Thursday, September 27, 2012

5 Ways Cloud Computing is Disrupting Everyone's Job

5 Ways Cloud Computing is Disrupting Everyone's Job
Forbes
Plus, surveys have shown that already, more than one-third of IT budgets are going tocloud computing. It's not uncommon for line-of-business executives to have larger IT budgets than IT department executives. IT executives are not becoming ...

Forbes

Why private cloud services need to be market-priced
ZDNet
That's the gist of Steve Kaplan's latest post on the new ways private cloud servicesneed to be funded. Kaplan, who is VP of data center virtualization for Presidio, says the current financial structure for most data centers is an "anathema to private ...

ZDNet

Cloud Computing Technology - Investment Strategy: IBM, Microsoft, Intel ...
Seeking Alpha
Cloud computing is a pay-per-use consumption and delivery model that enables real-time delivery of configurable computing resources (for example, networks, servers, storage, applications, services). It is a computing model providing web-based software, ...

Debating the Definition of Cloud Computing Platforms
Forbes
Historically, back in those early days of cloud, PaaS was a development paradigm, a way to develop scalable cloud apps. Now many in the cloud computing sector seem to have co-op'ed the term as a deployment architecture or worse. I would argue that ...

Avnet, Amazon Web Services Partner on Cloud Services
TalkinCloud (blog)
Avnet, Amazon Web Services Partner on Cloud Services. by Joe Panettieri on. 9.25.12. Avnet Technology Solutions (NYSE: AVT) and Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) have inked acloud computing partnership to empower VARs, MSPs, ISVs and other channel ...

Hello Cloud Storage, Goodbye Rolodex (and Other Workplace Trends)
CIO
Tablets, cloud storage, flexible working hours, telecommuting, web-based documents, enterprise social networking, casual dress and open workspaces top the list of trends responders think will be common in the workplace five years from now. LinkedIn ...

Cloud Computing and Kyotoism: An Update
Global Warming (blog)
Wouldn't you know it, the day after I review Mark Mills's analyses (in 1999 and 2011) of the digital economy as a key driver of demand growth for coal-fired electric power, I receive an EnergyFactsWeekly in my email box featuring new analysis by Mills ...

Global Warming (blog)

Acronis Nabs Red Hat Exec To Help Boost Cloud Storage Business
CRN
Acronis, a developer of storage software that unifies the protection of data across multiple storage infrastructures and platforms, hired a former Red Hat executive to boost its cloud storagecapabilities. Scott Crenshaw, who until a few days ago ...

BT One: Cloud services to simplify global collaboration
FX-MM
They want solutions such as desktop sharing, unified messaging, video, voice-to-text services and secure cloud storage. The BT One portfolio has now been updated to answer to these demands with a single unified communications framework for devices, ...

The power of IT (it's not all in energy consumption)
GigaOM
Location independence, a key attribute of cloud services, means that processing can be done where power is cheap. Restated, this means that relative prices, which express relative costs of generation plus costs associated with transmission and ...

GigaOM

Fighting FUD: cloud players try to make sense of European data protection laws
GigaOM
Optimists hope that the EU's expected cloud computing recommendations will resolve concerns around diverse data protection laws that slow cloud adoption. Realists hope for the best, but prepare for less. The reality is Europe remains a collection of ...

GigaOM

Cloud naivety and electric car dreams
ZDNet
Some people have a very unrealistic view of where and how the power for these vehicles is going to be generated, and in much the same way there seems to be a widespread lack of understanding about where cloud computing 'comes from'. I've spent more ...

How to encrypt your cloud storage for free
PCWorld
Nobody pays attention to your payroll system unless it's not working. When you're running a small business, it's no small task to please your staffers every payday and satisfy Uncle Sam at tax time. Larger companies employ payroll personnel to ...

$100+ Billion Market for Public Cloud Services
Customer Think (blog)
It's Time B2B Marketing Steps Out of the Box and On to the Cloud—Up, Up and Away! There are no more “ifs” and “buts” or “when”—Cloud for the enterprise is real and the questions now are “how”, “why” and “what”. IDC chief cloud analyst, Frank Gens, ...

Clarifying Cloud
CRN (blog)
Today, the IT solution provider is focused on Technology Services, unified communication and collaboration, cloud computing, product solutions, network systems integration, cyber security, mobility and social media solutions. The $343 million company ...

Access to cloud services goes up for government agencies
Sydney Morning Herald
In its "Cloud Computing Strategic Direction Paper" released in April, 2011, AGIMO said it would investigate a ''storefront'', or a centralised catalogue for agencies to choose from pending the outcome of a parallel data centre strategy. AGIMO first ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Cisco Cultivating Elite Class Of Cloud Partners
CRN
Cisco unveiled the Cloud Channel Program at its 2011 Partner Summit in New Orleans as a way to organize Cisco partners around their potential cloud computing opportunity with the vendor. According to Cisco figures culled from various research reports, ...

Cost-effective ISO27001 and Cloud Computing training package provides core ...
Einnews Portugal
Cost-effective ISO27001 and Cloud Computing training package provides core skills. /EINPresswire.com/ IT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in information security training, has today launched a cost-effective training offer aimed at delegates who need ...

With data centers, web giants have great eco-responsibility
GigaOM
Efficiency is even better for applications running on public clouds such as those provided by Amazon Web Services. Many large cloud providers (including Amazon and Google) take efficient data center design very seriously, and cloud services for virtual...

GigaOM

GE, NASA examine cloud computing potential for ATM
ATWOnline
Announcing the project, GE said: “Cloud computing will enable airlines and air traffic controllers to perform their tasks by sharing not only real-time information but also data analysis and decision support tools to improve aircraft operations and ...

5 (more) key cloud security issues
CSO
As we're adopting cloud computing, we're more aware of the security concerns it raises than we were of issues created by other large-scale technologies we adopted in the past. This is a wonderful thing! But security nirvana has yet not been achieved.

Norway ends nine-month ban on Google Apps use by city authorities
ITworld.com
However, the decision does not give city authorities carte blanche to use all cloud services, according to the Norwegian Data Protection Commissioner. The use of Google Apps was banned in January by the ... If Google or other international companies ...

Cloud Computing: Connections Matter Free Webinar Sept. 27
Equities.com
The first webinar, Cloud Computing: Connections Matter, focuses on how enterprises and large organizations can secure their connections to the Cloud and other locations. (Logo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080626/LATH527LOGO). "One of the ...

HP Aims Dense ProLiant Systems at Virtualized, Cloud Infrastructures
eWeek
... environments and embracing private and hybrid clouds. Hewlett-Packard is rolling out two new dense ProLiant servers that officials said will enable enterprises grow their virtualized data center environments and continue on their paths to cloud ...

EC's eco-friendly Eurochip cloud computing plan strikes a duff note
V3.co.uk (blog)
... are questions over whether EC-sponsored research can ever keep pace with the rapid cycle of change in the IT industry. The Eurochip website still proudly boasts that its technology will provide the bedrock for partner firm Nokia's Ovi mobile cloud ...

V3.co.uk (blog)

Lifting the fog on cloud adoption
Sydney Morning Herald
Business by and large has headed for the cloud, but don't act precipitously. THE adoption of cloud computing is running at a brisk pace. A recent Gartner survey found 40 per cent of Australian companies already use cloud services, and only 11 per cent...

Sydney Morning Herald

Sponsor post: Brocade. The leader in cloud-optimized networks
GigaOM
Brocade is the clear leader in cloud-optimized networks and continues to push the boundaries through both industry-leading products and game-changing business solutions. Take the easier path to virtualization. Learn why 90 percent of the Global 1000 ...

Dropbox It Like It's Hot: Integration With Facebook Brings Cloud File Sharing ...
AllFacebook
Cloud storage service Dropbox announced an integration with Facebook that allows users to share files within groups on the social network. Once users link their Dropbox and Facebook accounts, they can share documents, photos, and videos on groups' ...

AllFacebook

nGenx Revamps Cloud Partner Program
Channel Partners
Cloud-services provider nGenx announced Wednesday the launch of its nFinity Partner Program, enabling ISVs, telcos, MSPs and VARs to offer nFinity Desktop, nFinity Cloud and nFinity Apps, which provide access to core line of business and Microsoft ...

Cloud Storage APIs for the next generation Enterprise
By Ajay Ohri
... biggest players in the cloud storage API space- and you may find others. But since the article is aimed at enterprise readers willing to park confidential content on the cloud, this is a list of the biggest cloud storage providers which offer API access. ... Amazon S3 4) Amazon. Amazon s3 API. Amazon remains the overwhelming leader in cloud services for the enterprise even though it is not the cheapest, but they offer a very useful complement to their whole cloud suite. Documentation ...
ProgrammableWeb

IBM Launches Set of Cloud Services for MSPs and SMBs | Web Host ...
A recent study by cloud host Rise showed that migration towards cloud services is growing rapidly with 76 percent of organizations using at least one cloud computing service. The new global cloud services will mostly be directed at the areas ...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

How Small Businesses Can Optimize Their IT Efficiency And Costs ...
By Gregory
Cloud computing services are becoming more popular day by day. As more businesses get onto the platform, the results are different. Some companies complain of lower efficiency and sometimes higher costs in their daily activities. Given that ...
CloudTweaks

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Gatch, CTO of ...
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Sramana Mitra

Cloud Computing: Terracotta Offers Free Real-Time Big Data Access
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 Cloud Computing Journal

The Editor's Cut: 5 Myths of Cloud Computing
By Rob Chambers
5 Myths of Cloud Computing. Our friends at Interoute have posted a great press release on Total Telecom,"Common cloud myths put to bed" They are attributed to CTO, Matthew Finnie, and include: Myth 1 - Cloud computing isn't right for ...
The Editor's Cut

Rometty to succeed Palmisano as IBM chairman — Cloud - GigaOM
By Barb Darrow
Related. Can HP jumpstart its cloud computing effort? The troubled IT giant is about to tweak itscloud services effort according to a Bloomberg News... HP wants back into the smartphone market it abandoned. HP's CEO Meg Whitman said that ...
GigaOM

IT ecosystem: Who's prepared for the cloud tsunami? | Thoughts on ...
By Loic Simon
The most advanced of them also announce the future availability of their Cloud Services Aggregation Platform. Infrastructure Integrators – CSIs. Infrastructure integrators who serve large customers also practice a sort of Cloud Washing when ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

ERS blog » Cloud Computing Standards
By Arindam Dutta
Cloud Computing Standards. September 26th, 2012 by Arindam Dutta. Leave a comment Go to comments. Necessity is the mother of invention – Plato. Gartner's “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2012” predicts that cloud computing will reach a plateau of productivity in 2-5 years' time. The key ... As part of this interface the client will be able to discover the capabilities of thecloud storage offering and use this interface to manage containers and the data that is placed in them.
ERS blog

Putting Partners at the Center of Cisco's Cloud Strategy ... - Cisco Blog
By Alexandra Krasne
The worldwide cloud services market will likely surpass US$109 billion in 2012. What's more, thecloud services market is a high-growth sector within the overall IT marketplace, a recent Gartner report says. No shock there! So what are you ...
Cisco Blog

MediaFire releases iPhone app with access to cloud storage
By George Tinari
MediaFire released a highly anticipated iPhone app for the first time today that will allow its over 150 million monthly users to access their files stored in the cloud on their iPhone or iPod touch. What's nice about it is that you can download it ...
IntoMobile

DeMistifying the Cloud | BriteCore® Insurance Processing System
By Chastin Howerton - Documentation Specialist
Two of the most dynamic advancements in technology in the last several years have been cloud computing and the virtually unlimited access to information through the Internet. Just as the assembly line hurtled our country forward in the ...
BriteCore® Insurance Processing System

Cloud Services Bring Benefits Of BPM | Business Computing World
By Martyn Christian
Cloud Services Bring Benefits Of BPM. By Martyn Christian, in Cloud September 26, 2012. Business process management (BPM) used to be something that was seemingly out of reach for SMEs – and deemed only affordable and achievable ...
Business Computing World

The Coming of Third-Generation Cloud Computing
While cloud computing has much to offer in terms of simplifying IT administration, there is still a long way to go before reaching nirvana.
www.itbusinessedge.com/.../the-coming-of-third-generation-cl...

[Research] Data on Nonprofit Cloud Computing: Anywhere, Anytime ...
Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was ...
www.bethkanter.org/cloudnp/

Companies » OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software
Companies Supporting The OpenStack Foundation. The OpenStack Foundation would not exist without the support of the Platinum and Gold Members and ...
www.openstack.org/foundation/companies/



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