Thursday, December 6, 2012

IT pros have few cloud computing security concerns

AWS re:Invent 2012 IT pros have few cloud computing security concerns
TechTarget
LAS VEGAS -- Even though Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy admitted this week that cloud computing security is the No. 1 concern of potential AWS customers, attendees at the company's inaugural re:Invent conference expressed ...

Facebook Enters Cloud Storage With iOS And Android Rollout Of Photo Sync ...
TechCrunch
Facebook can now save photos you don't publish, which effectively makes it a cloud storage locker. Today it starts rolling out its Photo Sync background uploads feature to all users after having tested it on Android since August and iOS since earlier ...

TechCrunch

Feds Pull Plug On 'One Stop' Cloud Portal
InformationWeek
Apps.gov was introduced as a "one stop shop for cloud services" by Kundra in September 2009. The idea was to make it easy for federal agencies "to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based IT services," Kundra wrote in a blog post at the time. The former ...

Ceph Day Amsterdam 2012 (Object and cloud storage)
The Data Center Journal (blog)
As luck or fate would turn out, I was in Nijkerk which is about an hour train ride from Amsterdam central station plus a free day in my schedule. After a morning train ride and nice walk from Amsterdam Central I arrived at the Tobacco Theatre (a former ...

Google vs. Amazon Cloud Storage Price War: MSPs Take Note
MSPmentor
Anybody else notice the escalating Google vs. Amazon Cloud Storage Price War? For channel partners that build services atop Google Cloud Storage or Amazon Simple Storage Service, the price war is fantastic: Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) cut prices twice ...

Exclusive: Microsoft bringing cloud music player to SkyDrive.com
LiveSide
When Microsoft officially launched Xbox Music in October, the company officially acknowledged thatcloud storage is coming next year to the Xbox Music service, however there were no mentions of whether this cloud storage will be based on the SkyDrive ...

GFI, Cloud Services Alliance Signals Hosting Shift
Channelnomics
GFI Software, which specializes in hosted IT technologies for MSPs, has partnered with Cloud Services Depot to bring network operation center (NOC) services to the GFI Max RemoteManagement platform. MSPs using GFI Software will now have access to ...

Why Amazon thinks big data was made for the cloud
GigaOM
According to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood, big data andcloud computing are nearly a match made in heaven. Limitless, on-demand and inexpensive resources open up new worlds of possibility, and a central platform makes it easy ...

GigaOM

How to Know When It's Time to Move Your IT to the Cloud
Greater Lansing Business Monthly
Have you ever received an invitation to a cloud computing event and wondered if you should go? Maybe you're thinking, "What is the big deal about cloud computing, anyway? My current computer systems are working fine. What is the cloud going to do for ...

Google offers 10 times as many cloud computing options, plus drops ...
Google rolls out major expansion of cloud compute and storage options in Europe; drops ... by about 5% and reduced the price of its Google Cloud Storage by 20%. ... cost and widest breadth of cloud services and instance types for customers.

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