Cloud News: Past, Present, Future

Amazon's Cloud: A Supercomputer Anyone Can Rent
Mashable
It's in the cloud. Cloud computing gets a lot of attention, and deservedly so. Harnessing the processing power of multiple machines in different locations to attack a single, complex task that would usually be completed by a machine in a single ...

2011 in Review: Tablets and the Cloud Take Center Stage
PC Magazine
Tablet computers became a bigger part of our technology lives—both for personal and business users—and cloud computing evolved from just a buzzword into a common phrase in our vernacular. On the hardware side, it was clearly the year of the tablet, ...

How The Cloud Is Changing The Video Game Business
Forbes
Following its sold out Cloud Gaming Summit in San Jose, CA September 7-8, FC Business Intelligence is bringing the cloud conversation to London January 17-18, 2012 with Cloud Gaming Europe. Four of the leading speakers from the upcoming summit offer ...

Forbes

Host Virtual expands its Hong Kong and India Clouds with a Localized Level of ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Cloud Hosting provider Host Virtual, Inc has expanded both its India and Hong Kong cloud locations with additional capacity, providing low latency, localized Cloud Services to two of the fastest growing economies in the world. Cloud Hosting provider ...

Cloud, Social Computing Expected To Dominate 2012
Investor's Business Daily
And social networking, mobile computing, cloud computing and digital delivery of entertainment will continue to change the competitive landscape. A look ahead: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows off changes to the social site in 2011. ...

Cloud Computing Trends for 2012 Made Clear
Infoboom
In order for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to move forward in cloud computing, it's essential that they know where the market is going and invest wisely to maximize IT dollars. Though the cloudhas seen significant growth over the last two years, ...

How To Accelerate Cloud Adoption Through Windows 8
CRN (blog)
By Greg Pierce, for, CRN December 30, 2011 Windows 8 is an operating system that is a great fit for tablets -- far better than a phone OS that can be jiggered to deliver enterprise functionality, says Pierce, Managing Director of Cloud Computing at ...

2012 and the Cloud: Computing Wonders That Won't Cease
CloudTweaks News
We're well aware of CloudTweaks' readers' hunger to get the scoop on what's to come for the cloudin the New Year. But only vetted psychics can divine the future with truly reliable accuracy, andcloud computing has yet to invent a custom-made crystal ...

Questions about moving to the cloud? We have answers.
Nextgov
As policies from the new federal chief information officer, Steven VanRoekel, become better known,cloud computing technology is proving more important than ever. VanRoekel has pledged not only to continue the Cloud First policy established by his ...

Insync cloud storage service uses Google to undercut Dropbox
The Verge
On the surface, it's similar to other cloud storage services like Dropbox, Egnyte, and Box, where a folder created in your user account is automatically synced to remote servers for simple backup and sharing. However, there are a few differences that ...

Cloud-Based Reference Architecture
SYS-CON Media (press release)
During the past few years enterprise services have been leveraging cloud-based technologies for several reasons including scalability and automated provisioning capabilities [1, 2]. In a development / design environment, cloud platforms provide dynamic ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Just Cloud Revealed as the Webmaster's Choice by Top10CloudStorage.com
PR Web (press release)
Affordable, Unlimited, Quick, Free Trial, everything that represents why Top10CloudStorage.com has chosen Just Cloud as the Webmaster's Choice for the New Year. Just Cloud re-energizes a positive outlook for the future of file storage. ...

Cloud Computing: Where to Find the Silver Lining
The Fiscal Times
Now cyber space, under its proper name of “the cloud,” has become one of the hottest investment trends around – it even has its own exchange-traded fund, the First Trust ISE Cloud Computing Index Fund (SKYY) to prove it. Over the last three years, ...

The Fiscal Times

Ultimate Software Offers Cloud for Human Resources
Human Resources Journal
The Ultimate Software Group, from Weston, Florida, is growing much faster than those numbers mentioned above as it acquires more clients for its cloud-based human resources services. “Good people can always find another job. ...

Beachwood company lives in 'the cloud'
Cleveland Jewish News
Together, the three developed innovative cloud-based property management software that helps track things such as rent payments and service requests at both residential and commercial properties. "You don't install anything on your computer," Pearl ...

Department of Defense's Cloud Computing Strategy: Saving Money & Increasing ...
Smart Data Collective
The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) recently passed by Congress includes a section on data centers and servers, concerning the IT industry and cloud hosting providers (Section 2867). A plan to reduce the resources needed for servers and ...

Army Cloud Intelligence Center Will Give Greater Security, Better Access
Technorati
These attained resources include the military's first tactical cloud, which came online in Afghanistan in March of 2011. The cloud is the foundation of the intelligence gathering system. Within the cloud, information is accumulated and stored, ...

GWATA to chew over 'cloud' basics at luncheon
The Wenatchee World Online (blog)
But those are old-style clouds. Even though they ARE wireless. The new cloud — the big honkin' computing cloud — is a whole different animal that looks like ... hmm. We don't really know what it looks like. So give thanks that the topic of the ...

Cloud Computing: The Testing and Development Environment
SYS-CON Media (press release)
There has been a lot of advancement on the cloud computing side in the past few years so you can provision service in a matter of minutes, but there has not been a whole lot of advancement on the application side," states John Yung, CEO at Appcara,...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud based photo host Everpix goes public as beta - Neowin.net
By Paul Ferson
The Everpix photo host has went public today, in pre-release beta. While currently limited only to Apple devices, it could have features to draw you away from your current image host.
Neowin.net

Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #39 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, Big Data, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of ...
The Cloud Management Blog

The Pros and Cons of Cloud Hosting
By prateek
One issue with cloud providers like Amazon is that you have to build around uncertainty. Your instances can go down or degrade anytime. In fact Netflix has a Chaos Monkey to simulate such situations and make sure their system stays up. ...
SupportBee's DevBlog

Government Cloud Adoption a Significant 2011 IT Trend
Cloud computing adoption became a frequent solution for several traditional IT problems in 2011, as companies and government agencies throughout the United States implemented cloud strategies at an incredible pace. The government ...
Proofpoint - Security, Compliance...

A Year in Cloud: From Analytics to iCloud | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
The past year has been a significant one for the cloud industry. Both enterprises and consumers have realized the potential of the technology, and vendors across both sectors have done their best to push as much innovation and marketing ...
SiliconANGLE

Insync: A New Cloud Sync/Backup Solution That Uses Google ...
By Paul Thurrott
As time moves on, cloud services mature, and now there are more options than ever. And today, what appears to be a very interesting alternative for both cloud sync and backup has emerged. It's called Insync, and it uses Google's scalable ...
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows

Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By GMO Cloud America
Cloud Computing News Highlights: SOPA, Forrester's End of Year forecast, Open Source Technologies, Cloud Technology Changes IT Roles, Splunk, Electronic Medical Records and the AMA.
GMO Cloud America

Moving into the cloud | Unlimited Priorities
By Al Stevens
While there's still a lot of hype, cloud computing is now regularly delivering real benefits that include increased flexibility, reliability and responsiveness while lowering costs -- often substantially.
Unlimited Priorities

Government Call Centers Can Access Cloud-Based Video ...
By admin
ViewMe. ViewMe. Anywhere, Anytime. ViewMe is the cloud-based video collaboration solution that unlocks the significant investment in Cisco, Polycom or LifeSize telepresence systems. Video Exchange. VideoExchange. Protect & Connect. ...
Stratus Video

Securing the cloud |
By John
Thoughts on how enterprises can secure the cloud as more and more adopt it as a platform for producing their work, etc.

A Brief Analysis on the 3 Kings of Cloud Computing, Microsoft ...
Google, Microsoft and Amazon are said to be the three kings of cloud computing. Moreover, all the three are built with a view to give users' public cloud platform, through which they can run their daily work operations smoothly and efficiently. ...
Student Lounge

OpenLogic's Provides a PaaS Solution to Rackspace Cloud Users
Link to the Rackspace Cloud & Show the Love. Live Chat with us or Call 1.877. 934.0409 Today.
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Congress Calls for Defense Department Plan for Cloud Computing ...
Congress ordered the Defense Department to develop a plan to use more cloud- computing services, a move that may lead to U.S. contracts for suppliers ...
www.businessweek.com/.../congress-calls-for-defense-departm...

Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking now on Kindle ...
It only makes sense that a book about Clouds, Virtualization, Data Storage and Networking be available via a cloud service in electronic format. Today Amazon ...
storageioblog.com/?p=2338

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More Cloud, Web Companies Join SOPA Opposition

More Cloud, Web Companies Join SOPA Opposition
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) gained more vocal opponents from the cloud computing and Web community this week as DreamHost and Domain.com publicly denounced the bill. DreamHost's and Domain.com's moral opposition to the ...

Cloud storage sites by Amazon, Google, Apple, Carbonite compared
Los Angeles Times
Using cloud storage services such as those offered by Amazon, Google, Apple and Carbonite to protect your music, photos and other files is becoming more affordable. Amazon's Cloud Player lets you upload your music collection to the Internet so that you ...

Los Angeles Times 

Federating Storage Clouds To Create New Services and Opportunities
Forbes
These technologies have increased the effectiveness and lowered the overall costs of digital storage in the cloud. Software technologies that have created the rapid increase in cloud storage and services include virtualization where real physical ...

Cloud Computing Company Centuric Offers Reduced $3.99 Transfer Fees on Domain ...
Sacramento Bee
29, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Centuric, a full service Cloud computing company offering business solutions for a wide range of companies—from small businesses to large enterprises—is now offering reduced transfer fees of $3.99 on domain registration ...

Cloud Storage: See You Next Year
NetworkComputing.com
If cloud storage was one of the few bright spots in information technology in 2011, the trend is likely to continue through 2012, for many of the same reasons, analysts and vendors say. Predictions for 2012 in the area of cloud storage include ...

appiChar launches cloud platform for NFPs
Register
By Natalie Apostolou • Get more from this author Australian IT services company Appichar has developed a new cloud-based relationship management platform branded supporter360 which targets the not-for-profit sector. The platform, which is set to be ...

Grading my cloud predictions for 2011: How'd I do?
GigaOm
29, 2011, 12:43pm PT No Comments I made a lot of predictions about cloudcomputing and the general IT infrastructure space heading into 2011, and I impressed myself with my skills of prognostication. Of course, some might have been no-brainers,...

GigaOm

ProviDyn Managed Cloud Services to Support ServPro
MSPmentor
ProviDyn, an IT support, network solutions and private cloud solution provider, will kick off 2012 with a new managed services contract with ServPro, a fire, water, mold and specialty cleanup and restoration service provider. ...
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2011: The year radio entered the cloud
Radio Survivor
It only makes sense, really, that a medium often referred to as the aether should now be associated with the cloud. For those who haven't been paying attention to the interwebs for the last couple of years, the cloud refers to idea of data being ...

Radio Survivor

Microsoft eyeing cloud backup service for its phones
CNET
Competitors like Apple and Google have moved farther away from this, offering cloud-based backup services for their mobile operating systems. In Google's case, the phone will re-download apps, app data and settings when a user logs in with their Google ...

Confidence in cloud, cybersecurity key to growth
Reuters Blogs (blog)
By Richard Beales Cloud computing and cybersecurity are both hot, fast-growing markets. But faith in the cloud took a knock with outages at Amazon and elsewhere in 2011. And the hacking of targets from Sony to Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson, ...

Amazon takes supercomputing to the cloud
CNET
As reported by Wired, Amazon Web Services latest salvo into the computing on demand landscape is a platform known as the Elastic Cloud Computer, which at $1279 per hour, or $11 million a year if run full time, is probably on par in comparison to the ...

CNET

IBM`s 2011: Watson, Cloud Advances, Analytics, Security
eWeek
Big Blue also continued to build on its already significant efforts in cloud computing and business analytics with a series of acquisitions. Meanwhile, IBM proved the mainframe has more lives than a cat as the company continued to evolve the platform...

eWeek

EE Times' top ten cloud stories in 2011
Power Management Design Line
The most popular cloud computing stories of 2011 were about big vendors jumping into or kicking the tires on this emerging space and engineers coming to grips with the technologies involved. Data center design news also grabbed some eyeballs while ...

Moving files through the cloud: your favorite free file-sharing services
Ars Technica
By Eric Bangeman | Published December 29, 2011 10:05 AM The cloud. It's where our music, bookmarks, passwords, and even our backups increasingly can be found. A decade ago, online storage was paltry—10 megabytes, or maybe 20 if the service provider ...

IT pros will take a harder look at cloud computing in 2012
SearchCloudComputing.com
Despite slow adoption by enterprise IT in the years since cloud computing emerged, 2012 may turn out to be the year when cloud technologies finally begin to gain parity with more traditional data center staples such as virtualization and tape libraries ...

Cloud over state's education scholarship plan
Times of India
MUMBAI: After the controversy over bogus enrolment of students in schools, the state government may now catch flak over its scholarship scheme for college students. State officials said nearly Rs 500 crore was distributed to colleges in 2010-11 as ...

As law enforcement moves to cloud, security concerns loom large
CivSource
Government agencies at all levels are examining how to use cloud services as a means of upgrading their systems while maximizing value. Moving to cloud can allow agencies to condense sprawling IT systems, offer more mobility options and manage legacy ...

CA Technologies surveys cloud-computing challenges
Newsday
Click here CA Technologies surveys cloud-computing challenges 17 m ago By Joseph Mallia Challenges in the transition toward cloud computing -- and away from dedicated servers and PC-installed software -- is the focus of an informal poll on the website ...

Under cloud, Justice Pal to take oath as HC judge today
Indian Express
Justice Mohinder Pal of Punjab and Haryana High Court will take oath as a judge of Gujarat High Court tomorrow morning. His warrants of transfer were received by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday evening. The Gujarat High Court Bar, ...

Apps are Earthbound for Adobe Creative Cloud
Enterprise License Optimization Blog (blog)
By Alan Swahn Adobe is making a move to the Cloud and its right around the corner, coming in the first half of 2012. 3 Adobe Creative Cloud provides file storage, collaboration, distribution, and a presentation layer to many devices—smart phones, ...

2012 Outlook Concerning Cloud, MSPs
Business Solutions Magazine
By Alex Osipov, CTO, OS33 What do MSPs need to do to take their practices to the next level as they mature and as cloud pushes in? "Own the office" or last mile can definitely be an opportunity to grow services with existing clients. ...

IT Productivity Gains Slowing Job Growth
Investor's Business Daily
By PETE BARLAS, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 05:49 PM ET Founded in 1993, the company has become a leading provider of support and related services for the Linux open-source operating system, which companies often use to build cloud computing-based ...

Grading my cloud predictions for 2011: How'd I do? — Cloud ...
By Derrick Harris
I made a lot of predictions about cloud computing and the general IT infrastructure space heading into 2011, and I impressed myself with my skills of prognostication. Of course, it's possible I'm just grading myself too generously, so I'll let ...
GigaOM

Best of 2011 - Cloud Services - Website Magazine - Website Magazine
By Michael Garrity
It's been written countless times that the cloud is the future of Web tech and will possibly be the most important investment most businesses make in the near future – especially enterprise companies. Of course, there are those with strong...
Website Magazine

OpenLogic PaaS Now Deploys on Rackspace Cloud | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
OpenLogic said today that its open-source PaaS offering can now be deployed by Rackspace Cloudusers. CloudSwing is also becoming available via the Rackspace Cloud Tools catalog. CloudSwing's big attraction is that users can fully ...
SiliconANGLE

This Cloud Kind Of Stinks - Features - www.GameInformer.com
By Jeff Cork
Why Microsoft's Xbox 360 implementation of cloud-based game saving gets it all wrong.
Features

On cloud 3x3 | Xebia Blog
By Adé Mochtar
3 top 3 lists of cloud computing, software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service.
Xebia Blog

Global Services - Cloud Becomes a Requirement for Adoption
Cloud computing remains a top IT investment priority for 2012 and in the long run, will have a transformational impact.
Global Services - Latest Stories

A look at VMware's vFabric Cloud Application Platform
By admin
The vFabric Cloud Application Platform was built by VMware to help move applications and capabilities into the cloud (or cloud friendly architectures). This platform combines their “Spring” development platform to the vFabric service delivery ...
CrucialPointLLC

Countdown to the New Year! 100 Cloud Stats from 2011
By Travis Balinas
UPDATE 12/27: Between the time I wrote this post and publishing it on our blog, SlideShare selected this eBook to be featured on the front page for 24 hours. Needless to say, we're thrilled at the response & look forward.
The Cloud Management Blog

Get Organized: QVIVO Cloud LetsPut Your Digital Files in Order ...
By brownann
QVIVO (www.qvivo.com) recently announced that their media centers apps are now in sync with the QVIVO Cloud. With this, users' entire personal media collection of film, music and television favorites become available to share and stream ...
Boing Boing Submitterator

Building a Library in the Sky – The Cloud and School Libraries ...
By GMO Cloud America
Doug Johnson, Director of media and technology for a public school system, advocates cloudcomputing and hosting technology adoption for school libraries.
GMO Cloud America

cloud storage saves the environment
By J. Conor Sullivan
cloud storage saves billions of dollars and millions of metric tons in emissions.
In The Personal Cloud

Cloud Infographic: Cloud Services Tipping Point | The Cloud ...
By Ivan
Juniper Networks sponsored this useful cloud computing infographic that can give you the big picture of cloud opportunities.
The Cloud Infographic

The Advantages of Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing Journal
What is your sense of the cloud market overall? Is it getting stronger year after year? David Canellos, President and CEO of PerspecSys, discusses these ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2108823

Blog | CloudSleuth
Those who manage performance in the cloud want to know the best approaches. As cloudcomputing becomes more pervasive within the enterprise, new ...
https://cloudsleuth.net/.../how-to-manage-capacity-in-a-cloud-...

redhat.com | Five Enterprise Cloud Predictions for 2012
by: Cloud Computing Team. ... Building a Private Cloud · Managing a Cloud · Red Hat Enterprise MRG · Realtime · Grid · JBoss Enterprise Middleware ...
www.redhat.com/.../Five-Enterprise-Cloud-Predictions-for-20...

HP Blogs - It's cloud prediction time: 5 themes for 2012 - The HP ...
There will be public cloud outages, but that will not stop enterprises using cloud. Larger companies will focus on private cloud, while smaller will continue ...
h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Cloud-Source.../It.../104647

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Microsoft's Cloud

Windows Phone, Kinect, Cloud, Windows 8 Prep: Microsoft's 2011
eWeek
By June, Microsoft also upped its forays into the cloud with the launch of the final version of Office 365, which combines Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online into a common cloud platform costing between $2 and $27 per...

eWeek

Cloud provider says SOPA would lead to censorship
The Hill (blog)
By Gautham Nagesh - 12/28/11 04:39 PM ET A controversial online piracy bill in the House would force Web companies to censor their customers with limited legal oversight, according to cloud and hosting provider Rackspace. Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier ...

Cloud victors pave the way
Computerworld Australia
The first wave of Cloud pioneers are writing home with stories of success and calls for more people to migrate, David Braue writes. It's hard to swing the proverbial cat these days without hitting a half-dozen consultants urging you to move your ...

VA Plans Cloud Telephony Pilot
InformationWeek
By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) wants to migrate its in-house telephony infrastructure to the cloud in yet another move supporting the federal government's push to decrease costs and increase efficiencies ...

Cloud Could Rain On Microsoft's Profit Parade
Forbes
Most enterprise software giants have started offering cloud-based, on-demand versions of their software, aiming to capture market share in the rapidly growing cloud computing market. Microsoft itself has launched Office 365, a cloud version of the ...

5 Big Cloud Trends For 2012
InformationWeek
Cloud computing has made it easier for companies to experiment and innovate, and the trend will accelerate in the coming year. By Judith Hurwitz Cloud computing is no longer the curiosity it was a few years ago. Today companies are increasingly looking ...

OpenLogic's CloudSwing Ties Into the Rackspace Cloud and Announces Entry Into ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BROOMFIELD, CO, Dec 28, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- OpenLogic, Inc., provider of enterprise open source solutions for the cloud and the data center, today announced that CloudSwing can now deploy to the Rackspace Cloud and that they have entered ...

Cloud Trends in 2012
TheStreetTV
Cloud Trends in 2012.

What is cloud computing and is it right for me?
Daily Journal of Commerce
The term “cloud computing” is everywhere these days. It's not a new phenomenon, but rather it is continuing to evolve. The simplest, nontechnical definition of cloudcomputing is using an Internet browser to access software applications over the ...

Daily Journal of Commerce

Five trends that will dominate the “cloud” in 2012
VentureBeat
2011 has been an exciting year for the cloud. Companies are starting to accept the idea of using internet-based services instead of servers they control themselves. That in turn has driven a push to make the technologies more mature — and the tech ...

VentureBeat

Maximizing Cloud Uptime
IT Business Net
By Tim Kridel for Intelligence In Software For enterprises, the cloud can be as much of a problem as an opportunity. If employees can't access the cloud, or if the data centers and other cloudinfrastructure suffer an outage, productivity and sales can ...

Specter Haunts American Cloud Companies: The Patriot Act Deters Foreign Business
Technorati
The PATRIOT Act has been a concern for internet users for some time now, and the concern is rising for those dealing with American cloud computing, especially now with the latest passage of the National Defense Act and the newest provision which had ...

Technorati

Cloud droplets, ready for prime time
PhysOrg.com
Cloud "seeds" are sent into the cloud condensation nucleation chamber (CCNC). Under supersaturation, some particles make cloud droplets and are separated from the particles that don't make droplets in the pumped counterflow virtual impactor (PCVI). ...

PhysOrg.com

Mobile Security Touch, Data, Cloud, Security Are Key Enterprise Words for 2012
CIO Today
Charles King, principal analyst at industry research firm Pund-IT , said he expected "exploding data growth" in 2012 to further drive the growth of Big Data solutions, like EMC Greenplum and IBM Netezza, as well as "massively scalable 'cloud storage ...

Cloud computing issues have a familiar ring to them
ZDNet (blog)
By Joe McKendrick | December 27, 2011, 8:26pm PST eWeek's Howard Cohen reports that cloudadoption is running into some problems in enterprises, and the tone of these issues has a familiar ring to to them. “Education is always a big one, because people ...

CA Technologies, ECS Technology to Drive Cloud Adoption in China
Web Host Industry Review
By Justin Lee, December 28, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloudservices provider CA Technologies announced on Wednesday it has partnered with ECS Technology to promote cloud adoption in the commercial, retail, government, finance, insurance and ...

Web Host Industry Review

Price Spikes Impact Amazon Spot Cloud Market
Data Center Knowledge
Bidding for unused capacity on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing platform has become more competitive, causing periodic price spikes in the spot market Amazon has created. Prices for virtual machine deployments that normally cost less than a dollar an hour ...

Amazon makes its VPCs more agile
GigaOm
28, 2011, 6:45am PT No Comments Amazon's new Elastic Network Interfaces should enable companies to deploy workloads in Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud in a more flexible manner. As such, the technology helps move Amazon Web Services — built to provide ...

GigaOm

Should Google buy BMC to secure its cloud?
TG Daily
I recently interviewed Harris, a company that is succeeding with cloud services which are almost identical to what Google is attempting to sell. The difference? Harris used BMC's Cloud Planning and Design program from the start to ensure positive ...

TG Daily

Cloud computing roars into 2012
InfoWorld (blog)
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld Rapid rise of data living in the cloud. I've called 2013 the year of data in the cloud, and I stand behind that. What about 2012? Consider the data problems faced by most enterprises, as well as the availability of newer ...

Cisco Expands Cloud Solutions into the Nigerian Market | WHIR ...
Cisco Expands Cloud Solutions into the Nigerian Market | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
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Cloud Computing Edge Can Lead VMware Sky-High | InvestorPlace
By Tim Biggam
After the big tech sell-off after Oracle's (ORCL) disastrous earnings, VMware's (VMW) low valuation and big earnings growth are attractive for call buyers.
InvestorPlace

Cloud Trends for 2012 (Part 2) » Data Center Knowledge
By Rich Miller
Today we continue with Cloud Computing Trends to Watch in 2012 with our reader predictions for 2012. Here's some of the trends our prognosticators see for cloud computing in the year ahead: a sharper focus on cloud management, growth ...
Data Center Knowledge

Enterprise Cloud 2012: Key Trends to Look Out For | SiliconANGLE
By Maria Deutscher
This year has been a significant one for enterprise cloud adoption, and 2012 will be even more so. There are a few predictions that outline the general direction towards which the industry is headed, highlighting a few key indicators that will ...
SiliconANGLE

Now streaming, Korea's first homegrown cloud music service ...
A new digital music service has come to town, introducing a more musician-friendly standard in digital music pricing. On December 22, Korea Telecom (KT) released Genie, Korea's first cloudmusic se.
HanCinema Daily News and Updates

G-Cloud Best Practices « Open Government Innovation
By Neil McEvoy
The headline theme of our webinar earlier in 2011 'Open Government Canada' was to ask where does 'G-Cloud', standing for Government Cloud Computing, overlap with Open Government directives, to make the public sector more ...
Open Government Innovation

What Happens When the Server Underneath My Cloud Fails?
By Andrew H.
When many people think of the Cloud, they think that their application is running on a nebulous collection of resources that's impervious to hardware.
Server Smarts® - The official...

Data Center Automation in the Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
"We're one of the few companies out there that is helping customers federate multiple cloudstogether so they can manage all of their servers through a single web browser," notes Nand Mulchandani, CEO and Co-Founder of ScaleXtreme, ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Great things about Cloud Computing - Shared Hosting Check ...
By admin
There exists a rising curiosity about cloud servers and cloud server hosting. Businesses need to host their web page, e mail, databases, storage plus much more if you take benefit of the cloud hosting solutions. There is also some reservations ...
Shared Hosting Check - Hints,...

Music Cloud For WP7: Search, Stream & Download Songs From ...
By Noor Sabah
We have all used SoundCloud at one point or another, either the web service, the extension, or on our Android or iOS devices. Windows Phone 7 users, however,
AddictiveTips

Cloud Computing Infographic: Office Technology Evolution | The ...
By Ivan
This cloud computing infographic by Insight UK shows you the office technology evolution from Telex Machines to the Cloud.
The Cloud Infographic

Technology and the Cloud :: Cloud Centrics Technology Blog
Cloud computing, cloud hosting and cloud storage have been around so long, but not all users really understand what they're about, or even know that they...
www.cloudcentrics.com/?p=1244

 

VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management Solutions - YouTube
http://vmware.com/go/cloud -- Cloud computing provides a vastly more efficient, flexible, and ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=76br0pBLjSY

Hybrid Cloud Tips and Best Practices | CloudTimes
With the cost-savings, scalability and agility that cloud computing offers to organizations, it's no wonder the market opportunity is growing rapidly.
cloudtimes.org/hybrid-cloud-tips-and-best-practices/

Top five cloud security tips of 2011
Security was a major concern of cloud computing in 2011. This round-up of popular cloud security tips will help you get a handle on protecting your cloud.
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../Top-5-cloud-security...

Cloud Fundamentals Video Series: Cloud Computing & Business ...
The Trustworthy Computing blog shares Microsoft perspectives about cloud computing. From security in the cloud to the evolution of IT, we show how Microsoft ...
blogs.technet.com/.../cloud-fundamentals-video-series-cloud-c...

CompTIA Cloud Essentials Exam Question - Comptia CompTIA ...
Using PassGuide CompTIA Cloud Essentials training materials, as Comptia CompTIA CloudEssentials Guide you can obtain the knowledge and skills of ...
www.passguide.com/CompTIA-Cloud-Essentials.html

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Cloud became mainstream in 2011

2011: the cloud has landed
ZDNet (blog)
By Phil Wainewright | December 27, 2011, 10:54am PST Summary: Cloud became mainstream in 2011. Looking back, it's extraordinary to see how far we've come in the year. Looking back on 2011, what stands out most of all is that the cloud became mainstream ...

The Cloud, Day 19: IT Department Included
PCWorld (blog)
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld So far I have found a number of advantages when using cloud-based tools and services during my 30 Days with the Cloud adventure. There is one big, unspoken benefit to embracing the cloud, though -- it comes with a “free” IT ...

Rackspace's CTO has his head in the cloud
San Antonio Express
By Valentino Lucio, vlucio@express-news.net The global cloud computing industry grew to an estimated $40 billion in 2011 and doesn't show any signs of slowing. More companies are throwing their hats into the ring and competition is getting fierce in an ...

Cloud over state's education scholarship plan
Times of India
MUMBAI: After the controversy over bogus enrolment of a large number of students in schools, the state government might now invite embarrassment over scholarship scheme for college students. State officials revealed that nearly Rs 500 crore were ...

Amazon's Cloud Supercomputer Is World's 42nd Fastest
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon has ranked 42nd among the world's fastest supercomputers, but what separates Amazon from the 41 super computers ahead of it is that Amazon's runs in the cloud. Amazon's virtual supercomputer features honest to goodness ...

2011: When cloud computing shook the data center
InfoWorld
By Eric Knorr | InfoWorld If I had to sum up in one word the most exciting thing that happened to cloud computing in 2011, I'd have to say it's OpenStack. This open source project, launched by Rackspace and NASA in late 2010, is assembling a private ...

Cloud Computing Stock Picks for 2012 (VMW, EMC)
thestockmasters
The ultimate cloud computing play VMware is on its way to $100. EMC is just as good. VMware (VMW) is up 2% today and trading at $85 and change. In 2011 VMW is down almost 4% but there's reason to believe this stock could return to greatness in 2012. ...

Michael Barnett: The Cloud showed the world we mean business
New Zealand Herald
The Cloud as the host to the Showcase of New Zealand Business during Rugby World Cup was an opportunity to reposition New Zealand in the eyes of our international visitors and of ourselves. Our history and the lack of any compelling alternative ...

Year In Review: Cloud Storage's Silver Lining
NetworkComputing.com
While many technologies blamed the laggard economy of 2011 for their failures, cloud storage was one of the few that could point to it for its success. Numerous IT organizations, facing data growth due to factors such as the requirement to keep data ...

What the HDD shortage means for cloud computing
GigaOm
27, 2011, 11:00am PT No Comments While the rest of the IT world is reeling from the hard drive shortage, users of cloud computing services should have a relatively painless experience — even if their providers don't. I recently spoke with Steve Tuck, ...

GigaOm

The Scalable, Available Cloud
E-Commerce Times
By Razi Sharir The prospect of moving a database to the cloud brings up lots of questions, and two of the most important factors to consider are scalability and availability. Since the database tier is the most sensitive and critical part of the ...

Baby Pajamas Talk To Your Phone, Tablet Via Cloud
InformationWeek
Exmovere's Exmobaby pajamas transmit data on infant vital signs through the cloud to parents' smartphones and computers. By Nicole Lewis InformationWeek AT&T's has extended its commitment to supporting wireless technology for healthcare, ...

Facility Management: Getting Ready for Moving to the Cloud
Area Development Online
As cloud computing emerges as a new force on the IT scene, a primary appeal for business owners is the much-reduced need for internal IT capacity, since so many of the resources that have been stored in-house under traditional systems can now reside in ...

6 Ways Cloud Computing Will Evolve In 2012
InformationWeek
Cloud computing will dig even deeper into the enterprise, with hybrid clouds, virtualized clients, and security standards topping the hot trends. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Cloud computing has become so broadly accepted that it won't rank as an ...

Stage 2 Networks Acquires Hosted VoIP Division of Consolidated Technologies, Inc.
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Dec 27, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Stage 2 Networks, a cloudcommunications leader in the New York metropolitan area with a portfolio of hosted voice and data services, today announced that it has acquired the hosted VoIP business ...

iTunes Match FAQ: Apple Posts How-To For Cloud Music Service
Huffington Post
On true streaming services like Spotify and Rdio, the song is not downloaded to the device, but rather remains in the cloud. Apple's iTunes Match, which just launched in November after a slight delay, is facing opponents large and small in its quest ...

Army works to build intel capabilities in cloud
FederalNewsRadio.com
The Army is pressing ahead with the development of a cloud-based solution for intelligence collection and analysis designed to replace and integrate several preexisting systems, with the goals of getting intelligence directly to the battlefield quickly ...

The Cloud Service Provider's Guide to the Amazon Kindle Fire
TalkinCloud (blog)
I thought it might be helpful to go over how a few vendors are bringing some enterprise expertise to the Kindle Fire's already-considerable cloud play, and make a few recommendations of my own. Hosted messaging provider Intermedia was the first company ...

Cloud Crime Mapping: Top 3 Crime Mapping Startups to Watch in 2012
CloudTweaks News
With big data such as crime and mapping predicted to be a major focus for Cloudcomputing in 2012, it offers great promise for many a startup in 2012. As such we have listed three of the more promising Crime Mapping Startups to watch for in 2012 which...

CloudTweaks News

Cloud Analytics Now Part Of The Cloud Buzz
Seeking Alpha
It's made possible by the economics of the cloud. Virtualized operating systems bring all sources of corporate data to the party. Distributed computing techniques let you run huge jobs all at once, without dedicating specific resources. ...

6 Stocks to Gain From 2012's Tech Battle
Forbes
Cloud computing, software as a service and big data are buzz words for IT's change. Integrated with mobile computing, those technology subsets will drive industry revenue growth at a rate of about 18% per year and account for at least 80% of ...

2012: What's Ahead for Cloud Computing? » Data Center Knowledge
By Rich Miller
We asked our readers to share their predictions in several key areas, and as expected, the hottest topic is cloud computing. We received so many responses that we will present the DCK readers'cloud predictions in two parts. What's in store? ...
Data Center Knowledge

US government policies show cloud adoption is worth challenges ...
By Simply Security
It seems that the arguments surrounding cloud computing have only grown louder as the adoption rate of the technology has climbed upward.
Simply Security

Mobile is Key for Music Cloud in 2012 | SiliconANGLE
By Mellisa Tolentino
First, to answer your question, the cloud is not the fluffy stuff you see when you look in the sky. What we're talking about here is the virtual cloud, a place where you can securely store your data while also providing access anytime, anywhere. ...
SiliconANGLE

What the Cloud Wants - Carl Carter-Schwendler - Site Home ...
By Carl Carter-Schwendler MS
Today we see a similar debate surrounding cloud computing. There are many in the industry that argue there is only room for perhaps three cloud providers and hence all clouds will ultimately be public. Indeed there are some who worry about ...
Carl Carter-Schwendler

Q&A: HP's Frances Guida and Eric Clark Discuss New Cloud ...
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NewsFactor Network | Nimbula Offers Service for Private Cloud ...
The Nimbula service provides consultants to help customers design and build a commodity cloud in-house, without the normal investment required, by using ...
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What belongs in the cloud? - Cloud Hosting | Cloud Servers ...
So you want to move to the cloud , you ve done all your homework, sifted through SLAs, considered all the different features needed and found one that fits your ...
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Cloud Computing To See Strong Growth On Cost Advantage ...
Cloud computing, which started its journey on a low key, is beginning to play a big role especially for the small entrepreneurs in shaping up their businesses. ...
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Cloud Expo West 2011 Reflection on the Cloud Trend | Networking ...
Trends with Cloud Integration and Cloud Management Evolution.
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Clouds on Cloud Nine: The Challenge of Managing Hybrid-Cloud ...
Obviously, cloud computing is not just a fancy trend anymore. ... If you choose a cloud or hybrid-cloud approach the question of managing your apps in these ...
blog.dynatrace.com/.../clouds-on-cloud-nine-the-challenge-of-...

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