Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Fortune 500 CIOs Seem Happy With Cloud Computing

So Far, So Good: Fortune 500 CIOs Seem Happy With Cloud Computing
Forbes
Many organizations are still in the early stages of their cloud computing journeys, and the reports are: so far, so good. No major flaws or “gotchas” have emerged in nascent cloud engagements, and CIOs are saying full steam ahead. Still needed, however ...
 
Forbes

Inside One Amazon Cloud Customer's Zone Defense
InformationWeek
One customer of Amazon's EC2 cloud has a bit of advice on maintaining high availability of your applications there. Follow Amazon's instructions and put your system in more than one availability zone (AZ) to protect against an outage. As a matter of ...

Oracle Unveils Expanded Oracle Cloud Services Portfolio
AllAfrica.com
Delivering on the industry's broadest and most advanced Cloud strategy, Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, Oracle Product Development, announced that Oracle is expanding its Oracle Cloud services portfolio, and continues to demonstrate ...

Cloud computing co. seeds contest finalists
Boston Herald
ProfitBricks' partnership with the $1.1 million startup competition and accelerator will enable each company to receive new, second-generation cloud services, including virtual servers with almost double the performance of existing cloud providers. “A ...

EU Eyes Cloud Computing to Kick Start Economy
CNBC.com
Text Size. By: Matt Clinch Special to CNBC.com. With a four-year debt crisis and recession affecting many of its member countries, the European Union (EU) is turning to cloud computing to create 2.5 million new jobs and boost the region's economy.

CNBC.com

The State of Cloud Computing Around the World: South Africa
CloudTimes (blog)
south africa flag 300x225 The State of Cloud Computing Around the World: South Africa Africa, despite being home to billions of people who don't even own a computer, much less an internet connection, may ironically be one of the places that will ...

CloudTimes (blog)

Federal Agencies Build A Business Case For The Cloud
InformationWeek
... Government, distributed in an all-digital format as part of our Green Initiative (Registration required.)Cloud Business Case. The Office of Management and Budget introduced the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy in February 2011, putting federal ...

Cloud computing jobs - Demand for cloud architects on the rise
ComputerworldUK
If you visit the popular tech-focused job site Dice.com and search for cloud computing jobs, you'll get more than 3,800 hits. According to Alice Hill, managing director of Dice.com, that's up 72% over last year. Basically, cloud is a segment of the ...

Mobile Advertising, Commerce, Security and Cloud Services to Take Center ...
PYMNTS.com
When Sprint (NYSE:S) hosts its 12th annual Open Solutions Conference, Oct. 24-25 at the San Jose, Calif., Convention Center, participants won't just be hearing from the telecom ecosystem experts. They will hear from big brands, advertising agencies, ...

KANA Introduces Lagan Express Cloud Computing CRM Solution to Meet the ...
U.S. Politics Today
ICMA 2012 CONFERENCE - KANA Software, Inc., a global leader in customer service solutions delivered on-premise or in the cloud used by more than 900 organizations worldwide, including half of the Global 100 and 250 government entities around the ...

Does Windows 8 need "real" integration with third-party cloud storage providers?
Brian Madden (blog)
by Brian Madden. One of the great (if not the greatest) new features of Windows 8 and Office 13 is the integration with Microsoft's cloud storage platform called SkyDrive. At first glance, you might think that SkyDrive is nothing more than "Microsoft's ...

free backup cloud services?
GameDev.net
Good bye data. Or what if something happens while they're backing up and their backup drive and their computer are destroyed or stolen? Good bye data. Data redundancy with geographical distribution is what really makes "cloud" storage desirable.

Is the cloud overhyped? Predicted savings hard to verify
Federal Times
The General Services Administration, Agriculture Department, U.S. Agency for International Development and others have projected millions of dollars in annual savings by moving to the cloud. While proponents and skeptics of cloud computing agree that ...

Cloud Solutions Increase Customer Engagement and Retention
Sacramento Bee
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CX, a premier application and platform provider ofcloud-based secure content sharing and collaboration to businesses and individuals, is leading the industry as one of the first cloud storage ...

State set to head for the cloud
The Australian
NSW will identify cloud computing solutions that have the potential to provide services at a whole-of-government level by early next year, Minister for Finance and Services Greg Pearce said. By then, the O'Farrell government would have pinpointed an ...

Ireland: Your global Cloud provider location. (Podcast)
ZDNet
Summary: If you think that Ireland is an unlikely location for global Cloud services, you're not alone but this podcast will convince you that Ireland is not only beautiful but is also ready to serve your Cloud needs. Ken Hess. By Ken Hess for ...

ZDNet

Secure-24 to Feature Hosting and Cloud Services for SAP® Solutions at SAP ...
Equities.com
The company is an SAP-certified provider of cloud services and an SAP hosting partner, as well as a Cisco Premier Partner. Secure-24 supports over 150 clients with operations around the globe in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, energy and ...

Hybrid Applications: Hybrid Cloud in the Real World
Data Center Knowledge
It is highly unlikely to find anyone today that doesn't see cloud computing having an incredibly bright future given the significant cost, agility, and operational advantages it provides to organizations of almost every size and industry. But believing ...

Data Center Knowledge

Intel, McAfee to promote cloud confidence [TradeArabia]
Equities.com
The IT companies will focus on tackling four key areas that include securing cloud data centers, securing the network connections, securing the devices that connect to cloud services and accelerating the development of unified standards for cloud ...

Cloud services market in India to surpass $326 mn in 2012
CXOToday.com
Cloud money The public cloud services market in India is forecast to grow 32.4 percent in 2012 to total $326.2 million, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide publiccloud services revenue is on pace to total $111 billion this year. “The cloud services...

CXOToday.com

Dell expands cloud services in EMEA
Cloud Pro
Dell has extended its Cloud Services to its partners in the UK and Europe six months after it launched its cloud in the region. Following on from a pilot the company ran in June, Dell has now made available its cloud managed services to all its ...

Cloud SaaS Provider RingByName Launches Partner Program
TalkinCloud (blog)
Designed specifically for small- and midsized resellers, the program is meant to give those partners a “jump start” into the growing cloud services market. Through the program, partners will have access to RingByName's Biz in a Box, a pre-configured ...

Apple gives former MobileMe customers free cloud storage
BetaNews
Early Friday evening I received unexpected email from Apple, offering extra benefit as former MobileMe customer -- a year of extra online storage. Hey, that's 20GB, instead of 5GB. It's good marketing to those of us who paid $99 year or more for MobileMe.

Cbeyond employs BTI's packet optical gear for cloud service venture
FierceTelecom
What drove Cbeyond to incorporate fiber into its access delivery diet was the need to provide higher bandwidth connections to their SMB customers to support a larger array of cloud services. Although definitions of the SMB market vary, for Cbeyond it ...

GovWin Recon Oct. 8: No Lame Duck Sequestration Deal?; Cloud Savings
govWin (blog)
Is the cloud overhyped? Predicted savings hard to verify [Federal Times] – Despite widespread predictions that cloud computing could save the government billions of dollars, "agencies often lack the details needed to compare their pre-cloud costs ...

Appirio beefs up, acquires Knowledge Infusion
ZDNet
Appirio has specialized in cloud and software as a service deployments. Knowledge Infusion has primarily focused on the HCM market. Systems integrators such as Accenture, Deloitte and others have been rapidly building up cloud computing practices.

Cloud gaming: What will change for the video game industry
Sacramento Bee
The gaming industry has been gradually making the shift to digital over the last decade and cloudgaming is the next step in the process. This study examines the challenges facing the industry-wide and commercial deployment of cloud gaming in terms of ...

Alteryx Consumerizes Big Data Analytics in the Cloud
Sacramento Bee
"Traditional analytics platform vendors think that cloud analytics means hosting their difficult-to-use and costly solutions in a public cloud, putting huge constraints on the potential for Big Data and analytics to unleash creativity," said George ...

The keys to reselling cloud services
CRN Australia
Data sovereignty is a very real issue for many Australian companies and prevents a vast number of them from moving to public cloud services. In short, will your customers find it acceptable that by using the Patriot Act, US authorities can access their ...

Cloud Careers for IT Professionals: It's a Seller's Market
Computerworld India
Reed says professionals who are experts in cloud computing, software as a service and virtualization are in high demand, but those with combined skills in server, software and networking are the most sought after in the current IT job market. Reed ...

Computerworld India

More Than 6000 Organizations Now Deployed in the Kronos Cloud
PYMNTS.com
Some of the latest Kronos Cloud customers include: Aztec Shops, Ltd., a leader in the university services industry; Charming Charlie, the award-winning fashion accessories retailer; Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, the nation's largest independent ...

Scheduled Maintenance – Cloud Services – 10 minute outage ...
By Planet Domain Support
Planet Domain Technical Services team would like to advise of an upcoming scheduled maintenance on our Load Balancer system responsible for redundancy of Cloud hosting services. This maintenance is necessary due to a rollback on a ...
PlanetDomain Support

David Versus Goliath in Open-source Cloud Computing: The ...
By Ignacio M. Llorente
Now that OpenNebula has been listed by GigaOM on the list of main reasons why Europe really matters to cloud computing, I am receiving several emails asking about how OpenNebula is able, what's its "secret recipe", to compete with other ...
Cloud Strategy and Innovation

3 Tips To Find A Reliable Cloud Service Provider | Business ...
By Kevin Tea
Cloud computing is a new technology that is gaining immense popularity among all types of business entities. It is an IT based data backup service that provides hardware and software which can be used to access your personal or business ...
Business Computing World

Organizational Agility - The Real Benefit of Cloud Computing - PM Hut
By PM Hut
Organizational Agility - The Real Benefit of Cloud Computing - PM Hut. ... Cloud services allow you to configure and re-configure solutions to business needs more easily. Making sure your cloud efforts focus on standards vs. proprietary or ...
Project Management Articles - PM Hut

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Manila Outsourcing Summit is Truly International | Cloud Computing ...
As the International Cloud Expo in Santa Clara approaches, it's worth noting that the Philippines also has an emerging cloud-computing industry that is still a secret to much of the world. Telcos such as Globe Technologies, datacenters ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Get 25GB cloud storage + sync FREE from 'Box' » Daves Computer ...
By Jim Hillier
Box is a cloud storage/sync service, similar in nature to Dropbox. Box is currently ... Now through March 23, box (the other cloud storage solution) will be allocating 50 gigabytes of cloud storagespace to anyone who downloads and... Cloud ...
Daves Computer Tips

Otixo-Your Dashboard For Cloud Management - Web2, Cloud ...
By Kevin Tea
Tweet If you are like me and have a multitude of cloud based sync, store and share services you may despair of how you keep track of everything. You may ... All the added cloud services are listed on the left pane of the explorer. IYou can only ...
Web2, Cloud Computing, Social...

Interop New York: Successful Cloud Transformations Start with Well ...
By Amy Larsen DeCarlo
While often-cited issues around reliability, security and loss of IT control over cloud services were top of mind, IT professionals also expressed serious concerns about how the lack of internal cloudexpertise might result in their organization straying off the best deployment path. As is the case in the implementation of any disruptive technology or consumption model, implementing cloud computing services on a broad basis requires a particular skill set which most organizations lack.
IT Connection Blogs

India's cloud services market estimated to grow 32.4% in 2012 ...
By songbedna
NEW DELHI: India's public cloud services market is projected to grow 32.4% in 2012 and may reach $326.2 million, according to a study by research and advisory company Gartner.
SME News - Industry | IndiaMART News

Software stack market share within Jelastic: September 2012 ...
By Marina Sprava
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PAC BLOG » IaaS: Closer to the notion of the “IT on tap” than ever ...
By Karsten Leclerque
Posted on 8/10/2012, Category Cloud Computing,IT Outsourcing & BPO. As the marketing hype is subsiding, it is becoming clearer and clearer that the cloud trend is actually massively changing the way technology resources are delivered and accessed. This is why PAC has conducted a comprehensive analysis on the status quo and ... And this is particularly true for public cloud services. The market for public IaaS in the USA is more than three times the size of the whole EMEA...
PAC BLOG

Mobile and Cloud Computing - University of Houston | Free ...
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Cloud Computing Strategy for Insurers: A Little Bit of Both ...
Insurers find themselves much more comfortable doing business with the private cloud servicesavailable on the market today because these services offer a ...
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