Monday, August 27, 2012

Fast-Moving Chief Immersed in the Cloud

Disruptions: At Box, a Fast-Moving Chief Immersed in the Cloud
New York Times (blog)
Like someone swerving out of the way of oncoming traffic, he abruptly shifts from a lengthy ramble on the short history of cloud computing and responds: “For your own sake, I'm not going to eat. I speak too quickly, and my food would be splattered all ...

New York Times (blog)

Cloud strategy: Choose wisely
GigaOM
As executives contemplate the emergence of cloud computing, it's important that they understand the questions they need to ask about why they'd adopt the new IT paradigm. Those deciding should consider the history and decisions made by Borders, the ...

GigaOM

Omani companies seeking cloud computing solutions [Times of Oman]
Equities.com
Muscat: For the past few years, cloud computing has been heralded as the next biggest trend in enterprise information technology (IT) with benefits set to meet every business requirement. Market analysts from leading agencies such as Gartner and IDC ...

The CIO as the (IT) supply chain manager
GigaOM
But the environment is changing — more services are available in a consumerized fashion, creating “shadow IT”; BYOD demands from users are increasing; IaaS, PaaS and SaaS clouds are simplifying outsourcing of certain categories of services; end-users ...

GigaOM

Speculative Investors Should Take Note Of This $11 'Cloud' Stock With Serious ...
Seeking Alpha
"The Active Network provides organization-based cloud computing applications services to business customers in North America, Europe, and internationally. The company offers ActiveWorks, an organization-based cloud computing platform, which ...

Amazon Cloud Drive now available in the UK
TechRadar UK
The cloud storage locker was launched in the US over a year ago but, as usual with Amazon, it has taken a while to ship it across the Atlantic. Users will get 5GB of free storage, while a subscription to 20GB of data is £6 a year. Storage guzzlers can ...

TechRadar UK

Free Clouds! Piston Latest to Jump on 'Freemium' Bandwagon
DABCC.com
BYON into the Public Cloud with Azure Virtual Networks · Microsoft SkyDrive: A Look Inside the Updated Cloud Storage Service · Should Facebook Unfriend Zuckerberg Over Slumping Stock Price... Piston Cloud Computing -- which bills itself as the ...

Free Cloud Service Accounting Software Giving Quickbooks A Run For Their ...
CloudTweaks News
In the past few years, this business accounting authority has turned to cloud servicesto host their accounting program online, thus allowing users the ability to do their accounting anytime, from anywhere in the world. Though Quickbooks is ...

CloudTweaks News

On the Record with IT writer Todd Nielson about Cloud computing
eChannelLine
Todd Nielson, an IT writer specializing in Cloud computing (and former VAR) talks with Channelline CEO Robert Cohen about Cloud computing, and its disruptive effects on the channel. The segment was taped at the recent CompTIA Breakaway Conference ...

Do companies pay a premium for the 'freemium' cloud?
Cloud Pro
On a personal level you probably won't find a bigger advocate for free or, if you'll excuse my lapsing into the tech vernacular for a moment, freemium cloud services. For those who don't know, freemium is a free model where advanced or upgraded ...

EMC Acquires Xtrem10: Massive Shakeup of Cloud Storage?
CloudTimes
Challenges in Cloud Computing: Service Admin, APIs and Security · enterprise-cloud-adoption ...Rackspace Offers New Cloud Services Based on OpenStack · 125X125_3 Taiwan ... emc top100 EMC Acquires Xtrem10: Massive Shakeup of Cloud Storage?

Red Hat eyes PaaS market with OpenShift
Techgoondu
Open-source bigwig Red Hat is eyeing the red-hot cloud computing market with OpenShift, an open source application platform in the cloud that lets enterprises deploy applications quickly. The platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, supports apps written in ...

WhatIsCloudComputings.com Emerges As Fastest Growing Question and ...
SBWire (press release)
Kolkata, West Bengal -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/26/2012 -- WhatIsCloudComputings.com appears as the latest question and answer site where users can ask several questions on cloud computing and write their personal opinion on the same topic. The site emerges ...

Chrome OS Update Offers Several New Features, Includes Direct Upload To ...
Social Barrel
Google has released an update to its Chrome OS to offers users a direct method to backup files to the company's Google Drive cloud storage service. The latest version of Google's operating system allows users to save content without requiring them to ...

Application development software market to grow 22.6% in 2012
Zee News
New Delhi: The application development software market in India is expected to grow 22.6 percent to reach over USD 227 million in 2012, led by increasing adoption of software delivery through cloud computing platform, research firm Gartner said on Friday.

Zee News

Managed Services Improved With New Data Centre for DMC Software
Melodika.net (press release)
Cloud computing and managed services are increasing in popularity as they offer users an alternative to on-premise servers and IT infrastructure, reducing the requirement for in-house expertise, IT support and business costs. Furthermore, with the ...

FreeCRM.com Selected by Iverson Genetics for Cloud Based CRM
Melodika.net (press release)
FreeCRM.com is simple, but powerful CRM, as the largest online CRM company with over 250,000 customers in over 200 countries, FreeCRM's web based SaaS product and cloud computing service is a tremendous value over proprietary alternatives.

Taiwanese delegation leaves for Japan for industrial cooperation
Focus Taiwan News Channel
The group, led by the Deputy Economics Minister Francis Liang, will discuss cooperation opportunities in the field of cloud computing with representatives from leading companies in Japan's ICT industry, such as NEC Corporation and Fujitsu Limited.

Nevada focuses on data centers
Reno Gazette-Journal
Switch specializes in high-security data centers, providing colocation, connectivity and cloud services to Fortune 1000 companies, businesses and government agencies. NJVC DATA CENTER: The 20,000-square-foot Reno facility officially opened its doors in ...

AntTek Explorer, an intuitive file manager for Android
The Droid Guy
All these plugins will most probably satisfy all your geeky needs, besides transforming it into an all-in-one application for all your networks and cloud services in the process. Style: For some people, functionality isn't everything. They demand style ...

The Droid Guy

Tech giants' spending brings tax windfall as Silicon Valley booms
Inside Bay Area
The report provides a window into the pace of growth at some of the region's biggest firms, with cloud computing and the Internet being the big drivers. Xeres, for example, spent $213 million equipping its server farm in Santa Clara. Juniper spent $87 ...

Forecast Looks Clear for Cloud Computing | HealthWorks Collective
By rdowney14
According to a MarketsandMarkets report entitled “Healthcare Cloud Computing Market – Global Trends, Challenges, Opportunities & Forecasts,” the global healthcare cloud computing market is projected to increase to a value of $5.4 billion ...
HealthWorks Collective - The...

Demand for Cloud Services Among Government Agencies | Cloud ...
Furthermore, by focusing on greater outreach efforts to bring all IT employees in line with enterprisecloud plans, government agencies can begin to benefit from the readily available cloud computingservices. The IDC survey was conducted in ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Want to know more about Cloud Computing? | THE SMALL ...
By Stefan Töpfer
My company WinWeb is always committed to educating as many people as possible about the benefits of cloud computing, particularly in terms of what I see as.
THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

Surge in cloud storage and virtualisation adoption highlights best ...
By admin
Surge in cloud storage and virtualisation adoption highlights best-practice concerns. August 27, 2012. While sixty-two percent of survey respondents are leveraging the cloud and/or virtualisation, only 33 percent of these organisations test data ...
Rust Report

Modern Technology: Cloud Computing
By maani
On the Net we mortal seen a monolithic maturation in the technologies that can personalise substance delivered to Net users. The discipline down personalization has undergone tremendous changes in recent life, yet the commodity posit of ...
Modern Technology

Performance Analysis of IB FDR and 40GigE RoCE on HPC and ...
By Rich Brueckner
In this video, Jerome Vienne from Ohio State University presents: Performance Analysis and Evaluation of InfiniBand FDR and 40GigE RoCE on HPC and Cloud Computing Systems. In this paper, we evaluate various high performance ...
insideHPC

Cloud Computing Security
By Nikhil P Naik
Cloud Computing. When you work with a cloud security service they will help you to establish the best direction for your company to go to gain the benefits of cloud computing while offsetting the risk and improving security. Before your company starts moving data into the cloud you will want to have very specific steps in place that have to be followed ... Comments. Rohit Agarwal says: August 26, 2012 at 6:41 pm. Its really a good topics about security of cloud storage. Great Post!! Reply ...
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Cloud Security Management - Overview and Challenges | Newvem
By Ofir Nachmani
Keywords: Amazon AWS Cloud services, Security group, Shared AMI, Amazon Machine Image,Cloud IP ports, Database Ports, AWS Security vulnerabilities, AWS Firewall, Compliance, AWS Complexity, Dome9 cloud security, EC2, Security ...
Newvem

On Dog Years, Cloud Years, and A-years
By Gregor Petri
19 years IT industry. Gregor Petri is research director at Gartner, covering cloud computing, hosting, data centers and communications service provider strategies. Read Full Bio Coverage Areas: ← On Plate Tectonics, Glacier Shifts and Cloud ...
Gregor Petri

IBM Redbooks | Performance Implications of Cloud Computing
In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we present the performance and capacity of the evolving cloud computing model. We provide an overview of cloud ...
www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/.../redp4875.html?Ope... 

Gregory Maciag: Cloud 2020
By Gregory Maciag
Right now we are in the early days of cloud computing, with many organisations taking their first, tentative steps. But by 2020 cloud is going to be a major — and permanent — part of the enterprise computing infrastructure. Here is a great piece ...
Gregory Maciag

Dell expands private cloud services | Computer News Middle East
By IDG Reporter
Gartner earlier this month said spending for worldwide IT outsourcing services would reach $251.7 billion this year, with cloud computing services being the fastest growing segment. Gartner said spending on cloud services in 2012 is ...
Computer News Middle East

BizCloud® Announces “We Are Not CSC” | BizCloud® Network
By admin
BizCloud® brand demonstrates the good faith of the company by providing cloud computing products and services to business community. In addition BizCloud has performed valuable work with various human rights organizations and ...
BizCloud® Network

5 Signs Your Cloud Service Provider Can't Handle Tier 1 Apps ...
By zatzeditor
CIO Migrating mission-critical applications to the cloud is fundamentally different from migrating less critical applications and processes to the. ... [Related: 10 Disaster Preparedness Questions to Ask Your Cloud Services Providers] ...
WebSpherePower

Amazon Glacier Secure, Reliable, Low Cost Cloud Storage Solution ...
By DG
Amazon Glacier Cloud Storage: Request Pricing. Amazon Glacier changes "the game for companies requiring archiving and backup solutions because you pay nothing upfront, pay a very low price for storage, are able to scale up and down ...
diTii.com

Evolutionary and Revolutionary Clouds | Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud computing is bringing massive computing power once reserved for government and research institutions to every organization in the world. Problems that ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2335897

Outsourced Cloud Computing: FFIEC Warns of Pitfalls « That Credit ...
By Amanda R. Yurechko, Esq. On July 10, 2012 the Federal Financial Institution Examination Counsel (FFIEC) issued an opinion on cloud computing and the ...
thatcreditunionblog.wordpress.com/.../outsourced-cloud-comp...

What Is Cloud Computing Teaching Engineers? | Dyn Blog
Cloud computing and the DevOps culture movement are teaching engineers new ways to deliver services to their end users through a phenomenal paradigm ...
dyn.com/what-is-cloud-computing-teaching-engineers/

The great challenge—and opportunity—of cloud: interoperability
GigaOM
Cloud computing and distributed applications are part of a greater shift to building out an ecosystem with inter-dependent parts. This may seem obvious, but what ... The rapid growth ofcloud services and APIs, on the other hand, make it operations ...

In cloud storage war, Mover arms developers with data migration tools
GigaOM
As the so-called cloud storage wars between services like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive and others rage on, Canadian startup Mover wants to make a name for itself as an arms dealer in the ongoing battle for dominance. The five-person company, which is...

GigaOM



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