OS X Mountain Lion Pounces on the Cloud

OS X Mountain Lion Pounces on the Cloud
Wired News
Apple's upcoming Mountain Lion release of OS X is sure to be a hit with the Mac faithful, but for cloud watchers it has an even bigger wow-factor: iCloud integration. Sure, iOS features large in Mountain Lion, but the bigger underlying shift of note ...

Cloud Services Provider Intermedia Powers Over 1/3 of Top 100 MSPs
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Feb 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Intermedia, a global leader in cloudservices and the world's largest Microsoft Exchange hosting provider, is the business cloud powering elite VARs and MSPs through the company's partner program.

Brightcove Advances as Cloud-Based Video Hoster Raises $55 Million in IPO
Bloomberg
Brightcove Inc. (BCOV), a provider of cloud-based video hosting and publishing services, advanced 30 percent in its trading debut after raising $55 million in its initial public offering. The stock rose to $14.30 at the close in New York, after listing ...

Time For State And Local Govs To Head To The Cloud
Forbes
Sensing a convergence of business, social and technology trends, the TechAmerica Foundation recently formed a group of experts to develop guidance for helping state and local governments evaluate, adopt and implement cloud computing-centric business ...

TechAmerica Foundation: Governments Need to Get Into the Cloud
CIO
By Paul Krill Cloud computing presents opportunities for governments to modernize and improve cost efficiency, public officials stressed Thursday at the introduction of a report advising state and local governments on cloud adoption.

The Cloud, Day 24: Backing Up Your Cloud
Computerworld
Backupify is a cloud-based backup service that automates the process of backing up my online identities. It offers a variety of social media backup plans that can store all of your data from Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Zoho, Picasa, LinkedIn, and more.

Cloud Computing Hides Big Issues In Corporate Data Sharing
Forbes
To many enterprise organizations cloud computing looks – appropriately enough – heaven sent. When a company has a business opportunity that demands more processing capacity, or new applications, or adding hundreds of new users, they can dial it up ...

Salesforce.com: 'Cloud Computing Debate Is Over' in Washington
Computerworld
By Kenneth Corbin CIO - WASHINGTON -- In the federal government, which carries a roughly $80 billion annual IT budget, the question of cloud computing is no longer a question of "if," but rather "how," and "how soon." "The cloud computing debate is ...

CenturyLink Targets Cloud Services With M&As
Investor's Business Daily
By REINHARDT KRAUSE, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 05:10 PM ET It isn't AT&T nor Verizon Communications that pulled off the biggest cloud acquisition yet by a telecom company. That distinction belongs to Louisiana-based CenturyLink, which purchased ...

Rackspace Adds Private Edition Cloud, Acquires SharePoint911
Data Center Knowledge
Rackspace Hosting (RAX) announced a partnership for building private edition clouds and an acquisition of solutions provider SharePoint911. Rackspace and solution provider Redapt announced that the two companies have joined together to deliver ...

Citrix, VMware duel over cloud visions
ZDNet (blog)
By Larry Dignan | February 17, 2012, 4:56am PST Summary: Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and general manager of cloud platforms at Citrix, said VMware is gunning to be a cloudinfrastructure monopoly. A Citrix executive this week took direct aim ...

Sign documents digitally in the cloud
ZDNet (blog)
By Heather Clancy | February 17, 2012, 7:15am PST Summary: Cloud storage service provider SurDoc is giving out a digital pen to help user execute contracts in the cloud without having to print them out and rescan them. How do you compete with hugely ...

iCloud integration with Mountain Lion OS spotlights how Apple is still failing ...
Washington Post
As much as I commend Apple for prioritizing the cloud by integrating iCloud into Mountain Lion, Apple has instead only spotlighted how it is still way behind the competition when it comes to cloudservices. Competitors such as Dropbox, Box, ...

Brightcove stock surges in first day of trading
BusinessWeek
The company, which provides cloud-based video publishing services, raised $55 million in an initial public offering. It priced 5 million shares at $11 each, within its expected range of $10 to $12 for each share. Brightcove plans to use the proceeds to ...

Brightcove Stock Jumps 37% In Cloud IPO
Investor's Business Daily
By BRIAN DEAGON, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 01:50 PM ET Brightcove provides services that customers use to publish videos online, using a cloud-based platform. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company raised $55 million by selling 5 million shares at ...

Consistent Federal IT Rules May Ease State and Local Cloud Adoption
Government Technology
It may not be long before the federal government becomes a power user of cloudcomputing, potentially diffusing its reputation as a slow adopter of cutting-edge technologies. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is just a ...

Government Technology

Cloud Privacy: An Unreasonable Expectation?
Channel Partners (blog)
This is a threat to individuals and also to the commercial interests of cloud computing. A survey found that 70 percent of businesses expect their data to be kept private and secure when usingcloud-computing services. This is important for hosted ...

How the cloud reboots your business
Vancouver Sun
There's been plenty of talk about "the cloud" when it comes to technology and information technology in the past few years. It's a revolution as big as the advent of the microprocessor and just as relevant as the desktop computer.

Rackspace Acquires SharePoint911 to Provide Industry Leading SharePoint Expertise
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
SAN ANTONIO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Rackspace ® Hosting, the service leader in cloudcomputing, today announced its acquisition of SharePoint911, an industry leader in SharePoint consulting, training, and "JumpStart" services within SharePoint.

Cloud Security: No Guarantees!
NetworkComputing.com
The decision about whether to shift storage and compute resources to the cloud is about more than the bottom line, and it's almost never a slam dunk, but it can pay big dividends, according to a new IW report, Fundamentals: Cloud vs.

Government Cloud Adoption: TechAmerica Releases Best-Practices Report
CIO Insight
Government agencies at the federal and state levels talk a good game about wanting to refresh legacy data center systems by moving as many of them to cloud services as possible. Instantly realized cost-savings, ease of use and increased data safety and ...

Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By miccilopez
Cloud Computing News Highlights: MLB 12 The Show, VMWare Solution Exchange, Digital Menu Me, Persistent Systems and Indiana University Students, Army Private Cloud.
GMO Cloud America

Cloud's Growing Influence in Backup & Recovery | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
The cloud is one of the major trends doing a rather successful job at disrupting today's IT environments from end-to-end, and backup and recovery is no exception. The latest testimony of that is SunGuard's latest announcement: the launch of a ...
SiliconANGLE

Barriers to cloud adoption for healthcare practitioners | TechRepublic
By Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak discusses the primary issues that complicate cloud technology use in the healthcare industry and the compelling reasons to overcome t.
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New Cloud Cost Management Tool uptimeCloud Predicts AWS ...
By Nicole Henderson
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Management software provider Uptime Software announced on Monday that it has released uptimeCloud, its real-time cloud cost monitoring software as a service tool for Amazon Web Serivces users.
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GreenPages Leads CA's Cloud Partner Pack | Channelnomics
By Marie Lingblom
CA's newest cloud “accelerator” solution holds infrastructure-as-a-service opportunities for solution providers. GreenPages Technology Solutions is CA's first U.S. partner out of the gate with it.
Channelnomics

Atos, EMC, VMware Start Cloud Company | Cloud Computing Journal
EMC and VMware are going into the cloud business with Atos, the big, publicly owned, Paris-based global IT services firm, intending to take an equity position in Canopy, an end-to-end cloud company Atos is setting up using EMC and ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Runa Capital and Parallels plan to accelerate cloud startups
By Natasha Starkell
The trend in the startup acceleration industry is specialization. There are accelerators focused on health (Rock Health, Healthbox, Blueprint Health and SXSW Health) ...
TechCrunch Europe

Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #46 by @tbalinas via @Zenoss
By Travis Balinas
Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, ...
The Cloud Management Blog

International workshop on Cloud Computing: Services and ...
By cfptech
Cloud computing helps enterprises transform business and technology. Companies have begun to look for solutions that would help reduce their infrastructures costs and improve profitability. Cloudcomputing is becoming a foundation for ...
techcfp

Cloud Commission Advises State and Local Governments to ...
TechAmerica announces new recommendations for state and local government cloud computing deployments strategies at a Mountain View, Calif., press conference. State and local government IT officials share their successes and ...
Government Technology News

J2 Global Excelling At Cloud-Based Services
J2 Global has impressively maintained an edge over many larger, deep-pocketed rivals.
Investopedia.com Headlines

Enterprise Search Giants Keep Focus on Cloud and Social ...
By emily
In addition, IBM showcased their much anticipated cloud-based document collaboration and editing software called IBM Docs. But critics have been quick to point out that any system can become a document graveyard without the right people ...
Beyond Search

Cloud Luminary: Sage advice from Vivek Kundra - The CA Cloud ...
By Katherine Demacopoulos
Truth be told, I was a little star-struck when I had the opportunity at CA World in November to interview Vivek Kundra, former CIO of the US government (who is now at Salesforce.com), for the Cloud Luminaries thought leadership series.
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Apple's Mountain Lion Shows Personal Cloud Trumps PC

Apple's Mountain Lion Shows Personal Cloud Trumps Personal Computer
PCWorld
"The net is that the personal cloud is becoming more important than the personal computer," argued Gartenberg. "The whole idea of a personal cloud is what's most important to consumers. The rest is just a bunch of connected screens.

Cloud Services Adoption Rises for Small Businesses: Parallels Report
eWeek
SMBs continue to lead the adoption of cloud services, as the US market experienced a 25 percent increase in 2011, growing to $15.1 billion. Parallels, a hosting and cloud services enablement provider, released the latest updates of Parallels SMB Cloud ...

Apache embraces cloud with Deltacloud approval
Computerworld
By Joab Jackson IDG News Service - Extending its range of open-source projects to cloudcomputing, the Apache Software Foundation has approved the Deltacloud as a top-level project, the organization announced Thursday. First developed by Red Hat in ...

Amazon Cloud Users Get SunGard Disaster Recovery Option
InformationWeek
By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Amazon and SunGard announced Wednesday that Amazon EC2 users will be able to get disaster recovery services from the SunGard cloud, opening the door for Amazon Web Services customers to keep data and backup copies of ...

Rackspace Buys Up SharePoint911 To Gird For Cloud Fight
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Deborah Gage Rackspace US has acquired SharePoint911, one of the leading consultants on Microsoft SharePoint, and will add SharePoint hosting and consulting services to its cloud, VentureWire has learned. Terms of the acquisition are not disclosed, ...

Cloud Computing and Data Integration: 10 Trends to Watch
eWeek
In 2012, more companies will continue moving their business processes to the cloud, intensifying expectations for cloud data integration and data management as a part of a company's information infrastructure. The desired end result: to enable a more ...

eWeek

Leading Cloud Thinkers to Government: Cloud Is Imperative for Better ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Feb 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The TechAmerica Foundation today released the highly anticipated recommendations from the State and Local Government CloudCommission (SLG-CC) that will assist state and local governments in ...

Government Moves Toward Cloud Computing 'Perfect Storm'
PCWorld
By Kenneth Corbin, CIO Amid mounting budget pressures and a maturing set of technologies, the federal government is poised for the rapid adoption of cloud computing services over the next several years, according to one of the senior agency leaders ...

In the cloud, a data breach is only as bad as your contract
Computerworld
By Thomas J. Trappler Computerworld - Loss of control is one of the main things that gives people pause when they think about putting their data in the cloud. We've all seen how painful a data breach can be, and it can seem almost like asking for ...

EMC partners with French cloud computing company Atos
Boston Herald
By Ira Kantor Hopkinton data storage giant EMC Corp. has announced plans to form a strategic alliance for open cloud computing with subsidiary VMware and French technology services company Atos. In addition, Atos plans to create a new company, Canopy, ...

State, Local Governments Face Cloud Imperative
InformationWeek
TechAmerica report pushes state and local governments to quickly embrace the cloud to cut costs and improve services. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek A new TechAmerica report recommending how state and local governments should proceed to ...

Red Hat Extends Cloud Offerings For Amazon Web Services
CRN
By Jack McCarthy, CRN Red Hat announced several actions Wednesday intended to further its approach toward open and interoperable cloud computing. The company expanded its cloudofferings for Amazon Web Services and also said its Deltacloud API, ...

Red Hat Cloud Boss Blasts VMware Over Openness
Wired News
Scott Crenshaw, Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat's Cloud Business Unit, during a Webcast today called VMware's claims of openness for its cloud solutions bogus, reports ZDNet. “VMware will be open the day they open source vSphere ...

Gemalto Wins 2012 Cloud Award for Security Innovation
MarketWatch (press release)
AMSTERDAM, Feb 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces it won the Security Innovation award in the inaugural 2012Cloud Awards program. Gemalto was recognized for its Protiva ...

Johns Hopkins and VMware forge medical records mega-cloud
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Medical and IT researchers at Johns Hopkins University, healthcare application software supplier Harris Corp, and virtualization juggernaut VMware have teamed up to create a medical imaging cloud ...

UnitedHealth Group Launches Cloud Platform for Health App Development
eWeek
UnitedHealth Group's Optum unit has launched a cloud platform to host applications in an open environment. UnitedHealth Group's Optum health services business has launched an open cloudplatform to allow developers to create and host health care ...

Red Hat Expands Subscription Portability to the Cloud with Amazon Web Services
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“We started with support for Red Hat Cloud Access capabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and are excited that our customers can now take advantage of Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid via CloudAccess.” Red Hat Cloud Access is a capability that enables ...

Cloud-based MySQL Database Monitoring from Monitis
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Monitis, the leading cloud and web application monitoring software provider, today announces that it has added comprehensive MySQL database monitoring to its award-winning Application Performance Management & Monitoring platform.

Parallels SMB Cloud Insights™ Helps Service Providers Target the Rapidly ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Parallels® (www.parallels.com), the hosting and cloud services enablement leader, today released the latest updates of Parallels SMB Cloud Insights™, its series of research that profiles the cloud buying behavior of small ...

Cloud IT Hosting Company SoftCom Raises $5 Million
Seattle Post Intelligencer
SoftCom is a Cloud IT Service Provider">Cloud IT Service provider better known for its flagship brands myhosting.com and mail2web.com. myhosting.com offers cloud based hosting services ranging from Shared Web Hosting, Email & Hosted Exchange to VPS ...

CSDP Announces Cloud-Based Service Relationship Management (SRM)(C) Software
MarketWatch (press release)
IRVINE, Calif., Feb 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Customer Service Delivery Platform Corporation (CSDP), developers of the Service Relationship Management (SRM)(C) suite of solutions, announces the introduction of its cloud-based, SaaS (Software as a ...

GSA creating cloud marketplace for federal services
FederalNewsRadio.com
By Jason Miller By the end of the year, agencies likely will have an online marketplace to buy cloudcomputing services. Dave McClure, the General Services Administration's associate administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative ...

'Cloud? It's not always a way to save money'
The Guardian
With the Cabinet Office soon to announce the initial batch of suppliers for its G-Cloudframework, talk of cloud services is rife among Whitehall and suppliers alike. Adoption of cloud services is often framed within discussions on saving money.

The Guardian

Hedge Funds Buying Into the Cloud
TheStreet.com
By Olivia Oran 02/16/12 - 12:53 PM EST NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Top hedge funds were hot on the cloud at the end of 2011, investing in companies like Amazon(AMZN), Salesforce(CRM) and Rackspace(RAX) that let computers access information from remote ...

TheStreet.com

Webair Delivers Breakthrough Cloud Performance with Fusion ioMemory
Sacramento Bee
Webair has integrated ioMemory into its cloud hosting services to provide clients with I/O speeds in the cloud that could traditionally only be obtained with complex and expensive disk array scale out. "Providing an extremely fast storage layer is ...

Cloud computing security issues on tap at RSA Conference 2012
SearchMidmarketSecurity.com
As more organizations delve into public and private cloud computing, security issues are becoming more pressing. RSA Conference 2012 is testament to the growing interest in cloud security: An entire track is devoted to the topic, with sessions ...

OS X Mountain Lion's Documents in the Cloud Simplifies File ...
By Eric Slivka
One of the major new features in OS X Mountain Lion is greater integration with iCloud, with one of the additions being new Documents in the Cloud...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Is Your Cloud Over-Provisioned?
By David Strom
In the fairy tale of Goldilocks and the three bears, the heroine was trying to find the solution that was "just right." But when it comes to server ...
ReadWriteCloud

Cloud Computing 101 for SMBs | Business 2 Community
By Michael Neubarth
A study by Zoomerang found that SMBs were uninformed and confused about cloud computing, with 72% of those surveyed saying they were “not sure what it is”
Business 2 Community

New Cloud Apps for February | Fabasoft Folio Cloud Blog
By William Wallace
The February Cloud update brings six new Cloud Apps! Let us give you a short introduction to the latest additions to our Cloud App community – and don't forget that you can see them demonstrated live in our next “What's New” Webinar!
Fabasoft Folio Cloud Blog

Cloud-based MySQL Database Monitoring from Monitis at Uptime ...
By Jenny.Duncan
Application Performance Management,Application Performance Monitoring,Cloud application monitoring,Drupal,Joomla,mediawiki,Mo.
Uptime & Performance Tips

Cloud IS Different: So Monitoring Must Be Different?
By Anton Chuvakin
I'm tired of hearing quotes like “cloud is completely different from traditional IT” as well as those that say “cloud is just like outsourcing, mainframes, etc.” Those who like the former quote will sometimes add that organizations should scrap all ...
Anton Chuvakin

Government Moves Toward Cloud Computing 'Perfect Storm ...
By Kenneth Corbin
McClure explained that developing a common set of controls for cloud services across the departments and agencies is FedRAMP's most immediate priority, though the leaders of the initiative are not seeking to rewrite the security standards ...
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Gemalto Wins 2012 Cloud Award for Security Innovation - Smart ...
By Smart Card Alliance
Amsterdam, Feb 16, 2012–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces it won the Security Innovation award in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards program. Gemalto was recognized for its Protiva ...
Smart Card Alliance

Can You Buy Your Way Into The Cloud? | PandoDaily
By Trevor Gilbert
'Cloud' is the closest thing to a disruptive innovation in the enterprise software world. It's the digital camera to Kodak. Email to the fax machine. For decades, enterprise technology vendors have been structured to build, market, sell, and service ...
PandoDaily

Cloud Data Security Firm Porticor Launches Encryption Service ...
By Ariel
February 16, 2012, Erin Harrison, MSP News Data security concerns remain top of mind for CIOs considering shifting to the cloud, which has introduced a new.
Porticor Cloud Security

SOA governance in the cloud | Thoughts on Cloud
By Sebastian Rzepka
SOA governance in the cloud. February 16, 2012 4:32 pm by Sebastian Rzepka. This post was co-authored with Chris Phillips (see his bio at the end of this post). Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been a major concept in the evolution ...
Thoughts on Cloud

VMware Partners with Peake for Medical Cloud | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
Virtualization giant VMware is getting deeper into the healthcare sector now that Peake Healthcare Innovations has OEM'd its virtualization technology to power a new public/hybrid cloud offering. It will enable doctors and hospitals treat ...
SiliconANGLE

TechAmerica Foundation SLG Cloud Commission releases report ...
By jim sweeney
Today the TechAmerica SLG Cloud Commission (SLG-CC) is releasing their final report on Cloud for State and Local Government. The commission's goal was to further the adoption of cloud by State and Local governments and to educate ...
GTSI Corp

Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Service Provider ...
By cloudtweaks
Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Service Provider Moving software, websites, hardware needs and important services to the cloud is not without its risks.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Cloud Fundamentals Video Series: e-discovery in the Cloud - Cloud ...
The Trustworthy Computing blog shares Microsoft perspectives about cloud computing. From security in the cloud to the evolution of IT, we show how Microsoft ...
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