HP WebOS Cloud Services, Cloud Storage, Cloud Revolution

Cloud NEWS digest:

HP to Shut Down WebOS Cloud Services in January
eWeek
The company has put a notice on its developer Website saying that it will end webOS cloud services support for devices running the operation and will ...


PhoneDog
Have you switched to cloud storage?
PhoneDog
You can either make do with the amount of internal storage given to you, or you can choose to start using cloud storage. Most of the time, when this ...


The Japan News
US firms battle for lead in cloud computing revolution
The Japan News
Amazon.com has announced plans to lower the cost of its cloud services, ... Microsoft Japan Co. released the cloud computing version of its Office ...

Personal cloud storage plans – October 2014
Geekzone
If you're looking for cloud storage there are plenty of options. Most cloud storage providers offer a basic service for free. You may get by using these ...

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Cloud Services, Foreign Espionage, Regulation, Protecting Data

While NSA 'maps' the Internet landscape, German tech companies want Cloud cover
Deutsche Welle
Microsoft Germany wants Cloud services to be regulated at home in a bid to protect data from foreign espionage. The announcement coincides with a ...  (read more at the link above)

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VCs, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services

Forbes
Cloud, Mobile, Healthcare And Enterprise Software Lead Deloitte's 2014 Global Venture Capital ...
Forbes
Venture capitalists are most confident of the cloud computing/SaaS industry (4.11%), Mobile (4.02), Healthcare IT and Services (3.94) and Enterprise ...


VentureBeat
CenturyLink seeks to acquire Rackspace, expanding cloud services: Bloomberg
Reuters
N) in order to expand its cloud-computing services, according to a ... expand the Louisiana-based company's offerings of Internet and cloud services, ...

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Supreme Court Rejects Streaming of Broadcast TV, Cloud Services Next?

Supreme Court Rejects Streaming of Broadcast Television; Cloud Services Next?
The National Law Review
The Court specifically noted that it did not address "cloud computing, ... not commenting on cloud storage, it provided no rationale for this difference. (read more at link above)

Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks June 27th To July 3rd And Year-To-Date
Forbes
The highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date when measured by share price gains are NetScout Systems NetScout Systems ...

The Legal Broadcast Network
Legal Broadcast Network (blog)
Aereo's business model uses cloud computing to deliver stored television signals that are gathered by individual antennas, one per customer.

Reinventing the PC and the Android
Inquirer.net
Cloud computing is another trend that's been gaining ground among consumers ... Apart from providing backup, cloud services can help with space ...

We won't spread ourselves too thin in India: Anand Sankaran
Business Standard
He talks to Itika Sharma Punit on the acceptance of cloud computing by ... the discussions were more about putting non-core functions on the cloud.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 4) | Sramana Mitra
By Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra: How does your customer base split up into those categories? What percentage of the customers are the big spenders? Steve Knipple: ...

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Cloud News Review: Cloud Trends, Cloud Services, Cloud Migration

Cloud News Review:

European Providers to Support a New Cloud Computing Marketplace for Science
IT News Online
HNX intends to deliver easy access to a range of commercial Cloud Services through the innovative broker technology deployed within the Helix ...

SAP Cloud Effort Pushes Forward Despite Exec Turnover, Official Says
eWeek
BOSTON—The recent executive shakeups at enterprise software giant SAP hit the company's cloud computing business particularly hard, with some ...

HP ramps up cloud investment
The Australian
US computer giant Hewlett Packard has unveiled an expanded offering of internet "cloud" services, pledging to invest $US1 billion ($A1.1 billion) over ...

Rackspace Hosting, Inc. Earnings: Will Price Wars Kill the Cloud Provider?
Motley Fool
Rackspace's business strategy has been to provide premium services for customers looking to take advantage of the power of cloud computing.

Top 10 trends for 2014 tech market: Cloud services, mobility services and more
Daily Bhaskar
Gartner has released trends for the technology market in India for the year 2014. It may also be an emerging technology that offers an opportunity for ...

The Three Essential Steps to Successful Cloud Migration
Computerworld Australia
Businesses and enterprises have quickly realised the power and efficiency of cloud computing, but migrating to the cloud can be a challenging ...

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Cloud Services, Cloud Trust Ratings

Is your trust in cloud services misplaced or true? Find out with a cloud trust rating - Network World: " . . . The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) reminds us that cloud computing does indeed have the potential for threat that can be detrimental to enterprise data security. The CSA annually releases a report on the top threats to cloud computing. Some of the potential threats the CSA cited in its 2013 report include denial of service, account or service traffic hijacking, and abuse of cloud services. It is in this atmosphere of confusion that Skyhigh Networks has put forth a new program aimed at giving enterprises confidence that their chosen cloud service providers have implemented a rigorous set of security measures meant to minimize risk to the enterprises . . . ."

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Cloud Services, Data, the Public Sector

A cloud future: the public sector's new mentality to data

The Information Daily
In its Worldwide and Regional Public IT Cloud Services forecast, IDC predicts that public spending on cloud services will top $100 billion by 2017, with ...

The Information Daily

5 cloud computing takeaways for 2013

InfoWorld
Why wouldn't you want a dynamically scalable infrastructure and self-service provisioning? That's thecloud model in a nutshell -- and it has proven ...

Cloud storage startup Dropbox looking to woo corporates

Economic Times
It has tied up with Salesforce.com and Dell and has seen strong growth in the space. Dropbox also plans to expand in India in the next two or three ...

Economic Times

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Cloud Services Employees Can Not Access

Desk Stop: Top 5 Cloud Services Employees Can't Access

CRN
Desk Stop: Top 5 Cloud Services Employees Can't Access ... An analysis of cloud services used in more than 100 large businesses found most employees had ...

CRN

Oracle CFO Says Cloud Computing Will Lift Profit Margins

Bloomberg
Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world's largest database-software maker, will boost operating margins by shifting to services delivered via the Web from software ...

Baseline

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Cloud Computing Services grow to $131 billion (US)

Cloud services market to grow by 18.5% to USD131 billion this year ...

IVCPOST
Cloud computing is defined as a process by which an information or a ...Gartner said this year, the public cloud services market would grow by 18.5% to ...

IVCPOST

Cloud Services Will Kill MSP Per Device Pricing Model

MSPmentor
Cloud computing and hosted services are killing or squeezing per-device pricing models for managed services providers (MSPs). The big theme is per-user ...

MSPmentor

The Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts On Twitter

Huffington Post
"Is SaaS killing traditional IT departments?" was a recent title of a wired blog, noting that more companies are turning to software-as-a-service (SaaS) for their ...

Operator errors and inexperience raise cloud computing costs

TechTarget
Subscribe today to ensure you receive the premier issue of this online magazine focused exclusively on building enterprise data centers, while keeping an eye ...

4 Things VMware Must Do At VMworld

InformationWeek
VMware CEO Gelsinger needs to show customers a new leadership team and a company that understands how to compete in a multi-hypervisor marketplace.

Data-sharing scheme shows the way towards low-cost, flexible and ...
Wider adoption of cloud storage services by organizations has been hindered by security and privacy issues. A consequence of storing data on the cloud is that, ...

Phys.org
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NSA damages US Cloud Business and Cloud Providers

Spying concerns "will likely have an immediate and lasting impact on the competitiveness of the U.S. cloud computing industry if foreign customers decide the risks of storing data with a U.S. company outweigh the benefits," according to the think tank's report. A $21.5 billion or $35 billion loss of revenue would be the equivalent of 10 percent or 20 percent of the estimated market, respectively. (source infra)

Thanks to the NSA, the Sky May Be Falling on U.S. Cloud Providers - Bloomberg: " . . . . U.S. cloud providers could lose between $21.5 billion and $35 billion in revenue over the next three years because of worries about the National Security Agency's PRISM program, which enables the government to access user data from U.S. Internet companies, according to a report this week by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. . . . . The estimate is partly based on market-share projections and a global survey, which found that more than half of respondents, including companies and other industry professionals based outside the U.S., said they would be less likely to use a U.S.-based cloud service in light of Prism. Ten percent said they had already canceled a project with a U.S.-based Internet company as a result, according to the Cloud Security Alliance, the trade group that conducted the survey. . . ."

expri.com - technology news: NSA has negative effect on US and US tech: "OK, so a few tech companies are getting rich off NSA contracts (Booz Allen et al), and of course politicians get plenty of political contributions from those contractors to keep the NSA expanding, but the nation at large, and its tech industry, are being ill-served by this out-of-control, ever-expanding federal spy agency. One is left to wonder--what is the greatest threat to America today--al Qaeda or the NSA?. . ."

NSA spying may cost cloud companies $35 billion | The Technology Chronicles | an SFGate.com blog: "The National Security Agency surveillance programs aren’t just costing the United States credibility on the world stage — they’re costing domestic tech companies big money. The recent revelations that the NSA is closely tracking the electronic footprints of foreign citizens could cut as much as $35 billion off the top lines of U.S. cloud computing companies over the next three years. It might also put the nation’s leadership position in the fast growing sector at stake. That’s according to a new study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, which tried to assess the financial toll of the clandestine PRISM program uncovered by The Guardian and Washington Post in early June. . . ."

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Microsoft steps up drive to grab cloud services market

Microsoft steps up drive to grab cloud services market
The Express Tribune
KARACHI: With cloud defining the future of information technology, world's leading software companies seem to have stepped up campaigns to educate consumers and businesses about the benefits of cloud services. Microsoft Pakistan is one of them.

HP, Lockheed join FedRAMP elites
GCN.com
Hewlett-Packard and Lockheed Martin have been granted provisional approval to offer cloud servicesunder the federal government's FedRAMP cloud security program, bringing to four the number ofcloud providers achieving the highest security level ...

Cisco Cloud Services Resellers Offered Long List of Benefits to Enable ...
The VAR Guy
Earlier this week at its 2013 Partner Summit in Boston, Cisco Systems (CSCO) rolled out a newCloud Services Reseller program featuring a number of new benefits designed to make the point to partners the networking vendor is all-in with existing ...

ScanSource Allies with Intelisys for Carrier, Cloud Services
Channel Partners
While other distributors have taken steps to become cloud services aggregators, ScanSource is taking a different tack. "We're looking at how this type of program and offers will be adopted by our partners and then we'll make decisions from there ...

Panzura Raises $25 Million in Funding for Cloud Storage Solution
Web Host Industry Review
Related Topics: cloud computing, finance and investments, panzura, storage technology. Cloud storage startup Panzura announced on Friday it has successfully raised $25 million in Series D funding to further develop its cloud storage solution. The move ...

Cloud Storage Company Panzura Raises $25 Million
Pulse 2.0
San Jose, California based cloud storage company Panzura has raised a $25 million round of funding. Meritech Capital led this round of funding. Matrix Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Opus Capital, and Chevron Technology Ventures also participated in this ...

Cisco Shifts from Supply to Demand in Cloud
Channelnomics
Over the last two years, the company has built up a strong stable of cloud builders and Cisco-basedcloud services. Currently, the company boasts some 1,7000 cloud certifications and 350 Cisco-powered cloud services in the market, with an almost equal ...

Business Continuity Encompasses the Cloud
Baseline
Business continuity has become a high priority for companies, and one of the most significant recent trends in BC planning and practices is the emergence of cloud computing as a key component. "The cloud has fundamentally changed business continuity ...

Going Green with Cloud Computing
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Survey participants - IT decision makers that have implemented cloud services for at least one year - reported they are achieving better results, faster deployments and lower costs than expected as a result of cloud computing implementations. Luth ...

Operation PRISM will have effect on cloud industry - for good or bad
Cloud Pro
One of the most-quoted fears about moving to cloud is that the data is not secure. For many companies, the idea that vital customer data is held in an unspecified place, available for access by unknown people is a big inhibitor to the idea of cloud ...

IBM buying cloud computing company SoftLayer - Yahoo! News
News: ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) — IBM is buying cloud computing company ... unit will be combined in a Cloud Services division under the charge of Erich Clementi, ...

Fast-Growing Cloud Services Market Drives Cloud Automation ...
Public cloud services & private cloud infrastructure are growing fast, and this ... Google began offering its own public cloud computing services a year ago.

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Protect your company against vanishing cloud services

How to protect your company against vanishing cloud services
GigaOM
If the 75-percent-of-all-startups-fail statistic applies equally to cloud computing as it does to other sectors, we're about to see a lot more sad emails to users warning them to move their data or find a new provider within the next month. It sucks to ...

StorageCraft Technology Launches Cloud Services in US, Canada
Web Host Industry Review
Cloud storage services provider StorageCraft Technology announced on Friday it is now offering StorageCraft Cloud Services through its value added resellers, via Lifeboat and SYNNEX distribution. StorageCraft was recently singled-out in a new study ...

Canadian Tire Building Cloud Computing Centre in Winnipeg
Digital Home
“The Canadian Tire Advanced Cloud Computing Centre will serve as the core digital hub for…Canadian Tire Retail, Mark's, FGL Sports, Partsource, Gas+ and our Financial Services division,” said Eugene Roman, Chief Technology Officer of Canadian Tire ...

Digital Home

New QTS Lab Will Advance High-Security Federal Clouds
Data Center Knowledge
QTS (Quality Technology Services) wants to help federal agencies get comfortable withcloud computing, and is dedicating some of its data center space toward this goal. The company, in conjunction with i2 Sentinel Associates, has set up a testbed ...

Data Center Knowledge

Growth of Cloud Computing and ERP Continues to Accelerate
Technorati
The switch could lead to better computing centers and is positive news considering the immense growth of cloud computing in recent years. It is being heralded as another step forward for the future of enterprise cloud services. The news of a better ...

Technorati

'Restictive' EU Cloud Ideas Worries UK G-Cloud Boss McDonagh
ChannelBiz
The head of the G-Cloud and director of IT for the Home Office Denise McDonagh has raised concerns about “restrictive” cloud computing ideas emanating from the European Commission. McDonagh ... The UK Government's efforts to embrace publiccloud ...

ChannelBiz

How Big Data can help in meeting big energy needs
Power Engineering Magazine
Whether it is electrical transmission and distribution grid management, oil pipes for pump liquid fuels or managing wind and tidal energy firms, cloud computing and Big Data is used to reduce the distribution losses and deliver at the most cost ...

Weekend Roundup: Android booms from Samsung Galaxy S4 and tablet line-up ...
ITProPortal
Weekend Roundup: Android booms from Samsung Galaxy S4 and tablet line-up, Top 10 tips for cloud computing, Cameras on Kaspersky. by Will Dalton, 04 May, 2013 04 May, 2013 News. Weekend Roundup: Android booms from Samsung Galaxy S4 and ...

ITProPortal

New Magellan GPS taps cloud computing and social media
Salt Lake Tribune
Its new $249 SmartGPS takes advantage of the Cloud and social media in an effort to co-exist with smartphones rather than compete with them. The SmartGPS looks like an overgrown iPhone with a five- inch screen. It plugs into the cigarette lighter in ...

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Cloud Services Help Your Small Business Grow

Can Cloud Services Help Your Small Business Grow?
TIME
And half claim that such cloud computing services helped them grow their businesses. So instead of buying, installing and maintaining software and servers, think about turning over at least some of your infrastructure to a service provider ...

Third-party cloud storage services to stumble in enterprise push
ZDNet
Cloud storage providers such as Dropbox and Box are winning over consumers by emphasizing the availability of their services across multiple ecosystems and geographies. However, the enterprise-grade versions of these services may not be sufficiently ...

Cloud review: 8 public cloud services put to the test
InfoWorld
That's the beauty of the cloud. You buy what you want, when you want it. Oh, there is one errant recurring charge for a blob of bits stuck in Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud, but tech support is looking into erasing that. I expect it will be stricken ...

VMware CEO Embraces Cloud Services, Not Intel CEO Job
Wall Street Journal- India (blog)
Why would a profitable software company like VMware move into cloud services, a field led by Amazon where a raft of new competitors could squeeze margins? CEO Pat Gelsinger says its approach will be quite a bit different. The company and its majority ...

Netflix Offers US$100000 In Prizes To Advance Cloud Computing
PR Newswire (press release)
"Cloud computing has become a hot topic recently, but the technology is still just emerging," said Neil Hunt , chief product officer at Netflix. "No doubt many of the key ideas that will take it to the next level have yet to be conceived, explored, and ...

Pharmacy Company's Rx For Chaos: More Cloud
InformationWeek
The small business handles several hundred thousand such prescriptions every year with just 27 employees, an accomplishment CEO Jay Roy chalks up to the company's increasing reliance on thecloud. "There's no way 27 people could touch everything ...

Computex organizers forecast a cloud computing bonanza
China Post
Featuring some 1,700 exhibitors and 5,000 booths, this year's Computex will showcase the latest developments in cloud computing and information communications technology (ICT), and is expected to attract more than 36,000 international buyers. According ...

EMC Thailand to focus on storage, cloud computing businesses
The Nation
EMC's biggest opportunity continues to be helping customers transition from a physical data center to a virtualized one that is cloud computing, and the company is also actively supporting service providers in this area. EMC's offers organizations a ...

Will VMware Challenge Amazon Head On?
InformationWeek
VMware announces Hybrid Cloud Services unit. Does that mean VMware IaaS, competing directly with Amazon, or continued reliance on partners? Start The Discussion · Tweet; Mail Mail; Print Print · Charles Babcock | March 14, 2013 09:12 AM. VMware told ...

Suppliers addressing businesses' concerns over cloud computing, says expert
Out-Law.com
Cloud computing specialist Charles Park of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that the results of a recent survey conducted on behalf of KPMG had highlighted the "maturing" nature of the cloud market. ... In addition, businesses are ...

The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2013
CRN's 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2013, the Cloud 100, looks at the best vendors incloud platforms, cloud infrastructure, cloud storage, cloud ...
www.crn.com/.../the-100-coolest-cloud-computing-vendors-of...

Cloud services can save you money -- if you're careful ...
Calculating the real ROI of cloud apps requires the analysis of a lot of factors, ... Home > Cloud Computing ... Computerworld - The key to earning a positive return on investment when adoptingcloud services -- including software-as-a- service ...
www.computerworld.com/.../Cloud_services_can_save_you_...

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Public cloud services to total $131B by 2017

Gartner: Public cloud services to total $131B by 2017
ZDNet
Although forecast growth is generally high across all regions, the adoption of cloud services varies significantly by country. Providers should not assume that a generic strategy applied to specific countries or regions of the world will produce the ...

Where The Highest Paying Cloud Computing Jobs Are
Forbes
Professional, Scientific and Technical Services (31%), Information Technologies (30%) and Manufacturing (12%) lead the top ten industries hiring cloud computingprofessionals in positions paying $100K or more. Wanted Analytics uses the NAICS taxonomy ...

Forbes

Cloud-Computing Tools For Doctors And Physicians
CloudTweaks News
Today we will focus more on small medical services providers and on how they can use cloud computing technologies. Here are the cloud-based solutions most used by doctors and physicians:Cloud storage. Information storage is of major importance for ...

Google App Engine Developers Get Help From Ferris
InformationWeek
Cloud Sherpas, a company that helps businesses implement cloud computing services, released Thursday an open source Python framework to simplify custom app development on Google App Engine. Recently named Google Apps implementation partner ...

Cloud Computing And Banking Security

CloudTweaks News
I have talked about security in cloud computing many times before, explaining why it is just as safe as conventional networking security, even citing its benefits over the conventional. However, there are many who still find cloud computing security ...

Schools, governments charge into the cloud -- why not businesses?
InfoWorld
According to a study recently released by CDW Government, a provider of government technology products and services, 40 percent of K-12 schools are turning to cloud computing for storage. However, the cloud is finding other applications at schools ...

9 top threats to cloud computing security
InfoWorld
Print| . 9 top threats to cloud computing security. Cloud computing has grabbed the spotlight at this year's RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, with vendors aplenty hawking products and services that equip IT with controls to bring order to cloud chaos.

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Google improves support for cloud services

In Battle With Amazon, Google Hardens Its Cloud Services
Wired
As part of its ongoing effort to compete with Amazon in the cloud computing game, Google has beefed up the technical support options for businesses who use its sweeping collections of cloud services. The Google Cloud Platform now includes online ...

PS4's cloud services are "aspirational", could miss launch
MCV
Sony Computer Entertainment America president and CEO Jack Tretton has warned gamers not to expect all of the features outlined in Sony's PS4 press to be available at launch. That includes things such as streaming games, sharing gameplay video or ...

MCV

Google adds fee-based support services for cloud platform customers
InfoWorld
Google has launched fee-based support services for customers of its cloud platform and infrastructure products, like App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Big Query. Google, often criticized over the years for having weak technical support ...

1TB cloud-storage, a killer screen: What Google's Chromebook Pixel offers
Firstpost
Google has launched its own Chromebook Pixel which is priced at a steep price of $1299 for the Wi-fi only version, while the Wi-Fi plus cellular version is priced at $1499. The device is currently only available in the US and UK via Google's Play Store ...

VCE adds two new converged infrastructure models, SAP certification
InfoWorld
Calling it the biggest news since its creation, VCE today added two low-end models to its line of Vblock pre-configured, cloud-computing systems. VCE also announced it is teaming with SAP AG to add the SAP HANA database to its Vblock system. Models ...

5 Misconceptions Your Parents Make About Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
Sure the joke, “Al Gore invented the internet,” is a little old but your parents had seven years to work on this environmental Cloud twist to the joke to shock it back to life. Now our parents will confuse their joke with reality and we have to hear ...

Accenture Moving NSF Accounting To Cloud Computing; Ed Meehan Comments
GovConWire
Accenture Federal Services has won a five-year, $24.4 million contract to transition the U.S. National Science Foundation's financial accounting system to a cloud computing environment. The company plans to host the agency's 25-year old system in a ...

VMware Partner Exchange: 10 Cloud Services Providers to Watch
Talkin' Cloud
But cloud services providers (CSPs) will also push into the spotlight. Indeed, VMware's service provider licensing model has caught on with a range of companies that have public and private clouds. In fact, there are more than 8,500 vCloud Services...

Talkin' Cloud

Lujiazui to host cloud computing event
China Daily
Cloud Connect, a globally influential event in the cloud computing industry, will make its debut at Shanghai's International Convention Center from September 15 to 17. The rapid development of cloud computing will have a big impact on China's IT ...

HP News - HP Enables Partners to Accelerate Cloud Services Delivery
LAS VEGAS — HP today announced two new HP Cloud Builder programs that enable partners to leverage HP Cloud Services, the company's public cloud, ...
www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id...

When iCloud isn't enough: balancing other cloud storage options
GigaOM
Rene Ritchie's excellent article on iCloud and Dropbox has forced me to examine how I use iCloud and other cloud storage. When iCloud launched in 2011, I had hopes it would be a single-source solution, but over the years it's become apparent to me that...

GigaOM

Why Akamai is a smart play in cloud computing
MSN Money
Forrester estimates that the cloud-computing market will grow from $41 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020. Cisco Systems (CSCO) estimates that two-thirds of total data center traffic will becloud traffic by 2016. IDC projects that application ...

Aussie, Eurozone Cloud Computing Industries Grow Gloomy On The US Patriot Act

CloudTweaks News
The European Union has resuscitated the more than a decade-old contention about data independence after giving an exposé of the US Patriot Act of 2001, which bequeaths the Federal administration, on the other side of the Atlantic, the power to seize ...

The fog of law and cloud computing
The Age
Data sovereignty concerns should not stop Australian businesses considering cloud services, say legal experts. Photo: Orlando Chiodo. Data sovereignty and privacy concerns resulting from the ... The reach of the US Patriot Act – which essentially ...

The Age

Unplugged: Got cloud?
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Cloud computing is exploding and growing faster than a swirling funnel crossing the Oklahoma plains. The next generation of computing lowers information technology costs while increasing corporate profits at the same time. And what's ...

Cloud services provider in Python trademark dispute

Cloud Pro
Cloud services provider Our Holdings has caused uproar among programmers for trying to trademark the word 'python'. The company, which offers both Infrastructure-as-a-Service and cloud backup, uses the trading name 'python' for its products and owns ...

Cloud computing – The future for all?
This is Total Essex
Cloud computing is an IT solution that offers all of these. Operating within the cloud offers companies the opportunity to move away from physical servers and hardware to virtual ones, benefit from a solution that is scalable and command lower overheads.

This is Total Essex

10 Pioneers Of Cloud Computing
Siliconindia.com
The interesting part of cloud computing is that it's just a decade old, but the growth rate simply has been astonishing when compared to slow nurturers like personal computing and client-server technology. And then there are these pioneers. These guys...

Siliconindia.com

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Cloud services are low-cost, effective and safe for charities

Cloud services are low-cost, effective and safe – and the future for charities
The Guardian (blog)
The cloud is a great leveller and can help smaller charities to work in a more effective and efficient way. Many cloud services are free or low cost and can bring tremendous benefits – from collaborating with partners, to reaching out to new ...

The Guardian (blog)

Hybrid Cloud Management Is Within Reach
InformationWeek
... Buyer's Guide: 9 SaaS Project Management Tools · More >>. The way in which companies adoptcloud services and the various ways in which cloud service providers support their offerings compound the IT department's challenges. The consumerization of ...

Innovative Cloud Computing and IT Support Services Provider Launches Global ...
Marketwire (press release)
Auxilion is an innovative virtual support services provider that uses Microsoft cloud technology and a virtual workforce to deliver affordable, enterprise-quality business outsourcing solutions in the areas of IT support services, customer support and ...

Lean IT: Think Big About Agility
InformationWeek
Cloud Computing is an umbrella term for a variety of big changes in IT. It's the move from ... Cloud computing can reduce the coefficient of friction of changes dramatically -- but without a DevOps approach to adaptive infrastructure, it can't shine ...

Mobile, cloud computing to spur microserver sales in '13
Manila Standard Today
“With cloud computing and data centers in high demand in order to serve more smartphones, tablets and mobile PCs online, specific aspects of server design are becoming increasingly important, including maintenance, expandability, energy efficiency and ...

Cloud Computing Security Rules Put Responsibility on Users
American Banker (subscription)
Many companies adopting cloud services have relied on their cloud providers to take care of PCI compliance, notes Pravin Kothari, CEO and founder of CipherCloud, a San Jose company that provides encryption for cloud computing arrangements.

SaaS remains most popular form of cloud computing for UK IT
ComputerWeekly.com
Software as a service (SaaS) continues to be the top cloud service that the UK enterprises plan to use in 2013, despite newer cloud services such as datacentre as a service, database as a service or even testing and development as a service. A majority ...

Cloud Computing Enabled in Risk Explorer™ Software Allows Execution of ...
Marketwire (press release)
In test runs, Bushel reported, cloud computing cut the time required to process 50,000 simulations of a very large model from seven hours to only five minutes. Models of any imaginable size can now be run at minimal incremental cost literally within ...

Veeam turns cloud services into off-site backup repository
V3.co.uk
Available immediately, Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition enables IT departments to automate the copying of backups to any of 15 different cloud-based storage services, including Amazon's S3 or Glacier platforms, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace or HP ...

Using Cloud Storage For Photography
By Peter West Carey
The Cloud” is another term for computer servers whose primary purpose is to store your data and make it accessible from anywhere. Granted ... Using Cloud Storage For Photography · Articles ...These days, cloud services are many and vast.
Phototuts+

The State of Cloud Storage Adoption
Companies are steadily adopting cloud computing, particularly for use with ... In a new survey fromcloud-storage company Twin Strata, that same old refrain ...
www.cioinsight.com/it.../the-state-of-cloud-storage-adoption/

IBM Simplifies Big Data and Cloud Computing Adoption with New ...
ARMONK, N.Y. - 05 Feb 2013: Making it easier for organizations to quickly adopt and deploy big data and cloud computing solutions, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today ...
www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/40314.wss

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HP cloud services tackle software development, app performance

HP cloud services tackle software development, app performance
InfoWorld
In the beginning, HP's cloud services-- and those from most other providers -- were aimed at the deployment team. ... HP clearly hopes that these new cloud services will draw more developers into its orbit and funnel projects into HP's growing cloud ...

As cloud use grows, so will rate of DDoS attacks
InfoWorld
The bitter reality is that for cloud computing to be useful, it has to be exposed on public networks. Moreover, cloud services' presence is advertised and the interfaces well-defined. You can count on unauthorized parties to access those services, with ...

British Telecom Launches Cloud Storage Service
Tom's Hardware Guide
Though storage has never been cheaper, there are certain benefits to storing you files in the cloud. If there weren't, services like Google Drive, Amazon Cloud Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, and DropBox wouldn't still be running. This month, a new player ...

Moving to cloud computing is harder, costlier than originally envisioned
Network World
Network World - A substantial number of businesses say cloud computing security challenges are daunting and the costs higher than they originally thought they would be, according to the CloudSurvey report published today by consultancy KPMG ...

IBM aims to bring cloud computing and big data to mass markets
V3.co.uk
In conjunction with its push to bring big data to the masses, IBM has also moved to boost its cloud computing storage offerings to help make the storage of data simpler and more cost-effective. Chief among the updates include SmartCloud Storage Access.

V3.co.uk

Smooth BPM The Silver Lining Of Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
Cloud-based software provides a way for easy management and alleviates issues companies face trying to improve these processes, particularly when it comes to prototyping and modeling. A question many businesses are trying to address is: How can cloud ...

Good-bye PC maker Dell and hello cloud company Dell
InfoWorld
The truth of the matter is Dell has slowly been reinventing itself over the past few of years, making the transition from Dell, maker of low-priced PCs to Dell, cloud-focused enterprise hardware and services company. Just take a look at the 15 ...

CGI granted FedRAMP(SM) security authorization to deliver U.S. government ...
Marketwire (press release)
In the United Kingdom (UK), CGI was also selected as one of the suppliers for G-Cloud II, the second phase of the UK government's procurement portal, G-Cloud, which is part of a government-wide commitment to the adoption of cloud computing and ...

Meet Startups And Cloud Services @ TechDays
ArcticStartup
Developers take note: Finland's largest technical event, TechDays13, will have the honor to present few startup solutions that utilize Windows Azure cloud platform. These presentations are developer –focused and describe different technical aspects of ...

Enterprises Remain Focused on Internal Clouds According to New 451 ...
eReleases (press release)
5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – TheInfoPro, a service of 451 Research, released its latest Cloud Computing Study, indicating that 47% percent of those interviewed had internal cloud projects planned for 2013. Conducted during the second half of 2012, TheInfoPro ...

Critical Infrastructure and the Cloud : Cloud Security Alliance Blog
Critical Infrastructure and the Cloud Arrow to Content. February 1, 2013 Cloud computing continues to be a hot topic. But so what if people ...
https://blog.cloudsecurityalliance.org/.../critical-infrastructure-...

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Cloud Services quest for cost savings and reduced capex

Cloud Services: The quest for cost savings and reduced capex
CIO
The reality, however, is quite different. While the promise of cloud services and its benefits are beginning to be born out through the largest enterprises, many IT leaders are still testing the waters to determine if, in fact, cloud services and cloud ...

App.net gives users 10GB of cloud storage, its File API to set social data free
Engadget
We thought App.net had eyes only for Twitter when the project was funded and garnered its first 20,000 customers. Today, a post on the company blog reveals that its sights are set much higher than mere messaging. Rather than provide just an ad-free ...

Cloud Computing and Financial Services: A Roadmap for the Future of ...
American Banker (subscription)
This webinar will provide a high-level overview of the current and potential challenges faced by financial firms evaluating cloud solutions, including compliance enablement, security, and vendor performance. Presenters will sort out the misconceptions ...

DreamObjects Cloud Storage Platform Hits Production
The VAR Guy
DreamObjects is only one component of DreamHost's broader cloud-focused portfolio. The company also offers an OpenStack-based computing service called DreamCompute. By integrating storage services alongside cloud computing, DreamHost aims to ...

Automating business processes with cloud services | TechRepublic
By Jeff Cerny
For eight years, Eccentex has maintained its goal of allowing organizations to automate business processes using cloud services to reduce risk, increase efficiency, and improve customer service. The founders cut their teeth as pioneers of ...
The Enterprise Cloud Blog | TechRepublic

Awesome Azure Resources - ImagineCup - Site Home - MSDN Blogs: " . . . Cloud Services Try this step-by-step tutorial – How to Create and Deploy a Cloud Service Full list of step-by-step tutorials for Cloud Services can be found on this page Configure, monitor, and scale your Cloud Services in Windows Azure Some more advanced Cloud Service Tutorials on Windows Azure Dev Centre Checkout the Channel 9 Cloud Patterns video series for common patterns and practices in using Cloud Services Tutorial on how to create a Mobile-friendly REST service using ASP.NET Web API and SQL Database Get the latest news from our Cloud Services expert @haishibai2010. . . .  "

7 Great Unsolved Mysteries of Cloud Computing
Forbes
4) Is cloud computing a step backwards in the openness movement? For more than a decade, enterprises and industry leaders have been hashing out standards, protocols and technologies that are more interchangeable and even hot-swappable. There's no ...

Forbes

The next revolution in cloud computing
Fortune
Software is a major—if often unsung—factor in the future of high-power computing. It will matter increasingly to businesses of all kinds as more and more products and services move into the cloud. "The line between high performance computing and ...

Fortune

Oracle Has Big Plans To Beat Salesforce And Amazon In A $72 Billion Market
Business Insider
Cloud computing is a vast market, involving software apps, storage, computing power, and other resources. The infrastructure part of cloud usually involves providing the basic computing resources on which customers can run operating systems and ...

Business Insider

European public sector failing to embrace cloud computing
PublicServiceEurope.com
The European public sector has a great opportunity right now. Against the backdrop of the eurozone crisis and pressure to reduce operational budgets,cloud computing could well be the solution to the monumental challenge of delivering more with less.

PublicServiceEurope.com

Technology M&A - Trends For 2013 - #3: Cloud Computing
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The global M&A outlook for 2013 as a whole appears uncertain. Remark and mergermarket's "Doing the Deal" study shows less than 50% of Europe's leading dealmakers expect a rise in M&A activity over the coming 12 months, with lingering uncertainty and ...

Inktank Partners With eNovance to Support Ceph Cloud Storage
Marketwire (press release)
Ceph's open and revolutionary architecture, combining object and block storage, is uniquely designed to meet the most demanding enterprise cloud storage needs. Because eNovance specializes in Big Data and Open Source/Open Cloud environments, they ...

Panzura Sees Gains for its Global Cloud Storage Platform
Data Center Knowledge
Cloud storage solutions company Panzura announced a banner year for its Global Cloud StoragePlatform, certification from Cisco for its UCS E Server, and a successful customer implementation. Strong adoption in 2012. The global cloud storage solution ...

EarthLink To Offer More Cloud Services
Channel Partners
EarthLink will expand its IT services offerings by deploying Virtustream's xStream enterprise cloudsoftware solution. xStream will help EarthLink offer SMB customers an expanded set of enterprise-class cloud services for applications that require ...

Cloud Storage
EVDOinfo
What are the disadvantages of Cloud Storage? Customers with 3G/4G Connections Such as Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular , AT&T need to watch out for the Cloud Services because many will constantly sync your data back and forth ...

EVDOinfo

Cloud Computing - Cloud World Series
Cloud World 2013 - 2nd Annual Cloud Computing conference in New York on 18th and 19th ...Transform your infrastructure for deploying robust Cloud services ...
www.cloudworldseries.com/usa/

AWS adds video transcoding to cloud services ... Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon.com, has added video transcoding to its .... Hybrid IT Service Management: A Requirement for Virtualisation and Cloud Computing - Read now ...
www.techworld.com.au/.../aws_adds_video_transcoding_clou...


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