redmond, Wash., Rene A. Vega, ...

IBM buys into flash craze with Texas Memory acquisition
GigaOM
The flash memory land rush continues with IBM buying Texas Memory Systems and its RamSan line this week. The news comes as flash storage startups touting flash-everywhere game plans are reaping big VC investments. IBM rival EMC bought EXtremeIO ...

Big Data Meets Cloud
Forbes
Considering that the main challenges of cloud computing are data security and integration efforts (yes, the story of simply swiping your credit card to get a full operational cloud solution in place is a fairy tale), 17% cloud adoption is actually not ...

Fewer tech M&A deals, more cloud in Q2: PwC
ZDNet
E-commerce and cloud services and solutions, along with stand-alone and Internet-based software products, represented 58% of deal volume during the quarter. The biggest deals in 2Q: Oracle's acquisition of cloud-based talent management company Taleo ...

ZDNet

India Moves Critical IT Infrastructure to the Cloud; Will Savings Outweigh ...
Midsize Insider
While many midsize companies are just starting to figure out where cloud computing best fits in their IT landscape, a recent article at The Economic Times talks about the government of India's bold move to migrate critical infrastructure to private ...

Cloud services market expands with increased adoption « CopperEgg
By CopperEgg
Classified under the cloud computing definition by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, new solutions, such as Unified Communications-, Security- and Monitoring-as-a-Service fall under the XaaS category, or a generalization of ...
CopperEgg

How to Remove Limitations on Cloud Computing using Data ...
By David Linthicum
According to a white paper from the industry organization, Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), calculating the total cost of an IT service against its potential return is always a challenge, and cloud computing brings ...
Data Integration Blog

Piston Cloud Founders Inducted into the Python Software Foundation
By Christopher MacGown
Our team created OpenQuake, the first open-source cloud computing framework for seismic hazard and risk analysis on a massive scale. I'm therefore proud to announce that Josh and I were recently recognized for our contributions to the ...
Piston Cloud Computing

Cloud Storage for DWG files? | Forum | Archinect
By rkendust
Recently my father, a long time residential home designer, passed away. I am sitting on decades of his work in the form of DWG files. I also have several builders/clients trying to gain access to these DWG files. I am certainly not going to turn ...
Archinect - Forum

The Data Center Journal The Upgraded SkyDrive Cloud Storage
By Rakesh Dogra
Microsoft has announced major upgrades to its SkyDrive Cloud Storage service as the product was through its beta testing phase earlier, now it has been updated.
The Data Center Journal

Cloud storage wars- Microsoft revamps SkyDrive - Digital Intelligence
By Digital's website editor
Microsoft has revamped its SkyDrive online storage system with new features as the firm aims to rival the likes of Dropbox, Apple, Amazon and Google in the rapidly growing cloud storage market. The firm is also set to launch an Android ...
Digital Knowledge Feed

Which Cloud Storage Service Is Right For You? | Managed Hosting
By Jaime Love
Since many of these devices use expensive and difficult to replace SSD storage solutions, cloud storage services have become increasingly popular. Many reputable companies such as Google, Microsoft, DropBox and SugarSync offer cloud ...
Managed Hosting

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Toplisek, EVP, Product ...
By candicearnold
Although you don't have to forget what you already know about EarthLink, you will have to adjust your thinking a bit. Today, EarthLink is an IT services, network, and communications provider that serves more than a million consumers, with ...
Sramana Mitra

Cloud Services – Steps To Prevents Risks
By GetCloudServices
With regards to cloud services, as with anything that comes with a contract, the first thing you should do is gain an understanding of it by utilizing reading materials such as blogs, news articles and Wikis. It's a pain in the neck, but it'll help you ...
GetCloudServices Cloud Server,...

International Journal on Cloud Computing: Services and ...
By cfptech
ISSN : 2231 – 5853 [Online] ; 2231 – 6663 [Print] http://airccse.org/journal/ijccsa/index.html Call for paper Cloud computing helps enterprises transform business and technology. Companies have begun to look for ... Cloud Computing Architecture Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries Cloud storageand file systems. Networks within cloud systems, the storage area, and to the outside. Virtualization in the context of cloud computing platforms. System integration, virtual compute ...
techcfp

Cloud Computing Added to Merriam Webster Dictionary - SSD ...
By Courtney C
While Cloud Computing isn't a new term by any means, it was finally added to the latest print edition of the Merriam Webster Dictionary: cloud computing.
Cloud Provider USA

How do you control and keep your cloud cost to a minimum ...
By Rick Blaisdell
When it comes to cloud computing, one of the questions we need to be concerned with is what the real costs are? ... This becomes a real challenge for an IT manager who is researching cloud computing companies. Read the fine print. The first thing you want to do is make sure you know and... Also, individual departments are increasingly choosing their own technology, including cloud services, which are relatively easy to engage and use. IT departments and a company's top ...
Rickscloud

Cloud Survey by Kroll Ontrack Reveals a Surge in Cloud Storage ...
While sixty-two percent of survey respondents are leveraging the cloud and/or virtualization, only 3,Cloud Survey By Kroll Ontrack Reveals A Surge In Cloud Storage And Virtualization Adoption; Shortage Of Proactive Protocols To Protect This ...
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How Using Cloud Storage Can Improve Your Blog
Cloud storage can help you improve your blog, boost content, and attract new ... Author Bio:- Linda Le is a tech blogger, and proud user of cloud computing and ...
www.techmaish.com/how-using-cloud-storage-can-improve-y...

What is Cloud Computing? - ServiceMesh
ServiceMesh is successfully using the disruptive technologies of agile IT and cloud computing to deliver today the security, resiliency, policy enforcement, and ...
www.servicemesh.com/...it.../why-enterprise-cloud-manageme...

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Cloud World Forum Asia - The region's leading Cloud Computing conference ... Learn how to transform your infrastructure for deploying robust Cloud services ...
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DreamWorks Animation Drives Innovation With HP Cloud Services ...
"HP Cloud Services integrated with the Panzura Global Cloud Storage System will enable DreamWorks to undertake 'follow-the-sun' content production through ...
www.marketwatch.com/.../dreamworks-animation-drives-inno...



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