Calculating the true cost of cloud outages

Calculating the true cost of cloud outages
InfoWorld
These calculations demonstrate that you should understand the true cost of cloud outages as you move more of your processes and data to public cloud services. I've found that businesses either overestimate or underestimate the cost of outages. You need ...

Cloud computing 2.0: Where next for business?
IT PRO
In our first IT Pro report entitled Cloud Computing in 2012, we looked at what cloud is and pondered its potential for business transformation. We went into detail on cloud'basics' such as the difference between public and private clouds, IaaS vs SaaS ...

IT PRO

Get 25GB of free cloud storage from Box
Palm Beach Post
Try this: For a limited time, Box is offering 25GB of free cloud storage when you sign up for an account. Free for life. Free with no strings attached. Just plain free. I know, right? Typically a freebie Box account nets you only 5GB, so this is ...

PCI DSS cloud computing guidelines
Help Net Security
PCI Participating Organizations selected cloud computing as a key area to address via the SIG process. More than 100 global organizations representing banks, merchants, security assessors and technology vendors collaborated on this guidance designed ...

Help Net Security

Cobalt Data Centers opens hub for collocation, cloud computing
Las Vegas Review - Journal
Already, Cobalt has roughly a dozen customers including those in the cloud computing, voice over Internet protocol and health care industries. Any company that stores data electronically can be a customer of Cobalt's and other data centers, and they ...

Las Vegas Review - Journal

Don't Miss the Deal of the Day
Gizmodo
25GB of Free Cloud Storage Is Your Deal of the Day Dropbox gives you 2GB of storage when you sign up. iCloud offers 5GB. While there are plenty of reasons to prefer those services, the storage space they offer is way less than what you can get with Box ...

Wipro Implements Dell Boomi to Solve Cloud Services Broker Issues
Talkin' Cloud
According to the announcement from the two companies, Wipro is using Boomi to deliver "true multidirectional dynamism, and enable businesses of all sizes to realize their transformative potential of cloud computing across business processes (BPaaS), ...

IBM gives cloud storage controls to corporate users
ITworld.com
IBM adds 10Gbps Ethernet support to XIV. IBM also announced 10Gbps Ethernet on its XIV Storage System, a high-end, grid-based array that supports virtualized server, analytics and cloud computing environments. The 10Gbps Ethernet support will allow a ...

IBM Simplifies Big Data, Cloud Computing
HispanicBusiness.com
Making it easier for organizations to quickly adopt and deploy big data and cloud computingsolutions, IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced major advances to its PureSystems family of expert integrated systems . Now, organizations challenged by limited IT ...

U.S. And U.K. Show Cloud Adoption Divide
InformationWeek
In terms of age groups, 25 to 34-year-old people performed best on this question, with 33.8% claiming to know what cloud computing is. The same exercise found 63% of these U.S. respondents weren't able to recognize Dropbox, iTunes, Gmail or Microsoft's ...

Cloudyn tackles out-of-control AWS cloud storage spending
ITworld.com
Cloudyn has a biggie that could shine a spotlight on a cloud sore spot. Cloud storage is one area that is well known for being quite expensive, oftentimes more expensive than doing storage in-house. Cloudyn is promising to give customers much better ...

Navigating the Security Maze for Cloud Computing
Wired
Cloud computing offers a value proposition that is different from traditional enterprise IT environments. By providing a way to exploit virtualization and aggregate computing resources, cloud computing can offer economies of scale that would otherwise ...

Businesses caught off-guard by cloud computing complexities
The Australian Financial Review
Approximately one third of executives surveyed reported that integrating cloud services with their existing IT infrastructure was more difficult than expected, which had lead to higher than expected implementation costs. In addition 30 per cent said ...

The Australian Financial Review

SMB cloud spending topped $45bn in 2012
V3.co.uk
Cloud hosting firm Parallels reported that 22 percent of SMBs are currently managing websites through cloud services, with another 30 percent of SMBs planning to adoptcloud-based website management tools by 2015. "Cloud computing has given SMBs access ...

V3.co.uk

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Google Talk, Twitter, Azure Outages: Bad Cloud Day

Google Talk, Twitter, Azure Outages: Bad Cloud Day
InformationWeek
Google's video chat service had plenty of company on the disabled list on tough day for cloud computing. By Paul McDougall · InformationWeek. July 26, 2012 03:25 PM. When it comes to thecloud, it never rains. It pours. Google reported Thursday that its ...

Deploying Open-Source Cloud Systems: 5 Pros and 5 Cons
eWeek
As these major vendors continue to build out their public cloud infrastructure to battle with the incumbent services leader, Amazon Web Services, there are some underlying questions about whether the same technologies are ready for the enterprise. After all ...

eWeek

Cloud Computing: The IT Expectation Gap
SYS-CON Media (press release)
We wanted to be able to offer the complete continuum of products and services from traditional infrastructure build to cloud services," stated Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist and Managing Partner at SHI, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with CloudExpo ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing: Akamai Posts Strong Second Quarter
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Paul Sagan, President and CEO of Akamai, stated that "Akamai's very strong second quarter results were driven on the top line by increased adoption of ourcloud infrastructure solutions as well as continued growth of content delivery solutions. Our bottom ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing: Symantec Dumps Its CEO
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Symantec Wednesday pushed its CEO and president of three years Enrique Salem out and installed its chairman, former Intuit CEO Steve Bennett, in his place. Shares rose a cheery 13.5% to $14.96 on the news. "While progress has been made over the last ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

ZapThink Announces Cloud Computing for Architects Course
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
ZapThink, a Dovel Technologies Company, is now delivering version 2.0 of the Cloud Computingfor Architects course at its headquarters in McLean, Virginia. The two-day Cloud Computing for Architects course is the only architect-focused course on Cloud ...

Why crowdsourced computing benchmarks are the future
GigaOM
Cloud computing and open source software have freed IT practitioners from so much legacy vendor baggage over the past few years. Isn't it time to free them from inane benchmark boasting, too? A crowdsourced platform where users share their real-world ...

GigaOM

Peaks and Valleys: Software Licensing for Elastic Cloud
Wired News
One of the most compelling aspects of cloud computing is its elasticity. With cloudprovisioning models such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, organizations can scale up capacity to support business growth and/or temporary spikes in demand much more easily than ...

Wired News

Cloud Computing: Box Raising Money at $1.2 Billion Valuation: WSJ
SYS-CON Media (press release)
After reportedly snubbing an acquisition bid from Citrix worth at least $700 million earlier this year, Box, the cloud storage start-up, is raising more money at the tune of a $1.2 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reports. It supposedly has designs on going ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

AppFog lets you pick your cloud, (almost) any cloud
GigaOM
For companies wanting to put workloads on a public cloud without having to sweat the details, Appfog has a bold proposition. It says its new PaaS will abstract out all that annoying tweaking and tuning for loads running on Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft or HP ...

BMC Updates Its Cloud Building, Management Platform for Broader Use
eWeek
Cloud Lifecycle Management 3.0 is a cloud-building tool that enables service providers to offer a broader set of services through the cloud, Lilac Schoenbeck, Senior Manager of Solutions Marketing in BMC's Cloud Computing group, told eWEEK. ... configurable cloud services from a service catalog and self-service portal;; provisioning of fully configured services, not just individual VMs;; tight, efficient administrative control;; intelligent, policy-driven placement and optimization;; broad resource support for physical and ...

Unisys (UIS) To Provide Private Cloud Storage Service For IRS
iStockAnalyst
(By Balaseshan) Unisys Corp. (NYSE:UIS), a global information technology company, said it would provide private cloud-based storage service for the information records of Internal Revenue Service (IRS), under the Enterprise Storage Acquisition task order.

Google Talk is silenced
GigaOM
This snafu, which cut many people off from their instant messaging/video chat app of choice, along with today's WIndows Azure snafu in Europe, show the dark side of cloud computing. google_talk. If you're looking to chat on Google Talk this morning, you're ...

Cloud Computing: Microsoft Extracts Royalties from Linux User
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Ahead of making a clean sweep of the Android device makers, Microsoft this week changed tack and nailed Dublin-based Amdocs Software Systems Ltd, the software contracting side of giant Amdoc Ltd, which supplies billing and CRM widgetry to big telecom ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Six Degrees Group Announces New Funding and Cloud Hosting Acquisition
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Jul 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Six Degrees Group today announces it has raised GBP 8 million in new funding from Penta Capital and that it has completed the acquisition ofCloud Computing Centre (CCC), a Surrey-based managed cloud ...

Windows Azure outage hits Europe
GigaOM
This is just the latest reminder that while the cloud offers customers great scale and potential cost savings, not even the largest, most well financed public cloudsare immune from downtime. Windows Azure experienced a widely publicized “Leap Day” outage ...

GigaOM

Security nous lacking in cloud app development
ZDNet
The maturing cloud computing trend has spurred more enterprise applications to be built for access via the cloud network, but one Hewlett-Packard executive argues that developers have yet evolved in tandem with regard to putting security at the forefront of ...

Are Foreign Cloud Providers Exploiting Privacy Concerns?
CIO
Tech officials are warning House subcommittee members that foriegn cloud services providers are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers. By Kenneth Corbin Thu, July 26, 2012 . CIO — A panel of technology officials Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee about the challenges of overseas expansion confronting the burgeoning cloud computing market, including privacy and security concerns and efforts by foreign governments to protect ...

Best Buy's mindSHIFT: Managed, Cloud Services Blanket US
MSPmentor
While parent Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has been navigating strategy changes and executive changes, mindSHIFT CEO Paul Chisholm has kept his organization focused on IT outsourcing, expanded cloud services, new offices and potential acquisitions.

Is cloud computing secure?
Sydney Morning Herald
I guess, 'it depends' is the answer to whether the cloud is secure." Ian Lamont, IT security specialist with luxury car manufacturer BMW, said security comparisons should not be made between cloud services and more established on-premise data storage methods. "It is like comparing apples and oranges," Lamont said. ... I was worried about security but still wanted to use cloud storage. As a workaround I have encrypted my volumes where I store sensitive data and back up the volume online. Commenter: cloud user ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Windows Azure Hit by Cloud Outage in Europe
Data Center Knowledge
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform is experiencing a significant service outage in western Europe, the company said this morning. Azure compute services are largely unavailable for customers in the region. Microsoft services for West ...

Google Details Its 1 Gigabit Fiber Network In Kansas City, Will Come With TV ...
TechCrunch
That's about 100 times faster than most current residential broadband connections in the U.S. There will be no monthly caps or overage charges. Google Fiber will also come with 1 terabyte ofcloud storage and HD TV service. Users in Kansas City will have to ...

Dimension Data puffs up cloud partners
Register
In February, the company rolled out its converged hosting and cloud services from its Cloud Services division. Like Amazon Web Services, it spans the globe, but unlike AWS it comes in a white-label version. The white-label kit allows service providers to use ...

Cloud Analytics – Tapping the Value of Big Data
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
For many organizations, the answer is increasingly cloud storage. Like its name implies, cloud storage is a world-class storage infrastructure managed by a dedicated third party that provides virtually limitless managed capacity for any enterprise need.

Twitter outage makes three
GigaOM
GigaOM · Home · Apple · Cleantech · Cloud · Europe · Mobile · Video. Jul 26, 2012 - 9:00AM PT. Twitter users endured second major outage this summer. By Barb Darrow · 3 Comments · Tweet · Email This. Google Chat and Windows Azure outages are one ...

GigaOM

Decommissioning Legacy to Drive Real Clouds, in the Fast Lane
SYS-CON Media (press release)
We can probably all agree that the cloud computing service-based model of application delivery has received more than its fair share of hype, over-embellished hyperbole and hyper-cross-talk in the last few years. Surely now then we have come to a new ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Report: Cloud Driving Multidimensional Channels
Channelnomics (blog)
With each passing year, experience is bringing businesses closer to moving mission-critical infrastructure, applications and data to cloud services and virtualized environments. Cloud computing is already big business and only getting bigger. It's stratifying ...

Integrated Systems and Enterprise Cloud Adoption
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Why is it that cloud computing is maturing but adoption is lagging? This transformational approach has huge potential but compared to the buzz surrounding it, enterprises are just taking baby steps towards widespread adoption. When invited by IBM to do a ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Flurry gets into cloud services with AppCloud, powered by Trestle ...
By Devindra Hardawar
Mobile app analytics and advertising company Flurry is embarking on new territory today with the launch of the Flurry AppCloud, a collection of cloud services that developers can easily implement in their apps.
VentureBeat

Cloud Computing Explained | LiveHelpNow Blog
By Kathryn
“Cloud computing.” Sounds mysterious, abstract, shapeless. Looking at those words, there's no way of knowing exactly what the term means. Regardless, I can almost guarantee you're using it.Cloud computing refers to storing and sharing data on a third party server — accessible from the internet — instead of your in-house hard drive. Not tied to a specific location, this data can be ...Another bonus: cloud services are completely scalable. Two services worth looking into are Microsoft ...
LiveHelpNow Blog

UK Host Six Degrees Acquires Fourth Cloud Host This Year with ...
By Nicole Henderson
UK web hosting provider Six Degrees announced on Thursday that it has acquired cloud hosting provider Cloud Computing Centre. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed in the press release. In addition to the acquisition, Six ...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

Cloud Storage: Addressing Common Concerns
By GetCloudServices
The two biggest concerns about cloud storage are reliability and security. Know how to address both. ... Follow what's happening at Get Cloud Services. Home; Blog. ← Using A Virtual Machine For Your IT Services ...
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More from Information Week: Cloud Storage | Flash Memory Summit
By LeeStein
Today, we'll take a look at applications driving cloud storage. Note that ... Covering a variety of SSD implementations in Cloud Computing and Storage, The Enterprise Applications Track, part of the Flash Memory Summit (Aug. 22-23) at the ...
Flash Memory Summit

Will Hiring for the Cloud Ever Stop? – Jobs. Trends. Insight.
By Abby Lombardi
It seems that there is no end in sight for cloud computing hiring demand. In June ... In fact, cloud computing jobs remain online for 44 days, meaning that it is likely that Recruiters will spend more than 6 weeks on average filling these positions.
Jobs. Trends. Insight.

Cloud Computing Is Changing Business Models
By admin
A shift to cloud computing, the proliferation of mobile devices, a sharp increase in online transactions, a tsunami of Big Data – each of these factors is a domino in a chain that is mapping new patterns for the government IT business.
Envision Gov IT

The cloud now has a silver lining – KYOCERA Cloud Connect ...
By kyocerasocialmedia
Cloud computing and cloud storage are becoming mainstream in today's business environment, as customers want to store and access data from anywhere at any time. Here we talk with Kyocera's Product Marketing Manager, George Kharoufeh , about how the cloud works and ... “Evernote is among the world's fastest growing cloud services with over 34 million users today. The application is a tool for users to “Remember Everything” including captured memos, photos and web ...
Kyocera Document Solutions Australasia

FFIEC cloud computing risks document: Where's the beef? - Security ...
By msavage
It seems the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council could have done a little better with its cloud computing advisory. Earlier this month, the FFIEC issued a statement on outsourced cloud computing. The resource document outlines ...
Security Bytes

Still not quite ready for the cloud? | 1099News
By Angela
We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it turns out that organizations that have not yet embraced some sort of cloud computing are already falling behind in their technology and communication. North Bridge's 2012 Cloud Computing Survey ...
1099 News (Powered By Convey)

How the cloud has changed the business world | memeburn
By Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter
According to Eric Knorr and Galen Gruman at InfoWorld, cloud computing refers to “virtual servers available over the Internet.” Not really the nebulous definition one envisions, but as cloud computing is in its earliest stages, the actual ...
memeburn

threats- Trend Cloud Security Blog – Cloud Computing Experts
In light of the introduction yesterday of the seminal Cyber Security Act and the Presidents OP-Ed in the WSJ: Taking the Cyberthreat Seriously. It is time we learn ...
cloud.trendmicro.com/tag/threats/

Cloud Computing for Architects: DC – September 27-28, 2012 ...
The Cloud Computing for Architects course an intensive, two day “fire hose” of information that prepares you to leverage the Cloud to achieve real business ...
www.zapthink.com/.../cloud-computing-for-architects-dc-sept-...

Hybrid Cloud Storage
Hybrid cloud storage incorporates the use of both on premises resources as well ... Home ·Cloud Servers · Cloud Services · Cloud Computing · Company · Blog ...
www.getcloudservices.com/blog/hybrid-cloud-storage

HP Blogs - Review: Cloud Computing: Beyond the Hype - The HP ...
Late last year I was asked to provide some inputs to Paul McFedries, as he wrote a book oncloud computing. That was my first interaction with Paul.
h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Cloud-Source-Blog/.../117799

BRIC IT Market, Cloud Computing Market in India & Augmented ...
B. Cloud Computing Market in India 2011-2015 This research forecasts the Cloud Computingmarket in India to grow at a CAGR of 54.5% over the period ...
www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2012/07/18/6444909.htm

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5 tips for surviving a cloud outage

5 tips for surviving a cloud outage
ITworld.com
Amazon Web Services itself experienced a much publicized four-day service disruption last April, another outage in August and it had plenty of company from other cloud service companies last year. Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform in February ... 

Cloud services and search warrants: When are users notified?
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais Most cloud-service privacy policies address how they deal with your personal information and data about your usage, but less clear is whether they would tell you when and if law enforcement sought access to your files residing on ...

Cloud Storage Privacy - What's Really At Stake
ReadWriteWeb
By Antone Gonsalves / April 27, 2012 10:39 AM / View Comments The launch of Google Drive this week brings to the forefront the issue of privacy and the use of cloud storage services. It's not that Google's privacy policies are significantly better or ...

ReadWriteWeb

How to Choose Between Cloud Storage Services like Google Drive and Dropbox
TIME
By Jared Newman | @OneJaredNewman | April 27, 2012 | + Cloud storage is in the spotlight this week with the launch of Google Drive and the relaunch of Microsoft's Skydrive. Along with competitors such as Dropbox and SugarSync, you've now got lots of ...

TIME

Huawei: Touch-free Smartphones and Infinite Cloud Storage Are on the Way
PCWorld
But the firm has been ambitiously expanding into both the consumer and enterprise sides of the technology business, aiming to provide products including Huawei branded smartphones, tablets along with servers and cloud computing offerings.

Cloud computing is like the 'Wild West'
Minneapolis Star Tribune
We talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are terrestrial. What's more up in the air are the laws that govern who can access your stuff and how.

Cloud Storage: 5 Alternatives, What's in It for You?
TechSpot
By Jose Vilches on April 27, 2012 It's cloud storage week, with Dropbox rolling out an update that improves how its users can share things, Microsoft's SkyDrive getting dedicated desktop apps and a revamped feature set, and Google Drive finally making ...

Google Drive for Android: Quality Cloud Storage, with a Few Caveats
CIO (blog)
Google this week unveiled its long-rumored Google Drive cloud-storage service along with an associated Android app. CIO.com blogger James A. Martin says it was worth the wait, especially if you're a Google Docs fan. Earlier this week, Microsoft made ...

CIO (blog)

Privacy Policy Is Not Main Risk Issue with Cloud Storage
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: Three days out from the grand opening of Google Drive, the search giant's new cloud storage service, and the predictable media ruckus over privacy concerns has begun to die down, at least a bit. One of the more interesting news bits, ...

Cloud storage: a pricing and feature guide for consumers
Ars Technica
By Casey Johnston | Published April 26, 2012 4:52 PM Cloud storage services are cropping up left and right, all enticing their customers with a few gigabytes of storage that sync seemingly anywhere, with any device. We've collected some details on the ...

How does Google Drive stack up against other cloud storage services?
Cool Mom Tech
It works in a nearly identical manner as other cloud services, where you download a program to your computer, then create a central folder for all your documents, files, and photos that you want to access from other devices, or to share.

Google Drive Problem Is a Public Cloud Problem, Says Privacy Expert
PCWorld
Nilay Patel, writing a comparison of cloud storage services in The Verge, says that while Google's terminology may be "a little off-putting," it is actually a bit more restrictive than some others. For example, he notes that Dropbox's terms of service ...

Google Drives Recent Flurry of Cloud Services
Law.com
By Evan KoblentzContactAll Articles Cloud services became somewhat more accessible to legal professionals this week, as technology giants and niche players alike introduced new supporting products. Meanwhile, experts continue to note that while putting ...

Cloud Storage Options for Linux Users: Now's the Time
OStatic (blog)
by Sam Dean - Apr. 27, 2012Comments (0) One of the biggest stories of this week was Google's announcement of its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage solution. You can sign up for 5GB of free storage from Google, use it efficiently with your Android ...

Cloud Computing: Fabled Google Drive Arrives, Creates Rights Panic
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Google finally introduced its long-trumpeted cloud-based Google Drive Tuesday hours before Apple released its Q2 results. Drive happens to compete with iCloud and Apple's results, which could have been, shall we say, edgy, ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

How To Get Customers Thinking About Hybrid Cloud Services
CRN
Here, George Watt, VP of Strategy for Cloud Computing at CA, shows why customers are often more comfortable working with solution providers using hybrid cloud services. —Jennifer Bosavage, editor For many companies planning to adopt or expand cloud ...

Cloud Storage: Five Alternatives Compared
TechSpot
By Jose Vilches I fail to see how Dropbox wins on easy of use? Both SkyDrive and Google Drive are as easy. Also navigating SkyDrive is faster. They both also let you create, edit, collabrate asynchronously, and share documents online while on the go.

TechSpot

2 more cloud myths busted: Lock-in and locked up
InfoWorld
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld The world of cloud computing grows like a weed in summer, and many assumptions are being made that just aren't correct. I've previously exposed four cloud myths you shouldn't believe. Now it's time for me to climb up on ...

Cloud Computing and the Consumer
ITProPortal
Even if consumers don't know what cloud computing is, they're probably using it. 'Lick' has a lot to answer for. In 1963 Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, 'Lick' to his friends, wrote a memo to his colleagues entitled 'Members and Affiliates of the ...

ITProPortal

Google Inc. (GOOG) Announces 'Google Drive' Cloud Storage Service
Touch Reviews
On Tuesday, Google Inc. released a more streamlined cloud experience for its users, the long-awaited Google Drive. The service provides users with 5GB of free storage, which is also integrated with Google Docs and many of Google's other online services ...

Google Drive Launch Delivers 10 Good Reasons to Try It Out
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: Google Drive will be the latest cloud storage service to hit the market in a few weeks, joining a large crowd of competitors. But it will provide a lot of good reasons for consumers and businesses to try it out.

Cloud Storage Provider Symform Gets $8M Investment, Waits For Strategic Investor
CRN
By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Symform, developer of technology to build a distributed storage cloud that backs up one user's data across multiple users' storage devices, has closed a new $8 million round of investment, and it is looking for a strategic ...

How Cloud Computing Can Help Your Small Business
BostInno (blog)
Large multinational firms have been excited about cloud computing for years. For them, cloud computing means freeing up technology resources, software, and hardware needed to build and run parts of their businesses. The move toward the cloud has ...

Cloud Computing: Judge Plans to Tell Jury Java APIs Are Copyrighted
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Judge Alsup - who really wishes Oracle and Google had settled so he wouldn't have to hear the Java trial - is proposing to decide whether APIs are copyrightable himself and not have the jury wade into that legal brier patch.

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Google Drive Alternatives: 5 Cloud Storage Platforms To Host Your Files
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter: Subscribe to IBTimes's RSS feed Google's latest product announcement -- Google Drive -- has put the company in a better position to compete in the growing cloud storage market. But how does Google Drive stack up to other ...

International Business Times

Google, Microsoft, Apple: What's the best cloud service?
Mother Nature Network
comFri, Apr 27 2012 at 11:59 AM EST From Apple's iCloud to Microsoft's SkyDrive and all of Google's various services, cloud storage and applications are quickly becoming critical to consumers' mobile lives. Forget about lugging USB drives or emailing ...

Mother Nature Network

The Cloud Is Going to Be Huge: Winklevoss Twins
CNBC.com
Cloud computing is the next big thing, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, of Winklevoss Capital Partners, told CNBC on Squawk Box. "We think the cloud is going to be huge, it already is," Tyler said. The Winklevoss twins are widely known for their role in ...

Cloud Storage from Google – Google Drive
By Sufyan bin Uzayr
As with any other cloud storage service, Google Drive lets you store your data online, edit/modify it as per your needs and share it with others and/or collaborate while working. Drive itself looks like an enhanced cousin of Google Docs – just ...
Speckyboy Design Magazine

Polls: Do You Use “Cloud” Services? | Hypebeast
By Alex Maeland
The main catalysts to the success of Cloud computing trace back to the core desire for efficiency, peace of mind and convenience; as the ability to simply put things “in the cloud” and access them anywhere is quickly becoming an industry ...
Hypebeast

Jobs Migrate to the Cloud and Generate Employment | MetroFocus ...
By Doris Martinez
Cloud computing is projected to create 60000 jobs in New York in 2012 and a hackathon weekend lets developers play with cloud technology.
MetroFocus

TechSpot: Cloud Storage Services, Five Alternatives Compared ...
By Julio Franco
We've hand-picked some of the most established and consumer-friendly cloud storage services and took them for a spin to see how well they stack against each other.
Neowin

Cloud Storage Now Benefits the Royal Army! :: JustCloud News
By admin
A lot of people wondered quit where the phenomenon which is cloud storage would go next, and we know that it has now come to the armed forces as late last year the British Army gave $250 million to a … Continue Reading...
JustCloud News

Cloud Computing in Financial Services
Cloud computing is the latest tool/ or invention in today's world since the evolution of information and communication technology. It is the fifth generation of computing in the family of Mainframe, Personal Computer, Client-Server computing ...
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Google Drive for Android: Quality Cloud Storage, with a Few ...
By James A. Martin
Google this week unveiled its long-rumored Google Drive cloud-storage service along with an associated Android app. CIO.com blogger James A. Martin says it was worth the wait, especially if you're a Google Docs fan.
CIO Blogs

How big is Amazon Web Services? Bigger than a billion — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
Trying to determine just how big Amazon's cloud is — in terms of servers, in terms of instances, by any metric — has become a popular parlor game, as GigaOM reported last week. Last October, GigaOM's Derrick Harris, using numbers from ...
GigaOM

Google Launches 'Drive' Cloud Storage Service | RISMedia
By susanne
“At the heart of it, Google is about cloud computing — letting people live on the cloud and get things done on the cloud,” says Sundar Pichai, the Google executive who heads the company's Chrome browser and cloud apps efforts. ... But Pichai said Drive can differentiate itself from its competitors because it will leverage unique existing Google cloud services like its Goggles service — a image-recognition search feature that can recognize millions of well-known objects such as the ...
RISMedia

Government Cloud Services Firm CGS Names Former ServerVault ...
By Liam Eagle
Government IT and cloud services provider Clear Government Solutions Inc said this week that it had named hosting industry veteran and former ServerVault chief John Kraft its CEO, bringing on an expert in delivering hosted services to ... Earlier today, we ran a story on a report published by research and consulting firm MeriTalk on the US Federal market for cloud computing services, revealing that government agencies were seeing $5.5 billion in savings of a possible $12 billion in ...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

edd blog online: Cloud storage booming, but trouble brewing
By Jeffery Fehrman
A look into the ever evolving landscape of legal discovery to include but not limited to big data, cloud computing, data privacy, digital forensics, electronic discovery, social media, technology assisted review and proactive discovery ...
edd blog online

The Economics of Cloud Computing
Join us for the live webcast with Sprint, CSC, and ETS executives discussing the impact of cloud computing on their business models and bottom lines.
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Cloud storage: a pricing and feature guide for consumers
Cloud storage services are cropping up left and right, all enticing their customers with a few gigabytes of storage that sync seemingly anywhere, with any device.
arstechnica.com/.../cloud-storage-a-pricing-and-feature-guide-...

Plantronics Blogcentral | SMB Soundbites
A recently released study from Microsoft indicates cloud computing is high on ... surveyed in 16 countries expect to be paying for one or more cloud services.
blogcentral.plantronics.com/.../smbs-reaching-for-the-clouds-c...

How can you use Cloud Services to Extend your Data Center ...
Lots of companies have headed into the world of cloud computing and most of them without searching for the best options for their particular company. Analysts ...
www.hypeorripe.com/.../how-can-you-use-cloud-services-to-e...

Get 5GB of Free Cloud Storage With Google Drive [Updates]
Watch out Dropbox, Amazon Cloud and Microsoft SkyDrive! Google introduced today its free, 5GBcloud storage service, Google Drive. Available to anyone with ...
www.makeuseof.com/.../5gb-free-cloud-storage-google-drive-...

Law Firms And Cloud Computing - meshIP Blog
Cloud Computing & Hosted PBX News – Dallas, TX. Skip to content ... Cloud Computing Versus SaaS · Accenture Recomends Four Steps to Scale The Cloud → ...
meship.com/Blog/2012/04/.../law-firms-and-cloud-computing/

VMware Cloud Ecosystem Starts to Mature - Cloud Computing news ...
But as cloud computing evolves, the relationship between on premise clouds and public cloud services is going to become much tighter. It's unclear at this point ...
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