Amazon storing more than 449 billion objects in S3

Amazon storing more than 449 billion objects in S3 GigaOm The rapid pace of S3′s growth is a microcosm of both AWS's overall business as well as cloudcomputing, in general. At Structure 2011 last month, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels told the crowd S3 was storing 339 billion objects. At this same time last year, ...

Signing contracts moves to the cloud ZDNet (blog) Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. He founded pioneering website ASPnews.com, and later Loosely Coupled, which covered enterprise adoption of web services and SOA. ...

8x8 launches cloud-based videoconferencing Network World Service provider 8x8 has launched a new cloud-based videoconferencing service based on 8x8's voice and video IP service platform together with Polycom's UC Intelligent Core software platform. The 8x8 Virtual Room service is available in three tiers ...

Texas college looks to EMC VMAXe for private cloud storage SearchSMBStorage.com “Stumbling” into the cloud prompted the IT team at Lone Star College System to overhaul its SAN to keep up with unexpectedly large increases in capacity and processing requirements. The Houston-based college will upgrade to the new EMC VMAXe enterprise ...

Microsoft tailors Windows Azure for social game developers VentureBeat Microsoft said today it is tailoring its Windows Azure cloud development platform for social game developers, making it much easier for them to develop, launch, and support online games. The company will release a new Windows Azure tool kit for social ...

Managing your cloud's performance: Best practices Computerworld By Todd R. Weiss Computerworld - Once you move your core IT systems into private or public cloudnetworks, your work isn't over. Now you have a different set of technology issues to deal with: managing the cloud to ensure that your investments pay off ...

Report: Cloud Computing Catching on in Emerging Markets ReadWriteWeb By Klint Finley / July 19, 2011 1:00 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 white paper about how Intel ...

Another Cloud Outage Strikes Microsoft BPOS, Exchange Online CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), Microsoft's oft-troubled cloud services solutions, suffered another hiccup Tuesday adding to its recent streak ofcloud outages and issues. Tuesday's outage knocked BPOS ...

Cloud computing to create one lakh jobs in India: Study MSN India Bangalore, July 19 (IANS) As the next technology wave, cloud computing by enterprises has the potential to create about 100000 new jobs in India, a study said Tuesday. 'Of the projected $4.5-billion total cloud computing market in India by 2015, ...

Tech Tips: The Cloud is rolling in KVOA Tucson News TUCSON - Companies like Google and Microsoft have brought Cloud Computing from the business world to the consumer world, our tech contributor Quincey Hobbs is here to share some of the ways that we can expect to see Cloud Computing in our everyday ...

OpenStack Turns One; What's Next For The Open Source Cloud? CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN And in that year the open source cloud play has changed the cloud game, amassing dozens of participating companies, hundreds of developers and thousands of lines of code, making it one of the most swiftly growing open source ...

Why today's cloud news is tomorrow's table stakes GigaOm 19, 2011, 12:15pm PT No Comments Something I thought about a lot while writing about OpenStack yesterday is how much OpenStack democratized access to cloud computing in just a year. Whereas cloud choices were once limited to a handful of service ...

HP Helps Enterprises Advance Development for the Cloud MarketWatch (press release) Cloud computing, as well as increasingly complex business processes, has redefined the way organizations operate and deliver applications. Applications, once monolithic, are now architected on connected services and developed in rapid cycles. ...

Essence Raises Money To Push Cloud Healthcare Tools InformationWeek Private investors provided $61 million to Essence Group Holdings Corp. to expand its Lumeris cloud-based technology products and services for accountable care organizations. By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee InformationWeek Essence Group Holdings Corp. said ...

Will Your Business Data Be Safe In the Cloud? Network World By Todd R. Weiss, CIO It's scary out there in the cloud. Data thieves, hackers, criminals, they're all out there scouring the Internet around the clock for ways to get into your corporate networks so they can steal data from poorly protected businesses ...

IBM's Q2 Sales Spike On Cloud, BI Demand InformationWeek Cloud computing, business intelligence, and efficient infrastructure technologies run hot for Big Blue as enterprises look to weather economic uncertainty. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek IBM's 12% jump in second-quarter revenue indicates that, ...

Building a Dynamic, Interoperable Cloud IT Business Edge (blog) By date: It's been said that virtualization is a means to an end, with the implication that "the end" is in fact the cloud. But that's not entirely true, considering the cloud is merely another tool in the quest for an even greater end: a fully dynamic ...

Cloud and SaaS force a rethinking of integration and middleware as services ... ZDNet (blog) Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and ...

Windows Server 8 Hints at Microsoft's Private Cloud Plans Windows IT Pro Will it still serve such a wide range of markets or will Microsoft push more and more Windows Server core functionality to the cloud? Will the on-premises versions of Windows Server be more influenced by Windows Azure than vice versa? ...

Optus resurrects fax in the cloud iT News By James Hutchinson on Jul 20, 2011 6:42 AM (6 minutes ago) Optus has flagged plans to launch a web-based fax service later this year as part of an expanded suite of cloud offerings to the small business market. The service, which was hosted within the ...

Cloud Talk: VMWare (VMW) Good – Riverbed Technology (RVBD) Bad Wall Street Pit By TraderMark Jul 19, 2011, 4:34 PM Author's Website Two key names in the 'cloud' space (VMWare more than Riverbed which is more of a networking stocks) reported this afternoon. VMWare (VMW) has pleased the Street on first glance, while Riverbed Tech ...

Will cloud be the next patent battlefield? ITworld.com I am growing very concerned with open source vulnerabilities in cloud space. There are a lot of enterprise-level players in the cloud, and a lot of small niche vendors who are relying on open source technology to deliver their services. ...

Yahoo builds ultimate private cloud Network World Yahoo's private cloud expands and contracts computing resources nearly instantaneously and does not rely on a public cloud for extra capacity. Here's how they built it. By Julie Bort, Network World Imagine the kind of infrastructure needed for a ...

The Cost Advantage Controversy of Cloud Computing Network World By Bernard Golden, CIO One of the topics most associated with cloud computing is its cost advantages, or lack thereof. One way the topic gets discussed is "capex vs. opex," a simple formulation, but one fraught with meaning. At its simplest, capex vs. ...

Can the enterprise cloud save RIM? CNNMoney RIM also plans to offer a cloud-based version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server – giving companies the same safety as an internal server, but without the tax on resources. RIM recognizes that tablets are a major area of enterprise opportunity, ...

DigitalPersona unveils cloud encryption offering for smaller businesses eChannelLine By Mark Cox DigitalPersona has unveiled DigitalPersona Pro Workgroup SaaS, a new cloud-managed full disk encryption (FDE) solution aimed at the SMB space. DigitalPersona is probably best known for its hardware-centric biometric authentication solutions ...

CSA helps clear up cloud security questions InfoWorld By Roger A. Grimes Uncertainty about cloud-service security is among the biggest barriers to adoption in the business world. Verifying a cloud service's security is tough, especially becausecloud providers are hesitant to reveal details -- and ...

The death of backup and the rapid rise of the cloud Computerworld (blog) The cloud is about to change this long-standing problem. As cloud computing takes hold, more and more organizations are beginning to outsource their backup and disaster recovery processes and are feeling some relief. For the over-burdened data center ...

VanillaSoft and Fonality Unite Lead Management Software and Cloud Telephony TMC Net Bringing cloud telephony and lead management software together for the sales space, the two companies have united to offer advanced software capabilities through “efficiencies created by cloudapplications and services,” according to reports. ...

Microsoft Emphasizes Cloud Services to Partners - Again Internet.com On day two of the software giant's annual partner conclave the company honed in on making sure its resellers get the newest information on its near-term cloud computing plans. Microsoft officials emphasized the company's commitment to both public and ...

A Closer Look at Cloud-based Testing with Soasta - ReadWriteCloud By Ben Kepes One of the themes many of us commentators harp on about is the fact that barriers to entry for application developers have never been lower - the availability ... ReadWriteWeb

5 cloud and big data insights from IBM's earnings call — Cloud ... By Paul Miller IBM shares were trading up Tuesday morning after it reported strong first-quarter results yesterday. While Big Blue got a profit boost from recently released mainframe products, it also gave us some indications for the future growth of ... GigaOM Pro » Infrastructure

Government Cloud – CIO Best Practices | Cloud Computing Journal Through their Delivery Method Decision Tree they integrate various tiers of Cloud service into an overall IT service delivery program. This means they don't opt for only one flavour of Cloud computing, but instead use the 'right tool ... Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Tag Cloud Impact on Infolinks' Publishers Earnings By Tammy Frumkin Infolinks's new product Tag Cloud has been proven to increase website publishers' Revenue by 20% regardless of which of the 4 color schemes of Tag Cloud are implemented. Famous Bloggers

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Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Benefits and E-Discovery ... By Sharon D. Nelson and John W. Simek Cloud computing is also a very popular term these days and a lot of providers also use virtualization as part of their solution. What exactly is cloud computing? Basically, it is using an application or computing services that don't ... Slaw

24Symbols on the Cloud-Based Subscription Model for Books ... By Guest Contributor Justo Hidalgo argues that 24Symbol's business model is a counterbalance to piracy, fills a need for readers, will generate print sales for publishers. Publishing Perspectives

UltraViolet is a cloud system for movies | Ubergizmo By Tyler Lee Music and movie piracy have been running rampant for the past decade or so, and despite various attempts by record [...] Ubergizmo

Cloud Export Downloads Your Data from Google Services By Alan Henry Windows: Google offers their own service, Google Takeout, to download all of your data from their services. If you want your own way to do it without relying on Google's help, Cloud Export is a Windows app that will back up everything ... Lifehacker

IBM Launches New Cloud-Based Analytics Service for Digital ... By NYConvergence Armonk, NY-based IBM has announced a new cloud-based real-time analytics service to help digital marketers understand customers' online behavior and interaction with brands over time. The new service, which will allow businesses to ... NYConvergence.com

Cloud-based Analytics Solution from IBM - Website Magazine ... By Linc Wonham IBM has announced a new cloud-based Web analytics and digital marketing suite designed to help organizations automate online marketing campaigns across channels such as websites, social media networks and mobile. The IBM Coremetrics Web ... Website Magazine

Amazon Web Services Blog: Content Workflow in the Cloud ... By AWS Evangelist Next week (July 27th to be precise) I will be speaking at a special event in Hollywood, California. Titled Enabling Content Workflows in the Cloud, the event is sponsored by AWS and Aspera. I'll be presenting, as willl Michelle Munson. Amazon Web Services Blog

Alteva Relaunches Cloud UC Partner Program | TalkinCloud By Matthew Weinberger Cloud UC provider Alteva has unveiled enhancements to its Channel Partner Program that are so sweeping, the company is referring to it as a relaunch. TalkinCloud

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VMware Unveils VMware vSphere® 5 and Comprehensive Cloud ... The VMware cloud infrastructure suite will help organizations build intelligent virtual infrastructures, which infuse highly virtualized environments with ... www.vmware.com/.../vmw-cloud-infrastructure-071211.html

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