Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Proposed Cloud Computing Act of 2012

The Proposed "Cloud Computing Act of 2012," and How Internet Regulation Can ...
Forbes
Sen. Amy Klobuchar has introduced a new bill, the “Cloud Computing Act of 2012” (S.3569), that purports to “ improve the enforcement of criminal and civil law with respect to cloud computing.” Given its introduction so close to the election, it's ...

Forbes

Compute: Cloud computing supports shared files, more
The Republic
More security — Consider a cloud storage provider such as Microsoft Live SkyDrive, Amazon's "Cloud Drive," Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox or SugarSync. Such providers can store and/or backup your data, enhancing your storage space and offering the ...

Oracle Unveils Expanded Oracle Cloud Services Portfolio
Destination CRM
SAN FRANCISCO (Oracle OpenWorld) --- Oracle executive vice president of product development Thomas Kurian today reiterated his company's commitment to cloud services, and revealed several new services around social media management. In total ...

Box beefs up security and search for enterprise storage
GigaOM
With more software vendors fielding their own cloud storage capabilities, Box continues to beef up enterprise security and perks for its offering. New features include two-step authentication, company-wide search for admins, and content scanning, the...

GigaOM

Buyers say the cloud is already tired out
InfoWorld (blog)
Of course, government regulations and international data privacy rules are on the list of concerns that hurt confidence in cloud computing, the survey shows. However, a lack of innovation and maturity incloud computing itself are larger concerns ...

M&A Activity Dips In 3Q: Deals In Cloud Computing And Cyber Lead
govWin (blog)
During the latest third quarter, there were several M&A transactions announced in the cloud computing and cybersecurity markets, and we expect these trends to continue going forward. M&A activity in the cloud sector was very strong in the latest third ...

EBTIC holds workshop on cloud computing
AME Info
Highlights of the day included presentations from Neil Lock, British Telecommunications IT Services Program Director, on Approaches to Cloud Services; A presentation on the Challenges and Realities of Cloud Adoption by IBM's Chris Record, and a ...

Tit for tat: Amazon offers free taste of Oracle database
GigaOM
Another factor: Timing and pricing of Oracle's upcoming cloud services is hazy at best — Ellison said the underlying Oracle 12C database is due sometime next year. Meanwhile, users can run Oracle database instances on Amazon infrastructure right now.

GigaOM

Cloud Computing Brings a Cultural Change for Midsize IT
Midsize Insider
That may lower the entry point for IT administrators looking to get into cloud services at an affordable price. (And they WILL have to get in. A Washington Technology article points out thatcloud computing is no longer an optional extra, but a must ...

Intelligence Venture Firm Backs Cloud Database Startup
InformationWeek
In-Q-Tel, the venture investment firm for U.S. intelligence agencies, is investing in Cloudant, a cloud services startup that manages a distributed data layer on top of the Apache CouchDB database. The company's service can be used to support new ...

Cloud Computing Disconnect Among SMBs
Midsize Insider
A recent survey found that most small and midsize businesses are lacking knowledge about cloud computing and that they are losing out. The survey found that small and midsize businesses that have embraced the cloud saw a revenue increase in the past ...

'It's not just about cloud computing'
Irish Times
The Cloud Competency Centre is opening at the National College of Irelnad this month, and I had to meet up with the NCI team to discuss arrangements for the launch. Wife, car, cloud computing, in that order of priority. Jeffrey Ullman, a professor ...

Irish Times

Best practices for developing mobile cloud apps revealed
TechTarget
In this article, we include Web apps in the grouping of mobile cloud apps because they run outside the mobile device and have data storage outside the mobile device. The phrase "mobile cloud computing" typically refers to an enterprise cloud computing ...

Oracle Unveils New Partner Cloud Programs at Oracle OpenWorld 2012
Equities.com
Oracle Cloud delivers instant value and productivity for business users and developers through functionally rich, integrated, secure, enterprise cloud services. New Oracle PartnerNetwork Cloudofferings include an Oracle Cloud Referral Program, Oracle ...

Ellison Unveils New Cloud Services at Oracle OpenWorld 2012
Sci-Tech Today
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said the Private Cloud is "quite literally an extension of the Oracle Cloud," and added that "you can't tell the difference." He suggested that Oracle customers could use the two in tandem, such as developing and testing ...

Sci-Tech Today

Logicalis Unveils Assessment Guide to Cloud-Based Storage
Equities.com
“The amount of data companies need to store today is growing at an astounding rate,” says Victor Dermott, solution architect, cloud computing, for Logicalis. “So too is the cost to manage and maintain a secure, compliant environment. That's why cloud ...

Is your startup in the cloud? What about your development team?
VentureBeat
The advance of cloud computing has significantly simplified the life of modern start-ups by offering all the necessary technical resources without wasting time on maintenance. This model is indeed effective. But is it possible to create an equally ...

VentureBeat

Startup Nakivo Protects VMware Virtual Machines With Amazon Cloud Storage
CRN
Nakivo, a startup developer of cloud storage technology, has entered the market with a cloud storage technology that takes advantage of Amazon Web Services to provide the capacity to protect VMware virtual machines and their data. Nakivo Backup ...

Treading Carefully With Cloud Computing Solutions, Contracts, And Services
CloudTweaks News
Many businesses that have adopted cloud computing have little or no idea of what service they expect. Some businesses assume cloud computing will automatically solve their offline problems. They need to understand that cloud computing is no different ...

Arista hires a CFO, poaches a big shot Cisco executive
GigaOM
Arista Networks, one of the quiet success stories of Silicon Valley co-founded by legendary engineer Andy Bechtolsheim has hired Michael Lehman, formerly of Palo Alto Networks as its CFO. It has added Cisco's SDN guru Tom Black to its team already ...

GigaOM

Adobe Acrobat gets Cloud services
Gadget
Adobe has unveiled Acrobat XI, which includes Cloud services, the ability for PDF documents to be exported to Microsoft PowerPoint and touch-friendly capabilities for tablets. Web contracting with Adobe EchoSign is also included for form creation, and ...

Live Blog: EMC Big Data, Cloud Keynote at OpenWorld
The VAR Guy
Next Big Wave: “Real time predictive analytics will be the killer application” for the cloud computingera. Cloud Success: To win with the cloud you need three things (1) standardize your infrastructure; (2) virtualization (3) automate. Software ...

Clouds And Venture Capital: Both Sides Of Health Technology News
Kaiser Health News
NPR reports on how cloud computing is changing the health care industry, as Reuters notes that venture capital funding for health technology is getting harder to raise. NPR: Cloud ComputingSaves Health Care Industry Time And Money The cloud's vast ...

Globe Business exec advances potential of the cloud
Sun.Star
A HIGH-RANKING Globe Business official recently emphasized on harnessing the power and the potential of cloud computing, saying that locally, its relevance is on the uptake as the market realizes its viability and products are becoming accessible ...

NetSuite Updates With "Two-Tier" Version for Larger Companies
All Things Digital
When and if the history of the dawn of the age of cloud computing is written, the record will show that, in its early days, while Salesforce.com got a lot of the attention, NetSuite was the first cloudsoftware company. While talk of the cloud has been ...

GigaOm's Structure Europe Conference Will Dive Deep Into The Cloud
TechCrunch
Namely: 1) We, as TechCrunch, will probably never ever ever, ever ever host a European cloud-computing conference and someone sure as heck needs to. 2) The folks at GigaOm are our friends, particularly founder, thought leader and king of the kind of ...

Are You Ready To Move Disaster Recovery to the Cloud?
CloudTimes
cloud security strategy Are You Ready To Move Disaster Recovery to the Cloud? Elasticity, scalability, rapid provisioning, and cost effective resource use are just some of the benefits of cloud computing. However, for disaster recovery, ... However, 12 ...

Spooky In-Q-Tel takes a stake in Cloudant
GigaOM
That investment came just days after news of an IQT investment in Huddle, the UK-based provider of cloud collaboration technology. As Derrick Harris has reported, the Arlington, Va.-based strategic investment company also took stakes in other database...

GigaOM

European Union's Cloud Strategy a 'Game Changer'
Midsize Insider
According to Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes, cloud computing will pave the way for European futures, bolstering its bottom line and giving small and midsize business a leg up in the costly IT market--but don't expect a single, massive super ...

Texas students' homework go in the cloud
KVUE
Cloud computing lets students put all their work on a remote server giving them access any time from any computer. Students can also access their class assignments at any time and do their homework together while they are at their own homes. "By doing ...

Citrix Drives Innovation with Investment in Cloud Startup AppEnsure
Equities.com
As mobile workstyles and cloud services redefine the technology landscape, many of the best ideas will come from innovative startups with the flexibility to approach programs in entirely new ways. ...AppEnsure was chosen to become part of the Citrix ...

Invenia AS Launches Ensafer at DEMO Fall 2012
U.S. Politics Today
Invenia today announces the launch of Ensafer, an innovative cloud encryption service, at DEMO Fall 2012, world-renowned for launching the most innovative companies in enterprise, mobile, cloud computing, consumer, social media and disruptive ...

TeamLogicIT Teams with Cloud Service Provider independenceIT
MSPmentor
Master MSP and managed services franchisor TeamLogic IT has forged a deal with cloud workspace provider independenceIT to offer that company's suite of cloud services to TeamLogic IT's MSPs. Services offered will include independenceIT's flagship ...

Mobility and Software Apps Driving Multi-Modal UC Clouds
UCStrategies (blog)
Fortunately, the solution to that issue has already become available in the form of “cloud” computing, alias “network” access, to “virtual” data storage and applications. Options for using public, private, or hybrid “clouds” are being offered by all ...

Business Forecast For Cloud Vendors Calls For Competition
Wall Street Journal (blog)
CIOs who've entrusted important business processes to providers that face severe financial problems could find that those providers fail to maintain the continual updates that make cloud services appealing. In the worst case, CIOs may face the ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

SOASTA buys LogNormal to beef up mobile app testing
GigaOM
SOASTA, the startup that made its name in cloud-based load testing, is buying LogNormal, which measures the performance of mobile and web applications. The acquisition, SOASTA's first, is scheduled to be announced Tuesday at the same time SOASTA ...

GigaOM

LuxCloud, Silver Sponsor at EuroCloud Congress, Luxembourg
RedOrbit
LuxCloud, a market leader in cloud services distribution, will be a Silver Sponsor at the EuroCloud Congress, to be held in Luxembourg, October 8-9, 2012. The event hosts the European cloud computing industry and offers excellent opportunities to ...

Advantest Establishes New Subsidiary Cloud Testing Service, Inc.
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Advertisement. TOKYO — Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857, NYSE: ATE) today announced that it has established a new subsidiary to conduct sales of its CloudTestingTM Service, which provides test solutions utilizing IT and cloud computing technology.

Big Data Meets Big Compute: Cycle Challenge Winner Logs a “Compute ...
Bio-IT World
October 2, 2012 | The winner of the Big Science Challenge, a contest convened last year by Cycle Computing to provide $10,000 in cloud computing resources for groundbreaking biomedical research, has successfully completed the first phase of its project ...

Natterbox inks cloud services deal with Orange Business Services
Mobile Today
Cloud-based service provider Natterbox has signed a partnership with Orange Business Services to provide mobile call recording. The service is targeted at businesses regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) that need to comply with ...

Mobile Today

Verizon Launches Cloud Services to Help Organizations Meet HIPAA
The new portfolio offers Verizon clients in the health care, insurance, pharmaceutical and supporting industries a full range of public and private cloud services that meet applicable physical, administrative and technical security controls under ...
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Data Center Post: The Problem with Consumer Cloud Services…
By Data Center Post
Integrating consumer-oriented cloud services into enterprise workflows and systems is a Sisyphean task. Cloud-services replicating what has traditionally been considered enterprise-class services such as CRM and ERP are designed with ...
Data Center Post

I am a php developer what should i learn next for cloud computing ...
By Hello Zigsee
That's not really a question, but just gonna say: PHP ROCKS ...
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HP Blogs - Defining cloud service intermediation and aggregat ...
By christianverstraete
The NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture contains the concept of a cloud broker. A cloudbroker is an entity that manages the use, performance and delivery of cloud services and negotiates relationships between cloud providers ...
Cloud Source Blog articles

The Greenest Computing Is Cloud Computing - Rackspace Hosting
Lately, there's been some confusion around the electricity consumed by cloud data centers. In fact,cloud computing is the greenest form of computing.
www.rackspace.com/.../the-greenest-computing-is-cloud-comp...



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