Thursday, December 15, 2011

10 Ways Cloud Computing Will Disrupt in 2012

10 Ways Cloud Computing Will Disrupt our Businesses in 2012
Forbes
If anything, 2011 should be remembered as the “Year of the Cloud.” The past year was an energizing one in terms of the advancement of cloud computing. The cloudapproach was adopted by many organizations, and most vendors have now gotten into the game ...
Moving to the Cloud in 2012? Look out for These Pitfalls
PCWorld
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Businesses that want to take advantage of the maturing cloudmarketplace in 2012 can learn from some common mistakes others have made when moving to infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings, experts said. ...
Sensible Cloud Announces Public Beta of controlmycloud.com Apps
MarketWatch (press release)
BOSTON, Dec 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sensible Cloud, the industry's first cloud control company, today announced a public beta of controlmycloud.com, a solution that empowers SMEs to control their public cloud resources by implementing 'off the ...
Case study: How SEGA Europe uses VMware to standardize cloud environment for ...
ZDNet (blog)
Our next VMworld case study interview focuses on how a major game developer in Europe has successfully leveraged the hybrid cloud model. We'll learn how SEGA Europe is standardizing itscloud infrastructure across its on-premises operations, ...
Home cloud: Hands-on with the new Pogoplug Series 4
CNET (blog)
by Scott Stein December 14, 2011 8:00 AM PST Follow @jetscott The new Pogoplug Series 4 is a device that looks to take the best of cloud computing and home network-attached storage and combine the two into a seamless experience. ...
Securing the Cloud: Mykonos Software Adds Cloud Security for Apps on Amazon ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Mykonos support for AWS enables a company to extend its enterprise security capabilities to thecloud. "Today's enterprises are rushing to the cloud without understanding the security implications that come with it," said David Koretz, president and ...
CloudBees Cloud Efficiency Brings Cost Savings to Jenkins
MarketWatch (press release)
WOBURN, MA, Dec 14, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced a new, lower price structure for DEV@cloud, its platform development service based on Jenkins in the Cloud ...
YouSendIt Takes On Box, Dropbox In Cloud
InformationWeek
The file transfer service YouSendIt is entering the cloud collaboration business, expanding on its original mission of delivering files too large to be sent as email attachments. The move brings YouSendIt into more direct competition with Dropbox and ...
Hybrid Cloud Backup Projected to be Among Top Backup Industry Trends in 2012
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Asigra on Wednesday announced five emerging market and technology trends in cloudbackup, based on end customer and service provider adoption rates and feedback worldwide. Among the top five trends identified for 2012, hybrid cloud computing, ...
Cloud Data Integration - Bigger, Better, Faster and More Important in 2012
ebizQ (blog)
Hosted by THINKstrategies' Jeff Kaplan, with panelists from Astadia, D&B, Informatica and PSA Financial Services, this interactive discussion reviewed the state of Cloud Data Integration today and made some speculations for 2012 and beyond. ...
Panzura Adds Amplidata to Cloud Storage Ecosystem
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Panzura, a leading provider of file storage optimization solutions, as part of a significant expansion of its cloud ecosystem announced today, has added Amplidata's AmpliStor Optimized Object Storage ...
Private cloud solution for data ownership, security issues: Rezopia CEO
Times of India
MANGALORE: Concerns about security, data ownership and access; reliability and performance are the main hindering factors in more companies taking to cloud computing service, says Rakesh Hegde, founder and CEO of Rezopia, San Francisco, USA. ...
How to Identify Cloud Washing
Seeking Alpha
Charles Babcock at Information Week, a site I once wrote for, delivered a great piece yesterday on what he calls “cloud washing.” It's similar to things I was writing about in September, when Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com (CRM) was playing the feud ...
Canadian Web Hosting Launches Linux Shared Cloud Hosting Service
Web Host Industry Review
By Justin Lee, December 14, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Canadian Web Hosting announced on Wednesday it has extended its CACloud services by launching a Linux-based cloud shared hosting environment that gives shared hosting ...
ScienceLogic Forecasts 2012 Cloud Computing Trends
MarketWatch (press release)
But with specific expertise helping service providers and enterprises with cloud monitoring and IT operations management, ScienceLogic(TM) Inc. has decided to put a stake in the ground with a blog post titled: "IT predictions for 2012 not involving the ...
RightScale and Logicworks Team to Deliver Highly Available and Compliant Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA BARBARA, CA, Dec 14, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- RightScale(R) Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and Logicworks, provider of complex managed hosting and cloudcomputing services for mission-critical applications and websites, ...
RingCentral Survey Reveals Small Business Owners Embracing a Remote Workforce ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RingCentral, the industry leader for cloud-based business phone systems, released today the results of a survey of small business owners examining the adoption of cloud technology and trends in working remotely. The two combined have created a ...
Top Secret Nutrition's Secret Ingredient -- the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
After much research, it was decided this need required a move to the Cloud. TSN president, David Zinn, began his search for a solution that would allow his business to grow while working remotely. At TSN, furnishing clients with the best supplements, ...
How the cloud is revolutionizing gadgets
CNET (blog)
Duffy wanted to build a gadget--an IP camera for home surveillance that's accessed via the cloud--and most startup investors didn't want anything to do with manufacturing. They wanted software, and software only. Duffy persevered. ...
INetU Achieves Worldwide PCI Certification in the Cloud for E-Commerce
Sacramento Bee
14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading managed hosting provider INetU, Inc (www.inetu.net) has announced that its exclusive "Gated Community Cloud" global business service has been certified PCI DSS compliant at its US and EU nodes. ...
What a Large Enterprise CIO Would Think of the SAP Cloud Position
ZDNet (blog)
By Brian Sommer | December 14, 2011, 12:29pm PST Summary: SAP's Cloud Strategy has taken some big turns. But, will it be a boon for all businesses? I'm well into the second day of the SAP Analyst Summit. SAP executives have been pounding the following ...
CollabNet Adds Git Source Code Management to Codesion Enterprise Cloud ...
Sacramento Bee
14, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader for enterprise clouddevelopment and Agile ALM products and services, today announced that the Git source code management (SCM) tool is now available as a fully hosted, ...
Ubuntu Cloud Live Offers Private Clouds via USB Drive
The VAR Guy
“The cloud” can be hard to visualize, not least because the hardware behind it is often an ambiguous collection of servers scattered somewhere across the ether of the Internet. But in Canonical's vision, the cloud can be something as simple and ...
TriPlay's MyMusicCloud Cloud Music App Now Integrated with Dropbox
MarketWatch (press release)
MyMusicCloud, the free universal cloud music service, is now integrated with Dropbox, the popularcloud file hosting service. The synergy of MyMusicCloud and Dropbox greatly enhances music enjoyment and freedom for music aficionados everywhere. ...
Cloud Storage Tests Provide Eye-Opening Details
Infoboom
Nasuni, a company that bundles and sells data protection services, just released its State of CloudStorage Providers Industry Benchmark Report, which looked at a number of major cloud storage providers (CPSs) in order to discover what services were ...
OpDemand Users Experience Unprecedented Time-to-Deployment with Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BOULDER, Colo., Dec 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- OpDemand, provider of innovative solutions for agile IT operations, today announced significant user benefits of its next-generation cloudinfrastructure management platform. OpDemand combines the rapid ...
New cloud storage released by Microsoft, called SkyDrive
Mobile bloom News
Cloud storage, or cloud computing is very popular and allows people and companies to save on storage space on servers and store documents in the “cloud” for everyone to access from anywhere in the world. Dropbox is a company that is well known and is ...
Pogoplug Series 4 expands your cloud storage, makes it easier to ...
By Amar Toor
Pogoplug has already moved to the cloud. Now, it's coming back down to Earth. Today, the company unveiled its latest 'cloud expansion device,' kn.
Engadget
Google Cloud Print now available to all Google Chrome users ...
By George Wong
Google's Cloud Print service is a pretty handy feature that allows wireless printing from a number of devices, namely mobile phones, tablets and Chromebooks. Well now it looks like Google is planning to expand its availability. Google ...
Ubergizmo
Tips for Simplifying Your Cloud Network » Data Center Knowledge
By Industry Perspectives
Brian Yoshinaka of Intel writes about simplifying networks to support cloud in the data center.
Data Center Knowledge
Web Applications at Cloud Scale | JAVA Developer's Journal
Liz is Associate Online Editor at Ulitzer.com, where she covers emerging technologies including Cloud Computing and Virtualization, as well as mergers and acquisitions and "new-media" strategies as described under the Ulitzer Live! ...
Java Industry News
Cloud Brokerage Has a “Green” Future – The Color of Money
By Daryl Plummer
In 2011, Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) has grown from a minor curiosity into a major point of interest for cloud providers and consumers alike. The issues of aggregating, integrating, customizing, and governing cloud services have become ...
Daryl Plummer
LANDesk Software: Why Choose Cloud or On-Premise? Hybrid is ...
By David Marshall
Well folks, 2012 is here and twelve years into the twenty first century, I think it's about time we had a more flexible cloud computing model. While hybrid cloud has been around for several years, I believe the majority of enterprises will adopt a ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...
Cloud Infographic: Cloud Computing - The Great Equalizer | The ...
By Ivan
Glowhost released this comprehensive cloud computing infographic in its effort to explain how small businesses can prosper in the cloud.
The Cloud Infographic
Shanker Blog » Today's Forecast: Cloud Computing In Education
By Esther Quintero
Cloud computing is a new approach to IT that may have implications for schools.
Shanker Blog
Small Businesses & The Cloud [3 INFOGRAPHICS] | Bime - Cloud ...
By jonathan
A recent infographic (below) by JESS3 in collaboration with Microsoft Office 365 states that cloud adoption is steadily increasing amongst SMBs from 14% of SMBs using cloud software in 2009 to a predicted 35% in 2012. By most accounts the ...
Bime - Cloud Business Intelligence...
Report: Cloud Maturity Will be Achieved in 2012 | Telecompetitor
By Andrew Burger
10 Cloud Predictions for 2012, which Forrester Research principal analyst Holger Kisker titles 2012 Is The Year The Cloud Becomes Mature.
Telecompetitor
Cloud computing predictions for 2012
By Brian Boyko, Technology Humorist and Blog Overlord
ScienceLogic predicts some of the trends that will impact cloud computing and IT operations management in 2012, including security, pricing, and regulatory concerns.
ScienceLogic
Official Google Blog: Google Cloud Print picks up steam
By A Googler
Last April, we announced our plans for Google Cloud Print (GCP), the service that powers printing on Chromebooks as well as a new generation of connected apps and devices. The goal of GCP is to enable simple, secure printing from any ...
Official Google Blog
Cloud Management from RightScale | A Guide to Cloud Computing ...
Use RightScale Cloud Management to conveniently access your public and private clouds and provision entire server deployments in minutes.
www.rightscale.com/products/cloud-management.php
10 Cloud Predictions For 2012 | Forrester Blogs
Cloud infrastructure services are getting highly commoditized with increasing margin pressure year over year. All cloud vendors are trying to move up the value ...
blogs.forrester.com/.../11-12-13-10_cloud_predictions_for_2...
Cloud Foundry Ready for Spring 3.1 and Grails 2.0 | Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry Ready for Spring 3.1 and Grails 2.0 The Spring and Grails engineers have been hard at work creating major updates to their frameworks: Spring ...
blog.cloudfoundry.com/.../cloud-foundry-ready-for-spring-3-...
What Is Cloud Computing
Open Hosting's KVM Cloud Hosting and Windows Cloud Hosting. Greater flexibility and control, fast and affordable. Exceptional customer support. What is cloud ...
www.openhosting.com/2011/12/what-is-cloud-computing/


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