Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Agreements not in place for Apple to launch cloud movie service

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Agreements not yet in place for Apple to launch cloud movie service
Apple Insider
By Sam Oliver Apple is not prepared to launch its in-the-works cloud-based movie streaming and re-downloading service, as licensing agreements with a number of major Hollywood studios have reportedly not yet been secured. At least four of the top six ...
Khosla, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz Put $16.5M In Enterprise Cloud App ...
TechCrunch
Learn More Enterprise cloud app management company Okta has raised $16.5 million in Series B funding from Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and FLOODGATE. This brings the company's total funding to $28 million. ...
BigTime Raises $2M For Cloud-Based Time And Billing Management Software
Washington Post
By TechCrunch.com, BigTime Software, which offers cloud-based productivity software tools to professional services firms, this morning announced that it has raised $2 million in Series A funding in a round from LTC Partners, Geneva Venture Investment ...
Lightning Causes Amazon, Microsoft Cloud Outages In Europe
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon's and Microsoft's cloud computing infrastructures suffered majorcloud outages in Dublin, Ireland this weekend when a power source was knocked out of commission by a vicious lightning storm, conking the clouds offline for ...
Cloud Computing Brings Challenges for Health Care Data Storage, Privacy
eWeek
To learn more about the state of cloud computing in the health care industry, eWEEK talks with Chris Witt, president of IT provider Wake Technology Services, about how health care companies should approach cloud computing. As health care companies ...
HTC Buys Dashwire, Moves to Cloud Services
Mobiledia
By Joe Arico | Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:59 am HTC acquired Dashwire last week as the company pushes into cloud-based services, securing thousands of patents in the process. HTC purchased the Seattle-based company for $18.5 million, giving the Taiwanese ...
New Ingram Micro Cloud Security and RMM Services Now Available to North ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA ANA, CA, Aug 08, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Services Division of Ingram Micro Inc. /quotes/zigman/169453 IM -1.45% is pleased to announce the immediate availability of three new Ingram Micro Cloud services portfolios from industry ...
Exclusive: Yahoo cloud chief quits. An exit interview
Reuters
By Derrick Harris at GigaOm Todd Papaioannou, the VP and chief cloud architect at Yahoo, has left the company for a role as entrepreneur in residence at Battery Ventures. At Yahoo, he drove the strategic directions for both the cloud computing and ...
Why Time Warner rules the cloud
CNET
Because Time Warner, one of the world's largest and powerful media companies, owns HBO, Bewkes is now in a position to have some say about how the cloud develops. The cloud, the term used to describe performing computing chores through third-party...
TMNG Global Launches Industry's First Cloud Data Center Requirements Toolset
MarketWatch (press release)
"With these new requirements in eLexicon(R), we conduct assessments of existing data centers, define specifications for new data centers and facilitate the migration of business operations to Cloudenvironments for our service provider clients," Rich ...
Red Hat to Present a Cloud Technology Update via Live Webcast on August 10
MarketWatch (press release)
RALEIGH, NC, Aug 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Red Hat, Inc. /quotes/zigman/208092/quotes/nls/rht RHT -3.63% , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that members of the Red Hat executive team will host a press conference ...
TelVue Connect(TM) Brings Professional Broadcast Management to the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
Believed to be a first in professional broadcasting, TelVue Connect(TM) migrates what has always been an on-premise equipment and software service entirely to the cloud. TelVue now uses the cloud to handle large media file uploads, content management, ...
ClickSquared Tackles Tough Cloud Marketing Questions in Compelling Podcast ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
ClickSquared today announced the availability of a podcast that includes revealing information about cloud (SaaS) marketing solutions. The podcast, featuring Suresh Vittal, vice president, practice leader for customer intelligence at Forrester Research ...
Fujitsu Launches Cloud Service for Analytical Simulations
Asahi Shimbun
Tokyo, August 8, 2011 -- Fujitsu announced today the launch of a new cloud service for analytical simulations in the area of technical computing called TC Cloud. The new TC Cloud service, which will be introduced in phases beginning in the third ...
ElasticStack wants to power your organization's cloud
ZDNet (blog)
By Dan Kusnetzky | August 8, 2011, 4:53am PDT Summary: A number of suppliers, including OpenStack, VMware, Microsoft, Eucalyptus and now ElasticStack, are offering tools allowing companies to build their own cloud computing environments. ...
Motorola Solutions Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Accelerate Public Safety LTE ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The LTE Cloud Core Service builds on Motorola's experience in network management for public safety agencies and provides customers deploying Public Safety LTE technology a choice of implementation models. They enable multiple agencies to take advantage ...
Hybrid clouds on the horizon
Search Storage
A few notable glitches have soured some users on cloud storage services, but a hybrid approach that integrates public and private storage may convince cloud skeptics. The first half of 2011 won't be remembered as the best of times for the cloud...
Subway picks cloud software based on usability
Computerworld
To help franchises better manage their spending, Subway turned to a system from Coupa Software, a software-as-a-service vendor that is only five years old, is funded by venture capital and hosts its software on Amazon.com's cloud service. ...
GraphOn and ipCapital Group Announce Strategic Alliance
MarketWatch (press release)
"I have worked in the computing industry my whole life, and I was recently awakened with what 'cloud computing' could really become," stated John Cronin, managing director and chairman, ipCapital Group, Inc. "Most of us think cloud computing means ...
Encrypted cloud could lead to hack-proof data
SlashGear
Hacking cloud storage could net the online assailants nothing but a cache of meaningless encrypted code – with little indication of what was even being done with it – if researchers have their way. Working on a practical implementation of homomorphic...
Governance body takes on cloud computing
iTWire
By Beverley Head International IT governance body ISACA has published a report that it hopes will provide practical guidelines for organisations considering a move to the cloud, and help mitigate risk associated with such a migration. ...
Private Cloud Server and Cloud Software Services Market Reports Now Available ...
ECNmag.com
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Reportstack (http://www.reportstack.com) announces the addition of Global Private Cloud Server Market and Global Cloud Software Services Market 2010-2014 to their offering. Private Cloud Server market is expected to grow at a ...
FTS' Charging and Billing in the Cloud Successfully Deployed by Australian ...
PR Newswire (press release)
FTS, a global provider of billing, customer care and policy control solutions for communications and content service providers, today announced that an Australian billing bureau has deployed its FTS express product on virtual platforms and in the cloud ...
Cloud KPI Dashboard gets TV Mode
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Klipfolio Inc, the leading provider of KPI dashboards for the enterprise, today announced an important update to Klipfolio Dashboard for the cloud. The real-time dashboard is being delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to enable browser ...
Assessing the security of cloud providers
Help Net Security
The Cloud Security Alliance announced the launch of a new initiative to encourage transparency of security practices within cloud providers. The CSA Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR) is a free, publicly accessible registry that documents the ...
PC makers look to cloud for user loyalty, biz expansion
ZDNet Asia
By Kevin Kwang , ZDNet Asia on August 8, 2011 (11 hours ago) "Natural evolution" for hardware manufacturers to adopt cloud as way to serve needs of consumers who increasingly favor use of multiple devices and to expand business into industry-specific ...
Hosted Desktops Provider Desktop Anywhere Launches New Service For UK Cloud ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
LONDON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Desktop Anywhere is a UK cloud computing company specialising in virtual hosted desktops and cloud computing services for companies with anywhere between 5-1000 users. With clients in various industries such as ...
BigTime Raises $2M For Cloud-Based Time And Billing Management ...
By Robin Wauters
BigTime Software, which offers cloud-based productivity software tools to professional services firms, this morning announced that it has raised $2 million in Series A funding in a round from LTC Partners, Geneva Venture Investment ...
TechCrunch
HTC buys cloud firm Dashwire » telecoms.com – telecoms industry ...
By James Middleton
Cloud services are key to delivering the promise of connected services to our customers,” said Fred Liu, president of engineering and operations at HTC.”People want access to all of their important content wherever they are on any ...
telecoms.com - telecoms industry...
Embrace the cloud and hosted services... with some rules ...
By Scott Lowe
Scott Lowe shares some of the steps his organization takes when they research initiatives for individual units.
IT Leadership Blog | TechRepublic
Building a Cloud Factory | Cloud Computing Journal
In order to tackle this challenge, it's important to properly frame the cloud transformation problem. Many associate cloud with agility, flexibility, cost transparency and other end-user-oriented benefits. But many of these attributes ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
Companies can do much to promote cloud security | Simply Security
By Noah Gamer
Deploying a cloud computing solution, whether for data storage or enhanced collaboration, is a big step for most companies to take. Chances are many have never before allowed critical business data to be stored outside the corporate ...
Simply Security
Cloud Manager Okta Lands $16.5 Million From Greylock and Khosla ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
With companies assembling their IT resources from a combination of cloud-based services, they need something to manage them all in one place. That's where Okta comes in.
AllThingsD
Cloud hosting vs Cluster Hosting, Which one should I use? | Web ...
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Unlike 10 years ago you need to pay a lot for hosting with limited features, people now have more and more options when need to put up a website, choices.
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Backing Up Documents in the Cloud
Cloud backup services, which store files on internet-based servers, can take much of the pain out of creating and maintaining document backups. ...
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