Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Cloud Industry Forum blames FUD for security concerns

Cloud Industry Forum blames FUD for security concerns
ITworld.com
By Sophie Curtis, Techworld | Virtualization Add a new comment January 24, 2012, 10:02 AM — Security is still the top concern for organisations looking to migrate to a cloud service model, with privacy following close behind, according to the latest ...

Cloud9 Delivers Cloud-Based IDE Support for Windows Azure
eWeek
Cloud9 IDE launches support for developing and deploying Microsoft Windows Azure applications from the Cloud9 cloud-based IDE. Cloud9 IDE, provider of the like-named cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) for Web and mobile applications, ...

Connect and Collaborate From the Cloud: AT&T Launches New Cloud-Based Unified ...
MarketWatch (press release)
24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Maximizing its expertise in cloud computing, mobility, and voice and IP networking services, AT&T* is bringing the benefits of Unified Communications to businesses of all sizes as a simple, reliable, carrier-grade ...

Abiquo Enterprise Cloud Powers Claranet's Virtual Data Centre
MarketWatch (press release)
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloudsoftware company, today announced that its award-winning solution was selected by Claranet to power its recently announced Virtual Data Centre offering.

NetIQ Cloud Management Differentiates IT Service Delivery
MarketWatch (press release)
With that in mind, NetIQ today announced NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.0, a solution that enables service providers to respond to the consumerization of IT by aligning IT assets to business priorities. With NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.0, organizations can now ...

Private Cloud Adoption Growth Continues to Accelerate
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: Record growth seems to be the norm for companies offering private cloudservices as more and more businesses sign on. Just like the Energizer bunny, the adoption of privatecloud technology keeps going and going.

Zunicore Expands Cloud Service Offerings for Business with Standing Cloud ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Zunicore (www.zunicore.com), the professional-grade cloud from PEER 1 Hosting, has teamed with Standing Cloud (www.standingcloud.com), a leading provider of cloud-based application management solutions, to deliver Zunicore customers a vastly simplified ...

independenceIT Brings its Cloud Talents to South Beach for MSPWorld 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
What: The cloud's transformation from an obscure technology term to a ubiquitous commodity in the past two years has revitalized the managed service provider (MSP) industry. Among the technology leaders that capitalized early on this trend was iIT, ...

ITpreneurs Announces Accreditation of Cloud Essentials Courseware
MarketWatch (press release)
SMITHTOWN, NY, Jan 24, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ITpreneurs, the leading provider of competence development solutions for IT best practices, is now the first company in the world to offercloud computing training materials for the CompTIA Cloud ...

When Disaster Thunders Through the Cloud
CFO.com Magazine
Cloud computing and disaster recovery can make for a stormy marriage. The best intentions -- and a robust business continuity plan -- may not be enough to save you from an expensive divorce. Cloudcomputing – and the cloud computing business model – is ...

HyperOffice's Cloud Collaboration, Communication and Mobility Solutions ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
With this agreement in place, HyperOffice's cloud based communication, collaboration and mobility software will be distributed through Tech Data's network of over 60000 value added resellers (VARs) in the United States. HyperOffice brings a wide range ...

Ingram Micro Adds Axcient Cloud Backup Solutions
CRN
By Scott Campbell, CRN Ingram Micro has added Axcient, a backup and business continuity developer, to its Ingram Micro Cloud portfolio of services, according to the distributor. Adding Axcient gives VARs a choice that is slightly different than other ...

IBM Joins Google, Microsoft In Cloud Productivity War
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN IBM is looking to flex its cloud muscle against rivals Google and Microsoft with a cloud-based productivity and collaboration play that pits the three tech titans against each other for cloud dominance.

Cloud Computing: What is it? Is it safe? The new Internet bubble?
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter: Subscribe to IBTimes's RSS feed Cloud computing, a way to store information and access software programs from far-away data farms, is transforming computers from a product-based to a service-based industry.

International Business Times

Symform gets $2 million for peer-to-peer cloud storage
GigaOm
24, 2012, 4:40am PT No Comments Cloud storage vendor Symform has netted $2 million in venture funding from new backer Westfield Capital, which joined existing investors OVP Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners to bring total funding for this ...

GigaOm

Fujitsu to Demonstrate Newest ScanSnap Cloud Service Features at Macworld 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Fujitsu, the market leader in document imaging scanners, will be demoing new cloud service capabilities featured on the ScanSnap line of scanners, including S1500M, S1300 and S1100 models, at Macworld | iWorld 2012, ...

Feds Shut Down Megaupload: Warning Sign for the Cloud Storage Model?
Motley Fool
And although SOPA has not passed, the death of Megaupload, which is seen as a kind of victim to the government's fight against piracy, brings some interesting, if not disturbing, aspects of cloudcomputing to life. Consider the words of Barret Brown, ...

Wyse Cloud Client Computing Solutions Recognized for Excellence With 2012 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, CA, Jan 24, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Virtualization Review today announced that cloud client computing products from Wyse Technology have been named Winner and Preferred Products in the 2012 Virtualization Review Readers Choice Awards.

ConnectWise Capital Now Has Cloud Services Triple Play
MSPmentor
When LabTech Software launched a cloud edition yesterday, it completed a ConnectWise Capital triple play. Indeed, ConnectWise now essentially has at least three cloud services — ConnectWiseCloud, LabTech Cloud and Quosal On Demand — that MSPs can ...

GlobalOne Acquires Australian Cloud Architect Expert Weblinc
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Jan 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GlobalOne, a leader in Software as a Service (SaaS), social collaboration and cloud computing professional services for the enterprise, announced today the acquisition of Weblinc, one of Australia's most ...

MicroStrategy Announces Teradata Support for Business Intelligence Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
MicroStrategy Cloud will leverage Teradata's family of Data Warehouse platforms to offer both multitenant and dedicated versions of Teradata technology as an optional service to MicroStrategyCloud customers, delivered under the MicroStrategy Cloud ...

ManageEngine Taps Zoho Cloud-Based Reporting for MSP Center Plus
MarketWatch (press release)
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the integration of its agent-based network monitoring software, MSP Center Plus, with Zoho Reports, the cloud-based reporting and business intelligence service from Zoho.

First Look: Deploying Private Clouds With System Center 2012
Virtualization Review
By Kurt Mackie Earlier this month, I spent a couple of days at a Microsoft Private Cloud Reviewer Workshop in Redmond, Wash., focused on System Center 2012. Final product availability hasn't been announced yet, but Microsoft has already issued this ...

Cloudwrangler's 'Office Essentials Bundle' Makes Transition to the Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
And to encourage quick adoption, Cloudwrangler is offering a 30-day risk free trial to businesses unfamiliar with all the benefits of the Cloud and free tech support to simplify the transition. "By bundling products from enterprise class vendors ...

Paramount's UltraViolet cloud-based movies now available
SlashGear
What UltraViolet offers is a copy of your movie “in the cloud” right after purchasing it in physical or digital form. In this way the film industry hopes not only to offer its consumer base a new bit of value, but to fight off piracy as this process ...

Fonality Study: Broader Adoption of Cloud-Based Technology Likely Among Small ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The "2012 Small and Medium-Sized Business Communications Plans and Priorities State-of-the-Market Report" revealed a 14 percent increase in the sector's understanding of cloud-based service options from last year. However, optimizing the total cost of ...

Audiobooks launches unlimited cloud-based audio book service ...
By Paul Biba
From the press release: Audiobooks.com announced today the launch of the first unlimited cloud-based audio book service. For $24.95 per month, users can take.
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Making Amazon Cloud Services Easier to Manage | Blogs ...
By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
Theres obviously a lot of interest in using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a cloud computing service, especially when it comes to application development. But t.
Mike Vizard

Cloud Roundup for January 23, 2012 - ReadWriteCloud
By Joe Brockmeier
Much has been said about Facebook's Timeline feature, but very little attention has been paid to the actual tech behind the feature. Timeline goes well beyond the scope ...
ReadWriteWeb

As genomics data approaches exascale, cloud could save the day ...
By Derrick Harris
Now that human genomes will soon take only one day and $1000 to sequence, life is about to get a lot easier for medical researchers, but a lot more difficult for companies trying to make a buck selling them tools to store and analyze genomic ...
GigaOM

CloudTweaks all set for HP's Master The Cloud | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Muz
CloudTweaks all set for HP's Master The Cloud HP's up and coming Master The Cloud event regarding Cloud Computing will be happening across Canada.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Cloud Computing Research: International conferences on cloud ...
By Aditya Thatte
Hi folks, here we will take a look at cloud computing from a research point of view. With this recentcloud wave, we are seeing multi-million dollar investments in R&D from top-notch infrastructure companies and external collaborations with ...
Thoughts on Cloud

Ping! Zine » Telecloud Cloud Solution Launched by Telehouse
By Ping! Zine Editor
“The data centre is at the heart of a cloud solution making the physical infrastructure the integral role in maintaining the reliability and accessibility of a company's application. That is why the partnership of Telehouse and KDDI brings a new ...
Ping! Zine

Adoption of MFT Cloud Services is Growing « Knowledge Transfer ...
By Hugh Garber
It's no secret that more and more companies are turning to the cloud to benefit from all that it has to offer. Subscribing to a cloud service can off.
Knowledge Transfer with Ipswitch...

Labor DCIO: Agency Cloud Migration Starts February | FedScoop
By David Stegon
The Department of Labor is expected to award a cloud computing contract for a new agency-wide email system early February, part of a massive information technology modernization project the agency has undertaken the past three years, ...
FedScoop

Nondisruptive Cloud-to-Cloud Migration – Blog – Nasuni
By Rob Mason
With the introduction of the first generation of our product, Nasuni established the cloud storage gateway category. While it had many other features and benefits, one of the attributes of the gateway category is to provide customers the choice ...
Nasuni Blog

AT&T Cloud Architect uses SoftLayer infrastructure platform ...
By Phil Shih
Summary: The new AT&T Cloud Architect infrastructure service has gone live. There has been some mystery as to who the hosting partner supplying the platform.
Structure Research

personal clouds can prevent SOPA threats
By J. Conor Sullivan
personal clouds can keep user files safe from becoming associated with SOPA targets.
In The Personal Cloud

Savings with Cloud Security — A Look at the Numbers | Trend Cloud ...
When people talk about cloud security it can mean either 1) security for the cloud —security that protects your cloud initiatives, like protection for virtual.
cloudsecurity.trendmicro.com/savings-with-cloud-security-a-l...

Ask CloudSpring: What Do You Want To Read About The Cloud ...
Many techs don't seem to understand the divide between cloud development and classical static hosted development, business owners haven't the first idea ...
cloudspring.com/ask-cloudspring-what-do-you-want-to-read-a...

Windows Azure Blog
Book Excerpt: "To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise" ... When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly declared We re all in on cloud computing in March ...
m.microsoft.com/WindowsAzure/EN-US/.../Post.mspx?...



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