Thursday, September 22, 2011

Federal Cloud Crucial To Economy, Tech Chiefs Say

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Federal Cloud Crucial To Economy, Tech Chiefs Say
InformationWeek
Tech experts tell House subcommittee that federal cloud adoption affects US competitiveness in a global economy. But security disagreements remain. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The federal government's adoption of cloud computing is not ...
HP Cloud Centers Gaining Traction, Creating Partner Opportunities
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN When HP unveiled its cloud-focused channel program earlier this year, it revealed plans to launch several Cloud Centers of Excellence at partner sites to give HP's channel a leg up in selling cloud computing offerings. ...
OpSource Beefs Up Cloud Performance With New Silicon Valley Data Center
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN OpSource expanded its cloud computing footprint with the opening of a new cloud hosting facility in Santa Clara, Calif., that the company said will reduce latency for OpSource's west coast clients and partners while boosting ...
New Wyse Mobile Cloud App Helps Enterprises and Consumers Build Their Own ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, CA, Sep 21, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, has introduced new software that changes the way consumers access data across devices with the launch of Wyse PocketCloud 2.2, ...
Thinking About Moving to the Cloud? There Are Trade-Offs
New York Times
By DAVID H. FREEDMAN Most businesses, whether they realize it or not, already have at least a foot in the cloud. If they use Gmail, for example, they are going into the cloud to let Google's computers handle their e-mail. Sonya Weisshappel, founder of ...
European data concerns cloud outlook for US vendors
ITWorld Canada
American cloud providers may find themselves unable to sell to the Dutch government due to concerns that the vendors could be compelled to share data with US authorities under the provisions of the Patriot Act. Similar concerns are being raised in the ...
Symantec Rolls Out Backup Exec.Cloud Through Distributors
CRN
By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Symantec has rolled out its latest SMB cloud-based application, Backup Exec.Cloud, and is making it available through two broadline distributors. Backup Exec.Cloud, based on Symantec's Backup Exec data protection application, ...
To Cloud or Not to Cloud? That is the Digital Question
Huffington Post
Unless you've been living in a bubble over the last year, there's a very good chance you've come across "the cloud" and have been introduced to the new idea of cloud storage or streaming for all of your digital content. There's a lot of techno-jargon ...
Domestic cloud computing market to touch $ 16 bn: Study
Economic Times
BANGALORE: The Indian cloud computing market opportunity is expected to reach $ 16 billion by 2020, a study said here today. The global cloud computing market was projected to grow at 33 per cent compounded annual growth rate and reach $ 680 billion by ...
“Point Clouds in the Cloud:” Getting Lidar Out of Organizational Silos
Amerisurv
Dielmo Server Technology puts “Point Clouds in the Cloud” allowing anyone in an organization to access, view, analyze, measure, edit, classify and download LiDAR data with no specialized software, knowledge or training … maximizing their LiDAR ...
Cloud Computing Pioneer Victoria Livschitz: The Cloud is the ?New Reality?
Fox Business
Now, 20 years later, Livschitz is considered a pioneer in the cloud computing field, running her own international consulting company called Grid Dynamics, which uses the latest advances in grid andcloud computing to help companies ranging from the ...
Simplifying the Cloud On-Boarding Process...Securely
InformationWeek (blog)
As we talk to customers, they are looking for ways to simplify the Cloud On-boarding process as they migrate application workloads between cloud environments. By Josh Mello, Solutions Technical Marketing, EMC As we talk to customers, they are looking ...
Kaavo Partners with Logicworks to Extend Enterprise Cloud Application Automation
MarketWatch (press release)
Through this partnership, Kaavo has integrated with infiniCloud, Logicworks' on-demand cloudcomputing service, to allow Kaavo customers to deploy and manage applications on the platform. Kaavo's core offering, IMOD, is cloud management software that ...
Cetrom IT Showcases 'The Cloud' at Protech Associates Fusion 2011 User Group ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A keynote video presentation highlighted the importance of accessibility, reliability, flexibility, security and mobility for IT professionals considering a move to the Cloud. Christopher Stark, president and CEO, Cetrom IT, said, "The future of IT is ...
Shifting SMB Customers to Cloud Services: Clear Upside?
MSPmentor
Despite the rapid growth of cloud services, many SMB customers still hesitate to embrace cloud computing. The fears range from security concerns to reliability concerns. However, a recent study from AMI Partners suggests that once an MSP convinces an ...
Microsoft cloud evaporated by one busted file
Register
By Paul Kunert • Get more from this author A corrupted file in Microsoft's DNS services brought down its cloud across the world, the software giant has revealed. In a dramatic failure, Office 365 and Windows Live services including Hotmail and SkyDrive ...
Salesforce.com Acquires Assistly
MarketWatch (press release)
"Salesforce has spent over a decade democratizing enterprise applications in the cloud," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "The Assistly acquisition doubles down on that strategy by putting us at the heart of the new trend of ...
Netflix deals with cloud security concerns
Network World
By Tim Greene, Network World As Netflix commits its future to streaming movies to customers, it relies almost exclusively on cloud services for its infrastructure, raising security concerns that require a new way of thinking, the company's cloud ...
Keeping Your Workloads Portable across Clouds
InformationWeek (blog)
A hybrid cloud offers the promise of uniting resources across multiple cloud providers, including those running different virtualization technology stacks. By Gordon Haff, Red Hat Cloud Evangelist, Red Hat A hybrid cloud offers the promise of uniting ...
Xeround Announces Commercial Availability of Cloud Database Service on the ...
TMC Net
By Anamika Singh, TMCnet Contributor Xeround, the Cloud Database Company, announced the commercial availability of its database-as-a-service for MySQL-based applications on the Rackspace (News - Alert) Cloud. Also, the company is releasing an API, ...
Does Moving to the Cloud Pay Off?
New York Times (blog)
By DAVID H. FREEDMAN I've just written a small-business guide to the pros and cons of moving to the cloud — that is, to enlisting information-technology services that you access via a Web site instead of installing software that runs on your computers ...
Cloud Plays Disruptive Role in Financial Services
Wall Street & Technology
A regulated trader, such as a Merrill Lynch or JP Morgan, could lease its license through the NYSEcloud infrastructure to another participant to use for a short period. By Charles Babcock Financial services are about to be permanently changed by cloud ...
Cloud Computing For SMBs
Small Business News from Gaebler.com
Cloud-based technology is working to help business cut costs while improving efficiency. Many public cloud-based programs, such as Microsoft's Office 365, can help small businesses compete with larger companies. Cloud computing technology can help ...
Enterprise cloud email and collaboration has reached the 'tipping point', or ...
BetaNews
Gartner predicts that so-called cloud email and collaboration services (CECS) have reached a "tipping point" based on projected 10 percent enterprise adoption by 2014. So it's not even 10 percent yet, but, hey, that's okay, enterprises are rushing to ...
Alert Logic and Datapipe Release Fully Managed Advanced Network Security ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The result of a joint development program with Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, Alert Logic's managed network security solution for Amazon EC2 environments addresses the pressing challenge ...
IBM expands cloud delivery of Smarter Commerce
Computer Business Review
IBM has launched new cloud and on-premise offerings designed to help organisations automate supplier and trading partner interactions. The company claimed that the new offerings, Commerce-as-a-Service and Social Media Marketing, combine technology from ...
Cloud Computing Making Waves
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
Every once in a while, I'll do a news search for 'cloud computing.' Yesterday was one of those days and while there are always a few stories about 'the cloud,' I was somewhat amazed by the number and range of topics that appeared. ...
Understanding the Cost of Cloud: Cost analysis of In-house vs ...
By editor3
By Byung Chul Tak, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam Will cloud-based hosting be economically feasible for any given application if it migrated.
The European Business Review
HP Partners: Cloud Solution Centers Now Open for Business ...
By Matthew Weinberger
HP's partners across the country have launched 19 HP Cloud Centers of Excellence, facilities forcloud service providers to show off HP solutions to customers.
TalkinCloud
Is Cloud Computing A Fad or the Future? - EarthLink Cloud
By Chris Chase
Cloud computing will alter the way we access personal content, and forever change the way businesses structure IT. We can know this because, like every technical advancement that sticks around (cell phones, personal computers…the list ...
- EarthLink Cloud
Wyse Releases New Version Of Cloud Storage App PocketCloud ...
By Leena Rao
Wyse Technology, the developers of cloud storage app PocketCloud, is launching a new version of its service today, which turns smartphones and tablets into virtual desktops by letting you control anything on your PC from a mobile device. ...
TechCrunch
The Impact of Cloud Computing on the Channel « Enterprise ...
By Bill Lundell
In order to assess the impact of cloud computing services on resellers, ESG recently surveyed 187 senior business and technical managers at value-add channel organizations in North America. For the purposes of this study, ESG sought ...
Enterprise Strategy Group
NIST Releases Secure Cloud Computing Guidelines
NIST Releases Secure Cloud Computing Guidelines NIST is responsible for accelerating the federal government's secure adoption of cloud computing by ...
https://infosecisland.com/.../16479-NIST-Releases-Secure-Clou...
European data concerns cloud outlook for U.S. vendors ...
American cloud providers may find themselves unable to sell to the Dutch government due to concerns that the vendors could be compelled to share data with ...
www.computerworld.com/.../European_data_concerns_cloud_...
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