Saturday, August 11, 2012

Rackspace CEO Bets the (Server) Farm on 'Open Cloud'

Rackspace CEO Bets the (Server) Farm on 'Open Cloud'
TheStreet.com
... the "cloud." Today, the cloud-computing industry has developed so rapidly that Rackspace(RAX) has put its faith in open-source cloud technology. ... Rackspace, he added, will launch additional open-cloud services during its third and fourth fiscal ...

So what the heck is cloud computing?
CBS News
What are the risks of cloud computing? Moving everything to the cloud seems inevitable at this point, but as more people rely on the cloud services, security risks will naturally be heightened. Recently, Wired senior writer Mat Honan reported that ...

CBS News

Intermedia, Leading Cloud Services Company And Largest Hosted Exchange ...
Business Solutions Magazine
New York, NY – Intermedia, a global leader in cloud services for small and medium-sized businesses and the largest Microsoft Exchange hosting provider, welcomes two new vice presidents to its expanding management team. Connie Adcock, a 35-year ...

Mind the gaps: 3 missing pieces in cloud computing
InfoWorld (blog)
For many in enterprise IT, cloud computing seems like a dream come true: There's no need to spend your days negotiating with hardware and software vendors, and you don't have to worry about running out of space in the data center. However, as a new ...

Livedrive releases Chromebook app for cloud storage
Computerworld
IDG News Service - Cloud storage provider Livedrive introduced an app for Google's Chromebook on Thursday that is designed to give Livedrive customers access to their files stored online, which can total as much as 5TB. The Chromebook is ... Register ...

NASA Mars Mission Fueled By Amazon Web Services
InformationWeek
Cloud computing helps many businesses to wrangle and transmit data packets from different parts of the world. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have now upped the stakes with a project that manages the flow of ...

GSA's proposed cloud brokerage grabs industry attention
FCW.com
2, and the wait list was large enough that officials could not accommodate everyone who wanted to take part, said Stan Kaczmarczyk, director of cloud computing service at the Federal Acquisition Services' Information Technology Services Office. “When ...

How green is cloud computing? It's time for CIOs to ask
TechTarget
So back to just how green is cloud computing. The results show that by 2020, by spending 69% of their infrastructure, platform and software budgets on cloud services, U.S. companies with revenue of $1 billion or more would reap energy savings of $12.3 ...

Assessment firm turns to StorSimple cloud storage for backup, DR
TechTarget
CPP Inc., a personality testing publisher headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., dabbled with cloud storage when it needed a new file server for user data and a Microsoft SharePoint rollout more than a year ago. Now the firm has three StorSimple Inc ...

Cloud News: Joyent, Nirvanix, DreamWorks, HP
Data Center Knowledge
Here's a roundup of some of this week's headlines from the cloud computing sector: Joyent announces Cloud Network for mobile-first markets. Joyent announced the launch of the Global ...DreamWorks integrates HP Cloud Services: HP (HPQ) announced that ...

Cloud computing: What does it really mean for IT jobs?
DABCC.com
Just as manual labourers were replaced by the machines of industry in the 19th century so certain IT roles will be swept away by cloud computing. That's the argument put forward by Gartner research director Gregor Petri - who believes that many roles ...

Infosys defragments IT with Cloud Ecosystem Hub
InformationWeek India
Skip Navigation Links Cloud Computing. Infosys defragments IT with Cloud Ecosystem Hub The solution offers a unique enterprise-wide view of a cloud environment helping CIOs drive agility across the enterprise By Ayushman Baruah , InformationWeek ...

Office Web Apps: First Take
ZDNet (blog)
Alongside the public previews of Office 2013 and the next-generation Office 365, Microsoft has also unveiled new versions of its cloud-hosted Office Web Apps. Available to anyone using its SkyDrivecloud storage services, the new tools are a major ...

Box adds features to iOS and Android cloud storage apps
Mobile Burn
Box, a cloud storage provider accessible on the web or through mobile apps, has updated its Android and iOS clients. The new Box for iPhone and iPad app can now save photos or videos to the Photos app. It also adds enhancements to OneCloud, ...

Schools Need To Tread Carefully When Hooking iPads And MacBooks Up To ...
Cult of Mac
Schools Need To Tread Carefully When Hooking iPads And MacBooks Up To Cloud Services.Cloud computing has great potential for schools, but isn't without some pitfalls. ... Those all sound like great advantages and advancements for technology in ...

RIM Aims to Sell NewBay, Sold Alt-N
Wall Street Journal
TORONTO- Research in Motion Ltd., the beleaguered smart-phone maker, is looking to sell some of its recent acquisitions, including a provider of so-called cloud services that RIM bought last October for $100 million, as part of a broader effort to ...

Zoho Extends Enterprise Cloud Services With New Server Monitoring App For ...
Cult of Mac
Site24x7 offers a range of enterprise features for web servers that are hosting critical interactive web apps and cloud services as well as other mission critical services like internal and external DNS service and mail services. In addition to simple ...

GreenPages Unveils Its Secret Cloud Weapon: Project CMaaS
CRN
GreenPages Technology Solutions ended its annual technology summit with a bang this week by demonstrating its own groundbreaking Cloud Management as a Service (CMaaS) tools offering. ...CEO Ron Dupler called the CMaaS tool framework, which integrates ...

Beware: Looming Security Crisis in the Cloud
Channelnomics
This security precipice upon which business cloud services are now standing has been portrayed as an opportunity for services firms. “This represents an enormous opportunity for cloud providers to articulate what they are doing to secure data in the ...

Linksys routers get smart (except for 'easy setup')
Network World
If you set up routers for friends or family members, you can add their equipment to your Cisco Connect Cloud account -- so the next time your father-in-law calls with a question, you can check his network from your smartphone or computer without having ...

Skydrive for Alternative 100% Cloud Storage
Kingston This Week
You need to know, Skydrive is the one of the hard drive On line Storage services for solution the backup data of your important files from virus attacks or physical damage in your hard drive, which causing the loss of your important files. And the ...

Kingston This Week

On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)
DABCC.com
I'm not going to make a song and dance about AWS' woes – suffice it to say that every provider,Cloud or otherwise, has outages. I will say that with Cloud Computing outages are more obvious than with traditional on-premise infrastructure. I will also ...

SaaS Marketplaces Are Ready to Soar
TechNewsWorld
Now that Software as a Service and the broader cloud computing concept have gained widespread recognition and acceptance, it will be interesting to see whether online marketplaces will become a preferred method for acquiring these on-demand resources ...

Don't confuse standard with commodity - added insight tunes cloud to meet ...
Techworld.com (blog)
Many of today's cloud services are one-size-fits-all, offering little or no customisation. In fact, this standardisation is part of the ... Instead, as the cloud evolves, consider a model where providers accommodate a wider-range of configurability ...

SEN Technologies Brings Cloud Computing To Twin Falls Businesses
KMVT
Twin Falls, Idaho (KMVT-TV) For many businesses, one of their biggest expenses is paying for computers. A ribbon cutting was held for a Boise-based company that specializes in "cloud computing." SEN technologies has 25 employees. Businesses that use ...

KMVT

HP unveils cloud quick start kit
Inquirer.net
MANILA, Philippines—International technology firm Hewlett-Packard unveiled its HP CloudSystem Quick Start Kit to help Filipino companies accelerate their adoption ofcloud services. “New HP Converged Cloud offerings for [Asia-Pacific and Japan region] ...

Inquirer.net

Otixo Welcomes CX.com to Its Big Cloud Hard Drive
RedOrbit
They enable storage and retrieval from a rapidly growing list of cloud storage providers such as Google Drive, Sky Drive, Dropbox, Box.net, SugarSync, Picasa, Amazon S3 and now CX.com! Otixo also connects to any FTP or WebDAV server. Otixo turns all of ...

CEO repositions HP for the cloud
News & Observer
Whitman's bid to turn around the services business hinges on Hewlett-Packard's ability to build teams that can help companies use modern programming techniques and deliver their applications via cloud computing to become more efficient. At the same ...

Google Drive: Replacing On-premises File Servers?
TalkinCloud (blog)
SADA Systems, a Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 partner, sees a huge opportunity to migrate on-premises file server data to Google Drive — the search giant's cloud storage service. But are corporate customers really ready to let go of their file ...

Grove and Google On a Three City Roadshow
AllAfrica.com
Grove Group, a Google Premier Enterprise partner, has announced its third quarter seminar schedule on the subject of Cloud Computing, Social and Mobile. Grove and Google will be hosting a series of events in London, Cape Town and Johannesburg over ...

Cloud Storage And Accounting: A New Way To Account For Your ...
By Korilynn
Like most cloud services, cloud computing accounting software is safe and backed by multiple servers and virus protection. In fact, the security offered by cloud computing accounting software companies is far better than the security a ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

10 Ways Cloud Computing Will Change by 2020 | Skytap Blog
By Julie Riedel
In his article Cloud computing: 10 ways it will change by 2020, Jack Clark of ZDnet.com explores the issues, challenges, and technologies that he predicts will.
Skytap Blog

AHRA 2012 Symposium: Will Cloud Services Impact Radiology ...
By Carestream Health
At the same time, enterprise-focused cloud services such as Amazon Web Services are making it possible for startups and other companies to run their businesses at much lower costs. These two forces of cloud computing, adoption and ...
Everything Rad

HP Cloud Powers DreamWorks Collaboration System | SiliconANGLE
By Tavis J. Hampton
DreamWorks Animation SKG has integrated HP Cloud Services with Panzura's Global Cloud StorageSystem for use in its project collaboration and file sharing network. Using the system, three DreamWorks Animation studio production teams ...
SiliconANGLE

OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8 ...
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/6/2012+. A compendium of Windows Azure, Service Bus, EAI & EDI,Access Control, Connect, SQL Azure Database, and other cloud-computingarticles. image222. image433. Note: This post is ...
OakLeaf Systems

From Cloud Computing to Virtualization | Virtualization Journal
Cloud Computing Journal: Forrester's James Staten: "Not everything will move to the cloud as there are many business processes, data sets and workflows that require specific hardware or proprietary solutions that can't take advantage of ...
Latest News from Virtualization Journal

New Florence. New Renaissance.: Super-Cloud-Computing
By tmirchan
Stowe, a math whiz-turned-entrepreneur, realized that Amazon's cloud computing had gotten good enough to change this equation. He and his company's engineers developed software that scours up to seven of the data centers Amazon has ...
New Florence. New Renaissance.

Study shows growing demand for cloud services in gov't | Enterprise ...
By a38c77c84a68365538a62009357af1e9
An IDC Government Insights Report showed that across all levels of the US government, 90 percent anticipate cloud services will have impact on computing infrastructure.
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Cloud Storage; Because Humans Like to Collect Stuff… :: JustCloud ...
By admin
Cloud Storage; Because Humans Like to Collect Stuff… Posted on ... If you're tired of hoarding compact discs and clogging up your hard drive with masses of data, why not give the free trial version of our cloud storage software a whirl today?
JustCloud News

Zoho Extends Enterprise Cloud Services With New Server - App News
By Ryan Faas
Site24x7 announced its new iPhone app this week. Site24x7 is a robust enterprise server monitoring solution by the Zoho group, which is best known among iOS users for its Zoho Docs productivity suite. Site24x7 offers a range of enterprise ...
All App News

GovCloud 2.0 - Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
Yesterday we kicked off the first session of our GovCloud 2.0 series, a focus on the intersection between Government Cloud Computing and innovative social media applications and business models. You can watch the replay here on ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

"Dallas" & The Cloud Drive - Wow! | Cloud Computing Journal
I was further astonished that cloud computing made it onto a self-consciously retro show like this "Dallas" revival, which took pains to recreate the original show opening, featured almost every key actor still alive from when the original ended ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Cloud computing market in Poland 2012 | Market Research Reports
By admin
Price: $ 2240 (Single User License). Cloud computing market in Poland 2012, Development forecast for 2012-2016 is a unique document that provides news, analysis and growth projections for this dynamic segment of Polish IT. The report examines the ... Forecasts are based upon information and calculations customised to meet the unique characteristics of the cloud services business, as opposed to the overall IT industry.The document compares the situation and opportunities for ...
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Livedrive releases Chromebook app for cloud storage - Reseller News
Cloud storage provider Livedrive introduced an app for Google's Chromebook on Thursday.
Reseller News

Insider Threat Blog: Insider Threats Related to Cloud Computing ...
While not necessarily “new,” cloud computing is a paradigm that has recently ... important to organizations using cloud services, including malicious insiders.
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