Cisco's Private Cloud

Cisco's Private Cloud: Pain And Profit
InformationWeek
Cisco is not a cloud service provider, but it has an expanding suite of products under the label "Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 3.1." With it, Cisco is building out a private cloud across seven major data centers in hopes that its experience ...

Joe Masters Emison
Optimize Magazine
There's a growing demand for standards to bring some sanity to the cloud computing market. Both buyers and sellers have their ... IT pros also see value in formalized standards for cloud services, according to the 400 respondents to our InformationWeek ...

Cloud storage grows, but many fail to back up mobile data
ITworld.com
January 23, 2013, 11:05 AM — More companies are storing their data in the cloud as part of a hybrid onsite and offsite storage solution, but many admit they are not able to back-up large chunks of their data at all. Research company Vanson Bourne ...

EESC – European Cloud Computing Strategy Lacks Execution
CloudTimes
AWS Introduces Improved Billing Reports For Easier Tracking of Cloud Usage · Dell Presents Scalable Solutions in Security, Cloud, and Support · cloudpassage_top100 CloudPassage Study Reveals Increased Use of Public Cloud · Big Data · Cloud Storage ...

Congressional commission to look closer at China cloud computing
Nextgov
Chinese cloud computing is still in infancy but is a fast-growing industry that has been slated for government venture capital. The size of China's public cloud services market – which generally targets individual consumers -- is expected to reach over ...

Beware: 7 Sins of Cloud Computing
Wired
Organizational ignorance: Cloud is a hot concept for many businesses. In the last year, the emphasis on cloud computing as the go-to solution for infrastructure needs has propelled it to the forefront of the IT discussion, with many believing it will ...

Wired

Survey Reveals Business Alignment Trumps Cloud Computing and Application ...
Marketwire (press release)
Serena Software, the leader in Orchestrated IT solutions, today announced the results of an annual survey on application development and delivery priorities and initiatives for 2013. The survey, conducted at Gartner's recent Application Architecture, ...

Are UK Firms Slow to Adopt Cloud Computing?
Backup Technology
The survey into the use of cloud computing by large US and UK firms (1,000 employees and above), conducted by Vanson Bourne, looked at usage levels of cloud computing and general opinion of cloud computing, e.g. data storage and automation of ...

Alumnus and Microsoft Inventor Tapping Cloud Computing Potential
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
He helps build, manage and breathe life into the entire world of cloud computing at Microsoft. With the prevalence of commercial products like Microsoft's Office 365, and a plethora of cloud services like competitors' Dropbox and iCloud, Belady has his ...

University of Texas at Dallas (press release)

Red Hat folds ManageIQ purchase into cloud control stack
InfoWorld
Organizations are increasingly moving toward hybrid cloud deployments, in which some operations are run on public cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services, while others are kept in-house, perhaps as a part of an internal private cloud, said Mary ...

BackUp Exec Cloud Storage for Windows Azure Storage | Symantec ...
How can I configure BackUp Exec for Cloud Storage on Windows Azure Storage without Getting riverbed in Topology. Nirvanix have option of installing plugin ...
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Buyers Beware "Private Clouds" That Aren't Clouds at All

Buyers Beware "Private Clouds" That Aren't Clouds at All
Forbes
According to Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, a New York-based cloud computing and managed hosting provider, there is ample reason to “beware of the hype” about in-house private clouds. Ziegler has a warning about “cloudwashing”: For the CIO or CTO...

Forbes

Australia lagging behind on cloud computing and data privacy: experts
Technology Spectator
... resulting in an industry coalition to promote a local cloud computing sector. The paper prepared by Dr Gruen was launched by innovation minister Kim Carr, and argued Australia needed to “create the right legislative framework” to build a regional ...

Gartner Says Public Clouds Puffing Faster Than Expected
IT Jungle
That is up 19.6 percent from 2011's global public cloud revenues, and higher than the 12 percent growth Gartner was forecasting in prior prognostications. "The cloud services market is clearly a high-growth sector within the overall IT marketplace ...

Cloud Demand Buoys Radware
Businessweek
Cloud services spending will reach almost $100 billion in 2016, from about $40 billion this year, Framingham, Massachusetts-based data research firm IDC said in its August report. Radware will benefit from the trend as its virtualized application ...

Plan key to cloud computing strategy
Business Insurance
A paper released this year, “Enterprise Risk Management for Cloud Computing,” produced by Crowe Horwath L.L.P. for the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, stressed the importance of a well-developed plan setting out ...

Cloud computing for teachers
Manila Standard Today
The education department said on Sunday it planned to open cloud computing access, including electronic tools and mail, to more than 600,000 public school teachers nationwide and provide better communication and collaboration facilities to educators.

'Cos not investing in cloud computing, fail to manage costs'
Hindu Business Line
Enterprises not investing in cloud computing platform may fail to manage costs and innovate, and as a result lose market share due to the inability to meet customers' needs, a survey by Wipro Technologies and TLG today said. Cloud computing enables ...

Dropbox Or TOP Cloud Storage 2012 >> Are you Sure? you're Selecting The ...
The Sudbury Star
Dropbox Or The Best Cloud Storage ?..Based on trends information Cloud Storage already Top in 2012 as Hard Drive online media to backup your important files from computer virus attacks. And the growth of Cloud Storage Online has many options and ...

The Sudbury Star

Internet infrastructure isn't a waste of energy
The Verge
"Power, Pollution and the Internet" is the first entry in a multi-part investigative series on the environmental impact of cloud computing. Judging by this opening salvo, the series promises to be sharply critical of the technology industry. It calls ...

The Risks Of Moving To The Cloud
CloudTweaks News
One such revolutionary technology developed post the dot-com era is cloud Computing, which focuses on the deliverance of computing services over the Internet. The highlight characteristic ofcloud computing technologies is that they bring about system ...

CGU Insurance consolidates cloud CRM
iT News
Australian banking regulator APRA warned finance institutions against outsourcing or offshoring their core operations to cloud computing providers in an open letter in November 2010. Salesforce.com currently serves clients in eight countries — the US, ...

HP to underpin cloud at GITEX
ITP.net
"Cloud Computing is an extraordinary opportunity for businesses in MEA to achieve levels of operational efficiency that were previously unthinkable," said Eyad Shihabi, managing director, HP Middle East. "This is empowerment on a massive scale, and it...

ITP.net

Beauty lies in the 'domain' of the highest bidder
The Hindu
If this is getting a bit disconcerting, what about “.cloud” being the name of the online computing system that Google runs, since Google would most likely soon have the exclusive use of .cloud? Cloud computing is expected to be an industry that will be...

The Hindu

Energy Department shows off bold new mobile strategy
Federal Times
When the plan is rolled out in 2013, thousands of DOE employees and contractors will have access to a customized internal social network, a unified communications system, cloud computingservices and virtual desktop capabilities that allow employees to ...

"Cloud-Based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Market Will be $11.2bn in ...
Melodika.net (press release)
With an ever-decreasing total cost of ownership and a broad market trend towards cloud computing, visiongain believes that cloud-based VDI usership will nearly quadruple over the forecast period. As the PC model becomes more widely recognised as rigid ...

Data From Sales Leads – Sometimes Less Is More!
Business 2 Community
If this sounds like your clients, or worse, sounds like you, then it's time you realize that having all that information on your cloud computing sales leads won't always spell success. The article may describe the disease in cloud storage but hoarding ...

Dell's end-to-end solutions target SMBs
Philippine Star
Cloud computing brings efficiency but there's a journey going to it. How organizations virtualize their respective environments say much about how it is going to be used. Challenges have different magnitudes for each and every undertaking,” Bhatia added.

Password protection
Times of India
Call it the perils of a healthy virtual life, but if you are someone who spends an hour or two everyday on the internet, it is quite likely that you use more than a few online services from social networking and email to cloud storage and net banking ...

7 Reasons To Buy Microsoft Today
Seeking Alpha
Everyone knows the importance of the new tablet and cloud computing revolution. Microsoft has historically relied upon Dell Inc. (DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) to sell the hardware with Microsoft software installed at point of sale. Naturally ...

Poised To Triple: Portfolio Update
Seeking Alpha
NUANCE (NUAN) is an increasingly valuable player in the ongoing technological revolution. We have followed the progress of its Dragon voice-recognition software since 1995. The journey was far longer than we could have imagined, but cloud computing ...

GBS Announces GBSworld 2012
Melodika.net (press release)
GBSworld will also focus on Cloud Computing, Social Business and Web 2.0, with sessions led by Bernd Schierholz, Director of BPO Mittelstand & Partnership Solution Center at IBM Germany, on "drastic changes in mid-sized corporations," as well as by ...

The Environmental Impact of Cloud Computing | SierraActivist
By Legal Planet
The NY Times has a long article and a Room for Debate piece about cloud computing energy demand. Basic economics tells us that these data centers are likely to locate in places where electricity is cheap but the article doesn't tell us the ...
SierraActivist

#CloudFail: Six pitfalls to avoid with enterprise cloud deployment ...
By admin
Cloud Computing is just so…new, and as some industry experts have oh-so-astutely noted, “much can go wrong.” And that's ... With most public cloud services, enterprise customers have little control over where their data resides. That's a ...
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The Trick with Big Data Is Context, Context, Context | Cloud ...
Zadara Storage offers enterprise-class storage for the cloud. With Zadara Storage, cloud storageleapfrogs ahead to provide cloud servers with high-performance, fully configurable, highly available, fully private, tiered storage. ... “Cloud computing is still in the early stages of adoption and demand will continue to grow,” noted Alban Richard, CEO of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A with CloudExpo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Pricing, however, will vary,” Richard continued.
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Leveraging modern technological advancements, together with a proven, industry leading management platform, mobility within the cloud provides enterprises with an advanced portfolio of mobility cloud services, focusing on communications ...
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Challenges for Telcos in cloud services

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 ...

Personal cloud solutions--own your data ZDNet (blog) By Scott Raymond | July 23, 2011, 10:17pm PDT The public cloud offerings may not be secure, but there are inexpensive alternatives to create your own–and keep prying eyes out of your personal data. Jason Perlow, Sr. Technology Editor at ZDNet is a ...

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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How to choose Cloud storage provider

How to Choose A Cloud Storage Provider: Security InformationWeek As we discuss in "What is Cloud Storage," cloud storage providers (CSP) come in two forms typically. There are providers that provide a complete turnkey system, where they provide an application that moves data to the cloud and they manage and provide ...

Monster.com SeeMore service unites semantic search with the cloud InfoWorld By Ted Samson To aid in the struggle of extracting wheat from all that chaff, Monster.com today unveiled a service called SeeMore that leverages Monster's 6Sense semantic search and the cloudto help recruiters intelligently scour through an array of ...

Intel's Cloud Dollars Cast Lucrative Shadows TheStreet.com By James Rogers 07/21/11 - 01:01 PM EDT The chip maker, best known for selling its wares into PCs, is enjoying robust growth in server processors, driven by the rapid uptake of cloud services. During Intel's second-quarter conference call on Wednesday,...

UK Officials Put Classified Information in the Cloud Wall Street Journal (blog) By Ben Rooney UK government policy makers will be able to work securely on classified documents across departments for the first time thanks to a deal with cloud computing and content management service provider Huddle. Previously the only way for ...

Cloud computing could lead to billions in energy savings GigaOm 21, 2011, 8:48am PT 2 Comments Another study out this week has found that if companies adopt cloud computing, they can reduce the energy consumption of their IT and save money on energy bills. The report, created by research firm Verdantix and ...

Texas College System Builds Private Cloud Campus Technology By Dian Schaffhauser A college system in Houston, TX has begun seeing big returns on its three-year long construction of a private cloud infrastructure to expedite delivery of IT services to its 62000 students and 4800 employees. ...

Vermont takes contract signing to the cloud GCN.com By Rutrell Yasin Vermont's Department of Information and Innovation is transforming the way it processes vendor contracts with cloud services and electronic signature technology. DII has integrated Silanis Technology's e-SignLive, a subscription-based, ...

Microsoft's Quarter Defined by Office 365, Skype, Cloud Plans eWeek No matter what those ultimate numbers, however, the most interesting parts of this previous quarter were the things unlikely to generate revenue for some time: Office 365, Microsoft's latest major foray into the cloud, and the reveal of Windows 8, ...

LifeSize Connections Brings HD Video Conferencing to the Cloud MarketWatch (press release) Now, our cloud-based platform is introducing a new way of working by enabling employees to improve productivity and collaborate in ways they never thought possible." Users can have any contact join them in Connections as a guest, for free, ...

Microsoft Research Releases New Tool Kit Daytona for Cloud Computing TMC Net By Ashok Bindra, TMCnet Contributor This week at the 12th annual Microsoft (News - Alert) Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Wash., Microsoft Corp. released details on a new cloudcomputing platform for scientists. Code named “Daytona”, this tool kit ...

Apple Sitting on $76 Billion Cushion, Looks to Bolster Patents, Cloud Mobiledia By Joe Arico | Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:31 pm Apple has more cash and investments than any other tech company, leaving it plenty of money to bolster its patents and invest in start-up acquisitions. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company's second quarter report ...

Rackspace's cloud going all OpenStack Network World By Jon Brodkin, Network World A year after Rackspace and NASA unveiled OpenStack, Rackspace is planning to deploy the open source software across its entire cloud infrastructure. Rackspace's cloud storage service, known as Cloud Files, ...

Dimension Data Taps New Cloud Chief CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Fresh off of its acquisition of cloud contender OpSource, Dimension Data Thursday named a chief executive for its newly-formed Cloud Solutions business unit. Steve Nola, who has been CEO of Dimension Data in Australia for the ...

Nasuni SLA Guarantees 100 Percent Cloud Storage Uptime eWeek Cloud storage gateway provider Nasuni this week launched a new service, rather plainly called Data Protection, that guarantees 100 percent, 24/7 availability for any data its customers store inside its partners' clouds. That sentence isn't a typo. ...

Zuberance Named an AlwaysOn Global 250 Company San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Now in its ninth year, the AlwaysOn Global 250 represents the top emerging companies in the Global Silicon Valley that are demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technologies in digital media, mobile, social media, cloud, ...

WealthDocx® and ElderDocx® Drafting Systems Move to Cloud-Based Delivery PR Newswire (press release) "Cloud computing capabilities help attorneys increase drafting efficiency, minimize staff involvement and reduce operating costs," McClintock added. In addition to remote on-demand access, Internet-based document drafting provides attorneys with ...

VMTurbo Brings Agility To The Cloud NetworkComputing.com Most data center managers are facing the increasing complexity of virtualized and cloud-based environments. Successfully managing cloud operations and virtualized environments takes intelligence--not so much the type of intelligence as defined by IQs, ...

Gaikai Cloud Gaming Service Raises Money ZippyCart By the ZippyCart Content Team Cloud-based services are the big thing right now. Amazon led the race to the market by launching a music storage system without major label support. Their system allows anyone to sign up for five gigs of music storage for ...

IBM Federal Community Cloud to Speed Agency Adoption of Social Collaboration ... PR Newswire (press release) WASHINGTON, July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new cloud-based collaboration services to help US Federal government organizations reap the benefits of social computing. The new set of social collaboration services, ...

Abiquo Triples Cloud Management Business in First Half of 2011 Benzinga Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company, today announced significant market momentum in the first half of 2011 with multiple six-figure customer wins, tripling its business quarter over quarter, surpassing business plan targets ...

New cloud-infrastructure package The Nation By Jirapan Boonnoon United States-based software company VMware has launched a new cloud-infrastructure suite, covering public, private and hybrid cloud computing. VMware Thailand's country manager Chawapol Jariyawiroj said the cloud-infrastructure ...

Why you shouldn't trust Google (or any cloud service) with your data ZDNet (blog) By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | July 21, 2011, 8:56am PDT Getting ready to enthusiastically shovel all your data into the cloud? Here's a cautionary tale of what can happen when your connection to that data is pulled because of accusations that you ...

Amid Layoffs, Cisco Continues Cloud And Managed Services Push MSPmentor Cisco launched the Cloud Partner Program in early 2011, assisting cloud resellers, cloud builders and cloud service providers with their business strategies. The Cloud Partner Program was modeled after Cisco's existing managed services efforts. ...

SUBWAY Heads Down the Cloud Computing Highway Datamation As the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and public cloud services industries mature they are being deployed to play more pivotal roles in the day-to-day operations of bigger and bigger organizations. The latest example is Coupa Software's recent contract ...

AIS Network First to Offer License Mobility for SharePoint 2010 From On ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) As more businesses adopt cloud services, they can now turn to AIS Network (www.aisn.net) for the flexibility they need to move in-house SharePoint server and application workloads to the cloud. The hosting pioneer today announced that it is the first ...

Optical Drive Becomes Latest Casualty in Quest for the Cloud Gotta Be Mobile The 'cloud' is becoming a big feature of our digital lives today–anywhere from the most recently launched Spotify for cloud-based streaming music to cloud-streamed videos like those on Netflix and Hulu. All of this is driven by the increasing access ...

Cloud Storage Company CX Raises $5M From Eric Schmidt And Others ... By Leena Rao CX, a cloud storage and SaaS data file management system, has raised $5 million in new funding from Eric Schmidt's Tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital. This brings the company's total funding to $10 million. CX, which has flown under ... TechCrunch

Cloud | Flickr - Photo Sharing! By t.a.p masa Cloud. HOLGA 120GN TX400 My Site here. Comments and faves. Eric Flexyourhead (2 hours ago | reply) ... This photo belongs to. t.a.p masa's photostream (1654). Newest photo →; Cloud · Today. This photo also appears in ... Uploads from t.a.p masa

Microsoft Drops Into Social Gaming From the Cloud - Tricia Duryee ... By Tricia Duryee Microsoft has figured out a way to get into the social games business without having to make a single game. AllThingsD

SUSE Linux Gears Up for Cloud Strategy | TalkinCloud By Joe Panettieri SUSE Linux President Nick Brauckmann said a SUSE cloud strategy will emerge in 60 to 90 days. Are SUSE Linux Cloud surprises in store for Novell Brainshare? TalkinCloud

Thin Clients, the Cloud, and Security | Cloud Computing Journal By their very nature, cloud platforms are a security challenge. They rely on virtualization, which carries the same risk as any other physical computing environment but adds in guest-host and guest-guest risks. ... Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Acer looking to launch their own cloud system | Ubergizmo By Tyler Lee With cloud services that are starting to pop up everywhere, it's really no surprise to see that Taiwanese hardware vendor, [...] Ubergizmo

Free Cloud Sync Coming to Things for iPhone and iPad By Alex The team at Cultured Code, makers of the popular task manager for iOS called Things, has announced that cloud sync is finally coming to the Things for. iDownloadBlog - iPhone iPad iOS

Ed Brill - New IBM US Federal cloud collaboration offering By Ed Brill Thursday, IBM will be announcing a new set of cloud offerings for the US Federal government, on our existing IBM Federal Community Cloud environment. A key to the new offerings is their operation in a US FISMA-compliant data center. ... Ed Brill

Wired Correspondent Suffers Through the Downside of Cloud ... By Pete Mortensen With the launch of Lion, Wired correspondent Erin Biba (most recently contributing to this month's cover story) discovered that the downsides of a cloud-delivered operating system are just the same as those for cloud-delivered music. ... Cult of Mac

The Cloud vs. The Bandwidth Cap | Digital | SPLICETODAY.com You almost had me, “Cloud.” I was nearly convinced that physical forms of data were becoming completely outmoded. You'd promised to keep all of my information safe in a bubble-wrapped, triple-locked, ultra-secure realm of magical air in ... Splice Today

CloudFS.org » Moving to the Cloud By Jeff Darcy If you read the NYT article carefully, you'll see that the relationship between a government move toward cloud computing and these 800 closures is tenuous at best, and it never even mentions moving anything to a public cloud. ... CloudFS.org

The coming Cloud wars: Google+ vs Microsoft (plus Facebook) (Wired UK) The next year in tech will be all about building connections between PC and post-PC devices, whether phones, tablets, game consoles, e-readers or next-gen SmartRoombas. Wired.co.uk

The Cloud Refuge | Design Milk By Jaime The Cloud is a collaboration between Bruit du Frigo, the collective Zébra3 / Buy-sellf, a playful architecture made of wood and plexiglass. Sleeping up. Design Milk

Acer Developing Acer Cloud After iGware Acquisition » Geeky Gadgets By Julian Horsey After the acquisition of iGware by Acer this week, the Taiwanese hardware vendor is now looking to develop its own Acer Cloud that would be used as a web based service designed to pull their PC's, laptops and tablets devices together. Geeky-Gadgets

Chemical cloud sparks concern Logansport officials say the situation is stable after a hazardous vapor cloud that leaked out of a train tanker Thursday morning. News | WISH TV

Content in the Cloud - Social Business Community Blog By James Watson Why all the interest all of a sudden about putting content “in the cloud”? Well, certainly it is a result of some serious marketing dollars from suppliers, and the general wave of successful SaaS offerings in many other application ... Community Blogs

Windows Azure Developer Services | Cloud Platform | Azure Web ... Windows Azure offers developer services on a cloud computing platform that can be used to create a wide array of consumer web applications or business ... www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/learn/getstarted/

VMware Cloud Computing: Business Continuity & High Availability of ... Deliver better performance on even the most resource-intensive applications with VMware vSphere. Virtualization gives you high availability and business ... www.vmware.com/cloud-infrastructure/

Cloud Computing Heterogeneity will require Cloud Integration ... Cloud Computing is the future – if you believe market forecasts from companies such as Gartner. I think so, too. But... java.dzone.com/articles/cloud-computing-heterogeneity Acer to acquire cloud-service provider iGware CNET With iGware's technology, Acer says that it will deliver a new service, called Acer Cloud, "to serve and benefit Acer customers, and enhance brand value." iGware has largely been under the radar in the cloud space, but the company has achieved some ...

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