Microsoft Cloud needs tweaking

Tweaking still needed as MS gets on the cloud The Australian Ap Source: AP TEST-DRIVING Microsoft's new cloud offering Office 365 is no mean feat. It's a little tricky to set up, and installation is best left to in-house IT management or your friendly local computer guru. But then, Office 365 is intended for ...

Building up cloud in Europe ZDNet (blog) By Phil Wainewright | July 4, 2011, 3:15pm PDT Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. He founded pioneering website ASPnews.com, and later Loosely Coupled, which covered ...

"Apple cloud be a target, too" says hacker group Anonymous International Business Times It tweeted: "Apple cloud be a target, too. But don't worry we are busy elsewhere". As part of its AntiSec or Anti Security campaign the hacker group made away with 27 usernames and passwords for the website www.abs.apple.com. ...

Apple and Microsoft Take Cloud Computing Mainstream MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, NY, Jul 04, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Companies are increasingly looking to cloud computing environments in order to accelerate value in business financials and reduce costs. Cloud computing is highly appealing to today's organizations, ...

Feature: Unlicensed: Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player illegal? Ars Technica By Timothy B. Lee | Published July 4, 2011 6:00 PM Amazon.com made waves in March when it announced Cloud Player, a new "cloud music" service that allows users to upload their music collections for personal use. It did so without a license agreement, ...

DinoDirect.Com Introduces Cloud Warehouse PR Newswire (press release) HONG KONG, July 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- DinoDirect.com became the first online retail store to introduce its cloud warehouse for the benefit of its ever increasing client base. The starting of the new warehouse reflects the fast changing trends in ...

Enteracloud Rolls Out New Cloud Computing Solutions and Disaster Recovery with ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) San Diego-based Enteracloud has launched a new array of cloud computing services tied to the powerful Microsoft cloud platform, along with disaster recovery and colocation solutions. Enteracloud offers customized cloud solutions for companies that are ...

Computer Support of San Diego Launches Next Generation San Diego IT Services San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Some of the key features included with San Diego IT Services include Helpdesk Support, Network Support, Server Support, Cloud Hosting, Disaster Recovery, Onsite Support and flat rate pricing. Computer Support of San Diego is reshaping the market for ... BeyondCore combines compliance and the cloud — Cloud Computing News By Derrick Harris With its new SplitSecure technology, Structure 2011 LaunchPad finalist BeyondCore is trying to prove that companies processing sensitive data don't have to be afraid of cloud computing. The company has actually been around since 2003, ... GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis...

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Seven Cloud services compared

7 cloud services compared: How much control do you give up? ZDNet (blog) By Ed Bott | July 3, 2011, 7:43am PDT Just what rights do you grant (and give up) when you upload files to a cloud-based service? In this post, I look at the TOS for Amazon Web Services, Apple's MobileMe, Box.net, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft Windows ...

Office 365 Launch, Android Licensing Made Microsoft's Week eWeek The centerpiece of Microsoft's week was the launch of Office 365, the company's cloud-productivity platform. A rebranding of the company's BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), Office 365 links Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online ...

Cloud computing offering IT boost to firms on the rise AME Info Cloud computing, the most popular phrase in IT right now, has caused excitement and confusion in equal measures in the business world. Some see it as a concept of great potential, unlocking resources and saving money for larger and smaller companies ...

Timeline Cloud Offers Quality Business-Level Backup AddPR.com (press release) Timeline Cloud Business Edition from Genie9 is an affordable yet secure, reliable, simple and fast online backup and disaster recovery solution for businesses large or small. Set up and deploy in minu Boston-based backup specialist Genie9 is proud to ...

Zerto helps when real problems hit your virtual servers — Cloud ... By Stacey Higginbotham Much like Apple's elegant Time Machine software helps make backing up your MacBook effortless, Zerto wants to make disaster recovery in the cloud as simple. The Structure 2011 LaunchPad company wants to become the disaster recovery ... GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis..

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Desktop King joins the Cloud

Steve Ballmer Sticks It to Cloud-Computing Doubters Motley Fool By Tim Beyers | More Articles Still think cloud computing is nonsense? The undisputed King of Desktop Computing, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT ) , yesterday unveiled Office 365, the online version of its namesake productivity suite, at an event in New York. ...

SOA and cloud in the same basket: 'Service Technology' ZDNet (blog) By Joe McKendrick | July 2, 2011, 8:42am PDT Is it time to tear down the silos between SOA and cloud, once and for all? Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. ...

Everyone becoming a cloud provider, even consulting companies ZDNet (blog) With the rise of cloud sources, outsourcing is entering a whole new dimension. Just as non-IT companies may find themselves in the cloud business, classic IT providers also are changing their game. Silicon Angle's Alex Williams recently spoke to Pam ...

Create a unified cloud with vCider — Cloud Computing News By Stacey Higginbotham Structure LaunchPad startup vCider disguises packets like I disguise zucchini in my four-year-old's chocolate muffins. Except vCider does it to help companies bridge between different cloud providers while providing a bit less latency ... GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis...

Put it in the Cloud? Are You Nuts? at Literary Abominations By jdsawyer Seriously, if you're going to be freaked out about storing things in the cloud, freak out because of all the many other security issues inherent in virtualizing your data and putting it on a server not in your control (any server, ... Literary Abominations

The Cloud Computing Spectrum | SmartData Collective By onlinetech I recently gave a talk on the key trends in cloud computing and to set the stage, I was asked to describe the spectrum of cloud computing options from private cloud computing to public cloudhosting. SmartData Collective - The world's...

CloudFloor could be a security blanket for the cloud — Cloud ... By Stacey Higginbotham CloudFloor, which launched at Structure 2011 last month, has raised $3.1 million from undisclosed investors to build out its software which purports to show both IT workers and business managers how their cloudy assets are performing ... GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis...

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Cloud computing .gov

Cloud Computing Services: Feds Get On The Bandwagon InformationWeek By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek After a delay due to a complicated vendor-authorization process, the General Services Administration (GSA) is finally offering cloud computing services via its Apps.gov website. Federal agencies now can order ...

Zynga's Unusual Cloud Strategy Is Key To Success InformationWeek Zynga depends on Amazon's cloud at a critical juncture--as it launches a new game. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Zynga has filed for an IPO that cites how its fate is intertwined with Facebook. Zynga games, such as FarmVille and CitiVille, ...

Microsoft plugs cloud to feds Nextgov By Joseph Marks 07/01/2011 Microsoft officials are touting the company's new cloud-based Office 365 as a good choice for federal customers because of its tiered subscription structure and secure management. Office 365, unveiled at an event Tuesday in ...

Box and HP Bring 50GB of Free Cloud Storage to TouchPads MarketWatch (press release) The Box app will make it easy for TouchPad users to store, access and share all file types on the go, and also offers an unprecedented 50GB of free cloud storage for the lifetime of the account. "Offering the Box app for TouchPad with an impressive ...

Box.net Puts Partners In Cloud Driver Seat With New Channel Program CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Cloud storage and content management mainstay Box.net is turning to the channel to refine its cloud vision and has launched an official partner program for resellers and solution providers to increase their cloud revenue. ...

Every SaaS provider runs a private cloud ZDNet (blog) By Phil Wainewright | July 1, 2011, 11:32am PDT The paradox at the heart of 'public' cloud provision is that any provider has to own and manage their own private cloud to deliver a secure, reliable service. Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a ...

Microsoft: Volume license agreements now are 'cloud ready' ZDNet (blog) By Mary Jo Foley | July 1, 2011, 11:19am PDT Today, July 1, is the first day of Microsoft's fiscal 2012 year, and is also the day that some new cloud-focused licensing changes from the company commence. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for ...

Zynga S-1 highlights cloud as competitive advantage — Cloud ... By Derrick Harris When done right, cloud computing actually can be a source of significant competitive advantage. So says Zynga, at least, which highlighted its unique cloud infrastructure, as well as its advanced analytics efforts, as part of its core ... GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis...

Amazon Slashes Cloud Data Transfer Fees « Data Center Knowledge By Rich Miller On Thursday Amazon Web Services announced that it was eliminating fees for inbound data transfer (uploads) and reducing fees for outbound data transfer (delivery). Here's a roundup of analysis and commentary from around the Web. Data Center Knowledge

In Cloud Pursuit, Dimension Data Acquires Opsource by www ... By THN News (The Hosting News) – Opsource has been acquired by Dimension Data, the company announced in a press release on Thursday. With the transaction, Dimension. www.thehostingnews.com

Five tips for controlling the cloud | TechRepublic By Sundar Raghavan By following a few practical tips and defining the right management process, you can gain the control you need to make your cloud solutions successful. on TechRepublic

StratoGen Sees Growth Accelerate In Private Cloud Deployments ... By David Marshall StratoGen today reported an 82% growth in private cloud deployments in the 2nd quarter as organisations focused on moving their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. Despite the recent high profile outages of some cloud providers, ... VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog..

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Chinese Cloud Zone

Chinese city draws ire with controversial cloud zone Computerworld By Michael Kan IDG News Service - A cloud development zone being constructed in the Chinese city of Chongqing has drawn scrutiny for an alleged plan to offer uncensored Internet access, but only for foreign businesses. The city's Cloud Computing ...

Office 365 Vs. Google Apps: Evaluating E-Mail Security InformationWeek What have the cloud suite rivals done to address enterprise email security and related concerns such as compliance? By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Security remains a persistent question for potential cloud suite adopters, and with the debut of ...

IT Departments Concerned About Cloud Capacity PCWorld By Antony Savvas, computerworlduk.com Only one-in-ten IT directors believe the bandwidth at their disposal is sufficient for migrating data and applications into the cloud. A survey of IT directors at organisations employing over 1000 staff found that ...

Should Your Enterprise Buy Cloud Insurance? InformationWeek IEEE's CIO suggests that FDIC-style insurance may be one way to allay fears among enterprises about the security risks involved with cloud computing. By Andy Dornan InformationWeek Cloudcomputing has compelling benefits, but enterprise adoption hasn't ...

Cloud Computing: Faster Acquisition Key To Recognizing Value InformationWeek Alongside other, similar efforts, a new federal working group is aiming to streamline IT acquisition cycles to facilitate the government's move to the cloud. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek Flexibility and speed of deployment are two of the key ...

TDS Rides on Cloud Biz Zacks.com We believe the purchase of OneNeck will give Telephone and Data Systems a good opportunity to expand its operations in managed hosting and cloud services offerings. Telephone and Data Systems has significantly improved its competitive position in the ...

HP to develop cloud products in China Oman Daily Observer BEIJING — Hewlett-Packard Co, the world's No 1 PC maker, is investing heavily in China and plans to develop cloud-computing products here to sell globally, Chief Executive Leo Apotheker (pictured) said. This week, HP opened a cloud computing centre in ... Oman Daily Observer

Apple's Secret Cloud Weapon Is Already Inside Your Phone Gizmodo Brian Barrett —The battle for the cloud. That's what keeps Google, Amazon, and Apple execs and engineers up at night. That's where the next generation of tech dominance is going to be won or lost. Unless, as the WSJ suggests today, Apple's already won ...

Dell's Shift Toward IT Services, Cloud, Storage Continues eWeek AUSTIN, Texas–The fact that Dell is moving away from being a low-cost supplier of PCs and IT hardware toward a more robust company with a portfolio of technology that can address issues ranging from cloud computing to mobile device management is old ...

IT demand for cloud services will generate $9.4B in new server sales By Joe Wilcox Spending on public and private clouds will generate $3.6 billion and $5.8 billion, respectively, in server spending by 2015, IDC forecasts. But the heftier investment will be in private clouds. Betanews

Cloud.com: Cloud Platform for Service Providers « Data Center ... By Rich Miller An interesting new player in the cloud computing sector is Cloud.com, which offers an open sourcecloud platform. The company's software is being used primarily by service providers (including Go Daddy) to quickly build and deploy cloud ... Data Center Knowledge

Chromium Blog: Cloud Coding and Beyond: Web Development Apps in ... By Christos There are many other IDEs in the web store too, such as Kodingen, Codey, Akshell, eXo Cloud IDE, and PHPAnywhere. It's not all about coding though. There are also apps focusing on web design, for people who want to make a web page ... Chromium Blog

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Microsoft defending Office with Cloud offering

Microsoft Takes to Cloud to Defend Its Office Business New York Times “We could do this now because the Google cloud apps are ready for prime time,” Mr. Conophy said. Halting such defections is a top priority at Microsoft. Its response arrives Tuesday, when the company begins selling Office 365, a cloud-based version of ...

Cloud Computing's Present and Future: What You Need to Know Network World By Bernard Golden, CIO I had the opportunity to participate in two conferences over the past couple of weeks, and got what are essentially headlines ripped from today's newspapers about the state ofcloud computing in the real world as well as a ...

Can you trust your cloud hosting provider? ZDNet Commentary - Cloud computing is the best thing that has happened to information security in 50 years, because it's forcing people to address the perimeter issue. As you move data to the Cloudthere are many different challenges. ...

LaCie offers hybrid cloud storage service Computerworld By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - LaCie has announced a hybrid storage product that combines a desktop hard drive with a cloud storage service. The new product, called CloudBox, automatically stores a copy of your data locally to what is basically a ...

Cisco Partners With Orange on Cloud-Based Hosted Collaboration eWeek Cisco, following up on a cloud-based UC program with Verizon, is offering a similar program through a partnership with European telecom giant Orange. Cisco Systems is continuing to partner with carriers as officials look to offer the company's ...

SolidFire Unveils SSD-Based Storage For Cloud Service Providers CRN By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Startup SolidFire plans to do its part to enhance cloud storage performance with the development of SSD storage technology combined with scale-out storage architecture. SolidFire is developing scale-out clustered storage which ...

Interphase Debuts clouDevice(TM) Cloud Client Portfolio MarketWatch (press release) Supporting all major virtual desktop host environments and end-user types, the debut of clouDevice marks the company's entry into the cloud computing market. The clouDevice product line includes multi-seat clients that support Microsoft(R) Windows ...

Cloud Sherpas Acquires Beloit Solutions Group, Strengthens Position in ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Cloud Sherpas, a top Google partner for helping business customers adopt the Google Apps™cloud platform, has acquired Beloit Solutions Group; terms were not disclosed. Last month CloudSherpas acquired San Francisco-based Omnetic, extending the ...

London's E-Health Cloud program will send patient records to the ... By Amar Toor You'd think that the recent spate of high-profile cyberattacks would've deterred the healthcare industry from sending patient records to the cloud -- Engadget

Copy paste between cloud apps with otixo - TNW Apps By Brad McCarty The problem that I have seen with cloud services thus far is that I end up having to log in to 5 or 6 different sites in order to gain access to the services that I want. Then, if I want to move files between them, I have to download ... The Next Web

With Office 365, Microsoft reloads in cloud battle with Google ... By Nick Eaton With Office 365, Microsoft reloads in cloud battle with Google. The Microsoft Blog

WatchDox Creates Pricey New Private Cloud for Secure Document ... By David Strom WatchDox is extending its services to the private cloud. We've written about them in the past. They have an iPad app for document control and tracking, and have ... ReadWriteWeb

Java EE 7 Looks to the Cloud in Java Although many features were leaked, the highlight of the discussion was Java EE 7's PaaS (platform-as-a-service) capabilities for cloud computing. Java EE 7 is slated for release sometime during the third quarter of 2012. ... Dev Shed - RSS Feeds

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Microsoft Office in the Cloud

Microsoft Challenges Itself in the Clouds Wall Street Journal By STEVEN D. JONES Microsoft Corp. will introduce a cloud version of its Office applications this week, a move that ramps up the software giant's competition not only with companies such as Google Inc. and VMware Inc. but with itself. ...

Apple iCloud vs. Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud KPTV Portland By Kelly Montgomery The last few months have seen the emergence of three different services from big players designed to give users cloud-based access to their personal music libraries. With smartphones, tablets or iPads, laptops, and home computers, ...

With Cloud Computing, Security Is More Important to Brands AdAge.com In the era of cloud computing, any incident pertaining to privacy or security -- even a minor one -- is the fastest way to erode brand equity and consumer trust. Botching the communications around these events or, worse, not being proactive ahead of ...

Wyoming goes “Google” Casper Journal “This is cloud based computing and has many advantages. It provides an opportunity for employees to communicate with one another better; it provides an opportunity to share documents; it is going to save the state of Wyoming over $1 million dollars per ...

The Cloud That Ate Your Music The Ledger I'M ready for the cloud. Soon, I hope, it will be ready for me. Recent weeks have been filled with announcements about music taking residence in the cloud, the poetic name for online storage and software that promises to make lifetimes worth of songs ...

Comparing No-Edit Cloud Based Audio Recording Options ... By Wesley Fryer Cloud-based audio recording services like AudioBoo.fm, Cinch.fm and iPadio.com offer students and teachers the ability to quickly create AND share "no edit" audio recordings. These sites create unique "channels" of audio content which ... Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Red Hat Wheels Out MRG 2.0 | Cloud Computing Journal Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ... Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

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Intel and the Cloud

Intel IT's Cloud Computing Strategy InformationWeek Overview: Like many of our enterprise IT peers, Cloud Computing is a key area of innovation for Intel and one of Intel IT's top 3 objectives this year. Cloud Computing is changing the way we inside Intel IT look at our architecture: from the client ...

Carmakers race to exploit Internet San Jose Mercury News At Ford, Microsoft's voice recognition technology is also used for its speech-activated SYNC communications and navigation service, which utilizes smartphone apps to access route directions, news headlines and music from the cloud. ...

IBM Takes University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to the Cloud WebWire (press release) Armonk, NY, USA - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee selected IBM software and hardware to automate and consolidate its data center operations to enable a cloud-based ...

LaCie CloudBox combines local and online backups Digitaltrends.com Peripheral and storage maker LaCie is getting deeper into cloud-based solutions, announcing its new CloudBox backup device, a hybrid system that combines 100 GB of local storage with 100 GB of online backup. The idea is that users have the convenient ...

NMSU takes leap into cloud computing Las Cruces Sun-News By Minerva Baumann mbauma46@nmsu.edu A New Mexico State University student checks out the new myNMSU email system, one of a number of changes students will see this fall as part of NMSU's conversion to cloud computing. LAS CRUCES - As of July 1, ...

HP TouchPad buyers to get 50GB of cloud storage free – New Tech ... By Lee Mathews Jun. 25, 2011 - HP is well aware of the fact that challenging the iPad won't be easy, but the company has a few tricks up its sleeve when it comes to the TouchPad. Geek.com

ODCA Tries to Flex Its Cloud Computing Muscles | Cloud Computing ... Now the ODCA has come out with what it calls "models" that it wants major Cloud providers to follow. "Cloud-based suppliers need to think about these before trying to pick up (our) business," thundered a recent ODCA announcement. ... Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

The Role of The Cloud in The Smart Grid - Microsoft Power and ... By MSPowerUtilities Earlier this week I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion concerning visions for theCloud in the advancement and development of the smart grid from a governmental and industry policy perspective. ... MSDN Blogs

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