HP WebOS Cloud Services, Cloud Storage, Cloud Revolution

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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 Storage for Business, Google, Microsoft, Others

Google, Microsoft and Others Delve Deeper Into Cloud Storage for Businesses - NYTimes.com: "... Online digital storage, the repository of an increasing amount of our business and personal lives, is changing from being a small part of computing to the core way of selling corporations other kinds of cloud software and services. Soon, keeping your digital goods will also be the means for tech companies to understand who does what inside a business, just the way they understand consumers by watching what they do on the web. “Storage is where the stickiness is,” said Jeffrey Mann, vice president for research at Gartner. “It’s how they hold a customer. If they store your stuff, they get to know you better.”..."

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Cloud Storage, Cloud Computing, Mobile Cloud Services

Cloud storage appliances: Backup and recovery made simple | ZDNet
Why should you integrate cloud backup appliances into your IT environment? Because you've made this decision before.
www.zdnet.com/cloud-storage-appliances-backup-and-recover...

Microsoft OneDrive: Cloud Storage Freebies - InformationWeek
Microsoft on Wednesday officially rebranded its SkyDrive cloud storage platform as OneDrive. To mark the transition, the company also introduced a new feature ...
www.informationweek.com/cloud/cloud.../d/d.../1113896

Cloud storage made simple: How to integrate it with your workflow ...
Thanks to cloud storage, files are bursting from the confines of your PC's hard drive. Now, you can get work done on a laptop, tablet, smartphone, or even ...
www.pcworld.com/.../cloud-storage-made-simple-how-to-inte...

California fights drought with big data, cloud computing ...
California is facing its worst drought in more than 100 years and with no end in sight. Conserving water has never been more important, and the problem this ...
www.computerworld.com/.../California_fights_drought_with_...

How Mobile Cloud Services Will Consolidate After The Death Of ...
Cloud services are booming in the age of mobile but market maturity will cause consolidation.
readwrite.com/.../mobile-cloud-services-consolidate-death-stac...

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Future of data storage

Future of data storage

QR Code Press
As cloud computing is gaining more and more popularity, people start asking... Hybrid cloud storage combines the advantages of both a private and a public ...

QR Code Press

NEC Australia and NEXTDC team up for secure Australian cloud

WhaTech
Business Enablement Cloud Solutions deliver on-demand CRM, Contact Centre, ... of their nationalcloud computing strategy,” said NEXTDC's Mr Scroggie.

Cisco Cloud Connections: Your Amazing Cloud Journey Starts Here

Telecom Reseller (press release)
Cloud computing is an irreversible trend in which enterprises are moving from careful contemplation to industry-wide adoption. The latest Cisco Global Cloud ...

Indian-origin Satya Nadella still leading horse in Microsoft's CEO ...

ANINEWS
14 (ANI): The chase for Microsoft's CEO has seen many business chiefs enter and exit the potential list, except the software maker's cloud computing executive ...

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Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Big Data

Cloud computing and the rise of big data

TechRepublic (blog)
Cloud computing democratizes big data – any enterprise can now work with ... If they manage public cloud services, they don't have to touch the lower layers of ...

Cloud Storage and TV Antennas Go to Court

Wall Street Journal
Cloud Storage and TV Antennas Go to Court. By Gary Shapiro. Innovations like cloud computing would not be possible without the Supreme Court verdict in ...

Wall Street Journal

Emerging nations more upbeat about Cloud computing: Study

New York Daily News
New Delhi, Oct 1 — Cloud computing has in the last few years caught the imagination of IT leaders in emerging nations like India, Brazil and China who are ...

Economic Times

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Cloud Storage, NSA-Free

NSA-Free Cloud Storage Promised by Finnish Company

Tom's Guide
Finnish information-security company F-Secure plans to offer a cloud-storage service that can't easily be accessed by the U.S. National Security Agency...

Windows Azure cloud services achieve critical federal security ...

Jeffrey Meisner
Windows Azure is the first public cloud platform, with infrastructure services and ... The FedRAMP process, now mandated for all federal cloud services, makes ...The Official Microsoft Blog

Cloud Computing Enters The Growth And Innovation Phase, IDC Says

IT Jungle
According to IDC, spending on public cloud computing (as opposed to private cloud services) will grow from $47.3 billion this year to $107 billion by 2017...

The Japan Daily Press

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Nirvanix cloud service, abrupt shut down

Nirvanix confirms abrupt shut down rumors (but doesn’t apologize for royally screwing customers) | VentureBeat: "Nirvanix . . . an alternative to industry giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), and formed partnerships with lots of notable tech firms like Symantec, IBM, Dell, Ooyala, and many others. . . . The shutdown is likely to send a chill up the spine of anyone using a lesser-known cloud storage provider, and could have larger implications going forward. For instance, companies may be more hesitant to go with a smaller cloud storage service for fear of a repeat of Nirvanix happening — even if that smaller cloud storage service is cheaper and makes more sense to use than the larger, more established services."

Don't Live in Fear of Your Cloud Storage Provider Going Under

CIO
Don't Live in Fear of Your Cloud Storage Provider Going Under. The closure of cloud storage provider Nirvanix sent a chill through the cloud storage industry ...

CIO

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Why Google Is Encrypting Cloud Data

Why Google's Now Encrypting Data In The Cloud

ReadWrite
Users of Cloud Storage do not need to configure or modify the way they access the service—though if developers were previously managing their own ...

ReadWrite

Cloud computing and the dangers of shadow IT

TechRepublic (blog)
Of the many well-known promises of cloud computing, such as lower costs, faster ... Thoran Rodrigues took the opportunity to open a cloud services company...

Interior Cloud Storage Contract Could Be Worth $10 Billion

Nextgov
A slate of contracts to provide cloud computing services to the Interior Department could ... Interior initially awarded the contracts for cloud storage, secure file ...

Google Offers Automatic Cloud Storage Data Encryption, But Is Data ...

CMSWire
google, cloud computing, cloud storage, eim, information management Google continues to add to the appeal of its cloud storage capabilities, this time with the ...

Top Cloud Storage Firms Listings Ranked by ...
bestwebdesignagencies.com has awarded the top cloud storage agencies in the web design and development industry for the month of August 2013....

NSA's PRISM not Distorting the Future of Cloud Computing

Techzone360
In a recent blog entry, TMC CEO Rich Tehrani discusses the potential impact of the recent revelations surrounding the NSA's PRISM program on tech companies ...

Cloud Computing: Worries Persist about Operational Failure and ...

Formtek Blog (blog)
Cloud computing offers numerous advantages over on-premise alternatives, such as ... to the agility, flexibility and time-to-value that cloud services can deliver....

UK businesses 'need more cloud computing training'

Virtual College
Dr Brian Nicholson, senior lecturer at Manchester Business School, who claimed in an article for V3 that IT is the lifeblood of many firms, with cloud computing in ...

CIECA Announces New Mobile and Cloud Computing Standards

FenderBender
Aug. 16, 2013—The Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association (CIECA) announcedThursday that it will begin the development of new standards for ...

Google To Auto-Encrypt Users' Cloud Data For Free

RedOrbit
Google has improved their cloud storage security by automatically encrypting all data stored there by customers for free. Now, any new data pushed to Cloud ...


RedOrbit

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Bitcasa Partners With Samsung To Offer Unlimited Cloud Storage

Bitcasa Partners With Samsung To Offer Unlimited Cloud Storage ...

Jordan Crook
Today Bitcasa, Disrupt Battlefield finalist, has announced a partnership with Samsung to offer Bitcasa's infinite storage service to all Windows 8 device..

TechCrunch 

Foxconn to complete cloud computing R&D center in southern Taiwan ...
The Foxconn Group is constructing a cloud computing R&D center at the Kaohsiung Software Park located in southern Taiwan, with completion scheduled for ...

DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia 

Collaboration: The Key to Cashing in on the Cloud » Data Center ...

Industry Perspectives
Cloud services are one of the hottest trends in the IT solutions sector, with ... Adding cloud services may be a smart move: Many customers are looking for a ...

Data Center Knowledge 

How SugarSync Works by Cloud Storage Reviews
Using SugarSync is very easy. If you want to see it's major features check out this article. We go over why to use SugarSync and why it is useful!

Cloud Storage Reviews RSS 

Archiving vs. Online Cloud Storage | First Today, Then Tomorrow

Randy Murray
My daughter Jen is working an internship with an artist and printer this summer. One of the tasks given to her was to create an archive of the artist's images....

First Today, Then Tomorrow 

Open and Collaborative Development is the Future of Cloud

Steve Hamm
Cloud computing offers businesses and individuals another way to do important ... that will deliver great benefits to businesses and other users of cloud services.

A Smarter Planet Blog

How To Get 23GB of Free Cloud Storage If You Had MobileMe

Eric Limer
Did Apple cancel your extra MobileMe storage? Fwd the downgrade email to HelpMeSkyDrive@outlook.com for an extra 15GB of SkyDrive for 1 year ...Gizmodo

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Google Adds Cloud Storage Management Improvements

Google Adds Cloud Storage Management Improvements
eWeek
The new Object Lifecycle Management feature will allow Cloud Storage to automatically delete objects based on certain conditions, according to Dorsey. "For example, you could configure a bucket so objects older than 365 days are deleted, or only keep ...

Cloud Services, BYOD Complicating Network Monitoring, Survey Shows
NetworkComputing.com
For the study, Network Instruments polled some 170 network professionals worldwide -- network engineers, IT directors, and CIOS -- and asked them questions about their use of cloud computing, unified communications, and challenges with application and ...

Bitcasa launches unlimited cloud storage in Europe starting at €60 per year
Engadget
Google Drive, Skydrive, Dropbox and the like are swell cloud storage options, but for digital pack rats, the costs can mount. If you're willing to trust a smaller outfit, you can now do much better in Europe: Bitcasa is offering its unlimited Infinite ...

Dynamix Cloud Services Chosen as Managed IT Provider for Ocean Canyon ...
Broadway World
Dynamix Cloud Services (www.dynamixcloud.com), a leading provider of cloud-based communication, collaboration and managed IT services, and Ocean Canyon Properties (www.oceancanyon.com), a growing system of privately owned membership resorts ...

SwiftStack Launches Private Cloud Storage for Today's Applications
Broadway World
SwiftStack today announced the general availability of its private cloud storage offering. The SwiftStack solution, powered by the OpenStack Swift object storage system, was developed to provide the integration and control needed to serve the growing ...

Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate
Data Center Knowledge
One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. With flexible “pay-as-you-grow” ... This is where cloud storage can really help. The data is retrievable (not ...

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Bridging the Cloud Storage Gap

Bridging the Cloud Storage Gap » Data Center Knowledge

Industry Perspectives
Prior to Panzura, Ranajit was responsible for business strategy, cloud alliances, product management and marketing for Riverbed's Cloud Storage Business ...Data Center Knowledge 

Xbox One gets Unlimited Cloud Storage - Guru3D.com
Microsoft is really keen on you spending cash to purchase an Xbox One, the sweeten up the deal Microsoft is giving all Xbox Live users free unlimited cloud ...Guru3D.com

Yandex Lauches Competitive Cloud Storage Plans - The Next WebMartin Bryant
Russia's Yandex is enhancing its cloud storage service Yandex.Disk today with the launch of paid storage plans.The Next Web
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Why cloud storage startup Box is considering OpenStack over Amazon S3

Why cloud storage startup Box is considering OpenStack over Amazon S3
GigaOM
Right now, the backend for cloud storage startup Box is “kind of boring,” said engineering VP Sam Schillace at GigaOM's Structure 2013 conference. But it looks like some interesting changes could afoot. On stage with GigaOM senior writer Derrick Harris ...

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RapidShare mass layoffs, struggle to find new business model

RapidShare lays off most of its staff as it struggles to find new business model — Tech News and Analysis: "The company is now looking to get a stronger foothold in the B2B cloud storage market, and sell personal file storage and backup solutions to consumers. However, the mass layoffs weren’t the first sign that these plans may not be going as expected: Sidler, who joined the company just two weeks ago, is RapidShare’s fourth CEO since 2010."

Cloud computing can slash IT expenses by half, DataOne executive says
Tempo
DataOne Asia, the leading independent provider of IT services in the Philippines, says that businesses can operate this way using the right technology such as cloud computing. “Businesses that migrate their IT systems to the cloud could save at least ...

These Tech Giants Covered by the Cloud, Too: Pros
CNBC.com (blog)
One of the biggest secular trends in technology is toward cloud computing, which allows consumers and businesses to access data and applications anywhere, anytime. "You have to focus on cloud as a tech investor at this point," Ken Allen, technology ...

Cloud Computing – The Wave of the Future
SYS-CON Media (press release)
"Trust is an ongoing journey and sits at the foundation of any vendor relationship - the companies that don't consistently earn trust won't be around long," noted Henrik Rosendahl, Senior VP of CloudSolutions at Quantum, in this exclusive Q&A with ...

Cloud Expo NY: Essential Open Source Software for Building the Open Cloud
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud computing is more than a buzz-phrase it's a transformative IT paradigm shift. The emphasis in the cloud is on elasticity, scalability, agility and open. Not just open standards but open APIs and open source. The delivery of software is also going ...

Former Amazon Employee: Working On Amazon's Cloud Can Be A Dull Job
Business Insider
When it comes to cloud computing, there's no bigger name than Amazon Web Services (AWS). Yet the company is surprisingly tight-lipped about its cloud. It doesn't disclose revenues. It will only let a scant few top-level AWS execs talk to the press and ...

Tableau, Marketo software IPOs soar to the cloud
Business Recorder (blog)
The companies are being buoyed by new technologies like mobile and so-called "cloud" computing, trends that are creating tremendous business opportunities for young enterprise firms, investors say, leading them to grab market share from incumbents like ...

Venyu's Cloud Computing Honored by Network Products Guide
NewsMaker (press release)
BATON ROUGE, LA -- (Marketwired) -- Powering its market leadership in cloud computing, business continuity, and battle-tested data recovery solutions, Venyu today announced the company has secured two premier honors in the "2013 Hot Companies and Best ...

Google Cloud Storage - Google Developers
Support for Google Cloud Storage API for Google App Engine is experimental, innovative, and rapidly improving. Because it is such a new feature, App Engine's ...
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/.../overvie...


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Avoid Costly Cloud Surprises

5 Ways To Avoid Costly Cloud Surprises
InformationWeek
How can you avoid cost overruns with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) from Amazon and other cloud services? Cloud usage assessment vendors Cloudability and Cloudyn share tips....(read more at link)

SAP co-CEO McDermott says profits from cloud computing to exceed traditional ...
Washington Post
In cloud computing, customers pay SAP a subscription fee to use software on SAP's servers rather than installed at the customers' businesses. The approach is a shift from the company's longstanding model of selling software and then profiting both from ...

Cloud Computing Has Democratised ICT Use
AllAfrica.com
In the late 1800s, Frederick Taylor birthed the field of management science, which fundamentally altered organisational structure, and helped pave the way for entrepreneurs to effectively participate in the industrial revolution. Taylor, for example ...

Eight Cloud Storage Pitfalls to Avoid
Enterprise Storage Forum
Of course, many of the early websites and e-commerce outfits were complete duds, which offers a warning for those eager to adopt cloud computing. So here are some cloud storage pitfalls to watch out for—rather than just trying to set an Olympic record ...

The 10 Most Important Companies In Cloud Computing
Business Insider
In just a few short years, cloud computing has become a tech that affects everyone's daily lives. Our personal files are stored in the cloud. We maintain our friendships via apps in the cloud. Mobile phones and tablets run powerful apps via the cloud ...

Business Insider

Seacom entry stirs up cloud business
The Standard Digital News
The fibre optic cable company, Seacom, has entered the Kenyan cloud services market. The move is likely to see prices for cloud-computing services go down with small and medium-sized enterprises emerging as winners. Through its new subsidiary, ...

Accenture Invests To Enhance Cloud Platform Services
Seeking Alpha
Realizing these trends and helping its clients to get the most business value from cloud computingalong with an anticipation of a greater demand for public cloud, Accenture PLC (ACN) has launched the Accenture Cloud Platform. Also, Accenture will ...

ZeroVM Creates Software for Cloud Computing
Silicon Hills News
The team from Israel has created an open source platform for cloud computing that is fast and efficient. The open source program runs on Openstack, the operating system for the cloud, which Rackspace created along with NASA. The ZeroVM Team has spent ...

Silicon Hills News

Cloud Computing SLAs: What You Should Ask - Information Management
Information Management (blog)
The promises of performance, storage and savings in a cloud deployment are only as strong as your service level agreement. Even as cloud users become more savvy and vendors more capable, there remain a slew of tricky issues surrounding what is ...

Cloud computing market sees tough competition
VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet Bridge – Local information technology (IT) companies are racing to launch new products to claim their shares in the cloud computing market. Cloud computing market, tough competition, iNet Solutions, IT companies. Representative of Lac Viet ...

VietNamNet Bridge

Accenture to invest over $ 400 m in cloud technologies
Hindu Business Line
“As part of this strategic initiative, Accenture will invest more than $ 400 million in cloudtechnologies, capabilities and training by 2015 to focus on delivering the right cloud services from its network of providers, as well as blending its own ...

NREL Cools Cloud Computing Costs With Warm Water
EarthTechling
NREL Cools Cloud Computing Costs With Warm Water. by Randy Woods. The advent and rapid proliferation of cloud computing has revolutionized the way we store, process and manage data, but it comes at an environmental cost that's not always obvious.

Cloud Expo New York: Cloud Without the Management Headaches
SYS-CON Media (press release)
... and self-service, but with a cloud that is solely dedicated to your organization. Learn how to simplify the provision of cloud services to your workforce while focusing on driving company strategy. ... The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara ...

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Cloud Storage Matters

Cloud storage matters. Really matters...
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In the webcast cloud storage matters we looked at why the storage architecture you will need for a private cloud deployment will probably be very different to what you have today. Freeform Dynamics' Tony Lock was there to reveal why storage was so ...

Chromebook Pixel: My First Week Living In Cloud
InformationWeek
Or a fit of self-flagellation to directly experience the contortions necessary to live and work completely in the world of cloud services and mobile apps? Either way, for more than a week I didn't touch a conventional computer. No Macs, no Windows, no ...

Cloud-computing platform for robots launched
Phys.Org
(Phys.org) —Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications infrastructure ...

Seacom expands into cloud services
TechCentral
Seacom, the company behind the undersea cable of the same name, has launched a new company, called Pamoja, to offer small and medium-sized enterprises the ability to provide cloud computing-based services to their customers without the capital outlay ...

TechCentral

Listed cloud computing firms surge
Stuff.co.nz
The combined market worth of New Zealand's two NZX-listed cloud computing firms, Diligent and Xero, which listed within months of each other in 2007, has jumped by $258 million in the past week. The gain is more than the two companies raised through ...

DSB task force urges security mandates for DoD cloud computing
FierceGovernmentIT
The task force also recommends that the DoD CIO and DISA establish standard service level agreements for both private- and public- cloud computing, and that the DoD CIO establish a central repository to document the cloud computing transition.

Seven myths which prevent success of Cloud
InformationWeek India
There could be situations where a cloud could be more expensive. We often overlook several associated costs to compute the cloud expense. More often this myth is created as rhetoric by product vendors to make a business case for cloud computing.

What IBM's embrace of Rackspace really means
InfoWorld (blog)
The first product to bundle OpenStack is IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator, now in beta, which enables customers to compose cloud services using a drag and drop interface. Working behind the scenes. Before talking to Diaz, I had no idea how much influence ...

Oppenheimer's Sixth Annual Cloud Computing/Services One-on-One ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
This year's conference was hosted by Oppenheimer's leading Research Analysts covering this sector: Timothy K. Horan, CFA, Managing Director and Senior Analyst heading up the Communications and Cloud Services research team; Shaul Eyal, Managing ...

How Cloud Computing Works | Formstack Blog
By Lance
If you've been on the edge about how exactly cloud computing works, then watch this quick video we've created to help better explain cloud computing. YouTube Preview Image. Read a further explanation of cloud computing in our recent post ...
Formstack Blog

What is Cloud Computing | Open Source Private and Hybrid Clouds ...
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), "cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network ...
www.eucalyptus.com/resources/.../what-is-cloud-computing

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Top personal cloud-storage services

The top 10 personal cloud-storage services
ZDNet
While remote file storage has been with us for decade—I had remote storage on a Unix server using file transfer protocol (ftp) and NFS (Network File System) in the 80s—cloud storage for the masses didn't really get going until 2007 when Drew Houston,...

ZDNet

Gallery: Browse 10 cloud storage services
ZDNet
Amazon Cloud Drive. Amazon's Cloud Drive isn't bad, and its storage options are inexpensive, but -- like so many of these services -- it needs real operating system integration to be first rate.

ZDNet

CliQr Technologies Announces Advisory Board to Revolutionize Cloud Computing
Marketwire (press release)
The six advisory board members will shape the company's direction and strategy in an innovative cloud computing industry. "We're pleased to announce these highly qualified appointed members to our advisory board because of the unique background and ...

Maxthon adds cloud storage, sharing and more to its browser on Mac, Windows ...
The Next Web
The revamped web browser has a number of new features to tempt users over from Chrome, Firefox and other popular alternatives, including cloud push – which allows anyone with a Maxthon Passport account to push web content to and from different ...

The Next Web

Cloud Continues to Move Into the Mainstream
Wall Street Journal (blog)
But like many other major corporations, it has enthusiastically embraced cloud computing, which has been introduced at multiple layers of its information technology, from routine applications to the very core of the energy giant's global IT ...

AT&T Sees 'New Era' as Cloud Services Combine With Faster 4G
Bloomberg
Expanding the services will enable users to stream stored data and content from cloud services at faster rates and with lower delays, Stephenson said. This will drive increased data usage and require more investment in spectrum and networks, he said.

AICPA Cloud Computing Controls Endorsed by Security Group
CPA Practice Advisor
In a position paper released today, the CSA said that for most cloud providers a SOC 2 report “is likely to meet the assurance and reporting needs of the majority of users of cloud services, when the criteria for the engagement are supplemented by the ...

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Cloud storage startup Axcient

Backers: What's this, another cloud storage upstart? Here, have $20m
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Another day, another cloud storage startup. This one's Axcient, which is in the cloud backup game and has just scored itself $20m in Series D funding. That seems surprising. It's already Axcient's fourth funding round and it's a lot of greenbacks. What ...

Cloud Computing And Its Effects On Network Management
CloudTweaks News
The delivery of computing as a service, or cloud computing, over a network is becoming more and more mainstream and is allowing businesses of all sizes to get their applications up and running faster, with easier manageability and less maintenance ...

MEGA cloud storage service is launched by Kim Dotcom
HEXUS
Controversial internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom held a press conference from his mansion in New Zealand on Sunday to launch his new MEGA cloud storage service. The event, which took place on the anniversary of the takedown of Megaupload, was ...

HEXUS

Mediafire – 50GB more free cloud storage
The Gadgeteer
Need even more online Cloud storage? We've tried to keep you up to date with what's available so here's another free offering. When you sign up with MediaFire they'll give you 50GB of storage. It is their basic offering so there's no batch uploading ...

There is a silver lining to cloud computing despite challenges
Daily Nation
In April 2011, a major failure in Amazon Cloud services brought down thousands of company websites that had rented storage space in the Internet firm. That exposed the risks of cloud computing to enterprises, especially for those that fail to invest in ...

Daily Nation

New EU Commission strategy on cloud computing
New Europe (blog)
In addition, cloud computing has the potential to reduce costs for businesses when implementing information technology systems and to enable a number of sophisticated IT services to be developed by creative companies. ... Internet however, cloud ...

What does MEGA mean for cloud storage and the mobile industry?
PhoneDog
In fact, your lack of adapting to cloud storage might be detrimental to how you're living your digital life, and the future of your data. It might also temporarily limit your view of some devices coming out this year, and the year to follow, because if ...

Report: Cloud Storage Market to Grow 40.2% from 2013 to 2018; To Reach ...
Broadway World
According to a new market research report "Private/Public Cloud Storage Market (Incl. Cloud Storage Gateways, Backup & Recovery, Data Movement & Access, Data Replication, Hierarchical Storage Management & Archiving, Security And Storage Resource ...

QNB, Mannai join forces to offer cloud services to SMEs
Zawya (registration)
"Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient and on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Further, these can then be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider ...

CIOs say cloud computing is really, truly a priority this time
InfoWorld
In a recent survey of 2,000 CIOs, a Gartner report revealed that the execs' top tech priorities for 2013 include cloud computing in general, as well as its specific types: software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform ...

Around the Web - Cloud Computing: Skytap Offers Ready-to-Go ...
Skytap, the cloud platform that offers virtual lab automation as a service, now has pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop (CDH4) templates in its library that can be ...
www.informationweek.com/.../39312f35684d3276432f4d433...

[1301.3926] Cloud Computing with Context Cameras
Title: Cloud Computing with Context Cameras. Authors: A. J. Pickles, W. E. Rosing. (Submitted on 16 Jan 2013). Abstract: We summarize methods and plans to ...
arxiv.org/abs/1301.3926

EU blueprint for cloud ...
While EU plans rightly aim to boost the use of cloud computing (CC), they fail to spur the development of cloud services and the emergence of European cloud ...
europa.eu/rapid/press-release_CES-13-2_en.htm

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Amazon and the Unknown Unknowns

Amazon's Unknown Unknowns - NYTimes.com: " . . . On Dec. 29, Amazon Web Services published a detailed explanation of what went wrong Christmas Eve, when Netflix and many other customers (Amazon won’t say how many) had service disruptions. The company also described what it was doing to ensure the problem would not happen again. . . . In the future, developers will need specific permission to change the data load balancing equipment. What isn’t clear is whether A.W.S. can examine all of its own management practices to see if there are other such decision-making flaws. Mr. Selipsky, understandably, could not say whether everything else was solid, though he did note that Amazon had eight years of experience running and managing big systems for others. To be sure, such breakdowns happen all the time with old-style corporate servers. While they don’t have the dramatic effect of an A.W.S. failure, they may collectively represent much more downtime. In a study commissioned by Amazon, IDC said downtime on A.W.S. was 72 percent less per year than on conventional corporate servers. While the financing of the study makes its conclusions somewhat questionable, its results are in line with similar studies about online e-mail systems compared with in-house products."

Up in the Cloud: Hype and High Expectations for Cloud Computing
Knowledge@Wharton
A recent global survey by Knowledge@Wharton and SAP's Performance Benchmarking team reveals that while the hype and excitement surrounding cloudcomputing is reaching a fever pitch, many businesses are still expressing concerns over cloud security and ...

Knowledge@Wharton

Ready for the rules of cloud computing databases in 2013? — Tech ...
Summary: How is the database market changing, and what are the new rules for cloud databases in 2013 and beyond? Find out when you join GigaOM ...
gigaom.com/.../ready-for-the-rules-of-cloud-computing-datab...

Picking the Right Cloud Storage Solution
Technorati
Finding the right cloud storage provider is now easier with small business and consumer review site NextAdvisor.com, who announced a cloud storage category offering consumers its top picks. It also allows visitors to compare cloud storageservices like ...

Cisco-Backs Hosting and Cloud Services Company Parallels
Private Equity Hub (press release)
Parallels, a hosting and cloud services company, has inked an undisclosed amount of financing from Cisco. As part of the investment, Parallels and Cisco agreed to expand joint development, marketing and industry initiatives, the companies said.

Oracle Lists Drivers of Cloud Computing
AllAfrica.com
Oracle, an integrated Information Technology (IT) solution provider in hardware and software systems has identified accessibility, simplicity and robustness as key drivers to cloud computing. Senior Vice-President for Eastern Central Europe, Middle ...

EU's strategy for cloud computing needs to expand
New Europe
On 16 January, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) announced that EU blueprint for cloud computing falls short. EESC reports that the Commission should widen its strategy and invest in the development of cloud computing software and ...

New Europe

Impact of Cloud Computing on the Datacenter Identified by Computacenter
Marketwire (press release)
A staggering 98.9% of organisations interviewed claimed to use at least one cloud service. The datacenter needs to continually adapt to cope with planned and unplanned demands from the business, an issue which has intensified with huge virtualisation ...

The Penny Pinchers of the Cloud Jessica Leber
MIT Technology Review
Cloudability is one of a crop of startups aimed at helping businesses understand the costs of cloud computing as the technology matures and much larger businesses get more comfortable with the idea of renting or leasing remote computing capacity to run ...

Ovum Says “Data Will Be The New Cloud Computing Oil” In 2013
Exchange News Direct
Cloud computing services, and the (social, mobile) applications that cloud platforms underpin, generate a lot of data, which in turn requires cloud services and applications to make sense of it. This trend connects with and fuels other industry trends ...

Cloud Computing Users Are Losing Data, Symantec Finds SYMC
Investor's Business Daily
The other issues identified by Symantec are faulty cloud backup — that's the one tied to the data loss statistic — inefficient use of the amount of cloud storage purchased, not toeing the line with corporate regulatory compliance requirements and ...

Cloud computing features heavily in 2013 CIO tech priorities
CloudTech
The importance of cloud computing in the overall tech sphere has again been emphasised in a Gartner report surveying over 2,000 CIOs on their technology priorities for 2013. Cloudy areas featured heavily in the top 10 priorities for CIOs, with cloud ...

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Choosing a cloud storage service

How to choose a cloud storage service
PC Advisor
Cloud computing could form an important part of your technological life, but you have to know what you're looking for. Here are some tips on what to look for in a cloud storage service. (See also: the Top 20 cloud storage services.) In conversation ...

Top 20 cloud storage services
PC Advisor
Of course, when you do pay for cloud storage, you can expect not just extra storage space, but guarantees that your files will remain safe from deletion and prying eyes. Plus, you don't have to worry about hard drives failing or running or storing ...

Cloud storage grows, many fail to back up mobile data
ComputerworldUK
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 surveyed 650 IT decision makers ...

Mega, Kim Dotcom's New Cloud Storage Service, Reaches 1 Million Users A ...
International Business Times
Just a day after triumphantly launching his new cloud storage service “Mega,” founder Kim Dotcom has announced that the Megaupload successor already attracted more than a million users. Mega, Kim Dotcom's New Cloud Storage Service, Reaches 1 ...

International Business Times

The Effects of Cloud Computing on the Health Care Industry
Smart Data Collective
Cloud storage costs about 10 times lesser than the server space and hardware materials plus training of human resources to maintain and support the system in daily operations. Cloud computing storage requirements only adapt to the needs of the client.

Flexiant and SolidFire Integrate to Help Customers Build Differentiated Cloud ...
Marketwire (press release)
Tony Lucas, Product Champion and Founder, Flexiant, said, "SolidFire has addressed the problems of delivering predictable multi-tenant cloud storage in a way that existing storage systems cannot. The SolidFire / Flexiant integration gives customers the ...

Oracle Clarifies Cloud Computing Terminology
DABCC.com
Oracle Clarifies Cloud Computing Terminology. Related Articles. Identity and access management as a cloud-based service eliminates time, pain and cost · OrionVM Enterprise Selects Mellanox InfiniBand for their Private and Public Clouds · How the Cloud ...

Mega: Hands-on with the encrypted cloud storage service
PCWorld
You can either drag and drop files right onto your file manager, or you can click the upload buttons at the top of your cloud drive. File uploads are monitored in the lower half of the screen. In my tests, file uploads were a little slow, possibly ...

Boosting presence of EU-based cloud providers would improve business take ...
Out-Law.com
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) said that businesses and individuals would be more likely to utilise cloud computing (CC) if their "trust" in the technology grew. It said that there is inherently less trust in using non-EU providers ...

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Kim Dotcom's Mega offers 50GB of free cloud storage

Kim Dotcom reveals Mega will offer 50GB of free storage, hopes to offer Megaupload data transfer - The Next Web: "Kim Dotcom on Thursday used Twitter to reveal some interesting new tidbits in regards to his upcoming Mega service, which will be hosted at the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz. Two days before the service is to go live, Doctom says he plans to offer 50GB of free storage to all members and is also working on bringing over users’ Megaupload files and data, but has so far run into legal issues."

Mega Launches Its Cloud Storage And File Sharing Service As 'The Privacy ...
TechCrunch
Kim Dotcom's new secure file-storage and file-sharing venture Mega has now officially launched on a surge of interest. The timing of the launch, 6:48 a.m. New Zealand time on January 20, coincides with the one-year anniversary of the raid on his home ...

Will Kim Dotcom's Mega cloud storage service destroy the competition? [POLL]
Phandroid.com
Are you willing to trust Kim Dotcom again? This is a question we ask ourselves today as Mega is released to the public. MegaUpload's revival brings a completely new philosophy in mind. In comes Mega, a cloud storage service that has turned into a ...

Cloud storage service 'Mega' launches | News | TechRadar
Cloud storage service 'Mega' launches - Mega, a cloud storage site and successor to closed file-hosting site MegaUpload, launched today, gar.
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Kim Dotcom's New MEGA Encrypted Cloud Storage: See No Evil, Store No Evil
Forbes
Controversial file storage tycoon, Kim Dotcom, is launching his new encrypted cloud storage site MEGA in the U.S. tomorrow (note: link not currently active.) The service will offer 50GB of storage for free and three Pro tiers of 500GB to 4TB for $13 ...

Forbes

Kim Dotcom's cloud storage service Mega opens limited access for some users
VentureBeat
The Mega service is essentially a cloud storage locker that's similar to Dropbox, according to TechCrunch. Mega offers 50GB of free storage to users to upload all their media files, documents, and other files. But there's an indication that Mega will ...

VentureBeat

How the Final Omnibus Rule Affects HIPAA Cloud Computing Providers
Smart Data Collective
So how do these modifications affect HIPAA cloud providers? While cloud providers have generally been considered and treated as business associates in the industry, the modifications make it even clearer that data center operators are officially ...

Mega arrives: Ars goes hands-on with Kim Dotcom's new cloud storage site
Ars Technica
Nearly one year after Kim Dotcom's Megaupload storage site was shuttered on criminal charges filed by the United States government, the big man is back with a new cloud storage service, called simply Mega. Why host in New Zealand? The site answers that...

Ars Technica

Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' Cloud Storage System Launches In Beta, Set To Take On ...
iDigitalTimes.com
It's still unclear whether Mega will become a viable alternative to other storage lockers such as Box, Dropbox, Google Drive or Apple iCloud. For now, Mega remains a second-tier storage system in an increasingly congested field of cloud storage ...

iDigitalTimes.com

How 'bring your own cloud' could kill BYOD
ZDNet
How many personal cloud services can you name? If you can name more than five without performing an Internet search, then you clearly see the problem. But it's not in the sheer number of personal cloud options that presents a problem, it's their ...

HP cloud chief's exit sparks more confusion
Fortune
(gigaom.com) -- Updated: Hewlett-Packard's attempt to get its cloud computing strategy heard above the noise around the company's bigger woes took another hit this week.  Zorawar “Biri” Singh, who headed up HP's Converged Cloud and Cloud Services ...

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