Thursday, October 13, 2011

IBM Upgrades Storage Hardware, Launches Cloud Service

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IBM Upgrades Storage Hardware, Launches Cloud Service
InformationWeek
Big Blue enhanced its storage arrays and introduced a cloud storage service based on NirvanixCloud Storage Network. By Deni Connor IBM on Wednesday enhanced many of its storage products, and introduced new products and services aimed at increasing the ...
Apple prepping movie cloud service, devices may work with Ultraviolet
Los Angeles Times
Apple Inc. is preparing to put movies in the cloud, entering a market in which it may be both competitor and ally to a similar offering backed by most Hollywood studios. Representatives of the iPhone and iPad maker have been meeting with studios to ...
GDC Online: Cloud Gaming's Fast-Approaching Future
Gamasutra
At a panel during GDC Online in Austin, TX, experts addressed the future of the cloudgaming, and how it can change gaming and game development. Cloud gaming has been a hot topic in the games industry in recent years -- cloud gaming companies host ...
Google Cloud Services Update Has Amazon In Its Sights
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google is locked and loaded and aimed directly at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the launch of a revamped suite of Google cloud services aimed at enterprise users who want to develop host applications on Google's cloud ...
Cloud Peak Value Means Even Record Premium Is Cheap: Real M&A
BusinessWeek
By Devin Banerjee and Tara Lachapelle Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Cloud Peak Energy Inc. is so cheap that a potential acquirer could pay a record premium for a coal producer and still secure the Powder River Basin mining company at the industry's lowest ...
(ISC)2(R) and The Cloud Security Alliance Expand Cloud Security Offerings to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"We are pleased to be collaborating with (ISC)2 to offer our members access to a growing knowledge base and suite of education opportunities," said Jim Reavis, co-founder and executive director of theCloud Security Alliance. "In addition, we encourage ...
Salesforce "cloud" veteran heads to Benchmark Capital
Reuters
(Reuters) - Venture capital firm Benchmark Capital has selected Salesforce.com's Craig Weissman as its new entrepreneur-in-residence, demonstrating a continuing interest in technology surrounding big data and the "cloud." Weissman joined Benchmark last ...
Fonality Surpasses 3 Billion Calls via Cloud-Based Business Communications
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS, Oct 12, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fonality, North America's fastest growing business communications company, today announced that it has delivered more than 3 billion phone calls through its cloud-based platform. Fonality enables small and ...
Defining Cloud Computing
SYS-CON Media (press release)
"Adoption of new technologies by large enterprises and government agencies legitimize the technology and speed up adoption," noted Ran Nahmias, Director of Virtualization & Cloud Solutions at Net Optics, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference...
Oracle Offers Comprehensive Cloud Strategy in the Oracle OpenWorld
TMC Net
By Madhubanti Rudra Oracle (News - Alert) recently hosted Powers the Cloud event on Thursday, October 6, 2011 during Oracle OpenWorld, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming ...
Cloud computing shows “immense potential” for SMEs: Report
StartupSmart
By Michelle Hammond Businesses are set to be offered huge opportunities by cloud computing, but firms will also face challenges as they adopt the technology, according to a new report. Innovation Minister Kim Carr launched a report titled The potential ...
Managed Services Firm All Covered Launches Cloud Server Offering
CRN
By Rob Wright, CRN Managed services firm All Covered Wednesday added cloud servers to its mix of outsourced IT services. The company introduced All Covered Cloud Servers for its SMB customers who want to leverage scalable private clouds...
Microsoft Adds Big Data To SQL Server 2012
InformationWeek
Apache Hadoop will power Azure cloud services and Windows deployments. New BI tools support touch-based data exploration--including on Apple devices. By Doug Henschen InformationWeek Microsoft announced Wednesday that the next major release of its ...
How to Secure Federal Data in the Cloud
Smart Data Collective
The security of data that resides in the cloud continues to be a volatile topic, both in the public and private sector. Last week, InformationWeek reported that federal officials testified before the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, ...
Cloud Database Buying Guide
Database Journal
By Rob Gravelle All we hear these days is the Cloud this and the Cloud that. Everyone is asking each other, "Are you in the Cloud yet?" "And what is the Cloud?" you may ask. I'll tell you... It's a marketing buzzword; nothing more than a new way to ...
Dell Readies Major Cloud Hub in Quincy
Data Center Knowledge
Dell is getting busy in its global data center expansion to support its push into cloud computing services. This morning the company announced plans to open a new UK data center in Slough, a suburb of London. At this afternoon's DellWorld event in ...
As cloud and mobile trends drive user expectations higher, networks must now ...
ZDNet (blog)
Yet the major IT trends of the day — from mobile to cloud to app stores — are changing the expectations we all have from our blended networks. How are the campus networks of yesterday going to support the Internet-borne applications and media ...
4PSA Enhances VoIP Suite with Cloud Telephony Service
WebHosting.Info
4PSA, a cloud computing software technology company, yesterday announced the public availability of Cloud Telephony, the flexible, next-generation SIP trunking service that can be provisioned within minutes. The Cloud Telephony is available in three ...
Biz Break: iOS 5 moves Apple to the cloud, eBay unveils new services and ...
San Jose Mercury News
By Mike Murphy,  Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices will be synched through the cloud with iOS 5. (Apple photo) Today: Apple (AAPL) releases powerful new operating system for its i-devices. ...
VMware CEO Paul Maritz to Highlight Benefits of Cloud Computing at Gartner ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Maritz will discuss the significant impact cloud computing represents to the next major era of computing, delivering unprecedented opportunities to simplify and enhance IT. The Mastermind Interview Keynote is a lively discussion between senior Gartner ...
DHS's Ambitious Cloud Initiatives
GovInfoSecurity.com
The Department of Homeland Security is pursuing nine private and three publiccloud computing initiatives. DHS is establishing private cloud services to manage sensitive but unclassified information while using the public cloud for non-sensitive...
Oracle, Windows Garner Different Views over Multitenant Cloud
ITProPortal
According to new reports Microsoft and Oracle are heading towards different directions on issues involving multi-tenancy support for their respective public-cloud platforms. As of last week's Oracle Open World Show, Oracle is officially “all in” with ...
NARA tackling records management in the cloud
FederalNewsRadio.com
Social media, cloud computing and many other leading edge technologies are causing the National Archives and Records Administration to step back to figure out their effect on the authentication, dissemination and accessibility of federal records. ...
IBM Beefs Up Public Cloud Services for Enterprises » Data Center ...
By Rich Miller
IBM has expanded its public cloud services for enterprise IT customers, announcing new SmartCloud offerings, including its entry into the Platform as a Service market, tools to run enterprise applications from SAP and the integration of cloud ...
Data Center Knowledge
IBM Builds a Bigger Private Cloud Around IBM - ReadWriteCloud
By Scott M. Fulton, III
There are some whose definition of cloud computing includes by rule, not by option, the capability to provision additional resources such as storage and processing into an expanding ...
ReadWriteWeb
Google Apps & SSO for Active Directory : Cloud Sherpas
By Taylor Gould
Cloud Sherpas' VP of Technology David Hoff and Okta's Director of Product Management Michael Feiertag discuss Google Apps & Okta as a cloud solution.
Cloud Sherpas
NIST Issues Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap and Reference ...
By Todd A. Fisher
The National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST"), whose definition of cloud computing has been widely referenced and recognized,
Legal Cloud Central
Ubuntu Cloud: The Reseller Opportunity | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
By cloudtweaks
Ubuntu Cloud: The Reseller Opportunity As market conditions remain uncertain, your customers are looking for new, more cost-effective ways to do business. This.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
'iTunes in the Cloud' Rolling Out Internationally - Mac Rumors
By Eric Slivka
One of the iCloud features launched immediately in the United States upon the service's announcement back in June was "iTunes in the...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
Google Announces Cloud Storage Hot on Heels of IBM/Nirvanix ...
By Klint Finley
Last week Google followed Oracle's Public Cloud announcement with its own Cloud SQL announcement. Today, Google made an enterprise cloud announcement that includes a new CloudStorage service along with an SLA update for App ...
SiliconANGLE
Adobe's Creative Cloud and Touch Apps | Notes on Design
By NoD
Last week during Adobe's MAX 2011 event in Los Angeles, the software company unveiled its latest innovation: the Creative Cloud. While cloud computing ha...
Notes on Design
Micro Cloud Foundry™ -- Now With PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ ...
Micro Cloud Foundry™ -- Now With PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ We just released an update for Micro Cloud Foundry with PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ.
blog.cloudfoundry.com/.../micro-cloud-foundry-tm-now-with...
IBM Introduces New Portfolio of Private Cloud Offerings
IBM Press Room - IBM is unveiling a new portfolio of cloud solutions, allowing organizations to move beyond virtualization to quickly deploy and manage private ...
www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35596.wss
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