Saturday, November 19, 2011

Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Player

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Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Player: How They Stack Up
Network World
By Kristin Burnham, CIO After months of anticipation and a limited beta release, Google finally released its cloud-based music offering, Google Music. Google Music users located in the United States can employ the Android Market to purchase songs and ...
Should the Cloud Go Public?
Technorati
The evidence is beginning to slowly seep through: the public sector is finally starting to “get” cloud computing. Almost every day we hear of corporations, local authorities and other public bodies dabbling with software as a service. ...
The Cloud Will Be Open Source And Ubiquitous
Seeking Alpha
When you architect servers with virtualization, distributed computing and the ability to handle big data, so a single Web site or job can take power of the whole system when needed, that's a cloud. Salesforce.com (CRM) (whatever you may think of it) is ...
CSA Congress roundup: Cloud SLAs, compliance and 7 dirty words
SearchSecurity.com
Day 2 of the Cloud Security Alliance Congress 2011 ran the gamut, from cloud SLAs and cloudcomputing compliance to a riff on the late George Carlin's famous comedy routine. The two-day CSA Congress attracted about 500 attendees, including enterprise ...
Alcatel Promises Better Clouds for Carriers
PCWorld
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Alcatel-Lucent is developing a cloud computing platform for carriers that aims to take full advantage of their networks to deliver guaranteed performance. Carriers can use the platform, called CloudBand, both to run their ...
Adobe takes big leap into the cloud
San Francisco Chronicle
The apps - which include the first touch version of Photoshop - are bound together by what Adobe calls "Creative Cloud," a service that synchronizes creative work across a broad range of devices. The move comes as Adobe works to move customers away ...
CA Develops New Partner Focus, Initiatives As Cloud Computing Reshapes Its ...
CRN
By Rick Whiting, CRN CA Technologies is overhauling its partner program as the company expands into cloud management software and targets prospective midmarket customers it has largely ignored until now. Problem is, CA historically has had a ...
Malware turns cool cloud idea into money-sucking parasite for consumers
ITworld.com
By Kevin Fogarty Add a new comment Build a cloud computing service based on hardware belonging to other people, but sell it just like any other commercial cloud service. Use the same highly distributed approach SETI did in the '90s and try not to ...
Joe Hadsall, Geeked Out: Spotify one of the cloud's silver linings
Joplin Globe
By Joe Hadsall Globe Features Editor I have a natural resistance to cloud-based services such as Spotify, Amazon's Cloud Player, Windows Live and Apple's iCloud. It makes sense to have stuff stored on a common server that can be accessed anywhere ...
NextCloud's hybrid cloud service achieves VMware vCloud powered validation
CTR
NextCloud, a cloud computing service provider, announced this week that its NextCloud hybridcloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company's cloud services are underpinned by VMware's virtualization ...
Cloud Music Showdown: Amazon vs. Apple vs. Google [REVIEW]
Mashable
These two services are competing with with Amazon's Cloud Player (which is integrated with the new Kindle Fire) in a new realm of cloud music storage. The three major contenders offer similar products with a similar mission: Allow users to buy new ...
Why Investing in Clouds is a Profitable Move?
Business Insider
Cloud Computing, which has become a buzz phrase over the last few years, essentially denotes, broadly, three categories of hosted delivery services over the internet. This includes, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and ...
Microsoft Cloud Exec Is New Washington State CIO
InformationWeek
By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek The state of Washington has hired a former Microsoft cloudcomputing executive as its new CIO, the state announced Monday. Microsoft vet Bharat Shyam steps into a role that's been accompanied by some major changes ...
Cloud, mobility to drive security market
ZDNet Asia
By Ellyne Phneah , ZDNet Asia on November 18, 2011 (12 hours ago) Cloud computing and IT consumerization will influence business transformation and in turn, security trends, say Symantec execs. SINGAPORE--Cloud and mobility are upcoming trends that ...
Cloud Computing Storage: Big Data Drives the Cloud Storage Increases
Formtek Blog (blog)
By Dick Weisinger, on November 18th, 2011 Enterprise IT strategies are under pressure to change, and increasingly the cloud is becoming an important component in revised strategies. Analysts at IDC expect that Enterprise IT shops will increasingly ...
Toward Easier GPU Cloud Deployment, Zillians Introduces vGPU, the World's ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Zillians, a leading cloud solution provider specializing in high performance computing, GPU virtualization middleware and massive multi-player online game (MMOG) platforms today announced the availability of vGPU - the world's first commercial ...
Fujitsu offers Hybrid Cloud Services to Microsoft Windows Azure
Computer Business Review
Fujitsu has launched Hybrid Cloud Services for Microsoft Windows Azure to enable government and enterprise customers to benefit from hybrid cloud offerings, achieving operating cost reductions of typically 30% or more. Fujitsu's Hybrid Cloud Services ...
Public Cloud Keys Too Easy to Find
eSecurity Planet
If you put the keys to your cloud infrastructure in plain sight, don't be surprised if you get hacked. By Sean Michael Kerner | November 18, 2011 You wouldn't leave the keys in the ignition of a running car, in a public place would you? ...
LiveOps Integrates Twitter with the Cloud Contact Center
Destination CRM
LiveOps today released two new applications on its cloud-based LiveOps Platform: LiveOps Multichannel and LiveOps Social. These applications provide agents access to Twitter, mobile, SMS, email, and Web chat with a single agent sign-on and interface. ...
Server Design Summit 2011 Delivers the Latest on Bringing Servers Into the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
It is the first event to deal with bringing servers into the cloud computing era," said Swapna Yasarapu, Technical Marketing Manager for STEC and Server Design Summit Conference Chairperson. "It will cover such key emerging topics as virtualization, ...
StorSimple Cloud Storage Appliance Named 2011 Editors' Best Award Winner by ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- StorSimple, the leading provider of CloudIntegrated Enterprise Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, today announced that its StorSimple Appliance was named as a Bronze medal winner of the ...
cMoney, Inc. Chooses Sirius Computer Solutions for Cloud Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
"IBM software components are essential to our ability to provide cMoney with an optimized infrastructure and integrated cloud solution," said Ron Faltin, Sirius Director of Business Development for Cloud Solutions. "We've committed considerable ...
'Tis the Season for Full-Disk Encryption, Cloud Backups, & Worry-Free Travel
Wired News
to the cloud. I can do that now for a few reasons: 1) Lion's FileVault implementation is finally worth using, 2) SSDs are cheap enough that I can put one in my desktop so that I don't notice the I/O performance penalty of disk encryption, ...
Predicting performance issues in your cloud environment | Thoughts ...
By Alfredo Olivieri
So, what does events-correlation have to do with the cloud? Well, you probably agree that monitoring your cloud resources is vital for your cloud services to be provided successfully. Anyway, although virtualization delivers a number of ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
Cloud Computing News Highlights: Investors Hot on Cloud Opportunities, Find the Right Cloud Tools, More Secure Cloud, Small Business Benefits from Cloud Hosting.
GMO Cloud America
Tips for Migrating Microsoft Exchange to the Cloud | CloudTweaks ...
By Rick
Tips for Migrating Microsoft Exchange to the Cloud I have previously discussed cloud migrations, mostly from the perspective Infrastructure as a Service(IAAS)
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
New Features Now Available for Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers
By Angela Bartels
Link to the Rackspace Cloud & Show the Love. Live Chat with us or Call.
Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting
Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #35 by @tbalinas via @Zenoss
By Travis Balinas
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, Service Assurance, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the ...
The Cloud Management Blog
Google, Microsoft, Intel, Verizon join CSA cloud-security registry ...
By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Tim Greene)
Google, Verizon, Intel, McAfee, Microsoft and Savvis are joining a voluntary program set up by theCloud Security Alliance that provides public information about whether contributors comply with CSA-recommended cloud-security practices.
Computerworld UK's News
SAP on the Cloud » Interested in SAP's Cloud Strategy – join us for ...
By Richard Hirsch
During the keynote from Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe's at the TechEd / Sapphire in Madrid, there was a general discussion of SAP's future strategy and details were provided concerning the Cloud, Core, Mobility and InMemory offerings. ...
SAP on the Cloud
Cloud Security Standards - Plankytronixx - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
By ...Planky
If we discount the smaller niche cloud players who provide very specialised services – let's concentrate on the high-volume players – there's a reason you can buy 1 hour of compute for 5 cents. Volume. By having absolutely massive ...
Plankytronixx
The Tetherless World Weblog » Biomedical Semantics and the Cloud
By jimmccusker
So that's on the “semantics using the cloud” side, but I really think that there's a lot of potential going the other way: using semantics to discover data and services in the cloud. SADI has the ability to discover and link services through ontologies ...
The Tetherless World Weblog
5 Reasons Cloud Computing Is The Future | Business 2 Community
By Rob Boirun
Much has been made in recent years regarding the growth of cloud computing. Cloud computing is the practice of storing data and files online in lieu of a.
Business 2 Community
 

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