Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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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. ...
Web Host Contegix Launches New Cloud Computing Platform MiraCloud
Web Host Industry Review
By Nicole Henderson, October 17, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Contegix (www.contegix.com) announced on Monday that it has launched a new cloud computing platform called MiraCloud. According to the press release, MiraCloud is ...
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 ...
Microsoft unveils Cloud for SA
Gadget
Microsoft has announced the imminent South African release of its cloud offerings, including the Azure platform and the Office version for use online, Office 365. It also lifted the lid on the Windows Phone Mango platform. Microsoft has stepped up its ...
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 thecloudCloud 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 ...
The Criminal Cloud
Technology Review
By Simson L. Garfinkel The cloud opens a world of possibilities for criminal computing. Unlike the zombie computers and malware that have been the mainstay of computer crime for the past decade, cloud computing makes available a well-managed, reliable,...
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.
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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...
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