Thursday, November 8, 2012

Telefónica Challenges Amazon, Microsoft on Cloud Services

Telefónica Challenges Amazon, Microsoft on Cloud Services
Wall Street Journal (blog)
... of each virtual machine. The Spanish [telecommunications] giant said Instant Servers is built on San-Francisco-based Joyent's cloud computing infrastructure, which it claims can instantly expand in capacity by 400% to handle large spikes in usage or ...

Cloud Security an Issue as Adoption Grows: Symform
eWeek
The survey found that while nearly 20 percent of businesses have no clear security policies or standards around employee or departmental use of “cloud,” the majority do allow employees to use cloud services and access corporate data from cloud ...

eWeek

Etisalat Partners With Pacific Controls to Provide Cloud Services for ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Pacific Controls Cloud Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Controls, has partnered with Etisalat, the leading telecommunications provider, to launch Cloud services for enterprises customers. The Pacific Controls Cloud Services (PCCS ...

Rackspace: In search of really huge accounts
GigaOM
With its OpenStack-based cloud coming online, Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier says the company can take on Amazon Web Services for the biggest of big accounts, provided those accounts want the sort of value-add service Rackspace provides.

GigaOM

Cloud storage to enable massive cancer cell database
FierceHealthIT
It mentions cancer-drug maker Roche's multi-million euro investment in technology to determine how cancer cells in petri dishes react to new medications. To bring external data into the project will require advances in cloud computing, says Bryn ...

Box, Deutsche Telekom team up on cloud collaboration
ZDNet
Follow @zackwhittaker. Deutsche Telekom, the owner of T-Mobile USA, has partnered with enterprise cloud storage giant Box to offer a cloud-based collaboration service to small-to-medium-sized (SMB) businesses. The Bonn, Germany-based telecoms giant ...

Joyent has a new product and new CEO
GigaOM
Joyent, the private cloud infrastructure service provider, has named Henry Wasik as chief executive officer and unveiled a new version of its infrastructure management software called Joyent7. Wasik fills the role left vacant by David Young when he ...

GigaOM

Singapore claims highest understanding of cloud in APAC
ZDNet
Companies in Singapore are the most confident of their knowledge about cloud computing across the Asia-Pacific region, thanks to the strong push and lead by the government for enterprise cloudadoption and national efforts to attract service providers ...

Dimension Data Achieves Cisco Cloud Builder Designation In North America
Sacramento Bee
7, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- To support the expanding role of the network in deploying cloud services, Dimension Data, the $5.8 billion global specialist IT solutions and services provider, today announced that it has achieved the Cisco Cloud Builder ...

The Safest Way to Invest in "the Cloud" and Earn 5% Yields
StreetAuthority
And nowhere is it more apparent than in the high-growth cloud-computing sector. Companies that specialize in cloud services and infrastructure have seen big gains in sales and earnings in the past few years as the trend of outsourcing technology ...

LaCie CloudBox Brings Cloud Storage To Home Networks [Video]
By James Johnson
Are you ready for cloud storage at home? LaCie on Tuesday announced the LaCei Cloudbox, a single location storage service for all of your families music,
The Inquisitr

Cloud security and availability solutions from Symantec; protected ...
Protected clouds are better clouds, Symantec delivers cloud protection and instills ... in your cloudinitiatives – whether you are directly consuming cloud services, ... of cloud computing, concerns about security and availability of clouds persist.
www.symantec.com/products-solutions/solutions/index.jsp?...

Twinstrata Unveils Cloud Storage Platform - Storage - Data protection
TwinStrata, a maker of cloud storage gateway appliances, on Monday announced a new ... Now the company has added Dell, Google, HP Cloud Services, IBM ...
www.informationweek.com/storage/data.../240044382

Cloud Computing Needs To Embrace the Linux Model ... - Slashdot
'Now you have software companies embracing cloud computing and taking the .... I'd love to see some of these cloud storage services start opening up their ...
linux.slashdot.org/.../cloud-computing-needs-to-embrace-the-l...



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