Friday, September 7, 2012

Pogoplug debuts first consumer cloud service to utilize Amazon Glacier

Pogoplug debuts first consumer cloud service to utilize Amazon Glacier
BetaNews
By Tim Conneally Consumer and enterprise cloud storage company Pogoplug on Thursday announced it has integrated Amazon Glacier long-term archival storage into the Pogoplug service. In its usual fashion, Pogoplug mirrors content from your local drives ...

BetaNews

Bridging Hot And Cold Cloud Storage
InformationWeek
But I was only half right in that the scenario turned Glacier into an inexpensive, convenient tape vault alternative. That may indeed play out in the coming months, but for now, a company that popularized the concept of personal cloud storage, Pogoplug ...

Microsoft plans large expansion in China to push cloud services
Computerworld
... Chinese market, Microsoft on Thursday said it is increasing its investment in the country, with new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and provinces to bring cloud computing services to its enterprise ...

French Sovereign Wealth Funds Invests in Two Local Cloud Computing Providers
PCWorld
The French government is so keen to encourage the development of cloud computinginfrastructure in France that it is investing in two competing home-grown cloud providers through its sovereign wealth fund, the Caisse des Dépôts. Similar Articles: ...

Yandex Opens Its Cloud Storage Service To Everyone
WebProNews
Back in April Russian search giant Yandex unveiled Yandex.Disk, their brand new cloud storageservice. At the time, it was invitation only and only available in Russian. Today, they've dropped the invite requirement and opened up the service to everyone.

Startups rush to the cloud
Network World
Having a cloud computing startup has at some times felt like being part of the California Gold Rush, says Nand Mulchandani, CEO and co-founder of ScaleXtreme, a 2-year-old company focused on easing management of multi-cloud environments. TOP 12: ...

Move Over, Marc Benioff: Aneel Bhusri Is King Of The Cloud
Business Insider
Workday, on the cusp of a highly anticipated IPO, will be giving a big boost to another hot up-and-coming cloud startup: Okta. ... Okta's service—itself delivered through the cloud—lets enterprise companies manage the security of all of theircloud ...

Business Insider

To Cloud Or Not?
Manufacturing.net
According to the July 2012 IDC Manufacturing Insights report, “Business Strategy:Cloud Computing in Manufacturing”, 22% of manufacturers worldwide have already implemented cloud-based computing systems, and an additional 45% of those surveyed are ...

Manufacturing.net

How clouds cheat the speed of light
The Guardian (blog)
This opened the door to cloud computing and, with it, high expectations of accessing cloud platforms from any location in an instant. However, fibre's ability to deliver at the "speed of light" doesn't automatically equate to all applications being...

The Guardian (blog)

Cloud Computing Gets IT Thumbs Up
Automation World
The cloud-computing concept has garnered headlines over the past few years through it's application by giants like Amazon.com, but has made few solid inroads in the industrial sector. That may soon change as IT groups increasingly embrace the idea of ...

Automation World

SaaS and Cloud Computing: Tight Budgets are Driving Rapid Growth with SMEs
Formtek Blog (blog)
SaaS and Cloud Computing: Tight Budgets are Driving Rapid Growth with SMEs. By Dick Weisinger, on September 6th, 2012. A recent report from KPGM looks at the state of the Software as a Service market as of 2012. The Good Key contributors to the rapid ...

12 hot cloud companies worth watching
PCWorld
While big-name players such as Amazon, Google, IBM, Verizon and VMware sit atop the burgeoning cloud computing market, an entire ecosystem of early stage startups are looking to stake their claim, too. Similar Articles: Can Your ... These companies ...

Cloud computing 'more solid' than non-cloud environment
Sun.Star
CEBU CITY -- A serial entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, who is also a proud Filipino, allayed fears on Thursday that cloud computing threatens corporate security, saying it's more solid than non-cloud environment. Cloud computing is currently ...

Huawei and Intel team up on server, cloud products
ZDNet
The firms will collaborate on new server, datacentre, storage and cloud computing products, with a view to selling them in Huawei's home market of China and elsewhere, the pair announced on Thursday. No further details on the new products were given.

CumuLogic Announces Java Platform-as-a-Service for HP Cloud Services
RedOrbit
CumuLogic, the leading innovator in cloud platform technologies, today announced immediate availability of CumuLogic PaaS for HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com). In addition, HP Cloud Services customers will be able to test drive the CumuLogic ...
Companies awakening to tax benefit, risk in cloud computing - KPMG
Total Telecom
The issue is becoming increasingly important because more businesses are using cloud computing, which allows data and applications to be stored remotely, to lower their information technology costs. "Failure to consider the tax implications can ...

Cloud Computing on Virtual Desktops
Midsize Insider
The eventual goal of cloud computing is a virtual IT environment accessed through a universal virtual desktop. While VMware recently introduced a completely virtual data center, the more immediate IT configuration, especially for midsize businesses, is ...

Midsize Insider

Cloud approach to IT service desk brings analysis, lower costs and self-help ...
ZDNet
The next BriefingsDirect discussion examines how two companies are extending their use ofcloud computing by taking on IT service desk and incident management functions "as a service." We'll see how a common data architecture and fast delivery benefits ...

D-Link Debuts Cloud Storage 4000 Small Business NAS
Small Business Computing
The small business storage device also supports Apple Time Machine and the Amazon S3cloud backups. Downplaying S3 support, D-link submits that it's the company's MyDLink Cloud services that puts the 'cloud' in Cloud Storage 4000. In a company ...

Cloud Technology Partners Named to CRN's Next-Gen 250
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The CRN Next-Gen 250 highlights up and coming service providers that have zeroed-in on fast-growing markets like cloud computing, virtualization and business analytics, with a smart and different approach to solution selling and integration. Cloud ...

Dell makes unexpected grab for the PAYG storage cloud
Register
Dell quietly released an announcement a few days ago that it was offering a cloud storageservice in partnership with Nirvanix. There was no press release, neither from Dell nor Nirvanix, no video, no PR blast, no nothing, just a single tweet, which ...

Cloud Computing Enables Business Scalability And Flexibility
CloudTweaks News
The most common meaning of the term cloud computing refers to the delivery of scalable IT resources over the Internet as opposed to hosting and operating those resources locally. Cloud computing enables your company to react faster to the needs of your ...

Integration, alignment key after cloud 'arms race'
ZDNet
Chung Hao Ning, country leader for cloud computing at IBM Singapore, said these buys are always complementary to the wider cloud computing development efforts internally. Besides Green Hat, which will provide Big Blue with ... For instance, since more ...

Cairo's Cloud 11, Raising Cloud Services to New Heights
Wamda
Founded by Abd El-Rahman Waheed, the same month as the Egyptian revolution, they've since made impressive strides in what can best be described as an emerging sector (i.e. cloud computing) within an emerging market (i.e. Egypt). It's safe to say that ...

IBM's New Mainframe Aims For The Clouds
Seeking Alpha
One of the reasons behind all the enthusiasm is that businesses are recognizing the importance of data centers in cloud computing. Forrester Research's projections for the cloudmarket 2011-2020 gives a pretty good indication of what all the fuss is about.

Microsoft vs. VMware: Who'll be private cloud king?
InformationWeek India
The two competitors have very distinct points of view on how to build out the enterprise privatecloud. At a virtual event Tuesday, Satya Nadella, President of Microsoft's server and tools business, released Windows Server 2012 as an operating system ...

VMware joins OpenStack Foundation for greater cloud interoperability
TechTarget
VMware has jumped on the open standards cloud computing bandwagon, recently announcing it will join the OpenStack Foundation and contribute to the development of the open source operating system for cloud computing. The virtualization software ...

Report: AT&T #1 For Connecting US Businesses' Private Clouds
Daily Markets
“The Frost & Sullivan research highlights business customer reliance on virtual private networks (VPN) for connecting clouds,” said John Potter, Vice President, Hosting, Applications and CloudSolutions, AT&T Business Solutions. ... in a recent report ...

Pilat Media... Scalability + Deployment Delivered From The Cloud ...
SatNews Publishers
...also be deployed in a cloud infrastructure, delivering fast, secure deployment and scalability for users around the world. Ron Bar-Lev, EVP product strategy, Pilat Media, said, "Combining the power of IBMS with the efficiencies of cloud computing ...

Cloud Computing Still Causes a Storm of Confusion, Controversy
WhatsYourTech.ca
That was the marketing slogan on top of a recent promotional e-mail about new cloud computing services. Ostensibly, it's to make us feel good about cloud computing; it happens all the time, cloud advocates say, it's so easy, you don't even know it! But ...

eMazzanti Attains Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Status
Equities.com
To qualify for the Cloud Accelerate program, partners must successfully demonstrate their cloud services expertise through rigorous sales and technical assessments; and ensure the highest quality of services. In addition, Microsoft requires customer ...

Pogoplug adds Amazon Glacier-based cloud storage, includes ...
By Zach Honig
Pogoplug adds Amazon Glacier-based cloud storage, includes gratis devices with $29 and $99 Family plans. By Zach Honig posted Sep 6th 2012 9:00AM. Pogoplug adds Amazon Glacier based cloud storage, includes gratis devices with $29 ...
Engadget

Pogoplug Launches Amazon Glacier-Powered Cloud Storage Service
By Josh Ong
It's only been a couple weeks since Amazon launched its low-cost Glacier service for infrequently accessed data, but storage solutions provider Pogoplug is ready to take advantage of it. The company's Family and Team services both make ...
The Next Web

Russia's Yandex offers cloud storage to rival Box and Dropbox ...
By Stacey Higginbotham
Yandex, the Russian search engine, has taken its cloud storage product out of its invite-only beta. Like Box or Dropbox, Yandex.Disk offers users access to their files from any device, including their Apple and Android phones. Users will get 10 ...
GigaOM

PogoPlug Crushing Competition with 1TB of Cloud Storage for $99 ...
By Kevin Purcell
Tweet. PogoPlug offers some unique ways to do cloud storage using your own hard drives by interfacing with their software, website and PogoPlug devices, but they took a huge leap forward today announcing new PogoPlug with Amazon ...
Gotta Be Mobile

Yet More Cloud Storage Options – This Time, From Russia With ...
By Mike Wheatley
Hot on the heels of Baidu's new cloud storage offering, the Russian-language search engine Yandex has just announced the removal of the invitation-only policy for its Yandex.Disk cloud storage service. From now on, anyone wishing to sign ...
SiliconANGLE

Cloud Services and Small Businesses - Applied Innovations
By Jess
At the same time Edge Strategies and Microsoft did a similar study and what they found was that when looking to purchase cloud services, SMBs look to their existing partners (hosting companies, service providers, IT consultants, etc) for their ...
Appliedi.net Windows Web Hosting Blog

Pogoplug Unveils New Family And Small Business Cloud Storage ...
By Julian Horsey
PogoPlug has launched a new service this week designed to provide families and small businesses with a Cloud storage solution which utilises Amazon's Glacier storage services.
Geeky-Gadgets

Binhai New Area Sets Up Cloud Computing Park | Managed Hosting
By admin
Cloud Storage | Dedicated Storage. Contact us if ... In its bid to improve its infrastructure to both attract new businesses and help emerging industries upgrade, Tianjin's Binhai New Area in China has set up a cloud computing park. They have ...
Managed Hosting

Has Cloud Computing Come of Age? | Modern Dignity - The Social ...
By MD
As top level management realizes the cost savings potential of cloud services, however, more and more IT departments are moving their infrastructure and services to the cloud. As this happens, cloud service vendors are able to offer more ...
Modern Dignity - The Social Web...

Cloud Computing: Transforming the IT role – The Talener Group
By Ashley Herron
For businesses, cloud computing is a huge advantage as it can cut down costs on a number of things. However, for many technical employee's, it may have a costly affect. With the emergence of cloud computing, many IT employees may lose ...
The Talener Group

Cloud Computing and Tech Stocks in the News
By www.Investorideas.com
As a small business service provider one of the services includes Managed Technology Solutions (Cloud Computing): Full-service web host, which offers eCommerce solutions, shared and dedicated web hosting and related services ...
Investor Ideas, Trading Ideas...

Pogoplug hooks up with Amazon Glacier for cheap cloud storage ...
By Sean Ludwig
Backup storage provider Pogoplug has integrated with Amazon's new Glacier cloud storage in a move to make the personal backup storage more affordable and reliable, the company announced today. Pogoplug competes with consumer ...
Michael Vacirca

Cloud computing: regional outlook – SME Advisor Middle East
By Joumana Saad
Enterprises across the Middle East are eager to jump onto the cloud bandwagon. Cloud computing is becoming pervasive and cloud-delivered hosted applications are presenting new challenges and business opportunities. IDC predicts that ...
SME Advisor Middle East

Pogoplug adds Amazon Glacier-based cloud storage, includes gratis
By News Reporter
Amazon's Santa Monica press conference is still a few hours out, but some news has already begun to flow, starting with a fairly minor tidbit from Pogoplug. Beginning today, the company will be offering a new cloud storage solution, powered ...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare...

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