Thursday, August 23, 2012

Glacier: Cold Cloud Storage From Amazon

Glacier: Cold Cloud Storage From Amazon
Data Center Knowledge
Will the archival of huge volumes of rarely-used files move to the public cloud? Amazon Web Services today rolled out Glacier, a new “cold storage” service that expands the company's cloud computing platform. Glacier offers archive storage at a cost of ...

Data Center Knowledge

2 Cloud Computing Era Myths Debunked
InformationWeek
It's time to lay to rest two common myths of the cloud computing era. One is that configuring enterprise applications--whether deployed on-premises or accessed in the cloud--is easy, which is far from true even if it's easier than customizing an ...

Amazon Launches New Cloud Service - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
Cloud storage came into prominence in 2009, with Nirvanix and Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) being two of the major pioneers. Since then, Amazon has continued to dominate the space, with other players like Rackspace (RAX) and Microsoft (MSFT) ...

Startup Piston Cloud says it's built a better OpenStack installer
InfoWorld
The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services ... "OpenStack installers on the market today are either too complicated to deploy and manage or just not a complete solution," said Joshua McKenty, CEO and co-founder of Piston Cloud Computing.

Ferroelectric materials could bring down cost of cloud computing and ...
Phys.Org
The crystalline materials also have a great memory, which could be very useful in computer and cellphone memory applications, including cloud computing. A team of organic chemists discovered they could create very long crystals with desirable ...

Cloud Computing: The Reality of the Four-Tier Architecture
The Complete Managed Services Resource
In theory, cloud services are billed as solutions to simplify IT for businesses, giving them a way to outsource the underlying technology and enabling IT staff to focus on their company's mission critical applications and activities. But reality can be ...

CompuCom Taps BMC Software to Help Clients Ease the Journey to Cloud ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
CompuCom Systems, Inc., the leading IT outsourcing specialist, has formed a strategic relationship with BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) to deliver the business benefits of cloud computing and accelerate the speed with which a client can realize its value.

Cloud computing firm to create 300 jobs, build local office
Fox 59
Cloud computing firm to create 300 jobs, build local office. Governor Mitch Daniels announced Wednesday that cloud-computing firm Appirio would open a new office in Indianapolis, creating up to 300 high-wage jobs within the next three years. Email ...

Cloud integration: Hubspan sold to Liaison
The Seattle Times (blog)
Seattle cloud services provider Hubspan was sold to Atlanta-based Liaison, the companies announced today. Both companies provide online software integration services. Hubspan gives Liaison new technologies, channel partners and customers in ...

Data Management Leader Archiware Simplifies Cloud Storage Management for ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
WingFS™ (file system) is a powerful, yet easy-to-use software tool to help professionals manage their files amongst multiple cloud storage services such as Amazon S3, Google Storage, FTP and SFTP. For the first time, many of the world's most popular ...

Topia's New Skoot Cloud App Provides Unmatched, Secure File Access and ...
Broadcast Newsroom
"Cloud services have dramatically improved the way users store and access content in their home and business lives," said Janine Terrano, CEO of Topia Technology. "Yet for individuals with more than one device, location or service, we saw an untapped ...

Sprint Office 365 Blends Cloud Services, Help Desk Services
TalkinCloud (blog)
But Sprint (NYSE: S) hopes to stand out in the extremely crowded Office 365 market by bundling migration services (called Carefree Cloud) and IT helpdesk services with various tiers in the effort. According to a prepared statement from the company ...

Rackspace opens Sydney data centre
The Australian
CLOUD computing provider Rackspace will open its first data centre in Sydney as part of a multi-million dollar investment drive in Australia. The decision to have a local data centre comes in response to customer demand, many of whom have asked the ...

IDC: Local Governments Need to Catch up on Cloud Computing
CloudTimes (blog)
IDC: Local Governments Need to Catch up on Cloud Computing According to a recent IDC research, the segments of the government sector that are least enthusiastic about cloud computing are the local governments, which is ironic at best as they are the ...

CloudTimes (blog)

Local or Cloud? Helping Customers Make the Right Choice
The VAR Guy
If you've been following the cloud computing news cycle lately, you know that there's been quite a bit of controversy in the consumer space pertaining to security. Recently, Dropbox confirmed that a number of its users' passwords had been stolen. Soon ...

GSA schedules Twitter chat for cloud broker idea
FCW.com
28 regarding its efforts to find a cloud broker – an entity that manages the performance and delivery of cloud services, and negotiates relationships between cloud providers and cloud consumers. GSA issued a request for information on the concept on ...

TriPlay Rakes In $5M And A New Oligarch Investor To Take Its Consumer Cloud ...
TechCrunch
TriPlay, a U.S./Israeli-based developer of cloud services that lets people consume music and other media across different devices, is today announcing a Series C round of $5 million to take its technology into new and emerging markets in Asia and ...

Dell hell continues as it morphs into enterprise cloud company
Computerworld (blog)
The company is in mid-transition from a consumer-PC-led business into an enterprise 'n' cloud-computing firm. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers manage to avoid using the phrase post-PC. Dell logo. By Richi Jennings: Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy ...

OpSource Showcases Its Cloud and Managed Hosting Solutions at VMworld ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
OpSource will be exhibiting at booth #318, showcasing its cloud computing solutions and services that are designed to help enterprises increase business agility. OpSource will share with attendees the many ways companies can benefit from public and ...

Cloud development software firm Typesafe raises $14M
Mass High Tech
The company's platform combines the Akka middleware framework and the Play web framework with Scala, an open-source programming language developed with cloud computing in mind. The stack “can scale to the largest workloads in cloud computing ...

Mass High Tech

Adaptive Computing Signs Agreement with IQT to Develop Cloud Computing ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Adaptive Computing, the largest provider of private cloud management and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workload management software, today announced a strategic partnership and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT) to create ...

What to look for in a cloud computing vendor
PhysBizTech
On the other hand, cloud computing providers maintain world-class computing resources with robust network connectivity and security. They generally have highly secure data center facilities to help ensure the security, availability and integrity of the ...

Amazon Launches Glacier Data Archiving and Backup Service
TalkinCloud (blog)
Of course, the company has a point, and AWS is simply reiterating two of the biggest benefits ofcloud computing as a whole. “Amazon Glacier changes the game for companies requiring archiving and backup solutions because you pay nothing up front, pay a ...

Amazon sets sights on cloud cost sprawl
GigaOM
Amazon is making it easier for companies to track and price out the cloud servicesthey're deploying with a new cost allocation process. The fact that Amazon Web Services are so inexpensive and easy to spin up is both a blessing and a curse for companies.

GigaOM

NephoScale Brings DevOps Tools to Next-Generation Public Cloud ...
Broadcast Newsroom
NephoScale has a big goal: to establish DevOps as the status quo within organizations by creating acloud services platform that successfully brings developers and IT operations staff together in a way that enables them to make dramatic improvements in ...

Dell Makes Moves to Survive in Cloud-Centric World
New York Times (blog)
... that Marius Haas, a well-regarded executive with a noted history at Hewlett-Packard, would take over Dell's Enterprise Solutions business, which sells the servers, network, and storage equipment for big corporate data centers and cloud computing ...

New York Times (blog)

Amazon announces Glacier, for long-term cloud storage (Wired UK)
By Mark Brown
Amazon has opened a new cloud backup service called Amazon Glacier, which is designed to hold onto data for decades. Costs start at about a penny per month, but there's a catch: it can take up to five hours to retrieve your data. Amazon ...
Wired.co.uk - News

Cloud Services Management via the Windows Azure SDK for PHP ...
By Brian Swan - MSFT
I am happy to announce that the Windows Azure team has added cloud services support to the ServiceManagement API in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP. A few weeks ago I wrote a post (Service Management with the Windows Azure SDK ...
The Silver Lining Blog

CIO 100: What is the Best Deployment Strategy of Cloud Services ...
By NTT Communications
Did you miss the NTT Communications sponsored session at the 2012 CIO 100 Awards and Symposium? Below is everything you need to learn more about how to optimize the benefits of cloud services.
nttcom.tv

Going Green: Cloud Computing and the Environment
By info@legalproductivity.com (Rocket Matter, LLC)
We've heard the typical advantages of cloud computing: it reduces and even eliminates the operations and maintenance cost of on-premises IT infrastructure, and enables access to your data from anywhere, at anytime. However there's ...
Legal Productivity

Which Cloud Storage You Use?
By Jerry Huang
After that, you will install Gladinet Cloud Server on your file server. It will setup a bi-directional link between your Gladinet Cloud Storage and also your file server. You can visit the download page from your Gladinet Cloud Portal and select ...
Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog

Anything As A Service? Learn About The Newest Concepts In Cloud ...
By Rick
Anything As A Service? Learn About The Newest Concepts In Cloud New acronyms are used incloud computing to express key concepts and the great number of.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Joint Call For Papers - Conferences / Journal Special Issues Cloud ...
By Ralf Klamma
The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology Siencehttp://grid.chu.edu.tw/cloudcom2012/ *Poster, Demo and PhD Consortium submission deadline: Sep 10, 2012 6. IEEE MobileCloud 2013 (March 25-28, 2013, ...
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Cloud Computing: Andreessen Buys All of Storage Start-Up's A ...
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ...
Latest News from Virtualization Journal

Strange Bedfellows - Piston Cloud Computing
By Gretchen Curtis
Here at Piston Cloud, we have not been shy about our goal to free organizations from lock-in and the walled garden often associated with private cloud vendors — namely, VMware. And yet, we have recently entered into a partnership with ...
Piston Cloud Computing

Why Is Appirio Expanding into Indiana? A Q&A with Indy Cloud ...
By Appirio
During the most recent couple of years, cloud computing became a growing part of my professional life, and I enjoyed the work. When Appirio decided to open an office in my hometown, I jumped on the opportunity to go “all in” with the public ...
CIO's Guide to Cloud Computing...

Cloud Computing: The Future Of Business, Or A Would-Be Relic ...
By Ann Smarty
The cloud is a very complex, and yet oddly simple configuration where there is a low likelihood of failure and a lot of speed and scalability built right in. But of course, just like anything else in the world, it does have some problems.
Business 2 Community

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Quanta to offer procurement management cloud computing services
Quanta Computer has begun offering cloud computing services with its ... Quanta's manufacturingcloud services will be launched at the end of 2012. ... a cloud-based file management solution to manage multiple cloud storage accounts ...
www.digitimes.com/news/a20120822PD212.html

5 Companies to Play the Cloud-Computing Revolution (AMZN, INTC ...
Well, cloud computing really is the best thing to happen to the tech sector since ... expands itscloud storage presence and gives the company instant access to ...
www.fool.com/.../5-companies-to-play-the-cloud-computing-r...

Impacts of Cloud Computing in Japan's Social Media | GMO Cloud ...
Cloud computing in Japan has been around longer than you might think. ... For years, cloud computing has been serving the communication needs of the locals ...
us.gmocloud.com/.../impacts-of-cloud-computing-in-japans-so...

NB180000-12-05117 NIST Public Cloud-Cloud Storage and Virtual ...
NIST is seeking to obtain Federal Community Cloud services that will provide an ... Increase OISM expertise in Cloud Computing deployment models • Develop ...
https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode...id...

How to Encrypt Cloud Storage on Linux and Windows with EncFS ...
Do you store sensitive files on Dropbox or another cloud storage service? Encrypt them with EncFS for Linux, an encrypting file system that transparently ...
www.howtogeek.com/.../how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage-on-lin...

Cloud Computing and Profitbricks | The Art of Service | The IT ...
While Cloud Computing is already known for its high performance-related ... opt for paying slightly more in favor keeping their fully-managed cloud services.
theartofservice.com/cloud-computing-and-profitbricks.html



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