Tuesday, November 8, 2011

New Cloud Environments at Cloud Expo West 2011

Cloud Computing & Cloud Hosting by Rackspace
Interxion and CoreSite to Exhibit New Cloud Environments at Cloud Expo West 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
Interxion and CoreSite announced a cloud computing alliance in June 2011, which addresses demand from cloud companies looking to collocate in both European and the US data centers. This alliance aims to minimize the risk and challenges associated with ...
RSA and McAfee add cloud security offerings
Computerworld
By Ellen Messmer Network World - Cloud security options are set to widen today as RSA teams with Microsoft and Citrix to support use of RSA SecurID authentication, and separately, McAfee unveils enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform. ...
Amazon Cloud Drive vs. Apple iCloud
PCWorld
By Brad Reed, NetworkWorld 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. If you want to store more data on the cloud, ...
Cirracore's Cloud Hosting Finds Home in Telx Cloud Xchange
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Nov 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Telx(R) today announced that Cirracore, a global provider of enterprise cloud hosting services, has joined the Telx Cloud Xchange. As a leading interconnection and data center provider in strategic ...
Piston Cloud and Securisea Partner on Cloud Security
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Nov 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced a technology partnership with Securisea, a leading Internet security consultancy specializing in cloud ...
OpSource Squashes Hefty Licensing Fees With Pay-As-You-Go Cloud Software Play
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN OpSource is putting an end to massive software licensing fees with the launch of OpSource Cloud Software, a cloud software play that offers popular Microsoft and Oracle software offerings on a pay-per-drink basis. ...
Cloud Computing's Role in Job Creation: Shifting Needs Create Opportunities ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Expert Ivanka Menken has expanded the Art of Service cloud computing education program to train IT professionals who can then take advantage of more job opportunities in the industry. While unemployment hovers at above nine percent in the United States ...
Top user companies accelerating cloud adoption, says user group
Computerworld
By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld - The Wild West era of cloud computing is ending. So sayscloud computing's new sheriff, a user group called the Open Data Center Alliance. This alliance, founded just a year ago, now has some 300 members, ...
Inside PEER 1's New Public Cloud Division Zunicore
Web Host Industry Review
By Nicole Henderson, November 07, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- When web hosting provider PEER 1 (www.peer1.com) noticed a lot of barriers to cloud adoption - complex pricing and weak customer support, for example - the company decided to address ...
McAfee's updated cloud security platform focuses on preventing data loss
ZDNet (blog)
By Rachel King | November 7, 2011, 11:17am PST Summary: McAfee steps up its cloud computing security platform to ease the worries of businesses afraid of moving to the cloud. While many businesses cite security as a reason for not moving to the cloud ...
AT&T survey: Cloud computing saves cash, planet
Register
By Anna Leach • Get more from this author Putting your data in the cloud could save carbon as well as cash, says a new survey (PDF) on the advantages of the cloud from the Carbon Disclosure Project, funded by US telco AT&T. The report concluded that a ...
Opscode Deploys Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition
MarketWatch (press release)
7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, has today announced that it will be a Certified Deployment Partner for Rackspace® Cloud: Private Edition. The announcement follows Rackspace's news today ...
SOA Software Announces Availability of Atmosphere Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, CA, Nov 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cloud Computing Expo -- SOA Software announced today the availability of Atmosphere Cloud, the cloud-based version of its award winning Enterprise API Management solution. ...
Symform Integrates Cloud Storage Services with ConnectWise
Sacramento Bee
7, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ConnectWise, developer of the leading business management solution designed exclusively for IT service providers, VARs, and MSPs, and Symform, a company that is revolutionizing the cloud storage marketplace by offering the ...
Global Demand for Kronos Cloud Services Continues to Rise
MarketWatch (press release)
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kronos Incorporated announced today that it continues to see exceptional interest in its cloud services offering from organizations looking to maximize their investment in workforce management technology. ...
UShareSoft Unveils New Dynamic Template Store Helping Cloud Providers Rapidly ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
UShareSoft, provider of a cloud template factory, today announced UForge Gallery, the industry's first multi-OS, multi-cloud dynamic template store. A major new addition to the company's UForge for Cloud Providers suite, UForge Gallery enables hosting ...
Gale Technologies Launches Cloud Scheduler 1.0
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Gale Technologies, a leading provider of infrastructure automation software solutions that power IT as a Service for labs, enterprises, and service providers, today announced Cloud Scheduler, ...
The Cloud, Day 2: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cloud
PCWorld (blog)
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld The first step in spending 30 days relying on cloud-based tools and services is to explore my options and choose the ones I want to use to work and live online. Email and writing are the most crucial functions of my PC for me, ...
Red Hat Announces Cloud Computing Alliance with SAIC
MarketWatch (press release)
Through emerging technology exploration and innovative solution demonstration, the ACE Laboratory aims to foster collaboration and information sharing, promote cloud computing best practices and deliver low-cost, enterprise-scale "create once, ...
Simplifying cloud options
Computerworld (blog)
Thinking about the cloud? Wondering what the heck it is? Want to know what your options are? Where do you start? We are on the cusp of a transformative change in how we deliver services in the data center - cloud computing. Cloud computing as a term, ...
Cloud Impact on Ethernet Switch Market Could Top $1 Billion, According to Dell ...
MarketWatch (press release)
To assess the market impact, Dell'Oro Group has created a white paper to analyze how disruptive the Cloud can be, how Ethernet Switch vendors are currently performing in the data center, and what our projections are for the Ethernet Switch market in ...
Best Buy Sends Geek Squad into the Cloud
Wired News
By Caleb Garling Best Buy will send its Geek Squad into the cloud, after purchasing Boston-based mindSHIFT Technologies in a deal valued at $167 million. mindSHIFT provides online applications and data center services for small- to medium-sized ...
Zenoss Expands Unified Cloud Monitoring With Support for Citrix CloudStack
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, CA, Nov 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Today at Cloud Expo, Zenoss, a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, announced the availability of a free and open source CloudStack ...
Abiquo Announces Major New Version of its Leading Enterprise Cloud Solution
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloudsoftware company, today announced a major release of its award-winning software solution, which allows customers to build and manage global, robust, ...
MetraTech's Metanga to Present at Cloud Computing Expo
MarketWatch (press release)
WALTHAM, MA, Nov 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing (ABB(TM)) and compensation solutions, today announced it will present a session at the Cloud Computing Expo being held at the Santa ...
EnStratus raises $3.5M for hybrid cloud management
WebWorkerDaily
based cloud computing startup enStratus has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding to grow its business of managing all types of clouds across a common interface. El Dorado Ventures led the round with participation from Vesbridge Partners. ...
Amazon's Looks to Increase Presence in Financial Services Cloud
Wall Street & Technology
Financial services companies are gradually overcoming psychological hurdles to public cloud, according to Amazon Web Services cloud evangelist, Adam Selipsky. By Greg MacSweeney Most big financial services companies have been eager to tout their own ...
Startup Launches "ZeroPC2.0" -- Powerful Content Navigator for the Cloud With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The new ZeroPC2.0 ( www.zeropc.com ) is a free, powerful content navigator for the cloud that enables people to regain control of their digital lives by connecting cross-platform content, making it accessible using a browser, and easy to search, edit, ...
EnStratus raises $3.5M for hybrid cloud management — Cloud ...
By Derrick Harris
Minneapolis, Minn.-based cloud computing startup enStratus has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding to grow its business of managing all types of clouds across a common interface. enStratus's technology provides a secure platform for ...
GigaOM
Mobile Network Operators and the Cloud (Part 2) » Data Center ...
By Olafur Ingthorsson
services these could potentially be moved to a third-party cloud storage provider, if the incentive is there. Unless the MNO plans to start offering a cloud service directly – and compete with other largecloud providers like Google and Facebook ...
Data Center Knowledge
Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff Talks Cloud | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
Marc Benioff shares with Technology Review his views on not only why cloud computing is so important in business today, but where it is going.
GMO Cloud America
Dome9 Security Announces Entry into Rackspace Cloud ... - Ping! Zine
By Ping! Zine Editor
Dome9 Security is the only cloud server security service to automate cloud firewall management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated and Virtual Private Servers (VPS) across various platforms. Dome9 closes a critical gap in ...
Ping! Zine
Cloud enables low-cost projects: BigDataUniversity.com | Thoughts ...
By Raul Chong
Home » Blog » Cloud enables low-cost projects: BigDataUniversity.com ... At a healthy rate of 200 new registered students a week, we feel confident that the cloud will allow us to grow as requirements and users increase over time. ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Best Buy Reorganizes in the Cloud, Acquiring 123Together.com ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
If you've ever investigated various sources for hosted Exchange e-mail or SharePoint sites, or virtualcloud servers, for a small business of under 100 employees or so, you've ...
ReadWriteWeb
Extend private cloud into Amazon Web Services with OpenNebula ...
By Lotus CSP
A Hybrid Cloud is an extension of a Private Cloud to combine local resources with resources from remote Cloud providers. The remote provider could be a commercial Cloud service, such as Amazon EC2 or ElasticHosts, or a partner ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices
November #cloudchat: Retail analytics and the cloud | Smarter ...
By Katie Keating
10 at 4 p.m. ET, on retail analytics and the cloud. Analytics is a hot topic as of late, and retail is a natural fit for some of the capabilities available when you marry analytics to the cloud (see here for some recent stats on this year's holiday ...
Smarter Computing Blog
Is All This Hype Giving Cloud the Business? - The CA Cloud Storm ...
By George Watt
Is cloud computing disruptive innovation or great marketing? For what feels like forever there have been debates regarding whether cloud computing is a game-changing approach or simply an unbelievably well executed marketing initiative. ...
The CA Cloud Storm Chasers
Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet Still Needs the Cloud - Peter Kafka ...
By Peter Kafka
Unlike Amazon's Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble's new tablet isn't tied to a proprietary cloud service. The bookseller seems to have mixed feelings about it.
AllThingsD
RightScale Announces Support for Rackspace Cloud: Private ...
By Publisher
RightScale Cloud Computing Management Extended to Rackspace Offering Based on OpenStack.
So-Co-IT
The Cloud Can Extend, Not Just Replace, Law Practice Technology ...
By David Whelan
One of the significant benefits to cloud computing is that it enables an as well as mentality to replace the older instead of philosophy. It means you can, in some cases, have your cake and eat it too. More importantly, it means you can continue ...
Slaw
Cloud computing: the lowdown | Technology | The Observer
Much of our computing (including the storage of our personal data) is now being done remotely via something called the 'cloud'. John Naughton gives a brief ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../cloud-computing-guide-history-naugh...
Infoboom: Cloud Expo 2011 Speakers and Schedule Highlight the ...
The Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, which is the ninth in the series of Cloud Expos put up by CloudExpo Inc., will take place between November 7 and 10 in Santa ...
www.theinfoboom.com/.../cloud-expo-2011-speakers-and-sch...
Clouds of anxiety: Companies worry about security of cloud computing
While organizations continue to embrace cloud-computing platforms, surveys find organizations are concerned about security and their very ability to manage it ...
www.networkworld.com/.../110411-clouds-of-anxiety-compa...
 

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