Wednesday, November 7, 2012

OpenStack Fights Cloud Lock-In Worries

OpenStack Fights Cloud Lock-In Worries
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
Jonathan Bryce may have started out as implementer of the original Mosso Cloud in San Antonio that became the Rackspace Cloud. But the new executive director of the OpenStack Foundation said the OpenStack open source project is the best way to avoid ...

Future Clouds Will Be Safe, Says Symantec
Windows IT Pro (blog)
Although the architecture might sound more complicated, Symantec expects greater uptake of cloud computing in part due to the increased presence of digital natives in the work force and in part due to the clouds themselves being inherently safer ...

Windows IT Pro (blog)

It's hosting, dammit: Fed up with fake cloud providers
InfoWorld
Two-thirds of the survey's respondents had been offered "cloud" services that are fixed-term, 40 percent had been offered services that weren't elastic or scalable, and 32 percent were offered services that weren't even self-service. (Keep in mind ...

EVRY: Independent and open platform for cloud-based applications
Reuters
European industry, particularly small and medium-size companies, and the public sector, are currently falling behind in taking advantage of the benefits made possible by cloud computing. This is partly because not enough applications are available, and ...

UK defence ministry deploys its first cloud app
ZDNet
The service, GEMS Online, comes from Skyscape Cloud Services, the same company that is hosting the government's centralised Gov.uk portal. According to an MoD spokeswoman, it is the first time the department has opted for a cloud-based service, due to ...

HP, Citrix Further Investments in Open Cloud, Linux
TalkinCloud (blog)
The Linux Foundation's executive director, Jim Zemlin, noted in a prepared statement that cloud computing represents a significant shift in how IT services are being consumed and those services are being built, and Linux is playing a critical role in ...

Adopting Cloud Computing is Not Enough
Midsize Insider
The cloud is often touted as the solution to so many IT problems, or if nothing else, the future of IT. While these statements may only be slightly exaggeratory, more and more companies are getting disillusioned by their cloud experiences. New research ...

First Apache-blessed CloudStack code debuts
GigaOM
The first version of the CloudStack open-source cloud platform carrying the Apache Foundation imprimatur is now available for download. The new “Incubating release” 4.0.0 integrates CloudBridge Amazon API support and support for Ceph and Caringo ...

GigaOM

Are hybrid clouds the secret weapon of Asia Pacific enterprises?
Computerworld
Entitled Global Market Pulse: Cloud Computing Infrastructure Study, the study examines the opinions of 300 IT decision makers evenly distributed across the US, EMEA (UK) and APAC (Hong Kong and Singapore). Cloud computing is gaining momentum and APAC ...

LogMeIn's Cubby cloud storage service enters 'Open Beta' - Engadget
By Edgar Alvarez
It's been quite a few months since LogMeIn decided to explore the relatively crowded cloud-based storage space, but after months of existing as a private.
Engadget

IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise Lifts the Cloud Computing Fog
As more IT organizations get comfortable with the definition of cloud computing, the one thing that becomes apparent is that there is no one single best way to go about achieving it. In some cases, deploying application workloads on public cloud services makes the most amount of sense. In other cases, that application workload because of security, governance or performance needs to run on a dedicated private cloud that may exist locally on premise or in a data center managed by a ...
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LogMeIn Cubby Cloud Storage Service Enters Open Beta | Geeky ...
By Julian Horsey
LogMeIn is offering a whopping 25GB of free storage to users that generate enough referrals to the new Cubby Cloud Storage service, with unlimited syncing of content across all your PCs and Macs, using their newly designed DirectSync ...
Geeky-Gadgets

Presenting The Cloud A Subcategory To Connect With Clients ...
By don
Last week I heard a newscaster announce that the, “cloud” overhanging the economy revolves around what our legislators are going to do about the fiscal cliff. This terminology has nothing to do with the topic of cloud computing but everything ...
CloudTweaks

Gartner Says Public Cloud Services Are Simultaneously ...
Public cloud services are simultaneously cannibalizing and stimulating ... the most basic and fundamental form of cloud computing service - has expanded ...
www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2220715



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