Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Open vs Closed - The Cloud Wars

Open vs. Closed: The Cloud Wars
New York Times (blog)
H.P. is also offering cloud computing systems in “pods” that combine its servers, data storage, and management software in a single integrated package. On the other side, the cloud storage company Box announced Tuesday a service that enables customers ...

New York Times (blog)

AT&T, IBM Share Network to Lure More Customers to Cloud
Businessweek
Giving AT&T's customers the option of adding cloud services from IBM on a network they already use will be “huge,” said Andy Geisse, head of the phone company's unit for business clients. “With our customers, we see cloud computing as a key part of ...

DigitalGlobe Unveils Integrated Cloud Services Platform for Government and ...
DirectionsMag.com (blog)
ORLANDO, FL, Oct 09, 2012 - DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, publicly unveiled its My DigitalGlobe cloud services platform at GEOINT 2012, the nation's largest intelligence event. DigitalGlobe Cloud ...

How To Sell Cloud Storage In Five Steps
CRN (blog)
Opportunities abound for channel partners to differentiate and create new revenue streams as storage takes center stage enabling the cloud data center. Demand for storage is exploding as IT managers strive to handle the avalanche of new data being ...

Services hold key to cloud computing success
InfoWorld
Cloud computing is, at its core, a new take on an old model (timesharing) for consuming IT resources, but for many enterprises, it requires a new architecture based on services rather than apps. As cloud computing evolves, we'll become more accustomed ...

Box seeks new allies in cloud storage wars with integration framework
GigaOM
NetSuite, DocuSign, Jive, SugarCRM, Concur and Oracle sign on early to new Box Embed program but with erstwhile Box partners like Salesforce.com and other vendors now doing their own cloud file-share-and-sync, Box does need some reinforcements.

GigaOM

BT Boosts R&D Cloud Services with Aspera's High-speed Transfer Technology
Equities.com
Our cloud-based Life Sciences for R&D platform brings speed, flexibility, compliance and security to R&D processes, independently from location. Scientists will be delighted by the competitive advantage brought to our platform by the combination of ...

AT&T, IBM will offer private network cloud computing
Boston Globe
AT&T and IBM said they planned to begin selling private cloud services to businesses early next year. Reprints; E-mail. Share via e-mail. To. Add a message. Your e-mail. Share. Facebook · Google+ · LinkedIn · Reddit · Twitter. Save. BERLIN — AT&T and ...

Boston Globe

Get a free 15GB cloud-storage account from 4Sync
CNET
Those wrinkles aside, 4Sync offers a pretty pleasant cloud-storage experience. It uploaded very quickly from my desktop, and afforded all the usual browser-based options you could want: different views, easy file/folder sharing, photo slideshows, and ...

IBM, AT&T team on cloud services
ITworld.com
The service to be delivered from early next year is targeted at clients worldwide who are deployingclouds that demand high levels of security and availability, and who often cite security as a key inhibitor to cloud computing adoption, the companies ...

Adobe's Acrobat PDF Software Gains Cloud Services, More Tablet Support
Notebook Review
Acrobat XI Adobe has rolled out Adobe Acrobat XI, the newest version of its popular PDF software. Products in this release include Acrobat XI Pro, Acrobat XI Standard, and Adobe Reader XI, along with two new cloud services: Adobe FormsCentral and Adobe ...

Cloud business benefits seen in engineering, retail, media and logistics
ComputerworldUK
Dubbed cloud computing, public and private cloud computing is a major topic in enterprise technology at present. However, there can be no doubt adoption of both types of cloud services has reached the corporate mainstream. Cloud services, which include ...

How the Hard Drive Crisis Forced a Cloud Company to Buy Up 5.5 Petabytes of ...
Gizmodo
How the Hard Drive Crisis Forced a Cloud Company to Buy Up 5.5 Petabytes of Costco Flooding in Thailand made getting a hard drive a lot more expensive late last year. It wasn't a huge deal to most of us, but for a small cloud storage company, it was ...

Data center growth: Cloud means more capacity in fewer hands, says IDC
ZDNet
Credit: Jack Clark. The footprint of data centers is shrinking as more capacity is being added by cloud computing service providers, according to International Data Corp. The shift to the cloud means that internal data center growth is out even as ...

ZDNet

Significant surge in use of cloud computing by Irish CIOs
Siliconrepublic.com
Three-fifths of private-sector respondents use some form of cloud computing, while a quarter of those respondents in the public sector indicated that they are using cloud services. Of the respondents who are not currently using cloud computing within ...

Gunning for iCloud: White-Label Cloud Hub Provider, Funambol, Closes $5.75M ...
TechCrunch
Funambol is explicitly taking aim at what it describes as 'siloed' cloud services — i.e. proprietary services which require users to be locked into other platform-specific hardware or software services to access them. It specifically name-checks Apple ...

IBM Expands PureSystems Line, Announces Cloud Partnership
Datamation
Second, Big Blue will team with AT&T to enable more secure cloud computing. IBM's new PureSystems offerings are called PureData System for Transactions, PureData System for Analytics and the PureData System for Operational Analytics. Writing for ...

Dovetail Insurance Recognized for Cloud Computing
Insurance Networking News
Insurance software solutions provider Dovetail Insurance has won the Palmetto Pillar Award for cloud computing, which is sponsored by the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Columbia Information Technology Council.

TelVue Cloud Services Powers New Anime Channel
Digital Signage Connection
TelVue has announced it will be powering VIZ Media's launch of Neon Alley, a new 24-hour programmed anime channel available exclusively on popular Internet-connected gaming system PlayStation 3, according to a news release from the company.

Factors Making Cloud Computing Difficult To Convert Into A Utility For Small ...
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing use has increased phenomenally over the last years. Businesses use it for different functions and the results are tremendous benefits in efficiency and cost incentives. However, managing expectations remains a challenge to cloud ...

Joint electronics, cloud computing, green industry fairs open
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Joint electronics, cloud computing, green industry fairs open 2012/10/09 13:12:06. Taipei, Oct. 9 (CNA) Five trade fairs on electronics, cloud computing, broadband communications, green industries and smart green cities jointly kicked off in Taipei ...

SlideShark adds cloud storage integration and iPhone remote control feature ...
TabTimes
Being able to access PowerPoint files from an iPad using cloud services that business customers are becoming increasingly comfortable with managing makes Apple's device all that more useful, he added. Micrsooft claims over 30 million PowerPoint ...

An operating system in the cloud
Science Codex
A new-cloud based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed by researchers in China. Details of the TransOS system are reported in a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal of Cloud Computing. Computer users are ...

VMworld: VMware chief claims cloud computing "changes everything" about IT ...
V3.co.uk
In addition, the availability of public cloud services with openly published price lists is making it easier for businesses to calculate the relative cost of operating infrastructure themselves or outsourcing it, forcing their own IT departments to up ...

V3.co.uk

5 Cloud Computing Companies That Hedge Fund Billionaires Love
Insider Monkey (blog)
We believe that a continued rapid consumption of network capacity, driven by a rising use of tablets and smartphones, will propel companies operating in the cloud computing and wireless network optimization space. In the interim, these companies are ...

Insider Monkey (blog)

Brinkster Selects Radware's Attack Mitigation System to Protect its Cloud and ...
Sacramento Bee
Headquartered in Phoenix, AZ, Brinkster offers dedicated and managed hosting and cloud computing services to over 50,000 customers ranging from small start-ups to large corporations with the majority of its small and midsize customers using its shared ...

Google Play Search Problem Exposes Vulnerabilities of Cloud Computing
Midsize Insider
Google Play's search feature was down briefly Friday, October 5. The problem was quickly fixed but is a good example of the growing pains of any Web-based store. After all, the services were only bundled and given the new name in March. The error also ...

Can Bitbucket prevail in a Github-obsessed world?
GigaOM
“It's already becoming a best practice to do that with cloud hosting in general.” Bitbucket user interface before (left) and after. Atlassian also updated Stash, its 5-month-old on-premises Git-based code repository/version management offering, with ...

GigaOM

How Will Rackspace Hosting OpenStack Cloud Computing Certification Affect ...
DABCC.com
Rackspace Hosting has initiated a new effort to help the cloud community grab some attractive certifications, in the form of OpenStack Fundamentals. This offering is based on teaching materials that hosting company developed internally for a course ...

Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » Customer Insight: How one Cloud ...
By Carol Shottes
My affinity for “all things blue,” is why I was attracted to this story about Cisco customer, BlueWave Computing, LLC., a cloud services provider based in Atlanta, Georgia. BlueWave's existing server and storage infrastructure had reached its ...
Cisco Blog

RBI publishes report on cloud computing for small banks | eGov ...
By nikita
The Reserve Bank of India has published on its website the report on Cloud computing option for small size Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs). The Working Group.
eGov Magazine

PANGAEA Internet Marketing “Bronze Sponsor” - Cloud Computing ...
The recent Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, was the largest Cloud Computingconference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined! Cloud Expo Silicon ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

TechSoup: Cloud Computing: Benefits and Barriers ... - BlogJunction
By Kris
TechSoup Global recently released the findings from our 2012 Global NGO Cloud Survey, which collected more than 10,500 responses from nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 88 countries around the world. This is the first technology survey ...
BlogJunction Connecticut

US Mint takes control of cloud security fate | Simply Security
By Simply Security
The United States Mint had a cloud computing solution for ecommerce they were interested in implementing, but they wanted to make sure they understood the security from the provider before they made anything final.
Simply Security

Change How You Do Business With Cloud Computing | The HRIS ...
By Our Guest Blogger
Guest blogger Rosa Smith discusses cloud solutions when it comes to finding the extra space you need to keep your business connected.
The HRIS World

Perspecsys – Cloud Data Privacy – Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
Although Cloud value is conveyed by the centralized and shared hosting of applications, there are a number of factors that will require some form of 'Cloud Router' to be installed on the client site too. Perspecsys cater for Cloud Data Privacy, ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

VMware Updates vCloud Suite for Software-Defined Data Centers ...
By The VAR Guy
VMware enhancements to vCloud Suite, vCloud Automation Center 5.1, vCloud Director could help customers manage software-defined data centers a&nd cloud services. ... The company claims VMware Cloud Management solutions “help deliver the software-defined datacenter, allowing customers to achieve the efficiency and agility of cloud computing. Joe Tucci, CEO of EMC — parent of VMware — explained the software-defined datacenter vision during a recent keynote at Oracle ...
The VAR Guy

Microsoft will update Windows 8 apps before launch. Let's hope they ...
Virtualization & Cloud Computing News, Support, Podcasts, Videos, Webinars and Downloads for the Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, Desktop Virtualization (VDI), Remote Desktop (Terminal Services), Application Virtualization, Server Virtualization, ...
Hot DABCC Virtualization & Cloud...

VMware adds cloud management | IT-Online
By Kathy Gibson
Today's announcements are part of a complete solution approach to cloud computing, including newCloud Ops Intellectual Property (IP) and advisory, transformation and education services announced in August 2012. Based on VMware's ...
IT-Online

AT&T and IBM Team Up for Private Enterprise Cloud Service
By Josh Ong
“When customers of the new service connect to IBM cloud computing resources across AT&T's virtual private network, the innovative technology tightly integrates the security protections of both, allowing customers to quickly and reliably ... The financial terms of the partnership weren't disclosed, though IBM senior vice president Erich Clementi did tell Bloomberg that the venture is a “major component” of the company's goal to reach $7 billion in revenue from cloud services by 2015.
The Next Web

Government Agencies Covet the Cloud
By Dave Courbanou
clouds Federal government agencies have found a true need to bring cloud services to the workplace and are actively making plans to do so, a new Information Week survey finds. According to the report, ... Wary of Huawei's Risk. Posted in Channel Business, Cloud Computing, Government, News | Tags: cloud computing survey, Cloud First, cloud migration, federal cloud, Federal Cloud ComputingSurvey, federal cloud survey, FRAMP, government, Information Week, private cloud ...
Channelnomics

HP Blogs - 4 security considerations around multi-tenancy - The HP ...
By HPNetworking
The NIST Publication 800-145 specifies “Resource Pooling” as one of the 5 essential characteristics of cloud computing. Resource pooling enables the capability to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model. Multi-tenancy is ...
HP Networking articles

Adobe Community: Creative Cloud - cloud storage
I paid for a yearly subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud. One of the major advantages to me was the ability to store my work in the cloud. That way I can work on ...
forums.adobe.com/message/4760014

David vs Goliath: is cloud computing the new slingshot? | Media ...
That software is everywhere is so commonly accepted that it hardly needs repeating. Take, for example, Getaround. To consumers it's a marketplace where the ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../05/david-goliath-cloud-computing

EU Eyes Cloud Computing to Kick Start Economy - Business News ...
Cloud computing is where files are stored in massive data centers rather than on office servers and computer programs and functions run via the internet. Oracle ...
www.cnbc.com/.../EU_Eyes_Cloud_Computing_to_Kick_Star...



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