Monday, September 3, 2012

Six Questions about the Cloud

Six Questions about the Cloud
CFO.com Magazine
But as with any new trend, companies should critically examine cloud computing before embracing it. Here are six questions, plus answers, that every CFO should ask about the cloud: 1. Will the total cost of ... “The financial and contractual acumen ...

CFO.com Magazine

Why corporate strategy needs to change with the cloud
GigaOM
Prabhakar Gopalan looks at how the skill sets and mindsets of corporate strategists need to change in the cloud computing era. This means everything from learning to accept new revenue models to being technologically savvy enough to actually build new ...

GigaOM

Shroff wary of Govt data in 'cloud'
New Zealand Herald
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner told the Herald it was in discussions with the agencies developing the Government's approach to cloud computing. Ms Shroff said though the use ofcloud services for personal information had many benefits, "it's ...

Cloud computing: the backlash starts
Aol Money
This had to happen sometime - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (pictured) has come out against cloud computing. Commentators haven't been universally sympathetic - here's a report which clearly laments his view - but you can't help but wonder how much ...

Mobile Cloud Strategy Revealed
CloudTimes
mobile cloud computing 300x162 Mobile Cloud Strategy Revealed As it is very sensible to use a private cloud environment for management, security, and other aspects of mobile applications, it can be expected that mobile devices will soon be the driving ...

CloudTimes

Companies Still Struggling with Cloud Security
MENAFN.COM
• Despite trepidation in utilizing cloud services, the number of enterprises that have deployed public and private cloud solutions have increased to 20 percent, up from the 13 percent that had solutions deployed in 2011. • Those respondents who ...

VMware Supports OpenStack and Focuses on Private Cloud
CloudTimes
icon vmware VMware Supports OpenStack and Focuses on Private Cloud At recent VMworld conference, VMware announced pushing deeper into private cloud computing, with their approach centering on a package of their core data center virtualization ...

EMC ties up with Netmagic Solutions
Hindu Business Line
Storage technology software maker EMC has signed Netmagic Solutions for design, architect and run its cloud computing infrastructure for Indian and global companies. As a part of this tie-up, Netmagic ... “Together, EMC and Netmagic Solutions will ...

Updated services agreement allows Microsoft to integrate content across cloud ...
The Verge
The company alluded to this change in its email to users, explaining that such content usage would align "to the way we're designing our cloud services to be highly integrated across many Microsoft products." Microsoft also added a class action waiver ...

EMC Corporation: This Hidden Gem Is A Buy Now
Seeking Alpha
EMC Corporation's (EMC) efforts to position as a provider of cloud computing storage solutions might be breaking down. In particular, EMC's longstanding alliance with Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) does not seem to be working as advertised. The companies ...

Kdan Mobile Integrates Google Drive into its iOS PDF Reader
Equities.com
PDF Reader provides file viewing, file storage, file scanning solutions on iOS devices, and is known for its extensive integration with various cloud storage services such as Dropbox and SugarSync. The latest update of the app further expands its ...

Now anyone can have massive computing power through Amazon.com
SiliconValley.com
Cloud computing has been around for years, but it is now powering all kinds of new businesses around the globe, fast and with less capital. Instagram, a 12-person photo-sharing company that was sold to Facebook for an estimated $1 billion just 19 ...

Analog Devices' technology for space camera
The Hindu
Technology Officer and Senior Vice-President, Wipro Global IT Business, said: “This enables us to help our clients develop new cloud-based solutions that drive their success in the IT and product research and development by building on the power of the ...

Mobile electronics steers memory, storage R&D
Global Sources
The popularity of portable devices and growing interest in cloud computing are prompting memory and storage solutions makers in Taiwan to steer R&D and manufacture toward DRAM and solid state disks. This is to match the trends for greater data transfer ...

Global Sources

Graduate Business Improvement Manager
This is Hull and East Riding
The market is shifting towards Cloud Computing and Voice over IP telephony and the Company Director is keen to grow the business by exploiting these new and emerging opportunities. A hard won reputation for excellent customer service must be ...

ProviDyn's Private Cloud Allows W3 to Focus on Building Profitable, High ...
Melodika.net (press release)
Backed by certified technology professionals, ProviDyn's services include managed services,cloud computing solutions, virtualization, help desk and computer support, IT strategy, network security, backup and disaster recovery and IP telephony ...

PRESS DIGEST-New Zealand newspapers - Sept 3
Reuters
Shroff wary of putting Govt data in 'cloud': Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff has highlighted risks around "cloud computing" just days after the Government announced it would push ahead with a "cloud computing strategy" to improve services and cut costs.

News Briefs: Sept. 3
Federal Times
The General Services Administration has awarded contracts to 17 vendors to provide cloudemail services to federal agencies and state, local and tribal governments, the agency announced last week. Through 20 blanket purchase agreements valued at $2.5 ...

A unique 4K TV from China
CNET
It even features Hisense's own app store and cloud storage, too. While most 4K TVs can play 4K photos through their USB ports, this 65-incher will additionally support 4K video--with frame rates of up to 30 frames per second--via USB. According to the ...

CNET

99 New APIs: Washington Post, Microsoft, Red Hat, 7-Eleven
ProgrammableWeb (blog)
Cloudcommons Insight API: The service provides information and resources to support selection among and adoption of cloud storage and application hosting platforms. It maintains a listing of vendors and their service offerings, grouped and weighted ...

Android apps for working away from the office
USA TODAY
Dropbox is the most popular cloud storage service for storing your files across all your devices — from your phone to your tablet or desktop computer. Access files saved on your home computer from your phone. Dropbox eliminates the need to email files ...

USA TODAY

Cassidy: Silicon Valley, Bay Area poised for manufacturing revival
Inside Bay Area
This is the land of Facebook and Google (GOOG), the land of cloud computing and big ideas. This is a place where you'd be forgiven for thinking that the only things we make are companies and millionaires. How often have you heard that manufacturing is ...

SAP Co—CEO Says Firm's Software Business Thriving
Investor's Business Daily
SAP (SAP) , which vies with Oracle as the biggest maker of business software, plans to expand in such sectors as analytics, mobile, cloud computing, database and technology software. On July 24, the company posted its biggest-ever year-over-year ...

IT industry shifts towards new era of personal computing: Microsoft executive
Global Times
"The integration of a wide range of devices, cloud services, and natural experiences that span the technology ecosystem will enable truly personal computing -- nothing will work in isolation, and everything will work for you," Craig Mundie, Microsoft's ...

Systech Strengthens its Team By Adding Industry Experts and Executives
Melodika.net (press release)
The additions to the Systech team have come both in the US and Europe and include numerous industry experts in IT architecture, Cloud services and project engineers. Systech has also expanded its professional services and leadership group, for its ...

Struggling with cloud security – SME Advisor Middle East
By Joumana Saad
This signals a consistent rise in demand for cloud services amongst enterprises that have already embraced the cloud. There is still confusion about what cloud computing services exactly are. When presented with a list of cloud services, 94% ...
SME Advisor Middle East

Here's a quick primer on the computer industry's 'cloud'
By Bennett
Cloud computing, or using remote Internet servers to store data, may be one of the most misunderstood terms in our country today. A new survey reveals the depth of misconception swirling around the simple term “cloud” — people say they ...
Standard-Examiner Latest Headlines

Windows 8 and the Cloud: SkyDrive Software | Softwares - Digit
By editor@thinkdigit.com (Michael Muchmore)
Microsoft's cloud storage service, SkyDrive, has been around for just over 5 years—since way before Apple came out with iCloud or Google with Gdrive. But only with ... Windows 8's cloud services go beyond just SkyDrive storage. Signing into ...
Digit - Tech News

Portland's Elemental Technologies Moves to the Cloud | Inside ...
The rapid growth of online and mobile video along with the dynamic evolution of formats, standards and distribution make cloud computing a natural complement to on-premise processing for large-scale video encoding applications,” said ...
Inside-Cloud

Oracle's reaction on the licensing discussion | viktorious.nl ...
By viktorious
viktorious.nl – Virtualization & Cloud Computing. Viktor van den Berg – Cloud & Virtualization Evangelist with a focus on VMware Products, Enthusiastic Photographer. Skip to content. Home ·Cloud Computing · Server Virtualization · Desktop ...
viktorious.nl - Virtualization...

demanding cloud infrastructure - Web Hosting Talk
By Scool
demanding cloud infrastructure Cloud Hosting. ... Cloud Hosting Discussions involving Cloud Computing, grid computing and related technologies. ... Cloud as of now is really meant to be advantageous in terms of scalability and reliability rather than performance; if performance is what you're after, I'd suggest a dedicated server. If you're set on using an Intel .... UK Government Launches Online Cloud Services Store for Government Agencies, Web Hosting News, 2012-02-24 16:01:56 ...
Web Hosting Talk

'...But what happens when it rains?' Cloud computing may be the ...
If you have an Internet connection, chances are you have used it, simply by uploading pictures to Facebook, Flickr or Instagram, using a web-email service like ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../-But-happens-rains-Cloud-computing...

ICCCTAM 2012 : The International Conference on Cloud Computing ...
ICCCTAM 2012 : The International Conference on Cloud Computing ... on Network and Service Management, Special Issue on Management of Cloud Services ...
www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid...2

Video: Canonical LinuxCon 2012 Keynote | Inside-Cloud.com
... 2012 Keynote – Ubuntu and Cloud Computing from Adilson Oliveira on Vimeo. In this video, Kyle MacDonald from Canonical keynotes the LinuxCon 2012 conference with a presentation onCloud Computing, OpenStack and Ubuntu.
Inside-Cloud

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, now a rare STAR in the cloud-filled ...
By The xRM.com Writing Team
Customers of our cloud services usually want to know how safe their data is. Actually, since xRM.com is a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner, our customers frequently ask us about cloud ...today we'll talk about the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and the Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR). The CSA is a not-for-profit organization that provides security guidelines and education to cloud computing service providers, such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online as of April of 2012.
CRM Technical Blogs

Etsy unveils its infrastructure (and its Supermicro love) — Cloud ...
By Derrick Harris
Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for GigaOM since 2009. He has written the words "cloud" and "Hadoop" possibly more than any other person ...
Cloud

Adding Mobile Devices is Cheaper in the Cloud | U.S. Green ...
By Melanie Bayon-on
Now with cloud services, computing and cloud-based apps, adding mobile devices is cheaper than previous years. Cheaper Devices with ... With cloud computing and mobile devices, it is as easy as installing an app. Employees are capable ...
U.S. Green Technology

A fundamental misunderstanding of cloud...: ShortFormBlog
A fundamental misunderstanding of cloud computing: According to a recent Wakefield Research/Citrix study, 51 percent of Americans believe stormy weather interferes with their cloud computing, which in...
ShortFormBlog

Search giant invests $16 million into cloud storage company ...
By admin
Online storage and document sharing solutions firm Egnyte could be boosting their brand substantially with a helping hand from search giant Google. Google's venture capital investment arm 'Google Venture' has invested $16million in Egnyte ...
Consumer News

Cloud Security Alliance gets large on Big Data
Infosecurity Magazine
Cloud-based service models slowly gain risk-management traction. Enterprises are still leaning away from sharing sensitive information via cloud-based business practices, according to Gartner's annual risk management survey, as security fears continue ...

Toshiba Launches First Personal Cloud Storage Device For The Digital Home
Profitable.com (press release)
Irvine, CA (Profitable.com) Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced its entry into thecloud storage space with the Toshiba Canvio® Personal Cloud. This easy-to-use storage hub ...

Profitable.com (press release)

Cloud Computing Compliance Hazy For Banks
Bank Technology News
While the bank says it's confident that it's in compliance, the guidance has come under fire in the bank tech industry for an alleged lack of precision in defining cloud computing and specific risks that could create security gaps. "The FFIEC guidance ...

Connect With Cloud Computing
Independent Retailer
Cloud services provide retailers, whether located in hip urban malls or rural Main Street, access to the very latest Cloud based technology, fully managed and constantly updated, often on a pay-as-you-go basis. The Cloud reduces costs, eliminating the ...

Looking toward the clouds[1]|chinadaily.com.cn
China Daily
Cloud computing is spreading across the world, overshadowing other information technologies. But in China it is destined to take a different form to that enveloping Europe and the United States. The computing "cloud" is an abstract term representing an ...

China Daily

Mid-Hudson economic council resubmits Westchester biotech lab ...
The Journal News | LoHud.com
The projects include the planned biotechnology laboratory in Valhalla, a cloud-computing service center in Poughkeepsie and a facility for special-needs children in Sullivan County. “By putting them back in again, we're reiterating that they're ...

The Tale of Two Clouds – What is the future of cloud adoption in IT?
GigaOM
Cloud computing is supposed to save us money, and most would argue that it can.Cloud computing is also supposed to provide agility and flexibility in how you deploy and manage your IT solutions, enabling improved business capabilities. The problem is ...

GigaOM



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