Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A US software industry report on Wednesday chided Brazil, China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural ...
ISACA Issues Six Principles for Effective Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Feb 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The growing shift to cloud computing can deliver significant value--but most enterprises have little knowledge of the perils of transferring IT decision making away from technology specialists to ...
IEEE Identifies Continued Obstacles Toward the Global Adoption of Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Members of IEEE - the world's largest technical professional association - are working around the globe to deliver on the promise of cloud computing by helping enterprises of all sizes address the barriers that can ...
Rules patchwork 'threatens cloud computing growth'
AFP
SINGAPORE — A global patchwork of conflicting laws and regulations could hobble the growth of the cloud computing market, according to a new study. The study, commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), urged governments to move to harmonise ...
AFP
Global Patchwork of Conflicting Laws and Regulations Threatens Fast-Growing ...
Bradenton Herald
22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A patchwork of conflicting laws and regulations threatens to undercut the full promise of the global cloud computing market, the Business Software Alliance reported today in a study of 24 countries that together ...
Cloud Council of 7, Non-profit Organization of Cloud Computing and IT Leaders ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The organization, formed to benefit users of Cloud technology, is open to IT executives, enterprise end-users, and technology and service providers of Cloud technologies, services and products. "Many experts say Cloud computing is the number one ...
Cloud Computing Is Still In Its Adolescence
Wall Street & Technology
Compare the adoption rate for cloud services to that for virtualization, and it's evident we still have a ways to go. By Art Wittmann, InformationWeek Reports The cloud is one of those amorphous technologies that gets trotted out as the answer to all ...
Venyu to Host Live Session on Cloud Computing ROI
MarketWatch (press release)
The live session will demonstrate how businesses can maximize investment in a cloud-based virtualization platform to lower infrastructure expenses and streamline efficiencies. The program will cover: -- What cloud computing can mean to your business; ...
Fast growing cloud computing market under threat: BSA
Sin Chew Jit Poh
SINGAPORE, Feb 22 (Bernama) -- Japan leads the world in cloud computing readiness with Australia in second place, but most Asia Pacific economies have more work to do to ensure its preparedness, a first-of-its-kind study by the Business Software ...
South African cloud services get less nebulous
ITWeb
What do customers want from cloud? How should local vendors give it to them? The answers are not easy. By Paul Furber, ITWeb contributor Cloud computingofferings from vendors have divided into two camps: those in which the vendor controls the entire ...
ITWeb
Study: Patchwork Of Laws Undermines Cloud Computing Market
National Journal
By Josh Smith While many developed countries have adjusted their laws and regulations to address cloud computing, the wide differences in those rules make it difficult for companies to invest in the technology, according to a new study by the Business ...
Amazon automates business processes with new cloud service
InfoWorld
[ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of cloud computing in the InfoWorld editors' 21-page Cloud Computing Deep Dive PDF special report. | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter ...
SAP unveils SuccessFactors cloud computing roadmap as it squares up to Oracle
V3.co.uk
Chief among these developments is SAP's intention to offer all of its HCM products as cloud-based services, alongside its traditional on-premise offerings, to meet the growing demand for cloud services. Secondly, the firm will integrate its own ERP HCM ...
V3.co.uk
Analysis of the U.S. Department of Defense Cloud Computing Market
Sacramento Bee
Cloud computing is defined by DoD as a scalable IT infrastructure network that is provided as a service to multiple users to support sharing, storing, processing, and transporting information on demand. This study indicates which aspects of cloud ...
SkyDrive to be a Big Part of Windows 8 in the Cloud Storage Battle
CMSWire
By Chris Knight (@Chrisknightcms) Feb 22, 2012 Microsoft is updating SkyDrive with new features to fight the current batch of cloud storage services. But it's future will be tightly integrated with Windows Phone and Windows 8, making it an even bigger ...
Ranking 24 Nations by Cloud Policy
CIO Australia
In IT circles, the move to the cloud may have become a broadly acknowledged inevitability, but the legal and regulatory frameworks surrounding cloud computing in developed and emerging nations remain a highly unsettled proposition, according to a new ...
Virtual Internet Chosen to Deliver Cloud Services to UK Government on G-Cloud
Your-Story.org (press release)
“This marks a new era in IT for government,” says Patrick McCarthy, Managing Director, Virtual Internet, “allowing the public sector to take better advantage of the cost savings, efficiency, and agility of cloud computing. The UK Government's G-Cloud ...
Astadia Recognized as Top 2011 Informatica Cloud Consulting Partner
MarketWatch (press release)
-- Astadia, a leading pure-play Cloud computing consulting and systems integrator, announced today that Informatica, the world's number one independent provider of data integration software has recognized Astadia as its top 2011 joint reselling partner ...
U.K. Government Selects Unisys to Support Its G-Cloud Initiative
Sacramento Bee
22, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that its UK subsidiary has been selected to enter into a framework agreement through which the UK government may request Unisys to deliver Specialist Cloud Services as part of ...
Siemens Healthcare Unveils Two Cloud-based Solutions to Optimize Image ...
MarketWatch (press release)
22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today, Siemens Healthcare (NYSE:SI) , has announced two new solutions for image management and radiology workflow that will be hosted from the Siemens Healthcare Cloud Computing Center (HCCC), in Malvern, Pa.
Lack of good API design hurts the cloud
InfoWorld
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld APIs are fine-grain services that may be called by other systems, applications, or even people to provide access to core cloud services. They can be used for putting information into cloud storage, pulling information ...
Getting your cloud project ready for agile development
ComputerworldUK
... the decade since the Agile Manifesto, the movement has encouraged a number of best practices like test-driven development, user-centered design, iIterative development, clean code, refactoring, continuous integration and-arguably-cloud computing.
BSA: APAC not cloud-ready yet
ZDNet Asia
The majority of countries in Asia-Pacific are inadequately prepared to support cloud computing, mainly due to gaps in legal and regulatory environments. This means that these markets cannot yet reap the full socioeconomic benefits that cloud ...
KineticD Presents the Future of Cloud Backup
Sacramento Bee
Jamie Brenzel, CEO of KineticD and Brad discuss the latest advances in online backup and server virtualization, pros and cons of moving data to the cloud and the importance of hybridcloud storage. Hybrid Cloud Storage Discussion includes the ...
Cloud computing 'can aid top-quality communications'
Codestone
Investing in cloud computing will allow companies in the UK to enjoy cost-effective and efficient telecommunications, particularly when calling abroad. Max Cooter, editor of Cloudpro.co.uk, has explained there are "huge cost benefits" to acquiring ...
This 55 page guide explains the concepts of Cloud Computing in simple terms.
CloudTweaks News
This specific action of UoW is actually a basic example and proof that the trend nowadays is a trend towards the implementation of SaaS, and of cloud computing in general. According to IT expert and educator, Jeffrey Kaplan (2010), it is universally ...
Zumum Awarded a Government Framework Agreement for the Provision of G-Cloud ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Stockport, United Kingdom, February 22, 2012 --(PR.com)-- To help the increase in adoption ofCloud Computing technologies in the UK Public Sector the UK Government has selected Zumzum as one of the first providers of G-Cloud services for Google Apps ...
Xerox Corporation Unveils Business Cloud Services to Manage Mobile Devices ...
Galaxy Stocks
This service works through cloud infrastructure and trims complicated technical implementation and oversight, as well as software and hardware expenses. Xerox MDM helps an organization to manage virtually every type of mobile device with affordable ...
Amazon queues up new workflow service — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
In late January, Amazon introduced its Storage Gateway that, as my colleague Derrick Harris reported at the time, lets companies upload data to Amazon cloud-storage services directly from their on-premise storage systems. That happened ...
GigaOM
Women and Cloud Computing, Part III: Spotlighting the Top ...
By Jeff Norman
Women and Cloud Computing, Part III: Spotlighting the Top Laureled Ladies This past Valentine's Day, CloudNOW (NOW an acronym for Network of Women), the.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
The Benefits of Unified Cloud UI Standard | Cloud Computing Topics
By Olafur Ingthorsson
The major problem with having multiple Cloud UIs is the fact there is a lack of consistency between applications. ... Mobile Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing Topics. Cloud Computing - Mobile Cloud. Home · About · Consulting · Resources ...
Cloud Computing Topics
Analysis of the U.S. Department of Defense Cloud Computing ...
By linda carter
This research service is an outline of the research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E); procurement; operations and maintenance (O&M); and services spending and contract activity for the U.S. DoD cloud computing market. Cloud ...
Sandler Research: Market Research...
Cloud storage gets personal
It's impossible to turn the pages of a computing magazine these days and not stumble upon yet another reference to the amazing revelations of cloud computing. While it originally referred to dumb clients accessing remote servers that did all ...
APCmag.com - All Articles
PAC BLOG » Cloud Computing – The future is not cloudy but bright ...
By Biswajit Banerjee
But virtualization and other cloud technologies are being adopted to address the IT department's cost and complexity in a new way and ease immediate pain points. For instance, cloud computing can play a useful role in applications that need ...
PAC BLOG
India Not Yet Ready for Cloud Computing: BSA Report
By Ashutosh Saxena
The first BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard, released today, ranks India 19th in a list of 24 countries' preparedness to support the growth of cloud.
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Cloud Computing Partners - TeamDrive joins the party | Small ...
By Jordan Brown
TeamDrive's Cloud Technology has their own digital privacy protection seal. This creates an ultra secure platform for users to sync, share & collaborate.
Small Business Technology
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Stephens, Senior Vice ...
By candicearnold
SM: VMware has no history of succeeding on the application side necessarily. KS: That's true as well. This segment is part 3 in the series : Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Stephens, Senior Vice-President of Cloud Services, Xerox ...
Sramana Mitra
HICSS 2013 Minitrack on E-Government Cloud Services and ...
By Yannis Charalabidis
Papers in the field of government cloud, integration, agile development, information exchange, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, ICT-(shared) services and Software as a Service (SaaS) are strongly encouraged. We promote a diversity ...
The Governance Transformation Blogspot
U.S. cloud computing report slams India, China, Brazil « Brazil Portal
By Brazil Institute
A U.S. software industry report on Wednesday chided Brazil, China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural scorecard.
Brazil Portal
Why Corporate Cloud Storage Doesn't Add Up - Slashdot
I can see some benefits in other cloud services (though I still find the trust aspect difficult to reconcile), but full-on cloud storage offerings don't make sense ...
it.slashdot.org/.../why-corporate-cloud-storage-doesnt-add-up?...
Cloud computing report slams Brazil, India, China | Reuters
... China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but ... wants to put a wall around the country to limit the provision of cloud services ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-trade-cloud-idUSTRE81L0992012...
Google Drive cloud storage up for some users, seems integrated ...
The service is said to take on the myriad of cloud storage solutions that everyone is outing these days, but since it's Google, it will fit nicely into your daily routine ...
www.phonearena.com/.../Google-Drive-cloud-storage-up-for-...
DSHR's Blog: Cloud Storage Pricing History
The original motivation for my work on the economics of long-term storage was to figure out whether it made sense to use cloud storage for systems such as ...
blog.dshr.org/2012/02/cloud-storage-pricing-history.html
Cloud Computing | SAP
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