Is Cloud Computing too big to fail? Financial Times By Drue Reeves and Daryl Plummer of Gartner Liability – it's a word you don't hear in most cloud discussions, but you might want to start introducing the topic. In the cloud world, questions of who's liable for business failures and how much ... | ||
Agilisys Cloud Services Simplifies Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) Online PR News (press release) Agilisys has expanded its cloud services offering by launching Agilisys Cloud Services, a managed IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) providing a suite of scalable, modular and customisable cloudservices including infrastructure, co-location and ... | ||
Nimbula Adds Support for Cloud Foundry, vSphere Data Center Knowledge Cloud OS start-up Nimbula announced the addition of support for VMware and vSphere within Nimbula Director. Nimbula, which emerged from stealth mode in June 2010, was founded by former Amazon executives Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, ... | ||
iCloud snafus point to consumer cloud problems GigaOm By Barb Darrow Oct. 17, 2011, 12:21pm PT No Comments Apple's highly anticipated iCloud consumer cloud service went live last week in a debut marred by snafus that show that cloudproviders still have some kinks to work out. ... | ||
Cloud computing contract with ties to Microsoft and Google needs changes, GAO says Washington Post (blog) By Ed O'Keefe and Marjorie Censer (Jonathan Alcorn - BLOOMBERG) A proxy battle between Google and Microsoft in their ongoing war to provide lucrative cloud computing services to the federal government appears to have resulted in a decision favoring ... | ||
rPath Announces General Availability of rPath Cloud Engine, Application ... MarketWatch (press release) RALEIGH, NC, Oct 17, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- rPath, the application engine provider for the private cloud, today announces the general availability of rPath Cloud Engine, a new software solution that empowers cloud technology vendors and managed ... | ||
Amazon Silk's cloud-based privacy conundrum GigaOm Had Amazon understood the difference between running a web site and selling devices, and had it anticipated the paranoia that the mere presence of the word “cloud” would invoke, Amazon could have saved itself a lot of trouble. ... | ||
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Interactive Intelligence to Launch Cloud-based Communications Trial Program MarketWatch (press release) The Interactive Intelligence CaaS offering provides cloud-based communications applications for contact centers and enterprises, along with flexible deployment models for migrating between cloud, premise, and hybrid configurations. ... | ||
Cloud impact: SAP changes upgrade and maintenance policies ZDNet (blog) By Michael Krigsman | October 17, 2011, 11:35am PDT Summary: SAP's latest policy shift on upgrades and maintenance, for the Business Suite product, is good for buyers and also represents a response to the growing importance of cloud computing. ... | ||
Neuromancing the Cloud: How Siri Could Lead to Real Artificial Intelligence Forbes But since Siri is a cloud application, Apple's engineers can continuously keep adding these hard-coded input/output pairs to it. Every time an Apple engineer thinks of a clever response for Siri to give to a particular bit of input, that engineer can ... | ||
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What to Do if Your Social Cloud Provider Pulls the Plug Internet Evolution Last Friday, I gave a talk about some of the fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding cloud infrastructure and applications. One solution I proposed to minimize the risks of cloud computing was for corporations to set up hybrid clouds –- using a ... | ||
The Threat Cloud Computing Providers Pose to Corporate IT Computerworld By Bernard Golden CIO - People underestimate how much cloud providers present a challenge to IT as it's practiced today in most organizations. A couple of news stories brought home this point. They illustrate the existential threat that cloud computing ... | ||
New Study: Maturation of Cloud Computing Helps Drive Adoption for IT Decision ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) A recent Chadwick Martin Bailey (CMB) Tech Pulse study: Cloud Computing-Trends and Needs found more than 80% of companies, of all sizes, use some applications in the cloud. A full, company-wide commitment to cloud computing is still rare, however: most ... | ||
Quick Poll: How Does Your Company Use the Cloud? PCWorld (blog) By Logan G. Harbaugh, PCWorld There are many substantial benefits to moving IT functions to thecloud. Cloud providers can achieve economy of scale that both small and midsize businesses cannot, offering services for much less than what they cost a ... | ||
CenterBeam takes on Microsoft with cloud collaboration suite ZDNet (blog) The company's main message is that CenterBeam 365+ users won't have to give up the Microsoft productivity applications with which they are familiar because their cloud collaboration service doesn't require companies to upgrade all their underlying ... | ||
Dimension Data Spreads the Word about its Cloud Hosting, Cloud Enablement ... TMC Net By Carrie Schmelkin Dimension Data had some news it was eager to spread two weeks ago at Interop (News - Alert) 2011 in New York City; the IT services and solutions provider is diving head first into the enterprise cloud hosting market thanks to its ... | ||
Gartner Says Now More Than Ever Is the Time to Re-Imagine the Role of IT MarketWatch (press release) One of these trends is cloud computing. Gartner analysts said that most people don't realize that cloud computing is about more than just cost savings. Cloud computing is also about specialization. Cloud service providers are specialists who focus all ... | ||
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Can Cloud CRM Help You Manage Business Processes? TMC Net By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor Cloud CRM solutions have been touting the impact and value of social media and mobile performance for some time. More recently, however, the conversation has turned toward the need for cloud CRM to ... | ||
Of Muppets and Clouds BusinessCloud9 But there is a way to make things better – and it lies in the Cloud, he's convinced. He suggests: “Cloud is as disruptive as the PC when it first came out. There is a lot of debate, but we are starting to see some of the implications being worked ... | ||
VMware Launches Cloud Foundry with SuccessFactors ... By Anuradha VMware Launches Cloud Foundry with SuccessFactors Virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions provider VMware has launched its Cloud Foundry project. CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing... | ||
Fujitsu's Cloud Computing Strategy – Intel Conversations in the ... By Connected Social Media Syndication Fujitsu's Cloud Computing Strategy - Intel Conversations in the Cloud - Episode 28. Connected Social Media: The Intel... | ||
ServiceMesh - Cloud Myth #3: The Cloud is Insecure By Dave Roberts A couple weeks ago, I saw this article in eWeek, “Cloud Security Remains Top Business Worry.” I felt that it warranted a post as another cloud myth, basically a corollary to “their stuff is more risky than our stuff.” The eWeek article reports on ... ServiceMesh | ||
Most firms using some cloud apps, few go all the way | TechJournal ... By admin Most firms using some cloud apps, few go all the way. TechJournal South | ||
What Elephant in the Room? 5 Excuses to Avoid the Cloud By Floyd Strimling “Cloud is not for us.” “We virtualize almost everything so it's like we already use Cloud.” “Cloud is too expensive.” Etc……So what's your excuse? Cloud isn't going away. Instead of refocusing negativity and fear of the Cloud on to something ... The Cloud Management Blog | ||
Ten questions to ask your cloud provider | Thoughts on Cloud By Luis Aguilar Mateo Migrating existing workloads or establishing new ones in a public cloud can bring significant benefits to companies in terms of increased flexibility and reduced costs. In the past months, driven by the interest of the IT industry in cloud ... Thoughts on Cloud | ||
RPath Announces General Availability Of RPath Cloud Engine ... rPath,the application engine provider for the private cloud,today announcesthe gen,RPath Announces General Availability Of RPath Cloud Engine, Application Automation For Private And Hybrid Clouds. news | ||
Web Host Agilisys Launches Cloud Services, Appoints Managing ... Web Host Agilisys Launches Cloud Services, Appoints Managing Director | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News. theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News | ||
Looking at Cloud Servers as the New Reality | GMO Cloud America By GMO Cloud America Business has begun the move to the cloud, and this disruptive technology is the new reality being born in every enterprise. GMO Cloud America | ||
Panda Security Launches Latest Version of Panda Cloud Partner ... By Panda Security Partners who sign up will receive five free licenses of Panda Cloud Office Protection for cloud-based endpoint security Panda Security, The Cloud Security. Press Panda Security | ||
French Data Protection Authority Launches Public Consultation on ... By Hunton & Williams LLP On October 17, 2011, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) launched a public consultation on cloud computing (the “Consultation”). The Consultation seeks to gather opinions from stakeholders (clients, providers, consultants) ... Privacy and Information Security... |
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Is Cloud Computing too big to fail?
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