Thursday, August 16, 2012

Microsoft SkyDrive Cloud Gets Big Overhaul

Microsoft SkyDrive Cloud Gets Big Overhaul
InformationWeek
Microsoft has unveiled a major revamp of SkyDrive, and said the cloud storage service has moved beyond the "preview" stage to become fully operational. The enhancements include a new Web front, faster uploading and sorting, new ... [ Understand the ...

From The Disrupt Battlefield To Cloud Storage Phenomenon With $7M+ In ...
TechCrunch
These are the same folks that blow Dropbox and SkyDrive out of the water, offering users not just a few gigabytes of cloud storage, but infinite storage for your PC or mobile device. After launching on the Disrupt stage in San Francisco last year, the ...

Cloud Lessons from a Lawn Service Provider
Wired News
Life may be like a box of chocolates, but it recently occurred to me that cloud computing services actually have a lot in common with lawn services. I want my lawn to be appealing and convenient for my family. It would be embarrassing if my kids always ...

Rackspace OpenStack-based Private Cloud Software Available for Free
eWeek
“I'm very impressed with the Rackspace Private Cloud Software as it directly addresses the concern of OpenStack being hard to install and configure,” said Kevin Jackson, infrastructure architect and author of “OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook,” in a ...

UNR: Cloud computing delivers numerous advantages
Reno Gazette Journal
One way to understand cloud computing is that it makes large-scale computing resources available to users by providing access to services and resources through a network rather than from an individual device. There are numerous reasons why the use of ...

Cloud services key to customer growth for NeoNova
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NeoNova Network Services, an industry leader in cloud-based broadband services for regional ISPs and authorized premier reseller of Google Apps for ISPs and for Business, ...

Gartner: Cloud computing's most over-hyped terms
Network World
Cloud computing is a hyped-up term, a recent report from Gartner found. But behind the hype there are significant benefits to some technologies in the cloud industry and some of the terms being floated around in the cloud are bigger buzzwords than others.

Cloud aids mobile OS migration
ZDNet
He uses cloud storage Dropbox to sync documents on the cloud so he can access them from any OS. Similarly, Koeman noted the contact list of a phone can be synced on different OS if it is stored in a Web-based contact list such as Google's Gmail ...

Merit Offers Deal On Cloud Storage And Virtual Data Centers
CBS Local
ANN ARBOR — Merit Network Inc. is offering a special promotion during August and September that provides significant savings on Merit Cloud Storage and Merit VirtualDataCenters. Merit members can receive 20 percent off for the first six months of...

CBS Local

Security mindset must change with cloud
ZDNet
SINGAPORE--Companies need to move away from the mentality of having complete control over their IT infrastructure and securing different IT stacks in a piecemeal manner when they make the move toward cloud computing, industry executives urge. Jim ...

Ilesfay Awarded Major Cloud Computing Patent
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
CINCINNATI, OH -- (Marketwire) -- 08/15/12 -- Ilesfay Technology Group LLC (Ilesfay), a global leader in data replication solutions, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No 8244831 titled, ...

VMware, Rackspace offer free or low-cost cloud trials
Network World
The news follows an announcement by Red Hat earlier this week that it too would offer a free version of its cloud computing platform. Red Hat's and Rackspace's offerings help users build private ...VMware has not had this "instant gratification," says ...

Cloud Computing Standards and Interoperability Being Established
ITWorld Canada (blog)
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced the formation of theCloud StorageInitiative(CSI) in order to establish a lexicon of cloud-computing terminology, publish use cases, white papers and technical specifications, and to create ...

Microsoft Rolls Out Major Update of SkyDrive Cloud Storage
eWeek
Hard to believe that Microsoft's cloud storage service, SkyDrive, came out of beta testing way back in 2008, yet it is just starting to get some significant media attention the last 12 months or so. It took some time to get out the bugs and earn ...

Red Hat Plans Enterprise-Ready OpenStack Distribution
InformationWeek
OpenStack has fomented excitement as a potential alternative API to Amazon Web Service's (AWS) proprietary tools, which currently lead the cloud computing industry. Vendors hoping to establish a foothold in this emerging market may be feeling "some ...

A Sneak Preview of Cloud Computing in 2020
CloudTimes
Why Google and Amazon Don't Offer Private Cloud Services · Rackspace-Logo ... Since is just around the corner, Forrester, an analyst group, says that the cloud computing industry will be worth around $150 billion by 2020, up by $115 billion from 2011.

CopperEgg Announces Support for HP Cloud and Joins HP Cloud Partner ...
Broadcast Newsroom
AUSTIN, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 08/15/12 -- CopperEgg, Corp., a cloud monitoring and analytics company, today announced support for HP Cloud Services, enabling HP Cloud customers to monitor HP Cloud Compute server instances via the CopperEgg ... Related ...

PlayStation Plus Coming To Vita, Cloud Storage Increased
We Got This Covered
Sony's premium online service PlayStation Plus is getting an upgrade – and will also be making its way to handheld console PS Vita, the company announced at Gamescom. The service's cloud storage limit will increase from 150MB to 1GB in September, ...

We Got This Covered

HP Scales Networking Tech for Cloud Scale
Datamation
Cloud computing relies on the ability of networks to scale effectively. HP is now expanding its network scalability efforts in a series of new efforts announced today. The new HP Ethernet Virtual Interconnect (EVI) is a technology that enables up to ...

VMware: New CEO, Expanded Cloud Software Strategy at VMworld
The VAR Guy
VARs and cloud services providers (CSPs) want a single pane of glass — one dashboard — to manage physical, virtual and cloud computing resources. VMware appears to have the upper hand against rivals, delivering strong quarterly results in July while ...

In Cloud Lies Convenience: Gov India Endorses Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
In a world where ventures and individuals are dubious in regards to cloud computing, content security and data integrity in particular, the Indian central government stands distinct by taking perhaps the boldest in nationwide IT management decisions of ...

CloudTweaks News

Cloud Infrastructure Adoption Soars, Data Loss Risks Loom: Study
The Complete Managed Services Resource
Although organizations are implementing cloud computing for storage and other needs, only about one-third of them regularly test data recovery plans. According to a survey conducted ... Can you share data between cloud services? If you terminate a ...

SOA: Cloud Drives Strong Growth of SOA Infrastructure
Formtek Blog (blog)
While most of IT spending growth are relatively flat, Gartner predicts that over the next four years that spending on cloud computing will more than double. So it's a bit surprising to see that there's another IT market segment that is easily keeping ...

Canonical launches Ubuntu One referrals program, lets you earn cloud storage ...
Engadget
Canonical launches Ubuntu One referrals program, lets you earn cloud storage one friend at a. If you're rich in buddies, but poor in cloud storage space, Canonical will let you turn those relations into megabytes with its new Ubuntu One referrals program.

CDI Selects Zyrion for Cloud Services and Managed Services
MSPmentor
and IT infrastructure monitoring software — for its cloud computing and managed services. According to CDI, the company selected Zyrion's Traverse Monitoring Platform because of its “scalability, open API and sophisticated architecture.” The platform ...

Rackspace launches OpenStack private cloud — Cloud Computing ...
By Barb Darrow
Two weeks after launching its public OpenStack cloud, Rackspace follows suit with its private cloudimplementation. The availability of both options will make it easier for customers interested in running hybrid cloud for their workloads, the ...
GigaOM

Microsoft revamps SkyDrive cloud storage service and apps - Hexus
The SkyDrive cloud storage service from Microsoft has had a major refresh, as announced yesterday on the Windows Steam Blog. You can see the refresh for yourself in the pictures/video below or if you have a Skydrive account just pop along ...
HEXUS.net Latest Content

OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8 ...
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
Deploying new web applications is pretty painless with Windows Azure Web Sites and “fairly” painless using Windows Azure PaaS style cloud services. However, for existing web apps that are being migrated to the cloud both solutions can ...
OakLeaf Systems

Cloud Services | Cloud Orchestration | Flexiant | Cloud Orchestration ...
By Tony Lucas
In the 3rd post of the series, Tony Lucas explains the importance of cloud platform and BSS/OSS systems integration.
Cloud Orchestration software...

Storm In The Cloud: Is There An End | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
By Watson
Storm In The Cloud: Is There An End Cloud computing has taken the business and social world by storm, and now the storm seems to be coming back to haunt. Cloud.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Reducing Risk with Encryption for Multi-Tenant Environments ...
By Andrea Bilobrk
Cloud Computing Best Practices. CloudBestPractices.net. Best Practices ... to cloud adoption is undeniably security. In particular, public cloud services are often under scrutiny as to whether a multi-tenant environment is actually secure.
Cloud Computing Best Practices

Why is cloud storage perfect for photographers? – The Official ...
By Robert
Livedrive provide cloud storage for everyone - from unlimited online backup and super-fast online storage for consumers, through to powerful cloud storage solutions for businesses. Whether you want to protect, sync, access, collaborate or ...
The Official Livedrive Blog -...

The Pros & Cons of Life in the Cloud | Apartment Therapy
By Joelle Alcaidinho
Relatively Inexpensive: For smaller amounts (under 5GB) you can find many options for free cloud storage, and you really do have your pick of who you want to go with — Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive, just to name a few. If you're looking to ...
Tech | Apartment Therapy

The Latest In Cloud Computing - Download a Free White Paper ...
By Jeff Harrell
Last year, we presented a white paper on cloud computing that was downloaded multiple times throughout the year. Now, we've updated last year's information by presenting an all-new Intuit® White Paper, “The Cloud: What Does it Mean to ...
Intuit News Central

Move to cloud requires new, different thinking
By Tracy Carlin
Today, agencies must interpret myriad Office of Management and Budget strategy documents involving cloud computing, shared services and data center consolidation — supplemented by the recent digital government strategy. The result is confusion around ... In June, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) reached its initial operating capabilities to certify businesses that meet federal cloud services standards. But cloud service providers (CSPs) are ...
SIIA Digital Discourse

PlayStation Plus gets Red Dead, PS Vita Support, and more Cloud ...
By Thomas Worthington
It also announced plans to up the cloud storage among available to subscribers from 150mb to a meaty 1GB of space. To help entice new subscribers, Sony will be knocking 25 percent off the price of the PlayStation Plus subscription fee for ...
GamerZines

Protecting Sensitive Information in the Cloud | Cloud Computing ...
Gartner Highlights the Growing Importance of Cloud Security Brokers .... dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of th.
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2326715

What we mean when we talk about cloud computing | TechRepublic
The phrase cloud computing has been popular currency for a few years now, but phrases ... and a salesman because they use radically different cloud services.
www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/what-we.../5728

Get Certified In VMware Cloud Computing - VMware Blogs
Another VMware Cloud: Subaru and Minivegas Launch Their Marketing Campaign ... In my last blog post, VMware's First Cloud Certification, I announced how ...
blogs.vmware.com/.../get-certified-in-vmware-cloud-computin...

The Dangers Of The Cloud Cloud Computing – Outside the Beltway
Cloud Computing. Back to the Article. About Doug Mataconis Doug is an attorney in private practice in Northern Virginia. He holds a B.A. in Political Science ...
www.outsidethebeltway.com/the-dangers.../cloud-computing/

Dell Cloud Services now Available in Mexico - Direct2Dell ...
Dell Cloud Services now Available in Mexico ... Dell Cloud servicescontinues its ...
en.community.dell.com/.../dell-vcloud-datacenter-service-now...

Cloud computing and storage with OpenStack
Private cloud computing applies the IaaS idea to private infrastructure. ... (NASA) Nebula platform and the Rackspace Cloud Files project (cloud storage).
www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl.../index.html

Westlaw Insider | Blog | The Lawyer's Guide to Cloud Computing ...
Cloud Computing & the Law So what is cloud computing? Cloud computing is a general term for the delivery of hosting and other services over the Internet.
westlawinsider.com/.../the-lawyers-guide-to-cloud-computing-...

Cloud Storage and the Environmental Effects: Forecast Is Hazy | CX ...
This metric definitely seems like a worthy calculation, but it seems rather opaque to the users ofcloud services. For example, how can a given start-up calculate ...
blog.cx.com/.../cloud-storage-and-the-environmental-effects-f...



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