Thursday, November 3, 2011

OpSource execs to present at Cloud Expo West, Cloud Channel Summit and Ethernet Expo Americas 2011

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OpSource to Demonstrate Thought Leadership at Cloud Expo West, Cloud Channel ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- OpSource, Inc., Dimension Data's wholly-owned enterprise cloud and managed hosting business, today announced that company executives will present at Cloud Expo West, Cloud Channel Summit and Light ...Executives to present on leading cloud topics, including orchestration as well as private and public cloud strategies at upcoming industry conferences . . . 
Feds Aim To Speed Cloud Adoption With New Roadmap
InformationWeek
Will it make it easier for agencies to buy into cloud? By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek The federal government Tuesday released a draft version of a roadmap that aims to accelerate federal agencies' adoption of cloud computing and support the tech ...
ParAccel Announces Cloud Edition
MarketWatch (press release)
CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ParAccel, Inc., developer of the world's most powerful analytic platform, today announced ParAccel Cloud Edition available for deployment on premise in a private cloud or in a public cloud. ...
Cloud Security, Firewall Concerns Create Channel Opportunities: Study
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN The cloud and cloud servers are vulnerable and susceptible to attack and could pose a risk, concerns that give partners new inroads to clients concerned about their lack of cloud security, according to a recent study. ...
Mobile Cloud: The Cloud's Second Act
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN If cloud computing is the new frontier, and mobility is the next big thing, then it stands to reason that the mobile cloud is the next big new frontier. A great deal of lip service has been played to the mobile cloud. ...
The Cloud CRM Market: Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle and More
Enterprise Apps Today
The cloud CRM market is a crowded one, so we offer an overview of the biggest names in our cloudCRM buying guide. Salesforce.com, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and dozens of others are offering cloudCRM (customer relationship management) services. ...
CA Technologies Turnkey Cloud Platform Powers ViaWest's New KINECTed™ Cloud ...
Sacramento Bee
2, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that ViaWest, one of the largest privately owned data center and managed services providers in North America, is using the CA AppLogic® turnkey cloud platform and CA Process ...
Cloud, Mobile, Social Creating Security Conundrums
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN The rise of cloud services, mobility and social media is creating a new security paradigm and companies are having difficulty keeping up. In its 2011 Global Information Security Survey, Ernst & Young found that cloud, ...
RackSpace And StillSecure Partner To Offer Cloud Security
Dark Reading
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 provides easy access to StillSecure's Cloud Security ...
Amazon Cloud Drive vs. Apple iCloud
Computerworld
By Brad Reed 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, you have to pay extra. ...
Private cloud vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud
Network World
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service There's no denying it: practically every business is moving to the cloud or at least thinking about it. But with a number of options available to them, many are still experimenting with which works best. ...
Will music fans be on Cloud 9?
Boston Herald
By Brendan Lynch Amazon.com, Google and Apple have all jumped into cloud music streaming, which lets you listen to music over the Internet on laptops, tablets or smart phones, but not all the services strike the right chord. Amazon's Cloud Drive/Cloud ...
Aryaka Networks' Cloud-Based WAN Optimization Solution Enhances Productivity ...
TMC Net
By Rajani Baburajan Aryaka (News - Alert) Networks, a cloud-based WAN optimization provider has revealed that global enterprises are leveraging its cloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution to enhance productivity, improve time ...
Zenith Infotech Takes Cloud Computing Boot Camp Abroad
ChannelPro-SMB
by ChannelPro-SMB November 2, 2011 02:34 PM Zenith Infotech's popular cloud computing boot camp will be traveling to several domestic and international locations, including Asia and the Middle East. By Elaine J. Hom Zenith Infotech, a company that ...
Hivemine Launches Beta Program for AskMe Cloud, a Subscription-Based Social ...
Sacramento Bee
2, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Hivemine, a provider of social business software, today announced the availability of the beta program for AskMe Cloud, a new hosted subscription service for the AskMe solution. AskMe Cloud is designed for mid-sized companies ...
Top Google Partners Form Cloud Alliance
Channel Insider
Seven of Google's biggest channel partners have formed the Cloud Alliance for Google Apps in order to pool resources and assure deep integration between all their solutions. The seven heaviest hitters in the Google Apps Marketplace for IT management ...
Zyxel Announces Cloud-Managed Access Points
eWeek
The price for the platform is $159, and a one-year subscription for cloud-management service has a price of $129. Zyxel Communications, a provider of secure broadband networking, Internet connectivity and routing products, announced the availability of ...
Cloud Computing: Consolidating Databases onto Private Clouds
InfoWorld
The convergence of two trends - private cloud computing and database consolidation - is enabling IT pros to deliver applications and data to enterprise users more securely, with greater reliability and with greater business insight. ...
Virtustream Continues to Advance Its Global Growth Strategy
MarketWatch (press release)
The new workspace, located in London's financial district, accommodates the high demand for enterprise-class cloud services that Virtustream has seen in their dealings with some of Europe's leading companies. With London at the heart of digital ...
Hard-up Big Biz's docs lobbed into cheap cloud
Register
By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author EMC has countered claims that the price of its enterprise-grade document handling software exceeds business value – by offering them as on-demand cloud services. Customers tap into the content management ...
Siri, When Will Apple Launch its iTunes Match Music Service?
PCWorld
By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld Nov 2, 2011 1:08 PM iTunes MatchIn a rare twist, Apple missed a self-imposed deadline to launch iTunes Match, an ambitious service that mirrors your iTunes music library in the cloud. The company said on October 4, ...
Netsuite Earns TRUSTe's Trust
MarketWatch (press release)
TRUSTe has eliminated QuickBooks, salesforce.com and a tangle of spreadsheets and homegrown applications in favor of NetSuite's cloud-based business management software suite, trusting NetSuite for ERP, CRM, contract management, revenue recognition, ...
Data center and cloud providers talk security, performance and easing concerns.
ITworld.com
By Beth Bacheldor November 02, 2011, 10:27 AM — The decision to host your data center somewhere else, or to move some of your operations into a cloud, is never trivial. Chief among concerns are security, performance, and management– ...
'I don't want your stinkin' cloud!'
ZDNet (blog)
By Joe McKendrick | November 2, 2011, 2:07pm PDT Summary: Not everyone — even small firms — even small tech companies — believes cloud computing has something to offer over on-premises systems. Mark Maunder, founder and CEO of Feedjit, which offers ...
Google gets second shot at federal cloud contract, faces uphill fight
Ars Technica
By Jon Brodkin | Published November 2, 2011 12:08 PM One year ago, Google sued the US Department of the Interior because it felt slighted over the agency's wanting to use Microsoft's cloud instead of Google Apps. Google's lawsuit has earned it a second...
Cloud Shredder splits your data in half, renders it useless to hackers and thieves
Geek.com
The same is true of our increasing reliance on cloud-based data storage. Your data may be behind a login and protected by encryption, but a single failure could expose it to a third-party as Sony showed can happen earlier this year with the PSN ...
New 'Server on a Chip' Aims to Lighten Up Cloud Hardware
TechNewsWorld
While the image that the high-tech industry has adopted for the source of services delivered over a remote network -- the cloud -- conjures thoughts of airy skies where quasi-magical things happen, the actual cloud is firmly anchored to the ground in ...
App Taps Cloud, Facial Recognition Tech for Photo Touch Ups
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Because ArcSoft's facial recognition tech pulls information from a cloud database of more than fifty thousand anonymous photos, the Perfect365 app doesn't work quite as well when used offline. And unlike Adobe Photoshop, the photo-fixing industry ...
IU and Penguin Computing partner to provide secure cloud computing service
Indiana University
This type of service -- also known as on-demand or cloud computing -- lets individuals and organizations share the resources of large computing systems without individually purchasing and maintaining the costly equipment. One downside of traditional ...
Cloudability offers cloud cost-tracking APIs, free beer — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
With the public beta of Cloudability's cloud cost-tracking service, new APIs are available to help customers access their billing and usage information from popular cloud providers including Salesforce.com, Azure, Amazon Web Services and ...
GigaOM
Dome9 Study Finds Cloud Vulnerable Without Secure Cloud Ports ...
Dome9 Study Finds Cloud Vulnerable Without Secure Cloud Ports and Firewalls | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
Joukuu Floats a Web-based 'Cloud Cloud' for Online Storage ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
One of the main principles of cloud storage in the enterprise is that users should not have to know the physical locations of the devices that store their ...
ReadWriteCloud
Cloud Shredder keeps your files secure | Ubergizmo
By George Wong
Making sure that your data is safe can be a tricky issue. If you leave it on your hard disk, [...]
Ubergizmo
VMware: VMware vCloud Blog: Debunking Cloud Security Myths
Despite the opportunities made available through cloud computing, security concerns still remain the largest inhibitor to adoption. However, the technology and expertise required to build a trusted cloudis actually more feasible than many may ...
VMware Blogs
New Cloud Management and Helping Management Understand ...
By admin
Cloud Management and Helping Management Understand Clouds. One of my favourite songs is Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now which contains the following refrain: “I've looked at clouds from both sides now. From up and down, and still ...
Stephen's Lighthouse
Cloudability Debuts To Help Manage And Monitor All Of Your Cloud ...
By Leena Rao
Cloudability helps businesses be more efficient on the cloud by analyzing a company's entire cloudspend for cost savings opportunities and make recommendations. Cloudability supports more than 80cloud and application providers, ...
TechCrunch
Track cloud spending with Cloudability - internet, cloud computing ...
By Nancy Gohring
A new tool helps businesses keep track of spending on cloud services.
CIO - News RSS feed
Cloud Infrastructure Firm Virtustream Opens New UK Headquarters ...
Cloud Infrastructure Firm Virtustream Opens New UK Headquarters | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
The Cloud on your terms part 2 of 30 What is a Hybrid Cloud? - John ...
By jweston
What is a Hybrid Cloud? We keep hearing about “The Cloud” in IT, and how it is supposed to change things in the next few years. People keep using the terms, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and HybridCloud. What do these really mean? ...
TechNet Blogs
rPath Chief Technology Officer to Discuss Cloud Application ...
rPath, the application engine provider for the private cloud, today announces that chief technology officer, Brett Adam, will be speaking at both Cloud Expo West, November 7-10, in Santa Clara, Calif., and the Cloud Channel Summit, ...
Enterprise Communications and...
The Cloud and the Availability Continuum – PART 2 | Mission ...
By Janel Ryan
Like dedicated hosting, cloud has to address availability. Cloud outages remind us of the importance of resiliency and availability.
Mission Critical: Cloud
Cloud Security: StillSecure Joins Rackspace Cloud Program ...
By Nicholas Mukhar
StillSecure has joined the Rackspace Cloud Tools Program and will give Rackspace customers free access to the StillSecure Cloud SMS solution.
MSPmentor
Considerations when defining a desktop cloud solution | Thoughts ...
By Marcus Erber
Let's look at a desktop cloud solution from an architecture perspective. First, we need to define our users and user groups that will actually use our solution. The users will require some hardware, a thin-client or other device to access their ...
Thoughts on Cloud
Cloud Communications - Cloud Communications Company ...
The cloud communications space is highly fragmented and could benefit from consolidation, and Telesphere believes it's in a plumb position to pull things ...
it.tmcnet.com/.../233045-cloud-communications-company-tele...
Cloud Hosting Reseller
Cloud hosting is a special brand of webspace hosting services, which includes a group or a cluster of web servers devoted to serving only one service (mail, disk ...
www.topwebhosting.org/cloud-hosting-reseller/

Gartner: Private clouds are a last resort
Enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs.
www.networkworld.com/.../101911-gartner-private-cloud-252...

 

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