Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Which is the right Cloud Service Model for you?

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Are Cloud Service Models Created Equal - Which One is Right for You?
Technorati
Organizations are utilizing the cloud in growing numbers, but given the recent news about cloud outages first with Amazon AWS, then at Google Blogger and most recently with Microsoft BPOS some organizations are rethinking their strategy and trying to ...
Partners: What Happened To ShoreTel's Cloud Strategy?
CRN
ShoreTel CEO Peter Blackmore listed cloud, along with US sales, international sales and mobility, as part of ShoreTel's four-pronged growth strategy. And several partners do sell ShoreTel UC as a managed service already. But following a lion's share of ...
EarthLink Set to Promote Managed Services and Cloud Services
MSPmentor
But EarthLink also has a managed services practice and the EarthLink Cloud service. I haven't heard much about either service but I suspect that's about to change. The reason: EarthLink has promoted Brian Fink into the post of executive VP of managed ...
4 reasons why cloud computing is efficient
Reuters
By Jonathan Koomey at GigaOm There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloudcomputing has significant efficiency and cost advantages. The most recent one with which I am directly familiar was conducted by Jon Taylor's team at WSP Environment ...
Dollar General Corporation Adopts Interface Secure Managed Cloud Services
MarketWatch (press release)
LOUIS, Jul 25, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Interface has signed a multi-year contract with Dollar General /quotes/zigman/575788/quotes/nls/dg DG -2.17% to provide Secure Managed CloudServices that will improve operations, and increase the security of ...
Bin Hammam Is Latest FIFA Official to Go, but Cloud Remains
New York Times
Others, Velappan suggests, are still there. A version of this article appeared in print on July 25, 2011, on page D8 of the New York edition with the headline: Bin Hammam Is Latest FIFA Official to Go, but Cloud Remains.
Cloud Sherpas Shepherds First Church of Christ Scientist to Google Apps
Channel Insider
Case Study: The global church and Pulitzer-prize winning news organization had already decided to move from on-premise Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. But it couldn't afford any bumps on the road to the cloud so it brought in Google Apps partner ...
Cloud Services: Carriers Want Cloud Control
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Telcos and cable companies are betting big on cloud services. From jaw-dropping acquisitions to mountainous investments, traditional carriers are putting their money where their mouths are and aggressively shouldering their way ...
3 PaaS lessons from CloudBees' funding
GigaOm
The future of PaaS might be multi-language/framework, as Heroku's recent support for Node.js and Clojure, as well as VMware Cloud Foundry and DotCloud, illustrate, but single-language will still work. It just has to be done well. Be inclusive. ...
Cover Story: VMware's Maritz Aims To Run The Table In Cloud
CRN
As it turns out, this skill is very well suited to the evolving chess game known as cloudcomputing, in which VMware and its rivals are essentially starting out at square one. At Microsoft, Maritz was widely considered the No. ...
Cloud benefits you've likely overlooked
Globe and Mail
But the relentless rise of cloud-based services – or call them what you will: software-as-a-service, or hosted solutions – is making it affordable to use the web for purposes you might not have considered. One of the selling points of cloud services is ...
NexInteractive Launches Cloud Based Predictive Dialer Channel on TMCnet
TMC Net
By TMC (Norwalk, CT –July 7, 2011) TMC (News - Alert), a global, integrated media company, announced today that the Cloud Based Predictive Dialer Channelchannel, sponsored by NexInteractive, has been launched as the newest addition to the TMCnet Online ...
Apollo-Optik Selects Saba People Cloud Applications to Improve Employee ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Saba's Learning and Talent Applications will be rapidly deployed across Apollo-Optik's franchise via the cloud, requiring no additional IT investments. Additionally, with Saba's strong language support Apollo-Optik's parent company, Holding Grandvision ...
Shutl and Spotify Leading the Way for European Cloud Services
TMC Net
By Laura Stotler, TMCnet Contributing Editor Even though data privacy laws in the European Union are a little tricky, forbidding the transfer of information about individuals outside the 27-country EU, that hasn't stopped widespread adoption of cloud ...
Nola outlines DiData's cloud ambitions
ARNnet
Dimension Data's expertise in systems integration will aid its plan to grow its global cloud business, according the company veteran, Steve Nola. He had been the system integrator's CEO in Australia for 10 years and was recently announced as head of ...
You Pursue a Wall Street Cabal. Or Do You?
New York Times
It is all part of “Red Cloud Rising: The Fifth Wall,” an innovative, genre-defying entertainment created by the director, producer and actress Gyda Arber. Call it an alternate-reality game played in primary reality. Call it avant-garde performance art. ...
Cloud Systems Management Software to Grow 42% Annually Through 2014
Marketwire (press release)
ROCKVILLE, MD--(Marketwire - Jul 25, 2011) - MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Global Cloud Systems Management Software Market 2010-2014," to their collection of Internet Applications market reports. ...
Cloud Computing: It's Not Just About Access From Anywhere
Technorati
Cloud computing has definitely moved into the mainstream. You now see commercials from Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and others every evening on prime time Cable TV. CNBC has created a CloudComputing Special Report for investors to learn more about it. ...
Cloud Servers or "Data Furnaces" Could Eventually Be Used to Heat Your Home
Geekosystem
In order to combat this inefficiency, which is only bound to increase with the booming popularity of the cloud, Microsoft has proposed an interesting, if far-in-the-future solution: Distribute cloud servers to businesses and homes for use as heaters. ...
Report: Cloud Computing Means Export Laws Need Updating
National Journal
That's one of many questions raised by the increase in cloud computing, according to a Brookings report released on Monday. Regulators need to provide clear guidance to users of the cloud, said John Villasenor, senior fellow in governance studies and ...
CA, Unisys bring “private cloud” partnership to Oz
Register
By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author Unisys and CA, which earlier this year announced that they would offer joint cloud services in North America, are planning a rollout in Australia. The joint services combine CA's various management ...
Ex-Microsoft Cloud Exec Joins Juniper
Light Reading
Muglia had been in charge of Microsoft's cloud strategy and the Windows Azure Platform but was removed from that post in January. One theory is that he hadn't adapted to the world of the cloudquickly enough. "His problem, if he had one, ...
ISACA spells out how to implement controls for a secure cloud
GCN.com
By Rutrell Yasin A new book that gives guidance on how to implement effective controls and governance for cloud computing could be useful to government agencies looking to deploy securecloud infrastructures. The book, "IT Control Objectives for Cloud ...
Ovum's negativity on telco in cloud misses the mark
ConnectedPlanet (blog)
by Alex LeslieJuly 25th, 2011 Ovum analyst Mark Giles wrote on the company's StraightTalk opinion blog that telcos will face “considerable challenges in moving to a cloud-based delivery model” because, along with lacking “credibility in the supply of ...
Savtira Corporation Awarded Contract to Develop and Deliver Cloud Commerce ...
PR Newswire (press release)
TAMPA, Fla., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Savtira Corporation (Savtira), a new provider of B2BCloud Commerce solutions, today announced the company was awarded a contract to develop and deliver an eStore built on the Savtira Cloud Commerce platform ...
4 keys to success in the cloud
GCN.com
By Gregg Mossburg The federal government's cloud-first mandate, calling for agencies to move three services to the cloud by mid-2012, has given cloud computing a substantial boost. However, agency leaders who worry that cloud migrations could introduce ...
Tower Cloud, Solicore, Apollidon get VC funding
Bizjournals.com
Tower Cloud Inc. once again is at the top of the list of Florida-based companies that received venture capital investment in the second quarter of 2011. Venture capitalists invested $77.1 million in 10 Florida companies in the three months ended June ...
IT Services Firm DataChambers Launches Cloud Hosting Infrastructure
Web Host Industry Review
By Justin Lee, July 25, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT services provider DataChambers (www.datachambers.com) announced on Monday it has launched a new cloud hosting infrastructure service that will enable companies to replace or extend their ...
4 reasons why cloud computing is efficient — Cleantech News and ...
By Jonathan Koomey
There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloud computing has significant efficiency and cost advantages. I can think of four reasons why cloud computing is (with few exceptions) significantly more energy efficient than using ...
GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis...
Amazon's Cloud Business Is Growing Like Crazy
By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Right now Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing unit, is small enough that Amazon doesn't report its revenue, but according to estimates, it generated $500 million in revenue last year and will do $750 million this year--a 50% growth ...
SAI
dailywireless.org » Cloud Computing: A Billion Dollar Business
By Sam Churchill
Amazon's cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business and analysts will be watching for clues on how fast this secretive unit is growing, reports Reuters, when the Internet retailer reports results next week. ...
dailywireless.org
Cloud Days is TODAY | Ubuntu Cloud Portal
By kim0
TODAY is Ubuntu Cloud Days #UCD. UCD is an IRC event where the Ubuntu Cloud Community gets together around tuition sessions and information sharing. During Cloud Days, you'll learn lots of exciting stuff, you'll interact with tons of ...
Ubuntu Cloud Portal
CiRBA to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2011 Silicon Valley | Cloud ...
The recent Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined! ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
IBM Goes With Smart Cloud Without SmartCloud.com & SmartCloud.com ...
By MHB
IBM Goes With Smart Cloud Without SmartCloud.com & SmartCloud.com is Blocked As A “Possible Web Forgery”. 2011 July 25. by MHB. IBM launched its cloud service calling SmartCloud however they don't own the domain name SmartCloud.com ...
The Domains
Hosting your own Pub/Sub in the cloud with AppHarbor and Hermes
By cibrax
The fact that Hermes is all based on Http and uses one of the most famous open source initiatives for NoSQL databases like MongoDB, makes this project very appealing for the cloud as well. Many of the cloud platforms already provide ...
Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax)
Cloud Computing: One Picture and Several Examples - Your Software ...
By Seth Eliot
This table is a variation of that included with the "Sticky Notes" for "How the Cloud Changes Software Production", by Seth Eliot, Better Software Magazine, March/April, 2011 - http://bit.ly/seth_cloud_better_software ...
Careers Jobs | RecruitersBook.com
Piston Cloud Computing Takes on Private Cloud Security | CloudTimes
By Martin Tantow
Piston Cloud Computing recently earned $4.5 million dollars of funding for supplying software in the crowded space of private cloud computing.
CloudTimes
Cloud Computing Companies – List of 85 Cloud Vendor Players ...
By cloudtweaks
Cloud Computing Companies 1) Amazon Web Services Leading cloud pioneer Amazon offers several different in-the-cloud services. The best known is Amazon.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
TransLattice Launches New Application Platform for Cloud
eWeek
Translattice's application platform aims to improve availability and performance of transactional applications for both on-premises and cloud environments, CEO Frank Huerta told eWEEK. Cloudplatform newcomer TransLattice, which geographically ...
Amcom palms $AU9m to float uni to the cloud
Register
By Natalie Apostolou • Get more from this author Amcom Telecommunications has secured a Au$9m deal to provide hosted cloud services to The University of Western Australia. The three-year contract utilises Amcom's Perth-based data centres to host ...
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