Wednesday, September 19, 2012

China's Lenovo buys cloud computing firm Stoneware

China's Lenovo buys cloud computing firm Stoneware
The Seattle Times
The PC maker said buying Stoneware would help to enhance and expand its cloud computingbusiness. The term refers to storing documents and software applications at remote data centers and allowing users to access them through smartphones, tablet ...

Cloud Services Face Different Security Threats
InformationWeek
They include: SunGard, the disaster recovery specialist that has gone into cloud services; Rackspace, generally considered the runner-up to Amazon Web Services when it comes to providing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS); Internap Network Services ...

Box Accelerator streamlines cloud data uploads
PCWorld
Box—a leading provider of cloud storage services—recognized the limitations encountered by users when it comes to getting data into the cloud efficiently, and it set out to do something about it. The result is a global data transfer network that Box ...

How Cloud Computing's Growth Disrupts Hardware & Software Vendors
ReadWriteWeb
Instead of selling direct to the corporations that actually use computing services, hardware, software and infrastructure vendors will all need to pivot to serve the new cloud services new market. That's the lesson from the latest forecasts by market ...

Amazon Battles New Pricing Models In The Cloud Computing Market
NASDAQ
Amazon ( AMZN ) is widely believed to be the market leader in cloud computing market and competes directly with Google ( GOOG ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), IBM ( IBM ) and HP ( HPQ ). Amazon's pricing model of charging by the hour has been challenged by a ...

Area cloud computing company hiring 23 workers, opening new office
Kansas City Star
A cloud computing company that provides technology services to schools is adding 23 jobs and expanding into a new office in Kansas City, North . K12itc said it has already hired 15 employees and plans to add eight more workers over the next four years.

Public cloud computing market likely to grow 19.6% globally this year: Gartner
Economic Times
"The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 19.6 per cent in 2012 to total $ 109 billion worldwide... infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is the fastest-growing segment of the public cloud services market and is expected to grow 45.4 per cent ...

Dell Quietly Intros Public Cloud Storage, Stays Silent On Channel's Role
CRN
Dell has quietly launched a public cloud storage service in conjunction with technology provider Nirvanix, and promises it will bring the service to its channel partners in the near future. Dell put information introducing its new Dell Cloud Storage ...

Cloud Computing: Cloud Charisma Only Goes so Far
Formtek Blog (blog)
Despite the inundating buzz of the cloud in the tech media over the last few years, it seems hard to believe that there can be anyone that doesn't have a clue about what the cloud is all about. But a recent survey by Citrix found that a majority of ...

VMware Pricing A Win For Service Providers
InformationWeek
There are a few big names among them--including Dell, Colt, Singtel, BlueLock, the Terremark unit of Verizon, and Softbank--but according to Maritz, the vast majority are small regional providers ofcloud services. VMware has been encouraging the ...

Eliminate Storage Headaches: Virtualize
InformationWeek
The primary objective of virtualization and cloud computing is to create a data center that is more responsive to the needs of the business, that enables technology to be a competitive weapon instead of a cost center. Storage has to play a key ... As ...

Lenovo Makes First Software Purchase to Expand Cloud Computing
Bloomberg
By Bloomberg News - 2012-09-18T09:06:23Z. Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's second-largest maker of personal computers, agreed to buy Stoneware Inc. of the U.S. to gain cloud-computingproducts in its first acquisition of a software vendor ...

Cloudian hopes to woo enterprises with free edition of storage platform
InfoWorld
Cloudian has launched a free, community edition of its software and object-based storage platform, which can store up to 100TB and be integrated with Amazon's cloud, the company said on Tuesday. The Community Edition includes all of the functionality ...

Secular Cloud Computing Trends Draw Investment Spending
The Wall Street Transcript
Cloud computing remains the main secular trend driving investment spending in technology, and it is enabling more secular trends in mobility, analytics and social computing, both in the consumer and enterprise worlds, says Deborah L. Koch, a Co-Manager ...

Here's What To Expect From Software Renegade Marc Benioff Tomorrow
Business Insider
Salesforce.com is the biggest, best-known player in cloud computing—software for businesses that's delivered over the Internet rather than installed on expensive server hardware—and Benioff has cast himself as the outspoken leader of a movement that ...

Business Insider

5 things you need to know about cloud in Europe
GigaOM
Most of what we hear about cloud computing in Europe tends to fixate on the notion that cloud adoption there lags that in the US by one to three years. That may be ... In other words, if you want to sell cloud services, go ahead, but call them ...

GigaOM

Cloud Computing Certifications You Can Take
CloudTweaks News
A cloud computing certification is a powerful tool to advance your career in IT. Since many organizations and professionals are shifting towards cloud computing, it is expected that they will need assistance as they adopt the new system. A cloud ...

CSC Selects VMTurbo Operations Manager to Deliver Against Increasing ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced that CSC (NYSE: CSC), a market leading cloud service provider, selected VMTurbo as an operations management solution for ...

Feds predict $16.6 billion in cloud savings, triple OMB's estimates
Nextgov
Comments. Federal managers believe they can save more than $16 billion annually by moving critical technology infrastructure to cloud computing, a survey released Wednesday shows. That's more than three times the highest figure to come from the Office ...

Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage gets a recycle bin, Excel surveys coming soon
The Verge
Microsoft is unveiling a new recycle bin feature for SkyDrive today. After being rumored since earlier this year, SkyDrive will now offer a way to recover any files that may have been deleted by accident. Reacting to student feedback, Microsoft says it ...

Moving to the cloud is about aligning expectations with realistic outcomes
BetaNews
KC: There are general expectations for cloud computing, such as much better agility, a more elastic infrastructure, and service-oriented standardized services. However, the specific outcomes are generally aligned tightly to a specific business model ...

BetaNews

Peak 10's Improved Cloud Services Deliver Numerous Benefits to Customers
The Complete Managed Services Resource
Peak 10 stated that it has now upgraded its cloud services with new technologies letting customers leverage their existing infrastructure itself to securely replicate production systems to a cost-saving, multitenant environment. They now have the ...

Cloud services uptake rising
BCS
Figures from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) have shown a large increase in the uptake of cloud services as more and more companies become convinced of the benefits. The data shows that in the last 18 months there has been a 27 per cent increase in ...

Don't let the cloud obscure usability
Techworld.com
Cloud computing is reaching the stage of maturity. Across any vertical market and at varying degrees of uptake organisations are taking off to the cloud, whether for test and development, email, collaboration, sales automation, HR or more bespoke ...

DISA's GIG Convergence Master Plan: Is a Cloud/Big Data Contract
govWin (blog)
This plan outlines the agency's strategy for employing cloud computing in the greatest detail to date. It also strongly hints that one or more contracts will be competed to secure commercial support for DISA's implementation of enterprise cloud ...

@logistics: Cloud computing offers many benefits for industry
SHD Logistics
In the midst of all the hype surrounding cloud computing, Jez Tongue of @logistics Reply explains how there is great promise for the world of logistics as we move towards 2013. For those few who have had their heads buried in the sand, the Cloud may be ...

SHD Logistics

One-stop cloud marketplace open for feds
GCN.com
The Cloudcuity Management Portal lets agencies compare key differences and features amongcloud service providers, such as security, service-level agreements and cost, according to Kevin Jackson, vice president and general manager for cloud services ...

MediSapiens introduces cloud computing genomics applications ...
pharmabiz.com
MediSapiens, the world's first software company for personalized cancer medicine in oncology clinics and new drug development, has launched first-in-kind fully integrated and unified cloud computingapplication OncoGenomics Explorer at the Bio-IT World ...

ShoreTel's New AppFuse Goes 'Cloud-To-Cloud' With Salesforce
CRN
ShoreTel Tuesday launched an application integration product for tying UC and contact center systems to Salesforce.com, marking the first new product since ShoreTel's rebranding of its cloud services business as ShoreTel Sky. The product, dubbed ...

Cloud computing: Why governments will face a battle to make it work ...
By Nick Heath
Cloud computing is more complicated than swapping out one technology for another - it's about changing the way organisations operate, something. ... Cloud computing: Why governments will face a battle to make it work ... But government progress towards introducing cloud services has been slow, with its Cloud First strategy going unrealised and spending through its CloudStore, a portal where public bodies can buy online services, remaining flat since it launched in February this ...
on TechRepublic

Lenovo Acquires Cloud Computing Company Stoneware ...
By Sean Patterson
Stoneware is a privately held company that develops cloud computing and classroom management software. It is currently headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and has 67 employees. The price paid for Stoneware has not been disclosed, ...
Top News - WebProNews

Lenovo Focus on Cloud Computing After Buying US-Based Stonware
By Jon Russell
Chinese computer giant Lenovo has further its cloud computing push with the undisclosed purchase of US firm Stoneware.
The Next Web

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Pavlovsky, Product ...
By candicearnold
There's more to General Electric (GE) than people might think. Founded in 1890 by Thomas Edison, the company has moved beyond providing electricity and light bulbs. As my conversation with Steve Pavlovsky will reveal, GE continues to ...
Sramana Mitra

Lenovo Eyes Software Buy To Expand In Cloud Computing ...
By Edmond Lococo
Lenovo agrees to buy Stoneware, which produces software used mainly by organizations to synchronize data across multiple mobile devices.
Information Management - Latest News

Combine Your Cloud Storage Services With 'Unifiles' (Dropbox and ...
By Hyde13
A new app on the Windows Phone store called 'UniFiles' combines your Dropbox and SkyDrive services in one. The developer also states that they are working on adding more services to that list. The app is $1.49 but has a free trial that is ...
WP7 Connect

China's Lenovo buys cloud computing firm Stoneware | wishtv.com
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo Group says it's buying small U.S. software company Stoneware as it seeks to gain a foothold in the rapidly growing field of cloud computing.
Consumer Tech | WISH TV

Is Cloud Computing Market Bigger Than We Thought? | IP Carrier
By Gary Kim
We don't yet know what this next era will be called, but few question the assumption that cloud computing and mobility will be key foundations of the architecture. Consider the notion of “business process as a service.” What's a business process? Business ... The point is that it is possible cloud services markets might be bigger than currently envisioned, only partly depending on “what” gets counted. The reason is that more and more business processes using software, processing and ...
IP Carrier

New Webinar: What CTOs Need to Know Before Renegotiating a ...
By Nikki
Recently, I was asked to lead a live webinar for ExecSense to discuss “What CTOs Need to Know Before Renegotiating a Cloud Computing Agreements”. Cloud Computing Agreements can be a time-efficient way to get the most up to date ...
Cloudy Words

Rapid elasticity and the cloud | Thoughts on Cloud Blog
By Edwin Schouten
“Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” With their .... Edwin Schouten is the Cloud Services Leader for IBM Global Technology Services in the Benelux region (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg). He has 14 years ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

Fusion PPT Awarded Cloud Computing Contract to Support DISA
By Fusion PPT
Fusion PPT Awarded Cloud Computing Contract to Support DISA | Cloud Computing Strategy & Technology Firm.
Fusion PPT

Global cloud adoption on the rise, despite misunderstanding ...
By CopperEgg
This concern was highlighted in another cloud performance survey by Citrix, which found that many people simply don't know what cloud computing is. Even though 97 percent of respondents said they use cloud services like online shopping ...
CopperEgg

PROMISE Delivers Dramatic Breakthrough in Hybrid Cloud Computing
By admin
“At the core of the SmartStor Cloud Series is our proven RAID engine which provides end-users with the stability and reliability that are core ingredients for any cloud computing solution.” Hybrid Cloud Storage Series SmartStor A4R-CLD has ...
Nearshore Journal

CIMtrek Announces Application and Document Archiving – Cloud ...
By Neil McEvoy
Cloud Computing Best Practices. CloudBestPractices.net ... CIMtrek has developed a set of tools that migrate legacy applications, such as IBM's Lotus Notes, to whichever cloud platform best meets the business need. Within a year of being ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

Insider Threats Related to Cloud Computing--Installment 7
Cloud computing security is ripe with new opportunities for future research, including cloud-related insider threats. As mentioned previously, we do not believe ...
www.cert.org/.../insider_threats_related_to_cloud_computing-...



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