The Cloud Is the New Normal, says Amazon Web Services Exec

New Normal = The Cloud

'The cloud is the new normal,' Amazon Web Services executive says | Computerworld: "... Increasingly, however, AWS is finding that organizations are moving entire data centers, as well as their entire IT operations, to the cloud, Jassy said. An organization may have a lease coming up on a data center or need to do an expensive hardware refresh, and the pending costs or long-term commitment to infrastructure "that is kind of frozen in time," may cause it to more heavily consider the cloud, Jassy said. This is a trend that is accelerating at a very fast rate," he said. AWS' win of a government contract to run the services of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 2013 caused a lot of other organizations to take notice, Jassy said. "A lot of customers would say if it's secure enough for the CIA, it is probably secure for us too," Jassy said...."

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The Cloud, the Fog, the Computing Future

Modern 3G and 4G cellular networks simply aren't fast enough to transmit data from devices to the cloud at the pace it is generated, and as every mundane object at home and at work gets in on this game, it's only going to get worse. Luckily there's an obvious solution: Stop focusing on the cloud, and start figuring out how to store and process the torrent of data being generated by the Internet of Things (also known as the industrial Internet) on the things themselves, or on devices that sit between our things and the Internet. Marketers at Cisco Systems Inc.have already come up with a name for this phenomenon: fog computing. (source infra)

Forget 'the Cloud,' Computing's Future Is in 'the Fog' - WSJ.com:"....Here's the reality: Getting data into and out of the cloud is harder than most engineers, or at least their managers, often are willing to admit. The problem is bandwidth. If you're a company simply seeking to save the cost and headache of storing data yourself, the cloud is great as long as all you need to do is transfer data back and forth via high-speed wiring. But in the world of mass connectivity—in which people need to get information on an array of mobile devices—bandwidth is pretty slow. Any business that sends data to mobile devices, be it airline reservation systems for consumers or business data for a mobile sales force, grapples with the limitations of wireless networks. Overall, according to the World Economic Forum, the U.S. ranks 35th in the world in terms of bandwidth per user...."


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Apple and the Cloud, A Missed Opportunity?

Apple and the cloud: A magnificent missed opportunity | ZDNet: "....The dateline alone is poignant. Written in October 2010, the email represents Steve Jobs’ final opportunity to provide his guidance on Apple’s future. Jobs resigned 10 months after this email was sent and died of cancer two months after that. But the even sadder part is how thoroughly Apple has so far failed to deliver on one of the key goals Jobs laid out in this, his final strategy document. Jobs wanted 2011 to be the “Year of the Cloud.” With the digital hub moving from the PC to the cloud, he said, Apple was “in danger of hanging on to [the] old paradigm too long.”...."

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Google and the Cloud

HEARD ON THE STREET: Google: Weapon of Choice in the Cloud - WSJ.com: "...Google already has a reputation as a high roller. It recruits at a ferocious pace and spends billions of dollars on projects well beyond the core advertising business that still accounts for about 90% of its revenue. These include things like Web-connected glasses, self-driving cars, and home automation. Rising spending reflects what the tech business has become: a platform game. This involves the provision of mobile and cloud-based services backed by large networks of data centers. Consumers now stream music, photos and movies on the cloud rather than store all this content on their devices. Businesses, meanwhile, are shifting from using on-site software and data storage to services provided over the Internet. The networks required for all this aren't cheap, and Google's largest rivals are building them as well....(read more at the link above)

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HP Operations Overhaul, the Cloud

Nascent Payoff for H-P From Its Operations Overhaul - WSJ.com: "Among the changes: H-P has replaced its old sales and human-resources software with easier-to-use, Internet-based programs from Salesforce.com Inc., Workday Inc., and other cloud providers. It has re-engineered its sales force to make it easier to buy technology and services from H-P and its more than 150,000 distribution partners. And it has redesigned its website to recognize PC and mobile visits, as well as adding thousands of consumer products and more video. Over the next five years, H-P aims to quintuple revenue now generated by the site. H-P doesn't disclose precise figures but says its web sales now make up a few percentage points of its total revenue."

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Larry Ellison Gets the Cloud

OracleVoice: Larry Ellison Doesn't Get the Cloud: The Dumbest Idea of 2013 - Forbes: "... Ellison also mentioned his idea of the Network Computer and his launch of a company by that name many years ago to tap into the nascent world of interconnected devices: “we just didn’t know it was the cloud,” he said. “So this idea that I didn’t get or don’t get cloud computing is . . . interesting.” As for “interesting,” there’s an old proverb that says, “May you live in interesting times.” And I think that for cloud-computing companies competing with Larry Ellison and Oracle, life is about to get much more interesting than they would have liked." (read more at the link above)

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Microsoft, the Cloud, Satya Nadella

The Gigaom Interview: A chat with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella from before he was the (likely) next CEO — Tech News and Analysis: "...Cloud is perhaps the most secular growth engine out there because it scales with a number of devices, it scales with a number of apps, so it scales with the users and their devices and their apps. So that means all of those things are calling back home, they need more compute, they need more storage, and so therefore, cloud is the one thing you can bet on, is that there is going to be more cloud. Just because you can imagine all of those other things exploring. Now then the question is, what is that nature of the cloud? That’s where I think, those three things that I mentioned: one is proliferation of SaaS applications and in particular … the question of what’s the most ubiquitously used SaaS application? And the race is on for us and the industry and I think that’s where I think it will be something around communications and collaborations. That’s why Office365 is super important to us. The second thing that I think is also going to be true is, who are the scale players who can actually satisfy that demand? ... There is Amazon, there’s us, and maybe Google if they are serious about the enterprise infrastructure business...."

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The Cloud, Cybersecurity Threats, Malware

Cyber-Criminals Turn to Big U.S. Web Hosts to Spread Malware
eWeek - Two studies, one produced by Cisco and the other by Solutionary, find that cyber-attackers increasingly use popular U.S. cloud services as a ...(read more at link above)

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Cloud Computing in the Financial Institutions 2014 to be held in Xiamen
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Store your stuff for free: how to make the most of free cloud storage
TechRadar UK - In Depth There's terabytes of free cloud storage out there. .... as we're all about the free storage and many of these cloud services offer you ways to ...

Sholay (sort of) 3D
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Google, the Cloud, the Internet Backbone

A natural progression: from cloud to internet backbone -- after all the internet is a cloud of networked computers/servers --

Does Google Want to Control More of the Internet Backbone?: " . . . By 2013, Google had invested about $23 billion in data centers, for example, and all that investment requires high-capacity backbone transport. In the third quarter of 2013 alone, for example, Google capital investment was about $2.3 billion, primarily for new data center capacity. But when a firm relies that heavily on cloud computing, it obviously will be able to justify operating a huge private network to support the performance of the data centers....the point is that large global enterprises always look at the cost and value of their networks... nor does either represent an attempt by enterprises to “control the Internet backbone” or compete with telcos. As with all other inputs, enterprises make “build versus buy” decisions. . . ." (read more at the link above)

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Google, Googlers, the Cloud

Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works - Liz Gannes - Enterprise - AllThingsD: " . . . So, how much does Google, as an enterprise, really trust the cloud? “The overwhelming philosophy of my organization is to empower Googlers with world-leading technology,” said Fried in a recent interview. Based in New York, Fried took the CIO role at Google five years ago, after 13 years at Morgan Stanley. “But the important part,” Fried said, “is that we view our role as empowerment, and not standard-setting or constraining or dictating or something like that. We define our role as an IT department in helping people get their work done better than they could without us. Empowerment means allowing people to develop the ways in which they can work best. . . .”

Cloud Computing's Confusion: Pricing

eWeek
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Herding Clouds: IT Faces Its Hybrid Future

InformationWeek
The latest InformationWeek State of Cloud Computing Survey found that 40% of respondents use cloud services, up seven points since 2011, with an additional ...

Business Standard

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Business leaders, the Cloud, cloud computing

What Business Leaders Really Think About Cloud

Forbes
Cloud computing means more than cheaper and better-run IT resources. It means new ways of doing business, many of which have yet to be discovered...

Data storage: Maintaining privacy on the cloud

Science Daily (press release)
31, 2013 — A data-sharing scheme utilizing an encryption manager shows the way towards low-cost, flexible and secure cloud storage services

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Mitigating Shared Data Security in Brave New World of BYOD

eWeek
For an increasing number of enterprises, private clouds and... the single most important question mark that still causes doubt about cloud computing, ... We're seeing private cloud services slowly but steadily replacing former ... Microsoft Increases Exchange Online Cloud StorageCapacity · Vocalocity, ...

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Better Economic Forecasts, From the Cloud

Better Economic Forecasts, From the Cloud
New York Times (blog)
Blame it on, or credit it to, cloud computing. I recently visited the Oakland, Calif., headquarters of GT Nexus, a company that monitors supply chain information — things like ordering, payment, manufacture and logistics — for 100 major companies.
 
New York Times (blog)

Cloud Computing Specialists in High Demand: Report
eWeek
Cloud computing skills are most frequently advertised for jobs located in the San Jose metropolitan area. More than 5000 cloud computing job ads were posted online in the United States in February, according to Wanted Analytics, a specialist in ...

CloudStrategies Makes Cloud Computing a Reality for Businesses
Seattle Post Intelligencer
While the concept of cloud computing has been garnering headlines for some time, businesses are now starting to see the benefits of moving their information technology infrastructure to the cloud. As these new solutions go from theory to reality, ...

Can banks find a rainbow in the cloud?
Computerworld (blog)
By Dan Morris Tributes for cloud computing continue to gush. Magazines feature it. Self-important IT giants evangelize it. CIOs champion it when they articulate strategies. Based on the hype, we could be lulled into thinking every major organization ...

Demandware debut shines on cloud appeal
Reuters
Cloud computing allows companies to access information on the Internet from remote servers rather than from their own computers. The global cloud-computing market is expected to reach $148.8 billion by 2014, according to information technology research ...

Demand High for Cloud Computing Specialists
Baseline
By Baselinemag More than 5000 cloud computing job ads were posted online in the United States in Februrary, according to Wanted Analytics, a specialist in real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace. Hiring demand for cloud skills has ...

The Bottom Line: Cloud Computing Reigns
Signal Magazine
By Maryann Lawlor, SIGNAL Connections Many people speak of cloud computing as if it's been around for decades. In a way, it has. But today's use of the phrase is more specific than simply a great big network in the sky. Understanding the cloud will ...

Cloud Enthusiasts Worry About Data Security
NetworkComputing.com
IT professionals at companies around the world shows are all in for cloud computing, but they still worry about the risks the technology may present to their organizations, according to a new survey. The study shows that top challenges to adoption of ...

The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2012
CRN
As a result, sifting through the rapidly growing number of cloud vendors out there can be dizzying for solution providers and their customers. The aim of CRN's annual 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors list is to sift through the who's who in the ...

Amid doubts about cloud file-sharing services, enterprises operate their own
InfoWorld
By Ellen Messmer | Network World Cloud-based file-sharing services like Dropbox have become popular, but organizations with sensitive data say they're reluctant to turn it over to cloud services. Instead, they're buying file-sharing products they ...

Mobile devices, cloud computing keeps Hub busy
Boston Herald
By John Zaremba Prudential Center businesses big and small that went dark in the Back Bay blackout are singing the praises of the mobile age and thanking the heavens for cloud computing, saying that staying on top of technology helped them salvage a ...

Cloud Computing: Cisco Buys NDS for $5 Billion
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Believing that the Internet is going to turn into one big cloud-ified television set, Cisco said Thursday that it's going to buy England's NDS Group for roughly $5 billion. It's Cisco biggest acquisition since it bought Tandberg, the video conferencing ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Mobile developers embrace cloud computing platforms
TheServerSide.com
But still, it's difficult to shake the feeling that pitching a cloud based solution to code hounds who are working on mobile or embedded devices is a just a tad easier than pitching it to those who are chained to a mainframe all day long.

Appirio founder on cloud-services firm's latest funding round -- and Chicago ...
Crain's Chicago Business (blog)
Mr. Barbin, 41, who early in his career worked for Lake Forest-based WW Grainger Inc., says the latest round of funding is the largest of its kind in a cloud services provider and will allow Appirio not only to continue developing its crowdsourcing ...

A Call for More Cloud Storage Standards Support
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: While there has been a lot of progress in the development of cloud storage standards, most notably in the form of a reference architecture for the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard created by the Storage Networking Industry ...

Do-It-Yourself Cloud Computing Management – Is It Worth It?
SYS-CON Media (press release)
You have smart engineers, easy access to storage and computing power, and a mandate this year to start moving some of (or more of) your applications to the cloud. Why not do it yourself? I'm not saying that you shouldn't try DIY cloud computing ...

Rise in jobs related to cloud computing
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE : While IT spending is expected to grow by just 16 per cent over the next four years, Singapore could see a 30.6 per cent rise in jobs related to cloud computing. According to a report by research firm IDC, cloud computing is expected to ...

Cloud Computing: Appirio Gets a Whopping $60 Million Investment
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud house Appirio, which has already seen $16.7 million in VC money come rippling in, a bit of it from Salesforce.com at the beginning, is getting a delicious $60 million D round from its existing investors. Most of it is coming from the private...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud computing 'prompting move away from the PC'
Experian QAS
The development of the cloud has fuelled the emergence of new methods of personal computing, experts have stated. According to Gartner, it is incorrect to say that the world has now moved into the post-PC era. However, the organization believes the ...

Where is your team on the road to the private cloud?
Computerworld (blog)
In my last installment on the benefits of cloud computing, Considerations for catalogs, controls, compliance in private clouds, I raised points about what needs to change to get to the privatecloud, and I focused on three main areas: people, ...

Experts from Cisco and AOL join Ping Identity at Cloud Identity Summit 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
The 2012 Cloud Identity Summit explores the role of identity as the new perimeter and wayscloud computing, mobile device access and social networking are transforming business and IT. Ansari and Fletcher will facilitate general conference sessions ...

Be Prepared For When the Cloud Really Fails
PCWorld
By George V. Hulme, CSO Consider the Microsoft so-called "Leap year" bug that crippled that company's Azure cloud services last month. Bill Laing, vice president for Microsoft's server andcloud division, described the system failure in a blog post and ...

Cloud Startup Appirio Gets $60 Million In Funding
Investor's Business Daily
By BRIAN DEAGON, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 08:02 AM ET Appirio, which is taking an innovative approach to cloud computing services, on Thursday announced it had completed a $60 million round of funding. The lead investor is private equity ...

HP Redesigns Enterprise Customer Support for the Cloud Era.
X-bit Labs
Going forward into the cloud computing era, datacenters will become even more complex and costs to maintain them will be astronomic. In a bid to prepare for thecloud computing era, Hewlett-Packard has redesigned its enterprise support in a bid to ...

X-bit Labs

Amazon is No. 1. Who's next in cloud computing?
GigaOm
14, 2012, 4:04pm PT 18 Comments Amazon Web Services is, by all accounts, the largest cloud service provider by far, although good luck finding third-party numbers to verify that. Amazon, like most of the big cloud providers, doesn't disclose much about ...

GigaOm

Appirio Raises $60M to Take on Accenture
Forbes
Appirio, a cloud services provider, announced a Series D round of funding for $60 million today. The investors include General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital. As seen with today's Demandware IPO — which is up over 50% — the cloud space is ...

SAP-commissioned study says Cloud computing to create hundreds of thousands of ...
eChannelLine
Cloud computing is a powerful catalyst for job creation and has greater potential for employment growth than the Internet did in its early years, according to a new study by the Sand Hill Group, sponsored by SAP America, Inc., a subsidiary of SAP AG.

Hiring Demand for Cloud Computing Reinvigorates Job Growth
Techzone360
By Erin Harrison , Executive Editor, Cloud Computing Cloud computing is not only revolutionizing the IT industry, it is reinvigorating job growth in the United States. More than 5000 cloud computing job ads were posted online in the US last month, ...

Study Predicts Cloud Computing Could Replace PCs by 2014
NBC San Diego (blog)
By Travis Andrews Cloud computing could replace PCs within the next two years, according to a new study. Soon, we may all be living and working in the cloud. Analysts from Gartner, a major research firm, predict that by 2014 the cloud will replace the ...

IIHT, Microsoft launch course in cloud computing
Hindu Business Line
IIHT Ltd, a technology-training organisation, along with Microsoft, has announced the launch of a certified cloud expert programme at Kochi Infopark. Mr Keshava Raju, CEO, IIHT, told reporters here that the programme would help IT professionals and ...

Cloud Computing Leads to “Hybrid IT”
By Amy Freeland
The Gartner Special Report, “Hybrid IT: How Internal and External Cloud Services are Transforming IT,” details the pressures put on enterprise IT professionals by cloud computingand explains how the IT function is no longer housed ...
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The Power of Cloud Computing | kmutnbalumni.org
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If you are the owner of a thriving business unit in New Jersey and wish to move your entire business to the newly introduced cloud platform then contact any of the new jersey cloud computing vendors. Cloud computing is a concept that has ...
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Cloud Computing: Appirio Gets a Whopping $60 Million Investment ...
More and more enterprises are deploying cloud computing and IT departments are requiring new capabilities with cloud storage infrastructure. Hadoop and Map Reduce have been the popular applications for handling distributed unstructured ...
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Why You Should Entrust Your Software Applications And Data To ...
By Florence
More often than not, an entity trusts its software and data to run in the clouds because cloud computing offers accessibility 24/7. A customer can access his data and application anytime and anywhere provided there is strong internet ...
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Cloud Blurs IT's View into End-User Experience | Service Assurance ...
By Denise Dubie
For cloud computing, security tops the list of challenges, according to the Network Instruments 5th Annual Global State of the Network Study, which polled some 163 network professionals about today's technologies, adoption rates and follow-on challenges. When it came to ... As positive results were seen in this year's study in terms of service availability and end-user experience, the same could not be said about monitoring the cloud services and troubleshooting problems. For 22% of ...
Service Assurance Daily

Lockheed Extending Cloud Computing Services to UK
By Katelyn Noland
Lockheed Martin's U.K. division will provide its cloud computing services across that country's government enterprise, the company announced Wednesday.
ExecutiveBiz

Gartner on Cloud Computing | Document Management Blog
By Healy Jones
Gartner is predicting that everyone has a “personal cloud” by 2014. That's pretty soon, but the idea is very interesting. At OfficeDrop, we see a huge drive toward small businesses using thecloud more and more, and agree with a few of the key ...
Document Management Blog

Guest Post: Jim Reavis on the RSA Conference - Cloud Computing ...
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The Trustworthy Computing blog shares Microsoft perspectives about cloud computing. From security in the cloud to the evolution of IT, we show how Microsoft works to build a trustworthycloud.
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Taiwan Cloud Valley established
The Cloud Computing Association in Taiwan on March 14 inaugurated an exhibition center under the Taiwan Cloud Valley project, according to the association.
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/14/2012+
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
A compendium of Windows Azure, Service Bus, EAI & EDI Access Control, Connect, SQL Azure Database, and other cloud-computing articles. image222 ..... Liam Cavanagh (@liamca) continued his series with What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 9 – Sending Email Notifications from Windows Azure on 3/14/2012: image I am the founder of a startup called Cotega and also a Microsoft employee within the SQL Azure group where I work as a Program ...
OakLeaf Systems

Cloud Quiz: How Many Searches a Month Are There for “Cloud”
By J. Conor Sullivan
Cloud computing and storage have not only become an integral part of the Web experience, but they've also become hot-button search items, and as the its technological advances become more and more prevalent, the term is finding itself ...
In The Personal Cloud

Upcoming Webinar: Cloud Computing for EHR/RCM Systems
Mark your calendars for next Tuesday at 2 P.M. ET if you're interested in healthcare IT, healthcare software, EHR/RCM systems and/or HIPAA compliance and ...
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Using Cloud Computing for Hacking | DecisionStats
Instead this is about using the cloud to hack Some articles last year wrote on how ... -s-cloud-service-lures-hackers-at-pennies-an-hour.html Cloud services are ...
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Microland Strengthens the Cloud Services Offering by Partnership ...
Microland to leverage DynamicOps platform for its Cloud Services offering ... and cost-effectively deploy and benefit from cloud computing,” said Randy Streu, ...
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Cloud Computing to create 14 Million Jobs by 2015

Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says
InformationWeek
Microsoft and IDC study predicts media, banking, and manufacturing sectors will see biggest job gains related to cloud computing. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Cloud computing technologies will be responsible for the creation of almost 14 million ...

Microsoft: Cloud Computing to Generate 14 Million Jobs by 2015
Sci-Tech Today
By Jennifer LeClaire "A common misperception is cloud computing is a job eliminator, but in truth it will be a job creator -- a major one," said IDC's John Gantz. "And job growth will occur across continents and throughout organizations of all sizes...

Sci-Tech Today

Cloud computing to create 2 million jobs in India by 2015: Microsoft
NDTV
Combined with cloud efficiencies, this will drive significant organisational reinvestment and job growth, it said. With an increasing number of companies adopting cloud computing, over two million jobs are expected to be created in India by 2015, ...

The Perfect Storm for Cloud Computing
Wired News
Cloud computing is without a doubt one of the biggest innovations to ever hit the technology industry. While the basis of what is “cloud” has been around for years, the term and its effect are gaining significant traction.

Cloud computing to generate 14 million jobs, according to Microsoft ...
The Seattle Times
Research firm IDC, in a study paid for by Microsoft, predicts that cloud computing will generate nearly 14 million jobs globally by 2015 -- based on the premise that companies that move to thecloud will see increased revenue growth and cost savings ...

Study: Cloud will create 14 million jobs by 2014
Computerworld
By Brandon Butler Network World - Implementation of cloud services will create 14 million jobs internationally by 2014, with the greatest increases occurring in emerging markets, which are not constrained in deploying cloud systems by legacy ...

NIST definition of cloud computing doesn't go far enough
ZDNet (blog)
What is cloud computing again? Dave Linthicum revisited this question, observing that many people are referencing the cloud definition established at the US federal government level, by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

ZDNet (blog)

Microsoft: Cloud Computing to Create Millions of Jobs
HispanicBusiness.com
Microsoft Corp. today published commissioned research from analyst firm IDC indicating that cloud computing will create nearly 14 million new jobs globally by 2015. IDC's research predicts revenues from cloud innovation could reach $1.1 trillion per ...

HispanicBusiness.com

Apple Makes 500k Jobs? Cloud Services Could Help Make 14 Million, With Half In ...
TechCrunch
Today, Microsoft teamed up with IDC to publish some research that took that one step (or actually 13.5 million steps) further: The two say that cloud computing services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide by 2015, and that in 2012 that ...

Cloud computing will create 2 million jobs: Study
Hindu Business Line
According to a study conducted by IDC and commissioned by Microsoft, cloud computing will generate two million jobs in India by 2015. These jobs, according to the survey, will be created in manufacturing and 'communications and media' sectors.

Study: cloud computing will create 14 million jobs by 2015
Digital Media Wire
Communications and media currently accounts for 20 percent of spending on publiccloud storage in the United States. IDC forecasts it will run below the overall average in terms of spending on cloud services as a percentage of IT spending, ...

Digital Media Wire

Cloud Computing Will Create Millions of New Jobs, IDC Report Predicts
CMSWire
Microsoft commissioned IDC to do the research project, Cloud Computing's Role in Job Creation. "IDC estimates that last year alone, IT cloud services helped organizations of all sizes and all vertical sectors around the world generate more than [US]$ ...

Calling BS on cloud hype: Prediction that cloud will create 14 million new ...
ITworld.com
By Kevin Fogarty Add a new comment March 05, 2012, 12:46 PM — Microsoft and IDC teamed up this morning to announce a miracle: Cloud computing, by automating much of the manual work of maintaining large computing infrastructures and making more ...

Dropbox and Box reach for the cloud
USA TODAY
Privately held Box and Dropbox are competing for a slice of personal cloud storagecomputing, a solution to the growth of Internet-connected mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets and the rise of storing files online so that consumers and ...

USA TODAY

Microsoft: Cloud Computing to Create over 2 million Jobs by 2015 in India
Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine
Cloud computing is already changing how IT delivers economic value to countries, cities, industries, and businesses. IDC estimates that in 2011 alone, IT cloud services helped businesses around the world generate more than US$600 billion in revenue and ...

Cloud Computing To Create 14 Million New Jobs By 2015
WebProNews
By Drew Bowling · 1 min ago · Leave a Comment According to a new study by IDC, the growth ofcloud computing is on track to create nearly 14 million new jobs globally by 2015. IDC's research, which was commissioned by Microsoft, predicts revenues from ...

Cloud computing will create over 200000 UK jobs, says IDC
ComputerworldUK
By Anh Nguyen | Computerworld UK | Published 13:05, 05 March 12 Spend on public and privatecloud computing services will create 226000 jobs in the UK by 2015, according to a study from analyst firm IDC. These would be part of the approximately 14 ...

Cloud Computing's Employment Boom
Information Management
March 5, 2012 – Along with spending and hype, cloud computing will generate millions of jobs, especially from SMBs, over the next few years, according to a new IDC white paper sponsored by Microsoft. The market review, entitled “Cloud Computing's Role ...

Microsoft Commissioned IDC Study Says Cloud Computing to Create 14 Millions ...
Daily Disruption
By Duane Barnhart | @dailydisrupt | March 5th, 2012 Spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide from 2011 to 2015, according to a new study by the analyst firm IDC. The research, commissioned by ...

Cloud computing to create 14 million jobs by 2015
Fresh Business Thinking
By Ben Simmons Spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide from 2011 to 2015, according to a new study by the analyst firm IDC. The research, commissioned by Microsoft, also found that IT innovation ...

Government lags in cloud computing adoption
Bizjournals.com (blog)
Analyst firm IDC released a study Monday saying that spending on cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide by 2015 and produce as much as $1.1 trillion a year in new business revenue, though government adoption is behind the private ...

Bullish 2012 for “cloud computing”
Khaleej Times
HANOVER, Germany — Germany's IT sector said on Monday it was pinning its hopes on futuristic “cloud computing” as it published bullish forecasts for 2012 ahead of the opening of the world's biggest high-tech fair. Industry lobby BITKOM said it ...

Moving To The Cloud Will Create 14 Million New Jobs By 2015, Microsoft Says
Business Insider
Some 14 million new jobs will be created by 2015 thanks to cloud computing, a new study predicts. Buthalf of these jobs will be in India and China. Still, 1.2 million new "cloud-enabled" jobs will be created in the US and Canada, the study says.

Business Insider

Pomeroy Launches Managed Cloud Services Featuring Metered Self Service
PR Web (press release)
Pomeroy, a global leader in managed services to optimize the IT infrastructure, today announced the next step in its commitment to delivering quality and value with the launch of Pomeroy ManagedCloud Services. Unveiled at Pomeroy's 2012 Get Your Head ...

Big Science, Big Business Team Up to Kick Start Cloud Computing
Scientific Computing
A consortium of leading IT providers and three of Europe's biggest research centers (CERN, EMBL and ESA) have announced a partnership to launch a European cloud computing platform. 'Helix Nebula — the Science Cloud,' will support the massive IT ...

Benefits of Cloud Computing To Growing Small Companies
CloudTweaks News
Outsourcing IT work to cloud computing suppliers may pose some complications. That's why a business owner must always exercise great care in signing contracts. Technology often changes rapidly thus it pays to investigate if the company's chosen...

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Cloud Sherpas, GlobalOne Merger Makes Google Apps, Salesforce.com Shop
eWeek
CloudSherpas merges with GlobalOne to create an cloud computing service provider powerhouse, or as close to one as there can exist in the nascent market for Web-based applications. In a megamerger of cloud software service providers, Cloud Sherpas and ...

North Carolina Publishes Final Cloud Computing Ethics Opinion ...
By Jack Newton
After nearly two years since publishing its first proposal on the topic, the North Carolina State Bar has adopted its Formal Ethics Opinion on cloud computing. The opinion, titled 2011 Formal.
Slaw

International workshop on Cloud Computing: Services and ...
By cfptech
Mobile Clouds for new millennium, mobile devices • Social Clouds (Social Networks in the Cloud) • Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing • Cloud Computing Architecture • CloudApplications in Vertical Industries • Cloud storage ...
techcfp

Time is now for state, local government cloud computing, experts ...
By Simply Security
State and local government organizations can no longer afford to ignore the benefits of cloud computing, the commission's report stated. Of course, cloud security must be a priority when embarking on any sort of migration, the experts added.
Simply Security

IDC Analyst Firm Predicts: Cloud Computing to Create 14 Million ...
By cloudtweaks
IDC Analyst Firm Predicts: Cloud Computing to Create 14 Million New Jobs by 2015. REDMOND, Wash. – March 5, 2012 – Spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide from 2011 to 2015, ...
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Study: Cloud computing to create 11000 jobs in Denver by 2015 ...
Study: Cloud computing to create 11000 jobs in Denver by 2015 : Insight on all things tech and telecom, with an emphasis on developments that matter most to Colorado and the West. Colorado.... The Microsoft-commissioned report found that cloud services will generate 14 million new jobs worldwide and 1.1 million jobs in the U.S. over the next three years. “Cloud computing is a transformation of the way we build and write software as well as the way businesses and the economy in ...
Denver Post: All Blogs

Cloud Computing for SMB's: A Marketer's Perspective | GMO Cloud ...
By miccilopez
A fresh point of view on cloud computing for small businesses written by a marketing consultant for a web hosting company was delivered by Small Biz Bee. The description of development started in a Forrester research in 2010 showing that ...
GMO Cloud America

Microsoft Funded Research Claims 14 Million New Jobs from Cloud ...
By EmploymentCrossing
According to the findings of a study released by analyst firm IDC, cloud computing would generate 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015. The study, funded by.
EmploymentSpectator

Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure ...
By mbenkov
This is the first part of a series of blog posts I'm working on as part of the companion webcast series “Soup to Nuts Cloud Computing” in which we look at what it takes to get started with the tools and setup things you need to begin building ...
MSDN Blogs

Profiling Staff and Researcher Use of Cloud Services Across Russell ...
By Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)
Featured Paper. Are metrics relevant for web accessibility? A recent paper on Web accessibility metrics for a post digital world argued that "strategy and policy that defines Web accessibility purely by the conformance of digital resources with ...
UK Web Focus

HP Blogs - Emergence of Cloud Computing for Industries – Nadh ...
By Nadhan
Services Eco-system. A key decision to be made when moving to cloud computing is the extent to which service providers are part of the overall solution. Traditional providers start provisioning their services over the cloud. A new eco-system of ...
Enterprise Services Blog articles

Management and Security in the Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud Computing Journal: Cloud computing represents the advent of a global ... Cloud Computing Journal: What about other aspects of vulnerability; what are ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2180715

Cloud computing strategies » Never Stop Hot Spot ! | Never Stop Hot ...
A Cloud Computing Strategy is actually deployed to distribute the usage of software resources, especially in an organization, to enhance its working efficiency ...
neverstophotspot.com/cloud-computing/cloud-computing/

Unisys Launches Version 2.1 of Secure Cloud Computing Solution
Cloud Storage Channel Feature. Unisys Launches Version 2.1 of Secure Cloud ComputingSolution. February 28, 2012. By Meenakshi Shankar ...
it.tmcnet.com/.../270987-unisys-launches-version-21-secure-cl...

Energy Efficient Cloud Computing for Developers | Charles ...
Datacenter energy efficiency is a hot topic these days (how to keep thousands of machines cool without consuming too many electrons, etc.), but something that ...
channel9.msdn.com/.../Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-fo...

A Storm Brewing…The Cloud (Storage) Wars | Egnyte Blog
In The Battle for the Enterprise the reference is to cloud computing leaders ... we can see it with the most recent announcement of Google Drive cloud storage, ...
www.egnyte.com/.../a-storm-brewing…the-cloud-storage-wars...

Cloud-Computing Stocks from TheStreet.com's James Rogers | NBR
HUDSON: The forecast for technology is cloudy like cloud computing. ... Cloud and demands forcloud services helped push EMC to record quarterly results ...
www.nbr.com/.../cloud-computing-stocks-from-thestreet-coms...

Five Myths about Cloud Storage and Backup – Symform
The big myths about Cloud storage and backup have staying power because there are some vendors out there who act in ways that perpetuate the myths. Wi.
www.symform.com/blog/5-cloud-storage-backup-myths/

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Free and affordable software to sync your work and life; Google Drive And The Cloud Wars

Free and affordable software to sync your work and your life
ITworld.com
It's free, and it works in concert with Microsoft's cloud-based storage service SkyDrive to keep your PCs and Macs synchronized. You get up to 5GB of cloud-based storage. Just like SugarSync, it sends files to the cloud storage and then syncs the files ...

Google Drive And The Cloud Wars
Seeking Alpha
By Aaron Levie For the past six years, any startup touching the cloud storage space has lived in anticipation and fear of Google's (GOOG) entry into the market. G(od) Drive's arrival was meant to instantly commoditize existing offerings, ...

ThoughtLeaderGlobal.com Architects Change in the Cloud
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
ThoughtLeaderGlobal.com, a dynamic multinational networking organization and producer of targeted business media and events, will host a corporate IT forum, "Enterprise Cloud Computing" on April 19-20. Amsterdam, Netherlands (PRWEB) March 04, ...

EMC gears up to meet manpower shortage in cloud computing
IBNLive.com
PTI | 08:03 PM,Mar 04,2012 Bhopal, Mar 4 (PTI) IT major EMC Corporation has drawn an ambitious plan to meet the huge requirement of trained manpower for the fast growing cloud computing biz (information storage management) and has started partnering ...

CERN's European cloud computing mission
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Charlie Osborne | March 3, 2012, 1:42 PM PST In collaboration with two other key research centres, CERN has announced the development of a European cloud platform in an attempt to cope with the rapidly rising demand for high-specification computer ...

Optimus signs strategic partnership with Cloud Security Alliance
AME Info
Optimus Technology and Telecommunications, a leading regional Value Added Distributor (VAD) of IT and telecommunications products, announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), ...

AME Info

CIOs must fit the cloud into IT strategy
ITworld.com
Schadler noted that Forrester's discussions with CIOs indicates that cloud computing is a top of mind consideration for most. And he said that most organizations are not looking to the cloud as a method of cost management, but for "extension"-the ...

Inside IT: The Australia Cloud
CIO Australia
Australia's leading ICT experts come together in a 14 part online documentary to address the most pressing issues affecting organizational adoption of cloud services in the Australian market. Episode 1: The Australian Cloud: What's In A Definition?

SugarSync Adds File Management, Enhances Sharing on Android
Gotta Be Mobile
SugarSync is one of our favorite cloud storage tools for a number of reasons, and this week the Android app got even better thanks to new features. The new Android app for SugarSync now makes it easier to share ile and folders, adds the ability to ...

Gotta Be Mobile

The ESA & CERN launch massive, Europe-wide, cloud computing platform
The Sociable
Three of Europe's largest scientific bodies have joined together to launch a massive continent-widecloud computing platform for scientific research. The platform will be accessible to academia and industries across Europe in a few years but before ...

Robert J. Burke
Worcester Telegram
What is “cloud computing” and how did FolderWave get started? “Basically, 'cloud computing' or 'cloud servicing' is how data is stored and information provided via computers over a network. It's software that doesn't run on the client's site.

'Stay hungry, stay smarter'
Korea Times
Cloud computing enables lower infrastructure and application costs while increasing system performance. Although the term “cloud computing” is relatively recent, elements of the concept, such as timesharing and virtual machines, have been around for ...

Korea Times

Software AG participates at CeBIT 2012
AME Info
To do this, Software AG is developing a secure range of products for cloud computing, in which various webMethods products are bundled with solutions from American manufacturer Layer 7 Technologies. With the Cloud Ready strategy, customers can combine ...

AME Info

Contracting CEOs still see spot for mid-tier firms as budget shrinks
Washington Post
On deciding whether to pursue cloud computing work: Davies “The investment to become a cloudprovider is just so enormous that even though we're a $4 billion company, we're just not going to have the same kind of pocketbooks as the Googles or the ...

Intel: An Ideal GARP Stock
Seeking Alpha
I expect the growth will come from strong product pipeline and opportunities in Cloud Computing. Intel has an 80% market share in the PC Industry and it derives 66% of its revenues from this segment. One of the concerns which bother most of the ...

Juniper, ZTE Talk Network Evolution
CloudTimes (blog)
Noting the growth of new devices connected to the mobile internet, and the uptake of apps and cloud services, “this really adds up to a big shift in how service providers can capture revenue.” According to the executive, there needs to be a focus on ...

CloudTimes (blog)

Celebrating 30 Years of Being the Agency of Choice
nwitimes.com
Cloud computing, online file storage and digital signatures are mainstream in this progressive agency, allowing for greater productivity, efficiency, and flexibility. Hitz embraced the Internet as a revolutionary tool and was the first real estate ...

A hands-on Windows 8: Touch, swipe & a little grope
Business Standard
Consumer preview of Windows 8 includes the Windows Store, where users can download and try out apps for free (Vimeo, Cut the Rope, etc) and move content across devices, including Windows mobile phones using the Cloud storage.

Mobily and Huawei Announce First Commercial Service Delivery Platform in the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Market research firm Infonetics Research noted in a 2011 report that there has been a great deal of buzz over the last few years about leveraging SDPs for advanced applications such as machine-to-machine services, mobile advertising and cloud services; ...

News Digest: March 5
Federal Times
Only half of government managers and executives worldwide expect to reap savings through cloud computing, according to a report released last month by KPMG International. Governments in Canada, the US and the United Kingdom are the most concerned about ...

Treeno doing more with less
Seacoastonline.com
Thibodeau said the company was one of the industry's first to embrace cloud computing. The Treeno EDM Cloud software provided Web-based solutions with secure, global mobile access. The fundamentals of flexibility and scalability were established early ...

Run! Radio Show Covers Privacy & Social Media
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Matt and Sean are two terrific young engineers with EMC, involved with social media and cloud storage, respectively. Run! 1 covered privacy (and the lack thereof) and emerging careers in social media. I was accused of being a little Ron Paul-ish (not ...
 
SYS-CON Media (press release)

QITCOM exhibition and conference starts on March 5
AME Info
It also includes over 14 panel sessions addressing the most poignant and of the moment topics dictating ICT agendas for both the public and private sectors including,Cloud Computing, National Digitization, Cyber-security and Digital & Mobile ...

AME Info

Windows 8 worked on my old fella, but it was touch and go
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Microsoft is lumping the devices under one OS and plans to use cloud storage to keep everything in sync. It announced the availability of Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Wednesday, making it available for downloading to early adopters to kick the tires.

Synechron announces acquisition of Esquire Systems in Dubai, UAE
AME Info
We want to match Esquire Systems' local presence and long standing relationships with our deep rooted strength in high end technology delivery especially in the niche areas of Cloud Computing, IT Strategy & Architecture and Mobile development along...

AME Info

HP supports ICT business in Qatar with platinium sponsorship of QITCOM 2012
Zawya (registration) (press release)
Doha, Qatar, March 4, 2012 - HP announced its participation in QITCOM 2012, showcasing its new Cloud Solutions that advance deployment of private, public and hybrid clouds, enabling enterprises, service providers and governments to capitalize on...

Zawya (registration) (press release)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server 8 Marked Microsoft's Week
eWeek
Windows 8's cloud-related features include cloud storage, the ability to roam all settings, and communicate with email and contacts from a Windows Phone smartphone or Windows PC. Microsoft is also providing Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 5, ...

HTC One X Can Take Down iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3
IBTimes.co.uk
With Cloud storage partnership with Dropbox (25 GB of free cloud storage) along with 32 GB of internal memory and 1 GB RAM storage HTC One X will have similar advantage which Apple iPhone 5 is going to enjoy with iCloud service.

IBTimes.co.uk

Microsoft announces availability of Windows 8 Consumer Preview
AME Info
An optional additional sign-on with a Microsoft account provides access to a host of features, including the ability to roam all settings, use cloud storage, communicate with email, calendar and contacts, and connect to a broad range of services.

AME Info

Where Is The Free Cash Flow At Equinix?
Seeking Alpha
In the mid 2000s it was about upgrading the data networks, but now it's cloud services. In a few years, it will be something else. Just check out Level 3 Communications (LVLT). That company has been promising the profitable network of the future since ...

InMotion hosting is awarded as the Best Business Web Hosting provider 2012
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
By leveraging cloud computing technology Max Speed Zone, InMotion hosting delivers high performance websites which are up to 6X faster than the competition. All their servers are 24/7 monitored. Any issues are automatically detected and escalated to ...

KFUPM, Mobily review strategic partnership
Saudi Gazette
... linking the university with its branches, information technology services such as managed andcloud services and cover the university with the latest wireless services (such as 4G, WIFI, WIMAX), disclosed a latest KFUPM press release.

What Will Windows 8 Mean for Windows Phone
Windows 8 News
Like Apple, Microsoft is going down the route of trying to develop an operating system that will be consistent across home computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones, not just through the use ofcloud computing, but also by providing a similar look ...

Recovery bypasses Silicon Valley non-tech workers
China Post
They also reflect some changes unique to the most recent tech boom, fueled by social media, cloud computing and mobile apps. As per capita income rises in the region, the median income has fallen, suggesting that as some people are getting richer, ...

Saudi- STC, Royal Commission of Jubail promote mutual cooperation
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Ahead of it is the amazing cloud computing technology, which was launched recently by STC. The latest technology aims to enable customers to transform their firms, regardless of their size, into electronically administered firms, without accruing ...

STC, Jubail Commission further foster teamwork
Saudi Gazette
STC is the unique provider of services, smart solutions and pioneer technological innovations for business sector in the Kingdom, ahead of it is the amazing cloud computing technology which the company launched recently. The latest technology aims to ...

Why the cloud has me fearing Wall-E more than Skynet — Cloud ...
By James Urquhart
Understanding why means understanding how the evolution of cloud computing is different from the story of Skynet. According to one fan site, Skynet was the result of a decision to build a centralized computer to coordinate a network of ...
GigaOM

Cloud Computing's Role in Job Creation
The research tells us that cloud computing goes beyond business ... According to the study, however, government adoption of IT cloud services will be quite ...
www.microsoft.com/industry/.../detailBlog.aspx?title...s...

George Chetcuti's Blog » Blog Archive » Cloud Computing Challenge
Amazon is working with the German University – Freie Universitat on the Plat_Forms contest of this year which will focus on cloud computing and scalability.
blogs.windowsnetworking.com/.../cloud-computing-challenge/

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