Friday, October 12, 2012

Cloud storage wars rage on

Cloud storage wars rage on with OwnCloud's new release
GigaOM
The battle for corporate cloud storage continues. OwnCloud, which positions itself as a business-focused, open-source alternative to Box and other file-sync-store-and-share services, released its community edition Thursday and updated its commercial ...

GigaOM

Amazon's Share Of Government Cloud Computing 'Accelerating'
InformationWeek
State and local governments have been moving quickly to cloud services as a way to save money. Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel and his predecessor Vivek Kundra have been championing the adoption of cloud computing at the federal level to cut costs and ...

Cloud Computing Pushes Vendors to Seek New Roles in IT Value Chain
PC Advisor
Cloud computing represents the most profound change in computing that the industry has ever seen. The reason is simple. Cloud computing is not just a platform change implementing a better price/performance capability based on Moore's Law. It represents ...

Cloud Partnership Between IBM and AT&T By Early 2013
RedOrbit
On the other end, AT&T will now be able to offer their customers cloud services from a large and established network. Says Andy Geisse, head of AT&T's business unit, this opportunity will be “huge” for the company. “With our customers, we see cloud ...

RedOrbit

Cloud computing forum focuses on trends, applications
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, Oct. 11 (CNA) A forum on the cloud computing industry opened in Taipei Thursday, attracting local experts, industry representatives and government officials, as well as many from elsewhere in Asia and the Middle East. Hosted by the Ministry of ...

Taking a page from the ferocious honey badger ... the enterprise kicks some ...
Computerworld (blog)
Then, along comes Dreamforce from the self-proclaimed enterprise cloud computing company with a stunning 90,000 attendees, followed up by Openworld with a not-too-shabby second place of over 50,000 attendees, to remind us that the enterprise is truly ...

Doctor's orders: Healthcare in the cloud
Network World
As cloud computing continues to mature, there are still some questions about whether the technology is ready for highly-regulated industries, such as health care. ... She's unsure if publiccloud services will ever be ready for the bulk of CHA's workloads.

Oracle Continues to Make Cloud Progress
ZDNet
Well if you're going to make a dramatic about face from total dismissal of cloud computing, this is a relatively credible way to do it. Following up on its announcement of a serious cloud future at Oracle Open World 2011, the company delivered new ...

Cloud outages: Why one status page is better than many
ZDNet
The composite nature of modern websites means they can be damaged by flaws with their own technologies, as well as by problems in the cloud services they use. With the rise in the use of third-party technologies for anything from ads, to databases, to ...

ZDNet

Opportunities for the Channel as Government Discovers the Cloud
UCStrategies
A recent Information Week survey has found that federal government organizations have discovered a need to bring cloud services into the workplace and are actively planning the swift changeover. Around 50 percent of organizations in the U.S. government ...

Thunderbird's Filelink Sends Attachments Directly to Dropbox and Other Cloud ...
Lifehacker
Thunderbird's Filelink Sends Attachments Directly to Dropbox and Other Cloud Services If you're ...You might not have noticed, but email client Thunderbird makes it nice and easy to convert attachments into Dropbox, Box.net, and other cloud storage links.

DOCOMO to Enhance Cloud Services for Smartphones and Tablets
ITNews
(JCN) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it will enhance its docomo cloud(TM) services for Android(TM) smartphones and tablets from November by upgrading its popular voice-command personal agent service, Shabette-Concier(TM), and ...

How To Protect Personal Data in the Cloud
CloudTimes (blog)
Cloud computing services are offered by various providers in various forms. According to technology research company Gartner Inc., cloud computing will grow tremendously and the personal cloudwill soon be the focus of each individual who has a cyberlife.

Workday: 'Oracle's And Salesforce's' Greatest Nightmare'
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Cloud computing company Workday is seeing such strong demand for its initial public offering that the offering price of its shares has been raises, according to a company filing. The Oracle (ORCL), SAP (SAP) and Salesforce.com ...

Cloud computing company hits new fundraising heights
TheChronicleHerald.ca
A Halifax cloud computing startup has raised $1.1 million to advance its file-sharing technology and expand into new markets. TitanFile Inc.'s latest round of fundraising is backed by Innovacorp, the provincial government's high-tech funding body, the ...

Understanding the significance of DevOps in a cloud deployment
TechTarget
It's not uncommon for a technology to gain publicity faster than it gains implementation traction among enterprises, and that's certainly been true for cloud computing. Some enterprises claim two... Compatibility with public cloud services. Most ...

FileSpirit lets mobile workers remotely access their files
GigaOM
While companies are increasingly storing more of their files in the cloud, not every business is ready to go that route. For those ... Co-founder Dominik Wever said many companies, especially in Europe, are skittish about storing their files in the ...

GigaOM

Cloud-Music Player AudioBox Reboots With Support For DropBox, Google Drive ...
TechCrunch
At the heart of this completely rewritten version of AudioBox is integration to a plethora of third-partycloud storage services and a desktop app to stream directly from a user's own computer — all built around a slick HTML5 browser-based music player.

Macquarie Telecom suffers major outage
The Australian
"Over the last 48 hours 65 customers have experienced network outages that have left them unable to access cloud storage," Macquarie Telecom managing director of hosting Aidan Tudehope said in a statement to The Australian. "Our technicians have been ...

Aircel partners with NEC for cloud solutions
Times of India
At the announcement of the partnership, Ravinder Jain, chief business officer - enterprise, Aircel Limited, said, "Aircel is delighted to foray into the rapidly growing cloud computing market in India.Cloud Services by the name of "Business Unplugged ...

VMware Expands Cloud Management Offering
Windows IT Pro (blog)
vCloud Automation Center 5.1 will be integrated with VMware's vCloud Director 5.1 and will allow authorized administrators, developers and business users to request new cloud services and applications or to manage existing resources using a self ...

Discount cloud: Market lets agencies tap unused capacity -- Government ...
Forbes
Currently, I'm General Manager, Cloud Services for NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Before this, I served in senior management positions with various companies ...

Systems Engineer - Unix - Cloud Computing
The Independent
Systems Engineer - Unix - Cloud Computing. My client is a leading provider of cloud solutions and they are currently looking for a Systems Engineer to join their team based in Dublin City Centre. This is a great opportunity to work with leading edge ...

Businesses turn partly 'cloudy'
Spokane Journal of Business
Businesses here have started tapping into "cloud" computing services over the past several years, but each is using the cloud differently, depending on the size and structure of the business, some technology industry experts here say. Also, some ...

Spokane Journal of Business

OpenNebula cloud — bigger than expected in business
GigaOM
OpenNebula — the open-source cloud behind the European Space Agency and CERN – may be bigger in private industry business than many may have anticipated. According to new survey data from C12G Labs, the company behind OpenNebula, ...

GigaOM

Dirty Disks, Data Dilemmas: Keeping Clouds Secure
Wired (blog)
The InformationWeek 2012 Cloud Security and Risk Survey found that nearly half (48 percent) of respondents who had no plans to use public cloud services cited security fears as their primary reason. Data privacy and security are not only essential for ...

Wired (blog)

Oracle Unveils Expanded Cloud Services
THISDAY Live
Executive Vice President, Oracle Product Development, Mr. Thomas Kurian has announced that Oracle is expanding its Cloud services portfolio, as it continues to demonstrate significant customer and partner momentum. According to Kurian, the new Oracle ...

Cisco Grows Its Cloud and Adds Elastic Core for Carriers
Data Center Knowledge
As a part of Cisco's Cloud Computing organization under CTO Lew Tucker, vCider will play an important role in the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy, particularly in support of OpenStack. The vCider team has created a multi-tenant ...

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud-Based Tech No Longer Just Blue Sky
TV News Check
They see the efficiencies that could come from using the Internet and broadband connections for everything from graphics to media asset management to news gathering and editing, but they are not sure they want to rely on the cloud for critical ...

Cloud Process, Part 1
ebizQ (blog)
A dualism of 'Cloud Process' may be understood as a 'process of Cloud' and as 'muggy/cloudy process'. With regard to Cloud Computing (Cloud for short) both interpretations are correct.Cloud's march slows down and its fanfares lower the noise - Cloud ...

What Cloud Service Providers Can Do To Accelerate Cloud ...
By Gregory
Cloud computing is a promising technology; however, uptake by businesses remains slow in some industries despite the many benefits of cloud computing. Productivity, lower costs, and efficiency are some of the open benefits of the cloud.
CloudTweaks

4 Key Points on Cloud Computing | The Blog Herald
By Angus Shaw
IBM Cloud Computing. (Photo credit: IvanWalsh.com). Cloud computing is truly the tech du jour among business enterprises, but this tech buzz word is no passing fad, its gearing up to be that floating behemoth of data that's here to stay. You'd ...
The Blog Herald

Trends for successful datacenters: virtualization, cloud, storage ...
By Cameron Laird
It entirely missed, for example, the Open Data Center Alliance's prediction “that the overall power savings [emphasis added] from cloud adoption could add up to approximately 45GW by 2015 … enough … to power up to 15 million homes.” ...
Real User Monitoring

The State of the Open Source Cloud [Roundtable Discussion Invite ...
By Travis Balinas
... The State of the Open Source Cloud.” This 1-hour round table discussion will have representatives from OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus talking about the state of the open source cloud and what it means to your business and the broader cloud computing market. ... “There are many open source platforms for building Amazon-like cloud services in your own data center, and they've all received an awful lot of attention in recent years. But are real companies actually ready to ...
Transforming IT Operations

SIIA & Cloud Innovators Summits Partner to Promote Their Mutual ...
By Jeff Kaplan
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the leading trade association for the software and digital content industries, has entered into a partnership with THINKstrategies, Inc., the Cloud Computing Showplace, and Rising Tide ...
Cloud Innovators Blog

Guest Post – The Cloud in the Public Sector: Is it real or is it myth ...
By Pan Tan
For the last four years, Jim has served as the Manager of the Virtualization and Cloud ComputingConsulting Practice at GTSI, working with different federal, state and local agencies on a variety of technical solutions primarily focused in the ...
HyperOffice blog

An Interview With Mohammed Naser, Chief Executive Officer ...
By dhnadmin
From the first company to add FFMPEG support until the only one that offers Rails 3 hosting with it's regular hosting service to offering OpenStack based cloud services and even innovating over the OpenStack platform to add more services powered by ... We're also adding in all the other features of OpenStack shortly such as cloud storage as well as leveraging those services in order to create more value-added services like cloud-based DNS, CDN for normal usage and for our cloud ...
DailyHostNews

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Driving Innovation Through the Cloud ...
In his General Session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Dan Baigent, Sr. Director Business Development, HP Cloud Services, will share the company's vision and strategy behind the HP Converged Cloud and the implications for the enterprise. ... The recent Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined! Cloud Expo ...
Java Industry News

The State of the Cloud Market - SVForum | Forrester Blogs
By James Staten
Curious about where we are in the development of the cloud computing market. Here is my opening keynote from the 2012 SV Forum in Santa Clara, CA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXtb2yBbCzo&feature=share&list=PLGl_aAgm1.
IT Infrastructure

Living in a World of Many Clouds - Savvis blog
While there is indeed a strong role both now and in the future for scale providers, we're also seeing an equally interesting trend as well - the emergence of more highly differenced cloud services, focused on addressing industry specific needs, ...
Savvis blog

What to Look For in a Document Storage Company
By DavidRocke
Even if you aren't shopping for “physical” document storage, it's important that cloud storage services also ultimately must have a physical location, must offer protection against the elements, and must offer security. When examining cloud ... You may also want to avoid giving extremely sensitive information to cloud computing centers, as they often ask companies to sign waivers that relieve them of ultimate responsibility for the safety and security of the information they store. About The ...
Enterprise Features

VMware Virtualization & Cloud Management
Cloud Business Management: Govern and manage cloud services as a critical ... are designed to meet the demands of cloud computing – self-service, scale, ...
www.vmware.com/solutions/datacenter/.../overview.html

Favorite Interop cloud computing tweets, and a shameless Big Bird ...
The Interop 2012 conference last week brought many IT professionals to New York City -- and also to Twitter. With talks on mobile devices and ...
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../Favorite-Interop-clou...

Cloud Computing and Virtualization | Symantec Connect Community
Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources.
www.symantec.com/connect/node/2515931



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