Cloud, analytics and agile development key trends for 2012

Cloud, analytics and agile development key trends for 2012 The Australian CLOUD computing, data analytics and agile development will be the trends to watch in 2012 according to research company Ovum. In a new report, the technology analyst firm said next year would be the year that governments turned to cloud computing, ...

Amazon boosts cloud-computing sales, seizing on US budget cuts Washington Post Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, is expanding its cloud-computing sales to the US government, joining Google and Microsoft in seeking federal orders for Web-based services. Amazon says it has gone from having no dedicated government ...

Cloud Adoption Takes Precedence Over Security: Ernst & Young CSO By Hamish Barwick November 04, 2011 — Computerworld — Some Australian companies consider Cloud adoption more important than an updated information security strategy according to research conducted by consultancy firm, Ernst & Young. ...

Making the most of the cloud TechDay.co.nz By Contributor, Monday, 7th November, 2011 Anyone with a hotmail account will know about the anywhere, anytime access benefits of applications in the cloud. Now, though, cloud computing has moved to new heights, and is offering a host of business ...

Bitdefender announces its first cloud security solution eChannelLine By Mark Cox Bitdefender, a Romanian-based security vendor whose technology has done well in independent product reviews, has announced its move into the cloud with its first Cloud-based endpoint protection service. Cloud Security for Endpoints by ...

US Counts on the Cloud to Boost Cyber–Security eWeek Cloud computing will make the intelligence community more secure and efficient, according to Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency (NSA), discussed the cloud and how ...

Flying through a Grid of Clouds The Guardian Isn't everyone talking about Clouds these days? The difference is who owns the resources. In a Cloud, Apple or Amazon, say, own the resources and you pay money when you use them—and not if you don't. For LHC, though, we already own the resources. ...

Cloud computing: the lowdown The Guardian Much of our computing (including the storage of our personal data) is now being done remotely via the 'cloud'. But what is it? Here is a brief history of this radical shift while, below, we assess the relative merits of four cloud computing services ...

John Timpson: Depending on cloud services is risky Telegraph.co.uk "There is a lot of hype about 'in the cloud services' but if you put your critical systems on to the internet you run a big risk." By John Timpson Q How has your IT spend been affected by tight budgets and have your thoughts on all this hosted IT ...

AFM 2011: German Cloud Services Group Mediapeers Sets up in LA Hollywood Reporter The company recently signed a deal with France Telekom that will see the French public broadcaster use the cloud services group for sales and distribution of its entire catalogue. Other prominent mediapeers partners include South Korean teleco giant ...

Bankers go bonkers for the cloud Hydrapinion By Ian GRAYSON Cloud computing is gaining traction in many parts of the business world. Now it seems poised to revolutionise banking. In every discussion about how thecloud is changing business computing, there's usually agreement that some areas are...

Security Roundup for Nov. 4: Virtualization is Key to Public Cloud Security ... CSO While conventional wisdom says virtualized environments and public clouds create massive security headaches, the godfather of Xen, Simon Crosby, says virtualization actually holds a key to better security. Isolation -- the ability to restrict what ...

Thomson Reuters Rebuilds Accounting CS for the Cloud Accounting Today The result is Accounting CS, the first tax and accounting application designed to take full advantage of cloud computing and the continuous, free flow of real-time data that it allows. “Previous accounting software suites operated with a ...

New best practice groups: Cloud Brokering & CMM SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) Cloud Brokering – Focusing on interoperability between Clouds, enterprise architectures that span multiple Cloud providers, and so forth. Cloud Migration Management – The mix of consulting, data-centre analysis tools and migration templates needed to ...

Mozilla's mobile OS to be ready in mid-2012 Rethink Wireless Like Chrome OS, B2G is designed for devices which mainly behave as thin clients, constantly accessing the cloud rather than having significant local processing and storage. Such a way of working is gaining momentum, driven in particular by HTML5 web ...

November 09th, 2011 at 9am CST on CIO TALK RADIO: Where Are You on the Cloud ... PR.com (press release) The topic will be “Where are you on the Cloud Maturity Model?” The show is hosted by Sanjog Aul and is broadcasted over Voice America Business Radio and will last one (1) hour. The show can be heard on the show website at: http://www.CIOtalkradio.com. ...

Karim: Become Game Changers Trinidad Guardian One of the highlights of this week of events was the hosting of a roundtable entitled, “CLOUD VISION—Using Cloud Computing as a Business Advantage” held on Thursday at the Hilton Trinidad. The TTCSI partnered with its member, the Information ...

Discovery by design TechCrunch The Cloud meant you could have your cake and eat it too; it was always true that you were defined by the data you threw off,, but now you could summon it with a magical cursor that rewound through search to the moment you recalled in your history. ...

Why I'm Excited By the Apple-Google Rivalry SlashGear From cloud-based services to mobile operating systems to advertising, the companies are engaged in a war that could last for years. There are some who say that the battle between Apple and Google is a bad thing for the industry, consumers, ...

The Cloud on Your Terms Part 6 of 30: What Cloud Goodies Can I ... By Matt-MS Remember virtualization is a key component to a cloud and these two features can really help yourcloud sing and have fantastic virtualization deployments. These two features really add a huge amount of functionality to Windows Server 2008 ... Matt Hester's WebLog

The Enterprise System Spectator: Cutting Through the Fog of Cloud ... By Frank Scavo In recent years, the term "cloud computing" has been used and abused by vendors and their marketing groups to denote just about anything the vendor offers other than on-premise systems. Analysts too have piled on, each offering their own ... The Enterprise System Spectator

Mobile Network Operators and the Cloud (1/2) | Cloud Computing ... By Olafur Ingthorsson When it comes to telecoms and data centers or cloud services, I think they are in a unique but fragile situation. Many telecoms already possess large and distributed data centers that have been used for hosting and colocation services for ... Cloud Computing Topics

Is actually Cloud Computing To do? | thegreenapple.org By thegreenapple The thought of Cloud scheming, which seemed to be a period introduced for 2007 has existed since the particular 1960′s any time John McCarthy written 'computation may perhaps someday end up organized like a public utility company. ... thegreenapple.org

Nirvanix Cloud Storage | Cloud Business Review By Lisa Drubec As the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services, Nirvanix is the only company that offers variable deployment options under its CloudComplete™ portfolio – public, hybrid and privatecloud solutions – to precisely meet your ... Cloud Business Review

Cloud Spend Tracker Goes to Open Beta | JAVA Developer's Journal It describes the calculator as "a new layer of the cloud stack." It's supposed to suggest ways cloudusers can increase the efficiency of their cloud use and provide actionable insight into unnecessary overages and unused instances. It claims its ... Latest News from JAVA Developer's...

VPS.Net cloud hosting questions - Web Hosting Talk By albatroz I have noticed that this company has changed the details of their. Cloud hosting offering ->http://vps.net/product/cloud-hosting/ Does anybody know if that is a WHM/CPanel reseller account a single CPanel account with a lot of resources. ... Web Hosting Talk

Three Infographics to boost your cloud computing IQ | Virtual Internet ... By jstevens Here are three cloud infographics which visually help you get up to speed and suggest insights into how you should be directing your future IT resources. Virtual Internet Blog

Software Developer-Cloud Based Applications | Web Professional ... By lowes1 VA-Alexandria, Software Developer-Cloud Based Applications Opportunity to be part of a team designing cloud based applications. The candidate must be familiar with NSA Cloudbase, NSA Tuned Chaos, Map Reduce, Hadoop and the ... Web Professional Jobs

Oracle moves to full-range cloud solutions with RightNow ... By a38c77c84a68365538a62009357af1e9 With Oracle's recent move to acquire RightNow, a leading provider of cloud-based customer service, it is expected to beef up its public cloud offering. Enterprise Innovation RSS feed

Deploying hybrid cloud email: What you need to know ... By fmmonteverde Companies are hearing the "siren song" of cloud email and, despite its immaturity, pressure is on organizations to tap into what is perceived to be a superior provisioning model to on-premise deployments. While cloud email is still in its infancy ... IT Insight for Hong Kong's Technology...

Demystifying the private cloud Many enterprises think private cloud is a data center architecture built on legacy virtualization technology that mimics public cloud. It's so much more. searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../Demystifying-the-pri... Three Surefire Ways to Screw Up Cloud Computing PCWorld (blog) By David Linthicum, Infoworld Many companies are having great success with cloud computing, and clear that the market continues to grow by leaps and bounds. However, with any new technology plays, there are those projects that do quick face-plants. ... Cloud Computing and the Reason for Hybrid Versions News Tonight Cloud computing is a fast growing industry in India and there is need for absolute safety because there is an important client information and company detail that is at stake. It has been revealed by VMware that more than 90% of Indian firms believe ... US releases cloud roadmap for comments FutureGov Magazine By Xinghui Guo | 5 November 2011 The US Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released for public comment a draft “roadmap” that is designed to foster federal agencies' adoption of cloud computing, support the ... Siri Outages Indicate Apple Still Doesn't Get the Cloud PCWorld All the trouble raises the question: Why can't Apple get cloud services right? Apple's MobileMe suite of web services was an unmitigated disaster for the company, largely due to long periods of unexplained downtime. Now Apple seems to be repeating ... IBM unveils new Smart Cloud Services for enterprises Sunday Times.lk IBM recently unveiled the industry's most advanced cloud services and software designed from the ground up for enterprise clients. New IBM SmartCloud services and capabilities introduce unprecedented choice, security and portability as businesses shift ... GM Signs Google Apps for Cloud Based Email, Collaboration Services? ITProPortal Automobile giant General Motors has tapped Google Apps to provide cloud based email and collaboration services to its 100000 employees. Citing people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reported that in order to get the final contract, ... Thailand Flooding, Cloud Computing, and Storage Blogcritics.org (blog) Unless one is getting his news from written sources, the Thailand flooding portends a crisis for businesses and consumers who are moving toward cloud computing or offsite data storage, especially if they are projecting rapid growth in their needs over ... Exadel Showcases Tiggr at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley PR Web (press release) Exadel™, a leading global software engineering company that provides services, solutions, and technology, will showcase its groundbreaking Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder at the 9th InternationalCloud Expo, taking place November 7-10, 2011 in Santa Clara, ... Clear2there to Bring Viewbiquity Cloud-based M2M Solutions to Sprint Open ... Embedded Computing Design (press release) As part of this arrangement, Clear2there will make its advanced video surveillance expertise and technology and Viewbiquity's cloud-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technologies available through the Sprint Collaboration Center Showcase, which provides ... App Review: Minus for iPhone, iPod touch & iPad [Minus Harnesses the Power of ... TFTS (blog) Minus relies on the cloud to store your files and each account gets 10GB of free storage, which is upgradeable up to 50GB using a friend referral system. We have discovered Minus here at TFTS in early 2011, well before they launched their mobile ... Security Still An Afterthought, Study Says Dark Reading By Tim Wilson Enterprises are in such a rush to adopt new technologies such as cloud computing, mobile devices, and social media that they are often overlooking the security risks, according to a study published this week. ... OW2 unveils OW2con 2011 final program: "Open Source: The Innovation Drive" San Francisco Chronicle (press release) OW2con 2011, November 23-23: two days of high-level technical presentations on open source cloud computing and enterprise application platforms. OW2, the global open source community for open source middleware and generic applications, announced today ... Five Reasons The Cloud Is Ideal For Small Business Lifehacker Australia Lots of discussion of cloud computing centre on how it can save money for large enterprises, butcloud-based systems accessed online can be just as useful for small businesses. Here are five key reasons moving to the cloud makes sense for new and ...  Follow @CloudAlive

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