Friday, September 28, 2012

HP Offers 'Test The Cloud' Packages

HP Offers 'Test The Cloud' Packages
InformationWeek
"The client service engineer (assigned to each proof-of-concept customer) acts as a subject-matter expert with that customer," said Patricia Wilkey, global director, cloud services, a unit of HP Enterprise Services. If the customer wants to run a ...

Cloud computing? You still can't dodge data protection rules
ZDNet
As cloud computing slowly moves into the mainstream, more and more personal data is being moved out of companies' own datacentres and into the cloud, which means the data could potentially reside on servers anywhere on the planet. But the UK has ...

Gaming In The Cloud Is Great News For Players, If The Industry Can Keep Up
Fast Company
When you're streaming and playing from the cloud, you don't need to wait months or years on a lead time for the newest version of a game--it's simply expected that asdevelopers make improvements, you'll see those updates reflected in your gamesmuch ...

Fast Company

EU to Urge Cloud Computing for Government Agencies
Businessweek
European Union regulators will urge government agencies in the EU to use cloud-computingservices to reduce costs, according to a European Commission strategy for cloud computingpublished today. Public agencies in the EU, the bloc's biggest buyer of ...

Taxman signs up for cloud storage over PSN
ZDNet
The deal, signed via the CloudStore - the online marketplace that allows public sector organisation to buy cloud services from suppliers on the G-Cloud framework – will see the taxman move from local storage to cloud storage. The shift will begin this ...

ProfitBricks Partners with MassChallenge, Provides Second Generation Cloud ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
BOSTON — ProfitBricks, the cloud computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider that has completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, announced today a partnership with MassChallenge, the largest-ever startup-accelerator, and the ...

Facebook gets involved with cloud storage via Dropbox integration
ZDNet (blog)
Facebook gets involved with cloud storage via Dropbox integration. Summary: Now even Facebook is jumping into the cloud storage game thanks to Dropbox, and it could present an interesting challenge in the enterprise space. Rachel King. By Rachel King ...

10 issues that erode cloud confidence
BetaNews
Cloud computing is finally beginning to mature to the point where it's an attractive proposition for an increasing number of enterprises and small businesses, but even so many firms are still very hesitant to make the move online. ... As cloud services ...

BetaNews

RightScale gets your cloud ready for the holidays
GigaOM
The beauty of cloud computing is that it can scale up and down as needed. This is particularly helpful for retail businesses, which see huge spikes and valleys in demand during the holidays. Now RightScale says it can help them more proactively manage ...

GigaOM

Visionary pushing Canada toward cloud, identity future
ZDNet
The Canadian government plans to release a digital economy strategy by the end of the year, and one observer is gunning to use the milestone as a trigger for building a cloud computing industry secured by a standards-based identity infrastructure.

Promise Technology Looks to Channel for Hybrid Cloud Storage
TalkinCloud (blog)
For cloud integrators or cloud services providers looking to either deploy hybrid cloud storageenvironments for customers or develop cloud-based services, hybrid cloud storage products like those from Promise Technology can provide big opportunities ...

Analyzing the Cloud with Ben Kepes
Forbes
Ben is considered an authority on the subject of Cloud Computing and cloud was the buzz word this year at DreamForce. As a father and demanded analyst for a number of technology companies across; New Zealand, Australia and the USA, Ben speaks ...

EU eyes a cloud computing heaven
AFP
BRUSSELS — With the cloud computing business still in its relatively early days, the European Union moved on Thursday to secure a toehold in a potentially lucrative market it says could deliver 2.5 million new jobs. "We want to make Europe not just ...

Tier 3 Adds $10M, Led by Intel Capital, to Expand Cloud Services
Xconomy
Cloud-computing service provider Tier 3 has raised another $10 million to expand its IT products for big businesses. The new money first showed up in a filing with the SEC. A company spokeswoman says new investor Intel Capital led the Series B round, ...

Red Hat Pushes For Cloud Storage Maturation
Channelnomics
Everything from web apps to cloud services leverage object-based storage in order to float copious amounts of data through the HTTP protocol. In order to deploy a “modern and agile IT infrastructure,” Red Hat is focused on “data destination ...

IBM Extends Cloud Reach, Takes On Amazon And Salesforce
CMSWire
Only recently Gartner estimated that this year alone, cloud services would be worth roughly US$ 106 billion and that the market would grow over the next four years so that by 2016 its worth would be over US$ 200 billion annually. So it is easy to see ...

Cloud Computing: The Next Step Towards the Future
CloudTweaks News
The initial attempt at cloud computing can be dated even before that, when very few organizations had mainframes, which wer the business computer systems used before personal computers. The cost of acquiring a mainframe and the cost of maintenance was ...

Newvem adds Amazon S3 storage analytics to its roster
GigaOM
As Amazon rolls out more cloud services, like its Glacier archiving capabilities, customers need help deciding where their different data sets should be stored most effectively, said Newvem CEO Zev Laderman. ”Our analytics show what files or objects...
 
GigaOM

Interoute CTO Blasts Cloud Computing Myths
Midsize Insider
There are many myths and misunderstandings about cloud computing, says Ping! Zine. While Gartner predicts a huge increase in takeup of cloud services this year and in the future, others are not so sure. Matthew Finnie, chief technology officer of ...

Startup Stackdriver snags StyleFeeder founder as CTO
GigaOM
Asked why he picked Stackdriver over other suitors, Jacob said that while he loved the cloud computing space, “it's really about the team. These are the people I want to spend time with.” Jacobs will be a member of the company's core engineering team.

Latency matters in a hybrid cloud
CNET
This lesson is highly relevant to cloud computing. By design, a hybrid cloud can be used to abstract away details of underlying physical resources such as their location. Abstraction can be advantageous; we do it in IT all the time as a way to mask ...

Towers Watson Releases Cloud-based Life Insurance Financial Modeling
Insurance Networking News
MoSes Azure takes advantage of security features available in Windows Azure Cloud Services. “MoSes Azure provides a signature example of one of the ways that cloud computing can help insurers address their risk, regulatory and IT cost management ...

Huawei showcases latest cloud computing solutions
China Daily
JAKARTA -- Huawei, China's leading global information and communications technology solutions provider showcased its latest Cloud Computing and Business Support System solutions Wednesday in Jakarta, in a bid to further enhance its commitment to ...

The Opportunity in Packaged Cloud Services – Today at 2pm ET
The VAR Guy
Join Joe Panettieri, editorial director, Nine Lives Media, and his special guests Jaywant Rao, director, Global Alliances, Savvis and Tim FitzGerald, VP, Cloud Solutions Group, Avnet. They will discuss the opportunity for VARs and MSPs in packaged ...

European Union determined to take to the cloud
Vancouver Sun
BRUSSELS -- EU telecoms regulators spelled out on Thursday how they want to accelerate the use of “cloud” computing by public bodies and companies, in the hope of boosting the bloc's GDP by nearly 1 trillion euros through the next eight years. Concerns ...

Cloud Paves the New Silk Road for Kazakhstan in Central Asia
Forbes
When I met with Kazakhstan officials to consult on their G-cloud, it was clear that cloud computing can have an enormous impact to help Kazakhstan modernize its government and diversify its economy. Kazakhstan is the economic crown jewel of Central ...

Oxygen Cloud Has New Take on Cloud Storage
Virtualization Review (blog)
Oxygen Cloud Has New Take on Cloud Storage. There are myriad Web-based storage tools, and the free ones really ain't that bad. The paid ones are even better. For pure backup I use Carbonite, and the $55 a year is little to pay for peace of mind. I ...

Ace Communcations Fly's into Cloud Hosting - with FlexHost
Sacramento Bee
26, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Ace Communications Group, a telecommunications provider headquartered in Southeastern Minnesota, now offers cloud computing through its recently formed Flexhost division. Originally called Phlexnetworks, the service ...

C3 Solutions Adopts Tripwire VIA, Bolsters Customer Partnerships With Security ...
U.S. Politics Today
Tripwire, a leading global provider of IT security solutions, announced today that C3 Solutions, a customized technology solutions provider, has implemented Tripwire® VIA™ to strengthen security and offer customers a safe, compliant cloud computing ...

Why Cloud Computing Is Efficient Computing - Microsoft on the ...
By Jeffrey Meisner
Microsoft On the Issues is the Microsoft blog on technology policy and corporate affairs. On this blog, Microsoft shares thoughts on how the computing revolution can accelerate economic growth by enabling companies and individuals to ...
TechNet Blogs

The Dynamic State Of Cloud Computing Monitoring And Evaluation ...
By cloudtweaks
Monitoring and evaluation in cloud computing are essential processes. They determine whether a company's applications on the cloud are effective, safe, and efficient. They also help eliminate failures in cloud computing's functions, ensuring ...
CloudTweaks

Press Release From the European Commission on Cloud Computing
By Maurice van der Woude
The European Commission's new strategy for “Unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe” outlines actions to deliver a net gain of 2.5 million new European jobs, and an annual boost of EUR 160 billion to EU GDP (around 1%), ... Cloud providers and users are also looking for clearer rules when it comes to the delivery of cloud services, for example regarding the question where legal disputes will be resolved or how to make sure that it will be easy to move data and ...
EuroCloud Europe

Europe Shoots For The Clouds: EC Lays Out New Cloud Strategy To ...
By Ingrid Lunden
Up to now, the European Commission has kept a relatively light position on where it stands withcloud services -- putting more effort into the wider issues like broadband and mobile regulation and ensuring that users all get a fair deal as these ...
TechCrunch

EU cloud computing strategy: Europe must not mist new opportunities
By admin_dzafer
European Conservatives and Reformists group industry spokesman Giles Chichester MEP and civil liberties spokesman Timothy Kirkhope MEP have welcomed proposals published by the European Commission which aim to 'unleash the ...
ECR_en

EU praises cloud computing | Baltic News Network - News from ...
By BNN
Since cloud computing could deliver 2.5 million new jobs, EU is ready to make moves to boost its popularity among businesses and the public sector.
Baltic News Network - News from...

EU Commission Publishes Plan to Drive Business, Government ...
September 27, 2012 -- The European Commission announced on Thursday details regarding its new strategy to use cloud computing technologies to drive European business and government productivity.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

EU to Boost Cloud Adoption
By Guest Blogger
With substantial research revealing that cloud computing can significantly cut costs by up to 20%, and with cloud computing technologies advancing at an impressive rate, the savings and benefits withcloud hosting are only set to increase; hence why ... What is also interesting to note is that Greece, who are embroiled in a severe financial struggle, are showing more interest for cloud services than countries such as Germany, which is one of Greece's biggest European creditors and a ...
Virtual Internet Blog

5 Things That The Private Cloud Is Not | Business Computing World
By Kevin Tea
“The growth of private cloud computing is being driven by the rapid penetration of virtualization and virtualization management, the growth of cloud computing offerings and pressure to deliver IT faster and cheaper,” said Tom Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst at ... However, the majority of private cloud services will evolve to enable hybrid cloud computing, expanding the effective capacity of a private cloud to leverage public cloud services and third-party resources.
Business Computing World

Lockheed Martin Delivers SolaS™ Hybrid Cloud ... - Exec Digital
By WDM Group PR Network
... the availability of the Lockheed Martin SolaS™ Hybrid Cloud Solution. SolaS, or Solution as a Service, represents Lockheed Martin's mission-focused approach to secure cloud computing that combines best-in-industry... ... The solution allows customers the flexibility to use a single storefront to leverage cloud services from the Lockheed Martin SolaS Private and Community clouds and partner public cloud providers. By automating and orchestrating end-to-end services through this ...
Press Releases

Stepping Into the Cloud: Practice Management Tools - Attorney at ...
By Joan Feldman
... how much of our business we want to put there. Or where to start. Enter Nerino Petro, Diane Ebersole and Bryan Sims, who recently helped demystify cloud computing during a tip-packed session before a big crowd at the Illinois State Bar Association's Annual Solo and Small Firm Conference. ... Once you dip your toe into the cloud, you will likely begin to wonder if cloud servicesmight make sense for other things. The short answer is, well, yes. The bigger question is how far will you ...
Attorney at Work

UK: Information Commissioner's Office issues guidelines to ...
By Dissent
More and more businesses are looking to use cloud computing, with the economies of scale they offer giving access to a range of computer technologies and expertise that would be difficult to afford in-house. But data protection regulator ICO is ... A recent online YouGov survey commissioned by the ICO found that 46 per cent of UK adults online who use cloud storage are concerned about the security of their information in cloud storage. The survey also found that only 39 per cent of ...
Privacy News - PogoWasRight.org

5 Reasons to Attend GigaOM's Structure:Europe Event - The Next Web
By Martin Bryant
GigaOM is bringing its Structure conference to Europe next month, with an event that will explore the evolution of cloud computing. ... 5 reasons to attend GigaOM's Structure:Europe conference on the future of cloud computing. 27th September ...
The Next Web

Railway stairs, IT demand, and cloud services | TechRepublic
Railway stairs, IT demand, and cloud services. By Nick Hardiman. September 27, 2012 ... Thecloud and BYOD are just a replay of the 80's in terms of shadow IT: ...
www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/railway...it.../5803

EU strategy to promote economic growth through cloud computing
Many of us are using 'cloud computing' without even realising it. Web based e mail, Facebook and Spotify all use the technology to store data such as pictures, ...
ec.europa.eu/news/science/120927_en.htm

Hybrid cloud computing | Ubuntu
What is a hybrid cloud? Hybrid cloud computing is an an architectural approach that enables you to combine the best of both the private and public clouds.
www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private-cloud/hybrid-cloud

Tonido Launches Private Cloud Storage alternative to Google Drive for
19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — CodeLathe, the leader in Personal Cloud software and services, today announced Tonido Cloud, a secure, private cloud storage and ...
www.tonido.com/.../tonido-launches-private-cloud-storage-alt...



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