Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Seeks to ‘Harmonize’ With CIOs - The CIO Report - WSJ: "...The company plans to differentiate Azure by the level of enterprise support it delivers, the scale at which it can deliver services and its ability to help companies operate both in the cloud and on-premises in a hybrid environment, said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of cloud and enterprise.
By the end of 2014, the Azure footprint will extend to 19 regions around the world, more than that of Amazon Web Services and Google Inc., said Mr. Guthrie. Each region can hold up to 600,000 servers. “Going forward, we think all customers are going to need this hyperscale functionality to power their businesses,” said Mr. Guthrie. Microsoft projects that, aside from itself, only Amazon Web Services [AWS] and Google will be able to deliver this level of scale...."
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Friday, October 31, 2014
Monday, January 6, 2014
Enterprise, Reliance on Cloud Computing, Avoidance of Government Intervention
ReadWrite
Enterprise In 2013: Enterprise Ascends Into The Cloud ... with a heavy reliance on cloud computing and avoidance of government intervention. ... on how the new boss will be approaching key technologies including cloud services, ...
ReadWrite
Enterprise In 2013: Enterprise Ascends Into The Cloud ... with a heavy reliance on cloud computing and avoidance of government intervention. ... on how the new boss will be approaching key technologies including cloud services, ...
ReadWrite
Talkin' Cloud
A new survey reveals an increase in information technology (IT) spending, as well as a stronger focus on public and private cloud-enabling ...
Talkin' Cloud
Report: Community Cloud Market Worth $2.49B by 2018
A new survey reveals an increase in information technology (IT) spending, as well as a stronger focus on public and private cloud-enabling ...
Talkin' Cloud
Report: Community Cloud Market Worth $2.49B by 2018
Talkin' Cloud
Cloud Services ... A new study revealed that the community cloud market will be worth $2.49 ... The report says the community cloud market is estimated to grow from ... The IT research firm MarketsandMarkets that released the study said community cloud technologies are built around cloud computing ...
Talkin' Cloud
Cloud Services ... A new study revealed that the community cloud market will be worth $2.49 ... The report says the community cloud market is estimated to grow from ... The IT research firm MarketsandMarkets that released the study said community cloud technologies are built around cloud computing ...
Talkin' Cloud
Friday, July 19, 2013
File sync and share heats up in the enterprise
Forrester: File sync and share heats up in the enterprise
InfoWorld (blog)
In another example of the consumerization of IT, people have embraced cloud storage and file sharing services like Dropbox both at home and at work, and CIOs better take notice about this trend, according to a Forrester Research report. "There is huge ...
Saudi IT infrastructures ill-equipped to cope with cloud computing
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – An overwhelmingly large number of respondents (91 percent) have revealed that they do not believe that their current IT infrastructures are ill-equipped to meet the demands of cloud computing and virtualization, Brocade, a leading networking ...
Can Red Hat Hijack OpenStack (In A Good Way)?
The VAR Guy
Red Hat OpenStack represents the best shot to promote the open source cloud platform to channel partners, VARs and cloud services providers. Here's why. Advertisement. Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is available, The VAR Guy ...
Microsoft Helped NSA Bypass Cloud Encryption: Report
eWeek
Microsoft helped the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) bypass the encryption safeguards on some of its popular cloud services, according to July 11 report in The Guardian. The claims are the latest in the continuing NSA spying controversy, which made ...
Why Cloud May Not Work for Some Data Centers
Health Data Management
Many enterprises are rushing headlong into cloud computing, responding to its compelling value proposition related to incremental costs and on-demand expertise. However, at least one voice out there is advising that business and technology executives ...
Cloud Guys 'Plug' Lets You Setup Your Own Local Private Cloud for All Devices
Hot Hardware
For a number of good reasons, "cloud storage" is all the rage. Being able to store your data online in order to access it virtually anywhere is the epitome of convenience. However, it does carry with it a couple of important downsides. While it's ...
InfoWorld (blog)
In another example of the consumerization of IT, people have embraced cloud storage and file sharing services like Dropbox both at home and at work, and CIOs better take notice about this trend, according to a Forrester Research report. "There is huge ...
Saudi IT infrastructures ill-equipped to cope with cloud computing
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – An overwhelmingly large number of respondents (91 percent) have revealed that they do not believe that their current IT infrastructures are ill-equipped to meet the demands of cloud computing and virtualization, Brocade, a leading networking ...
Can Red Hat Hijack OpenStack (In A Good Way)?
The VAR Guy
Red Hat OpenStack represents the best shot to promote the open source cloud platform to channel partners, VARs and cloud services providers. Here's why. Advertisement. Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is available, The VAR Guy ...
Microsoft Helped NSA Bypass Cloud Encryption: Report
eWeek
Microsoft helped the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) bypass the encryption safeguards on some of its popular cloud services, according to July 11 report in The Guardian. The claims are the latest in the continuing NSA spying controversy, which made ...
Why Cloud May Not Work for Some Data Centers
Health Data Management
Many enterprises are rushing headlong into cloud computing, responding to its compelling value proposition related to incremental costs and on-demand expertise. However, at least one voice out there is advising that business and technology executives ...
Cloud Guys 'Plug' Lets You Setup Your Own Local Private Cloud for All Devices
Hot Hardware
For a number of good reasons, "cloud storage" is all the rage. Being able to store your data online in order to access it virtually anywhere is the epitome of convenience. However, it does carry with it a couple of important downsides. While it's ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Top Enterprise Cloud Apps and Services of 2011
Top 10 Enterprise Cloud Apps and Services of 2011
ReadWriteWeb
This year, for the first time, ReadWriteWeb expanded its coverage of the technologies that change our world through the Web, with new emphasis on cloud-based services to consumers and cloudtechnologies for businesses. Cloud services are more than just ...
ReadWriteWeb
This year, for the first time, ReadWriteWeb expanded its coverage of the technologies that change our world through the Web, with new emphasis on cloud-based services to consumers and cloudtechnologies for businesses. Cloud services are more than just ...
Forbes
Just as cloud computing is a game-changer for many companies, it is also changing the nature of jobs – not only within the information technology department, but in other parts of the enterprise as well. For senior-level executives, especially chief ...
Forbes
Symform's decentralized approach to cloud storage
ZDNet (blog)
By Heather Clancy | December 26, 2011, 12:25pm PST Summary: Service provider makes use of customers' unused disk space to minimize environmental impact, rewrite cloud storage pricing rules. Being that cloud storage and backup services were one of the ...
Disaster Recovery is your transitional Cloud step
ZDNet (blog)
By Ken Hess | December 26, 2011, 3:30am PST Summary: The Cloud is a much feared entity but it shouldn't be. Fear of the Cloud can cost you a lot of money and can cost you a lot of money in downtime. A lot of individuals have transitioned to the Cloud...
ZDNet (blog)
Cloud, mobile to drive vision of NIST's IT lab
FederalNewsRadio.com
Cloud interoperability will also be an important area the lab will focus on, he said. "In much the same way mobile technologies are transforming the IT space, you can assume the cloud has the potential to do the exact same thing, not just in the ...
Thailand aims to be cloud service hub
Bangkok Post
The US and Taiwanese governments have agreed to stimulate adoption of rental cloud-based services among small and medium-sized enterprises for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum to improve competitiveness. The move promotes their cloud systems ...
SAP Goes All In for Slice of Cloud Computing Pie
IRA
Systems,Applications, and Products in Data Processing (NYSE:SAP) may have been slow to recognize the importance of cloud computing. Their cloud computing arm has been woefully lacking for a while now and they decided they better do something about it ...
IRA
CLOUD COMPUTING DISRUPTS THE VENDOR LANDSCAPE [Network World]
Insurance News Net (press release)
BUT ENTERPRISE MAINSTAYS LIKE MICROSOFT AND VMWARE MAY GET THE LAST LAUGH If you think cloud computing is a disruptive force within the enterprise, jist imagi ne what the cloud is doing to the vendor landscape. The sheer number of cloud players - or ...
Tips for music fans making leap to the cloud
San Francisco Chronicle
Q: I'm ready to put my music collection in the cloud, rather than keep it on my computer and smart phone. Any thoughts on which service is best? A: Right now, the main cloud-storage services for music are the Amazon Cloud Drive and Apple's iCloud, ...
Ramco Systems addresses on Cloud for Government at 3rd International Conference
India Infoline.com
Mr. Shyaam Sunder, Chief Knowledge Officer, Ramco Systems delivered the plenary talk on "CloudTechnologies for the Government". A detailed research paper on the same topic will be published as part of conference proceedings in IEEE Xplore, ...
Keep data secure with cloud computing
AGBeat (blog)
To maximize the safety of your data, cloud computing is the way to go. If you're using an email client like Gmail or Yahoo Mail, your data is hosted on the web. You're already using cloudtechnology. When your data is on the cloud, it's stored in ...
How to budget for a cloud-based EMR system
American Medical News
Many practices are discovering that cloud-based systems -- which eliminate the substantial cost of installing and maintaining servers in the office -- can be less expensive. But analysts said that even those require careful consideration based on cost ...
In 2011, we brought new meaning to the word 'cloud'
The News Journal
Cloud. The word no longer means only those fluffy white things in the sky. No, the cloud is where we store our data, run our software, collaborate with others. Internet-based apps exploded in 2011, and small businesses are early and eager adopters of ...
European Firm Refuses To Go On the Microsoft Cloud Due to PATRIOT Act Concerns
CloudTweaks News
Sometime back I had written about how Australian cloud computing company Ninefold was trying to drum up fear that data residing on Amazon's servers in Australia were under the jurisdiction on the US PATRIOT Act, and thereby, subject to search and ...
e-Tips and Traps: What's goin' on in that Internet Cloud?
Torrington Register Citizen
By BILL MURRAY Before we get to the Information Superhighway and the vast cloud real estate holdings of Amazon and Google, let's start with the collaboration among the US military, academia and telephone companies at the height of the Cold War. ...
Top Technology Trends for 2012
India Infoline.com
However, we are yet to see traction with legacy applications that need to be moved to a cloud environment. Although global customers have been discussing cloud computing and the probability of adopting a cloud strategy, we have seen very little ...
Battle for the Cloud: iCloud vs Dropbox
Business 2 Community
By Ross Newman, Published December 26, 2011 After an exchange between iHospital and WIRED on Twitter discussing how the emergence of iCloud has changed the file sharing market, I realized Dropbox better watch their back because heavy weight, iCloud, ...
Emirates chooses UK's Vistair for cloud-based 3-manuals
Jordan Directions
Emirates, one of the leading global airlines, has contracted with UK-based Vistair to provide cloud-based technical manuals for its entire fleet, including the world's biggest number of Airbus A380 super-jumbos. The new five-year contract, ...
Australian Government Commits to Cloud Computing
SYS-CON Media (press release)
There is "a window of opportunity for Australia to be the the global leader in the creation and adoption of cloud computing innovation," according to a recent report from the federal government's IT Industry Innovation Council. ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Computer Magazine's Annual Outlook Issue Available in Advanced Digital Format
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
MacArthur grant recipient Dawn Song and two UC Berkeley computer science colleagues join Umesh Shankar, a Google senior staff engineer, in addressing the troubling issue of cloud computing security. Their article, "Cloud Data Protection for the Masses ...
A look back at Microsoft's busy year
The Seattle Times
1, Microsoft marked the one-year anniversary of its Windows Azure cloud platform, on which developers and companies build software and distribute their products and services. New customers included Toyota and T-Mobile USA. Boeing released a virtual ...
Now Hovering Above Us All: 'The Cloud' | KOSU Radio
By KOSU News
Filed by KOSU News in US News. December 26, 2011. The digital cloud became a household word in 2011.You can now store and share things via the Internet in ways you never could before. But what does the cloud look like, and where can ...
KOSU Radio
Australian Government Commits to Cloud Computing | Cloud ...
The Council report states that cloud won't happen in Australia by dint of techies along, noting "there needs to be a strong pull from the non-ICT sector in terms of understanding the fundamental business benefits of Cloud adoption, including ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
The rise of the Cloud: Launching Cloud Computing Imperative 2012 ...
By Marc Jacob
Global studies prove that 'cloud services' could add US $800bn in net new business revenue by end of 2013. The time when IT was just a support (...)
Global Security Mag Online
Is Your Data Management Strategy in Place for 2012? | GMO Cloud ...
By GMO Cloud America
As we begin to look to the coming year, one of the focus points for many SMBs will be data management and how they can strategize making the most of their new cloud vps servers capabilities.
GMO Cloud America
HyTrust: 2012 Cloud & Virtualization Security Predictions : VMblog ...
By David Marshall
The explosion of APTs against high-profile companies and government agencies we saw in 2011 will become even more predominant in 2012. Organizations that come under fire from APTs will be at heightened risk, suffering tremendous ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...
Video: Should CIOs Avoid Cloud Computing Platforms? | Inside ...
In this video, the Software Think Tank looks at the downside of Cloud Computing for CIOs. ... Like what you're reading? Come back every day for Inside-Cloud news, or subscribe to email or RSS updates. Trackback URL: ...
Inside-Cloud
How to Use Mobile Cargo Tracking Cloud Apps and Cloud Storage ...
By CBR Team
Learn how to use cloud storage service and cargo tracking cloud apps simultaneously right from your mobile devices from this article...
Cloud Business Review
Cloud Computing: The Shrink-Wrapped Cloud | Cloud Computing ...
"We are seeing a lot more private cloud and Telx is right in the center," notes Darryl Brown, Director of Cloud, SaaS & Media at Telx, in this SYS-CON. ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2108731
"We are seeing a lot more private cloud and Telx is right in the center," notes Darryl Brown, Director of Cloud, SaaS & Media at Telx, in this SYS-CON. ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2108731
Cloud Infographic: Pogoplug Cloud Storage | The Cloud Infographic
Pogoplug Cloud is a cloud storage service offering the abilities to upload and sync files wirelessly from your mobile devices and hard drives to the cloud.
www.thecloudinfographic.com/.../pogoplug-cloud-storage.ht...
Garbage in the Cloud | ZapThink
And yet here we are in the twenty-first century, moving to the Cloud, and Babbage's exasperated response is no truer or more on point. For not only is the Cloud ...
www.zapthink.com/2011/12/13/garbage-in-the-cloud/
A CloudBees New Years Challenge! - CloudBees: Cloud Platform ...
Publish a sample "Hello Java in the Cloud" application on the CloudBees PaaS by January 16th, and we'll enter you to win an iPad 2. We'll even give you the ...
www.cloudbees.com/cloudbees-new-years-challenge.cb
Cloud Computing Solutions | HP Cloud Solutions
With cloud computing, organizations like yours need to understand where and how technology services can benefit from cloud solutions. You can combine cloud ...
www8.hp.com/us/en/business-solutions/solution.html?...
Announcing Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Private Beta
I am pleased to announce that today we begin taking applicants for the Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Private Beta. This is especially exciting because we will be ...
www.rackspace.com/.../announcing-rackspace-cloud-monitori...
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