Saturday, September 8, 2012

Why Johnny doesn't understand cloud computing

Why Johnny doesn't understand cloud computing
InfoWorld
We insiders in the cloud computing world are often stuck explaining to friends and family members just what the cloud is. Most of us start with well-known analogies, such as popular website-delivered services. We do this understanding full well that ...

Google Cloud Storage And What It Can Do For Your Site
WebProNews
Google has is now conducting regular Google+ Hangout Office Hours videos for Google Cloud Storage. Google shared this video about CNAME Redirection and Website Configuration, which gives you the ability to serve an entire site directly from Google ...

CumuLogic Java PaaS for HP Cloud Services Speeds Adoption
TalkinCloud (blog)
Customers will no doubt find the CumuLogic PaaS for HP Cloud Services helpful, but the real message here seems to be for partners that are tasked with building and deploying Java-based apps for their customers. Saving time in application development ...

Dell Gets Into Cloud Storage Service Business with Nirvanix
TalkinCloud (blog)
It's the first time the company has shifted its storage offerings truly into the cloud servicesmarket. The gauntlet against its traditional storage competitors, as well as the likes of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web Services, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and ...

Tax Directors Pulled Unwillingly into the Cloud
Accounting Today
New York (September 7, 2012). By Michael Cohn. Tax departments are being excluded from discussions about whether it's a good idea for their companies to move into cloud computing, despite security concerns. ... One ...

D-Link Cloud Storage 4000 NAS stores up 16TB, hooks up to you smartphone ...
Engadget
DLink Cloud Storage 4000 NAS stores up 16TB, hooks up to your smartphone and tablet D-Link's latest storage solution is pitched at small business and households looking to escape into the world of cloud storage. There's four SATA bays, each of which ...

ClearScale, the Leader in Cloud Computing Integration and Application ...
Sacramento Bee
6, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- ClearScale™, The Cloud Computing Integration and Application Development company, today announced that it will be releasing its new product CloudDash ™ a highly customizable Cloud Management platform.

Marvell and ZeroDesktop Team Up to Deliver Cost Effective Cloud Computing ...
Broadcast Newsroom
7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) and ZeroDesktop, a developer of next-generation personal cloud operating system solutions for public cloud and private cloud computing, today announced they are collaborating to deliver a cost-effective ...

Can Cloud Computing Stop Software Piracy?
CloudTimes
software piracy 300x200 Can Cloud Computing Stop Software Piracy? With the influx of software applications using the Software-as-a-Service model, experts claim that software piracy will eventually be eliminated. However, some pessimists are claiming ...

CloudTimes

Huawei: Make biz agile in cloud era
ZDNet
Huawei: Make biz agile in cloud era. Summary: Chinese telecoms maker collaborates with Intel and launches cloud computing device and high-end storage products at the Huawei Cloud Congress 2012 in Shanghai. The company also remains optimistic of ...

ZDNet

Amazon: How Much Can It Profit From The Cloud?
Seeking Alpha
With increased demand from businesses and more and more companies offering cloud services, companies that currently provide cloud computing services may find the competition to steep to survive. All in all, cloud computing remains a dedicated space ...

5 Steps to Ensure Your Cloud Provider Is Ready for Ediscovery
CIO
Businesses need to be prepared when an ediscovery request is made pertaining to data being stored in the cloud. Here are five steps IT leaders can take to ensure that their cloud computingvendors don't get them into hot water when responding to ...

CrashPlan offers Carbonite users a free year of cloud backup
CNET
Good for you: I highly recommend some kind of cloud-storage service in tandem with a local backup. Ah, but are you happy with it? The folks at CrashPlan think you can do better, and they're willing to put their money where their mouth is: Existing ...

Cloud computing roundup: Latest global news
DatacenterDynamics
Interoute and Unisys are teaming up to deliver cloud services, with Interoute providing Infrastructure-as-a-Service, including Virtual Data Centre (VDC), and Unisys cloud advisory, implementation, management and services. Interoute is known in Europe ...

DatacenterDynamics

Is The Cloud Hurting New PC Sales More Than Competition?
DecryptedTech
The reasons are many including, but not limited to, security, privacy, and a general dishonesty about what the cloud is and what it really means to the many companies that are offering cloud services (predictable revenue stream). All of that aside ...

DecryptedTech

Tech Data's TDCloud Adds Resources To Accelerate VAR Adoption
CRN
Tech Data has broken off its TDCloud initiative into a new, separate business unit with more dedicated resources to help solution providers break into the cloud services business, according to the distributor. TDCloud was launched about a year and a ...

Reasons Why Cloud Computing Remains Unpopular Past 2012
CloudTweaks News
There is no limit to what cloud computing can offer to individuals, corporations, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations. Cloud computing benefits cut across storage, working, communication, and so many other industries and functions. As ...

Bureaucloud Launches Cloud Infrastructure Reseller Program for IT Support ...
Equities.com
The program is designed for UK IT Managed Service and Support companies to be able to offer additional Cloud Services to their customers without any upfront costs or additional expertise. The newly launched Bureaucloud Reseller Program is aimed at IT ...

As Heroku Boss Flees to Olive Farm, Where's the Platform Cloud Going?
Wired
The service still runs exclusively on Amazon's “infrastructure cloud.” What's more, the larger platform-as-a-service market still takes a backseat to more inclusive cloud services like those offered by Amazon — though Wiggins says time will change ...

Wired

Proven Ways To Increase Competitiveness With Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
... Ways To Increase Competitiveness With Cloud Computing. As cloud computing is currently enjoying a wave of global discourse by the business community, it is projected that more and more businesses are adopting cloud computing services as the ...

Personal cloud subscriptions expected to reach half a billion this year
Network World
Consumers are flocking to cloud-based resources, with analyst firm IHS predicting there could be a half-billion personal cloud storage subscriptions by the end of this year with double-digit growth levels expected for at least the next half decade. IHS ...

Sponsor post: International Service Tech Symposium (London, Sept. 24–25)
GigaOM
24 and 25, 2012. Founded by Arcitura, this is the world's largest event dedicated to service technology, SOA, cloud computing and big data, featuring top industry experts and authors, along with CCP and SOACP certification workshops from SOASchool.com ...

Cloud storage firm flags malware as "Copyrighted Material," boots security ...
Naked Security
Mila Parkour, a researcher who operates the Contagio malware blog, said on Thursday that she had been kicked off the cloud based hosting service Mediafire, after compressed and encrypted Windows patches and malware samples she stored on those sites ...

Naked Security

Data Center Links: Verizon, Peak 10, Latisys, Joyent
Data Center Knowledge
Verizon (VZ) announced that Princeton Hosted Solutions is collaborating with Verizon Global Wholesale to offer cloud-computing services to Princeton's customers. Princeton will resell an enterprise-class cloud service from Terremark to help its greater ...

Destructive 'Wind Tsunami' No Match for Cloud Computing
Government Technology
Putney said the state's five 211 call centers are connected by a cloud-based platform that enables enhanced communication. When someone calls for information from anywhere around the state, the integrated system allows for staff from any of the five ...

Government Technology

New Windows Server Seeks To Capitalize On Cloud Growth
Trefis
Due to the large impact that the Windows Server has on Microsoft's value, we were encouraged with the announcement of the launch of Windows Server 2012, a cloud OS designed with focus on cloud computing. As cloud usage expands, consumers will be ...

Pinterest to startups: devops is hard, but do it anyway
GigaOM
Infrastructure Q1: Cloud and big data woo enterprises - 04/18/2012 · A field guide to cloud computing: current trends, future opportunities - 06/22/2011 · The Case for Increased M&A in 2011: Actions and Outlooks - 05/25/2011 · What is this? Share This ...

GigaOM

Australian Govt has “cloud last” policy, says Ovum
Delimiter
Hodgkinson said because of this approach, there had been minimal adoption of cloud computing services by Federal Government agencies. “Agencies still regardcloud services as unproven and risky,” he wrote. “Consequently, agencies are deferring ...

Delimiter

Salesforce.com Extends Winning Streak in the 2012 CRM Magazine Market ...
Equities.com
7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing(http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing) company, today announced it has won the CRM magazine Market Leader awards in the Enterprise Suite CRM and Midmarket ...

Dell Quietly Taps Nirvanix for New Cloud Storage Service | Web ...
By Nicole Henderson
September 7, 2012 -- Dell has entered into the cloud storage market without much fanfare, quietly releasing a PDF last week that explains its new deal with cloud storage provider Nirvanix. Dell Cloud Storage ... Related Topics: cloud computing, cloud storage service, dell, new products, nirvanix, partnerhsips · Dell has entered into ... Related posts: Cloud Brokerage Ingram Micro to Sell Netmagic Cloud Services · The Open Group Publishes Standards for SOA and Cloud Computing ...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9 ...
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
Earlier Salem County in Sweden was faulted by Datainspektionen for using Google Cloud services which were not deemed to live up to the high standards that protect the integrity of Swedish citizens. Clearly Microsoft services are OK but ...
OakLeaf Systems

HP Blogs - Information management, Cloud Computing, Health IT ...
By HP_ES
Information management, Cloud Computing, Health IT– Around Enterprise Services, Sep 7. by HP_ES 2 hours ago. By Alison Watterson , Enterprise Services Global Marketing. Here is a summary of the Enterprise Services blog topics for this ...
Enterprise Services Blog articles

ClearScale, the Leader in Cloud Computing Integration and ...
By WDM Group PR Network
6, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- ClearScale™, The Cloud Computing Integration and Application Development company, today announced that it will be releasing its new product CloudDash ™ a highly customizable Cloud Management ...
Press Releases

5 Awesome Cloud Computing Tutorials - SSD Cloud Computing ...
By Courtney C
Cloud computing sounds easy enough in theory -- instead of being stored on a computer, programs and resources are stored in a nebulous "cloud" -- but getti.
Cloud Provider USA

CumuLogic Java PaaS for HP Cloud Services Speeds Adoption ...
By zatzeditor
CumuLogic has launched a PaaS designed to make it easier to deploy Java applications on HPCloud Services.
WebSpherePower

D-Link Cloud Storage 4000 NAS Server Unveiled » Geeky Gadgets
By Julian Horsey
The D-Link Cloud Storage 4000 NAS Server is capable of providing upto 16TB of storage for data, and is equipped with two Gigabit Ethernet ports on the rear.
Geeky-Gadgets

How ambiguous is cloud computing to you? - Spiceworks
By Dan @ SingleHop
September 07, 2012 - 01:29PM. A lot of customers don't understand Cloud Computing. In a recent survey, we found that 60+% of our clients did not understand what the Cloud was. So we put together an educational paper called Cloud 101.
Spiceworks Community

Managed View » Cloud Computing Promises New Opportunities For ...
By Mark Prahl
As discussed in a previous post about filling the IT skills gap, as technology evolves, so do the skill sets needed to harness the promise of cloud computing. Fortunately, for those people whose pay check depends on it, the trend leans strongly ...
Managed View

Joe Tucci to stick with EMC till 2015 — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
According to a new 8K filing with the SEC, EMC CEO Joe Tucci will stay on at the storage giant until at least February of 2015. But he may not hold the top job for that whole time, according to the document.
GigaOM

The IEEE International Symposium on Mobile Cloud, Computing and
By Ralf Klamma
The IEEE International Symposium on Mobile Cloud, Computing and Service Engineering (IEEE MobileCloud 2013). The IEEE International Symposium on Mobile Cloud, Computing and Service Engineering. It will be held in conjunction with ...
beamtenherrschaft

Marvell and ZeroDesktop Team Up to Deliver Cost Effective Cloud ...
By WDM Group PR Network
7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) and ZeroDesktop, a developer of next-generation personal cloud operating system solutions for public cloud and private cloud computing, today announced they are collaborating to deliver a ... all of their digital content into one secure repository, bridging the gap between the Internet and PCs while also providing new opportunities for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and service providers to deliver turnkey cloud services to ...
Press Releases

Cloud: Cloud Computing Is Not All About Infrastructure
The commoditization of technology has reached its pinnacle with the advent of the recent paradigm of Cloud Computing. Infosys Cloud Computing blog is a ...

Which Cloud-Computing Stock Is a Better Buy Today? (CRM, RAX)
Looking for a great investment? One way to make sure you've picked the right stock is to compare it with a strong peer on a series of cold, objective financial ...
New Statesman - Half of Americans think cloud computing is ...
The Independent councillor said that the Government should be doing more to harness clean industries for the Connemara area and he named wind energy and ...


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