Friday, November 4, 2011

From Cloud-Ready to Cloud Infrastructures

Cloud Computing & Cloud Hosting by Rackspace
From Cloud-Ready to Cloud Infrastructures
Wired News
Cloud computing directly reduces that “Time To Value” for new projects. And, for those skeptics who aren't convinced that they should restructure their entire enterprise yet for Cloud Computing, there are now entry-level private cloud options to enable ...
Oracle defends its cloud, tears into Salesforce.com
Ars Technica
By Jon Brodkin | Published November 3, 2011 1:52 PM Last month's unveiling of the Oracle Public Cloud garnered a bit of skepticism: CEO Larry Ellison claimed full support for industry standards, but analysts questioned whether it would truly be ...
How Cloud Computing Can Boost Developing Nations
Forbes
Winston Damarillo is founder and CEO of Morphlabs, developer of a cloud-computing software platform. Winston Damaillo: The answer is in the clouds. By now, it's no secret that cloud computing will change the IT landscape immeasurably in the next 10...
Fujitsu's NuVola Private Cloud Platform Brings Cloud Transcoding to Multi ...
MarketWatch (press release)
OB) jointly announced today the NuVola Private Cloud Platform(TM) Appliance -- CodecSys(TM) powered by Fujitsu. The CodecSys powered by Fujitsu appliance combines Broadcast International's patented multi-codec video transcoding software platform with ...
Open Data Center Alliance Membership Forecasts a Tripling of Cloud Computing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
--Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) accelerates delivery of industry standard cloud adoption announcing collaborations on potential standards with the Cloud Security Alliance and DMTF as well as release of best practices for cloud application ...
Study: IT's Future Lies With Cloud Computing, Security and Mobile
PCWorld
By Fred O'Connor, IDG News Cloud computing, security and the mobile space hold the most growth potential in the coming years, according to IT professionals surveyed by tech staffing firm Modis. While no single technology dominated that portion of the ...
Merit Solutions Announces New Cloud ERP Offerings for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
These three new Cloud ERP Software products allow companies to take advantage of the industry-leading capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 at a decreased cost, without compromising security or functionality. "Deep industry-specific Cloud ERP ...
StillSecure Joins the Rackspace Cloud Tools Program
Business Solutions Magazine
StillSecure®, a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, today announced that it has joined the Rackspace® (NYSE: RAX) Cloud Tools Program. The relationship with Rackspace, the world's leading specialist in the hosting and ...
NASA Plans Cloud Marketplace For Scientists
InformationWeek
Cloud services suite to expand with platform as a service, data as a service, and a new cloudcomputing storefront likened to Apple's AppStore and Google's Android Market. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek NASA, already among the government leaders ...
PerspecSys Founder, Terry Woloszyn, Reveals the Hidden Secrets of Security for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
WHO: At Cloud Computing Expo 2011 next week, PerspecSys founder/CTO and cloud security pioneer, Terry Woloszyn, will speak at the event's general session on the most pressing issues facing cloud security. Sessions will cover security and privacy ...
Cloud Computing and Security: Issues for Providers and Users
PR Newswire (press release)
Cloud computing is more reliable, cost-effective and efficient than data systems of the past, but as with any data system, there are a host of security issues that must be addressed. Both providers and end users of cloud computing resources need a ...
Virtacore Leverages Platform Equinix to Expand Hybrid Cloud Services Worldwide
MarketWatch (press release)
Part of Equinix's robust ecosystem of cloud and IT service providers, Virtacore benefits from the ability to quickly and securely interconnect with network and service partners in order to speed the deployment of its hybrid cloud services to enterprise ...
30 Days With the Cloud
PCWorld
This time, I am going to spend the 30 days in the cloud. I love my Windows 7 PC, and I am attached to having my software locally installed. I like knowing that my software is right here where I need it, and that I am not dependent on a reliable ...
SolidFire to Participate in Cloud Expo Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
BOULDER, Colo., Nov 03, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SolidFire, a provider of all-solid-state (SSD) primary storage systems for cloud service providers, today announced that the company will be exhibiting at the Cloud Expo Conference, taking place in Santa ...
NextIO and Rackspace Present a PCI Express I/O Virtualization Solution to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NextIO CTO and Co-Founder Chris Pettey and Rackspace Principle Engineer Joel Wineland will underline the necessity of constantly reshaping the fundamental rack infrastructure of the cloud as cloud computing evolves to cover a broad range of markets. ...
Success in the Cloud Begins with Integration
Forbes
Now that cloud computing has turned from an “if” to a “when” proposition, enterprises of all sizes are asking a lot of questions beginning with “how.” How will we make the transition? How much will it cost? How long will it take? ...
Verizon Aims To Rise In Cloud Business
Investor's Business Daily
By REINHARDT KRAUSE, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 06:03 PM ET That's why phone company Verizon Communications (VZ) is bolstering its cloud business through acquisitions. It bought Terremark in January for $1.4 billion and CloudSwitch in August for ...
Cloud providers told to improve their service management
iTWire
Providers of cloud services should invest in IT service management (ITSM) capability in order to enable their customers to better monitor the performance of the infrastructure that underpins their services, and to differentiate their offerings in an ...
Businesses in India seen embracing 'hybrid cloud'
Business Standard
Even though the understanding of cloud (a metaphor for the internet) computing in the Asia-Pacific region is the highest among Indian businesses , most of these seem to be concerned about the data privacy issue. In a recent survey by virtualisation ...
WSO2 Presents Technical Webinars on Emerging Enterprise Cloud Computing Models ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Interactive sessions explore how to use the WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform and WSO2 StratosLive PaaS to maximize cloud benefits and remove barriers to adoption. Cloud computing provides enterprises great opportunities for enabling agility while ...
Cloud Accounting Advocacy and Education Group Launched
Accounting Today
By Seth Fineberg, Accounting Today Cloud accounting and finance education and advocacy are the goals behind the newly formed Cloud Accounting Institute, a group launched by Microsoft Dynamics GP and Intacct reseller and CPA Lindy Antonelli. ...
ConnectSolutions Launches Managed Private Cloud for Microsoft Lync for ...
Sacramento Bee
Introductory offer help organizations be more agile in the cloud and take the first step toward launching an enterprise-wide unified communications solution. By ConnectSolutions EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 3, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ConnectSolutions ...
Amazon Cloud Drive vs. Apple iCloud
Techworld.com
By Brad Reed | Network World US | Published: 16:00, 02 November 2011 Let's start out with the basics: Both iCloud and Amazon Cloud Drive offer users 5GB of free storage for documents, audio and video files and other media for all new users. ...
Sonian Announces Release of Sensu, an Open Source Cloud Monitoring Framework
MarketWatch (press release)
NEWTON, MA, Nov 03, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Sonian, the pioneer in cloud-powered archiving and search, today announced its release of Sensu, an open source cloud monitoring framework. Built to enhance performance and availability within the ...
Cloud Storage Management Firm Mezeo Software Partners with Scality
Web Host Industry Review (blog)
By Nicole Henderson, November 03, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloudstorage management solutions provider Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com) announced on Thursday that it has formed an agreement with storage software firm Scality (www.scality.com) ...
YouSendIt Looks To Channel For Cloud Collaboration, File Sharing
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN YouSendIt is turning to the channel to add its cloud-based content collaboration services and file sharing technologies to augment their existing cloud and e-mail offerings, a move that the company said gives partners a deeper ...
Harris Corp. sees opportunity, challenges in the cloud
Network World
By Jim Duffy, Network World With all the security challenges encompassed in cloud services, one company is working to ensure that its users and other customers can rely on it for business critical computing. Harris Corp., the $6 billion, 16000-employee ...
Impetus Technologies to Present 'Building Your Big Data Strategy - Block by ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The company will showcase its solutions like Hadoop Cluster Management, Large Data Analytics Platform, Cloud-based Mobile Test Automation and other compelling Cloud related tools at this convention. Impetus executives will be available at Booth # 620 ...
Threat of Security Breaches Is an After-Thought in the Rush to Adopt New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
3, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In the rush to utilize new technologies and move into the increasingly borderless world of cloud computing, mobile devices and social media, a growing gap is developing between global organizations' business needs and ...
Smart Grid’s Latest Cloud: Honeywell’s Cloud ...
By info@greentechmedia.com
Honeywell has a cloud platform that will allow utilities to reach out and touch hundreds of thousands of smart thermostats.
GreentechGrid
Infographic: What SMB Should Demand For Cloud Services ...
By David Strom
After writing last year about cloud computing can help SMBs move out of the recession, the folks at Glowhost put together a nice infographic that summarizes some of ...
ReadWriteWeb
ParAccel Cloud Edition can be deployed on premise in a private ...
By Bob Violino
ParAccel Cloud Edition is designed to decrease the time it takes for companies to leverage analytics capabilities, allowing quick deployment of the ParAccel Analytic platform and enabling organizations to provision just the amount of storage ...
Information Management - Latest News
Cloud Provider Virtacore Systems Supports Growth with Equinix ...
Cloud Provider Virtacore Systems Supports Growth with Equinix Data Centers | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
The secure cloud — Tech News and Analysis
By GigaOM
Join GigaOM Pro and our sponsor CenturyLink for “The Secure Cloud,” a free analyst roundtable webinar on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
GigaOM
A “Healthier” Medical Industry, Thanks to the Cloud | SiliconANGLE
By Cherr Aira
The cloud would usually be associated with either storage or computing in today's technological cycle. But the cloud spans a much bigger circle and can be utilized in so many different ways, especially by enterprises. One sector exploring the ...
SiliconANGLE
The Legal Impact of Cloud in Entertainment | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
When you download a piece of music from the cloud, who owns it and who is due the payment for the copyright of that material? With the introduction of the cloud into the complex world of copyright issues for music, the creation of various ways ...
GMO Cloud America
SAP on the Cloud » Cloud at Sapphire EMEA – Sessions Not To ...
By Sven Denecken
Cloud at Sapphire EMEA – Sessions Not To Miss For those of you attending #SAPPHIRENOW in Madrid. November 3, 2011 by Sven Denecken. Check out my top ten pick of cloud sessions. For general information about SAP and the Cloud, ...
SAP on the Cloud
NISTs definition of cloud computing: Why it matters | Smart Grid ...
By SmartGridSherpa
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its working definition of cloudcomputing (NIST Special Publication 800-145) and opened a public review/comment period through December 2, 2011. It is good to see ...
Smart Grid Sherpa
Cloud Commercialization – A portfolio approach to Cloud ...
By Neil McEvoy
With a mission of helping address Canada's Innovation Gap, one of our primary activities for the Canadian Cloud Best Practices Council is “Cloud Commercialization”. In short key end user groups, like public sector CIO's, are helping us ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices
Myths and realities of cloud security
By admin
Whenever the topic of cloud computing comes up, cloud security isn't far behind. Survey after survey has shown it to be a top CIO concern, but how much of that concern is legitimate? CTOvision's Bob Gourley and Tom Reilly, Vice President ...
CrucialPointLLC
Open Data Center AllianceSM and Cloud Security Alliance Join ...
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced a strategic collaboration today which will accelerate industry standard delivery of cloud solutions to meet customer requirements for broad cloud ...
Enterprise Communications and...
The Pioneer | Whitman news, delivered. » Cloud may be here to stay ...
By Blair Hanley Frank
One of the big buzzwords in technology these days is “the cloud.” With Apple pushing out iCloud to all of its iOS device users with the advent of iOS 5, and Google working on an entirely cloud-based operating system in the form of its Chrome ...
The Pioneer | Whitman news, delivered.
Service Management; Of The Cloud, For The Cloud, By The Cloud ...
For organizations to keep up, we really need to offload mundane processes to the cloud. There are two key resources we need to free up – 1) people to work on ...
en.community.dell.com/.../service-management-of-the-cloud-f...
 

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