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O'Brien: Rise of cloud services another blow to local government tax revenues San Jose Mercury News By Chris O'Brien Cloud computing is one of those disruptive shifts in technology that has Silicon Valley giddy with excitement. Just don't expect to find local governments among those cheering this revolution. Thanks to California's hopelessly outdated ...

Honeywell and Opower team up for cloud-connected smart thermostat Engadget By Terrence O'Brien posted Sep 18th 2011 6:29AM Normally we wouldn't get too excited about a thermostat, even a so-called smart one. But, unlike what normally passes for a "smart" home heating solution, Honeywell's upcoming touchscreen devices are ...

LITEBI Presents Its New Cloud Computing Business Intelligence Platform Through ... PR.com (press release) LITEBI, the Cloud Computing Business Intelligence provider will present next September 22nd the third version of its BI solution in the Cloud. As was only to be expected from a technological company, the event will be held online to make it possible ...

S'pore companies to outsource majority of IT infrastructure by 2021 Techgoondu By 2021, three-quarters of Singapore companies say they will outsource the majority of their IT infrastructure, of which half will move their infrastructure to the cloud. The top three cost savings, they say, will come from reducing IT infrastructure ...

After death, Web 'assets' often tangled in cloud The Independent Legal experts say it's unclear who owns what in the Internet "cloud," and that in some cases the user agreement for email or social networking sites terminates when a person dies. In the case of online photo albums, "those photos are yours and you have ...

Big Deal Reveal New Video & Cloud Control Support Dates Stereoboard.com (blog) The band have also been confirmed as the support act for Australian group Cloud Control's upcoming UK tour. See below for all dates and tickets. Big Deal were formed last year by Alice Costelloe and and American-born Kacey Underwood. ...

Get connected: Can TV spark a gaming revolution? Digital Spy Screen Digest has forecast that 1.5 billion connected devices will be in worldwide circulation by 2015, suggesting a major untapped market for games developers, particularly with the growth of cloud-based online services. Just as Apple's iPhone has ...

CommunityForce.com Launches New Cloud-Based Technology for Foundations and ... PR Web (press release) CommunityForce.com will present the new cloud-based grants management system at the 2011 Council on Foundations Conference in San Francisco, September 19 – 21 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. For more information on the conference visit: ...

Is Apple Shopping for a Cloud Synchronization Provider ... By Klint Finley Both Box and Dropbox, along with other services like Sugarsync and Syncplicity, offer the ability to not only store files in the cloud but also to sync files between the cloud, desktop/laptop computers and mobile devices. Each provider offers ... SiliconANGLE

New vCloud offerings accelerate journey to the hybrid cloud ... By Pallavi Sharma VMware a virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions provider, today announced several new vCloud offerings that will make it easy for enterprises to find, connect and manage cloud services from the ... Computer News Middle East

HPC in the Cloud: ISC Cloud: Interview with Chairman Wolfgang ... ISC Cloud '11 in Mannheim, Germany is just around the corner. We caught up with the event's chairman, Wolfgang Getzsch to find out what to expect. www.hpcinthecloud.com/.../isc_cloud:_interview_with_chairm...

The latest on Intel in the cloud Intel is working on advancements in the cloud including investing engineering in memchache, the open source in memory database technology. searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../The-latest-on-Intel-in...

Cloud computing in simple terms - Orange County Register Q: I hear the phrase "cloud computing" more and more. Can you explain what this is in simple terms? I'm going to a computer club meeting and don't want to feel ... articles.ocregister.com/.../30162060_1_internet-access-cloud-a...

NIST issues government cloud-computing roadmap and architecture ... The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published two new documents oncloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing. www.kurzweilai.net/nist-issues-government-cloud-computing-... Hybrid Cloud Computing gets real AnandTech by Johan De Gelas on 9/18/2011 7:35:00 AM Public Cloud Computing services are growing fast despite the fact that a lot of people do not fully trust them. Just look at the number of launched Amazon EC2 instances in the datacenter US East 1 region ... What do puffy white clouds really say about information technology contractors? Washington Post By Marjorie Censer, Local information technology contractors have taken the federal cloud-first policy quite literally. Since the government announced last year that it would give priority to cloud — or Web-based — computing, contractors have been ... Who Will Win the Cloud War? Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft LAPTOP Magazine (blog) The cloud and its promises of web-based software, near limitless storage, and streaming media services, has long been predicted as the next arena for the tech industry's heavyweights to do battle. While Google and Microsoft have been offeringcloud ... Microsoft cracks live migration problem Computerworld New Zealand "The trick is to keep these mappings between the two address spaces," said Bill Laing, Microsoft corporate vice president for the server and cloud division, in a subsequent interview. Microsoft is not alone in offering this capability. ... Review: Trend Micro Endpoint Security eSecurity Planet Like Symantec's Endpoint Protection 12.1, released in July, Trend Micro's endpoint anti-malware protection is based on three technologies: client-based anti-virus signatures, a cloud-based file and Web site reputation system, and an analysis of the ... Forty-One Percent of Enterprise Communications App Users 'to Migrate to the ... SupplyChainBrain In the rapidly evolving enterprise communications market, Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) vendors confront imminent erosion in their installed base as cloud services gain traction across the public, private and hybrid cloud domains. ... You're odd if you think `refresh browser' means water the dog Hong Kong Standard A top politician thinks "cloud computing" means placing files in actual clouds floating around in the sky. Vishwa Bandhu Gupta thought techies like Apple's Steve Jobs have somehow found a way to hang e-mails and stuff onto passing fluffy cumulonimbus ... Industry Perspectives: CiRBA, Intel, Power Analytics Data Center Knowledge Cloud Computing Recipe: 1 Part Tech, 9 Parts Process – Bob Deutsche of Intel discusses the third fundamental truth behind cloud strategy — Your cloud ecosystem is only as robust and adaptable as the sum of its parts. The Importance of Policy in Cloud ... Apple Scrambles To Merge Apple IDs To Stave Off iCloud Sync Mess Wired News (blog) The problem with managing multiple Apple IDs with iCloud first became apparent when Apple launched an early beta of one of its features called “iTunes in the Cloud.” It allows users to automatically sync iTunes purchases between iOS devices and ... ZyXEL Joins with PowerCloud for Cloud-Managed Networking The VAR Guy Thanks for this. I'm looking for a wireless access point. Will come back to you web site again. Sign up for The VAR Guy's eNewsletter. Delivered to your inbox each Thursday. Channel Chatter. News. Analysis. Events. And more. ... Facebook Is Expected to Unveil Media-Sharing Service New York Times By BEN SISARIO For cloud-based digital music services like Spotify and Rhapsody, which stream millions of songs but have struggled to sign up large numbers of paying users, being friended by Facebook could prove to be a mixed blessing. ... Finally! Bitcasa CEO Explains How The Encryption Works TechCrunch TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Bicasa, a new cloud storage provider, was met with a healthy dose of skepticism last week when it claimed to be able to provide “infinite storage.” How does it do that? It can't do what it promises! That's not how encryption ... Microsoft re-invents OS with touch-screen in Windows 8 Microfinance Monitor “In today's world of connected devices and continuous services, we are focused on helping developers build the next generation of client applications that are tethered to a back-end cloud.” Building on yesterday's keynote demonstrations of Metro style ... Dome9 Harnesses Firewalls for Cloud Security | Cloud Computing ... Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ... Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal ZeroPC: Personal Virtual Desktop in the Cloud - Disrupt 2011 ... By Martin Tantow ZeroDesktop, Inc., a leading developer of fully featured public and private cloud computing solutions, announced a new Freemium plan for its ZeroPC. CloudTimes HowStuffWorks "How the Google Cloud Works" What exactly is the Google Cloud and how could it change computing? Find out all about GoogleCloud in this article. computer.howstuffworks.com/cloud.../google-cloud.htm Cloud computing keeps businesses grounded Jackson Clarion Ledger Special to The Clarion-Ledger What is cloud computing? Cloud computing allows individuals and businesses to access software, server and storage resources over the Internet in a self-service manner. Examples of cloud computing include Google Gmail or ... Branding the cloud Business Standard NV Subba Rao, the company CEO, opted for iON – a branded on-demand cloud computing offering from India's largest IT services provider, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – to digitise patient-care profiles with electronic medical records that would help ... Gmail Now Credible Rival to Microsoft Exchange: Gartner eWeek Google's Gmail application commands roughly half of cloud computing-based e-mail deployments, vying for market share versus Microsoft Exchange Online and other services. Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Gmail application commands only 1 percent market e-mail ... New cloud service gives you 'infinite' HD space for $10/mo DVICE cloud-based storage for all of your data. Bitcasa is a simple concept: a little piece of software lives on your computer and creates a virtual drive by connecting to Bitcasa's servers. Every time you save something to that drive, it goes off to live in ... Anoosmar Technologies to Launch Enterprise-Class Cloud-Based Data Protection ... PR.com (press release) Vaultize is the first data protection solution in the world designed from the ground-up specifically for the cloud with enterprise-class SLAs. Vaultize is a comprehensive data protection solution that ensures complete and secure protection of files, ...

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