How the Cloud Got Its Metaphor

How the Cloud Got Its Metaphor The Atlantic By Rebecca J. Rosen Why do we call remote data storage the cloud? And why does that make it sound so much cooler? Ah, the cloud. It sounds dreamlike, ethereal. But of course, when we talk about "the cloud," we are not talking about mist-like data ...

Cloud Computing Needs Better Quality Assurance Channel Insider Can you depend on the cloud to be reliable, available and secure? Probably not if you are depending on the public internet to deliver your services. Success in the cloud ultimately hinges on quality. The problem is that when you depend on the public ...

Cloupia Extends Cloud Automation Solution to Increase Customization Web Host Industry Review The solution allows organizations to build internal private clouds, and manage public clouds. With an emphasis on vendor neutrality and multi-cloud capability, the solution provides end-to-end management and automation through a single-pane of glass. ...

Active Endpoints' Cloud Extend Brings BPM, Cloud integration to Salesforce Integration Developers Active Endpoints is bringing Salesforce.com SaaS customers a new level of customization capabilities with Cloud Extend, which lets users easily share across many Salesforce users – as well as access, integrate and mashup data and processes that live ...

Autodesk Cloud enables access to design capability from anywhere, at anytime eTaiwan News Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, introduced Autodesk Cloud, a collection of more than a dozen web-based capabilities, products and services that enable customers to extend their desktops with greater ...

Uh oh: The cloud is the new 'bring your own' tech for users InfoWorld (blog) By David Linthicum | InfoWorld A new study by cloud monitoring provider Opsview finds that more than two thirds of UK organizations are worried about something called "cloud sprawl." Cloud sprawl happens when employees deploy cloud computing-based ...

10 Security Tips to Prevent a Cloud Migration Disaster eWeek By Fahmida Y. Rashid on 2011-09-30 Most organizations are starting to think about migrating existing applications, data and infrastructure to the cloud, if they haven't already. Recent surveys have shown that cloud deployments have tended to be ...

Panda Cloud Antivirus Outperforms Symantec, Kaspersky, McAfee, Trend Micro and ... PR Newswire (press release) 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Panda Security today announced Panda Cloud Antivirus, the world's fastest growing cloud-based anti-virus, has achieved the Advanced+ rating in the latest "On-demand Detection of Malicious Software" test from the independent ...

Cloud Computing: The Cloud is Steaming with Hype Formtek Blog (blog) By Dick Weisinger, on September 30th, 2011 How many companies are actually using CloudComputing? It depends who you ask. CA Associates did a survey that said that 93 percent of companies are using at least one cloud-based application now, ...

The Private Cloud Made Simple IT Business Edge (blog) By date: by Arthur Cole, IT Business Edge Arthur Cole spoke with Christopher MacGown, CTO/co-founder of Piston Cloud Computing, about its CloudKey workflow system. Public, private, or both. These are the three basic choices when it comes to cloud ...

Microsoft to hook Hyper-V into open source cloud platform Ars Technica Virtualization is increasingly being used by businesses to deploy Amazon-like infrastructure cloudswithin their own data centers, using a mix of hypervisors and cloud automation software. OpenNebula, cloud software released under the Apache License, ...

Optimum Lightpath announces cloud-based phone service Network World The cloud-based phone service is designed to address mid-market and large businesses requirements, offering flat-rate pricing so little or no upfront costs are required to use the service. Optimum Lightpath Hosted Voice builds on Optimum Lightpath's ...

Amazon Cloud Boosts Fire Wall Street Journal Amazon also rents out this computing storage and power—which it calls its "cloud"—to major Web companies, including Netflix Inc. and Zynga Inc. Apple and Microsoft Corp. also have networks that offer "cloud computing," in which computing tasks are ...

Cloud Computing May Make Seagate Bonds A Star Performer Seeking Alpha With Steve Luczo CEO of Seagate claiming “Because hard disk drive storage is a fundamental technology for cloud service providers, data centers and all other network-based content providers, total industry demand grew almost 40% in fiscal year 2011. ...

Cloud Computing Energy Efficiency REVE The market for cloud computing services has continued to expand despite a general decline in economic activity in most of the world. In fact, Pike Research expects the growth in cloud computing revenue to continue worldwide between now and 2015 at a ...

For developers Amazon's cloud is a harsh mistress GigaOm 30, 2011, 8:48am PT No Comments Developers at the Surge conference in Baltimore have a love-hate relationship with America's largest online retailer and cloud provider. But repeated tales of Amazon Web Services' failures were immediately followed by ...

Is it Practical to Back Up Very Large Files Over the Cloud? PCWorld (blog) By Lincoln Spector, PCWorld Sep 30, 2011 7:23 AM Karl asked if cloud-based backup really makes sense when you're making small, frequent changes to a very large file. That's a good question, and I'm happy to say that the answer is Yes. ...

Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #29 – Big Data, Cisco IA, OpenStack ... By Travis Balinas Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of September ... The Cloud Management Blog

AMD aggressive about cloud computing business in Greater China ... AMD, seeing the cloud computing market starting to take off, has been aggressive about gaining share in the server market and has already cooperated with the government of Beijing, China and Taiwan's cloud computing industry association ... DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia

CRM, Mobility and the Cloud | Mobile Cloud Summit By Editor Cloud based applications, delivered increasingly via smart, mobile devices, are transforming business, computing and society. And Salesforce.com has reacted by building out its core salesforce automation solutions into collaboration and ... Mobile Cloud Summit

Research and Markets: US Cloud Computing Market for Medical ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/71d15e/us_cloud_computing) has announced the addition of GlobalData's new report "US Cloud Computing Market for Medical Imaging - Exponential Growth in the ... Enterprise Communications and...

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Building an Effective Cloud Security ... Outsourcing critical business functions into the Cloud can result in challenges of maintaining assurance and control over legal and regulatory obligations for ... security.sys-con.com/node/1988753 Google's New Cloud Transformation Program MarketWatch (press release) FALLS CHURCH, Va., Sep 30, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CSC announced today that it has been selected to join Google's Cloud Transformation Program. As a participant, CSC will help enterprise customers build business solutions that take advantage of the ... NASA Vets Lead Rival Cloud Startups InformationWeek Chris Kemp and Joshua McKenty, original members of NASA's Nebula project, now run competing cloud companies. It's evidence the government can innovate, and that good people are hard to keep. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek Two veterans of NASA's ... Cloud caveat: Responsibility cannot be outsourced GCN.com By William Jackson Cloud computing is becoming a fact of life as agencies are pressed to make IT infrastructures more flexible and efficient. Agencies can off-load much of the work and expense of acquiring and managing hardware, software and services ... Citrix Optimizes XenServer for the Cloud Era EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) As a key component of the Citrix cloud computing and virtualization strategy, XenServer 6 brings new optimizations and improved scalability and performance for cloud infrastructure, desktop virtualization and networking. XenServer continues to grow ... Gladinet Introduces Gladinet Cloud for Teams and Businesses PR Newswire (press release) 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With an install base of more than a million users, cloud storage access solution provider Gladinet (http://www.gladinet.com) has received significant market confirmation for its cloud storage access platform. ... Data Center Chains In Cloud Promise Easier Moves InformationWeek By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Don't look now, but there's a daisy chain being built in thecloud. In January, Verizon bought the pioneer cloud company Terremark for $1.4 billion. Three months later, CenturyLink announced it would buy managed ... How To Support Cloud Applications CIO But cloud apps make for some new twists, here are some best practices that are the cornerstones of cloud system support. By David Taber CIO — Cloud computing gives user organizations and IT alike the freedom of maneuvering and long-run flexibility ... Cloud News: Verizon, Nimbula, Hexagrid Data Center Knowledge Terremark and URS DoD certify Federal Cloud solution. Terremark and its delivery partner, URS-Apptis, announced that The Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition is one of the first Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions to be certified for compliance ... More Cloud News below--computing, storage, infrastructure, security