Showing posts with label Cisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cisco. Show all posts

Monday, January 19, 2015

Charter, Cisco, New Cloud-Based Cable-TV Service (video)

Charter, Cisco Unveil New Cloud-Based Cable-TV Service: Video - Bloomberg:
(Video at link above)

Charter Communications unveiled a cloud-based cable-television service backed by technology from Cisco Systems, bolstering the company’s efforts to compete against much larger rivals. Cisco Senior Vice president Kelly Ahuja speaks from the Consumer Electronics Show on “Bloomberg West.”(Source: Bloomberg Jan 7)

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Friday, October 24, 2014

Alibaba Adding Institutional Clients To Cloud Services Business

Alibaba Adds Institutional Clients To Cloud-Services Business
Bidness ETC
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) is seeking potential customers from the private and public sectors for its new cloud service, Aliyun. Alibaba shares ...

Hybrid cloud is the fastest-growing area: Cisco
CRN Australia
Some markets will move more to consuming pure cloud services, others will move more slowly. I have been on a call since early this morning with a ...

Premier Las Vegas Conference Draws Renowned Open Web & Cloud Computing Experts from ...
IT Business Net
Technology is constantly evolving, making it more important than ever for development professionals to stay on the forefront of their field while creating ...

SIGN POST: SA stakes place up there on the cloud
BDlive
But in the virtual world of cloud computing, local enterprises have been credited with reaching a level of maturity similar to those in the US and UK.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Cisco to integrate Citrix's NetScaler in cloud services portfolio

Cisco to integrate Citrix's NetScaler in cloud services portfolio
ZDNet
According to the two companies, the latest partnership targets enterprise and service providers looking to automate cloud services. Provision will be integrated and deployment will be simplified with Nexus 7000 routers. Cisco's security, network ...

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Cisco's Private Cloud

Cisco's Private Cloud: Pain And Profit
InformationWeek
Cisco is not a cloud service provider, but it has an expanding suite of products under the label "Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 3.1." With it, Cisco is building out a private cloud across seven major data centers in hopes that its experience ...

Joe Masters Emison
Optimize Magazine
There's a growing demand for standards to bring some sanity to the cloud computing market. Both buyers and sellers have their ... IT pros also see value in formalized standards for cloud services, according to the 400 respondents to our InformationWeek ...

Cloud storage grows, but many fail to back up mobile data
ITworld.com
January 23, 2013, 11:05 AM — More companies are storing their data in the cloud as part of a hybrid onsite and offsite storage solution, but many admit they are not able to back-up large chunks of their data at all. Research company Vanson Bourne ...

EESC – European Cloud Computing Strategy Lacks Execution
CloudTimes
AWS Introduces Improved Billing Reports For Easier Tracking of Cloud Usage · Dell Presents Scalable Solutions in Security, Cloud, and Support · cloudpassage_top100 CloudPassage Study Reveals Increased Use of Public Cloud · Big Data · Cloud Storage ...

Congressional commission to look closer at China cloud computing
Nextgov
Chinese cloud computing is still in infancy but is a fast-growing industry that has been slated for government venture capital. The size of China's public cloud services market – which generally targets individual consumers -- is expected to reach over ...

Beware: 7 Sins of Cloud Computing
Wired
Organizational ignorance: Cloud is a hot concept for many businesses. In the last year, the emphasis on cloud computing as the go-to solution for infrastructure needs has propelled it to the forefront of the IT discussion, with many believing it will ...

Wired

Survey Reveals Business Alignment Trumps Cloud Computing and Application ...
Marketwire (press release)
Serena Software, the leader in Orchestrated IT solutions, today announced the results of an annual survey on application development and delivery priorities and initiatives for 2013. The survey, conducted at Gartner's recent Application Architecture, ...

Are UK Firms Slow to Adopt Cloud Computing?
Backup Technology
The survey into the use of cloud computing by large US and UK firms (1,000 employees and above), conducted by Vanson Bourne, looked at usage levels of cloud computing and general opinion of cloud computing, e.g. data storage and automation of ...

Alumnus and Microsoft Inventor Tapping Cloud Computing Potential
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
He helps build, manage and breathe life into the entire world of cloud computing at Microsoft. With the prevalence of commercial products like Microsoft's Office 365, and a plethora of cloud services like competitors' Dropbox and iCloud, Belady has his ...

University of Texas at Dallas (press release)

Red Hat folds ManageIQ purchase into cloud control stack
InfoWorld
Organizations are increasingly moving toward hybrid cloud deployments, in which some operations are run on public cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services, while others are kept in-house, perhaps as a part of an internal private cloud, said Mary ...

BackUp Exec Cloud Storage for Windows Azure Storage | Symantec ...
How can I configure BackUp Exec for Cloud Storage on Windows Azure Storage without Getting riverbed in Topology. Nirvanix have option of installing plugin ...
www.symantec.com/.../backup-exec-cloud-storage-windows-a...

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Cisco to Buy Cloud Computing Firm Meraki for $1.2 Billion

Cisco to Buy Cloud Computing Firm Meraki for $1.2 Billion
Motley Fool
Over the weekend, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO ) announced a second big acquisition in thecloud computing space. On Sunday, it announced plans to spend $1.2 billion to acquire San Francisco-based Meraki, a provider of midmarket software for ...

Baidu offers free cloud storage to Qualcomm chip-based devices
Computerworld
Baidu is offering the free storage after the company in September declared China's mobile Internet space as its next major focus, and announced a $1.6 billion investment to build a new cloud computing center. The company is best known as the leader of ...
SurDoc Unveils TruPrivacy - New Technology Breakthrough Now Makes Cloud ...
Sacramento Bee
19, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- SurDoc, an innovator of cloud-based storage and document technology, today announced that consumers can now get TruPrivacy™ – a breakthrough development in cloud storage security technology – that provides absolute privacy ...
Lockheed Martin Expands Range Of Cloud Computing Services For UK ...
Sacramento Bee
ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 19, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin UK has expanded its offering ofcloud computing services available to the UK government after recently being selected to provide G-Cloud 2 IT support. This new contract succeeds the ...
Europe taps Amazon and Telefonica for cloud push
ZDNet (blog)
Top EU officials will meet with companies such as Amazon and Telefonica on Monday to discuss ways to set up a single European market for cloud services. The steering board meeting will be the first for the new European Cloud Partnership, which looks to ...
Cloud computing brings big data to the masses
TechTarget
Brian Lent, co-founder and chief technology officer of Medio, and Ivan Sucharski, Medio's data strategist, spoke about big data, the evolution of cloud computing and how the two trends affect each other. How would you define big data for people who ...
Cisco Systems to buy cloud computing company Meraki for $1.2 billion
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of computer networking gear, said Sunday it is buying Meraki for $1.2 billion to expand its ability to let customers compute in thecloud. Cloud computing refers to the increasingly popular ...

What HP's cloud chief wants you to know about HP's cloud
GigaOM
... that the company launched yet another reorg to rationalize the effort two months ago. That might help, but HP still needs to prove it can execute on cloud computingand not surprisingly, Zorawar Biri Singh, SVP and GM of HP Cloud Services, says it can.

GigaOM

Selection: Dropbox & Skydrive or BACKUP!BEST Cloud Storage Unlimited 2012
Victoria Advocate
When you start the selection between Dropbox and Skydrive make sure this media to be the right choice for your system files, because Cloud Storage already Trends in 2012 as Hard Drive online to backup your important files from computer virus attacks or ...

Cloud Services Endanger Website Uptime
ReadWriteWeb
Supporting Cloud Services Endanger Your Uptime. Where's your site? In a server sitting in the back room, most of us would say, or at a host provider across the country or even (if you're planning for disaster) scattered across cloud instances around ...

ReadWriteWeb

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Cisco Execs Plumb The Limits Of Cloud Computing

Cisco Execs Plumb The Limits Of Cloud Computing
ReadWriteWeb
Cloud computing has become the all-purpose buzzword of business computing -- it can mean pretty much whatever you want it to mean, but every product better have some cloud in it. Networking giant Cisco has totally bought in to the concept, but a couple ...

ReadWriteWeb

Amazon's Vogels: Cloud is the resource model for today's uncertain economy
GigaOM
The consumerization of IT has led to the growth of cloud, a big shift for the major hardware players and new opportunities for startups to build a business using IT without huge up-front costs. Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels explains what's going on at ...

GigaOM

Cloud Computing Shifting To Cooler Climates
Data Center Knowledge
Now that cloud computing is officially in the mainstream, we're seeing a growing interest in data center energy consumption. Since electronic components are constantly becoming smaller and more powerful, data centers must now deal with the heat ...

Data Center Knowledge

Which Companies Are Generating Profits From Cloud Computing?
Minyanville.com
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL We all know how slowly our economy is growing, and how few new jobs are being created. But there is one industry that is growing rapidly: Cloud computing. And it's about to generate significant profits – by some estimates, as much ...

The cloud job that should make you think twice
InfoWorld (blog)
Though you'd think cloud managers have only one or two cloud services to deal with, I find they usually have four or five, with more expected by 2014. The reason? In large part, the growth in cloudsto manage is due to "shadow IT" cloud computing ...

Skyrocketing Demand For Cloud Services Exceed 2012 Forecasts
RedOrbit
Consumers are “aggressively” migrating their data to cloud storage, with the number of subscriptions to online storage services set to soar this year, according to a new report from market research firm IHS iSuppli. Worldwide, the number of ...

Cloud Computing Still in Its Infancy, Study Says
Windows IT Pro (blog)
Within the study results, respondents rated Software as a Service (SaaS) as barely into the Growth phase and ahead of both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), with the overall result putting cloud computing squarely in ...

Old-School Web Hosts Fight Back Against Amazon Cloud
Wired
But now, the traditional web hosts are fighting back. This week, two of the biggest names in web hosting — Dreamhost and MediaTemple — announced new cloud services based on OpenStack, an open source platform that seeks to mimic the Amazon way ...

Wired

Cloud security: A closer look at FedRAMP
FCW.com
Security concerns typically provide the chief source of rain for the cloud parade, as worries about data leakage and other cyber maladies have caused federal IT managers to think twice about cloud computing. Indeed, more than 50 percent of respondents ...

Understanding Cloud APIs, and Why They Matter
Data Center Knowledge
As cloud computing continues to gain momentum, system administrators are looking for more ways to integrate with their cloud model. There are now more direct use cases for cloud computing, which require greater levels of customization. The ability to ...

Data Center Knowledge

Companies to up cloud spending: Tecala
ZDNet
Companies to up cloud spending: Tecala. Summary: In a Tecala survey of 136 CIOs and IT managers about IT priorities, nearly all of the respondents said that virtualisation and cloud computing are at the top of their list. Spandas Lui. By Spandas Lui ...

Software-defined networks: All about the application
GigaOM
Software-defined networks and data centers are the future if enterprises want to manage their infrastructure with the agility of cloud computing providers, but they're nowhere near ubiquity yet. However, according to two senior VMware executives, the ...

GigaOM

Cloud Adoption Ahead of Schedule to Reach 500 Million in 2012: IHS
eWeek
IHS iSuppli found consumer adoption of cloud services to have passed 375 million users in June, putting the market 75 percent of the way toward its year-end estimate of 500 million. Consumer adoption of cloud storage services is exceeding expectations...

eWeek

Consumers actually really like cloud storage, report says
ZDNet
For consumers, cloud services are intended to manage and store user-generated data or purchased content, such as music, ebooks, pictures or videos. The content can then be seamlessly accessed and synced across devices like smartphones, media tablets ...

BYOD bringing more value and challenges in a Post-PC world
GigaOM
Harish noted a “black market” for cloud services is cropping up. Instead of dealing with restrictive corporate policy and finances, employees are pulling out credit cards and their Amazon Web Services account to get things done. One way or another then ...

GigaOM

Report: Cloud Storage Services Now Have Over 375M Users, Could Reach ...
TechCrunch
According to market intelligence firm iHS iSuppli, the market for paid and free cloud storage services continues to grow rapidly and the total number of Internet users who use paid and free cloud storage services is currently around 375 million. By ...

TechCrunch

Cloud, consumerization of IT makes life tough for CIOs
GigaOM
Swan and Juergen Urbanski, VP of cloud architectures, cloud technologies and enabling platforms for T-Systems talked up the dilemma this morning at GigaOM's Structure Europe. Check out the rest of our Structure Europe 2012 live coverage here, and a ...

GigaOM

Oracle's Cloud Announcements: 5 Things You Didn't Know
The VAR Guy
Oracle's 'Fab Five' Cloud Programs: Oracle Cloud Referral Program. This broad-based referral program for Oracle Cloud allows any of our 25,000 partners to immediately generate revenue simply by referring business to Oracle for Oracle Cloud services.

A truly open cloud has to be open source, says OpenNebula
GigaOM
There are many cloud providers who call themselves open or say that they are open-source, but most of them are dependent on a single large vendor or series of vendors, Open Nebula co-founder and CEO Ignacio Llorente told attendees at GigaOM's ...

GigaOM

Adobe Updates iOS Reader and Adds Cloud Storage
PadGadget
Adobe's popular and free PDF reader app, Adobe Reader, is on the eve of an update. Electronista has reported that the productivity app has already had the changes made for Android and iOS will follow shortly. The major changes un the upcoming version ...

Companies 'wasting thousands' on cloud services they don't need
Computing
16 Oct 2012. . . money-down-drain. Companies are wasting tens of thousands of pounds – sometimes hundreds of thousands – on purchasing cloud services they either don't need or don't even know they are purchasing. Further reading...

Computing

$99 Boxee TV records over-the air television to the cloud -- but requires ...
CNET
The big catch is that there's a $15 monthly subscription fee, presumably to cover the EPG (electronic program guide) data (provided by Tribune) and unlimited cloud storage. That's same amount you can expect to pay with a TiVo Premiere, and ...

Marble Cloud launches cloud security service for Apple, Android and Windows ...
DigitalIDNews (blog)
Additionally, Marble Access reduces risk and complexity associated with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and cloud services by utilizing an extended enterprise IT infrastructure. The significance of Marble Cloud's solution is simple, any user— contractor, ...

Security better in-cloud than in-house: Google
ZDNet
but I believe that cloud computing, compared to most organisations [and] what they're doing today, is probably more secure." Feigenbaum, who spoke at the Australian Information Security Association's National Conference 2012 in Sydney today, qualified ...

BoB Attendees Upbeat About 2013 Amid Cloud Era Turbulence
CRN
The best and brightest solution providers grappling with the herculean task of rebuilding their business for the cloud computing era are planning for robust sales growth in 2013 even as they view it as another year of transition. Jere Brown, CEO of ...

Cloud Technology Partners New OpenStack RapidPlan™ Offering Eliminates ...
Sacramento Bee
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being ...

If you are using Cloud-based services, you should understand the risks, says ...
Einnews Portugal
/EINPresswire.com/ IT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in information security training, consultancy, books and tools, has reported that the Cloud Computing Foundation training course in November is available at a special discounted price of £450 + VAT.

NetApp adds clustering technology to OpenStack
InfoWorld
NetApp has contributed Data ONTAP 8 Clustering drivers to OpenStack, giving service providers and enterprises better resources when building private and public clouds based on the platform, it said on Monday. The addition of drivers for Data ONTAP 8 ...

SMBs to move to cloud computing [Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)]
Equities.com
The majority of the survey respondents are at least aware of cloud computing, and 52 per cent of small businesses correctly identified its meaning as data stored, secured and accessed remotely. Almost 40 per cent of SMBs use cloud services for personal ...

Metacloud Debuts OpenStack Private Cloud Services
socalTech.com
MetaCloud's fully managed services helps companies deploy their own, OpenStack cloud computing systems. OpenStack is an emerging standard which lets developers create cloud computing applications which are portable across different Internte service ...

Do federated clouds deliver? — Cloud Computing News
By Stacey Higginbotham
Federated clouds, the idea that customers can span different clouds with their computing and data, decided on cost, location or other variables, isn't really available today, but there's hope that it will emerge in the future and help service ...
GigaOM

Adobe Reader for iOS and Android updated with cloud storage ...
By Mark Hearn
On Monday, Adobe dropped details for an update to its iOS and Android versions of Reader. The most noteworthy enhancement here is the introduction of.
Engadget

Acrobat XI and Cloud Services Event in Boston, Princeton and Philly ...
By Rick Borstein
My Adobe colleague Mark Middleton is sponsoring three free LIVE events in Boston, Princeton, NJ and Philadelphia. You're invited to join Mark and other Adobe Experts to discover Acrobat XI Pro: "The Ultimate Multitasker" and Acrobat XI ...
Acrobat for Legal Professionals

Adobe Reader gets cloud storage support with the latest update
By Madhav
Adobe has rolled out an update to its Adobe Reader app for Android, bringing with it support for storing documents within the cloud at Acrobat.com. By introducing cloud storage to the Adobe Reader, users will now be able to edit documents, ...
The Android Soul

Cloud Computing, Dropbox and Data Backup | one cool site
By timethief
Dropbox is a free file synchronization and cloud storage system that allows you to access your files no matter where you are. Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere you go. After you install Dropbox on your ...
one cool site

Adobe Reader Update For Android And iOS Adds Cloud Storage ...
By Julian Horsey
Adobe has today rolled out a new update to its Adobe Reader application for both Android and iOS devices, which brings with it support for storing documents within the cloud at Acrobat.com.
Geeky Gadgets

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joseph Beal, Chief ...
By Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra: I did not realize that the government uses telecommuting. Joseph Beal: Yes. It's a driver. It's a way for them to cut down on time, and they can work more efficiently. SM: I just want to clarify: Is that something that you predict will ...
Sramana Mitra

Survey Says: 3 Years More For Cloud Before It Covers The Whole ...
By Durba
The study shows that three more years may be necessary before we can see a fully developed cloud computing service. There has ... But according to the survey participants, the industry-level cloud services are still in their crawling stage.
CloudTweaks

2012 Cloud Computing Market Maturity Study Results » FISMA Focus
By jim
The maturity of a product or service offering changes over time, advancing from infancy through levels of maturity before eventually reaching a plateau and decline. Cloud computing, according to participants in a 2012 study conducted jointly ...
FISMA Focus

Deploying OpenRules Applications in the Cloud – A guest post ...
By Judah Johns
... deployed some of his apps on it. The following is his how-to on deploying OpenRules Apps to theCloud using Jelastic,… ... Jelastic — Rock-Solid Java in the Cloud, Java Server Hosting, Java Cloud Computing. java, cloud, paas, hosting, ...
Jelastic — Rock-Solid Java...

Consumer cloud storage uptake quickens | ChannelBiz UK
By Matthew Finnegan
There is no shortage of options for consumer cloud services these days, and subscriptions are seeing strong growth. According to a report from analysts IHS iSuppli, the number of people storing... Rebello adds that larger technology companies are looking at the cloud as a way to generate revenue, and this could affect the pure-play consumer cloud storage providers like Mozy, Dropbox and Carbonite. These providers, which provide a freemium payment model with charges when ...
ChannelBiz UK

Cloud Hosting DreamHost to Compete with EC2 by Its OpenStack ...
By Ellen Tate
Cloud hosting service provider CreamHost has announced on Monday October 15, 2012 through official press release statement that it is going to compete with Amazon EC2 cloud services with the help of its OpenStack powered ...
GreatResponder.com

LuxCloud Accelerates Resellers' Businesses into the Cloud ...
By bitesg
LuxCloud has ambitions to create a highly sophisticated cloud services platform catering to all reseller models under one scalable solution powered by Parallels Automation. ... And in 2010, we saw a new opportunity in cloud computing – create a platform that will help IT resellers to sell cloud-based applications. Two things made their offering interesting to resellers: zero infrastructure investment making for very low start-up cost; and the reseller gets to sell the service under their own...
DailyHostNews

Cyber Defense & Password – Cloud Computing Best Practices
By hitoshikokumai
The Canada Cloud Network (CanadaCloud.net) is identifying 'BPaaS' as an important step forward forcloud computing and an uniquely exciting growth opportunity for Canadian Cloud start-ups. Furthermore, CanadaCloud.net is announcing ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices
Consumers Aggressively Migrate Data to Cloud Storage in First Half ...
Consumers Aggressively Migrate Data to Cloud Storage in First Half of 2012 ... The number of global consumers using cloud services after the first six months hit ...
www.isuppli.com/.../consumers-aggressively-migrate-data-to-c...



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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Cisco's new CloudVerse framework

Cloud Computing & Cloud Hosting by Rackspace
Cisco gets more serious about the cloud with new CloudVerse framework
VentureBeat
Cisco will approach and integrate its cloud services in more cohesive manner with a new high-level framework called CloudVerse, the company announced today. Cisco already provides many of its customers with cloud services, but as the challenges of...
$20B Cloud Storage Market Heats Up: HP Bundles Box.net for Consumers, Nirvanix ...
Forbes
These two announcements highlight the contrast between two cloud storage startups Box (consumer) and Nirvanix (enterprise) cloud storage — the difference is one is focused on gigabyte-scale deployments for HP laptops (Box.net) and the other is focused ...
Cloud Computing Association Promotes Cloud Industry, Technologies
MarketWatch (press release)
"We are building a community of corporate end-users, application developers, and service providers ofcloud-based solutions and products. The CLOUD is rapidly becoming the fuel that is powering business efficiency and growth, and we are providing our ...
CA Cloud 360 Helps Enterprises Ensure Cloud SLAs with Tools, Expertise
Integration Developers
CA Technologies has launched CA Cloud 360 solution to help enterprises move their apps to the cloud. The latest CA cloud offering combines products from its IT management portfolio with cloud consultant expertise to span the four crucial stages of the ...
Cloud App Testing on a "Testing Cloud"
Dr. Dobb's
By Adrian Bridgwater, December 06, 2011 San Francisco based BlazeMeter has launched launched what it claims is the first cloud service for load and performance testing powerful enough to simulate enterprise grade load testing requirements. ...
HP Continues Cloud Strategy, Buys Hiflex
TheStreet.com
HP is expanding its cloud-based offerings. By adding Hiflex, which specializes in printing management software, and the recent purchase of British software company Autonomy, the company continues to remake itself. "HP wants to break the traditional...
Open Cloud Visionaries: John Engates, CTO of Rackspace
Forbes
The concept of the Open Cloud defined in this CITO Research Problem Statement (The Case for Building an Open Cloud) is an attempt to think through adoption of the cloudin a comprehensive way over the long term. This article is part of a series of ...
Buying into the cloud while supporting the past
ZDNet (blog)
Cloud computing is high fashion, not least because we are so used as individuals now to often free 'on demand' application on our devices. SAP's decision, announced at the weekend, to purchase cloud-based human capital management (HCM) firm ...
Clouds: Advantages, Types & Services Delivered
HedgeCo.net (blog)
The increased use of cloud-based services is undeniable. Analyst firm Forrester forecasts that the global market for cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020. The advantages of using “the cloud” include the ...
Is Cloud the Answer for the European Economy?
Forbes
My last blog, Cloud is The World's Economic Opportunity, profiled the plans of key governments around the world who are investing heavily in cloud computing to enhance economic opportunity and quality of life for their citizens. ...
Monitoring cloud workload activities
SearchCloudComputing.com
Cloud managers work within a distributed WAN computing infrastructure; one of the biggest shifts from the traditional data center is that all data is stored, managed and administered in a privatecloud. Effective cloud-based workload monitoring can ...
INetU Expands its Exclusive Gated Community Cloud into Europe
Sacramento Bee
6, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Leading managed hosting provider INetU (www.inetu.net) has announced the expansion of its exclusive "Gated Community Cloud™" into Europe out of its Amsterdam data center. While this service had been available to clients ...
Cloud Remains Top IT Priority for 2012, Unisys Poll Shows
Sacramento Bee
6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty (50) percent of respondents to a recent Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) online poll said that cloud computing is their top IT investment priority for 2012. The poll, which drew 300 responses, was conducted on the unisys.com ...
Cloud Connect Webinar: Vistaprint Shares Lessons Learned from Managing a ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In this webinar, Vistaprint, a publicly-traded printing company with locations all over the globe, will explain how it has used a cloud-based technology from Nasuni to develop a single global share that is accessible from every physical presence. ...
Cloud Storage Moving from Luxury to Necessity
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: Five trends indicate there's no need to protest moving mission-critical data into the cloud. In enterprise center circles, the line between luxury and necessity is usually very fine. It also has a habit of coming on very quickly — barely ...
If you think you'll save money with cloud computing, think again
Nextgov
By Joseph Marks 12/06/2011 More than half of organizational users saved little or no money after transitioning to cloud computing, according to a new study, and only 14 percent actually downsized their information technology departments after moving to ...
Massive Cloud Computing Company Takeouts, Government Regulation of Social ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Dec 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- 2011 has been an incredible year for the IT industry with highlights including mainstream adoption of cloud computing, unprecedented social media participation and Big Data growth. ...
Cloud service contracts: A bit of a grey area
Financial Times
By Jessica Twentyman The promise of spending less is one of the main attractions that draws companies to cloud computing. Along with improved performance and more flexibility on capacity, the prospect of using hosted systems on a pay-as-you-go basis, ...
SunGard Promises 99.9% Uptime For SAP Cloud Apps
InformationWeek
Enterprise-level services in the cloud include multiple layers of security, secured line communications, and guaranteed service levels for production environments. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek As cloud services mature, they are likely to come ...
Cloud Computing Grows, Interest in Data Centers Remains: Survey
Channel Insider
Very few companies (6 percent) currently outsource their entire data center computing to the cloud, the survey found. Despite increases in cloud computing, 50 percent of companies are investing and planning over the long term to build or expand data ...
HP Bundles Box.com Cloud Storage Software with PCs
NewsFactor Network
In what marks more evidence that collaboration and cloud technologies continue gaining momentum in the modern enterprise, Hewlett-Packard has struck a deal with Box to deliver what it is calling an integrated collaboration experience. ...
GIS Cloud Featured at Eye on Earth Summit
Sacramento Bee
6, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- At the Eye on Earth Summit Esri will describe how cloud GIS is positioned to create an international geospatial platform for sharing environmental data and designing solutions. Also former US president Bill Clinton, ...
enStratus Hires Cloud Computing Veteran, James Urquhart, as Vice President of ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In this new role, Urquhart will be responsible for defining the product strategy and overseeing product management to ensure enStratus solutions meet the needs of the enterprise cloud management market. enStratus announced today the appointment of ...
Tier 3 Enhances Enterprise-Grade Cloud Platform With New Relic Application ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, WA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Dec 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- New Relic Inc., the SaaS web application performance management (APM) provider, and Tier 3, the enterprise cloud platform provider, announced today that Tier 3 has enhanced its ...
Telecom Italia Sees Lack of Tech Savvy Hurting Cloud Growth
BusinessWeek
6 (Bloomberg) -- Telecom Italia SpA's home country risks falling behind in the $68.3 billion market for computer- cloud services that allow clients to cut costs because of Italy's information technology “illiteracy.” “It usually takes more time for a ...
Vyatta Improves Amazon Cloud Networking for Z Gallerie
Sacramento Bee
6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vyatta, the leader in software-based networking for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, today announced that Vyatta Network OS has been selected by Z Gallerie, a leading home decor and furniture retailer, ...
Google Chromebooks Finally Reach Cloud Channel
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google has officially launched a pilot channel program around its Google Chromebooks cloud-based notebooks, CRN has learned. Launched earlier this year at the Google I/O conference, Google Chromebooks are small, ...
CloudVerse: Cisco Gathers Its Cloud Platforms Into One Platform ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
Cisco's history at building brands around consumer-grade devices and services has been not only less than stellar, but a bit below mediocre. It failed to make the most ...
ReadWriteCloud
The Rise Of Cloud Computing | Young Upstarts
By Contributor
by Yi Ning Lim, marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the recent years, with numerous companies providing the technology to enable organizations to access applications over a network to ...
Young Upstarts
Cloud News: Amazon, Dell, Nirvanix, Caringo, CTERA » Data ...
By John Rath
Dell announced development of a cloud-based master data management (MDM) solution, which will offer improved capabilities to simplify data management within cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) application integration for medium ...
Data Center Knowledge
The Cloud is Here (and Not Going Anywhere) | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Rick
The Cloud is Here (and Not Going Anywhere) Lately, there have appeared many articles on the Internet about how the cloud is now approaching maturity, and.
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Considerations for Choosing a Cloud Provider | Mission Critical: Cloud
By Marifran Manzo-Ritchie
For many organizations, cloud computing is cost-effective for at least some applications. Determining which applications are appropriate for the cloud takes.
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Cloud Wars: Cisco Strikes Back | SiliconANGLE
By Val Galin
As we focus on this market transition with the convergence of server, processing capabilities, networking and storage into the cloud, the UCS in the data center grew year-over-year at 122% in terms of orders and 116% in terms of revenues, ...
SiliconANGLE
GigaSpaces: Cloud Trends – Today & Tomorrow : VMblog.com ...
By David Marshall
As 2011 winds down, it is a good time to look to trends shaping our industry - how they impacted technology this year and look toward trends for 2012. A good place to start may be with my 2011 predictions and see if my previous (and initial) ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...
Caringo, CTERA Team to Offer Service Providers Cloud Storage ...
Caringo, CTERA Team to Offer Service Providers Cloud Storage Tools | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
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1 Raindrop: Understanding Cloud Security Standards Part 2
By Gunnar Peterson
Over on the Intel Cloud Access 360 blog I have series on Understanding Cloud Security standards. In part one, I looked at Cloud Security Anti-Patterns. The four Anti-Patterns that occur regularly with enterprises moving to Cloud include: ...
1 Raindrop
What I learned at 2011 IBM Cloud Computing Technical Symposium ...
By Alfredo Olivieri
The event opened with a keynote session from Bowman Hall (Director of Cloud Computing Client Engagements IBM Software Group) and Christian Klezl (Vice President and Cloud Leader of IBM Northeast Europe). In their speeches, Christian ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Archiving, Business Continuity and DR Should be Part of Every ...
By Jerome M. Wendt
"The Cloud" is used in many contexts today though organizations most often associate it with "backup, business continuity, disaster recovery and archiving," in that order. This puts the onus on organizations to select a solution that does more ...
DCIG
Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Citrix – Intel Conversations in the ...
By Connected Social Media Syndication
Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Citrix - Intel Conversations in the Cloud - Episode 33.
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Cisco Lays Out Agressive Strategy to Capture More Cloud Business ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
Networking giant Cisco Systems has been talking for awhile now about its intentions to become a big supplier of cloud infrastructure. Today it got specific, with a portfolio of products it collectively calls CloudVerse.
AllThingsD
Cloud Infographic: Cloud Computing Adoption in Canada | The ...
Canada leads the world in internet usage and online social networking, yet Canadians are being cautious about cloud computing trends. Find out why.
www.thecloudinfographic.com/.../canadian-businesses-in-the-c...
Cloudsizer, a New Way to Track Cloud Costs - ReadWriteCloud
The latest entry into calculating cloud computing costs of the public providers is from Cloudsizer, with more than a dozen different cloud providers covered.
www.readwriteweb.com/.../cloudsizer-a-new-way-to-track.php
 

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