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Cloud Computing Buyers Demand More, Survey Finds
InformationWeek
Plain vanilla cloud infrastructure isn't the main goal. Companies want to use online apps, developcloud apps, or run a more automated internal cloud. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Use of cloud computing services continues to creep upward among ...

Big cloud Internap eats little cloud Voxel
Register
Eric Cooney, president and CEO at Internap, said that Voxel would exit 2011 with an annual run rate of around $14m in sales, and is growing at 25 per cent – which is much faster than the hosting andcloud markets at large and therefore justifies the ...

The Cloud, Day 20: What About Security?
PCWorld
As I venture through the 30 Days With the Cloud journey, it occurs to me that I am placing an awful lot of faith in third parties to keep my data protected. So, the inevitable question becomes, “can I trust my data in the cloud? ...

Why cloud could make crowdsourcing the norm for scientists
GigaOm
3, 2012, 1:15pm PT No Comments If you're tired of hearing about cloud computing and big data, you might want to wear earplugs for the next year or so. These two trends are only going to get hotter, in large part because they're also becoming ideal ...

GigaOm

Microsoft's cloud roadmap for 2012: What's on tap
ZDNet (blog)
By Mary Jo Foley | January 3, 2012, 7:38am PST Summary: Microsoft has a number of new features on its Azure cloud roadmap that are slated to be out by spring 2012. Microsoft hasn't been willing to share publicly its roadmaps for its Windows Azure and ...

Cloud-Based Software Firm Expanding, Adding New Data Replication Technology
MarketWatch (press release)
CINCINNATI, OH, Jan 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Ilesfay Technology Group LLC, an early-stage company that offers cloud-based data replication services for corporate product life-cycle management (PLM) systems, announced today it is expanding ...

Enterprise IT cloud wish list for 2012
SearchCloudComputing.com
IBM's cloud offering has evolved, helping customers advance their business while reducing complexity and costs. Visit this site to learn how IBM takes your cloud strategy to the next level. For the past two years, enterprises have been asking ...

GSA cloud email running smoothly at half-year mark
Nextgov
By Joseph Marks 01/03/2012 Six months after starting the mammoth task of moving the 17000-employee General Services Administration to a cloud-based email system, Chief Information Officer Casey Coleman's strongest takeaway is about pacing. ...

Cloud computing: why all of the vehemence?
ZDNet (blog)
When I'm presenting a cloud computing survey or research on suppliers of cloud computing services to Kusnetzky Group clients or at a conference, I often find that there are several members of the audience who are vehement that cloud computing will ...

Cloud computing, mobile ERP, analytics expected to gain traction in 2012
SearchManufacturingERP.com
Analysts say that manufacturing IT departments are feeling optimistic enough about consumer demand this year to plow serious money into newer technologies -- especially cloud computing, mobile ERP, “big data” and analytics -- that remained mostly on ...

Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012
Network World
Caution remains, but it's not stopping enterprises from investing in mobility, social networking, cloudcomputing and business analytics initiatives. By Ann Bednarz, Network World Despite some hopeful fits and starts, the US economy didn't escape the ...

Cloud SWAT Teams
CIO
These specialized incident-response units can swoop in when needed to help make the cloud more trustworthy. By Bob Violino Data is today's most competitive weapon. But how does an organization make the best use of the business data it gathers and ...

Office 365 cloud product includes fully customizable SharePoint Online
SearchOracle.com
By now, most content management professionals have heard of Microsoft's Office 365 cloud offering. It comprises four distinct software products: Exchange, Lync, SharePoint (all hosted on Microsoft servers at datacenters around the world) and Office ...

Quture/TCLN Announces Cloud Application of Its Product on the InterSystems ...
MarketWatch (press release)
This new cloud product version allows rural and smaller hospitals and medical centers to be able to afford this remarkable technology on an affordable pricing and subscription licensing structure. Quture/TCLN intends to soon announce the demonstration ...

Storage Backup Vendors Rising With Cloud
Investor's Business Daily
So to cope and save, some are considering cloud backup and archiving. That's a good trend for backup-software providers such as Comm-Vault Systems (CVLT), EMC (EMC), Symantec (SYMC) and IBM (IBM). These firms and others have been tailoring their ...

Cloud Host Cloudee.eu Says it is Provisioning 300 Cloud Servers Daily
Web Host Industry Review
By Liam Eagle, January 03, 2012 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Europeancloud hosting provider Cloudee.eu announced on Tuesday that it is now provisioning 300 new cloud servers daily, a number that is growing quickly, thanks to the trend toward using ...

Web Host Industry Review

SharePoint for Internet Sites Is New Cloud-Based Offering for AIS Network
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
SharePoint for Internet Sites is among several products and services in the cloud that hosting pioneer AIS Network intends to offer to digital content creators this year. Building on continued success hosting Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in the cloud, ...

White Cloud Electronic Cigarette Introduces the Smooth Draw Technology
SBWire (press release)
White Cloud electronic cigarette has recently beaten stiff competition by introducing the phenomenal smooth draw technology. California, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/03/2012 -- White Cloud electronic cigarette is known the world over as being one of the best ...

Questioning Cloud Providers before Signing the Dotted Line
HedgeCo.net (blog)
Once a hedge fund has determined that adoption of cloud-based services is appropriate for its business, selecting the right cloud technology provider is crucial. You are turning over control and entrusting your IT operations to the service provider; ...

Considering the Cloud? Find Your Sweet Spot, CA Advises
MSPmentor
Managed service providers considering a shift into cloud services are faced with a number of considerations: What should I offer? How much do I need to lay out in infrastructure costs? How can I get the word out? Each of those three questions demand ...

Up-and-coming tech jobs -- and how to land one
Computerworld
By Mary K. Pratt Computerworld - Forecasts for IT hiring are almost universally predicting that project managers and business analysts will be in demand in 2012, but what about cloud transformation officers? With big data, mobile computing, ...

Computerworld

Transcend StoreJet Cloud personal cloud storage device for iOS devices hits FCC
SlashGear
If you are the sort who likes to offload all you can from your iOS devices like the iPhone or iPad to keep the device uncluttered, you will appreciate this StoreJet Cloud device that has crossed the FCC. It appears to be somewhat similar to the ...

SlashGear

2012 - the year in Cloud
BusinessCloud9
Whilst Cloud Computing is still very much in its infancy, I expect great things are still to come for the industry once cruelly referred to as “just another fad”. Below, I outline my predictions for the year ahead and where I see Cloud Computing ...

Selling Public Cloud Storage to Your Executive Management
The Data Center Journal (blog)
If you are like many IT professionals, you are well aware of the huge amount of information and hype surrounding the topic of public cloud storage in the industry today. The benefits offered by public cloud storage can be substantial: significant ...

The Data Center Journal (blog)

10 Things to Remember When Reaching for the Cloud
E-Commerce Times
By Richard Taggart There are important legal, security and business issues to keep in mind before implementing a cloud computing plan, such as data loss prevention, vendor policies, third-party security and relevant certifications. ...

Can cloud computing help develop the business skills of the future?
Cloud Pro
I decided to dig deeper into the Channel Islands and UK education systems to see what, if anything,cloud computing could do to help encourage young people into the world of IT and, specifically, software development. As we move ever closer to a true ...

Symplified Hosts Webinar featuring Independent Research Firm on State of Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
She is a leading expert on cloud, mobile, and application security, secure cloud adoption, secure development lifecycle, and data privacy. Previously, Ms. Wang was an Associated Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Chenxi has a Ph.D. in Computer ...

Panda Updates Cloud-based Security Software
T.H.E. Journal
By Dian Schaffhauser A software company has released a free beta version of its cloud-based security application that includes protection against malware loaded onto external devices, such as USB flash drives. Version 6.0 of Panda Security's Panda ...

Internap Buys Hosting, Cloud Services Company Voxel For Up To ...
By Robin Wauters
IT infrastructure solutions provider Internap this morning announced its acquisition of privately-held Voxel, an enterprise hosting and cloud services company based in NYC, for $30 million in cash. Under the terms of the deal, an additional $5 ...
TechCrunch

Transcend StoreJet Cloud arrives at the FCC | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
The folks over at the FCC have recently gotten their hands on the Transcend StoreJet Cloud, which in essence is a wireless storage device. Having first made an appearance earlier last December, it finally arrived at the doorsteps of the [...]
Ubergizmo

Transcend's StoreJet Cloud packs inbuilt WiFi, streams media to iOS ...
By Darren Murph
Yeah, Seagate's GoFlex Satellite and Kingston's Wi-Drive already have this market on lock, but you won't find us kvetching about a healthy dose of.
Engadget

Top 10 Cloud Computing Definitions | Networking Exchange Blog
By John Cupit
As I was reviewing 2011 in my mind, I began to wonder which words helped drive the discussion around cloud services this year – and if those words were helpful; or just added to the general existential crisis going on in the industry as cloud ...
Networking Exchange Blog

INQ Abandons Cloud Q Facebook Phone in Favor of Ice Cream ...
By Kevin Krause
After the apparently poor reception of their first Facebook-laden offering, the Cloud Touch, INQ Mobile is abandoning plans to release the second promised.
Android Phone Fans

Joyent's CTO dishes about and defines “the cloud” (video ...
By Jolie O'Dell
"The cloud" is a term often as nebulous as the images it evokes. But while some companies take advantage of that vagueness and use the opportunity to cloudwash their products (to great financial effect), others attempt to bring clarity and ...
VentureBeat

VatorNews - Internap acquires cloud service Voxel for $30M
By Krystal Peak
Internap acquires cloud service Voxel for $30M. The IT solutions company hopes to grow its portfolio, services by adding the 12-yr-old cloud service by Krystal Peak on January 03, 2012.
Vator.tv news stories and report

cloud computing with no IT department
By J. Conor Sullivan
small businesses can compete with larger businesses with basic cloud programs.
In The Personal Cloud

ITIL and cloud series: Service design for cloud implementation ...
By Claudio Valant
That's the same with cloud! Your business is changing and you verified cloud computing as a possible solution. You have defined your strategy, formed a vision and a roadmap to realize it, and decided on the service and deployment models ...
Thoughts on Cloud

Martin Ford: Google's Cloud Robotics Strategy -- and How It Could ...
By Martin Ford
I think that many economists and others who dismiss the potential for robots and automation to dramatically impact the job market have not fully assimilated the implications of machine learning.
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed

Enterprise CIOs Get no Cloud Satisfaction from Incumbent Vendors ...
By Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO, and Scott Bils, Partner, Everest Group
Enterprises are frustrated when it comes to cloud migration, and it appears they have good reason to be.
Everest Group

Cloud Computing: Predictions For 2012 « Perspectives on Cloud ...
This year has seen a number of changes in cloud computing, from the range of services available to the adoption of cloud computing. Amazon, Microsoft, Google ...
cloud-computing.learningtree.com/.../cloud-computing-predic...

Scalability in the Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
"We provide a private server environment, a hosted cloud server, for private Infrastructure as a Service for small and medium-sized businesses, and we offer a ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2112813

7 Hot Trends in Cloud Data for 2012 | CloudTimes
As 2011 rolls to a close, it's time to make a few predictions for 2012 in the cloud data space. 2011 was a year of adoption, where many companies started to ...
cloudtimes.org/7-hot-trends-in-cloud-data-for-2012/

Incapsula - Debunking the Myths of Cloud Security
This is a guest post by Marc Gaffan, Co-Founder of Incapsula, a Rackspace Cloud Tools partner. Incapsula offers state-of-the-art security and performance to ...
www.rackspace.com/.../incapsula-debunking-the-myths-of-clo...

SoundCloud » SoundCloud Voices - a look back at the year
SoundCloud Voices is a weekly Community feature focusing on new spoken word creators found on SoundCloud. It might be a podcast, radio show, audio book, ...
blog.soundcloud.com/.../soundcloud-voices-a-look-back-at-th...

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