Friday, August 19, 2011

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15M Round In Cloud Business Intelligence Platform

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Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15M Round In Cloud Business Intelligence Platform ...
TechCrunch
Learn More Startup GoodData, which provides companies with a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform, has raised $15 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with existing investors General Catalyst Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners and ...
Insurers Embrace The Cloud--To A Point
InformationWeek
Insurers are expanding their use of cloud-based offerings. But carriers are avoiding any cloud-related services that could jeopardize the security and privacy of sensitive data. By Anthony O'Donnell, Insurance & Technology Cloud computing and its ...
Amazon launches government-only cloud storage service for US authorities
ComputerWeekly.com
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a government-only cloud storage service for US government departments and contractors. Until now, US government agencies have been unable to process and store data in the cloud because of compliance regulations. ...
M2M Leaders Team Together to Deliver Cloud Platform
TMC Net
VCI is a hybrid solution that relies on the power, flexibility and efficiency of cloud-based technology to offer a secure, cost-effective M2M platform. The platform boasts command and control capabilities, two-way VoIP communications, ...
Ubuntu erects stairway to VMware code cloud
Register
Ubuntu 11.10 will ship with both the client and server components of Cloud Foundry, the "platformcloud" VMware open sourced this spring. On Wednesday, VMware and Ubuntu guardian Canonical announced that the next incarnation of the Linux distro – due ...
Cloud outages reinforce need for care when negotiating SLAs
Windows IT Pro (blog)
Another month, another set of outages come along to delight those who follow Microsoft's journey to cloud nirvana. On August 7 it was a power outage that affected their Dublin datacenter and affected service to European users of Business Productivity...
Sidestepping common cloud migration pitfalls
ZDNet Asia
By Kevin Kwang , ZDNet Asia on August 18, 2011 (11 hours ago) Choosing inappropriate applications and focusing mainly on virtualizing infrastructure are some mistakes companies make when moving to the cloud, experts say. Not identifying the right apps ...
Cloud computing – a green opportunity or climate change risk?
The Guardian (blog)
From a low carbon perspective cloud computing has its benefits - but as data centres are increasingly sited in remote locations are they dangerously prone to the effects of climate change? Data centres present significant oppotunities for ...
Moving to the cloud
Siliconrepublic.com
As cloud computing becomes increasingly mainstream, Laura O'Brien talks to industry experts about the considerations that should be taken when devising acloud strategy. Cloud computing is one of the biggest IT topics right now and Ireland has an ...
VMware CEO Paul Maritz Highlights Benefits of Cloud Computing at DISA Customer ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BALTIMORE, MD, Aug 17, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- In a keynote speech today at the US Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Customer and Industry Forum, VMware CEO Paul Maritz outlined the implications of Cloud ...
Webinar Explores the Power of the Cloud in the Hosted Predictive Dialer
TMC Net
By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor The cloud has become the dominant trend in enterprise systems today. Current statistics show the cloud growing at a rate four times faster than overall IT spending and is expected to grow 27 percent over ...
Cloud Links: Nimbula, Cloud Cruiser, nScaled, enStratus
Data Center Knowledge
There were a number of announcements today of new products and features for the cloud computing sector. Here's a roundup with links to the news announcements: Nimbula Powers Distributed Clouds – Nimbula today introduced Nimbula Director 1.5, ...
Amazon Exec Predicts Cloud Computing Revolution
BusinessNewsDaily
By Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer SAN FRANCISCO — Cloud computing will bring about an IT revolution akin to the industrial shift ushered in by the centralized electrical grid, experts say. Before the grid was set up in the 19th century, ...
Quickoffice Pro HD 3.0 Now Boasts More Cloud Partners
TMC Net
Officials with the company commented that mobile and cloud environments are converging, and at Quickoffice, they are developing apps at the forefront of that intersection. Through their newest iPad update, users can take advantage of social networks ...
Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say
Network World
By Tim Greene, Network World Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers, but the provider has since closed the vulnerabilities. Dropbox could also be used ...
Saba Partners with BT Global Services to Provide Complete People Management ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BT draws on its own experience and the capabilities of Saba's People Cloud Applications to provide a fully-managed solution to help businesses cut costs, improve productivity and align their learning, talent and performance goals with business ...
Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader
Reg Hardware
Go along to the Kindle Cloud Reader web site and then use the 'Add To Home Screen' option within Safari to add the Cloud Reader to your Home screen. Once that's done the Cloud Reader works just like any other iPad app. In fact, the only real difference ...
Virtustream and Softengine Introduce Streamlined, Secure and Cost Effective ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The Global Cloud Service Center from Softengine and Virtustream features best-of-breed cloudtechnology, infrastructure, ERP vertical solutions and services designed to benefit both SAP Business One partners and end users. ...
ViUX Systems Renews SmarterTools Partnership
PR Web (press release)
ViUX Systems renews its authorized reseller and lease-reseller partnership with SmarterTools, and offers automated deployment of SmarterTools software on managed Cloud and Dedicated Servers. "SmarterTools licenses have long been a successful offering ...
Dell tunes Crowbar tool to Cloud Foundry — Cloud Computing News
By Derrick Harris
Dell's Crowbar installation-and-configuration tool now works VMware's Cloud Foundry. With servers fast becoming low-margin commodities thanks to the push toward micro servers, Dell is doing its best to make deploying the software that ...
GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis...
Cloud Foundry PaaS to Get Automated Installation, Deployment Tools ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
Since VMware's introduction of Cloud Foundry last April, the first major open source platform-as-a-service has made significant inroads. Although VMware is the project's benefactor, it's been promising developers ...
ReadWriteWeb
Microsoft patent suggests cloud based OS | Ubergizmo
By Tyler Lee
Cloud computing seems to be the way that we are headed these days, and with that it's not surprising to [...]
Ubergizmo
Microsoft issues statement on cloud downtime - Neowin.net
By Brad Sams
Microsoft has issued a statement with regards to today's downtime of their cloud based services.
Neowin.net
Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online Suffer Cloud Outage ...
By Matthew Weinberger
Microsoft Office 365 & Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online have suffered a cloud outage. Will the Microsoft cloud outage make cloud partners and customers nervous?
TalkinCloud
Amazon wants the government in its cloud | TG Daily
By David Gomez
Amazon is now offering cloud-based services to the U.S. government. In the past, government agencies were unable to store sensitive data that was subject to compliance regulations like International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), ...
TG Daily
Announcing San Diego's Premier Cloud Computing Conference 2011 ...
By ABMN Staff
San Diego, CA, August 18, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Platinum Sponsors, CA Technologies, Microsoft, and Citrix to Tackle The Cloud: Risks, Rewards and Realities The...
American Banking News
enStratus Announces Multi-Cloud Deployment Automation for VMware ...
By David
enStratus announced today the introduction of automation capabilities for managing the deployment of VMware Cloud Foundry - the industry's first open platform as a service (PaaS) - into any of the 18 clouds and cloud platforms managed ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...
Webcast: SQL Server in the Cloud - Why a Strong SQL Server ...
By Susanna Akeret
Aktuelle Informationen für Microsoft Partner Schweiz. Informations actuelles pour partenaires Microsoft en Suisse.
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Microsoft's cloud service Office 365 hit with outage - GeekWire
By John Cook
We've been hearing reports today that Microsoft's Office 365 service -- which includes new online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and other Office products -- has been down for about two hours.
GeekWire
Rapid Cloud Development with Spring Roo – Part 2: VMware Cloud ...
Spring Roo is a tool to offer rapid application development on the Java platform . I already explained when to use it:...
java.dzone.com/articles/rapid-cloud-development-spring-0
The Cloud of the Internet by Pragmatix Cloud Services
The cloud of the internet refers to services allowing users to access computing resources through devices with an internet browser.
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