Saturday, September 22, 2012

Oracle Set to Debut Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Oracle Set to Debut Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Datamation
At Oracle's upcoming OracleWorld event, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) will be added to Oracle's Cloud services. "With that addition, Oracle will be providing its customers with all 3 tiers of cloud computing: Software as a Service, Platform as a ...

PaaS promises devops in the cloud
InfoWorld (blog)
Platform as a service is the fastest-growing area of cloud computing: Gartner forecasts the worldwide enterprise market for PaaS platforms will grow from $900 million in 2011 to $2.9 billion in 2016, representing a 26.6 percent rise each year. The ...

EMC: Cloud Computing Makes This Worth Buying
Seeking Alpha
Based on the research firm IDC data, public IT cloud services will reach $72.9 billion in 2015. This equates ... It noted that cloud computing will be a significant component in the IT industry, which would help transform other sectors within the ...

Public Cloud Services Market Growing Faster Than Expected: Gartner
eWeek
As has been reported here in eWEEK previously, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is the fastest-growing segment of the public cloud services market; that sector is expected to grow a whopping 45.4 percent in 2012. "The cloud services market is clearly ...

Bringing Air Traffic Management into the Cloud
Scientific Computing
General Electric Company has embarked on an 18-month project with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to help bring NextGen air traffic management (ATM) technology into “The Cloud.” Cloud computing will enable airlines and air ...

Scientific Computing

HP's Whitman Said Planning Cloud-to-Tablet Push to Revive Growth
Businessweek
In its drive to help customers building out data centers to handle cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard is developing a system that combines server computers, data storage and networking components in the same device, the people said. It will run Intel Corp.

Intermedia Pushing Cloud Server Through Partners
TalkinCloud (blog)
According to the company, the suite of cloud services gives channel partners complete control over the cloud environment, giving them the opportunity to be the trusted provider for SMBs that want to stay focused on their core competencies. For partners ...

Xamarin links mobile apps with Microsoft cloud services
Register
Xamarin, the mobile app dev company founded by the creators of the open source Mono project, have partnered with Microsoft to bring support for Windows Azure Mobile Services to apps that are running on Android and iOS devices. Redmond announced its ...

SMB Cloud Storage On the Rise
Midsize Insider
The article also pointed out that cloud services to store data will reach 625 million in 2013, registering a robust growth of 25 percent. The consultancy firm predicts that the trend will continue yearly until 2017 when it is estimated to be worth $1.3 ...

Salesforce.com's Benioff Preaches To New Flock: CMOs
InformationWeek
As businesses seek new ways to interact with customers via social channels and demand decision-making information faster, cloud services also give marketing execs a way around IT. At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week, Benioff told ...

OpenStack Foundation Launches to Promote Open Cloud
The VAR Guy
It's official: OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, has formed an independent entity, the OpenStack Foundation, to promote the project and open source cloud computing more generally. Here's the scoop, and what it means for the open source channel.

Why Cloud Computing Projects May Fail
CloudTweaks News
Cloud Computing offers a large number of benefits which make an enterprise switch over to the cloud. From startups to medium and large enterprises all are keen to adopt it mainly due to the cost saving in cloud computing. However it is very important ...

Should cloud service providers take a vertical tack?
TechTarget
I know what I'm about to propose goes against the mass appeal of the cloud computing model -- low cost, on-demand standard configurations that meet the needs of a broad customer base. ... In talking with Michael Daly, corporate director of information ...

Content marketing can help cloud vendors educate users
Brafton
AYTM Market Research recently reported that consumers use cloud computing every day, but many don't realize it. For companies offering cloud services, whether B2C or B2B, content marketing offers a strong chance to educate their target audiences and ...

Brafton

Week in research: Cloud takes hold in Australia; data center growth drives ...
FierceTelecom
Cloud services take hold in Australia: The idea of shifting parts of their operation into the cloud is taking off in Australia, where 53 percent of all companies surveyed in a new Frost & Sullivan report say that they now spend more than 10 percent of ...

Dropbox Best 100% Alternative Cloud Storage (NOW)
The Sudbury Star
Dropbox Best 100% Alternative Cloud Storage (NOW), From in the newest information Dropbox have a case with security system and a lot of IT executives say that employees do not use it anymore. And now we would recommend Free Cloud Storage as an ...
The Sudbury Star

City Hall in the Cloud?
Information Management (blog)
Pike's range of “smart government” technology in the report is broad, covering analytics and cloud computing, as well as green tech, communications systems and application development platforms. Overall, that smart government investment by municipal ...

McCusker & Company Partners With IceWEB
Sacramento Bee
"We are very excited to be creating this partnership with a cutting-edge cloud computing firm," said McCusker & Company Chief Executive Officer Will L. McCusker. "They have a great leader in Rob Howe, and we are looking forward to working together to ...

The DMTF's Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI)
IT-Director.com
If cloud computing is to mature as a reliable enterprise computing platform, we need more effective standards for cloud - that is, working standards generated by the industry and supported by interoperability testing, not more ivory tower documents ...

HP cloud services to be sold through colo data centers
DatacenterDynamics
“Today's CIO seeks solutions that deliver on the promise of cloud computing – on-demand infrastructure, self-service, consumption-based billing, 'burstability' and rapid provisioning – without compromising security and reliability,” said Christian ...

Create your own local Dropbox with AeroFS
Ars Technica
Cloud storage services like Dropbox are incredibly convenient, but that convenience comes with a price: your data is stored in a place where others can get at it, and the only things preventing that from happening are the service's own security and ...

SSDs boost Instagram's speed on Amazon EC2
InfoWorld
Instagram got trial access to solid-state drives on the EC2 cloud-computing platform before that option became generally available, one of the perks of being a large customer, Krieger said. [ Get your websites up to speed with HTML5 today using the ...

Parallels SMB Cloud Insights™ for India Details the Most Profitable ...
Moneylife
Parallels, a hosting and cloud services enablement leader, today released the key findings of Parallels SMB Cloud Insights™ for India, a detailed report illustrating how service providers can profit by delivering cloud services to small and medium ...

Research and Markets: IT Market in Malaysia 2011-2015: Cost Advantage of ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Commenting on the report, an analyst said, ''The cost advantage of cloud computing is one of the main drivers of cloud services in Malaysia. Software vendors such as Microsoft are focusing on introducing affordable products for small and medium ...

Cloud Storage Subscriptions to Increase by 100 Million ...
By Tavis J. Hampton
Cloud storage subscriptions will increase by 25 percent in 2013, according to a report by IHS iSuppli. Subscriptions rose from 300 million in 2011 to 500 million in 2012. The report predicts that in 2013, that number will grow to 625 million.
SiliconANGLE

Cloud Computing: A key player in the printing world
By Guest Author
If you have taken a look at any B2B blog, website or magazine lately, it is more than likely that you would have read a bad review about cloud computing. Serious questions have been raised discussing the security of private data, the risk ...
Fourth Source

New Market Report: Cloud Computing in Pharmaceutical Research ...
GBI Research, leading business intelligence provider has released its latest report, "Cloud Computingin Pharmaceutical Research and Development - Virtualization of Data through the Cloud Optimizes Next-Generation DNA Sequencing and ...
SBWire - Latest Press Releases

Intronis CEO Change -- But Cloud Storage, MSP Growth Continue ...
By Joe Panettieri
Managed Services & Cloud Services Blog for VARs & MSPs. Subscribe: ... Traditional consumer-oriented cloud storage companies (Carbonite, Mozy) have been launching channel partner programs. Businesses are seeking new ways to ...
MSPmentor

Oracle's hardware hangover continues — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
Oracle's still fighting to recover, recoup and profit from its $7.4 billion buyout of Sun Microsystems three years ago. In its first quarter, Oracle's overall hardware business was off 24 percent year over year despite “triple-digit growth” in ...
GigaOM

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Pavlovsky, Product ...
By candicearnold
SM: What else is interesting in terms of what's happening in your industry? This is a very old industry that innovates very slowly. SP: Yes, that is absolutely true in terms of where our industry has been. We're in the process of launching a new ...
Sramana Mitra

Microsoft Private Cloud 2.0 – Flexible Workstyles - Cloud Computing ...
By Neil McEvoy
BYOD Private Cloud -. In this paper Flexible Workstyles they start to look at the solution areas these types of platforms can be targeted. They headline this around the transformational effect upon IT of trends like 'BYOD' – Bring Your Own ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

Cloud Recap: Disney Big Data, PaaS & DevOps, Cloud Disrupts ...
By Travis Balinas
Businesses are subscribing to software, storage and computing power delivered over the Internet at a jaw-dropping pace, Over the next five years, global spending on cloud-computing services will increase at a pace five times greater than the ... Cloud Services Expected to Reach $100 Billion by Xath Cruz | CloudTimes; What to Look for in Cloud Storage Security by Dave Bower | Cloud Computing Path; Amazon Glacier is an Affordable Cloud Backup Service, Moves at the Speed of…
Transforming IT Operations

Global Survey Reveals Why NGOs Are Moving IT to the Cloud
By eJP
TechSoup Global has announced the results of its 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey of 10,500 nonprofits, charities, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 88 countries – the most extensive technology survey ever conducted of ...
eJewish Philanthropy: Your Jewish...

Need cloud storage? Consider the new MyCorpVault!
By Guidant Financial Group
Need cloud storage? Consider the new MyCorpVault! Friday. Our partners at MyCorp recently launched a cloud-based secure document storage system, and we invited them to tell us more about it. What follows is a guest blog from their Social ...
Guidant Financial Group Blog



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