Here Come the Cloud Cartels

Here Come the Cloud Cartels
New York Times (blog)
The short version is that cloud computing will come on quicker than you think, it will be controlled by a very few companies that will fight for the right to own your data, and businesses need to think about what software they can write that will ...

New York Times (blog)

Cloud-Based Legal Management Platform Clio Raises $6 Million in Series B Funding
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Clio, the leader in cloud-based management tools for the legal industry, announced today at LegalTech New York that it has raised $6 million in its Series B round of financing. The funding was led by Acton Capital Partners, a Munich-based growth equity ...

CA, VCE Private Cloud Package to Go Toe-to-Toe Against Exalogic, CloudBurst
ReadWriteWeb
By Scott M. Fulton, III / January 30, 2012 2:09 PM / 0 Comments This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about ...

Ubuntu Creator Warns Businesses to Be Wary of Cloud Lock-in
PCWorld
By Sophie Curtis, techworld.com Cloud infrastructure was always meant to be based on open standards, and organisations that choose to buy capacity from public clouds that only support one standard are creating problems for themselves in the future, ...

BlackBerry cloud services go live on Office 365
Register
After three months of beta testing, RIM has confirmed that its BlackBerry Business Cloud Services have gone live on Microsoft's Office 365. The free download allows wireless synching of RIM devices with Exchange Online, and includes BlackBerry Balance, ...

Microsoft Offers $60K in Azure Cloud Services to Startups, Launches BizSpark Plus
eWeek
Microsoft announces BizSpark Plus, an extension of its BizSpark program, and teams with startup accelerator TechStars to offer $60000 in cloud computing services to startups. Microsoft announced both its new BizSpark Plus, an extension to its BizSpark ...

Need More Storage? Reach for the Cloud
PCWorld
Another solution is to embrace the cloud and store your data online where the only limitation to your storage capacity is how much money you want to spend. There are many benefits that make cloudstorage an appealing option.

PGi CEO Takes 2011 Crunchies Awards Ceremony into the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Boland T. Jones, founder, chairman and CEO of PGi /quotes/zigman/364620/quotes/nls/pgi PGI -2.61% , a global leader in virtual meetings for 20 years, will present the Best Cloud Service Award tomorrow ...

Before jumping into cloud, learn from the SOA experience
ZDNet (blog)
By Joe McKendrick | January 30, 2012, 3:00am PST Summary: Companies need to look at service-oriented approaches — and what has been learned over the past decade — before taking on a potentially entangling and silo-creating cloud engagements.

Year of the cloud? Not until it can shield world's Mitnicks
Register
So you wouldn't really expect any of the much-vaunted, but still relatively fledgling, cloud service providers to be getting in on any Mitnick action, considering the difficulties of protecting him from the legions of itchy-fingered hackers just ...

LawLoop.com Expands the Cloud to Offer a Complete Solution for Lawyers
MarketWatch (press release)
LawLoop.com ), the complete cloud computing solution for lawyers, today announced its official company launch at LegalTech 2012 in New York. LawLoop.com provides a cloud-based solution that reinvents the way law firms of all sizes can securely and ...

MegaUpload Debacle: Worse-Case Scenario For Cloud Storage Users
Hot Hardware
One of the risks when you store your data in the cloud is that you're trusting a third party with your precious (or in some cases, pirated) files. Of course, you're gambling with your data no matter where it's stored; even if you have your own ...

More Business Intelligence Moving to the Cloud: Survey
Forbes
Time for the cloud, a new survey out of Gartner finds. More than one out four of the 1364 organizations surveyed (27%), in fact, already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI)...

Forbes

IconCMO Cloud-Based Church Software Wins Customer Approval
MarketWatch (press release)
The results told us that, other than customer service, being cloud-based was the number one factor in churches being satisfied with their software." Customer service that is fast, accurate, and detailed with phone and email support.

Microsoft Win Server to get pushed off OpenStack Linux cloud?
Register
By Gavin Clarke • Get more from this author Windows servers could face problems running cloudsbuilt on OpenStack if the Linux-for-the-cloud project follows the suggestion of one lead developer. Code for Microsoft's Hyper-V should be removed from the ...

Cloud procurement gets €10m investment from EC
The Guardian
The European Commission is to establish the European Cloud Partnership, which aims to bring together public sector organisations and the IT industry to work on commons requirements for cloudprocurement, said Neelie Kroes, the vice-president of the EC ...

Select Testers Get First Office 15 Preview, New Cloud Services Emphasized
ReadWriteWeb
In a carefully crafted blog post this morning, the company's Corporate Vice President for Office, PJ Hough, listed four categories of distribution vehicles for Office-branded services, with #1 on that list being "cloud services.

New SOS Collaborate Private Cloud Delivers Secure, Enterprise-Wide Document ...
MarketWatch (press release)
EL SEGUNDO, CA, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- SOS Online Backup, the award-winning provider of cloud-based backup solutions, today announced the launch of SOS Collaborate Private Cloud. SOS Collaborate has been developed to provide secure, ...

Leading Cloud Thinkers to Government: Cloud Is Imperative for Better ...
MarketWatch (press release)
TechAmerica Foundation's State & Local Government Cloud Commission Offers Best Practices for Adopting Cloud Computing by States and Localities -- Will Announce Findings at Silicon Valley; Event on February 16, 2012 -- Featuring California Lt. Governor ...

Megaupload Equals Mega Fail for Cloud Computing
PC Magazine
By John C. Dvorak The shut down of Megaupload by the US government is not being perceived for what it is: a mega failure for cloud computing. The operation, which had 50 million users, was a lot more than a pirate operation.

Wave Launches Cloud-Based Encryption Service
Dark Reading
Notably, WES is the only Cloud-based service for managing Opal self-encrypting drives (SEDs), which offer security and performance benefits over other forms of encryption. The service has earned favorable marks from one of its first customers.

Vision Computer Solutions to Moderate Cloud Services Roundtable at Automation ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NORTHVILLE, MI, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Peter Marsack of Vision Computer Solutions, a leading Michigan technology consulting company, will moderate a roundtable panel discussion on cloud hosting, cloud integration and technology support ...

Yorktel Announces Comprehensive Cloud Video Services Enabling 'Any to Any ...
MarketWatch (press release)
EATONTOWN, NJ, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Yorktel, the leading video managed services provider, today introduced the new Video Cloud Connect(TM) Suite, including Video CloudConnect(TM) and Video Cloud Connect+(TM) cloud-based video ...

Amazon Beefs Up AWS Premium Cloud Support
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon has added two new options to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premium Support play for cloud customers, offering third-party software support and a trusted advisor option. The additions are an update on AWS Premium Support, ...

Oracle Adds RightNow to Cloud Wars Arsenal
E-Commerce Times
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) has closed on its US$1.5 billion acquisition of RightNow, developer of acloud-based customer self-service application. Oracle announced the deal in October 2011. For Oracle, the deal makes eminent sense: It fills in a missing gap ...

Box's Aaron "Dotnet" Levie On Kim Dotcom, Megaupload, And The New "Cloud ...
Fast Company
Sure, the two run cloud-storage companies: Levie, enterprise service Box.net, and Dotcom, Megaupload, the file-sharing site Federal prosecutors shut down earlier this month on charges related to accusations of piracy. And sure, the pair own German ...

Fast Company

Lawloop.com takes law firm management to cloud — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
The co-founders of L.A. law firm Zuber & Tailleau got fed up with pricey, bulky, inefficient practice management software: So they built their own cloud-based offering. They say Lawloop.com brings document management, time-and-billing, ...
GigaOM

HP Cloud Services Goes Into Beta - ReadWriteCloud
By David Strom
HP began its OpenStack-based Cloud Services this month, and there is a lot of promise but not much in the way of actual implementation yet. HP intends its ...
ReadWriteCloud

Adam Young's Web Log » Cloud Narrative

By Adam Young
Cloud Narrative. Identity Management (IdM) needs change as an organization grows in size. For an example, I'll describe a fictional company, and take it from the smallest to largest stages. While, to some degree, the industry of this firm really ...
Adam Young's Web Log

Chilly Storms Brewing in the Cloud Over Megaupload Takedown ...
By Kit Dotson
However, the dark lining in the cloud right now is that Megaupload both claims and appears to have followed all the rules that should have given them an umbrella under the safe harbor provisions. In fact, according to legal analysis solicited of ...
SiliconANGLE

Creating software for the cloud, Wellington company gets all ...
By sticknz
Tucked away on Wellington's waterfront is an unassuming kiwi company bringing in the next generation of design and creation of cloud computing software. Many may never have heard of Core Technology and their software Aviarc™ – but ...
sticK - science, technology,...

Tilera launches two new speedy cloud processors, names new CEO ...
By Dean Takahashi
Tilera is announcing today it has launched new cloud computing processors with either 16 or 36 computing brains, or cores. The company is also announcing that its founding chief executive, Devesh Garg, has rejoined the company as CEO.
VentureBeat

Wow…my cloud went up in smoke! Now what? | Thoughts on Cloud
By Joydipto Banerjee
The problem is compounded if multiple cloud service providers are involved – a scenario where onecloud provider acts as a customer front end, and in-turn “outsources” the cloud services to other service providers. In such a chained service ...
Thoughts on Cloud

PEER1 uses Standing Cloud for cloud infrastructure service ...
By Phil Shih
Summary: PEER1's new cloud division Zunicore partnered with Standing Cloud to help make it easier to adopt cloud infrastructure and deploy commonly used.
Structure Research

Perfectly secure cloud computing possible thanks to quantum physics
Researchers have carried out they say is the first demonstration of blind quantum computing, in which a quantum computation was carried out with...
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

Norbulk Shipping move to Google Apps with Cloud Technology ...
By Rosie Kaye
Norbulk Shipping is a successful independent ship management company with six offices spread across the globe. Over three decades Norbulk Shipping Group have.
Cloud Technology Solutions

Pixar's Cloud Computing Reignites the Debate: Art Versus ...
By Jeff Norman
Pixar's Cloud Computing Reignites the Debate: Art Versus Commerce Pioneer Pixar continues to push the envelope. The legendary animation studio recently.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

TechStars, Microsoft offering startups $60K in Windows Azure cloud ...
By Allan Maurer
TechStars, Microsoft offering startups $60K in Windows Azure cloud services.
TechJournal South

Google names Cloud Sherpas “Google Enterprise 2011 Partner of ...
By Jordan Kahn
“The Partner of the Year award from Google is important because it validates the role of the channel in helping businesses succeed in the cloud. We hear repeatedly from clients that they need the services of Google experts to fully leverage ...
9to5Google

Mac App Store - PDFpen Cloud Access
Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about PDFpen Cloud Access on the Mac App Store. Download PDFpen Cloud Access for [ ...
itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdfpen-cloud.../id494133864?mt=12

Microsoft cloud service lets citizen developers crunch big data
Microsoft focuses on data analytics and big data projects for cloud computing developers and citizen developers, mainstream end users building Web apps.
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../Microsoft-cloud-serv...

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U.S. Spy Agencies Look to Cloud-Computing Benefits

U.S. Spy Agencies Look to Cloud-Computing Benefits, Clapper Says
Bloomberg
US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said cloud computing will play a major role as the nation's spy agencies work to integrate computer and information systems to share more data securely. Cloud computing has “huge potential for ...

Cloud Foundry lets apps span cloud providers
GigaOm
If they're willing to utilize Cloud Foundry, the open source platform-as-a-service project launched by VMware in April 2011, developers can now run apps that move seamlessly between any infrastructure already running a Cloud Foundry-based service.

GigaOm

G-Cloud will lead to shorter contracts and IT 'bought like stationery'
The Guardian
The G-Cloud will usher in an era of public ICT contracts that are measured in months, rather than years, according to Liam Maxwell, the Cabinet Office's director of ICT futures. The G-Cloud could see government procurement move away from its ...

EU Seeks Joint National Cloud-Computing Purchases for Growth
BusinessWeek
26 (Bloomberg) -- The European Commission aims to support the region's cloud-computing industry by encouraging governments to jointly buy software and computing resources on the Web, Digital Affairs Commissioner Neelie Kroes said.

Cloud Credential Council Experiences Global Growth and Success After First Year
MarketWatch (press release)
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, Jan 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The CloudCredential Council, launched in 2011, has gained traction as the respected international body driving standards for the growing cloud industry. With the significant increase ...

Cloud Computing Both More Agile and Less Expensive
Network World
I'm reminded of this when I listen to a debate common to cloud computing discussions. One person will assert that cloud computing is less expensive than the traditional IT infrastructure operations; a second person then says "cost isn't really the ...

Amazon launches cloud storage for on-premise apps
DatacenterDynamics
Amazon Web Services, the public-cloud business of Amazon.com, has launched an enterprise cloud storage service that can be used by companies' on-premise applications. The AWS Storage Gateway stores data onsite but replicates it to Amazon's cloud ...

DatacenterDynamics

Nexica Powers Its Cloud Computing Service with EMC VNX Unified Storage
MarketWatch (press release)
MADRID, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- EMC Corporation /quotes/zigman/225273/quotes/nls/emc EMC -0.19% today announced that Nexica, a Spanish provider of ICT infrastructure managed services including cloud computing and critical application ...

VMware Delivers New vCenter OPs Suite for Public, Private Cloud Deployments
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: VMware has launched a new version of vCenter Ops Suite, which makes it easier for IT managers to put together the server and network infrastructure for private and public cloudservice deployments. VMware's latest stab at accelerating ...

cloud computing to beat crooks
The Australian
As a result, Diebold is working on a machine that uses so-called cloud computing to store information remotely, reducing the risk of a costly data breach. NCR has introduced an ATM that identifies customers by reading vein patterns in their hands.

Vnetrix Delivers Cloud Services to Global Businesses in Hours Using CA ...
Sacramento Bee
26, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that Vnetrix, a UK-based managed service provider (MSP), has reduced the launch time for hosted cloud services from weeks to hours using CA AppLogic® software and is helping ...

Badgeville Launches Enterprise Cloud Connector Program
MarketWatch (press release)
26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Badgeville®, the gold standard for gamification and the world's only Behavior Platform(TM), today announced the launch of Badgeville's Enterprise CloudConnectors, a suite of SaaS connectors that provide ...

Orange Confirms Leadership in French Cloud Computing Market with over 3600 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Over 3600 customers have already chosen Orange Business Services cloud computing solutions. This includes 110 for the Flexible Computing Express Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offer, introduced in October 2011, and over 2500 small business ...

VAR Mobilizes Army Private Cloud
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN MicroTech, based in Vienna, Va., has been awarded the first cloudcontract for the Army, a deal in which the cloud provider will maintain and support mobile data centers for the Army Private Cloud Mobile Program.

Hedge Fund Cloud Security: Let's Get Physical (and Virtual Too)
HedgeCo.net (blog)
The transition to cloud computing services is at a high in the hedge fund industry and will continue to increase throughout 2012 and beyond. Efficiencies, scalability and cost-savings are three of the most commonly listed benefits of moving to the ...

How to Document Cloud Design Decisions
Network World
By David Taber, CIO When developing and integrating cloud systems, the public interfaces and external "contracts" among services mean that design and architecture can evolve rapidly and in parallel. But when they do and the teams are not in the same ...

The Cloud Will Transform Every Company in Every Sector
E-Commerce Times
By Jeff Kagan Industry after industry is dipping its toes in this new cloud water. Just like the Web in the 1990s, companies and customers are trying things and getting comfortable with the opportunities and the challenges. Right now, it's the blind ...

EXFO Brings Unmatched Cloud and Mobile Backhaul Service Reliability with ...
Sacramento Bee
As part of its unique, ITU-T-compliant EtherSAM (Y.1564) Ethernet service activation methodology, which includes simultaneous bidirectional testing capabilities, these new functionalities bring unprecedented SLA validation for Carrier Ethernet cloud, ...

ServiceMesh Expands Enterprise Hybrid Clouds With Fujitsu
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA MONICA, CA, Jan 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ServiceMesh, provider of the market-leading enterprise cloud platform for Global 2000 companies, today announced support for Fujitsu's Global Cloud Platform, giving ServiceMesh customers access ...

Cloud Peak Energy Inc. Annnounces Proven and Probable Reserves as of December ...
MarketWatch (press release)
GILLETTE, Wyo., Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloud Peak Energy Inc. /quotes/zigman/521316/quotes/nls/cld CLD +0.94% , one of the largest US coal producers and the only pure-play Powder River Basin (PRB) coal company, announced a substantial increase ...

GSA's first Cloud-based physical access system implemented at federal building ...
Government Security News
BridgePoint utilized the Neal Smith Federal Building's existing infrastructure to install the TrustAlert PACS, while using a Cloud-based protocol. This eliminated the need for locally-based IT server and system resources. The new Physical Access System ...

Cloud Computing vs. Custom Integration
Datamation
Despite the move toward cloud computing, the bulk of data integration work continues to be done on-premise. As many IT managers will tell you, data integration continues to be a major headache for IT. Tech blogger Loraine Lawson talks to a vendor about ...

HP 'Master The Cloud' Event (Montreal) – Part 1
CloudTweaks News
It's a cold, bright day in Montreal, Quebec, where HP has chosen to present their day long Master the Cloud event this 26th of January, 2012. Le Palais de Congrés, or Convention Centre, is packed with Canadian HP customers, vendors, press, bloggers,...

CloudTweaks News

Segmetrix Expounds on Kognitio at Cloud Expo Europe
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In-memory analytics pioneer Kognitio today announced that Segmetrix, a key client in KognitioCloud, will present at Cloud Expo Europe in London. Amr Hassan, CEO of Segmetrix and Co-founder of Match2Lists.com, will present on Thursday 26 January in the ...

Online Tech to Speak About Transitioning to Cloud Computing at IMPACT 2012 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Online Tech announced today that Mike Klein, Online Tech's President, has been selected to be on this year's IMPACT Conference panel discussion entitled "A Day in the Clouds: Is Your Future Cloudy?

EOIR Technologies Opens Cloud Video Analytics Center of Excellence
MarketWatch (press release)
26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- EOIR Technologies, lnc. of Fredericksburg, VA announced the opening of its new Cloud Video Analytics Center of Excellence in Springfield, VA. The new office will support multiple Department of Defense (DoD) and ...

Arkadin Elevates Global Conferencing Capabilities With New Cloud Collaboration ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, Jan 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Arkadin, a leading provider of collaboration-as-a-service solutions, today announced the launch of the Arkadin Cloud Collaboration Platform. The platform is architected on an innovative, private global-IP ...

Multi-Language, Multi-Framework, what about Multi-Cloud? | Blog
By Dave McCrory
Limiting yourself to a single cloud instance restricts your flexibility now and in the future. You may want to move from private to public cloud, or vice versa. You may want to change from one publiccloud provider to another or maybe you are ...
Blog

Commission pledges €10m to cloud partnership | Cloud | ZDNet UK
By feedback@zdnet.co.uk (Editors)
The European Commission will put €10m into the European Cloud Partnership, which will facilitate the joint procurement of cloud products and.
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SAP on the Cloud » SAP's take on European Cloud Partnership
By Sven Denecken
We very much welcome the initiative of the EU Vice President in Davos to establish an EuropeanCloud Partnership, bringing governments and industries together to advance cloud computing in Europe. We also fully support the initial focus of ...
SAP on the Cloud

Cloud Assault: a Sledgehammer for Your APIs
By Adam DuVander
Cloud Assault There's a difference between knowing and hoping your API can handle any traffic you send to it. The premise behind the new performance testing service Cloud Assault is that testing scale should be part of development.
ProgrammableWeb

OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing | Ubuntu Cloud ...
By jorge
QA Lab to start publishing to the public Jenkins QA … Read more from the original source: OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing | Ubuntu Cloud … This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged james-page, jenkins, jobs, ...
Ubuntu Cloud Portal

With Cloud, The PaaSibilities Are Endless… | Rational Survivability
By beaker
I read a very interesting article from ZDNet UK this morning titled Amazon Cuts Off Stack at the PaaS The gist of the article is that according to Werner.
Rational Survivability

Cloud Commerce: Tailor Your Commerce Strategy via Cloud ...
By Smarter Commerce
By Wes Simonds Someone recently asked me how it was possible that cloud computing began to take off at just about the same time the economy got cold -- circa.
Smarter Commerce

Audio: 3M's Cloud Library Discussed on Minnesota Public Radio ...
By Gary D. Price
Audio: 3M's Cloud Library Discussed on Minnesota Public Radio. Posted on January 26, 2012 by Gary D. Price. From a Text Summary: Millions of Americans now own Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers. And libraries are taking notice, ...
INFOdocket

Organizations look to the cloud for BI says Gartner | Bime - SaaS ...
By jonathan
Of 1364 IT managers in the Gartner survey almost a third (27%) already utilise or plan to improve their BI options with cloud based solutions. A further 17% said they already have or plan to completely overhaul their current BI functions and ...
Bime - SaaS Business Intelligence...

Why The Regulated Cloud Is More Secure Than You Think | Veeva ...
By Jen Goldsmith
Ask life sciences companies what questions they have about moving their content to the cloud and you will likely find at least one “security” related question. Indeed, this is an important topic, and it is vital that organizations address content ...
Veeva Systems

Creating a Private Cloud « Programming Gems (on GemStone)
By James Foster
In the previous post, I described how to use the vmc command-line tools to deploy a Ruby application to VMware's cloud. In this post I will describe the steps I took to create and use a private cloud(based on the instructions found on github).
Programming Gems (on GemStone)

Cloud Avengers Free the Server Room
What will you do when your server needs outgrow your server room? Before you start knocking out wall.
www.rackspace.com/.../cloud-avengers-free-the-server-room/

HPC in the Cloud: Hybrid Cloud Ready for Takeoff in 2012
Hybrid cloud computing, which strategically combines the best of on-premise and hosted solutions, is not without challenges; however, when done right, it's a ...
www.hpcinthecloud.com/.../hybrid_cloud_ready_for_takeoff_...

Cloud Communications
From cloud computing to cloud storage to hybrid cloud offerings, one could certainly argue thatcloud communications are finally here to stay. Cloud ...
cloud-communications.tmcnet.com/

Introducing Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics” from SQL Azure ...
Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics” is a new .NET® programming framework tailored towards performing numerically-intensive computations on large ...
oakleafblog.blogspot.com/.../introducing-microsoft-codename...

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Cloud Platform Stress Tests Mobile Apps

Cloud Platform Stress Tests Mobile Apps
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Performance testing company SOASTA is extending its cloudtesting platform to mobile devices. On Monday, the Mountain View. Calif.-based company plans to update its CloudTest Platform to enable automated mobile ...

Tech Data's StreamOne Simplifies Cloud Licensing for IT Pros
eWeek
Tech Data is looking to make it easier for IT administrators and channel partners to overcome the complexity of end-user license agreement when it comes to buying technology, especially for business interested implementing cloud services.

Cloud gaming on the iPad with OnLive
gigaom
OnLive's game service is already available for Android devices, but there's an iOS version in the works. Here's a hands on demo with the beta client on an iPad, along with the OnLive wireless controller, which I think brings a much better experience ...

IBM, Microsoft tout fat cloud progress, but proof is thin
GigaOm
23, 2012, 11:41am PT No Comments To hear IBM and Microsoft tell it, their respective cloud strategies are coming up rosy. But given the lack of real numbers, it's hard to tell if that is the case. These two incumbent tech giants, which both hosted ...

GigaOm

Will the Government Sabotage the Cloud?
DailyFinance
A day later, the swift hammer of American justice fell hard on Megaupload.com, a New Zealand-based and Hong-Kong-registered cloud hosting site. Its crime: piracy -- $500 million worth. The kingpin-style takedown confiscated Megaupload's hardware while ...

Google Product Purge Kills Exchange Cloud Backup
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google's ongoing axing of dead weight from its product portfolio has claimed a host of new victims, chiefly a cloud-based backup offering for Microsoft Exchange. "As we head into 2012, we've been sticking to some old resolutions ...

States Choose Cloud-based Ballots for Voters Around the Globe
Sacramento Bee
"Because of its scalability, reliability and low cost, the Windows Azure cloud solution makes sense. Elections officials are among the first to realize the benefits of cloud computing for their unique seasonal situations.

OpenText Widens Cloud Support
NewsFactor Network
Waterloo, ON, January 23, 2012 -- OpenText today announced the expansion of its global alliance agreement with Microsoft Corp. to include wider support for Microsoft cloud computing initiatives. As part of the agreement, OpenText's newly formed ...

LabTech Cloud Brings Subscription-Based RMM to MSPs
ChannelPro-SMB
by ChannelPro-SMB January 23, 2012 04:13 PM LabTech, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) provider for MSPs, is now offering LabTech Cloud, cloud-based Software-as-a-Service option for MSPs. LabTech Cloud allows IT service providers to offer remote ...

Strategy Analytics: Global Cloud Services Market Revenues are Expected to Hit ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BOSTON, Jan 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloud products and services were in abundance at International CES 2012, due to the increasing demand for easy to use, flexible, and high availability solutions for accessing information.

Price Of The Cloud Still Out Of Reach For Small Businesses
Forbes
The Cloud?” That way I can keep all of my company's software databases, have someone else host it for me, and only pay a monthly fee for the server I put it on, right?” I've been asked that question by no less than thirty of my small business clients...

Forbes

iPerceptions Offers the First Concept Clouds for 'Voice of Customer' Feedback
MarketWatch (press release)
iPerceptions' Concept Clouds create more accurate and actionable aggregations of the open-ended feedback compared to traditional Word Clouds. "Concept clouds are an improvement over simple Word Clouds, which rely on basic term frequency counts," said ...

Polycom Cloud Strategy Drives Video-as-a-Service
Channel Insider
Polycom is rolling out RealPresence Cloud, a wholesale video-as-a-service offering designed to enable service providers to enter the VaaS business without building out their own hosted solution. Polycom is looking to drive video-as-a-service (VaaS) ...

Faye Business Systems Group Partners with Intacct to Add Cloud Financial ...
MarketWatch (press release)
23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Intacct, a leading provider of cloud financial management and accounting software, today announced that Faye Business Systems Group (FBSG), a top technology consulting firm in Southern California, has added Intacct ...

Ultimate Software Commemorates 10 Years of Delivering HCM Cloud Solutions with ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Ultimate Software launched its first cloud solution for human capital management (HCM) in Spring 2002, and today the company serves more than 2300 customers, representing more than seven million people, in its multi-tenant SaaS environment.

Meraki Ups The Cloud-Based Networking Ante
NetworkComputing.com
As the network edge gets redefined and the cloud makes its presence felt in LAN and WLAN spaces, announcements like Meraki's latest update are getting to be more commonplace, and exciting. With a number of interesting product updates to share, ...

Symplified Vice President to Explain how to Secure the Cloud using Identities ...
MarketWatch (press release)
WHO: Jay Wallingford is vice president of engineering for Symplified, the Cloud Identity Company. He has spent more than 20 years developing internet and cloud based technology solutions. Mr. Wallingford has held technical management positions at ...

This Is The Reason Cloud Computing Hasn't Taken Off Yet
Business Insider
Certainly, the business world at large is interested in the benefits of the cloud, but enterprises have been very slow to adopt a key element of cloud computing: platform-as-a-service or PaaS. So what? For the business world to fully embrace the cloud, ...

Business Insider

ScienceLogic to Attend Cloud Expo Europe 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Jan 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cloud Expo Europe (booth #565) -- ScienceLogic(TM) Inc. CTO Antonio Piraino and EVP Richard Chart are scheduled to speak aboutcloud management during Cloud Expo Europe 2012, to be held at Olympia ...

Cloud Computing: RIM Replaces CEOs
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Research In Motion late Sunday named Thorsten Heins, 54, one of its co-COOs, president and chief executive, replacing co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in the hopes the move reverses the company's dramatic nosedive and calms irate investors ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing Survey Illustrates the Changing Attitudes of Small & Medium ...
PR Web (press release)
Business Web Hosting plans conducted a survey of over 500 businesses to find out if small and medium-sized businesses are adapting to cloud computing technology. The results showed how many of the respondents are using cloud computing, and for how long ...

Joyent Investment Boosts Telefónica's Cloud Capabilities
Billing World
Telefónica has made an investment in cloud services/technology provider Joyent, a partnership that gives the telco giant access to the latest technologies and software for the deployment of high-performance and cost-efficient cloud services.

Technology Experts Guy Kawasaki, Tiffani Bova and Marsha Collier to Deliver ...
MarketWatch (press release)
These hosting industry leaders will share their insider knowledge on the seismic shift in SMB IT purchasing, and their vision for how to capitalize and profit from the new cloud landscape. "I'm pleased to launch Parallels Summit 2012 with the ...

Why Cloud Computing is Confusing for Customers and Providers
The Complete Managed Services Resource
By Gary Kim “Cloud computing” is one of those “hyped” concepts the telecom industry runs into from time to time that is confusing both for customers and service providers alike. To make matters worse, suppliers often try to repackage existing services ...

Three ways that ogres are like clouds | Thoughts on Cloud
By Chris Dotson
Shrek tells Donkey that ogres and onions are alike because they both have layers. I'm certain that Donkey would have understood better if Shrek had compared himself to cloud computing, because according to the NIST definition of clouds, ...
Thoughts on Cloud

InfoQ: Cloud Foundry with Spring, Part Two: Services
By Ramnivas Laddad, Scott Andrews and Jennifer Hickey
Ramnivas Laddad, Scott Andrews and Jennifer Hickey talk about using services with Cloud Foundry: Auto-reconfiguration, Cloud Namespace, Profile Support, Java Configuration and External Service Access.
InfoQ Personalized Feed for Fergus Neff

Ex-NASA OpenStack engineers launch private cloud OS ...
By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Colin Neagle)
Piston Cloud Computing recently released the first private cloud operating system based on OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service framework that was first designed by a group of researchers at NASA.
Computerworld UK's News

Security Top Concern for Businesses Contemplating the Cloud ...
By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
Five Best Practices for Cloud Security Tips on how to better secure your cloud computing environment. Data security is one of the primary reasons that companies.
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Gunnar Peterson on Understanding Cloud Security Standards, part ...
By Jeffrey Goldberg
Moving applications to the Cloud puts many enterprises in an accustomed position, the technology and processes that their business depends on aren't under their sole control, but rather a mix of responsibilities. The move to the Cloud is not a ...
Blogs@intel

LabTech Software Introduces Managed Services Cloud Edition ...
By Joe Panettieri
LabTech Cloud Edition is cloud software for managed services providers (MSPs) and VARs to remotely manage customer PC networks.
MSPmentor

A Solution for Private Cloud Security Blueprint-Design Guide ...
By Nikosan
This is a blog dedicated to news and notes for Microsoft's Application Platform products and technologies.
MSDN Blogs

Office 365 and the future of Cloud | TechRepublic
By Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray talks about how hosted infrastructure is now within reach of even the smallest companies, and how it will evolve.
on TechRepublic

Why Business Students Should Have Their Heads in the Cloud ...
By Jesse L., Guest Blogger
Cloud computing has spent the last few years growing from an IT buzzword into a force that is changing the face of business. It is no longer acceptable for business leaders to remain ignorant of what the cloud is, nor of its potential benefits.
Graziadio Voice: Business Student Blog

On TOSCA and Cloud Standards. MyPOV
By Ben Kepes
Recently OASIS standards body started work on the proposed Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (or TOSCA) for short, standards specification. The standard aims to deliver on the long-heralded, but much ...
CloudAve

Securing virtual machines in the cloud | Thoughts on Cloud
As adoption of cloud increases, a number of new security challenges are introduced, ... In addition to the challenges introduced by cloud, there are challenges ...
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Cloud Computing Implementation on Healthcare | CloudTimes
KLAS recently conducted a survey of small clinics and hospitals and surprisingly found that 55% are already using cloud-based apps. It was from their storage, ...
cloudtimes.org/cloud-computing-implementation-on-healthcare/

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The Cloud is forked

The cloud is forked
ZDNet (blog)
By Phil Wainewright | January 22, 2012, 1:44pm PST Summary: Enterprises are adopting two types of cloud. One is less risky but inherently flawed. The other offers greater rewards but very few so far have succeeded with it. There's a huge variety of ...

Australians Hit By Cloud Storage Raids
SmartHouse
By David Richards & Computer Daily News | Monday | 23/01/2012 Hundreds of Australian consumers have been left without access to their files after a police raid on a cloud service provider who is accused of not policing the storage of copyrighted ...

Box's Next Frontier: Cloud Storage For The Federal Government
TechCrunch
Box ended the year with 77% of the Fortune 500 using the company's cloud storage offerings. Procter and Gamble marked one of Box's largest deployments for the year. While Box is still continuing to focus on cloud solutions for the enterprise in 2012, ...

Building Your Cloud? Remember Your Workers
CFOworld
In dispelling the cloud's myths, don't forget about the employees it affects (Part two). My post last week discussed the importance of long-term benefits related to productivity and cost when implementing cloud computing technologies. ...

CloudEnable computer server technology ensures secure scalable all device ...
The International News Magazine
In a series looking at developments in Internet technology, we investigated cloud hosting and its benefits. What is Cloud enterprise-level hosting? Cloud hosting is a system of new generation web servers that enable small and medium businesses to ...

Cloud services are vying for government business
TECH.BLORGE.com
by Susan Wilson While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, various businesses specializing in cloud services are going after the US government's business. Companies like Box and Amazon Web Services are looking ...

Appian Announces Record Success in 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
90 new-name customers selected the Appian BPM Suite and its Mobile BPM, Cloud BPM and Social BPM capabilities. This rapid customer acquisition drove a 219 percent increase in Appian license orders over 2010. Customer orders for Appian Cloud represented ...

Mobily launches new cloud server model
Trade Arabia
Saudi telecom operaator Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has announced the launch of its public 'CloudServer” infrastructure based on the On-demand, Self-service, Scalable and Measureable (OSSM) model. Mobily said with this launch it has become first operator ...

Can cloud unravel the data-sharing puzzle?
ZDNet UK
By Lori MacVittie, 22 January, 2012 12:00 People think the cloud can overcome the problems that have derailed big data-sharing efforts in the past. Those hopes may be misplaced, says Lori MacVittie. The term big data has come to mean big headaches for ...

ZDNet UK

2 hot cloud apps
Times of India
Of late, with cloud computing, this has also become the case with web services. Below are some utilities that will make your life simpler: We are well-versed with the concept of 'events' and 'responses' . When a phone rings, we pick it up; ...

Government Cloud Hubs – Shared Services Cloud Architecture
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
The previous blog talked about Municipalities beginning to move into a mode where they not only buy in Cloud services, but they also become a seller of them too. Research analyst IDC calls these 'Cloud Hubs' in new insights they are revealing about how ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

VRMesh V7.0 Announced for LiDAR Point Cloud Classification at ILMF 2012
Amerisurv
Please visit Booth 95 to learn about our cutting-edge point cloud classification and feature extraction technologies. This new release has significantly extended and enhanced the usability of VRMesh Survey module in the field of LiDAR data processing. ...

2012: year of the reseller as cloud broker
Reseller News
And now thanks to the cloud, he says, they can also offer enterprise-grade services like in no other time in the past. “When we look at the SMB, first of all the fact that we now have cloud offerings, we are actually giving SMBs the ability to punch ...

Don't let security misconceptions 'cloud' your judgement
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
What comes to mind when you think about cloud security? Do you think about application security or protecting corporate data? Perhaps you fear virus or phishing attacks? For the past several years, cloud security has been one of the biggest concerns ...

Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)

My-Ditto Cloud System From Dane-Elec
Brunei News, Brunei Headlines from Brunei fm
Cloud System is the unarguably the best way to store your files and information, which gives you the opportunity to access those files from anywhere you want. so now the company Dane-Elec has made the system much simpler with the My-Ditto System. ...

Release Candidate for System Center 2012 Key Building Block in Your Private ...
DABCC.com
System Center 2012 Release Candidate (RC) joins Hyper-V and Windows Server as key building blocks for Microsoft's private cloud strategy. ISVs are building out their cloud strategy by selling software for deployment to on premises or cloud customer ...

Punter Southall Group Selects SkyDox for Secure Cloud-Enabled File Sharing and ...
openPR (press release)
LONDON – SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, synchronization, storage and collaboration tools, has been selected by Punter Southall Group, one of the UK's leading actuarial, pensions and financial consulting organizations, ...

The Future of Google Apps for Business
Caribbean Media Vision
More and more businesses are moving to the cloud in search of better communication and collaboration tools and mobile access. Google Apps provides the most hassle free way of life when it comes to organizing business. The main advantages are the ...

InterDyn Artis Joins Intacct Business Partner Program
PR.com (press release)
InterDyn Artis partnered with Intacct to support growing demand from clients for a true cloudcomputing-based financial management, accounting and Services Resource Planning system. InterDyn Artis specializes in serving project-based businesses, ...

Editorial: DoD, other agencies, must embrace consolidation
Federal Times
Defense and Obama administration officials agree this $39 billion-a-year infrastructure is far bigger and costlier than necessary, and are pressing to consolidate data centers and use more cloudservices, among other steps. real progress will be ...

Symantec talks “intelligent” governance and buys cloud archiver LiveOffice
IDM.net.au (blog)
Meanwhile the company also announced the $US115 million acquisition of LiveOffice, a privately-heldcloud-based archiving service as well as plans for increased integration between its leading storage and eDiscovery offerings. ...

Contemporary Culture : Knexus social marketing video shares 9 key challenges ...
SkyNewswire.com
(SkyNewswire.com) - Knexus, the Cloud technology company specialising in Social Engagement Marketing Tools for leading brands, today released a video identifying nine key challenges for brand marketers.The video highlights how social is humanizing the ...

$2.7 million to go to communities
Detroit Free Press
Embracing the Cloud: Sterling Heights is turning to technology to help save money by storing data in the Cloud. The Cloud stores data virtually. The data are available anytime and almost anywhere through AT&T Synaptic Storage services. ...

iFollowOffice Turns to Virtual Bridges and Savvis for On-Demand Virtual ...
DABCC.com
Virtual Bridges, Inc. today announced that iFollowOffice has turned to the recently launched joint offering by Savvis, a CenturyLink company and global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, and Virtual Bridges to ...

Business awards for Jan. 22, 2012
DesMoinesRegister.com
LightEdge became one of just 11 companies in the US to become certified as a Cisco CloudProvider. The certification recognizes the company's investments in its infrastructure, which allows it to offer cloud services at its data centers. ...

FREE Private Cloud Training - MICROSOFT GULF COMMUNITY ...
By Neveen K Nassif
On February 21 & 22 Microsoft Learning is running a 2-day virtual training event to help the world learn about the upcoming enhancements with the Creating & Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start. It is 100% free and ...
MSDN Blogs

Guest Post: Did the Feds Just Kill the Cloud Storage Model ...
By George Washington
So, what's a European cloud customer to do—or, for that matter, a U.S. customer anxious about how their cloud provider might respond to a government request for data under the Patriot Act? Cloud and other technology service providers have ...
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How Megaupload Takedown Hurts Cloud Computing
How Megaupload Takedown Hurts Cloud Computing How self-destructive US policies are hurting hiring and industry One of the biggest concerns amazon, cloud computing, dropbox, google, lamar smith, megaupload, Megaupload, microsoft, ...
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Not Your Grandpa's Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largestCloud Computing conference ever produced with more ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2132048

Cloud Security
Cloud security when storing or accessing files online is an important part of protecting the privacy of your data, while still enjoying the flexibility it provides.
www.howtovanish.com/2012/01/cloud-security/

Polycom® RealPresence™ Cloud - Solutions - Polycom
Compresses service provider time-to-market to deliver subscription-based Video- as-a-Service (VaaS) offerings.
www.polycom.com/solutions/service.../realpresence_cloud.ht...

Cloud Confusion Reigns ! « Perspectives on Cloud Computing from ...
Unless somebody is aware of the details of cloud computing some of these terms will be a mystery. Some are not cloud computing. The text of the advert then ...
cloud-computing.learningtree.com/.../cloud-confusion-reigns/

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