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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Rackspace launches new OpenStack-based cloud portfolio

Rackspace launches new OpenStack-based cloud portfolio
ITworld.com
By Ted Samson, InfoWorld | Cloud Computing Add a new comment April 16, 2012, 6:11 AM — Rackspace has unveiled an "early access" limited-availability edition of its updated public cloudenvironment, built on the open source cloud platform OpenStack. 

LogMeIn Takes on Dropbox With 'Cubby' Cloud Storage
PCWorld
By John E Dunn, techworld.com 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 ...

Sprint to Deliver Innovation with Wholesale Cloud Services, Enabling Resellers ...
MarketWatch (press release)
According to industry analyst firm IDC, worldwide public IT cloud services revenue is projected to hit $45.5 billion by 2013(1). With about one-fifth of both small and midsize businesses (SMBs) surveyed by IDC considering increased use of cloud ...

Symform Upgrades 200GB Free Cloud Storage Offering
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, WA, Apr 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Symform, a revolutionary securecloud storage and backup service, today announced an update to its market-leading 200GB freecloud storage offering. Starting today, all business users receive 10GB of ...

NAB: Cloud computing is ready for its closeup
GigaOM
By Barb Darrow Apr. 16, 2012, 9:00am PT No Comments Few industries are better suited to the cloud computing model than film and TV production. Show business is project-oriented with myriad production shops and contractors collaborating on short-term ...

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SENATH to exhibit at Cloudcor's 4th Annual Cloud Slam'12 Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Apr 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloudcor(R) today announced that SENATH, an Australian based global provider of SaaS and PaaS cloud offerings, is a featured exhibitor (Booth #8) at Cloud Slam'12 Cloud Computing Conference and ...

WFT Cloud, accredited by SAP Insider for helping SAP customers migrate to ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
WFT Cloud, the first certified SAP Cloud Services Partner, recently accredited by SAP Insider as the preferred Private Cloud Provider for moving landscapes to cloud. WFT Cloud continues to expand their footprint across the globe to help SAP customers ...

SpiderOak Announces First 100% Private Enterprise-Class Cloud Services
MarketWatch (press release)
SpiderOak Blue is the world's first truly private enterprise-class cloud storage system. Companies benefit from fully owning and managing all of their data regardless of where the data resides. SpiderOak Blue offers the same zero-knowledge privacy ...

Cloud9 Real Time CEO Gets Published on Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
Come together in the Cloud. Use this informative "How To" guide for transition and guidance. Rob reflects on writing about Cloud Computing technologies, "Together in the Cloud was a real labor of love for me. I see the disconnect that business owners ...

SpiderOak launches secure storage cloud for businesses
Computerworld
By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - Cloud storage service provider SpiderOak is taking on Dropbox, Box and other more established services with what it calls the first truly secure data backup and collaboration cloud for businesses.

SpiderOak Secures Enterprise Cloud Storage
NetworkComputing.com
SpiderOak is jumping from the consumer cloud storage market into the corporate space with two cloud offerings for small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises. Security is based on what it calls “zero knowledge” privacy protection, ...

Service Leader in Cloud Now Offers Open Cloud, Including Compute, Storage and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN ANTONIO, Apr 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Rackspace(R) (NYSE:RAX) , the service leader in cloud computing and a co-founder of OpenStack(R), launched new cloudcapabilities featuring the world's first large-scale, production ready next ...

Cloud Computing for Small Business
NorthFulton.com
SaaS is part of the "Cloud Computing" portfolio that includes IaaS (Infrastructure-As-A Service), the most basic cloud service model and offers users virtual access to data, and PaaS (Platform-As-A Service), which offers users both computing and...

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Why open source is the key to cloud innovation
InfoWorld
Open source is now increasingly undergirding cloud computing, so why is free software advocate Richard Stallman saying, 'don't do it'? By Thor Olavsrud | CIO.com In the 25 years since Richard Stallman wrote the GNU General Public License, free and open ...

InnoVergent's Paul Cammisa to Speak on Cloud Computing at Information ...
Florida Newswire
ALPHARETTA, Ga., April 16, 2012 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — InnoVergent (www.innovergent.com), a technology consultancy firm and reseller and system integrator ofcloud computing accounting software, announced today that InnoVergent founder Paul Cammisa ...

CloudPassage Featured at Cloud Fair Annual Conference
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Wacker's session will zero in on the security and compliance challenges of cloud computingand how they can be overcome. Security and compliance remain major challenges to adoption of public cloud infrastructure hosting. Technical differences in public ...

VMware debuts new services to enhance cloud computing, virtualization across ...
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VMware Inc., provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure offerings, announced Monday formation of VMware Accelerate Advisory Services, a group of former chief information officers (CIOs), chief technology officers (CTOs) and industry ...

Healthcare SMEs use cloud services to reduce cost
Business Standard
Hyderabad-based Razi Healthcare, which has 50 primary care hospitals across India, has adopted iON – a branded on-demand cloud computing offering from Tata Consultancy Services – to digitise patient-care profiles with electronic medical records (EMRs) ...

IBM's Hardware Cloud Play
DailyFinance
By Keki Fatakia, The Motley Fool IBM (NYS: IBM) has developed an innovative way to prevent an increasing shift toward cloud computing, which it anticipates will eat into a large part of its future profits. The result is a new offering called ...

DataDirect Networks (DDN) Technology Visionary Jean-Luc Chatelain to Present ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Chatelain will also discuss opportunities around exploiting cloud storage technologies to connect media consumers worldwide as social engagement continues to drive video, imagery and rich information creation. Since joining DDN in 2011, Chatelain has ...

'High performance' emerges in cloud offerings
ITworld.com
April 16, 2012, 2:31 PM — As the public cloud IaaS market continues to evolve, providers are expected to add increased functionality, including high performance computing to their offerings, which is exactly what SoftLayer did today.

BSNL launces six internet data centres for cloud services
TwoCircles.net
"BSNL will offer managed co-location, managed hosting and cloud services through these IDCs built, operated and managed by Dimension Data for BSNL," the firm said in a statement. Cloud computing is expected to be the future of information technology ...

Aframe's Cloud Video Production Network Goes Live In North America
MarketWatch (press release)
WH Platts in Atlanta, Charleston SC, and Charlotte NC Aframe made today's announcements timed with the start of NAB 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it is showcasing its solution in the North Hall, booth #N 3222 KL in the Cloud Computing Pavilion.

Nimbula Named a 'Cool Vendor' in Cloud Management by Leading Analyst Firm
MarketWatch (press release)
This is the latest in a series of accolades for Nimbula which includes being named one of the top cloud enablers gaining mind share in the Cloud Computing Journal and inclusion on CRN's Coolest Cloud Vendors list. According to the Gartner report, ...

Cloud Computing: IBM Buying Varicent Software
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Blue figures it can be used horizontally, and combined with other stuff in its grab bag delivered through on-premise or cloud models. Les Rechan, the general manager of business analytics at IBM, said the Varicent purchase would advance Blue's efforts ...
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SMBs Launch into Cloud Computing and Virtualization
InfoWorld
Given their value and importance to SMBs, it is critical that companies select the best-suited partners to help guide their virtualization and cloud implementations and technologies. VMware and HP, longtime partners and well-established leaders in ...

JMR Introduces New Suite of Cloud-Ready Servers and Workstations at the NAB ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
And to add endless scalability and seamless cloud computing, JMR's has introduced two new SilverStor™ 3 and 5 Slot PCIe Extenders. Cloud computing is crucial to the needs of today's professional content creators and high traffic studios.

Mirantis Joins Dell Partner Program for OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
While Dell provides hardware, software, services, reference architecture, and deployment guide to enable OpenStack adoption, Mirantis designs specialized, custom solutions to meet unique and complex enterprise needs in cloud computing.

What Will Your Cloud Computing Look Like?
Midsize Insider
Some companies operate their own cloud. The technology is evolving to a standardized service, but the standards are not clear yet. The largest IT companies offer cloud computing with a wide array of IT infrastructure. In an article on ComuterWorld, ...

The Trade Politics of Cloud Computing — Slaw
By Jack Newton
A number of US companies had expressed concerns that various departments in the Australian Government, namely, the Department of Defence, The National Archives of Australia, the Department of Finance and Deregulation, the Australian ...
Slaw

Household Cloud Storage :: JustCloud News
By admin
Designing a cloud storage system for the home alone has been something in demand for a long time, and a group of companies seem to have cracked it finally, although it is not cloud storageas we now know it. The product itself is basically a ...
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“Waiting For Cloud Standards Is Like Waiting For Godot ...
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Cloud9 Real Time CEO Gets Published on Cloud Computing - Press ...
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Robert J. Chandler, Author of Together in the Cloud SAN DIEGO, April 16, 2012 -- Together in theCloud is a new book hitting bookshelves at the end of April.
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The Cloud computing bandwagon continues to gain acceptance in the enterprise segment. Whether it's SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) or IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), solutions built on the cloud have proven ...
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FUJIFILM unveils cloud storage service « Storage Bytes Now
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At the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas this week, FUJIFILM launched acloud storage service called Permivault that provides on-premises and off-site storage for disaster recovery and archiving. Permivault is hosted ...
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Two Cloud Storage Solutions For iOS Compared | ChrisWrites.com
By Henry
Apple's limited storage options on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can often be problematic for some, who like to have the amount they need rather than the amount that's given to them. It also just simply might not be enough. The number one ...
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Big Data and Cloud Computing: Watch Out for These Unknowns ...
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Cloud computing provides the underlying engine, typically through the use of Hadoop. Because these commodity server instances can be rented as needed, big data becomes affordable for most enterprises. We always make discoveries as ...
The Future of Enterprise Computing

SAP on the Cloud » How to Make the Transition from Tradition to the ...
By Brad Smith
About this Blog. The sky is no longer the limit. Thanks to cloud computing, the power to streamline business processes, collaborate on actionable insights, and make informed decisions can be yours right now. Not in one year, not in six months.
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In the TechKnow – Cloud Computing – Back to the Future ...
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Cloud Computing is all the rage. Why is this old concept the next new big thing? What is cloud computing? How are you already using it today? Also the Nokia 900 phone and Nokia's rapid response to the connectivity issues. We also take ...
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Making wise cloud computing decisions
By Deborah Collier
On Friday, April 13, 2012, a Washington Post article cited three key components, which include “a clean, seamless migration; proper security and control; and quality 24-7 support,” for businesses and government to consider when deciding to ...

Mid-Air Collision? The CIO/CFO Cloud Computing Debate ...
By Keith Tilley
As cloud computing starts to become part of companies' IT strategies, what effect has this had on the CIO/CFO relationship? Do the views between the CIO and CFO remain opposing? Is this conflict holding up adoption of the technology?
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Get Digital: The National Conference on Cloud Computing and ...
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Free National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce to take place at Dublin City University on Wednesday, 25th April as part of National Cloud Week. The National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce is a free national ...
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"Recently, Dropbox the popular cloud-storage company doubled the amount of ... is offering some kind of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud services lately.
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Spotlight on cloud computing | ITworld
Is there a 'best' way to set up your private cloud storage? Given that cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely ...
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Tech Titans Pledge Support for OpenStack Foundation

Tech Titans Pledge Support for OpenStack Foundation
Data Center Knowledge
Nineteen leading technology companies signed on to become Platinum or Gold members of the OpenStack Foundation, an independent body committed to the development and propagation of OpenStack, an open source cloud operating system, the group has ...

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Big Names, Big Bucks Bolster the OpenStack Foundation
ReadWriteWeb
By Joe Brockmeier / April 13, 2012 10:35 AM / 0 Comments This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how ...

EMC's VSPEX Cloud System Launch: 10 Takeaways for Midsize Enterprises
eWeek
VBlocks, a product partnership of EMC, Cisco Systems and VMware, are convergedcloud computing systems that can run hundreds to more than 6000 virtual machines, depending on customer needs. In only two years, VBlocks have become an $800 million ...

eWeek

Cloud Computing: Possible Green Solution for Businesses?
CleanTechnica
This is a special guest post on a recent report regarding cloud computing and energy efficiency. Enjoy! With many businesses venturing into the relatively young world of cloud computing, the question has arisen: “Could cloud computing be a viable way ...

Cirrus Insight to Exhibit at 4th Annual Cloud Slam'12 Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Apr 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloudcor® today announced that Cirrus Insight, the most popular app on the Salesforce AppExchange, will be a featured exhibitor (Booth #15) at its fourth annual Cloud Slam'12 Cloud Computing ...

Cloud Computing: NTT Data Sets Up Cloud Unit
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara NTT Data, the service provider, has formed a business unit devoted to cloud services. It will be led by Marv Mouchawar as president and he will report directly to CEO John McCain. Mouchawar and his team will be responsible for the ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Research and Markets: Global - Cloud Computing for Government and Business
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Business Wire Cloud computing is a vehicle that will allow for government and business transformation. It is especially important for governments, in particular, to abandon silo thinking - in other words, if governments are serious about adopting ...

Cloud Computing Versus Software as a Service
Accountingweb.com
In this article, I'll clarify the terms "cloud computing" versus "software as a service," often referred to as SaaS. In some ways, it's like describing two sides of the same coin. However, there are some clear distinctions, along with risks and rewards ...

Microsoft Wins Its Largest-ever Cloud Computing Customer
RedOrbit
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it had won its largest-ever cloud computingcustomer, having secured a deal to provide services to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the governing body for technical education in India.

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GoGrid Big Data Solution Offers Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
eWeek
Cloud infrastructure company GoGrid announced the Big Data Solution, an offering based on a hybrid infrastructure architecture that combines cloud computing with single-tenant infrastructure components, all managed through the GoGrid management portal.

Brocade and EMC enhance cloud computing with EMC VSPEX proven infrastructure
CTR
Brocade announced Thursday its participation in a new EMC initiative to deliver Proven Infrastructure solutions for customers looking to make the transition to virtualization and cloud. The new EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure, available through the ...

Cloud Computing: HP Takes On Amazon
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The betas of its Cloud Services should get here on May 10. And since they're just betas, there aren't any prices yet. HP will also have a relational database service for MySQL and a block storage service that moves data from one compute instance to...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

HP's Converged Cloud Services: A Very Big Bet on OpenStack
OStatic (blog)
by Sam Dean - Apr. 13, 2012Comments (0) While Citrix's moves ahead with CloudStack and its abandonment of the OpenStack cloud computing platform dominated the news this week, there was a lot of big news surrounding OpenStack.

Cloud Computing Spending Taking Over IT Budgets
Midsize Insider
The results of a new study show that cloud computing, even though it has only been in the mainstream consciousness for a few years, is quickly taking over the budgets of IT department of all kinds of businesses. These new findings, combined with some ...

Cloud Computing: IBM Puts All Its Experience in a Box
SYS-CON Media (press release)
And of course there's a cloud angle. There's always a cloud angle these days. PureSystems apps can run in-house or up there in the cloud, to start with, on IBM's own SmartCloud to, say, test and develop, and reportedly it happens at the press of a ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Amazon Offers Cloud Computing Services through New Amazon CloudSearch
Newstar Media
By D Robert Curry With all of the recent talk and hype about Cloud Computing, it should come as no surprise that consumer giant Amazon has entered into the realm of the Cloud. More specifically, this new service, dubbed CloudSearch is from Amazon Web ...

Big data and cloud computing: Watch out for these unknowns
InfoWorld (blog)
Cloud computing provides the underlying engine, typically through the use of Hadoop. Because these commodity server instances can be rented as needed, big data becomes affordable for most enterprises. We always make discoveries as we use new technology ...

Cloud Computing and Mobile Web: Everyone Is Gearing Up for a Complex New World
Midsize Insider
With cloud computing and virtual machines changing the way we utilize networks and deploy solutions, the next generation of networks will be very different. TechRepublic reports that 70 percent of enterprise organizations are already gearing up for the ...

VMware: Cloud Foundry is like Linux for the cloud
ITworld.com
By Paul Krill, InfoWorld | Cloud Computing Add a new comment April 13, 2012, 6:09 AM — EMC VMware is likening its Cloud Foundry PaaS (platform as a service) to Linux for the cloud, serving as an application portability layer. The company on Wednesday ...

Increasing business efficiency through cloud computing
Telegraph.co.uk
Cloud computing provides a cheap and efficient scalabie system to meet their business needs. By Sue Tabbit Few businesses are required to be as dynamic as those providing services around major events – a challenge that specialist event agency iLUKA ...
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What makes a cloud a cloud? 5 defining characterstics
ITworld.com
By ITworld staff, ITworld | Cloud Computing Add a new comment First, "broad network access." Access to resources in the cloud is available over multiple device types. This not only includes the most common devices (laptops, workstations, etc.) ...

AICTE biggest MS cloud computing customer
Daily Pioneer
With this, AICTE has become the biggest-ever customer of Microsoft in cloud computing. This is expected to cover 10000 engineering colleges, which will enable about 7.5 million users to connect with each other and have access to quality education.

Cloud Computing: SAP to Challenge Oracle's Database Dominance
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara SAP, a database neophyte, means to throw a nominal $492 million at its Hana database analytics appliance to prove that it's a database contender - at least in-memory Big Data databases - and make Larry Ellison eat his words.
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EMC Unveils New VSPEX Option for Midrange Cloud Systems
eWeek
The resulting cloud computing systems can range in size from hundreds of virtual machines to more than 6000 virtual machines, depending upon the need of the customer. But not all IT shops need to be running 6000 VMs, so EMC is coming forth with some ...

Hitachi and Microsoft Collaborate to Enhance Global Cloud Business
MarketWatch (press release)
Hitachi, Ltd. and Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. today announced that they collaboratively provide global cloud solutions by combination of Hitachi Cloud Computing Solutions and Microsoft(R) global data center. Hitachi cloud computing solution will be ...

Speed, Agility, Not Cost Reduction, Drive Cloud
NetworkComputing.com
In a Gartner report he penned on the 'Top Five Private Cloud Computing Trends, 2012', Bittman says there will be a 10X increase in private cloud deployments in 2012 above the amount last year. The reason is technologies from companies like Eucalyptus, ...

ODCA Releases 5 Cloud Computing Usage Models
NetworkComputing.com
In an effort to address some of the most pressing cloud computing challenges and requirements its members have identified, the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has released five new usage models, which are available for download now.

High stakes for open source in the commercial cloud
InfoWorld (blog)
By Simon Phipps | InfoWorld Cloud computing has been described by some of the more radical thinkers as a profound challenge to the heart of software freedom. There's some justification to this accusation. First, you need more than your software's ...

2nd Watch Joins SMB Cloud Champions Club and Cloud Accelerate Program
PR Newswire (press release)
SPOKANE, Wash., April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- 2nd Watch, Inc., a software and cloud-computing consulting company, has been recognized by Microsoft for its commitment and expertise providing cloud solutions with an invitation to join the SMB ...

Cloud Computing: Oracle's Great Suit Against Google to Go to Trial
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Monday April 16 is the start of what the judge has called the "World Series of IP cases," an eight-week trial in which Oracle will seek to prove that APIs are copyrightable and that Google infringed 37 Java APIs when it spun up...
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Iron Bow Achieves Cisco Cloud Builder Designation
MarketWatch (press release)
As a Cisco designated Cloud Builder Partner, Iron Bow has met the rigorous required competencies across all cloud infrastructure components (security, networking, computing, storage and virtualization solutions), cloud management applications and a ...

Cloud computing: Economic issues | vox - Research-based policy ...
Cloud computing – services that are accessed directly over the Internet – is the new 'game-changer' in the information technology world. Yet cloud computing is still in its infancy. This column explores what it might mean for competition among ...
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HP Takes On Amazon | Cloud Computing Journal
... Bill Veghte, "There is a gap between what businesses need and what information technology is delivering." It will let companies choose from public, private and managed cloud services. ...Protection and Cloud Optimization and outsourced private cloud management called EnterpriseCloud Services. Forrester Research, which thinks HP's Converged Cloud could attract service providers, figures the market for cloud computing services will reach $61 billion by the end of this year.
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Cloud computing means that businesses can now spend less time worrying about technology, and more time focusing on what matters. This brief video will give you an introduction to cloud computing. Is cloud computing right for your business ...
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Cloud computing was the fastest-growing category of U.S. service provider infrastructure spending in 2011, with a 28.4 percent increase, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association. The TIA also expects cloud computing will ...
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It describes the varieties of Cloud services and delivery models, the principal risks associated with Cloud computing and how the Cloud fits within the IT service delivery options for an organization. It relates the Cloud back to the basic building ...
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LogMeIn announces Cubby, cloud storage with a peer to peer twist ...
By Nate Ralph
LogMeIn wants your stuff. The remote desktop software developer has announced Cubby, acloud storage service that's offering 5GB of free space for your digital baubles, bolstered by unlimited peer to peer sharing. The service is currently in ...
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Connect 2 Fans - Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
As you'll see here on the exciting Startup Canada initiative, my contribution to this hugely important initiative is to focus on what role Cloud Computing means for Canadian startup innovation. Indeed the ability to enhance and expand the ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

ViewSonic Creates Cost-Effective Path to Cloud Computing with ...
By eSchool News
Editorial Contact: Trish DaCosta. LEWIS PR for ViewSonic Corp. 619-677-2700viewsonic@lewispr.com. ViewSonic Creates Cost-Effective Path to Cloud Computing with New MultiClient™ Hardware Offerings, Industry Partnerships ...
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LogMeIn Gets In On Cloud Storage Action By Unleashing Cubby ...
By Roy Alugbue
The vast number of online storage apps and services seems like it's growing by the day, which isn't a bad thing. Each new service may offer something better than its competition, so it's ultimately a win-win for consumers who use the services.
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Hadoop in 17 syllables — Cloud Computing News
By Derrick Harris
If you're an amateur poet and love big data, high-performance system vendor AMAX has a deal for you. The company is conducting a contest (entry details here) to find the best haiku on big data, Hadoop or, if you're a serious devotee, AMAX ...
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Cloud Computing: Possible Green Solution for Businesses ...
With many businesses venturing into the relatively young world of cloud computing, the question has arisen: "Could cloud computing be a viable way to save significant money on energy costs?" The answer to this question, as addressed b...
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CloudFoundry attacks Google-style problem with BOSH — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
With its new BOSH management process, VMware keeps pushing CloudFoundry as a good multi-cloud PaaS option by making it easier to deploy and manage across clouds and on the biggest clouds. ... Companies go multi-cloud. It makes sense to be cloud agnostic. Since some highly publicized outages, many companies hesitate to trust their entire cloud computing load on a single cloud provider. VMware really wants CloudFoundry to be, as Herrod put it, the “Linux ofcloud,” ...
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A collection of press releases, feature stories, videos, images and background information for journalists covering Microsoft Cloud Computing.
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An Introduction to the Data Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, ...
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PaaS has a lot of Buzz going around for it, and it is especially useful for developers who want ...
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