Cloud Storage for Business, Google, Microsoft, Others

Google, Microsoft and Others Delve Deeper Into Cloud Storage for Businesses - NYTimes.com: "... Online digital storage, the repository of an increasing amount of our business and personal lives, is changing from being a small part of computing to the core way of selling corporations other kinds of cloud software and services. Soon, keeping your digital goods will also be the means for tech companies to understand who does what inside a business, just the way they understand consumers by watching what they do on the web. “Storage is where the stickiness is,” said Jeffrey Mann, vice president for research at Gartner. “It’s how they hold a customer. If they store your stuff, they get to know you better.”..."

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Google Account Security Options for Businesses

Google Reminds Businesses of Account-Security Options as 2014 ...
eWeek
Google wants enterprise users to know about the tools that are available to ...As 2013 comes to a close, Google is working to remind enterprise ... AppleiOS smartphones and tablets using the Google Apps Admin console, he wrote.

eWeek

Cloud computing 2014: Moving to a zero-trust security model
Computerworld
Another industry group, the Cloud Security Alliance, predicted a similar ...Despite some reports of slowing sales of cloud services by U.S. vendors to ...For instance, Google Cloud Storage now automatically encrypts all new data ...

SC Magazine

Cloud Computing Is Now Just Computing
Midsize Insider
The term "cloud" has been an IT catchphrase for a short period although the types of services that define this technology have been in use for some ...

Midsize Insider

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Cloud computing -- balancing individual, business and law-enforcement interests

Cloud computing: balancing individual, business and law-enforcement interests | Media Network | Guardian Professional: "We all know about the massive presence of computing and the internet in our everyday lives. It therefore boggles the mind to consider how rudimentary our use of technology will seem in just a few short years as many projections point to 100bn internet-connected devices in 2020, compared with just 8bn today. This post-PC world of pervasive computing, from appliances to automobiles to the electrical grid will centre around cloud computing. The massive cloud data centres of today will grow at a phenomenal pace to manage these devices and store their data – a utility on a global scale. . . . " (read more at link above)

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More than Half of US Businesses Now Use Cloud Computing

More than Half of US Businesses Now Use Cloud Computing --
If you've attended a technology conference over the last couple years it's hard to avoid the obvious buzz around cloud computing. Almost every vendor has ...
www.forbes.com/.../the-cloud-hits-the-mainstream-more-than-...

The week in cloud: SAP stakes cloud claim; legacy and new-look vendors arm ...
GigaOM
Sometimes we forget: cloud adoption is just in the baby step phase; SAP says it's profiting from cloud; battle for legacy and new app workloads gets more nuanced....

GigaOM

5 Ways Cloud Collaboration Improves Hiring - Mashable
Mashable
In the age of social media, it doesn't take a lot for companies to see the benefits ofcloud collaboration for internal projects. Just take a look at the success of companies like Salesforce and SamePage — they're driving online workplace ...

Forecast for the cloud: it will come in a million varieties
GigaOM
It became popular a few years back to claim that the cloud would finally redeem the oft-mocked prediction famously (and likely apocryphally) attributed to legendary CEO of IBM Thomas Watson, Sr.: that ultimately there would be worldwide demand “for ...

GigaOM

HTG Explains: What is Cloud Gaming and Is it The Future?
By Chris Hoffman
Cloud gaming has much in common with streaming videos. Essentially, the cloud-gaming server runs a game and streams a video of the gameplay to you. Your keyboard, mouse, and controller input actions are sent over the network to the ...
How-To Geek

SAP's cloud computing push stalls in Asia | Reuters
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - SAP AG's Asian business stumbled at the start of 2013 when top sales managers left the business software company, giving rivals an ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-sap-results-idUSBRE93I0CX20130419

Microsoft Takes Aim at Amazon With a New Cloud Service ...
On Tuesday, Microsoft will begin offering a new, more basic cloud computing service that competes directly with Amazon's similar services. And to make sure it's ...
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/.../microsoft-crashing-amazons-cloud-...

The Cloud Is Officially Boring. Finally – ReadWrite
Much as we might want to hype the cloud, CIOs just want it to be boring. Finally they have their wish, as recent announcements from OpenStack and Microsoft ...
readwrite.com/2013/04/.../the-cloud-is-officially-boring-finall...

Jolicloud's Jolidrive adds search to its cloud-based services hub
Jolicloud's missions have been many over the years, from its initial open-source Joli OS ambitions to its brief stint as netbook manufacturer and now an.
www.engadget.com/.../joliclouds-jolidrive-adds-search-to-its-c...

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How Cloud Computing Is Disrupting Businesses

How Cloud Computing Is Disrupting Businesses Everywhere: " . . . cloud is a disruptive technology, but now let’s talk about how it’s altering your business. Now I know what you’re thinking, this doesn’t or won’t ever affect me. In reality, cloud computing isn’t just changing the role of developers; it is changing the role of your marketers, your sales force. And in the coming years, even the roles that having seemingly nothing to do with cloud will be affected. There are of course the skeptics, but here are a few ways it’ll transform the business. IT for Everyone It’s no longer up to the IT department to make decisions on which software will be used. Shadow IT is lurking in every department where 30% of IT spending being done is happening outside the official IT budget. You don’t need any approval; just a credit card and a third party service provider can deliver your department the cloud computing software it needs to run quicker. . . ."

Cloud computing for small businesses: it's time to follow the herd
The Guardian (blog)
When it comes to embracing cloud computing, the main worry on most people's minds is security. By accessing cloud services over the internet, you are sharing them with people and organisations that you don't know, possibly including business competitors.

The Guardian (blog)

OVF 2.0 Takes On Cloud Lock-In Worries
InformationWeek
It can embed this information in the combined package of files that represents a cloud computingworkload so that it may be used by the next cloud service, or it can be kept external to the package. That would allow the networking information to be ...

SugarSync Targets SMBs With Unlimited Cloud Storage
PC Magazine
With small companies and startups throwing their data at the cloud with tremendous force, cloud storage providers are competing hard for their business. SugarSync, which owns the cloud-based file syncing program of the same name, today announced a ...

Investors open gates for 'online but off-cloud' storage device
VentureBeat
Traditional hardware storage is not connected to the internet which makes it challenging to share and sync data, while cloud options can be expensive and unreliable for people with large storage needs. The Transporter bridges the gap between the two.

Cloud Services Provider Tier 3 Names New CEO
CRN
Cloud services provider Tier 3 named veteran technology executive Matthew Schiltz as its president and CEO. Schiltz most recently was CEO of Symform, a Seattle-based cloud storage provider. He also was at the helm of startups DocuSign and CourtLink.

The cloud computing market forecast for 2013: Experts predict what to expect
TechTarget
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State of Cloud Computing: Cloud PBX
Business 2 Community
Internal telephone networks, switches, wires, and other equipment used to make up a significant part of the enterprise infrastructure. The rise of cloud computing has changed this and nowadays you have a cloud computing alternative to consider, as with ...

Major Security Issues with Cloud Computing Being Ignored
IBTimes.co.uk
However, one issue which is being ignored by the vast majority of organisation is security, with a Pricewaterhouse Coopers survey from last year showing that more than three quarters of respondents across a range of companies believed cloud computing...

IBTimes.co.uk

The Biggest Pitfall in Cloud Computing: Security
CloudTweaks News
Technology is not without its pitfalls even if it has so many benefits, especially if it is not used properly. Cloud computing is no exception; in fact a lot of people think that cloud computing has more pitfalls than the current solutions that they ...

TeleProviders Delivers Presentation on How to Choose a Cloud Services ...
PR Web (press release)
TeleProviders Inc., a premier communications and technology solutions provider, announced that its Regional Manager Donna Kruse and Director of Converged Cloudand Data Services Jo Peterson, presented at the San Diego Technology Symposium in...

PR Web (press release)


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