Saturday, September 1, 2012

Riding the Cloud-Computing Wave

Riding the Cloud-Computing Wave: Workday Files to Go Public
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Cloud-computing product provider Workday Inc. filed for a $400 million initial public offering after market close on Thursday. While all eyes have been focused on Facebook 's fall and fall since it went public – the stock is now off 52% since May ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Cloud Computing Confusion: Survey Says US is Clueless about Cloud
CIO (blog)
Are you confused about cloud computing? Do you wonder what it really means, but are afraid to ask because you don't want to look dumb? Relax. You've got plenty of company. Although "Cloud" has become the technology buzzword of the year, vendors and ...

CIO (blog)

Cloud Computing Alliances Drive Management, Security Initiatives
eWeek
The goal is to provide interoperability between enterprise computing and cloud services. DMTF developed CIMI as a self-service interface for infrastructure clouds, allowing users to dynamically provision, configure and administer their cloud usage with ...

Cloudant Brings BigCouch Cloud Database to Microsoft Azure
eWeek
Cloud Computing: Cloudant Brings BigCouch Cloud Database to Microsoft Azure. By Jeff Cogswell on ... Cloudant also includes a Web-based control panel through which you can sign up, allocate and manage your distributed cloud databases. The control ...

eWeek

The 'open cloud' is getting awfully confusing
InfoWorld
I'm at the Linux Foundation's CloudOpen conference this week in San Diego. As you might expect, the talk is all about how to use "open clouds" -- cloud software using open source approaches. Everyone loves the idea of cloud software that leverages open ...

EMC and VMware, Once Threatened by Cloud Computing, Thriving Up There
NASDAQ
Five years ago when investors first began hearing about cloud computing, it looked like a big threat to EMC Corp. ( EMC ) and its 79%-owned, publicly-traded, software unit, VMware Corp. ( VMW ). But now, it looks increasingly clear that the two ...

Toshiba Launches First Personal Cloud Storage Device For The Digital Home
Sacramento Bee
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 30, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced its entry into the cloud storagespace with the Toshiba Canvio® Personal Cloud.

Windows 8 and the Cloud: SkyDrive
PC Magazine
Not only will the built-in modern-style Windows 8 apps like Mail and Photos be able to use your SkyDrive, but third-party apps, too, will be able to save items to your SkyDrive cloud storagefolders. And since Microsoft has taken to using the term ...

KiteDesk Goes Where Greplin Failed: Aggregates Cloud Services For Search ...
TechCrunch
Now, the company is more focused on the broader vision of integrating multiple cloud services under one umbrella, and making the data they contain actionable. The platform lets you connect email messages, contacts, calendar events as well as documents ...

Selling Cloud Services to Feds Requires a Rainbow of Marketing Tactics
E-Commerce Times
... according to a recent survey by IDC Government Insights. "The survey provides solid evidence that most levels of government are at least dipping a toe or two into cloud services, with the federal government clearly taking a more aggressive approach ...

Cloud Computing: IT Departments Take on Role of Facilitator
Formtek Blog (blog)
85 percent of IT managers said that they feel positive about the benefits of cloud computing. That's an increase from 72 percent in 2011. Subscription pricing and easy sign-ups to cloud services have allowed many departments to end-run their IT groups.

CCID Consulting: Cloud Computing Application Market Driven by Small and ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
In this case, the small and medium-sized financial enterprises no longer have to build data centers and they can throw all technical problems with software and hardware to the cloud computingservice providers. Besides, the use-on-demand and pay-per ...

Verizon, Fujitsu Lead Cloud Security Alliance Big Data Working Group
eWeek
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and information and communication technology (ICT) sepcialist Fujitsu Laboratories of ...

Tech Coach Tells Us What Companies Should Know About Cloud Computing ...
Business Insider
For a long time people were concerned about the security of cloud computing platforms, but most of them are actually now much more secure than anything you're likely to be able to set up on your own. What are some examples of cloud computing services ...

Feds' Cloud Email Deal Paves Way For Agencies
InformationWeek
... through contract vehicles like this one. The Obama administration has made moving to cloud computing a key priority with its Cloud First initiative, but agencies have thus far struggled to meet the Cloud First mandate to move three services to the ...

Bright future beckons for cloud pioneer
The Age
The cloud we're talking about here is not simply “hosting” or moving servers from the company onto a big data centre. It means being the direct provider of IT services. ASG is now the provider of systems such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft to clients ...

Toshiba announces two new sound bars and Canvio Cloud Storage
SlashGear
We've been treated to a number of big reveals during the first two days of IFA 2012, and today Toshiba decided to get in on the action. Not only did it reveal three new camcorders today and a number of new ultrabooks, but it has also announced two new...

SlashGear

Using Personal File-Sharing Sites for Corporate Data
Windows IT Pro (blog)
And you can put policies in place forbidding users from sending corporate data to any cloud storagesite, but we all know how effective such policies can be when they rely solely on users to cooperate, right? So, considering that employees are going to ...

Cloud IT Advances in Japan as Softbank Teams with VCE
Sci-Tech Today
VCE CEO Praveen Akkiraju explained that the joint effort with Softbank Telecom will help companies in Japan take advantage of cloud computing and highly virtualized data centers. Their Vblock Systems are optimized for enterprise data centers, unified...

Sci-Tech Today

Use the hybrid cloud model to unite disparate cloud computing visions
TechTarget
On the other hand, many organizations take an "inside out" approach to cloud, viewing it as an alternative platform for running applications or as an extension of the data center. This puts the emphasis on securing public cloud services that match the ...

Study: Cloud computing market to reach $21.6 billion by 2018
The Lane Report
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (Aug. 31, 2012) — The much talked about cloud computing market currently consists overwhelmingly of private clouds because of security concerns of large organizations, according to a video recently released by Market Analyst LLC, ...

Savvis Unveils Cloud Ecosystem - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
With the acquisition of Savvis, CenturyLink forayed into the cloud computing business, which is growing by leaps and bounds. The acquisition strengthened CenturyLink's footprint in the hosting managed cloud services business with data centers in North ...

What users are saying about open clouds
CNET
Cloud openness, and what "open" means exactly in the context of cloud computing -- whether on-premise or in a public cloud--are hot topics at the CloudOpen conference, which is being held by the Linux Foundation in San Diego this week. CloudOpen is a ...

IBM Cloud to Deliver New Home Entertainment Services for Philips Smart TVs
Equities.com
Today's announcement at the IFA consumer electronics event in Berlin provides IBM cloud serviceson a pay-per-use basis to TP Vision, an Amsterdam-based joint venture between Philips and TV manufacturer TPV responsible for the development of Philips ...

Global Enterprise Mobile Cloud Computing Industry
Sacramento Bee
The report profiles 107 companies including many key and niche players such as Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., appsFreedomTM, DMX Technologies Group Limited, Google Inc., International Business Machines, Microsoft Corporation, Mobility in Cloud Ltd., ...

Rackspace (RAX) Revenue, Stock Surges on Cloud
Cabot Wealth Advisory
Cloud computing company Rackspace Hosting's (RAX) revenues and profits are way up as is the company's stock price, Investor's Business Daily reported. Rackspace has made its mark in cloud computing by using an open-source platform know as ...

GSA to offer cloud-based email services
The Hill (blog)
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced Thursday that it awarded contracts to 17 companies for their cloud services, a move that makes cloud-based email systems available to federal agencies and state and local governments. Lockheed ...

Cloud pleaser
China Daily
Globally, revenue from the cloud computing market is expected to grow this year by 92.3 percent to $60.7 billion from the previous year, a report by Beijing IT consultancy CCID Consulting said. Another research body said the market will be worth $241 ...

China Daily

Salesforce Dreamforce 2012: Social Media to Enjoy Spotlight
TalkinCloud (blog)
Salesforce.com's Dreamforce 2012 will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in a little more than two weeks, and it promises to be the biggest of the cloud computing events so far. More than 70,000 people are registered to attend the event, slated for ...

Prediction: More cloud confusion ahead — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
Well into the cloud computing era, the definitions of what constitutes an “open cloud,” and how to select the right technology are still a mystery to potential users. And, consumers are still in the dark when it comes to the concept of cloud.
GigaOM

Cloud Computing Sees Stormy Weather Amidst User Confusion ...
By Michael
The perplexing findings of a new Citrix “Cloud Survey” show a considerable amount of confusion in the tech space today with regard to a majority of mobile users' understand of cloud computing and related cloud services. The survey of more ...
Mobile Marketing Watch

Cloud Computing Survey Reveals Most Americans Don't Know ...
By Liz Klimas
If someone were to ask what “the cloud” means to you, would you look up to the sky? Chances are you'd probably describe a fluffy, white mass of water droplets that have formed in Earth's troposphere. In the tech world though, “cloud” means ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories

Cloud Storage Has Turned Into A Throw Down Between Providers ...
By Korilynn
Today there are hundreds of cloud storage and cloud computing services to choose from. Users should consider their needs and amount of storage in general. For most users, free cloud storage is more than capable of handling their back up ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Study Finds Most People Think Cloud Computing Is Run On Actual ...
By Jeff Dunn
According to a new study, 1 out of every 2 people think the 'cloud' in cloud computing is literally acloud. That's right. Like it's some amorphous weather pattern that powers the Internet perhaps. Here's a look at this insightful yet scary study ...
Edudemic

Cloud Computing: Workday Discloses Its Financials Ahead of IPO ...
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Managing the Transition to Cloud Computing : VMblog.com ...
By David Marshall
After sitting in a session today at VMworld 2012, I was intrigued by how some companies over-complicate things...then, I realized that their entire business model revolves around complexity. IBM revealed parts of their methodology in ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...

TwinStrata builds cloud storage starter kit « Storage Bytes Now
By Newshound
TwinStrata and Nirvanix this week announced a cloud storage starter kit that includes 50TB of Nirvanix storage and TwinStrata's CloudArray . CloudArray is an iSCSI cloud storage gateway that connects on-premises storage with the cloud.
Storage Bytes Now

OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8 ...
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
There would be no requirement (or cost) for an explicit cloud service per se: the Windows Azure Storage service fills that need by supporting update and read operations on cloud storage. Unfortunately ... Using Windows Azure Cloud Services ...
OakLeaf Systems

IT roles change in light of cloud computing; BPM can help ...
By admin
Business process management software offers businesses access to a solution that provides an integral function in today's technological climate. BPM enables organizations to take the large amounts of information and diverse technological ...
BPM News

Cutting Through the Hype on Cloud Computing « SGTreport – The ...
By MRH
Cutting Through the Hype on Cloud Computing. by Doug Hornig, Casey Research: How many times have you heard something like this? “The Cloud is going to change the way we ______.” Fill in the blank with any phrase from “conduct ...
SGTreport - The Corporate Propaganda...

Toshiba Launches First Personal Cloud Storage Device For The ...
By WDM Group PR Network
30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced its entry into the cloud storage space with the Toshiba Canvio® Personal Cloud. This easy-to-use ...
Press Releases

Cloud Computing: VMware Kills Off Its Loathed vRAM Pricing ...
Pat Gelsinger, the Intel honcho who went to EMC as president a few years ago, enters into office as CEO of VMware, replacing Paul Maritz, a hero to his customers. He's dumping VMware's hated vRAM pricing established a year ago when ...
Latest News from Virtualization Journal

Travel World: Cloud Computing Engineer in San Mateo, CA
By Travel
Cloud Computing Engineer. Duration - 3-4 months contract. Location – San Mateo, CA. Qualifications: - Extensive experience in implementing and maintaining high-availability Linux compute clusters, web applications, and large data sets on ...
Travel World

Glacier: Cold Cloud Storage From Amazon » Data Center Knowledge
Amazon Web Services today rolled out Glacier, a new “cold storage” service that expands the company's cloud computing platform. Glacier offers archive ...
www.datacenterknowledge.com/.../amazon-glacier-cold-cloud...

Nirvanix and TwinStrata Introduce the First Cloud Storage Starter Kit ...
Nirvanix and TwinStrata Introduce the First Cloud Storage Starter Kit for Rapid Enterprise Deployments. New Integrated, Single-Price Solution Accelerates Cloud ...
www.nirvanix.com/news-events/press.../2012-08-27.aspx



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