What's with all the Cloud paranoia?

What's with all the Cloud paranoia? ZDNet (blog) By Ken Hess | September 22, 2011, 3:19pm PDT Summary: The Cloud conjures more paranoia than the federal government. The Cloud is computers. Computers are fallible. The Cloud is fallible. I've noticed a very odd situation over the course of my time here...

Autodesk aims to take 3D design, engineering to the cloud ZDNet (blog) By Rachel King | September 23, 2011, 3:00am PDT Summary: Autodesk is preparing to launchcloud solutions of its own as its executives see possibilities to revolutionize the design space. Design is a sector where cloud computing has the potential to ...

Apple's iPhone Rollout to Focus on OS, Cloud: Analyst International Business Times By IB Times Staff Reporter | September 23, 2011 4:47 AM EDT Apple's rumored Oct. 4 press event, expected to see the release of the iPhone 5, will focus on iOS 5 and its cloud service capabilities, an analyst at Jeffries predicts. ...

Amazon Web services sees more cloud migration Times of India BANGALORE: Amazon's cloud computing unit has taken steps to avoid a repeat of the outage of itscloud services platform earlier this year and customer interest has only grown since, a top company executive said. The outage in April, which knocked out ...

Netflix deals with cloud security concerns ComputerworldUK By Tim Greene | Network World US | Published 10:37, 23 September 11 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 ...

Wyse does a cloud on the desk for iPad, iPhone Register With the software you can access "a cloud, your PC, Remote Desktop Services, a Terminal Server, VMware View or virtual machine" from your hand-held gadget while you're out and about but within reach of an internet connection. ...

Asigra Presents On Cloud-Powered Virtual Disaster Recovery At Data Storage Connection (press release) Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, will present at the 2011 Cloud Burst Summit in a session titled, "Cloud-Powered Virtual Disaster Recovery." As a growing number of organizations restructure ...

Cloud-based gaming service launches in the UK Telecoms.com UK incumbent BT has announced the launch of a new cloud-based gaming service, in conjunction with OnLive. The service, which is available in the UK exclusively via BT Broadband, will enable customers to access more than 100 video games, streamed into ...

HTC and Dropbox to Launch Cloud Storage Service Middle East North Africa Financial Network TAIWAN, Sep 23, 2011 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC) has reached cooperation with a cloud storage service supplier, Dropbox, Inc., providing free charge cloud storage service for new users, according to ...

Another day, another departure from Microsoft's cloud management team ZDNet (blog) By Mary Jo Foley | September 23, 2011, 9:13am PDT Summary: The list of high-level Microsoft execs leaving teams that are supporting the Microsoft cloud infrastructure continues to grow. In the months following Microsoft internally announced a shake-up ...

VCE Chairman Michael Capellas shares Cloud Computing Opportunities before US ... TMC Net By Mandira Srivastava Cloud computing has become the significant technology of this decade but companies and the government sector are still unsure about real potential of this technology. To explain cloud computing opportunities and challenges within ...

Buildium Launches Latest Version of its Cloud-Based Property Management Software San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Today Buildium released the newest version of its cloud-based property management software. The new Buildium represents the company's most significant release to date, featuring a new user interface designed to make the software easier to learn and use ...

Isle of Man Races to the Hybrid Cloud With EMC VPLEX Motor Sports Newswire (press release) LONDON, UK – September 22, 2011 – (Motor Sports Newswire) - EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced that the British Isle of Man Government's Information Systems Division has implemented a cloud-based technology infrastructure for more efficient, ...

Microsoft To Unlock Synergistic Value Through Cloud Integration Seeking Alpha In regards to the upside, management has emphasized that the company is orienting itself aroundcloud capabilities in order to integrate the products. This approach will work smoothly for Microsoft Office, Xbox, Skype, the upcoming phone "Mango", ...

Public vs Private Cloud Computing: The Great Debate Continues ... As a cloud security vendor, we often get questioned about public cloud security and how secure is the public cloud. To answer this question I'd like to start by defining what “public cloud” means before we'll focus on the cloud security question: ... Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, Personal Cloud | SiliconANGLE By Maria Deutscher A lot has been going on in the cloud this week, and two areas in particular, open-source and personalcloud storage, were the main highlights. First of all, Diablo – the latest and first “production ready” version of OpenStack –was launched ... SiliconANGLE

Cloud Is the New Mainframe By Peter HJ van Eijk Cloud computing, from a business and management perspective, has a great deal in common with mainframe computing. Mainframes are powerful, expensive and centralized pieces of computing equipment. This is in line with their role as ... CircleID: Featured Blogs

IPv6 and Your Private Cloud - Private Cloud Architecture Blog - Site ... By tshinder-msft This is a multi-author blog aimed at Private Cloud computing with a focus on infrastructure (virtualization, management, datacenter, storage, networking, and other cloud-enabling technology). Content comes from Microsoft Services & Product ... Private Cloud Architecture Blog

SAP on the Cloud » Cloud: Are there better ways to measure value ... By Carolyn Brock ROI for Cloud is a hot topic these days and I've been involved in and following many interesting discussions on this topic. While there are several opinions, there seems to be an emerging consensus that ROI for Cloud solutions (if that term can ... SAP on the Cloud OpenStack Adds Private Cloud-Building Features InformationWeek Diablo upgrade of cloud open source project adds a service monitoring dashboard, like Amazon's CloudWatch, as well as Active Directory user authentication. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek OpenStack, one of several open source options for building a ... IBM Named Corent as First Cloud Technology Provider Partner to Attain Cloud ... MarketWatch (press release) IBM named Corent Technology as their first ever cloud specialty technology provider partner to meet the rigorous certification criteria for the IBM Cloud Specialty designation. ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Sept. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- IBM named ... Puppet 2.0 automates cloud, on-premise deployment ZDNet (blog) By Paula Rooney | September 23, 2011, 7:29am PDT Summary: Puppet Enterprise 2.0 is an enhanced open source management platform for the cloud and on-premise servers that features newcloud provisioning, change monitoring and management orchestration ... NetSuite and CRN Present Roadmap to Cloud Opportunities for Solution Providers MarketWatch (press release) 23, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NetSuite Inc. /quotes/zigman/493264/quotes/nls/n N +4.15% , the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced the details of a special Web event to help high-tech ... Cloud computing: Microsoft gives a trailer of the future The Express Tribune By Omair Zeeshan Cloud computing is a service that allows users to use data centres to share resources, software and information over a network, typically the internet. KARACHI: Microsoft will launch its Azure and Office 365 within the next two years ... IBM Offers Cloud Training, Resources to Partners Channel Insider IBM is looking to enable channel partners to improve their cloud skill sets to better sell cloud-based solutions. This week IBM locked its targets in on enabling its channel to take better advantage of thecloud by rolling out a new initiative that it ... The Cloud Diagnosed By IT. And It Isn't Pretty Forbes As the long-anticipated backlash against cloud computing begins, I want to thank technology journalist and IT consultant Frank J. Ohlhorst for making the strongest case yet for the anti-cloudcamp… and in the process making the case for the cloud ... Cover Story: Rise Of The Cloud Provider CRN By Scott Campbell, CRN Dave Rice knew it was time to make a break from the old-school solution provider set and start a cloud services business when he began playing the imaginative and mystical online interactive role-playing game "World of Warcraft" ... Parallels Enables KT to Rapidly Launch Small and Medium Business (SMB) Cloud ... MarketWatch (press release) KT is deploying the Parallels Automation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) module, enabling KT to rapidly deliver Cloud services to small to medium businesses (SMB) efficiently and cost-effectively. One of the key services KT is bringing to market is ... Verizon's 2011 Cloud Services Investment: 'Well Over $2 Billion' CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Verizon Communications has invested "well over $2 billion" in cloudtechnology and cloud services this year, the group vice president of Verizon's Terremark Worldwidecloud unit said this week. The nation's second largest ... Cloud Company Xtium Raises Series A from OpenView Private Equity Hub (press release) Xtium, a provider of cloud computing services to businesses, raised an $11.5 million Series A round of investment from OpenView Venture Partners. As part of the funding, Scott Maxwell, senior managing director at OpenView, will join the company's board ... Microsoft Steps Up Cloud Expansion Plans Data Center Knowledge Microsoft will invest an additional $150 million to expand its new data center in southern Virginia, continuing a series of expansion announcements that hint at a dramatic scaling up of Microsoft's cloud computing capacity. ... Mozy ships hard drives to cloud backup customers Computerworld By Lucas Mearian Computerworld - In an attempt to spur adoption of its MozyPro cloud backup service, Mozy today shipped external hard drives to many of its small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers to speed initial system backups. ... More Cloud News below--computing, storage, infrastructure, security