Healthcare Industry to Spend Upwards of $5B on Cloud Solutions by 2017

Healthcare Industry to Spend Upwards of $5B on Cloud Solutions by 2017
HealthTechZone
A recent report finds that the fun is just beginning for healthcare in the cloud. The cloud computingmarket is poised to expand by an estimated 20.5 percent over the next five years to become a $5.4 billion market by 2017, according to “Healthcare ...

Case for cloud storage not that clearcut
The Australian Financial Review
“Cloud computing” refers to IT storage and processing that is located outside a user or organisation's local IT infrastructure. This means that traditional IT services, such as the provision of email and the storage of company records or financial ...

The Australian Financial Review

Cloud computing sans barriers may increase EU GDP by €250bn in 2020: IDC
Computer Business Review
Removing barriers to cloud computing in Europe through policy action could generate about €250bn EU GDP Growth in 2020, according to a new IDC study. The study found that policy actions intended at removing barriers to adoption of cloud services will ...

CloudLock aims to protect Google Apps from rogue apps
GigaOM
The beauty of cloud is that users can easily download and install lots of cool applications — from a variety of app stores. The danger of cloud… is also that users can easily download and install lots of cool applications from a variety of app stores ...

GigaOM

Factors That Hurt Cloud Computing Confidence
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing has been called a saint and other great names by friends and foe. It promises great benefits, cost cuts and efficiencies at individual and enterprise level. However, even as momentum grows, uptake figures have not been at all impressive.

Cisco Brings More Services and Solutions to the Cloud
UCStrategies
... Communications Strategies Logo Sm. Cisco is enhancing its cloud services in an effort to provide a more advanced suite of cloud offerings. Stocking up its one-stop shop for collaboration solutions, Cisco customers can now access enhanced ...

Dilbert disses cloud (or at least cloudwashing)
GigaOM
Dilbert's boss (he of the awesome two-point hairdo) tells Dilbert to move some of the company's functions to the Internet but to call the Internet “cloud.” Why? Because no one “will take us seriously unless we're doing something in the cloud,” says Mr.

GigaOM

Cloud, circa 2017
ZDNet
Technology and non-technology companies will be indistinguishable: Not only will non-tech enterprises (say, car parts manufacturers or business services) be consuming cloud services, but they will be both providing their own services out of their data ...

Google upgrades Chromebook 'cloud laptop' and chops price to £229
ComputerworldUK
Google has announced a major update of its Samsung Chromebook 'cloud laptop', chopping the price, upping the cloud storage on offer and overhauling the hardware spec. Google just won't give up on its Chromebook and perhaps, as with its best-selling ...

How cloud can threaten the end-user experience
FCW.com
As the government embraces initiatives such as cloud computing virtualization and data center consolidation, however, it should be aware of the downside. Such technological advances create a new layer of complexity that can wreak havoc on the end-user ...

Five cloud computing tips for SMBs - ReadySpace
By David Loke
You've read countless case studies of how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have turned to cloud computing to raise productivity, improve customer service and stay ahead of the competition. But is your company ready to jump onto ...
ReadySpace Cloud and Managed Hosting

NAMA boosts operations with cloud computing — The Punch ...
By oayodele
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency said it had subscribed to cloud computing through its recent deployment of the Windows Server 2012, thereby boosting its operations and cutting Information Technology cost. NAMA's Chief ...
The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely...

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LogMeIn takes on Dropbox with 'Cubby' cloud storage
IDG News Service
Cloud storage leader Dropbox might have serious competition at last. LogMeIn has announced the beta of its rival 'Cubby' service, featuring higher data limits, a P2P data sync feature and the promise of user-managed encryption keys.

The Rising Value of Cloud Computing
CloudTimes (blog)
It revealed that majority of these companies have spent more than a third of their IT budget toCloud Computing. Further, almost two thirds of the respondents said they will continue to increase their spending in Cloud Computing in the next couple of ...

Ask Engadget: best heavy-duty cloud-storage solution?
Engadget
This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from is from is from Joe, who needs to backup half a terabyte of data to the cloud, as you do. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

LogMeIn Starts Beta Cloud Storage Service, Cubby [Updates]
MakeUseOf
By Bakari Chavanu LogMeIn, the remote control, file sharing, and systems management and data backup site and service, started offering invitations to their new beta cloud service, Cubby. This website and mobile file sharing app service is very similar ...

The Cloud Will Kill The Resume, And That's a Good Thing
TechCrunch
The reality is that the cloud is killing the resume and, for the most part, it's going unnoticed. As more and more of us place our trust in cloud-based services to manage our lives or interact via social media, that information will ultimately be ...

TechCrunch

Cross Agency Kapow
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
The first goal laid out in the plan is to “facilitate and enhance information sharing across DoDIIS” through increased cloud computing as well as shared application and data. The plan also highlights the importance of collaboration, efficiency, ...

HP delivers agility without compromise with HP Converged Cloud
Malta Independent Online
Engineered for the enterprise, HP Converged Cloud extends the power of the cloud across infrastructure, applications and information to provide choice, confidence and consistency. “The convergence of cloud computing and mobile connectivity is changing ...

Being in the cloud can save your business money
Yuma Sun
The Cloud is a network of computing systems that are able to execute all the programs a normal computer would run. The only thing that your computer needs to run is the interface or middleware software that can be as simple as a web browser and the ...

Canonical's AWSOME API bridges OpenStack and Amazon clouds, Ubuntu has its ...
Engadget
No, that's not us getting over excited about it, that stands for Any Web Service Over Me, and it includes APIs that smooth the transition to OpenStack from Amazon cloud services. Although not open source, Amazon's Web Service has such a large market ...

Keynote Systems: Cloud Business is Anything But Dreary
Benzinga
Cloud services are evolving over these categories one step at time, developing into the largest trend amongst companies of all sizes at this time. Perhaps the largest trending Cloud amenity across the Internet today is customer relation management.

SanDisk Corporation and the Apple Inc. Opportunity?
ValueWalk
Now, the industry and investors have found a new revolutionary theme: cloud computing. The “marquee” cloud name is Salesforce.com and it trades on something like 600x earnings. “Cloud Computing” is defined as “The practice of using a network of remote ...

LogMeIn Launches Cubby Cloud File Storage Service Beta
MSPmentor
Interesting; what I would like to see is logmein offer online backup for its logmein Free and Logmein Pro product giving easy backup functionality to the cloud. Take a look at our MSPmentor FAQ to find answers to your managed services questions.

F&N extends Google Apps to Singapore employees
Techgoondu
Fraser & Neave (F&N) became the latest large enterprise to hop onto the cloud computing wave when it announced plans to move 3000 employees in Singapore to Google Apps. The move follows an earlier effort by the producer of Tiger Beer and energy drink ...

Brocade and EMC Accelerate the Journey to Cloud Computing With EMC VSPEX ...
Zawya (registration) (press release)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 15 April, 2012: Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced its participation in a new EMC initiative to deliver Proven Infrastructure solutions for customers looking to make the transition to virtualization and cloud.

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Will Google's GDrive be business ready?
Hydrapinion
By Ian GRAYSON Google's highly anticipated Gdrive cloud storage service is tipped to launch within weeks, but will it be ready for business use? Gdrive has been talked, blogged and tweated about for years. Despite any confirmation from the mother ship, ...

Citrix acquires workflow app
IDM.net.au
Podio will be part of the GoTo cloud services portfolio, which includes GoToMeeting. Podio enables small and medium-sized businesses and teams within larger organisations to manage all types of business processes and associated workflows using ...

AMD Fusion Developer Summit Starts This June
Tom's Hardware Guide
AMD's three-day summit, which will be held in June, will be focused to further cloud technology using parallel computing and more efficient programming. As seen earlier this month, AMD is focusing on server and cloud computing technology using its APU ...

Hard-wired for speed, reliability
The Hindu
With cloud computing, specifically the private cloud, increasingly being seen as inevitable if enterprises are to meet their data management efficiently, the very design of such data centres becomes a key factor in how good they are and how they ...

The Hindu

Yammer acquires Scotland's OneDrum
San Francisco Chronicle
Yammer already integrates with a raft of cloud storage companies, including Dropbox, Box and Google Docs. But the feature is important enough to collaboration that Yammer wanted to have its own offering, Yammer CEO David Sacks said.

IT training for students
Malaysia Star
With this collaboration, TAR College students will be able to gain exposure to software technology such as DB2, Lotus, Rational, Websphere and IBM Cloud Computing capabilities. They can also take part in activities such as IBM's SmartCloud Camp, ...

Malaysia Star

Private equity groups going after foreclosures as rentals market
The Seattle Times
Wiel and Brien are using cloud computing, proprietary algorithms and iPads to create a virtual assembly line for buying, renovating and renting houses on a large scale. They're also betting that many former homeowners who have jobs but couldn't afford ...

Developer Tools for Creating Windows Azure Cloud Computing ...
By zxue
You can create, test and deploy Windows Azure applications with the following tools and Windows Azure subscription. 1. Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (Free). 2. Windows Azure SDK (Free) The SDK comes with ...
MSDN Blogs

Verizon to help the US Army move to cloud computing | Enterprise ...
By a38c77c84a68365538a62009357af1e9
Verizon has been awarded two contracts to develop and implement fixed and mobile cloud computing capacity for the Army under the Area Processing Centers Army Private Cloud 2 initiative, known as APC2.
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CloudStack and OpenStack Compete for the Cloud : Beyond Search
By Stephen E. Arnold
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing an open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds.The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple ...
Beyond Search

How to negotiate a contract with a cloud or SaaS provider ...
By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Mary Shacklett)
Cloud and SaaS services are rapidly gaining traction with enterprises and SMBs - yet IT, which is usually responsible for negotiating contracts with these service providers, may fall short in critical areas of contract negotiation and legal skills. The stakes are high. In a worst case scenario, you can simply realise that ... RSS Feed Cloud Computing .... to help telcos becomecloud suppliers. IBM is offering a package of products and services to help telcos offer cloud services to enterprises ...
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HOB, Inc. Takes Aim at Cloud Computing with Secure Remote ...
By AllVoIPNews
HOB, Inc. today announced it has addressed the debate of public versus private cloud computing. Enterprises are progressively recognizing the advantages of central data storage. This trend is being driven by the promise of cloud computing.
All VoIP News

Live@Edu for 7.5 Million Users–Microsoft's Biggest Cloud ...
By Abhishek Baxi
Live@edu is the first step in cloud computing for AICTE, as it further plans to deploy Microsoft Office 365 for education when it becomes available later this year. AICTE believes that the clouddeployment will expand students' access to ...
Techie Buzz

How Businesses Are Using Cloud Storage - meshIP Blog
Cloud storage is one of the many ways that organizations are leveraging cloud services today. With public and private cloud storage available from a number of ...
meship.com/Blog/.../how-businesses-are-using-cloud-storage/

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Microsoft wins its biggest cloud computing client - Yahoo! News
For users, cloud computing is inexpensive and simple, because it removes the need ... The government can shut down and wipe out all data in these cloud storage units ... Technically the article is wrong, Apple uses Microsoft cloud services for ...
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Disaster Recovery Cloud Services Show Promise

Disaster Recovery Cloud Services Show Promise
InformationWeek
Today, cloud-based DR is poised to shake up legacy approaches and offer frustrated infrastructure and operations professionals a compelling alternative. Instead of enterprises buying resources in case of a disaster, cloud computing and its pay-per-use ...

Dell Buys Wyse Technology To Expand Cloud Offerings
InformationWeek
By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Dell on Monday said it reached a deal to acquire Wyse Technology, a privately held provider of cloud computing and desktop virtualization technologies. The deal is the latest in a string of moves by Dell to move beyond ...

The Walker Group Introduces Cloud Computing Services
MarketWatch (press release)
FARMINGTON, Conn., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Walker Group, formerly Walker Systems Support, has announced their entrance into the Cloud computing market with their new Cloud Hosting service offerings. Cloud computing is quickly ...

Defining cloud computing, part one: Laymen's terms
Computerworld (blog)
As I travel around the country meeting with IT professionals and attending or speaking at industry events, I am amazed by how many different versions there are of "cloud computing." As the guy who wrote the Storage Area Networks for Dummies book, ...

Research Indicates That Cloud Increases Short Term Costs for Long Term Gains
MarketWatch (press release)
The survey, completed by more than 1650 IT and security decision-makers from a range of industries, highlights the growth in cloud computing investments, demonstrating the valuecloud computing provides to organizations. Respondents state that 34% of ...

Global Enterprise Mobile Cloud Computing Market 2011-2015
MarketWatch (press release)
TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Enterprise Mobile Cloud Computing market to grow at a CAGR of 16.5 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing demand for enterprise mobility.

Terremark Offers Private Clouds For Enterprises
InformationWeek
Verizon cloud unit uses technology from CloudSwitch acquisition to make it easy for reluctantcloud users to migrate in and out of infrastructure-as-a-service. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Terremark is offering "single-tenant cloud computing," ...

Dell to Buy Wyse, Grow Cloud, Virtualization Portfolio
eWeek
Dell is looking to expand its cloud and desktop virtualization capabilities by buying Wyse Technology, a thin client pioneer that over the past several years has shifted its focus from hardware to software. Dell officials announced the deal April 2, ...

Dell To Buy Cloud Software Maker Wyse
Wall Street Journal
By SHARA TIBKEN Dell Inc. agreed to acquire cloud-computing software provider Wyse Technology Inc. as the computer maker continues expanding its offerings for business customers. Financial terms weren't disclosed. Dell expects the deal to close in the ...

Dell To Buy Cloud Software Maker Wyse Technology
Wall Street Journal
By Shara Tibken Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Dell Inc. (DELL) agreed to acquire cloud-computing software provider Wyse Technology Inc. as the computer maker continues expanding its offerings for business customers.

Dell buys 'cloud' computing company Wyse
AFP
SAN FRANCISCO — Dell on Monday said it is buying Wyse Technology to expand its business offerings in the Internet "cloud" in the face of softening demand for traditional computing hardware. The Texas-based computer maker did not disclose financial ...

AFP

Dell To Buy Cloud-Software Maker Wyse Technology
Wall Street Journal
Wyse provides software and hardware that play into the trend called cloud computing. The company, founded in 1981, originally was known for desktop terminals that could take the place of personal computers. Wyse said it has shipped more than 20 million ...

Cloud computing invented during a lunch break
The Seattle Times
But we still like this April 1 article from Windows IT Pro: "Cloud computing revealed as a hoax." According to the article, an Amazon Kindle marketing associate invented the cloud while on lunch break in 2008. "We were all just sitting around in the ...

Quantum, Cloud Storage and Disaster Recovery
ZDNet (blog)
By Dan Kusnetzky | April 2, 2012, 3:05am PDT Summary: Cloud storage appears attractive for backup and disaster recovery. Quantum is addressing one of the more challenging aspects of using cloud storage - the growing volume of data.

CETC32 and Eucalyptus Sign Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA BARBARA, CA, Apr 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced a strategic partnership with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation No.

Gartner to IT: Get a grip on cloud services, or else
GigaOM
By Barb Darrow Apr. 2, 2012, 5:34am PT 7 Comments A new list of cloud computing trends shows just how nervous the growing use of cloud servicesmakes IT departments. It's easy to see why. IT staffs used to hold the keys to the kingdom — controlling ...

GigaOM

Dell acquires Wyse to extend cloud computing offerings
SlashGear
It looks like the company is hoping to make more inroads into the virtualization market, as Dell this morning announced the acquisition of cloud client computing company Wyse Technology. Wyse currently offer several thin and zero cloud clients, ...

Sesame Software(TM) Awarded Cloud Services Data Replication Patent
MarketWatch (press release)
Historically, the technique for retrieving and loading massive amounts of data from a cloud services application into a relational database is to perform one single pass. This technique is fundamentally flawed because web services typically have more ...

Dell to acquire cloud computing company Wyse Technology for undisclosed sum
Orlando Sentinel
By AP ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — Dell has reached a deal to buy cloud computing company Wyse Technology for an undisclosed sum. Dell wants to expand its desktop virtualization capabilities and provide new vehicles for existing products.

General Dynamics to Support Army Private Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
FAIRFAX, Va., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) has been awarded two contracts by the United States Army to develop and implement fixed and mobile cloud computing capacity for the Area Processing Centers Army Private ...

Vectorworks Cloud Services Provides Added Computing Power and Design Freedom
PR Web (press release)
Vectorworks Cloud Services will provide the freedom and flexibility designers need to successfully meet the challenges of working in today's mobile world. Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. today announced the launch of Vectorworks® Cloud Services, ...

Cloud computing 'key' to jobs plan
Belfast Telegraph
Ireland could become a world leader in cloud computing thanks to a new 1.2 million euro research programme. Jobs and Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton announced the Government investment into the fast-growing technology as part of its Action Plan for ...

Belfast Telegraph

Cloud Computing: The Great Job Creator or Job Destroyer?
Formtek Blog (blog)
In over only three years time, cloud computing will inject $1.1 trillion of global revenues and will create staggering numbers of new jobs. The report says that most of the jobs will be created in small and mid-size business, especially in the ...

Cloud computing to create more jobs in India
Deccan Herald
But in case of cloud it is predicted that it will create substantial number of jobs in India dispelling the fear of jobloss. Microsoft in association with IDC, recently came up with a survey pointing out that cloud computing will create more than 2 ...

Cloud Computing: Dell Buys Wyse for Maybe $350 Million-$400 Million
SYS-CON Media (press release)
See, Dell wants Wyse for its cloud-ified thin client desktop virtualization, which is supposed to "significantly" extend Dell's desktop virtualization capabilities and bring new solutions and services into its enterprise fold.
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP) Founder and CEO, Chris Greendale, to ...
Sacramento Bee
By Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP) Chris Greendale, Founder and CEO of CloudTechnology Partners (cloudTP) will participate in a panel discussion entitled, "Cloud Computing: The Next Generation." Executives from Agile Equity, Xerox, Gage Networks, ...

Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP) Founder and CEO, Chris Greendale, to ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By PR Newswire Chris Greendale, Founder and CEO of Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP) will participate in a panel discussion entitled, "Cloud Computing: The Next Generation." Executives from Agile Equity, Xerox, Gage Networks, Cloud Capital Partners ...

Actifio Shifts Cloud Data Management Services Paradigm at NaviCloud Expo
MarketWatch (press release)
As cloud services have evolved to provide more flexible, economical and scalable solutions, companies are realizing that the cloud can be leveraged to fully protect their business. In the panel session titled, “Business Continuity and Disaster ...

Irish Govt invests €1.2m in Cloud Computing Technology Research Centre
Siliconrepublic.com
The Government of Ireland, as part of its Action Plan for Jobs, today revealed a €1.2m programme to make Ireland a world leader in cloud computing. The newCloud Computing Technology Research Centre will exist as a consortium of third-level ...

Siliconrepublic.com

Vectorworks Cloud Services now available in the U.S. and Canada
By Lisa Lance
“Vectorworks Cloud Services will provide the freedom and flexibility designers need to successfully meet the challenges of working in today's mobile world. In particular, the ability to perform calculations in the cloud will be a significant ...
Planet Vectorworks

Big deal for cloud computing | T-Systems
By T-Systems
Big deal for cloud computing | Details. ... In the coming years, BAT wants to work together with T-Systems to transition the SAP systems into the cloud, which will be largely consolidated within the scope of an investment program. By 2016, 65 national companies are to have switched to standardized SAP operation. By using cloud-based SAP services, BAT will be able to buy the exact amount of resources it needs as it mirrors ... Cloud services since 2005. Cloud 7.0. Go to special ...
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The Walker Group Introduces Cloud Computing Services | Virtual ...
FARMINGTON, Conn., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Walker Group, formerly Walker Systems Support, has announced their entrance into the Cloud computing market with their new Cloud Hosting service offerings. Cloud ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine - Your...

Is Cloud Computing a Viable Option for Countries With SMB Driven ...
By Shannen Doherty
Cloud computing has come as a mini revolution in the IT industry. Businesses have been making the most of cloud computing to optimize their operations and improve profitability. Basically, cloud computing is a technique through which ...
Soshable | Social Media Blog

Gartner Outlines Five Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect Cloud
By drew shobbrook
Spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide from 2011 to 2015, according to a new study by the analyst firm IDC. The research ... Box rounds up a bunch of apps for cloud storage pu.
IT, Cloud software, bookkeeping...

LawyersUSA Reviews my Book "Cloud Computing for Lawyers"
By NBlack
In March, LawyersUSA reviewed my latest ABA book "Cloud Computing for Lawyers." This book provides lawyers with an overview of the issues they need to understand when using cloud computing in their law practices. Here are a few ...
Sui Generis-a New York Law Blog

Cloud Infographic: Cloud Computing - From Hype to Reality | The ...
By Ivan
Category Cloud Issues. With all the hypes surrounding cloud computing, it's often easy for us to get carried away. Let's keep grounded and question this: Has the cloud delivered its promises? Well, the cloud promises many things to those ...
The Cloud Infographic

April 2012: Cloud Computing Explained | Women of Uganda ...
By milton
Why is cloud computing so hard to understand? The answer would be because it covers the entire range of organisation requirements, from back-office enterprise systems to various ways such systems can be implemented. Therefore, many ...
Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)

The Cloud Descends on ABA TECHSHOW 2012 — Slaw
By Jack Newton
One needs do little else than glance at the ABA TECHSHOW 2012 conference schedule and exhibitor list to get a sense of how quickly and dramatically cloud computing is reshaping the legal tec.
Slaw

Cloud computing versus traditional outsourcing ... - Nearshore Journal
By admin
By Karl Flinders on April 2, 2012 11:51 AM | No Comments Last week in a blog post I asked the question: Do you think cloud computing is more beneficial to a business than traditional outsourcing? So far I have had 8 respondents.
Nearshore Journal

Large Enterprises And The Cloud (Part 1 of 12)
By Ladd Wimmer
The first in a series of posts that explore how cloud computing can help large organizations contains a brief history of the cloud and an overview of cloud computing options.
nttcom.tv

Zoolz Android App Review : Cloud syncing and accessing desktop ...
By Ken East
This where additional storage comes in handy, which is precisely why there are a lot of cloud storage providers emerging on the Web. Adding to the rapidly growing list of cloud storageservices is Zoolz, which offers 4 GB of free storage online.
Android Authority

File Syncing Service, TwinFolder, Poised to Disrupt the Cloud Storage
File Syncing Service, TwinFolder, Poised to Disrupt the Cloud Storage Industry with Super Cheap Prices. Follow @ozarksentinel. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 02, 2012.http://www.TwinFolder.com, a new file syncing, sharing and online ...
The Ozarks Sentinel

Beware Fake Clouds | Cloud Computing Journal
First the good news: Cloud Computing is real, it's here to stay, we're doing a reasonably good job of defining it, and it's already providing significant business ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2215934

Introducing PartnerDirect Cloud Services and Solutions Certification ...
As the PartnerDirect program continues to evolve, we remain committed to the foundation of our program – seeking Partner input and keeping it simple.
en.community.dell.com/.../introducing-partnerdirect-cloud-ser...

Intel's Cloud Computing Technology
Cloud computing technology: Intel helps to develop a cohesive set of open, ... unified networking,cloud security issues, server pools, cloud storage, and for the ...
www.intel.com/.../us/.../intel-s-cloud-computing-vision.html?...

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Cloud Computing and Startups

What Your Company Can Learn From Startups: How Cloud Computing is Helping To Get Them Off The Ground: "If your business isn't learning from how other companies do business, then I'd say you're missing some great lessons. Take a great idea that was described in a story this week on Forbes.com: Several forward-thinking start-ups are getting products onto the market by leveraging the cloud and other resources without having to invest in their own expensive IT infrastructure. It's a simple idea, and incredibly smart, too. So what's the lesson here for your company? It's right in front of you. Yes, your business may not be the size of a multi-national corporation, but are you aware you have access to many of the same IT business tools that fuel those huge corporations? That's where the power of the cloud can be one of your greatest friends and business tools. . . . " 

Top Five Private Cloud Computing Trends, 2012
By Tom Bittman
Mr. Bittman has led the industry in areas such as cloud computing, virtualization and infrastructure evolution. Mr. Bittman invented the term "real-time infrastructure," which has been adopted by major vendors and many… Read Full Bio ...
Thomas Bittman

Amazon Makes Clever Private Cloud Play
InformationWeek
That means an enterprise that develops its private cloud using Eucalyptus will have built-in compatibility across several Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud services, including EC2 compute and S3 storage. Such compatibility would be an advantage to companies ...

Cloud Computing: Cisco Helps Back Cloud Storage Start-Up Ctera
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Four-year-old Ctera Networks, which sells a hybrid cloud storage enablement suite to SMBs and enterprise branches, has gotten a third funding round, this one led by the ever chi-chi Venrock with a strategic investment from Cisco and ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Baidu Takes Aim At Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, With Cloud Storage Service
paidContent.org
Chinese search engine leader Baidu is holding a developers conference today, from where it has just launched a cloud storage platform called Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) WangPan – meaning, literally, 'web drive' in Chinese. As with rivals such as Dropbox, ...

NEC announces UNIVERGE Cloud Services UCaaS
Network World
NEC recently announced plans for UNIVERGE Cloud Services UCaaS, a set of enhanced software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. The initial UNIVERGE Cloud Services SaaS offering is unified communications as a service (UCaaS), providing a comprehensive suite ...

Telcos told to leave cloud computing to experts
gulfnews.com
By Naushad K. Cherrayil, Staff Reporter Dubai: Telecom providers in the region need to partner with IT vendors rather than deploy their own cloud computing solutions and cooperate with software and content providers to increase the attractiveness of ...

Army private cloud to attack IT sprawl and save millions
Defense Systems
By Joe Dysart Industry experts estimate the Army should save millions in IT costs after its recently awarded Army Private Cloud (APC2) contract is fully implemented. IBM, Lockheed Martin, HP Enterprise Services, General Dynamics One Source, ...

SunGard Availability Services Named a "Top 20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The CRN article called out SunGard's Enterprise Cloud Services because, "it offers a fully managed cloud IaaS through which it manages availability and security of compute, network and storage resources with an SLA that promises 99.95 percent uptime.

Cloud Computing: Amazon Partners with Eucalyptus
SYS-CON Media (press release)
And in that vein Thursday it agreed to work with open source private cloud peddler Eucalyptus Systems so companies can have an on-premise cloud that nicely migrates workloads to Amazon. It's a big concession for Amazon which has regarded private and ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing: Oracle Bounces Back from Q2 'Aberration'
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Lately Oracle has preferred cloud buys like RightNow and Taleo. Oracle's revenues were up 3.1% to $9 billion, again ahead of expectations. New license revenue, the great growth indicator, was up 7.2% to $2.4 billion, the high end of its guidance.
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Amazon's cloud goes to Mars
Financial Times
By Barney Jopson in New York Amazon's cloud computing service is being used to operate Nasa robots on the surface of Mars, Netflix's video streaming service and the Guardian's dating website, as the retailer's little-known IT business rapidly expands.

All you need to know about cloud data transfers
InfoWorld (blog)
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld What is it with data-transfer cloud computing performance? Some people think cloud services provide great performance, and some think they don't perform well at all. The reality is that both beliefs are true, depending on ...

Cloud computing: Improving healthcare services
CIO Australia
There is a lot of conversation on Cloud computing and how it could benefit our healthcare practices. With Cloud computing, hospitals, particularly the large ones, are able to deliver IT as a service without the costly and complex investment in ...

Cloud Computing: Zumbox Sets Up Joint Venture in Oz
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Obviously Zumbox is kicking in its cloud-based technology for mirroring every street address in the country with an electronic mailbox and storage archive. It says the system has been extended, adapted and customized to meet the specific requirements ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

GTSI Schedules Investor Conference Call for March 29, 2012
SYS-CON Media (press release)
GTSI has extensive capabilities and past performance in software development, data center, networking, collaboration, security and cloud computing solutions. In addition, GTSI's advanced engineering, integration, support and financial services - and ...

Cloud Computing: Big Data, Mere Mortals, Meaningful Consumption and Money
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Public and private clouds are part of the whole presentation layer and a way to get at the web data sets. ClearStory's founders include CEO Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, a marketer out of Netscape, Kiva Software, Opsware and clustered database house Aster ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Private cloud
InfoWorld
By Doug Dineley | InfoWorld "If you build it, they will come" may be a line from a baseball fantasy, but it describes what really happened in the world of cloud computing. One late summer day in 2006, online bookseller Amazon.com quietly made a portion ...

Share cloud storage online with Symform
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One challenge with cloud storage is getting enough space for the gigabytes of data most of us have when you include music and video without breaking the bank. Symform has a novel approach to solving this problem. It offers the most storage of any free ...

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Cloud Computing: You Have a Supercomputer and Didn't Know It
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Xoreax, a 10-year-old Israeli software acceleration house, says it can employ the idle PCs and servers cycles in a corporate network SETI-like to create a so-called private processing cloud - Windows-based, of course - that's got the ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Amazon to provide Indian cloud services over Tata infrastructure?
Techworld.com
By Sophie Curtis | Techworld | Published: 14:58, 23 March 2012 Amazon could be preparing to launch cloud services in India, after it emerged that the company has been buying up infrastructure from telecommunications provider Tata Communications in its ...

Cloud Computing: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
SYS-CON Media (press release)
EMC will target start-ups and enterprises with cloud, Big Data, social and mobile next-generation applications in mind. It said it will invest in the company to get it to global scale. The Pivotal Tracker project management tool is currently used by ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Piston Cloud Delivers Private Cloud In Hours For As Little As $800
NetworkComputing.com
IT departments looking at standing up private cloud environments in a hurry, and without some of the complexity usually associated with cloud infrastructure, would do well to take a look at Piston Cloud from Piston Cloud Computing.

Citrix Startup Accelerator Spurs Mobile and Cloud Innovation at Upcoming DEMO ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Synergy: This track at Citrix Synergy will provide insight into the incredible fluidity of mobile workstyles and the new demands placed on IT for the cloud services that empower them. It will provide an inside look at tomorrow's multibillion tech ...

After Junglee.com Amazon Scripting Cloud Services For India; What Can You Expect
VC Circle
Amazon could soon roll out its cloud storage services in India. Apparently, the Internet giant has been building its tech infrastructure for the launch (could be within a year) of its cloud servicesand has leased infrastructure from Tata ...

Cloud News: Microsoft, HP, Savvis, Nimsoft
Data Center Knowledge
HP selected by CenterBeam to support cloud offering. HP (HPQ) announced that cloud servicesprovider CenterBeam has selected HP Converged Infrastructure to support the increased capacity demands of its cloud service offerings and joined the HP ...

CCID Consulting: China's Mobile Cloud Service Industry Looks Promising
MarketWatch (press release)
Technological innovations and transformation of business model represented by cloud computing and mobile Internet moved to change people's lives. Products represented by iCloud of Apple Computer and Cloud Drive of Amazon, combined cloud computing with ...

The Law Firm of Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Announces Investigation into Possible ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
As advanced data storage, access and analytics technologies aimed at handling high-volume and/or fast moving data all move center stage, aided by the Cloud Computing boom, Cloud Expo is the single most effective event for you to learn how to use you ...

CIOs fear business leaders see cloud as way to circumvent IT
Computing
By Sooraj Shah Seventy two per cent of CIOs believe their business sees cloud computing as a way to circumvent IT, according to research conducted by research firm Forrester Consulting. The study, Delivering on High Cloud Expectations, and carried out ...

Computing

Baidu Has Its Head in the Clouds
Motley Fool
Just as Dropbox is all the rage stateside with its cloud storage of files that can be accessed anywhere that a Web connection is possible, WangPan has the potential to catch on quickly. It's also free, at least for the first meaty 15 gigabytes of ...

Majority Of CIOs Concerned About Effects Of Cloud Computing
ITProPortal
A report conducted by Forrester Consulting has shown that Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are worried that cloud computing is more of an enemy than a friend. The survey of over 300 enterprise execs found that CIOs were concerned that the cloud wasn't ...

ITProPortal

Quantum Dedupes, Goes Virtual for Cloud Backups
Infostor magazine
Quantum's technology arrives at a frothy time in cloud storage, with no shortage of innovations bubbling to the surface. In recent months, cloud backup providers have been eyeing Amazon's new AWS Storage Gateway. Fujitsu teamed with Crossroads Systems ...

2nd Watch Continues Growth, Expands into Seattle Market
PR Newswire (press release)
SEATTLE, March 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- 2nd Watch, Inc., a software and cloud-computing consulting company based in Spokane, WA, recently expanded its market to open an office in Seattle, WA. In the last few years, 2nd Watch has enjoyed ...

Amazon Partners With Eucalyptus for Private-Public Cloud Migrations
CMSWire
By David Roe (@druadh20) Mar 23, 2012 A look to the (near) future of cloud computing and some good news — we hope — for those considering the deployment of private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with Eucalyptus to enable private ...

Pyramid Sees Cloud Computing Trending in Western Europe ...
By CrossTalk Staff
How Western European Telcos Meet the Cloud Computing Needs of Enterprises,” a new report recently released by Pyramid Research, examines the. ... and discusses how they translated those drivers into specific requirements. Pyramid also analyzes the various types of service models that may be deployed by cloud providers, and includes case studies of three Western European operators that provide B2B cloud services: Orange France, KPN, and Telefonica. For more information ...
CrossTalk Broadband Blog from Actiontec

New Academic Paper on Melting Clouds
By Jay Heiser
He takes a nuanced approach, explaining that this is speculative and forward-looking, but given the increasing reliance on public cloud computing, this is an area that deserves research attention now. ... linked to above: “As diverse, independently developed cloud services share ever more fluidly and aggressively multiplexed hardware resource pools, unpredictable interactions between load-balancing and other reactive mechanisms could lead to dynamic instabilities or “ meltdowns.
Jay Heiser

ICT Board's Paul Kukubo to speak at Cloud Computing Forum Africa ...
By David Marshall
The Cloud Computing World Forum Africa offers delegates an opportunity to discuss the latest topics in cloud services, including security, mobile, applications, communications, virtualization and CRM among others. Kukubo will speak on the ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...

Srini Penchikala: Anil Gaur on Cloud Computing Support in Java EE ...
By editor
Srini Penchikala interviews Anil Gaur on Cloud Computing Support in Java EE 7: Java EE 7 specification (JSR 342) includes support for cloud computing to help developers build applications that are portable across Java EE PaaS platforms.
Java.net

Cloud Computing – The new Utility? | The Future of Documents
By Francois Ragnet
Interesting article on Cloud Computing drawing a nice (although not really new) parallel with the evolution of the electricity industry - from small individual factories to a “grid”, how one man revolutionized the way electricity was distributed, ...
The Future of Documents

How to Capture the Advantages of Cloud Computing While Avoiding ...
By CRM SoftwareBlog
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partners and Experts provide advice, costs, comparisons, and and the latest information on CRM sofware.
CRM Software Blog

Introduction to cloud computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2.1 Cloud services; 2.2 Cloud systems; 2.3 Cloud roles; 2.4 Cloud tenants .... Cloudinfrastructure includes cloud storage, cloud servers and cloud networks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_cloud_computing

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Significant operational hurdles for telco cloud services Voxy Despite being well-placed to take advantage of the burgeoning cloud computing market, telcos face considerable challenges when it comes to supporting and selling cloud services, according to Ovum. In a new report, the independent telecoms analyst ...

Amcom scores $9m cloud services contract from University of WA iTWire By Stuart Corner Amcom Telecommunications (ASX: AMM) has been awarded a $9m three year contract to provide hosted cloud services to The University of Western Australia (UWA). Amcom says it will povide UWA with "hundreds of computer servers and over 400 ...

New DiData Aus CEO as Nola does cloud ZDNet Australia Dimension Data Australia has announced that CEO Steve Nola will leave his current post for a job heading up the company's newly restructured cloud computing business. In a global announcement made on Friday, group CEO of DiData Brett Dawson praised ...

Cloud on call: Should you go with a telco for Cloud? (Part 2) Computerworld Australia If telcos can jump the cultural hurdle and truly get to grips with Cloud computing, Macquarie Telecom's Aidan Tudehope, Tudehope says the advantage lies in already having an understanding of the processes and procedures and scaling methodologies that ...

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What is 'cloud computing' and how will it change the lives of ordinary consumers? Asbury Park Press BLOOMBERG The number of people in the US who use services on the cloud is forecast to skyrocket. In making plans for an upcoming trip to Walt Disney World in Florida, Stafford resident Joshua Smith is communicating with his parents over the cloud. ...

INTERVIEW: Acer looks to future success in cloud computing Taipei Times On Thursday, Acer Inc chairman JT Wang unveiled the company's plan to acquire US-based cloud-computing firm iGware Inc for US$320 million. He shared his views with a group of reporters, including Lisa Wang of the 'Taipei Times,' about the company's ...

HP landing page may have Amazon Cloud Player app in future Good E-Reader (blog) By Sovan Mandal The Amazon Cloud Player app might soon be seen in action on the HP TouchPad. Or so believes webOSroundup contributor George Salcedo who made an interesting discovery, though rather inadvertently. While trying to download a song from his ...

Free Seminar on Cloud Computing at Governors State University eNews Park Forest This workshop will provide an opportunity for representatives of small to medium businesses in the Chicago Southland to learn what cloud computing is and how it can benefit their businesses. eNews Park Forest is an independently owned and operated ...

Switch to cloud-based email runs into hurdles ArmyTimes.com By Joe Gould - Staff writer The Army has slowed its transition to cloud-based enterprise email as it resolves a series of glitches that have frustrated users, the information technology community and Army leaders. Mike Krieger, the Army's deputy chief ...

Powerful Information Management Software Now Available in the Cloud Benzinga As Cloud computing is on everybody's mind, the developers of the DocuClass ECM suite have had their heads in the clouds as well, designing an optimal solution for a hosted version of their award winning software. They created the hosted version, ...

Intel acquisition points to cloud networking trends Electronics News The products from Fulcrum will complement Intel's processors and Ethernet controllers, resulting in new levels of performance and energy efficiency, boosting the economy of cloud services. The move by Intel fits into the trend which is seeing very fast ...

Applications Suites or Best of Breed in the Cloud? ebizQ (blog) The answer looks more complicated now by the growing Cloud adoption trend. A Suite adoption decision, while apparently difficult, has been made more often than not. Difficult because one has to adopt all functions in a suite at the same time. ...

Can we consider a firm without IT? Forbes (blog) By FRED CAVAZZA I assume you have been reading about cloud computing for many years. To make a long story short, cloud computing is (almost) the future of IT. Large IT players all bet their future revenue on cloud computing (Google,IBM, Microsoft, ...

Austin nonprofit trying to help the world get back its online identity Austin American-Statesman Gary Thompson is used to explaining what Austin's nonprofit CLOUD Inc. is doing more than once. Sometimes, especially for confused reporters, he's patient enough to explain it three or four times. CLOUD (which stands for Consortium for Local Ownership...

Cloud Computing gets boost in Africa Bikya Masr With Nigeria already having implemented cloud computing, a model for enabling a convenient on-demand to a network access to a shared pool of infrastructure, Ghana is looking to follow their West African counterpart with its own implementation strategy. ...

Amazon's cloud computing eyed as next best deal Oman Tribune SAN FRANCISCO Amazon's cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business and analysts will be watching for clues on how fast this secretive unit is growing when the Internet retailer reports results next week. Amazon Web Services started ...

Datacentres Middle East 2011 announces Simmons and Simmons as silver sponsor AME Info Highlights of the 2-day meeting include a data centre Middle East CEO Roundtable, investment and growth strategies, carbon trading for DataCentres, Cloud services evolution, Green efficiency focus session, virtualization, best practice debate and an ...

Office Suites for iPad: The Roundup PCWorld As I did in my roundup of Android productivity apps, I tested each of these leading suites for three important qualities: interface and usability, compatibility with Microsoft Office, and support for cloud services. I also took into account additional ...

UltraViolet shines light on locker in the cloud Informitv Unlike previous attempts at copy protection, which have been constrained by physical devices, UltraViolet takes account of the concept of cloud delivery, which separates the means by which digital media is delivered from the right to access it. ...

Monitis Adds a Monitoring Node in Canada PR.com (press release) Monitis, the award-winning provider of the world's first all-in-one cloud-based service that combines web site (uptime), server and application monitoring, today announced the deployment of a new monitoring node in Canada. San Jose, CA, July 24, ...

Thailand lags neighbours in data recovery survey Bangkok Post SINGAPORE : Thailand ranked the worst in disaster recovery readiness among eight countries in Asia-Pacific, defying the trend toward increasing use of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery programmes in the region, according to a survey. ...

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