The Cloud is forked

The cloud is forked
ZDNet (blog)
By Phil Wainewright | January 22, 2012, 1:44pm PST Summary: Enterprises are adopting two types of cloud. One is less risky but inherently flawed. The other offers greater rewards but very few so far have succeeded with it. There's a huge variety of ...

Australians Hit By Cloud Storage Raids
SmartHouse
By David Richards & Computer Daily News | Monday | 23/01/2012 Hundreds of Australian consumers have been left without access to their files after a police raid on a cloud service provider who is accused of not policing the storage of copyrighted ...

Box's Next Frontier: Cloud Storage For The Federal Government
TechCrunch
Box ended the year with 77% of the Fortune 500 using the company's cloud storage offerings. Procter and Gamble marked one of Box's largest deployments for the year. While Box is still continuing to focus on cloud solutions for the enterprise in 2012, ...

Building Your Cloud? Remember Your Workers
CFOworld
In dispelling the cloud's myths, don't forget about the employees it affects (Part two). My post last week discussed the importance of long-term benefits related to productivity and cost when implementing cloud computing technologies. ...

CloudEnable computer server technology ensures secure scalable all device ...
The International News Magazine
In a series looking at developments in Internet technology, we investigated cloud hosting and its benefits. What is Cloud enterprise-level hosting? Cloud hosting is a system of new generation web servers that enable small and medium businesses to ...

Cloud services are vying for government business
TECH.BLORGE.com
by Susan Wilson While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, various businesses specializing in cloud services are going after the US government's business. Companies like Box and Amazon Web Services are looking ...

Appian Announces Record Success in 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
90 new-name customers selected the Appian BPM Suite and its Mobile BPM, Cloud BPM and Social BPM capabilities. This rapid customer acquisition drove a 219 percent increase in Appian license orders over 2010. Customer orders for Appian Cloud represented ...

Mobily launches new cloud server model
Trade Arabia
Saudi telecom operaator Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has announced the launch of its public 'CloudServer” infrastructure based on the On-demand, Self-service, Scalable and Measureable (OSSM) model. Mobily said with this launch it has become first operator ...

Can cloud unravel the data-sharing puzzle?
ZDNet UK
By Lori MacVittie, 22 January, 2012 12:00 People think the cloud can overcome the problems that have derailed big data-sharing efforts in the past. Those hopes may be misplaced, says Lori MacVittie. The term big data has come to mean big headaches for ...

ZDNet UK

2 hot cloud apps
Times of India
Of late, with cloud computing, this has also become the case with web services. Below are some utilities that will make your life simpler: We are well-versed with the concept of 'events' and 'responses' . When a phone rings, we pick it up; ...

Government Cloud Hubs – Shared Services Cloud Architecture
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
The previous blog talked about Municipalities beginning to move into a mode where they not only buy in Cloud services, but they also become a seller of them too. Research analyst IDC calls these 'Cloud Hubs' in new insights they are revealing about how ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

VRMesh V7.0 Announced for LiDAR Point Cloud Classification at ILMF 2012
Amerisurv
Please visit Booth 95 to learn about our cutting-edge point cloud classification and feature extraction technologies. This new release has significantly extended and enhanced the usability of VRMesh Survey module in the field of LiDAR data processing. ...

2012: year of the reseller as cloud broker
Reseller News
And now thanks to the cloud, he says, they can also offer enterprise-grade services like in no other time in the past. “When we look at the SMB, first of all the fact that we now have cloud offerings, we are actually giving SMBs the ability to punch ...

Don't let security misconceptions 'cloud' your judgement
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
What comes to mind when you think about cloud security? Do you think about application security or protecting corporate data? Perhaps you fear virus or phishing attacks? For the past several years, cloud security has been one of the biggest concerns ...

Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)

My-Ditto Cloud System From Dane-Elec
Brunei News, Brunei Headlines from Brunei fm
Cloud System is the unarguably the best way to store your files and information, which gives you the opportunity to access those files from anywhere you want. so now the company Dane-Elec has made the system much simpler with the My-Ditto System. ...

Release Candidate for System Center 2012 Key Building Block in Your Private ...
DABCC.com
System Center 2012 Release Candidate (RC) joins Hyper-V and Windows Server as key building blocks for Microsoft's private cloud strategy. ISVs are building out their cloud strategy by selling software for deployment to on premises or cloud customer ...

Punter Southall Group Selects SkyDox for Secure Cloud-Enabled File Sharing and ...
openPR (press release)
LONDON – SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, synchronization, storage and collaboration tools, has been selected by Punter Southall Group, one of the UK's leading actuarial, pensions and financial consulting organizations, ...

The Future of Google Apps for Business
Caribbean Media Vision
More and more businesses are moving to the cloud in search of better communication and collaboration tools and mobile access. Google Apps provides the most hassle free way of life when it comes to organizing business. The main advantages are the ...

InterDyn Artis Joins Intacct Business Partner Program
PR.com (press release)
InterDyn Artis partnered with Intacct to support growing demand from clients for a true cloudcomputing-based financial management, accounting and Services Resource Planning system. InterDyn Artis specializes in serving project-based businesses, ...

Editorial: DoD, other agencies, must embrace consolidation
Federal Times
Defense and Obama administration officials agree this $39 billion-a-year infrastructure is far bigger and costlier than necessary, and are pressing to consolidate data centers and use more cloudservices, among other steps. real progress will be ...

Symantec talks “intelligent” governance and buys cloud archiver LiveOffice
IDM.net.au (blog)
Meanwhile the company also announced the $US115 million acquisition of LiveOffice, a privately-heldcloud-based archiving service as well as plans for increased integration between its leading storage and eDiscovery offerings. ...

Contemporary Culture : Knexus social marketing video shares 9 key challenges ...
SkyNewswire.com
(SkyNewswire.com) - Knexus, the Cloud technology company specialising in Social Engagement Marketing Tools for leading brands, today released a video identifying nine key challenges for brand marketers.The video highlights how social is humanizing the ...

$2.7 million to go to communities
Detroit Free Press
Embracing the Cloud: Sterling Heights is turning to technology to help save money by storing data in the Cloud. The Cloud stores data virtually. The data are available anytime and almost anywhere through AT&T Synaptic Storage services. ...

iFollowOffice Turns to Virtual Bridges and Savvis for On-Demand Virtual ...
DABCC.com
Virtual Bridges, Inc. today announced that iFollowOffice has turned to the recently launched joint offering by Savvis, a CenturyLink company and global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, and Virtual Bridges to ...

Business awards for Jan. 22, 2012
DesMoinesRegister.com
LightEdge became one of just 11 companies in the US to become certified as a Cisco CloudProvider. The certification recognizes the company's investments in its infrastructure, which allows it to offer cloud services at its data centers. ...

FREE Private Cloud Training - MICROSOFT GULF COMMUNITY ...
By Neveen K Nassif
On February 21 & 22 Microsoft Learning is running a 2-day virtual training event to help the world learn about the upcoming enhancements with the Creating & Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start. It is 100% free and ...
MSDN Blogs

Guest Post: Did the Feds Just Kill the Cloud Storage Model ...
By George Washington
So, what's a European cloud customer to do—or, for that matter, a U.S. customer anxious about how their cloud provider might respond to a government request for data under the Patriot Act? Cloud and other technology service providers have ...
naked capitalism

How Megaupload Takedown Hurts Cloud Computing
How Megaupload Takedown Hurts Cloud Computing How self-destructive US policies are hurting hiring and industry One of the biggest concerns amazon, cloud computing, dropbox, google, lamar smith, megaupload, Megaupload, microsoft, ...
Communications and Technology...

Not Your Grandpa's Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largestCloud Computing conference ever produced with more ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2132048

Cloud Security
Cloud security when storing or accessing files online is an important part of protecting the privacy of your data, while still enjoying the flexibility it provides.
www.howtovanish.com/2012/01/cloud-security/

Polycom® RealPresence™ Cloud - Solutions - Polycom
Compresses service provider time-to-market to deliver subscription-based Video- as-a-Service (VaaS) offerings.
www.polycom.com/solutions/service.../realpresence_cloud.ht...

Cloud Confusion Reigns ! « Perspectives on Cloud Computing from ...
Unless somebody is aware of the details of cloud computing some of these terms will be a mystery. Some are not cloud computing. The text of the advert then ...
cloud-computing.learningtree.com/.../cloud-confusion-reigns/

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