Thursday, October 11, 2012

HP Cloud challenges Amazon and Google

Review: HP Cloud challenges Amazon and Google
InfoWorld
Not everything is on the list. Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Server, two operating systems offered for a bit more money by Rackspace and other clouds, aren't anywhere to be seen. This promises to be temporary. Marc Padovani, HP Cloud Services ...

Cloud computing: here we go again
ZDNet
Summary: The same pattern has emerged again and again in the history of IT. New ideas emerge. Vendors develop their own approaches. Camps form to support those approaches. Eventually standards emerge. The battle over cloud computing standards ...

Cloud Computing In Agriculture: 5 Key Questions You Must Answer
CropLife
That's not to say you shouldn't have any worries about security with cloud computing. The CloudSecurity Alliance recommends you be aware of software interfaces, or APIs, that are used to interact with cloud services. "Reliance on a weak set of ...

Cloud Computing: Is Microsoft's Azure Number One?
Formtek Blog (blog)
By most measures, Amazon's AWS service tops all cloud computing services. It is Amazon's AWS that supports NASA's recent Mars rover exploration. And AWS is used by hundreds of thousands of companies in 190 countries. Many high-profile companies ...

Microsoft Will Judge Your Company's Cloud Readiness
InformationWeek
... Will Judge Your Company's Cloud Readiness. Microsoft's Cloud Security Readiness Tool surveys the state of compliance, security, and infrastructure in advance of a move to cloud services. By Charles Babcock · InformationWeek ... The only type of ...

Beyond the hype of cloud computing
ITworld.com
October 10, 2012, 8:00 AM — Despite all of the hype that cloud computing is getting, a recent survey shows that in terms of actual pace of deployment, three popular open source cloud computing platforms are not exactly seeing growth to match that hype.

ComodIT wants to bring about intuitive IT
GigaOM
ComodIT, a startup in Liege, Belgium wants to take the IT management world by storm with its product that's adapted for cloud computing as opposed to legacy IT. The startup, which is a finalist in our Structure:Europe LaunchPad competition is seeking a...

GigaOM

ONE CONNXT Cloud Services Platform Simplifies Content Distribution
Broadcast Newsroom
ONE CONNXT, a proven leader in broadcast delivery, has been praised for its new cloud servicesdemonstration following the 2012 IBC in Amsterdam. ONE CONNXTs cloud service is a virtual storage system for content that allows regional time shifting and ...

Lunacloud Deploys Cloudian® To Grow Business, Offer S3 Compatible Cloud ...
Einnews Portugal
... the leader in S3 compatible cloud storage software, today announced that Lunacloud, a leading European pure-play cloud services provider, has selected Cloudian's industry-leading Cloudian software to power its cloud storage service, marking ...

Egnyte Unveils Hybrid Cloud Storage Platform
Infostor magazine
Egnyte, a provider of cloud-based file services, today announced that is has partnered with some major IT systems makers to deliver its technology to enterprises that prefer to roll their own cloud file sharing infrastructures. The Mountain View, Calif ...

Akamai Zaps Web Content Delivery Delays
InformationWeek
Find out the nine questions you must ask before migrating apps to the public cloud in the CloudReady? special issue of InformationWeek. Also in this issue: It's time to lay to rest two common myths of the cloud computing era. (Free registration ...

Mobile banking, cloud computing and IT investment cash top wish list for bank ...
Finextra
Mobile banking, cloud computing and IT investment cash top wish list for bank CIOs. Half of Britain's financial services firms think that mobile banking is already important to their customers, while 71% predict it will be by 2015, according to a ...

Finextra

CenturyLink Brings Self-Service to Savvis Cloud
Data Center Knowledge
In the long-running debate about the definition of cloud computing, many cloud-watchers insist that a true cloud must be self-service, allowing users to provision and deploy their own servers. With its new savvisdirect service, CenturyLink is bringing ...

Data Center Knowledge

Savvis launches cloud database in Europe
ZDNet
The enterprise cloud infrastructure and IT solutions firm launched the Symphony Database project last year in North America. Now, the cloud-based database platform is available to European companies. Savvis says that the platform brings cloud computing ...

Back When the Cloud Was Dumb
PC Magazine
Several years ago, I was in Holland and was taken to task by a huge group of cloud computingfolks who berated me for my continued and obnoxious objection to the whole notion. I had to convince them that many conceptual uses of remote servers, as I ...

Intelligence community cloud coming online in early 2013
FederalNewsRadio.com
"The plan is centered on cloud computing and cloud storage and the security enhancements bound up in the bumper sticker slogan, 'tag the data, tag the people,'" he told the 2012 GEOINT symposium in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday. "If we execute this right, we ...

Single Sign-On For The Cloud
InformationWeek
Enterprise single sign-on isn't really all that important for companies that use one or a small number of cloud apps. This situation applies to 27% of 166 respondents to InformationWeek's State ofCloud Computing Survey, who have only one cloud ...

Cloud Choice Today Matters Tomorrow
Channelnomics
Alternatively, solution providers can split with a network operations center and create an entire portfolio wrought form รก-la-carte cloud services, delivered as a singular (customizable) solution set. It would be easy if one could point to 'the best ...

BT boosts R&D cloud services with Aspera's high-speed transfer technology
ITWeb
BT today announced it is working together with Aspera, a creator of next-generation data transport technologies that move the world's data at maximum speed, to integrate its innovative file transfer technology into BT for Life Sciences R&D, the first ...

KVH debuts private cloud services
Automated Trader
Tokyo - KVH is to launch a private cloud service from October 15, 2012 at its data centre in Tokyo. The data centre facility has a seismically isolated structure, 766 square meters of server room space, 640kw of maximum power capacity, and is directly ...

Cloud News: VMware Adds Support for AWS to vCloud
Data Center Knowledge
“We believe this new service from two recognized leaders in cloud computing provides a compelling way for large organizations to exploit cloud's transformational power.” Polycom launches RealPresence CloudAXIS. Polycom (PLCM) unveiled its ...

Expert Q&A: Cloud computing, HIE will be the 'new normal'
TechTarget
Ken Ong: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the most comprehensive definition of cloud computing to date: 'Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of ...

eHosting DataFort to launch public and private cloud services at Gitex ...
AME Info
eHosting DataFort (eHDF), the region's leading managed IT services provider and a member of TECOM Investments, announced it will launch its public and private cloud services at Gitex Technology Week 2012. One of the largest ICT exhibitions in the ...

AME Info

Financing a transition to the cloud
Healthcare Finance News
Transitioning to cloud services may be the next big technology move for your organization. What's involved? How much does it cost? Is it worth it? We talked to some folks familiar with cloud computing for “Navigating the Cloud,” an e-supplement ...

Wireless and The Cloud and Virtualization: Definitions Required
Network World
So, then, Cloud storage? Ditto - a (simulated) disk drive (or, perhaps, a file system or just sea of non-volatile storage) magically available at the end of a virtual wire. And ditto for servers and resources of all forms hosted in The Cloud. So, then ...

Amazon Web Services Is A Hit Among Government Agencies
WebProNews
Amazon Web Services Is A Hit Among Government Agencies. Amazon, Google and other cloud storage companies have found great success in the private sector by offering storage solutions to consumers and companies alike. Negotiating contracts with the ...

Can Cloud Computing Be Regulated? Join The Debate
CloudTweaks News
We can assume that a proper regulatory board will act as an instant stimulating factor for the popularity of cloud computing services. 2. So far, there is no certification for core cloud services. With the establishment of a regulatory board ...

DIEBOLD INCORPORATED : Diebold Showcases Cloud Services At BAI Retail ...
4-traders
Pre-staged and cardless transactions are showcased on an ATM that uses the cloud for services integration and delivery, demonstrating streamlined and simplified management of software from various providers. Software and services delivery via the cloud ...

Cloud could give European economy €1 trillion boost by 2020, predicts EC report
International Science Grid This Week
The report, entitled Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe predicts that cloud computing could cause the EU economy to grow by an extra 1% by 2020, as well as creating 3.8 million extra jobs. However, the report warns that a number of ...

DigitalGlobe unveils cloud-services portal
Boulder County Business Report
LONGMONT - DigitalGlobe Inc., a provider of high-resolution earth imagery, publicly unveiled its My DigitalGlobe cloud-services platform this week at the GeoInt 2012 intelligence symposium in Orlando, Florida. Longmont-based DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) ...

Rackspace cleared of false advertising rap over cloud services
IT PRO
A complaint was issued to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) by an unnamed party regarding a sponsored search advert, which read “The World Leader in Cloud Computing & Hosting. 100% Uptime Guarantee!”. The complainant thought the advert was ...

IT PRO

IO raises $90M to rethink the corporate data center
GigaOM
7 reasons why Europe really matters to cloud computing. It's not home to Google, Amazon or Facebook, but from plucky entrepreneurs to the world's most-advanced computing... For the future of big data startups, look to Facebook. Facebook knows something ...

Box Embed HTML5 framework helps vendors integrate cloud storage service
Techworld.com
Box has announced an HTML5 framework that makes it possible for customers and other vendors to fully integrate features of its file sharing and cloud storage software into websites and enterprise applications. The framework, called Box Embed, is pre ...

Funambol gets $5.75M to fuel mobile carriers' cloud services
GigaOM
The company started out as a cross-platform mobile e-mail synchronization service, but it's evolved into a white-label cloud services company that lets wireless and wireline operators, ISPs and device makers to launch their own branded cloud storage...

GigaOM

Box Brings 'Like' Button to Cloud Storage Service - SocialTimes
By Cameron Scott
At Box's conference today, CEO Aaron Levie announced that the cloud storage company would add social features, including collaborative editing and a.
SocialTimes

Adopting cloud computing to mitigate IT problems « CopperEgg
By CopperEgg
"As the U.S. cloud services market continues to mature, enterprises find that overall business impact and productivity gains from the cloud are as significant as achieving cost reductions," Tapper said. If organizations want to remain competitive ...
CopperEgg

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Cloud? [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Sam Laird
This infographic looks at why some organizations have been slow to adapt to cloud computing.
Mashable » Tech

Can Cloud Computing Change the Way Utilities Approach ...
By Zurine Garcia
Utility companies don't readily change their information systems, but a recent survey by IDC revealed that “big data” may drive them to the cloud. According to IDC, nearly 79 percent of utilities in Western Europe believe cloud computing could ...
Intergraph CONNECT

Raising the Stakes for Data Centers at the 451 Cloud Computing ...
By Steven Carlini
Last weeks conference – 451 Cloud Computing Transformational Summit mixed business discussions and technology developments that are guiding the direction for data centers and “digital infrastructure” Highlighted where complex ...
Schneider Electric Data Center Blog

Cloud Computing: Compuware Unveils Outage Analyzer | Cloud ...
Research shows that the typical website has more than ten separate hosts contributing to a single transaction, many of which come from third-party cloud services such as social media, ecommerce platforms, web analytics, ad servers and ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Help For Cloud-Storage Hoarders » The Novice Archivist
By admin
Help For Cloud-Storage Hoarders. Distributed Data Disorder symptoms include hoarding online storage, not remembering where your files are, fractured mobile indexes, and performance hits on your primary system. Let's take a look at each ...
The Novice Archivist

Streak powers their business on Google Cloud Platform
By Raj Sarkar
As a result, Cloud Storage is a conduit to route this data to other Google cloud services, such as BigQuery and the Prediction API. Last, we use Google ... Labels: cloud computing, cloud platform,cloud services, Google App Engine, guest post ...
Official Google Enterprise Blog

VMware: Hey, Other Cloud Services Exist - Slashdot
Nerval's Lobster writes "VMware has updated its cloud-management portfolio to support alternative tools, including Amazon's platform. That's a big step for the ...
tech.slashdot.org/.../vmware-hey-other-cloud-services-exist

Oracle OpenWorld: Here Are Seven New Cloud Services
The announcements are the latest in a blitz of cloud computing news at the ... into cloud computing and plans to offer Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud services.
www.crn.com/.../oracle-openworld-here-are-seven-new-cloud-...

TechSoup Webinar: Cloud Computing -- Benefits and Barriers for ...
Topics: cloud computing, Techsoup, toolshed, tsg, webinar · See all of laneystrange's blog posts.Cloud Computing: Benefits and Barriers for Nonprofits and ...
www.netsquared.org/.../techsoup-webinar-cloud-computing-b...



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