Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Microsoft Moves Further Into the Cloud

Microsoft Moves Further Into the Cloud - NYTimes.com
By By QUENTIN HARDY
The product, called Windows Server 2012, is designed both to work independently, and to connect with some 200 online services that Microsoft offers through its Azure cloud computingsystem. That is in addition to the usual upgrades in things ...
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Chinese search engine Baidu releases new mobile browser, announces cloud ...
Washington Post
BEIJING — Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, has released a mobile browser and says it will invest in a cloud computing center as growth in Internet use shifts to mobile phones. Baidu dominates China's Internet search ...

'Cloud-first' policy still waiting for take-off in UK
ZDNet
'Cloud-first' policy still waiting for take-off in UK. Summary: The G-Cloud programme has not yet begun a push to get public agencies to give pride of place to cloud computing, even though the British government committed to the strategy 10 months ago.

ZDNet

Microsoft: New server OS needed for cloud era
ZDNet
The increasing adoption of cloud computing, which has led to the growing deluge of data, devices and apps, calls for a new server operating system (OS) that is designed for the cloud in order for companies to realize the true benefits of scalability ...

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Storage Apps for Business
Entrepreneur
The number of cloud services that provide file storage and syncing is exploding beyond well-known offerings such as Dropbox and Google Drive, making the choice of a backup data provider more complicated. The basic functions of online storage are pretty ...

Entrepreneur

Cloud Computing: Marketplaces Emerge for Brokering Cloud and SaaS Solutions
Formtek Blog (blog)
Where to get started with cloud computing? Tracking down the large number of solutions available from a variety of vendors can be daunting. A cloud marketplace may be what you're looking for. A cloud marketplace acts as a broker and offers a large ...

Exhibitors Showcase New Products & Services at First Cloud Connect in Chicago
Embedded.com
As the premier technology event for the cloud community, Cloud Connect provides a unique and targeted platform for exhibitors to showcase the latest technology advancements in cloud computing. To register or for more ... HP Cloud Services will preview ...

Cloud opens up new horizons
Financial Times
Using virtualisation techniques pioneered by VMware and others, these cloud computingproviders can quickly and efficiently provide their customers with more computing power or access to additional software apps almost on demand. Access to what ...

Cloud computing's me-too problem: Little boxes all the same
InfoWorld
Although the song's lyrics are about cookie-cutter suburban developments, they remind me of the cloud computing market, whose technology seems to be becoming "little boxes all the same." [ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take ...

Vendors Outline API Standard for PaaS Clouds
Data Center Knowledge
In cloud computing news, leading IT companies are set to submit a management specification for platform as a service (PaaS), and Quantum challenges Amazon Glacier with its new Q-Cloud. Oracle, Rackspace and others propose new Cloud standard. Technology ...

Interoute And Unisys Deliver Complete Enterprise Cloud Solutions
Dark Reading
London, 4 September 2012 - Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud servicesplatform, is partnering with worldwide IT solutions and services provider Unisys to help businesses to realise both immediate and long-term business value through ...

Cisco, EMC Align 'Three Paths to the Cloud' Incentives
TalkinCloud (blog)
To help partners increase their profitability no matter how they decide to play in the cloud computing space — as cloud services providers, cloud aggregators or cloud integrators. As part of the announcement made at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco, the ...

The Cloud Is Going Global – Cloud Computing Developments From A ...
CloudTweaks News
A Market Research Media survey says the cloud market will reach 270 billion dollars in 2020. Forrester is slightly less optimistic, predicting that the market will approach 241 billion dollars by that time. Visiongain thinks the cloud services market ...

Genomic Health: Protecting business in the cloud, public and private
CSO
Ken Stineman, Genomic Health: Public and private cloud services have become a strategic part of Genomic Health's information technology strategy. We initially leveraged public cloudproviders for commoditized Internet infrastructure services such as ...

Baidu targets mobile sector with cloud center, mobile browser
ZDNet
Baidu targets mobile sector with cloud center, mobile browser. Summary: Chinese search giant will invest US$1.6 billion to build a cloud computing facility, and also unveiled a new mobile Web browser to capitalize on China's booming mobile sector.

Pano Logic Cloud/Terminal Services 2.0 Eases Cloud Migration
TalkinCloud (blog)
... System for Cloud/Terminal Services 2.0 was designed to bridge the gap between legacy terminal services and desktop cloud computing. With this release, Pano Logic expands its platform to include terminal services, linking them to major cloud services.

Samsung Music Hub: An Ambitious Start, But Not Quite Beautiful Music
PC Magazine
I like the idea of having all my music available wherever I am via cloud services, such as iTunes Match, Amazon Cloud Player, or Google Play Music. (See my post on "The Jukebox in the Sky.") It would be even better, though, to have any song by any ...

Adaptivity™ Launches Blueprint4Cloud™ Platform
Sacramento Bee
Adaptivity's Blueprint4Cloud platform was designed to help customers considering cloud services accelerate the development of their cloud strategy, planning, and migration activities while mitigating unnecessary risks associated with typical cloud ...

How Small Businesses Can Leverage Cloud Computing To Save Money
CloudTweaks News
The adoption of cloud computing is one of them. IT businesses especially stand to gain a lot by adopting cloud computing. For many small businesses where manufacturing is not involved, electricity costs are mainly attributed to their IT departments. In ...

Hostway Virtual Machine Replication Built for Windows Server 2012
eWeek
Cloud services provider Hostway announced the beta launch of its virtual machine replication service, designed to provide disaster recovery on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. The service is enabled by the Hyper-V Replica feature included in Microsoft's ...

CDW CEO: On growing services, cloud applications and reshaping IT
Network World
Richards has led a strategic push that has CDW now helping IT shops build private clouds, reselling cloud applications from Microsoft and Salesforce.com, among others, and providing its own managed and cloud services with partners like Cisco.

Baidu's new browser, cloud center aim at mobile
MarketWatch
BEIJING--Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) , China's largest search engine by revenue, has released its own mobile Internet browser and said it would invest in a new cloud computing center on Monday in a bid to gain stronger control over how Internet users in ...

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 to launch with S Cloud?
Digital Spy
Tech blogger BestBoyZ posted a video of the device hosting the cloud storage program over on his YouTube channel, sparking rumors that it will go live in October. The logo for the application bears a resemblance to Dropbox, giving rise to speculation ...

When Does the Cloud become a utility?
ITProPortal
The rise in cloud computing is indicative of our need to make the most efficient use of resources and minimise costs by accessing computing resources and infrastructure when, and as, it is needed. This business model has drawn many comparisons between ...

Philips Smart TVs Storm Into Internet Video With IBM's SmartCloud
Multichannel News
IBM will provide cloud services on a pay-per-use basis to TP Vision, the Amsterdam-based joint venture between Philips and TV manufacturer TPV responsible for the development of Philips Smart TVs. The Internet-connected TVs can provide two-way ...

Don't rush integration of CRM and ERP cloud data
TechTarget
Getting specializedIntegration challenges increase the profiles of cloud services brokerages that help organizations use, maintain and integrate cloud services from multiple providers. Regardless of the category of cloud integration service ...

Idea launches 3G dongle with cloud services
CIOL
Sashi Shankar, chief marketing officer, Idea Cellular said, "Cloud is the new technology, and we are the first mobile operator to introduce this into the Indian market. Idea is committed to delivering innovative and easy-to-use data products and ...

Interoute taps Unisys to make cloud easy
Telecoms.com (blog)
Backbone operator and cloud services provider Interoute has teamed up with IT services firm Unisys to develop a 'more disciplined' approach to cloud computing. The partnership focuses on a combination of Interoute's IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service ...

Telecoms.com (blog)

Cloud Confusion: The 'Fluffy White Thing' And The Potential Within
CloudTweaks News
Cloud Confusion: The 'Fluffy White Thing' And The Potential Within. A recently conducted national survey has revealed that the layman American consumer is not precisely aware of what cloud computing in actual is and how, in essence, does it function.

Cloud computing? We don't get it, say Europeans | TechRepublic
By Nick Heath
The majority of European PC users don't know or care about cloud computing, with only a small proportion of people using cloud services.
European Technology Blog | TechRepublic

Linux Today - Is open source cloud computing too cloudy?
Open Source Insider: Billed as 'the only' conference providing a collaboration and education space dedicated to advancing the open cloud, but what kind of taste did it leave in our mouths?
Linuxtoday.com

Study: Majority Of Americans Believe Weather Can Affect Cloud ...
However, nearly 60 percent of respondents believe that the "workplace of the future" will exist entirely in the cloud. When asked about advantages to conducting business over cloud computing, over a third want to use it in order to avoid ...
Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos,...

IBM PureSystems: A cloud computing genie | Thoughts on Cloud Blog
By Shamim Hossain
IBM PureSystems: A cloud computing genie. September 4, 2012 1:11 pm by Shamim Hossain. I have been a fan of the middle-eastern folklore The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) since my childhood. When I was a ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

A trusted provider for public cloud services - ComputerworldUK.com
By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Dell
A trusted provider for public cloud services. A survey says: The move to the cloud is on. Category:Cloud computing. Date: 04 September 2012, 16:29. Company: Dell. With interest in cloudtechnology on the rise, having a trusted public cloud ...
Computerworld UK's White Papers

Big Data Analytics in the cloud with BIME & Google BigQuery ...
By jonathan
This is what Jeffrey Walker of Monitis advises in his article “Data Analytics in the Cloud: Two Cool NoSQL 'Big Data' Options for the SMB”. The article was also picked up by Hovhannes Avoyan and published in Sys-Con's Cloud Computing ...
Bime - SaaS Business Intelligence...

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Cyber Security in the Cloud | Cloud ...
Concern about inadequate Info Security remains the #1 obstacle to greater adoption of Cloud Computing, according to Intel's research. The rapid growth of Mobile and IP-connected Embedded devices, Cloud Computing, Social Networks, and ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Discussion on Cloud computing? We don't get it, say Europeans ...
the business side would be very restricted by the various national laws on handling privacy data and the like. I know more and more people in Australia are using web based mail, mainly services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Live Mail just so ...
on TechRepublic

Partner vs Build: The Enterprise Cloud Services Dilemma ...
By NetEnrich Guest Blog
Whether you're an aspiring cloud integrator or emerging cloud services provider (CSP), sometimes the fastest, most cost-effective way to market is to partner. ... Cloud ComputingNews and Information for CSPs, MSPs and VARs. Subscribe ...
TalkinCloud

Piston Cloud Wins Best of VMworld 2012 Private Cloud Computing ...
By admin
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/04/12 -- Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack™ company, today announced that the editors of.
Nearshore Journal

Cloud Computing: Oracle Wants Its Billion Dollars from SAP | SOA ...
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computingand Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of ... Cloud Storage: Myths and Realities. POWER PANELS: ...
Latest News from SOA World Magazine

The Rise of Cloud Service Brokerage | Security Gateways@Intel
By Ellery Bledsoe
The role of enterprise IT with respect to cloud services is rapidly expanding. Whether the broad range of activities that the enablement of cloud services entails is managed internally or externally, cloud service brokerage is increasingly ...
Security Gateways@Intel

Can Weather Obstruct Cloud Computing?
What does this public unawareness about cloud computing mean to information ... photos online and 22 percent store music or videos online - all cloud services.
www.bankinfosecurity.com/.../weather-obstruct-cloud-comput...

How “Anchoring” Impacts IT Assessment of Cloud Computing
The psychological concept of "anchoring" can affect how IT evaluates cloud ... What does this have to do with how IT assess the benefits of cloud computing? ... in a service-oriented context—and as a result, cloud services end up utilized in the ...
slashdot.org/.../how-anchoring-impacts-it-assessment-of-cloud...

What's Your Favorite Cloud Storage Service? [MakeUseOf Poll]
Cloud storage services, or online storage services, have picked up in popularity over the ... Its got all features which famous cloud services share across them.
www.makeuseof.com/.../whats-favorite-cloud-storage-service-...

Cloud Computing « A Smarter Planet Blog
Thanks to innovations in cloud computing and mobility people have just about all the ...
asmarterplanet.com/blog/category/cloud-computing-2



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