Saturday, October 13, 2012

ABCs of Cloud Computing

The ABCs of Cloud Computing
Huffington Post (blog)
Example of storage clouds are Amazon Simple Storage Solutions (S3), Openstack Object Storage, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Skydrive, and SugarSync. Dissecting the Data Cloud. The data cloud type is one of the fastest ...

How to get your first cloud computing job
InfoWorld (blog)
Cloud computing is expanding rapidly, with an accompanying need for for cloud computing"experts" to make this technology work. That translates into many new jobs chasing very few qualified candidates. At the same time, many IT professionals are ...

Canonical's Ubuntu One Cloud Storage Service Comes To The Mac
TechCrunch
Canonical isn't just the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, but with Ubuntu One, it also offers a cloud storage service with 5GB of free storage space, as well as a music locker, and support for Android, iOS, Windows and, starting ...

Inktank, Citrix Partner on Ceph Cloud Storage Solution
The VAR Guy
The importance of Ceph — the open source, massively scalable distributed storage system — to commercial solutions for cloud computing and Big Data has become yet clearer with the announcement of a partnership between Inktank and Citrix to integrate ...

Workday soars as IPO rides cloud trend
MarketWatch
Workday offers Web-based applications used by businesses to manage employee records and processes. The company is seen as a rising player in two key trends in the business software applications market. Cloud computing allows business customers to ...

MarketWatch

Asus to build 3 more cloud data centers by 2013
ZDNet
Asus to build 3 more cloud data centers by 2013. Summary: Taiwanese PC maker says the new facilities will bump its datacenter count to six worldwide, and will provide customers better cloud services even as demand for such services grow. Jamie Yap ...

Microsoft Finds the Worst Way to Advertise Cloud Storage
Gizmodo
Microsoft Finds the Worst Way to Advertise Cloud Storage When you've got a cloud platform in a world of cloud platforms, you have to find a way to make yours stand out in the crowd. This is the wrong way. This new Windows Azure "theme song" by NoClue ...

Cloud Computing in Higher Education
Business Review Canada
Cloud computing can be used for business continuity planning, or storing archived copies of data off to a cloud storage area - even students' papers and music that can be stored and retrieved whenever they want. In the specialized areas of financial ...

Clear sky for cloud computing in healthcare services
Healthcare Global
The report also says that apart from electronic healthcare records(EHR), cloud computing is now being taken up by the healthcare industry players for both clinical and non-clinical applications, like pharmacy use, software imaging and physicians ...

Strategize to Successfully Adopt — and Maximize — the Cloud
Wired (blog)
In the world of the cloud, pressure is coming from non-IT folks who want to use cloud computing as a vehicle to maximize the effectiveness of the organization. The marketing ... Establish metrics to validate the cloud services are delivering on the ...

Cloud computing forum places focus on trends & applications
China Post
The government announced in 2010 that it would invest NT$24 billion over five years in the cloud computing sector with the aim of creating a trillion-Taiwan dollar industry. The output of global cloud services is expected to grow from US$27.95 billion ...

CenturyLink Unveils Cloud Product - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
Coming back to Savvis, the acquisition of this company is well marked in CenturyLink's entry into thecloud computing business, which is growing by leaps and bounds. CenturyLink currently, has expanded its footprint in the hosting managed cloud ...

AVG Ratchets Up Cloud Services
The VAR Guy
Specifically, AVG CloudCare provides solution providers a cloud-based platform allowing them to remotely manage its antivirus and filtering services. In other words, solution providers can practice what they preach and utilize a cloud environment to ...

Pixelpipe Automates Pi.pe, Now Lets You Schedule File Transfers Across Cloud ...
TechCrunch
The feature automates file copying between cloud services, similar to the way IFTTT automates other tasks on the web. Now available as a public beta, Pi.pe first launched in April of this year, offering users a ... A number of utilities have popped up ...

TechCrunch

Report: cloud computing not always a greener option
Business Green
Delivering computing resources over the internet or other networks has been hailed as offering firms energy efficiency and carbon savings compared to on-site server rooms, as cloud computing offers greater diversity and can serve more customers at the ...

MyMusicCloud: A Cross-Platform & Cloud-Based Music Locker
hypebot.com
As cloud storage gains popularity and compatibility grows more and more difficult, MyMusicCloud aims to take the concept of cloud-based music storage and turn it into a more personalized, user-friendly experience. Built by Triplay, the service enables ...

Cloud Data Centers Getting Greener, Motivated By Savings
eWeek
In a new report, 451 Research argues that while the proliferation of cloud computingservices will continue to place demand and public focus on data centers, these centers—particularly when knowledge is shared—can be "engines of innovation in ...

eWeek

ownCloud 4.5 mounts external cloud storage
The H
OwnCloud Inc, the company behind ownCloud, has announced the release of version 4.5 of its cloud storage and synchronisation software following successful beta testing. OwnCloud 4.5 is available as both an Enterprise and an open source Community ...

The Channel Steps Up to the Cloud
E-Commerce Times
While fundamental nature of the cloud computing business creates significant challenges for traditional channel companies, rapidly rising user demand creates market pressures and opportunities that cannot be ignored. Over the past year, the established ...

BT Connect and Aspera Merge Their Cloud Services for Life Sciences R&D ...
UCStrategies
BT Connect and Aspera merge forces with their new cloud-based services intended for use in the research and development operations of the life sciences industry. This is in response to the rising demands of the life sciences industry for communications ...

Macquarie Telecom director sells 40000 shares during cloud server crash
The Australian
Macquarie Telecom, a provider of premium cloud services to Australian business and corporations, suffered a major network outage that left business and corporate clients unable to access their cloud storage for up to 2 days, although most, it said ...

Wercker aims to “fix” the app dev universe
GigaOM
Wercker says its continuous delivery SaaS will fill a huge gap in today's software landscape where developers rely on cloud services like Github to store and version their code and PaaSes to deploy it. What's lacking is a SaaS to keep updates flowing.

GigaOM

Dimension Data Consolidates Cloud Businesses
CRN
With more than 500 SMB customers in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, its services include cloud storage, productivity application hosting, desktop-as-a-service, email security, hosted telephony, private networks, disaster recovery, private networks ...

BMC, Amazon Web Services Extend Cloud Solutions Alliance
eWeek
With an eye on moving deeper into the cloud, BMC Software has expanded its alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver a cloud services and cloudmanagement portfolio that will give enterprises fast and easy access to the power of the AWS cloud ...

eWeek

Cloud company SCROUNGED hard drives to stay afloat
Register
When floods hit Thailand last year and crimped the global supply of hard drives, US-based cloud storage company Backblaze feared it would run out of storage. The company's fears weren't unfounded - it uses 50TB a day – so it sensibly tried to buy up as ...

How cloud is fuelling innovation
InformationWeek India
Kick-starting the second day of INTEROP, Tushar Singhat, CEO, D-Link India, delivered an interesting keynote that discussed how the emergence of cloud computing is fuelling innovation amongst the vendor community and is bringing revolutionary products ...

Aircel Partners NEC for Cloud Solutions
Light Reading India
Telecom service providers play a key role in providing a wide range of cloud services to enterprise customers, from backend telecommunications infrastructure to services on the Cloud such as SaaS.Cloud computing services have seen an unprecedented ...

New Xbox Music Service to Sport SkyDrive Cloud Space
About - News & Issues
The company's cloud storage service has until now been a separate entity where you can upload files and share content. The name of the new offering, widely thought to be called Xbox Music, will initially provide streaming music for Xbox 360, Windows ...

VMware vCloud Suite Opens New Partner Opportunities
The VAR Guy
According to Gartner, the Public Cloud services opportunity is growing at roughly 19 percent year over year. By 2015, the Cloud services opportunity will be greater than $177 billion, with the large majority of those services focused on business ...

VMWare Adds Automation to Cloud Suite
CIO Today
King said there is some truth to that, but points to the fact that system vendors and related players, including Microsoft and Citrix, are attempting to reposition themselves and their solutions for cloud computing market opportunities. This, he said ...

CIO Today

Pros and Cons: 5 Cloud Storage Options | Apartment Therapy
By Range Govindan
If you're looking for a secure way of storing your data offsite, cloud storage is your best bet. These services allow users to store massive amounts of data online, and easily access the data from anywhere. Some services are very easy to use, ...
Apartment Therapy | Saving the...

Ubuntu One reaches Mac in beta, completes the cloud storage circle ...
By Jon Fingas
For all of the many directions Ubuntu One's cloud storage has gone, it hasn't headed the Mac's way. Official clients have been the province of Linux.
Engadget

CloudBerry Drive Beta maps Cloud Storage as a Local Disk
By Andy Mandy
CloudBerry Drive is a product that allows to easily map cloud storage as a local disk and accesscloud data directly from the Windows Explorer interface. In the full version CloudBerry Drive lets users run both read and write operations to ...
CloudBerry Lab Product blog

HP Blogs - Cloud Computing -- CIO Challenges and Opportunitie ...
By AnnabelleBaxter
Cloud Computing -- CIO Challenges and Opportunities: HP Enterprise Services Twitter Chat ... Rob Russo, @R3CloudMan, Proof of Concept Manager & Business Development Manager, EnterpriseCloud Services, HP Enterprise Services ...
Enterprise Services Blog articles

Four Freemium Cloud Storage Solutions on the Fly at Monitor - Blog
By zhirayr
box.net,cloud storage,dropbox,file storage,free document storage online,google drive,skydrive, ...Founded in 2007, Dropbox has become one of the most notable Cloud Storage solutions on the market. Dropbox functions as both a Web-based ...
Monitor Everything IT: Website,...

Jack Speaking at ABA GP SOLO Annual Meeting: Cloud Computing ...
By The Clio Team
Clio makes practice management easy with a suite of web-based tools targeted at solo lawyers and small firms. Clio is a legal Saas (Software as a Service) solution that helps attorneys manage tasks, billings, accounts, matters, invoicing, ...
Official Clio Blog

IBM Relies on AT&T to Make Secure Cloud Connection
To help make those organizations more comfortable with cloud computing, IBM this week announced that it has partnered with AT&T to add virtual private networking capabilities to its IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud computing service.
Business Technology | Blogs |...

The Intersection of Big Data and Cloud Computing | Cloud ...
Technologies--cloud computing, Hadoop, MapReduce, flash array storage, business intelligence tools, etc-- are vital to an organization's ability to keep pace with Big Data. The Big Data architecture introduces a fourth layer in the cloud ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Should You Be Cloud Computing? | SiteProNews: Webmaster News ...
By Andrea Eldridge
Using cloud services such as Microsoft Live SkyDrive, Amazon's “Cloud Drive,” Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox or SugarSync to store and/or backup your data has some clear advantages. Most notably: unlimited storage capability and the ...
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources

Cloud Ecosystems – Google Enterprise Partner & Cloud Computing ...
By admin
Many recent discussions are exploring the future of the role of the CIO, but what about the changing nature of the IT service itself. Thinking about this topic I have the following observations. It's about the software stupid! The move to cloud in ...
Google Apps Reseller Ireland...

The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Big Data Project | CloudTweaks
By cloudtweaks
Our comic collection has simply taken the light side of cloud computing to a whole new level. After all, isn't cloud computing a fun way to get things done. Doesn't it simplify our lives? So after a long day's work in the cloud, you can stop by our ...
CloudTweaks

MediaAgility Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program ...
By Vidushi Bhatia
... data backup, anytime anywhere access enhanced employee efficiency, amongst many more. MediaAgility helps companies to adopt the new paradigm of Cloud computing and migrates all its applications and infrastructure with technological sophistication. ... “The Google Cloud Platform offers a broad set of application development, cloud storage, large scale computing, and big data capabilities. MediaAgility has experience in building products on Google cloud technology and has ...
MediaAgility

Why Is Cloud Backup Safer? | Business Computing World
By Kevin Tea
When an individual or company is shopping around for a particular cloud storage service, they often find that many of the storage service companies have a guide that explains the ways in which their service can protect the user's important data. Users can review their options with a particular company to determine if they ... His blog is a resource for SMEs who want to use cloud computingand Web 2.0 technologies. Kevin Tea is a journalist and marketing communications professional ...
Business Computing World

Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » Agility To Make Cloud Really Work ...
By Stephen Liu
Search the Internet using the word “Cloud” and you will get around 1.5 billion hits and it's not until the 2nd page or so where something related to weather comes up. This is not surprising as cloud computing is top of mind for both B2C and B2B ...
Cisco Blog

Ubuntu's cloud storage service hits Mac in beta, with 5GB free | Ars ...
Canonical's Ubuntu One cloud storage service hit Mac OS X in a beta on Thursday, bringing Ubuntu's Dropbox competitor to all widely used platforms.
arstechnica.com/.../ubuntus-cloud-storage-service-hits-mac-in-...



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