Here Come the Cloud Cartels

Here Come the Cloud Cartels
New York Times (blog)
The short version is that cloud computing will come on quicker than you think, it will be controlled by a very few companies that will fight for the right to own your data, and businesses need to think about what software they can write that will ...

New York Times (blog)

Cloud-Based Legal Management Platform Clio Raises $6 Million in Series B Funding
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Clio, the leader in cloud-based management tools for the legal industry, announced today at LegalTech New York that it has raised $6 million in its Series B round of financing. The funding was led by Acton Capital Partners, a Munich-based growth equity ...

CA, VCE Private Cloud Package to Go Toe-to-Toe Against Exalogic, CloudBurst
ReadWriteWeb
By Scott M. Fulton, III / January 30, 2012 2:09 PM / 0 Comments This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about ...

Ubuntu Creator Warns Businesses to Be Wary of Cloud Lock-in
PCWorld
By Sophie Curtis, techworld.com Cloud infrastructure was always meant to be based on open standards, and organisations that choose to buy capacity from public clouds that only support one standard are creating problems for themselves in the future, ...

BlackBerry cloud services go live on Office 365
Register
After three months of beta testing, RIM has confirmed that its BlackBerry Business Cloud Services have gone live on Microsoft's Office 365. The free download allows wireless synching of RIM devices with Exchange Online, and includes BlackBerry Balance, ...

Microsoft Offers $60K in Azure Cloud Services to Startups, Launches BizSpark Plus
eWeek
Microsoft announces BizSpark Plus, an extension of its BizSpark program, and teams with startup accelerator TechStars to offer $60000 in cloud computing services to startups. Microsoft announced both its new BizSpark Plus, an extension to its BizSpark ...

Need More Storage? Reach for the Cloud
PCWorld
Another solution is to embrace the cloud and store your data online where the only limitation to your storage capacity is how much money you want to spend. There are many benefits that make cloudstorage an appealing option.

PGi CEO Takes 2011 Crunchies Awards Ceremony into the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Boland T. Jones, founder, chairman and CEO of PGi /quotes/zigman/364620/quotes/nls/pgi PGI -2.61% , a global leader in virtual meetings for 20 years, will present the Best Cloud Service Award tomorrow ...

Before jumping into cloud, learn from the SOA experience
ZDNet (blog)
By Joe McKendrick | January 30, 2012, 3:00am PST Summary: Companies need to look at service-oriented approaches — and what has been learned over the past decade — before taking on a potentially entangling and silo-creating cloud engagements.

Year of the cloud? Not until it can shield world's Mitnicks
Register
So you wouldn't really expect any of the much-vaunted, but still relatively fledgling, cloud service providers to be getting in on any Mitnick action, considering the difficulties of protecting him from the legions of itchy-fingered hackers just ...

LawLoop.com Expands the Cloud to Offer a Complete Solution for Lawyers
MarketWatch (press release)
LawLoop.com ), the complete cloud computing solution for lawyers, today announced its official company launch at LegalTech 2012 in New York. LawLoop.com provides a cloud-based solution that reinvents the way law firms of all sizes can securely and ...

MegaUpload Debacle: Worse-Case Scenario For Cloud Storage Users
Hot Hardware
One of the risks when you store your data in the cloud is that you're trusting a third party with your precious (or in some cases, pirated) files. Of course, you're gambling with your data no matter where it's stored; even if you have your own ...

More Business Intelligence Moving to the Cloud: Survey
Forbes
Time for the cloud, a new survey out of Gartner finds. More than one out four of the 1364 organizations surveyed (27%), in fact, already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI)...

Forbes

IconCMO Cloud-Based Church Software Wins Customer Approval
MarketWatch (press release)
The results told us that, other than customer service, being cloud-based was the number one factor in churches being satisfied with their software." Customer service that is fast, accurate, and detailed with phone and email support.

Microsoft Win Server to get pushed off OpenStack Linux cloud?
Register
By Gavin Clarke • Get more from this author Windows servers could face problems running cloudsbuilt on OpenStack if the Linux-for-the-cloud project follows the suggestion of one lead developer. Code for Microsoft's Hyper-V should be removed from the ...

Cloud procurement gets €10m investment from EC
The Guardian
The European Commission is to establish the European Cloud Partnership, which aims to bring together public sector organisations and the IT industry to work on commons requirements for cloudprocurement, said Neelie Kroes, the vice-president of the EC ...

Select Testers Get First Office 15 Preview, New Cloud Services Emphasized
ReadWriteWeb
In a carefully crafted blog post this morning, the company's Corporate Vice President for Office, PJ Hough, listed four categories of distribution vehicles for Office-branded services, with #1 on that list being "cloud services.

New SOS Collaborate Private Cloud Delivers Secure, Enterprise-Wide Document ...
MarketWatch (press release)
EL SEGUNDO, CA, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- SOS Online Backup, the award-winning provider of cloud-based backup solutions, today announced the launch of SOS Collaborate Private Cloud. SOS Collaborate has been developed to provide secure, ...

Leading Cloud Thinkers to Government: Cloud Is Imperative for Better ...
MarketWatch (press release)
TechAmerica Foundation's State & Local Government Cloud Commission Offers Best Practices for Adopting Cloud Computing by States and Localities -- Will Announce Findings at Silicon Valley; Event on February 16, 2012 -- Featuring California Lt. Governor ...

Megaupload Equals Mega Fail for Cloud Computing
PC Magazine
By John C. Dvorak The shut down of Megaupload by the US government is not being perceived for what it is: a mega failure for cloud computing. The operation, which had 50 million users, was a lot more than a pirate operation.

Wave Launches Cloud-Based Encryption Service
Dark Reading
Notably, WES is the only Cloud-based service for managing Opal self-encrypting drives (SEDs), which offer security and performance benefits over other forms of encryption. The service has earned favorable marks from one of its first customers.

Vision Computer Solutions to Moderate Cloud Services Roundtable at Automation ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NORTHVILLE, MI, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Peter Marsack of Vision Computer Solutions, a leading Michigan technology consulting company, will moderate a roundtable panel discussion on cloud hosting, cloud integration and technology support ...

Yorktel Announces Comprehensive Cloud Video Services Enabling 'Any to Any ...
MarketWatch (press release)
EATONTOWN, NJ, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Yorktel, the leading video managed services provider, today introduced the new Video Cloud Connect(TM) Suite, including Video CloudConnect(TM) and Video Cloud Connect+(TM) cloud-based video ...

Amazon Beefs Up AWS Premium Cloud Support
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon has added two new options to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premium Support play for cloud customers, offering third-party software support and a trusted advisor option. The additions are an update on AWS Premium Support, ...

Oracle Adds RightNow to Cloud Wars Arsenal
E-Commerce Times
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) has closed on its US$1.5 billion acquisition of RightNow, developer of acloud-based customer self-service application. Oracle announced the deal in October 2011. For Oracle, the deal makes eminent sense: It fills in a missing gap ...

Box's Aaron "Dotnet" Levie On Kim Dotcom, Megaupload, And The New "Cloud ...
Fast Company
Sure, the two run cloud-storage companies: Levie, enterprise service Box.net, and Dotcom, Megaupload, the file-sharing site Federal prosecutors shut down earlier this month on charges related to accusations of piracy. And sure, the pair own German ...

Fast Company

Lawloop.com takes law firm management to cloud — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
The co-founders of L.A. law firm Zuber & Tailleau got fed up with pricey, bulky, inefficient practice management software: So they built their own cloud-based offering. They say Lawloop.com brings document management, time-and-billing, ...
GigaOM

HP Cloud Services Goes Into Beta - ReadWriteCloud
By David Strom
HP began its OpenStack-based Cloud Services this month, and there is a lot of promise but not much in the way of actual implementation yet. HP intends its ...
ReadWriteCloud

Adam Young's Web Log » Cloud Narrative

By Adam Young
Cloud Narrative. Identity Management (IdM) needs change as an organization grows in size. For an example, I'll describe a fictional company, and take it from the smallest to largest stages. While, to some degree, the industry of this firm really ...
Adam Young's Web Log

Chilly Storms Brewing in the Cloud Over Megaupload Takedown ...
By Kit Dotson
However, the dark lining in the cloud right now is that Megaupload both claims and appears to have followed all the rules that should have given them an umbrella under the safe harbor provisions. In fact, according to legal analysis solicited of ...
SiliconANGLE

Creating software for the cloud, Wellington company gets all ...
By sticknz
Tucked away on Wellington's waterfront is an unassuming kiwi company bringing in the next generation of design and creation of cloud computing software. Many may never have heard of Core Technology and their software Aviarc™ – but ...
sticK - science, technology,...

Tilera launches two new speedy cloud processors, names new CEO ...
By Dean Takahashi
Tilera is announcing today it has launched new cloud computing processors with either 16 or 36 computing brains, or cores. The company is also announcing that its founding chief executive, Devesh Garg, has rejoined the company as CEO.
VentureBeat

Wow…my cloud went up in smoke! Now what? | Thoughts on Cloud
By Joydipto Banerjee
The problem is compounded if multiple cloud service providers are involved – a scenario where onecloud provider acts as a customer front end, and in-turn “outsources” the cloud services to other service providers. In such a chained service ...
Thoughts on Cloud

PEER1 uses Standing Cloud for cloud infrastructure service ...
By Phil Shih
Summary: PEER1's new cloud division Zunicore partnered with Standing Cloud to help make it easier to adopt cloud infrastructure and deploy commonly used.
Structure Research

Perfectly secure cloud computing possible thanks to quantum physics
Researchers have carried out they say is the first demonstration of blind quantum computing, in which a quantum computation was carried out with...
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

Norbulk Shipping move to Google Apps with Cloud Technology ...
By Rosie Kaye
Norbulk Shipping is a successful independent ship management company with six offices spread across the globe. Over three decades Norbulk Shipping Group have.
Cloud Technology Solutions

Pixar's Cloud Computing Reignites the Debate: Art Versus ...
By Jeff Norman
Pixar's Cloud Computing Reignites the Debate: Art Versus Commerce Pioneer Pixar continues to push the envelope. The legendary animation studio recently.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

TechStars, Microsoft offering startups $60K in Windows Azure cloud ...
By Allan Maurer
TechStars, Microsoft offering startups $60K in Windows Azure cloud services.
TechJournal South

Google names Cloud Sherpas “Google Enterprise 2011 Partner of ...
By Jordan Kahn
“The Partner of the Year award from Google is important because it validates the role of the channel in helping businesses succeed in the cloud. We hear repeatedly from clients that they need the services of Google experts to fully leverage ...
9to5Google

Mac App Store - PDFpen Cloud Access
Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about PDFpen Cloud Access on the Mac App Store. Download PDFpen Cloud Access for [ ...
itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdfpen-cloud.../id494133864?mt=12

Microsoft cloud service lets citizen developers crunch big data
Microsoft focuses on data analytics and big data projects for cloud computing developers and citizen developers, mainstream end users building Web apps.
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../Microsoft-cloud-serv...

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A third of companies taking BI capabilities into the cloud

A third of companies taking BI capabilities into the cloud
eChannelLine
By Mark Cox Nearly one third of organizations either already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions, according to Gartner. According to a survey of 1364 IT managers and ...

Cloud vs virtualisation
Hindu Business Line
Many companies, which are turning to cloud computing, will find the need to manage their cloud space becoming more important. Most of these companies rely on both public and private clouds. The impact in India could be higher than in developed ...

Hindu Business Line

VMware unveils online virtualization and cloud solutions marketplace
eChannelLine
By Mark Cox VMware has announced its VMware Solution Exchange, an online virtualization andcloud solutions marketplace where customers, partners and developers can converge to help simplify the process of evaluating and selecting business solutions ...

You can't stop the Cloud revolution: Aegis
ARNnet
Cloud computing is no longer on a roll but becoming a bullet train, according to Aegis Services Australia President, Chris Luxford. It's a lofty claim but one that is backed up by data from analyst firm, IDC, which has found that more than 20 per cent ...

Even with risks, the cloud offers advantages for small businesses
Washington Post
Just about every small business owner, and anyone else for that matter, has been hearing a lot about “the cloud” lately. Internet behemoths like Google, Apple and Amazon are fighting it out for cloudsuperiority, as are other giant tech companies like ...

Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon cloud
ComputerworldUK
By Lucian Constantin | IDG News Service | Published 20:01, 29 January 12 Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor ...

'Cloud Burst' Trend Benefits Public Clouds First
Seeking Alpha
A "cloud burst" in this case is a quick in-and-out use of cloud resources to do some job that can't be done as effectively any other way. An example is Renderman on Demand, a system for quickly rendering complex screen images using Pixar's Renderman, ...

Neelie Kroes – Cloud Computing In Europe Needs To Be Embraced Sooner
Mobile Inquirer
Neelie Kroes says that she will be bringing the idea of cloud computing to a business and government near you soon, are you looking forward to this? Cloud computing seems to be the answer to many problems that we face, secure data, easy access, ...

Mobile Inquirer

Cloud Middleware On Google Apps Marketplace
Dr. Dobb's
With an emphasis on service-oriented architecture and composite application development, the product runs on the company's own cloud middleware platform and is intended to give developers the option to provision from more than a dozen middleware ...

5 Ways Cloud 'Supercharges' Enterprise Initiatives
Smart Data Collective
Captain Query and Commander Spid are trapped in a multi-dimensional PowerPoint presentation on the planet of the Evil Cloud Salesmen... Evil Cloud Salesman: Our product offers a multi-tier, highly extendable, hot pluggable service layer, ...

Upgradeable Xbox 720 vs. Cloud
In Entertainment
There are a number of ways Sony and Microsoft could market their next-gen consoles when it comes to cloud vs. high spec hardware – We could see an Xbox 720 and PS4 push specs to the limits in an effort to be powerful enough for many years to come, ...

In Entertainment

How Can VMware Grow in a Saturated Market?
DailyFinance
According to Raghu Raghuram, senior VP of cloud infrastructure at VMware (NYS: VMW) , about 50% of server workloads ran on virtual machines by the end of 2011. You can't do much more than doubling a market penetration like that, right?

Trimble Unveils Cloud-Based Data Management for Gas Monitoring Solution
Waste Management World
Trimble recently introduced cloud-based data management, the Trimble Connected Community Environmental, for its SiteFID Gas Monitoring solution. According to a release, the Connected Community - Environmental provides real-time management and ...

Three trends that change business: Mobile, Social and Cloud
Forbes
The world is changing, and there are three market shifts that are driving this change – mobile social and cloud. These trends change what we connect, how we connect and how we transact. Obviously mobile is changing what is connected.

Here come the 'micro' cloud users
Hydrapinion
By Ian GRAYSON I recently sat through a presentation by the owner of a small software firm who was busy pitching a new cloud-based computing offering to sporting clubs. The sales patter highlighted some key benefits: smoother administration, ...

Australia, NZ lead Zendesk customer satisfaction index
iTWire
Cloud-based help desk software provider, Zendesk, has released its new customer satisfaction index just as the company claims the sign-up of its 15000th customer following a tripling of its revenues in 2010 and a 'stellar' year last year.

Need More Storage? Expand with External Drives
PCWorld
You could replace the drive entirely with a larger one, or you could turn to cloud-based data storage. Then, there is a third option—use external hard drives to grow beyond the limited capacity of your internal drive. Of course, there are pros and ...

New Buzz For Fuzz-o-Matic TaaS
Dr. Dobb's
By Adrian Bridgwater, January 28, 2012 Scandinavian software testing company Codenomicon has this month released its Fuzz-o-Matic cloud-based Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for applications running on Windows, Linux, Mac, and mobile operating ...

TreeHouse Interactive Announces Partner Relationship Management (PRM) on ...
PR.com (press release)
Built on Force.com, salesforce.com's enterprise cloud computing platform for building employee-facing social apps, Reseller View PRM is immediately available for test drive and deployment on AppExchange at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

Citrix XenApp 6.5 in the Cloud
Ervik.as
Now that XenApp 6.5 is released, some folks might want to build XA 6.5 in the cloud. We have already built a “ready to use” XenApp server in Amazon EC2. You can Just search for the AMI ID ami-6b994802 and launch it. The following are the instructions ...

Roundtable: Transitioning to telecommunications
ARNnet
DP: Monetisation is something that we're even seeing in Cloud today. One year ago, organisations were springing up thinking that they could go into business and just make margin in selling a publicCloud solution from a vendor and that is something ...

Red Hat on Open Source and the Cloud – Intel Conversations in the ...
By Connected Social Media Syndication
Red Hat on Open Source and the Cloud – Intel Conversations in the Cloud - Episode 37.
Connected Social Media

Current & Emerging Cloud Trends: 2012 Proformative Cloud ...
Proformative is a free online community for corporate finance, accounting, treasury and related professionals focused on getting work done without the noise.
Resources

TechNet Video: Live! IT Time: Private Cloud Chat (Episode 3) - The ...
By Bob Hunt2
The third in the TechNet IT Time Series of Private Cloud chats took place on January 11th, 2012 and covered a variety of topics on the Private Cloud. This session included myself and my peers from the East Region discussing the various ...
TechNet Blogs

Why Do You Need aVirtual Private Cloud | Technologies Review
By Michelle Lee
Having an integrated and fully operational network within your organization is one of the key and crucial aspects to being able to perform business functions.
Technologies Review

Netkiller Takes Fire Safety Onto the Cloud - Kazor.com World ...
By admin
You are here: Home // Technology // Netkiller Takes Fire Safety Onto the Cloud ... Netkiller has almost a 10 year history of innovation in IT and Cloud Computing. Press & Media Contact: Harry Jung Netkiller 2033 Gateway Place, Suite 500 ...
Kazor.com World Community News

Introducing OpenMenu Cloud | OpenMenu
By OpenMenu
OpenMenu Cloud takes any OpenMenu and creates a word cloud from all the menu items. The more popular an item, the larger the font. A fun way to analyze a restaurant's OpenMenu. To access a restaurant's OpenMenu Cloud use our ...
OpenMenu

Cloud Avengers Knock Out System Crashes
Tired of system emergencies interfering with your sleep, disturbing your weekend , or interfering wit.
www.rackspace.com/.../cloud-avengers-knock-out-system-cras...

VMware: The Console Blog: Preserving Multi-Cloud Choice and ...
It has been nine months since we launched Cloud Foundry - the industry's first open platform as a service (aka PaaS). Cloud Foundry debuted with both the ...
blogs.vmware.com/.../preserving-multi-cloud-choice-and-flexi...

NIST Issues Cloud Computing Guidelines for Managing Security ...
NIST Issues Cloud Computing Guidelines for Managing Security and Privacy.
www.nist.gov/itl/csd/cloud-012412.cfm

Will the cloud 'hit the wall' without good integration?
GigaOm
The success of this first generation of SaaS and cloud vendors has sparked a “CloudRush,” drawing even more players — ranging from fledgling startups to the biggest vendors in the hardware, software and services industry — to enter the market.

EnterpriseDB Announces Availability of Postgres Plus Cloud Database
Postgres Plus Cloud Database dramatically simplifies the setup and configuration of PostgreSQL in the cloud. In addition to support for Amazon EC2, ...
www.postgresql.org/about/news/1373/

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Cloud Computing Fueling Global Economic Growth

Cloud Computing Fueling Global Economic Growth: London School of Economics study
Forbes
The development of cloud computing will promote economic growth, increase productivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses, according to a new study by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Forbes

Fujitsu, ServiceMesh Expand Cloud Offerings
eWeek
Fujitsu and ServiceMesh have a new partnership that looks to brings more public and private cloudofferings to their enterprise customers. Cloud platform vendor ServiceMesh has forged a relationship with Fujitsu, giving ServiceMesh customers access to ...

Create word clouds with Wordle
CNET
by Eddie Cho January 27, 2012 9:59 AM PST Wordle is a simple Web app that's useful for creating eye-popping "word clouds" just by inputting text. A picture is worth a thousand words, but with Wordle, a thousand words is worth a word cloud.

Why you can't afford to resist the cloud
ZDNet (blog)
By Phil Wainewright | January 27, 2012, 1:48pm PST Summary: Large and small enterprises are creating new business opportunities through their use of the cloud, at the expense of those who are slower to adapt. While many are still digging in their heels ...

Shooting the clouds
Stuff.co.nz
MEGAUPLOAD'S service was a form of cloud computing in the sense that it served as off-site data storage – it just so happened that one piece of data stored by one user could be accessed and copied by thousands of others.

Stuff.co.nz

Facebook Scammers Redirect Victims Through Amazon's Cloud
PCWorld
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure. One Facebook survey scam recently ...

Adobe to base new cloud services in Ireland
RTE.ie
US technology giant Adobe is to base the European side of a new cloud-based service in Ireland. US technology giant Adobe is to base the European side of its new cloud-based service in Ireland. Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch told RTÉ News ...

Verizon Relies On Cloud Services For Future Growth
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Verizon's record fourth quarter revenue was due, in part, it its full-on emersion in the cloud market, an area Verizon plans to hammer as it integrates a pair of high-profilecloud acquisitions and further sharpens its cloud ...

GaleForce control freak paints clouds KVM red
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Gale Technologies, one of the many companies that wants to manage your private and public clouds, has revved up its GaleForce cloudcontrol freak to 6.0, and is improving its support for ...

Ping Identity Kicks Off Free Cloud Identity Security Training Series
MarketWatch (press release)
DENVER, Jan 27, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ping Identity(R), The Cloud Identity Security Leader(TM), today announced that its 2012 Free Online Training is underway. Ping Identity provides a wealth of free educational information on its website for those ...

Apple iCloud: will the cloud finally go mainstream?
Telegraph.co.uk
Will the company popularise cloud computing the way it has other technologies? By Shane Richmond, Head of Technology (Editorial) It's unlikely that you have your own power station at home and you probably keep your money in a bank, not stuffed inside...

Telegraph.co.uk

The cloud lords over London
MarketWatch
By Shawn Langlois, MarketWatch Not the kind of cloud known to crush the souls of all but the hardiest London dwellers this time a year. Rather, the sort whose fervent backers claim it will (again) transform the digital, building efficiencies between ...

The US Military Cuts for the Cloud
New York Times (blog)
Those sectors are coping with enormous transitions in work, leisure, and personal relationships brought on by the rise of cloud computing and mobility. It is not surprising that the military should go through something like that too.

New York Times (blog)

VCU Team "Rams" Complexity from Cloud Technology to Win International ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The VCU team, which developed a cloud-based smart platform solution for small businesses, had earlier secured their spot representing the AT&T* division by beating out 60 teams from around the world. "After interviewing a handful of small business ...

Logica Says Cloud is 'Railway of 21st Century'
CIO
Logica has described cloud computing as "the railway of the 21st century", claiming that the community clouds it is building with Microsoft will help to promote sharing and collaboration among like-minded companies. By Sophie Curtis Techworld — Logica ...

Case Studies on Live Deployments Draw Big Sponsors to Cloud Fair 2012
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
A program focused on putting real-world case studies and user experiences on the stage has attracted the attention of a growing list of large sponsors for the Cloud Fair 2012 cloud computing conference. Box, Amazon Web Services, Google, Red Hat, ...

The Hybrid Cloud: A Major Focus In 2012
CloudTweaks News
A while ago I have written an article about the types of cloud computing an organization has the choice to adopt, About Private or Shared Cloud and Everything in Between. For medium sized and small companies and private individuals, the publiccloud is ...

CloudTweaks News

CloudPassage launches new security product for public clouds
Computerworld
By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service - CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure ...

Small Business Knowledge of Cloud Capabilities Grows: Fonality
eWeek
The study concluded that cloud-based unified communications (UC) could eliminate productivity shortfalls among SMBs. Small businesses are increasingly becoming educated about the benefitscloud computing holds for their companies, according to a report ...

G-Cloud catalogue available from March
The Guardian
The opportunity for suppliers to join the government's £60m G-Cloud framework is drawing to a close, according to Mark O'Neill, proposition director for innovation and delivery at the Government Digital Service (GDS). "We plan to launch the first ...

Cloud Computing: Amazon Goes After Enterprise Data
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Amazon's cloud, which, let's face it, is still pretty much developer turf, broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction of AWS Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automate enterprise data backup to S3 ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Local governments opt for cloud-based information storage
The Detroit News
By Serena Maria Daniels Macomb County is joining governments throughout Metro Detroit and elsewhere in the country in dumping antiquated tech systems and turning to cost-effective, cloud-based technology from providers such as Google, AT&T, ...

What the Cloud Means for the Future of Content [VIDEO]
Mashable
The promise of being able to access all of your content on any device is quickly becoming a reality as everything from productivity apps to entertainment moves to the cloud. Still, questions remain about issues like user experience and security.

CA AppLogic Gains Cloud Services Momentum With MSPs
MSPmentor
Novatrend is the latest hosting and managed services provider (MSP) to embrace CA Technologies's AppLogic platform for cloud services. The news surfaces as roughly 100 MSPs prepare to attend CA Technologies' MSP Symposium (Miami, Jan. 29-31).

EnterpriseDB Launches Postgres Plus Cloud Database
eWeek
EnterpriseDB delivers its Postgres Plus Cloud Database with support from CloudBees, Engine Yard and others. EnterpriseDB, a provider of PostgreSQL and Oracle database compatibility products and services, announced the general availability of the ...

3 reasons why even if your IT is cloud-centric, you must manage it
ZDNet (blog)
By Heather Clancy | January 27, 2012, 7:34am PST Summary: Switching to cloud services can save money but it doesn't negate the need for high-level IT strategy and management. Earlier this week, I had the honor of taking on my ZDNet commentator Chris ...

"Cloud computing" "The cloud" "Cloud server" - what!?
By RichGK
By: RichGK, Forum: SaaS and Cloud Computing, I'm not one for blindly running after the next IT buzzword (however old it is ;) possibly because.. well not everyone in IT is doing the same kind if stuff are they so we don't all have to...
Spiceworks Community

Google Supports the European Cloud Partnership
By Adam Swidler
Last year, we were excited about the effort initiated by the U.S. government to promote cloud adoption through the Cloud First initiative. Through this initiative, the federal government declared that taxpayers' money should be used in a more ...
Official Google Enterprise Blog

Europe stumps up £8 million for cloud computing strategy ...
By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Jennifer Baker)
One year after announcing her intention to develop a European Cloud Computing Strategy, Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes this week made a first cash commitment to the initiative.
Computerworld UK Public Sector

Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By miccilopez
Cloud Computing News Highlights: Magellan Project, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Budgeting on the Cloud, Cloud in a Different Light, Cloud Security Alliance, Cloud Stocks.
GMO Cloud America

Global Services - Increasing Interest in Private Cloud
DynamicOps, cloud services provider, reported a 300 percent growth in the private cloud market through 2011. INetU, a managed hosting provider,last summer added a sixth data center. Rockspace, a cloud service provider,posted ...
Global Services - Latest Stories

Best Free Business Cloud Apps You Probably Haven't Heard Of ...
By Joseph Walker
The title might sound a bit presumptuous, but the writers at Cloud Nation worked hard to compile a list of cloud applications that most folks who don't spend time in the cloud aren't familiar with. All of these cloud hosted applications are free, but ...
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources

Cloud Computing: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility ...
By cloudtweaks
Cloud Computing: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility The cloud delivery model gives vendors a great amount of power. It is easier to create, deploy,
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

This Week in Cloud: From SoundCloud to VMware's Datacenter App ...
By Maria Deutscher
Over in the PaaS space, Amazon has come up with yet another way to take over the cloud market.Cloud Gateway is the newest AWS offering, and hooks up on-premise apps with Amazon storage, providing it a very good way of tapping ...
SiliconANGLE

Webinar: How to Monitor Public Cloud Infrastructure to Maximize ...
By carly
Running production applications and critical business processes in a public cloud requires sophisticated monitoring and correlation capabilities to ensure that businesses get a true organization-wide view of cloud services performance.
JoyentCloud

The Netflix Tech Blog: Auto Scaling in the Amazon Cloud
Since we began migrating our production infrastructure to the cloud in 2010, we have used Amazon's auto scaling groups to manage all of the server pools that ...
techblog.netflix.com/2012/.../auto-scaling-in-amazon-cloud.ht...

NetIQ Cloud Manager
With Cloud Manager, the promise of public cloud computing is in your reach by allowing you to gain the necessary policies, processes, and skills to handle ...
www.netiq.com/products/cloud-manager/index.asp

Cloud Computing Security | Symantec
Ensure control over your critical information with the right cloud computing security solutions. Find out about cloud security products from Symantec.
www.symantec.com/solutions/topics/detail.jsp?top_id...

2012: Year of Cloud BI -- TDWI -The Data Warehousing Institute
There's no doubt that customers will continue their migration from in-house BI to BI in the cloud. We explore best practices for cloud BI and the limitations this ...
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U.S. Spy Agencies Look to Cloud-Computing Benefits, Clapper Says
Bloomberg
US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said cloud computing will play a major role as the nation's spy agencies work to integrate computer and information systems to share more data securely. Cloud computing has “huge potential for ...

Cloud Foundry lets apps span cloud providers
GigaOm
If they're willing to utilize Cloud Foundry, the open source platform-as-a-service project launched by VMware in April 2011, developers can now run apps that move seamlessly between any infrastructure already running a Cloud Foundry-based service.

GigaOm

G-Cloud will lead to shorter contracts and IT 'bought like stationery'
The Guardian
The G-Cloud will usher in an era of public ICT contracts that are measured in months, rather than years, according to Liam Maxwell, the Cabinet Office's director of ICT futures. The G-Cloud could see government procurement move away from its ...

EU Seeks Joint National Cloud-Computing Purchases for Growth
BusinessWeek
26 (Bloomberg) -- The European Commission aims to support the region's cloud-computing industry by encouraging governments to jointly buy software and computing resources on the Web, Digital Affairs Commissioner Neelie Kroes said.

Cloud Credential Council Experiences Global Growth and Success After First Year
MarketWatch (press release)
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, Jan 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The CloudCredential Council, launched in 2011, has gained traction as the respected international body driving standards for the growing cloud industry. With the significant increase ...

Cloud Computing Both More Agile and Less Expensive
Network World
I'm reminded of this when I listen to a debate common to cloud computing discussions. One person will assert that cloud computing is less expensive than the traditional IT infrastructure operations; a second person then says "cost isn't really the ...

Amazon launches cloud storage for on-premise apps
DatacenterDynamics
Amazon Web Services, the public-cloud business of Amazon.com, has launched an enterprise cloud storage service that can be used by companies' on-premise applications. The AWS Storage Gateway stores data onsite but replicates it to Amazon's cloud ...

DatacenterDynamics

Nexica Powers Its Cloud Computing Service with EMC VNX Unified Storage
MarketWatch (press release)
MADRID, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- EMC Corporation /quotes/zigman/225273/quotes/nls/emc EMC -0.19% today announced that Nexica, a Spanish provider of ICT infrastructure managed services including cloud computing and critical application ...

VMware Delivers New vCenter OPs Suite for Public, Private Cloud Deployments
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: VMware has launched a new version of vCenter Ops Suite, which makes it easier for IT managers to put together the server and network infrastructure for private and public cloudservice deployments. VMware's latest stab at accelerating ...

cloud computing to beat crooks
The Australian
As a result, Diebold is working on a machine that uses so-called cloud computing to store information remotely, reducing the risk of a costly data breach. NCR has introduced an ATM that identifies customers by reading vein patterns in their hands.

Vnetrix Delivers Cloud Services to Global Businesses in Hours Using CA ...
Sacramento Bee
26, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that Vnetrix, a UK-based managed service provider (MSP), has reduced the launch time for hosted cloud services from weeks to hours using CA AppLogic® software and is helping ...

Badgeville Launches Enterprise Cloud Connector Program
MarketWatch (press release)
26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Badgeville®, the gold standard for gamification and the world's only Behavior Platform(TM), today announced the launch of Badgeville's Enterprise CloudConnectors, a suite of SaaS connectors that provide ...

Orange Confirms Leadership in French Cloud Computing Market with over 3600 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Over 3600 customers have already chosen Orange Business Services cloud computing solutions. This includes 110 for the Flexible Computing Express Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offer, introduced in October 2011, and over 2500 small business ...

VAR Mobilizes Army Private Cloud
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN MicroTech, based in Vienna, Va., has been awarded the first cloudcontract for the Army, a deal in which the cloud provider will maintain and support mobile data centers for the Army Private Cloud Mobile Program.

Hedge Fund Cloud Security: Let's Get Physical (and Virtual Too)
HedgeCo.net (blog)
The transition to cloud computing services is at a high in the hedge fund industry and will continue to increase throughout 2012 and beyond. Efficiencies, scalability and cost-savings are three of the most commonly listed benefits of moving to the ...

How to Document Cloud Design Decisions
Network World
By David Taber, CIO When developing and integrating cloud systems, the public interfaces and external "contracts" among services mean that design and architecture can evolve rapidly and in parallel. But when they do and the teams are not in the same ...

The Cloud Will Transform Every Company in Every Sector
E-Commerce Times
By Jeff Kagan Industry after industry is dipping its toes in this new cloud water. Just like the Web in the 1990s, companies and customers are trying things and getting comfortable with the opportunities and the challenges. Right now, it's the blind ...

EXFO Brings Unmatched Cloud and Mobile Backhaul Service Reliability with ...
Sacramento Bee
As part of its unique, ITU-T-compliant EtherSAM (Y.1564) Ethernet service activation methodology, which includes simultaneous bidirectional testing capabilities, these new functionalities bring unprecedented SLA validation for Carrier Ethernet cloud, ...

ServiceMesh Expands Enterprise Hybrid Clouds With Fujitsu
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA MONICA, CA, Jan 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ServiceMesh, provider of the market-leading enterprise cloud platform for Global 2000 companies, today announced support for Fujitsu's Global Cloud Platform, giving ServiceMesh customers access ...

Cloud Peak Energy Inc. Annnounces Proven and Probable Reserves as of December ...
MarketWatch (press release)
GILLETTE, Wyo., Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloud Peak Energy Inc. /quotes/zigman/521316/quotes/nls/cld CLD +0.94% , one of the largest US coal producers and the only pure-play Powder River Basin (PRB) coal company, announced a substantial increase ...

GSA's first Cloud-based physical access system implemented at federal building ...
Government Security News
BridgePoint utilized the Neal Smith Federal Building's existing infrastructure to install the TrustAlert PACS, while using a Cloud-based protocol. This eliminated the need for locally-based IT server and system resources. The new Physical Access System ...

Cloud Computing vs. Custom Integration
Datamation
Despite the move toward cloud computing, the bulk of data integration work continues to be done on-premise. As many IT managers will tell you, data integration continues to be a major headache for IT. Tech blogger Loraine Lawson talks to a vendor about ...

HP 'Master The Cloud' Event (Montreal) – Part 1
CloudTweaks News
It's a cold, bright day in Montreal, Quebec, where HP has chosen to present their day long Master the Cloud event this 26th of January, 2012. Le Palais de Congrés, or Convention Centre, is packed with Canadian HP customers, vendors, press, bloggers,...

CloudTweaks News

Segmetrix Expounds on Kognitio at Cloud Expo Europe
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In-memory analytics pioneer Kognitio today announced that Segmetrix, a key client in KognitioCloud, will present at Cloud Expo Europe in London. Amr Hassan, CEO of Segmetrix and Co-founder of Match2Lists.com, will present on Thursday 26 January in the ...

Online Tech to Speak About Transitioning to Cloud Computing at IMPACT 2012 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Online Tech announced today that Mike Klein, Online Tech's President, has been selected to be on this year's IMPACT Conference panel discussion entitled "A Day in the Clouds: Is Your Future Cloudy?

EOIR Technologies Opens Cloud Video Analytics Center of Excellence
MarketWatch (press release)
26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- EOIR Technologies, lnc. of Fredericksburg, VA announced the opening of its new Cloud Video Analytics Center of Excellence in Springfield, VA. The new office will support multiple Department of Defense (DoD) and ...

Arkadin Elevates Global Conferencing Capabilities With New Cloud Collaboration ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, Jan 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Arkadin, a leading provider of collaboration-as-a-service solutions, today announced the launch of the Arkadin Cloud Collaboration Platform. The platform is architected on an innovative, private global-IP ...

Multi-Language, Multi-Framework, what about Multi-Cloud? | Blog
By Dave McCrory
Limiting yourself to a single cloud instance restricts your flexibility now and in the future. You may want to move from private to public cloud, or vice versa. You may want to change from one publiccloud provider to another or maybe you are ...
Blog

Commission pledges €10m to cloud partnership | Cloud | ZDNet UK
By feedback@zdnet.co.uk (Editors)
The European Commission will put €10m into the European Cloud Partnership, which will facilitate the joint procurement of cloud products and.
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SAP on the Cloud » SAP's take on European Cloud Partnership
By Sven Denecken
We very much welcome the initiative of the EU Vice President in Davos to establish an EuropeanCloud Partnership, bringing governments and industries together to advance cloud computing in Europe. We also fully support the initial focus of ...
SAP on the Cloud

Cloud Assault: a Sledgehammer for Your APIs
By Adam DuVander
Cloud Assault There's a difference between knowing and hoping your API can handle any traffic you send to it. The premise behind the new performance testing service Cloud Assault is that testing scale should be part of development.
ProgrammableWeb

OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing | Ubuntu Cloud ...
By jorge
QA Lab to start publishing to the public Jenkins QA … Read more from the original source: OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing | Ubuntu Cloud … This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged james-page, jenkins, jobs, ...
Ubuntu Cloud Portal

With Cloud, The PaaSibilities Are Endless… | Rational Survivability
By beaker
I read a very interesting article from ZDNet UK this morning titled Amazon Cuts Off Stack at the PaaS The gist of the article is that according to Werner.
Rational Survivability

Cloud Commerce: Tailor Your Commerce Strategy via Cloud ...
By Smarter Commerce
By Wes Simonds Someone recently asked me how it was possible that cloud computing began to take off at just about the same time the economy got cold -- circa.
Smarter Commerce

Audio: 3M's Cloud Library Discussed on Minnesota Public Radio ...
By Gary D. Price
Audio: 3M's Cloud Library Discussed on Minnesota Public Radio. Posted on January 26, 2012 by Gary D. Price. From a Text Summary: Millions of Americans now own Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers. And libraries are taking notice, ...
INFOdocket

Organizations look to the cloud for BI says Gartner | Bime - SaaS ...
By jonathan
Of 1364 IT managers in the Gartner survey almost a third (27%) already utilise or plan to improve their BI options with cloud based solutions. A further 17% said they already have or plan to completely overhaul their current BI functions and ...
Bime - SaaS Business Intelligence...

Why The Regulated Cloud Is More Secure Than You Think | Veeva ...
By Jen Goldsmith
Ask life sciences companies what questions they have about moving their content to the cloud and you will likely find at least one “security” related question. Indeed, this is an important topic, and it is vital that organizations address content ...
Veeva Systems

Creating a Private Cloud « Programming Gems (on GemStone)
By James Foster
In the previous post, I described how to use the vmc command-line tools to deploy a Ruby application to VMware's cloud. In this post I will describe the steps I took to create and use a private cloud(based on the instructions found on github).
Programming Gems (on GemStone)

Cloud Avengers Free the Server Room
What will you do when your server needs outgrow your server room? Before you start knocking out wall.
www.rackspace.com/.../cloud-avengers-free-the-server-room/

HPC in the Cloud: Hybrid Cloud Ready for Takeoff in 2012
Hybrid cloud computing, which strategically combines the best of on-premise and hosted solutions, is not without challenges; however, when done right, it's a ...
www.hpcinthecloud.com/.../hybrid_cloud_ready_for_takeoff_...

Cloud Communications
From cloud computing to cloud storage to hybrid cloud offerings, one could certainly argue thatcloud communications are finally here to stay. Cloud ...
cloud-communications.tmcnet.com/

Introducing Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics” from SQL Azure ...
Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics” is a new .NET® programming framework tailored towards performing numerically-intensive computations on large ...
oakleafblog.blogspot.com/.../introducing-microsoft-codename...

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