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What is Cloud.com worth? Computerworld By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld - Citrix Systems this week bought Cloud.com, a 70-employee start-up that makes cloud infrastructure software. At the same time, it acquired what may be one of today's most desirable tech domain names, cloud.com. ...

Moving to the Cloud? Find Out the Cost with SolarWinds' App PC Magazine By Samara Lynn SolarWinds has just released a new free tool that businesses can use to calculate the cost of moving virtual machines to the cloud. It's a handy app, because it takes the manual guesswork out of what it would take to move virtual ...

Microsoft: Security issues in cloud computing lead to partner revenue SearchITChannel.com LOS ANGELES -- At Microsoft's 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week, the software giant laid out its strategy for resolving enterprises' cloud security problems, and that strategy relies heavily on its channel partners. ...

Cloud and Performance… Myths and Reality Forbes (blog) Myth One: Cloud computing depends on the Internet. The Internet is slower than our internal networks. Thus, systems based on IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS clouds can't perform as well as locally hosted systems. Myth Two: Cloud computing forces you to share ...

AFTRA members ratify contract with new streaming fee for video games Los Angeles Times The so-called cloud-gaming fee -- the first of its kind -- was part of a new contract ratified Friday by members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The union, which represents about 70000 actors, recording artists and ...

Cisco Updates UCS Products, Cloud Strategy Data Center Knowledge On Wednesday Cisco Systems (CSCO) introduced new technology to increase the efficiency and security of cloud-based networks. Three new product additions advance Cisco's cloud strategy objectives of data center virtualization, network performance and ...

Google App Engine Cloud Availability Plummets, Sparks Outages CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google App Engine, the search giant's cloud development platform, suffered a massive performance hiccup on Thursday when availability dropped and knocked some user Web sites off line. According to Google's App Engine status ...

IBM Debuts Cloud-Based Marketing and Analytics Suite Destination CRM By Leonard Klie IBM today released a new cloud-based Web analytics and digital marketing suite designed to help organizations automate online marketing campaigns across channels, including the Web, email, chat, social media, and mobile phones. ...

Technolog from msnbc.com - Amazon Cloud Drive storage swells By Nidhi Subbaraman Just a day after the music-streaming service Spotify launched in the U.S., Amazon announced its plans for a new feature on its own cloud storage service — unlimited storage, for a brief bit, on CloudDrive. The offer applies to Amazon ... Newsvine - Technolog from msnbc.com...

How Much Do You Rely On Cloud Synchronization? By Joe Sirianni Not only is your sd card limited in size, but keeping data in the cloud, for the most part, has become more and more reliable over the years and if you lose or break your device you simply just get a new one, sign in and wallah, ... Android News, Rumours, and Updates

Simplify your customers' cloud migration planning with MAP 6.0 ... By Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team Planning a customer journey to the cloud just got easier. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.0 includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and privatecloud platforms. With MAP 6.0, you now ...Site Home

Choosing the Right Local/Cloud Hybrid Backup For SMBs By Daniel P. Dern Every good company does backups. (But not all -- see Are Your Files Backed Up? March 31 is World Backup Day.) This is where online backup comes in ... ReadWriteWeb

Ping! Zine » SMB Nation Launches Cloud Nation By Ping! Zine Editor Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Yesterday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), SMB Nation announced the launch of a new company known as Cloud Nation. Cloud Nation, which will operate as a separate entity, is intended to ... Ping! Zine

Smart Protection Network - Trend Micro USA Global threat data continuously updated and correlated in the cloud ensures automatic protection from threats wherever and however you connect. ... us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwatch/.../smart-protection-network/

How Increasing Cloud Reliance Affects IT Jobs - Slashdot snydeq writes "Kevin Fogarty takes a look at how the rise of cloud computing will impact IT jobs, outlining which roles stand to gain prominence in the ... it.slashdot.org/.../How-Increasing-Cloud-Reliance-Affects-IT-J...

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Microsoft integrating Cloud and Security solutions

Microsoft Plans Increased Integration Of Cloud, Security Technologies CRN By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Businesses, their partners, and their customers face multiple security challenges when moving to the cloud, but Microsoft is providing solutions to mitigate those concerns, the company told partners this week. ...

Verizon Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Cloud-Based Identity Management eWeek Verizon enhanced Enterprise Identity Services with two-factor authentication and digital-signing capabilities to help organizations with user authentication into cloud services. Verizon enhanced itscloud-based identity-management service with new ways ...

Citrix Makes a Run at the Cloud BusinessWeek But the future of the tech business isn't PCs, it's cloud computing—running applications on distant servers rather than on the machine in front of you—a fast-growing business where Citrix has made little headway. Now it's embarking on a new push in ...

3M Powers Cloud Library eBook Lending Service with Proven Technology Platform MarketWatch (press release) PAUL, Minn., Jul 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service recently made its industry debut at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, showcasing the system's turnkey solution for libraries. ...

EMC Launches New Storage Manager for Cloud Deployments eWeek EMC, which built its reputation by storing and securing data in physical quarters, has been working up the cloud platform for about two years. A couple of days after VMware revealed its new vSphere 5cloud systems management package, its owner, EMC, ...

VMware launches comprehensive cloud infrastructure suite The Hindu The virtualisation and cloud computing in the information technology industry have created a unique opportunity to have more agile and efficient infrastructure resources within data centres. Many companies, which provide virtualisation and cloud ...

Cisco Partners: Business Objectives Drive Cloud Conversation CRN By Chad Berndtson, CRN It's not enough to sell cloud computing solutions on the basis of promises, say Cisco partners. Enteprise customers, they say, are ready to embrace the cloud but require a business outcomes conversation with an airtight value ...

Bad News for Windows: IT Is Spending on Cloud, Not PCs Network World Within enterprises, a shift in spending to cloud and virtualization technologies has also softened PC demand, according to the IDC PC sales report. The United States was one of the weaker regions in IDC's report. Second-quarter PC sales in the US were ...

Spotify's Awesome... If You've Never Tried a Cloud Music Service The Atlantic By Alexis Madrigal You go to a cloud music website. Up comes a box and you search for nearly any song you've ever heard. Can's "Paperhouse" from their album Tago Mago, say. Boom! There it is. You hit play and the music comes out of your speakers. ...

IBM's Cloud Is Big in Japan With Two New Data Centers - Arik ... By Arik Hesseldahl Big Blue brings its SmartCloud to Japan, and also launches a second data center devoted to LotusLive. AllThingsD

InfoQ: Private Cloud Roundup By Lee Ackerman Private clouds continue to grow in popularity and offer a number of appealing benefits to an organization including higher utilization of existing server resources, improved manageability, pay as you go, and self-service. InfoQ Personalized Feed for Fergus Neff

5 things to consider before embracing cloud computing | VentureBeat By Paul Schmidt Editor's note: Paul Schmidt is the founder and president of Photodex. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.) Cloud computing has been building buzz for a while now and is fast becoming the rage. VentureBeat » Entrepreneur Corner

What Cloud? Nimble Grabs $25 Million For Storage And Backup Boxes ... By Rip Empson The cloud is the future, we've all heard it said. Ballmer's all in, Jobs said it's all in the cloud, and Schmidt made it the centerpiece of Google's strategy in 2010. But we've also seen the danger ofcloud outages, thanks to Amazon. ... TechCrunch

mindSHIFT Expands Cloud Platform by www.thehostingnews.com By THN News (The Hosting News) - mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc., a leading IT outsourcing and cloud services provider for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), today. www.thehostingnews.com

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