Monday, September 24, 2012

Buyers Beware "Private Clouds" That Aren't Clouds at All

Buyers Beware "Private Clouds" That Aren't Clouds at All
Forbes
According to Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, a New York-based cloud computing and managed hosting provider, there is ample reason to “beware of the hype” about in-house private clouds. Ziegler has a warning about “cloudwashing”: For the CIO or CTO...

Forbes

Australia lagging behind on cloud computing and data privacy: experts
Technology Spectator
... resulting in an industry coalition to promote a local cloud computing sector. The paper prepared by Dr Gruen was launched by innovation minister Kim Carr, and argued Australia needed to “create the right legislative framework” to build a regional ...

Gartner Says Public Clouds Puffing Faster Than Expected
IT Jungle
That is up 19.6 percent from 2011's global public cloud revenues, and higher than the 12 percent growth Gartner was forecasting in prior prognostications. "The cloud services market is clearly a high-growth sector within the overall IT marketplace ...

Cloud Demand Buoys Radware
Businessweek
Cloud services spending will reach almost $100 billion in 2016, from about $40 billion this year, Framingham, Massachusetts-based data research firm IDC said in its August report. Radware will benefit from the trend as its virtualized application ...

Plan key to cloud computing strategy
Business Insurance
A paper released this year, “Enterprise Risk Management for Cloud Computing,” produced by Crowe Horwath L.L.P. for the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, stressed the importance of a well-developed plan setting out ...

Cloud computing for teachers
Manila Standard Today
The education department said on Sunday it planned to open cloud computing access, including electronic tools and mail, to more than 600,000 public school teachers nationwide and provide better communication and collaboration facilities to educators.

'Cos not investing in cloud computing, fail to manage costs'
Hindu Business Line
Enterprises not investing in cloud computing platform may fail to manage costs and innovate, and as a result lose market share due to the inability to meet customers' needs, a survey by Wipro Technologies and TLG today said. Cloud computing enables ...

Dropbox Or TOP Cloud Storage 2012 >> Are you Sure? you're Selecting The ...
The Sudbury Star
Dropbox Or The Best Cloud Storage ?..Based on trends information Cloud Storage already Top in 2012 as Hard Drive online media to backup your important files from computer virus attacks. And the growth of Cloud Storage Online has many options and ...

The Sudbury Star

Internet infrastructure isn't a waste of energy
The Verge
"Power, Pollution and the Internet" is the first entry in a multi-part investigative series on the environmental impact of cloud computing. Judging by this opening salvo, the series promises to be sharply critical of the technology industry. It calls ...

The Risks Of Moving To The Cloud
CloudTweaks News
One such revolutionary technology developed post the dot-com era is cloud Computing, which focuses on the deliverance of computing services over the Internet. The highlight characteristic ofcloud computing technologies is that they bring about system ...

CGU Insurance consolidates cloud CRM
iT News
Australian banking regulator APRA warned finance institutions against outsourcing or offshoring their core operations to cloud computing providers in an open letter in November 2010. Salesforce.com currently serves clients in eight countries — the US, ...

HP to underpin cloud at GITEX
ITP.net
"Cloud Computing is an extraordinary opportunity for businesses in MEA to achieve levels of operational efficiency that were previously unthinkable," said Eyad Shihabi, managing director, HP Middle East. "This is empowerment on a massive scale, and it...

ITP.net

Beauty lies in the 'domain' of the highest bidder
The Hindu
If this is getting a bit disconcerting, what about “.cloud” being the name of the online computing system that Google runs, since Google would most likely soon have the exclusive use of .cloud? Cloud computing is expected to be an industry that will be...

The Hindu

Energy Department shows off bold new mobile strategy
Federal Times
When the plan is rolled out in 2013, thousands of DOE employees and contractors will have access to a customized internal social network, a unified communications system, cloud computingservices and virtual desktop capabilities that allow employees to ...

"Cloud-Based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Market Will be $11.2bn in ...
Melodika.net (press release)
With an ever-decreasing total cost of ownership and a broad market trend towards cloud computing, visiongain believes that cloud-based VDI usership will nearly quadruple over the forecast period. As the PC model becomes more widely recognised as rigid ...

Data From Sales Leads – Sometimes Less Is More!
Business 2 Community
If this sounds like your clients, or worse, sounds like you, then it's time you realize that having all that information on your cloud computing sales leads won't always spell success. The article may describe the disease in cloud storage but hoarding ...

Dell's end-to-end solutions target SMBs
Philippine Star
Cloud computing brings efficiency but there's a journey going to it. How organizations virtualize their respective environments say much about how it is going to be used. Challenges have different magnitudes for each and every undertaking,” Bhatia added.

Password protection
Times of India
Call it the perils of a healthy virtual life, but if you are someone who spends an hour or two everyday on the internet, it is quite likely that you use more than a few online services from social networking and email to cloud storage and net banking ...

7 Reasons To Buy Microsoft Today
Seeking Alpha
Everyone knows the importance of the new tablet and cloud computing revolution. Microsoft has historically relied upon Dell Inc. (DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) to sell the hardware with Microsoft software installed at point of sale. Naturally ...

Poised To Triple: Portfolio Update
Seeking Alpha
NUANCE (NUAN) is an increasingly valuable player in the ongoing technological revolution. We have followed the progress of its Dragon voice-recognition software since 1995. The journey was far longer than we could have imagined, but cloud computing ...

GBS Announces GBSworld 2012
Melodika.net (press release)
GBSworld will also focus on Cloud Computing, Social Business and Web 2.0, with sessions led by Bernd Schierholz, Director of BPO Mittelstand & Partnership Solution Center at IBM Germany, on "drastic changes in mid-sized corporations," as well as by ...

The Environmental Impact of Cloud Computing | SierraActivist
By Legal Planet
The NY Times has a long article and a Room for Debate piece about cloud computing energy demand. Basic economics tells us that these data centers are likely to locate in places where electricity is cheap but the article doesn't tell us the ...
SierraActivist

#CloudFail: Six pitfalls to avoid with enterprise cloud deployment ...
By admin
Cloud Computing is just so…new, and as some industry experts have oh-so-astutely noted, “much can go wrong.” And that's ... With most public cloud services, enterprise customers have little control over where their data resides. That's a ...
msoftnews

The Trick with Big Data Is Context, Context, Context | Cloud ...
Zadara Storage offers enterprise-class storage for the cloud. With Zadara Storage, cloud storageleapfrogs ahead to provide cloud servers with high-performance, fully configurable, highly available, fully private, tiered storage. ... “Cloud computing is still in the early stages of adoption and demand will continue to grow,” noted Alban Richard, CEO of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A with CloudExpo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Pricing, however, will vary,” Richard continued.
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