Microsoft’s Satya Nadella on Google

Next Microsoft CEO (?) dishes on Google --

The Gigaom Interview: A chat with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella from before he was the (likely) next CEO — Tech News and Analysis:You don’t think they (Google) are serious? I don’t know. I don’t run into them. We compete with them, but on Office365 and Google apps, not as much when it comes to Azure. It’s really Amazon and Azure as far as I can tell when it comes to the public cloud. That would be the other thing that I see, who are the ones – and you can’t just say I’m going to enter this business tomorrow, it requires five, six billion dollars of capital expense every year — who have the muscle to be able to get into the public cloud business. If you’re already not in it at this scale, you’re probably never going to be in it. You have to wait for the next big inflection point. And then lastly, it is like, if you go with the notion that the world will still be hybrid, and there is a need for server products that mimic what you use in your own public cloud, that’s where VMWare and others will play and I think that’s still going to be very important." (read more at link above)

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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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Encrypt private data for transit to the Cloud

Avoid Patriot Act Surprises: Encrypt Cloud Data On-premise PCWorld The answer, according to AWS chief technology officer, Werner Vogels, is to encrypt private data for transit to the Cloud - and to employ best practice when it comes to classifying data. "We take privacy very seriously," Vogels told CIO Australia. ...

Microsoft Azure Does Big Data As A Service InformationWeek "Project Daytona" tools let researchers use Windows Azure cloud platform to crunch data, and some tech from archrival Google plays a part. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft unveiled new software tools and services designed to let researchers ...

SUSE Studio 1.2 ships, SUSE Linux chief to roll out full cloud strategy soon ZDNet (blog) The newly independent SUSE Linux unit unveiled the first leg of its cloud platform today: SUSE Studio Version 1.2. The development platform, which has been on the market for two years, helps SUSE Linux customers build, update and manage applications. ...

The Coming Cloud Wars: Google+ vs Microsoft (plus Facebook) Wired News (blog) If Silicon Valley were hosting a basketball tournament for consumer money and mindshare in thecloud, right now we'd be looking at a Final Four of Google, Apple (plus Twitter), Microsoft (plus Facebook) and Amazon (especially if they can make a ...

Cloud Computing Chops Energy Costs, Carbon Emissions: Study CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Cloud computing has the potential to save large companies a total of $12.3 billion annually on energy costs and reduce annual carbon emissions by 85.7 metric tons come 2020, according to a recent study examining the ...

The cloud: now for connecting electric cars Reuters By Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOm The car, in particular the electric car, is the latest device to get plugged in to the cloud. Coulomb Technologies, which makes networked electric-vehicle charging stations, plans to start selling cloud-based services to ...

Gaikai Raises $30 Million for Cloud Gaming Network Digital Media Wire Executives are making the short-sighted decision to dismiss quality considerations in the Read MoreCloud-based game service Gaikai today announced it has raised $30 million toward rolling out its network for interactive, real-time gaming, ...

Riverbed buys UK cloud company for $140m Financial Times By Maija Palmer, technology correspondent Riverbed Technology, the US IT services company, on Wednesday announced a deal to buy Zeus, a UK cloud computing company, for $140m in cash. It is the latest in a series of acquisitions of companies providing ...

OS X 10.7 Lion Ditches the Disk, Offers Cloud-Only Recovery Wired News By Charlie Sorrel Both of the new Macs that Apple shipped today come with the latest version of OS X: 10.7 Lion. The update brings many new features, as you'd expect of a new operating system, but there are some fundamental changes both to the user ...

Amazon S3 Storage Cloud: Nearly 500 Billion Objects Stored CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon Web Service's massive growth has long been a thing of legend, as the cloud behemoth isn't quick to attribute numbers to its cloudcomputing growth. But the cloud stalwart this week gave a small peak into its metrics,... CRN

OS X Lion Awakens: Can Akamai handle downloads for Apple's Cloud? ZDNet (blog) Clearly, Apple is going to become very dependent on cloud services in the future, as iCloud is launched with iOS 5 and a huge amount of content starts to get synchronized across millions and millions of devices. Is a distributed, front-end IP ...

Intel notches record revenues amid rise in cloud services, netbook decline VentureBeat Intel announced its fifth straight quarter of record-setting revenues, with $13 billion in revenue and $3.2 billion net income, or 59 cents per share, for the second quarter 2011. That's a 2 percent increase in revenue over Q1 and a 22 percent increase ...

DIY: Secrets of creating a cloud storage farm revealed by Backblaze VentureBeat If Hollywood ever needs a cloud storage facility for a movie scene, they need to call the folks at online storage and backup company Backblaze. You can just picture Tom Cruise, playing a secret agent dressed in black, sneaking around the rows of shiny ...

IDC: 2015 cloud server revenue will hit $9.4 billion Cloud IT Pro Research firm IDC recently released a new study indicating that the total revenue for public and private cloud server deployment will hit $9.4 billion by 2015. The study breaks down that number by public cloud server deployment ($3.6 billion) and ...

Twilio and GoodData Partner to Measure Business Value of Cloud Communications SYS-CON Media (press release) Twilio (www.twilio.com), the cloud communications company, announced today that they have partnered with on-demand business intelligence provider GoodData (www.gooddata.com) to offer an integrated analytics app for tracking performance of voice and SMS ...

Microsoft cloud email BPOS had short outage Tuesday The Seattle Times Microsoft's cloud email service BPOS, or Business Productivity Online Services, had a short outage on Tuesday morning that lasted about 13 minutes. At 10:54 am the company tweeted that the service was back online. I have asked Microsoft whether these ...

Polycom RealPresence ready and new cloud offerings powered by Polycom UC software Al-Bawaba Polycom is also introducing with its partners new cloud-based offerings powered by the Polycom UC Intelligent Core software platform to deliver affordable and secure video solutions on demand. Tailored for the tighter budgets and leaner staffs of ...

Ctera Links Cloud Storage With Data Protection InformationWeek Appliance gives SMBs a cost-effective way to store data locally for speed, then replicate it in thecloud for disaster recovery. By Frank Ohlhorst, Network Computing Cloud storage vendor Ctera is looking to bring high-speed, easy-to-use, ...

OpenStack's First Birthday: A Year in Review Huffington Post OpenStack, the open source cloud computing project initiated by NASA and Rackspace, celebrated its first birthday on July 19. OpenStack's open source code enables customers to create public or private cloud environments that deliver functionality ...

Akwa Ibom: Intrigues cloud Eket Federal Constituency seat Vanguard BY EMMANUEL AZIKEN, POLITICAL EDITOR PERHAPS it was the scrutiny of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Or maybe the transparency mantra espoused by President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the last elections. ...

Administration Closes Data Centers, Moves to Cloud National Journal By Rebecca Kaplan The White House announced on Wednesday that it will close 800 data centers by 2015 to cut $3 billion worth of duplication and inefficiency and will move storage to Internet-based services better known as "the cloud. ...

VMware's Cloud Infrastructure Suite Launched Newswire Today (press release) Expected to be available from Q3 2011, the Cloud Infrastructure Suite is designed to help organisations build 'intelligent virtual infrastructures, which infuse highly virtualised environments with the automation, self-service and security ...

Improving cloud interoperability with application migration tools SearchCloudComputing.com Cloud interoperability goes beyond matters like cloud application programming interfaces and virtual machine image format conversion. It is primarily about application migration; moving them back and forth between private clouds and public clouds or ...

Cloud computing to create one lakh jobs in India NDTV.com As the next technology wave, cloud computing has the potential to create about 100000 new jobs in India, a study said Tuesday. "Of the projected $4.5-billion totalcloud computing market in India by 2015, private cloud will account for $3.5 billion, ...

Akamai CEO Paul Sagan to Preside Over the Opening of the NASDAQ Stock Market Sacramento Bee Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai's global platform is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate. To learn how the world's leading ...

8x8, Inc. Announces Record First Quarter Fiscal 2012 Revenue MarketWatch (press release) "Fiscal 2012 got off to a tremendous start for 8x8 with the formal introduction of our channel program and two new initiatives, the acquisition of Zerigo and adoption of the VCE Vblock platform, intended to expand our capabilities in the cloud ...

Why agencies are gun-shy of the public cloud GCN.com By Paul McCloskey Will more government agencies bite on the advantages of moving their applications to public cloud providers? Eventually, according to cloud computing experts at the FOSE conference July 19. But before that happens, agencies will opt ...

Survey: APAC firms up disaster recovery spend with cloud ZDNet Asia By Jamie Yap , ZDNet Asia on July 20, 2011 (13 hours ago) Disaster recovery plans remain largely inadequate among businesses in Asia-Pacific, but more looking at cloud adoption as part of overall strategy and to help manage budget. ...

Gale Technologies intros service tiering for cloud Cloud IT Pro Gale Technologies has introduced new service-tiering capabilities for its GaleForce Turnkey Cloudsoftware platform designed to create a self-service, automated infrastructure for physical and virtual resources. The platform is aimed at enterprises but ... LifeSize Expands Video Collaboration Offerings Into the Cloud eWeek The announcements touch on such high-interest areas as mobility and cloud computing. Some of the new offerings also represent the first joint products from LifeSize and Logitech, which bought LifeSize in late 2009. LifeSize officials announced that ...

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