PCWorld
By Dallon Christensen, cfoworld.com The pace of cloud computing will only accelerate in 2012. The increasing development of information technology, and the intense focus on cost reduction, are highlighting the benefits of moving IT administration ...
Cloud Decision Time for CFOs
Computerworld
By Sandra Gittlen CFOworld - Worldwide revenue from cloud services is expected to reach $55.5 billion in 2014, according to IDC. With a compound annual growth rate of 27.4%, the cloud is set for quite a trajectory. Despite this anticipated rise, ...
Microsoft Solidifies Its Private Cloud Approach
Server Watch
By Paul Rubens (Send Email) Make no mistake: Microsoft is planning to seize control of the privatecloud computing market from VMware, and System Center 2012 is the weapon the company hopes will ensure its success. Talking at a release candidate launch ...
How a private cloud goes beyond virtualization management
CNET
by Gordon Haff January 18, 2012 9:50 AM PST Follow @ghaff At first blush, private clouds can look a lot like virtualization. But first looks can be deceiving. While it's certainly true that we see virtualization management products extended--for ...
Cloud Enterprise Performance Analytics Startup Tidemark Raises $24M From ...
TechCrunch
Enterprise-focused cloud performance analytics company Tidemark, formerly known as Proferi, has raised $24 million in new funding led by Redpoint Ventures with existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Duffield, co-founder and ...
Cloud News: Fujitsu, Dell, Microsoft
Data Center Knowledge
Fujitsu launches big data cloud services. Fujitsu announced the launch of Data Utilization Platform Services, which use cloud services as a platform leveraging big data. To help resolve business and global issues and generate new sources of revenue ...
Amazon Adds Managed NoSQL Database To AWS Cloud Services
CRN
By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon Web Services (AWS) Wednesday launched what it's calling a fully managed NoSQL cloud database service dubbed Amazon DynamoDB, which enables scaling up and down as needed. With DynamoDB, Amazon does all of the database ...
Federal Researchers Push Limits Of Cloud Computing
InformationWeek
Energy Department's Magellan project, measuring the expansion of the universe, determines cloudcomputing can't beat its HPC systems on cost or performance. But flexibility is another story. By John Foley InformationWeek Cloud services are proven for ...
CES Could Have Been Called the 'Cloud Electronics Show'
Techzone360
By Erin Harrison , Executive Editor, Strategic Initiatives Cloud computing, which used to be found far and few between, seems to be literally everywhere, and that was most evident at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (aka Cloud Electronics Show) in ...
The Open Group releases SOA and cloud computing standards, updates OSIMM
ZDNet (blog)
By Dana Gardner | January 18, 2012, 8:51am PST Summary: Each of the three standards is vendor-neutral and helps an organization of any size to design and implement the proper SOA and cloudsolutions for its business objectives. ...
Cloud Migration: Five Key Tips
Datamation
Cloud computing offers many advantages, yet businesses contemplating migrating must be aware of the many pitfalls involved. An industry expert details five essential points to ponder as you make the switch. Cloud computing offers many advantages, ...
Piston Cloud Delivers First Cloud Operating System Based on OpenStack
MarketWatch (press release)
OpenStack is proven and ready for the enterprise and Piston Cloud plays a key role in driving the technology forward -- sharing knowledge, guidance, vision and code. Piston Enterprise OS(TM) is the first OpenStack distribution specifically focused on ...
The value of cloud vs. data center consolidation
SearchCloudComputing.com
Complications and costs created the drive for “server consolidation,” the primary stimulus for interest in server virtualization and cloud computing. Server consolidation virtualizes a central “farm” of servers that replace a large community of ...
Symplified Closes $20M Venture Capital Round
MarketWatch (press release)
The company, which tripled revenues and customer adoption last year, is the market share leader in the rapidly expanding cloud identity and access management (IAM) segment with more than 3 million licensed users of its cloud identity management ...
Red Hat's 3.0 platform deemed a turning point for KVM, cloud aims
ZDNet (blog)
Red Hat's much anticipated Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 platform represents a turning point in the maturity of KVM hypervisor and the company's cloud computing goals, one IDC analyst claims. RHEV 3.0 — which offers advances in the kernel-based ...
Cloud recruiting platform snags $5 million
ZDNet (blog)
By Heather Clancy | January 18, 2012, 7:32am PST Summary: SmartRecruiters offers a cloud-based recruiting applications that integrates with social networks and third-party recruiting services. SmartRecruiters, which offers cloud-based recruiting ...
Synchroteam Introduces a Cloud-Based Solution to Help SMBs Manage a Mobile ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Synchroteam, a leader in enterprise mobility workforce service management software, is extending its popular solution via the cloud in order to help small to mid-sized businesses, (SMBs) manage and organize their remote workforces. ...
Cloud-based backup firm Code 42 lands $52.5M in VC
FierceEnterpriseCommunications
SMBs, consumers and enterprises increasingly are turning to the cloud for data backup, and that has moved providers of backup solutions to the forefront, as evidenced by news today that Code 42, a Minneapolis-based startup, has landed $52.5 million in ...
Polycom Announces Cloud Strategy to Enable Service Providers to Fast-Track ...
PR Web (press release)
As part of today's announcement, Polycom is unveiling Polycom® RealPresence™ Cloud, a wholesale, carrier-ready offering to enable SPs to quickly bring to market VaaS offerings. RealPresence Cloud solutions are designed specifically for SPs to equip ...
NetApp cloud services enable users to accelerate time to market, improve ...
CTR
Organizations are turning to cloud services to gain efficiencies and respond faster to the changing business demands. Service providers play a critical role in bringing cloud services to market and helping customers make strategic infrastructure ...
Cloud-based VDI: The End of the Desktop?
IT Business Edge (blog)
The latest tack, however, has been to push VDI onto the cloud, which supporters say solves many of the startup and infrastructure costs that plague standard solutions. While this, too, has met with a modicum of success, the technology as it has evolved ...
Don't Build Your Own Private Cloud in 2012: 10 Reasons Why
eWeek
The world of cloud computing is no exception. While enterprises continue to build hybrid and private clouds that still require buying and implementing hardware and software, there are a number of reasons for some companies not to "roll their own" ...
eWeek
NetLED: Japan Gets Cloud-Based, Smartphone-Compatible LED Lighting System
TechCrunch
First, Japan got the world's first connected home garden device, and now it's time for Nippon to get the world's first cloud-based LED lighting system. Developed by Tokyo-based lighting tech startup Net LED Technology Corp., the so-called NetLED system...
TechCrunch
Tendril to Announce Its Cloud Platform Supports "Green Button" Data and Launch ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan 18, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Tendril CEO Adrian Tuck today is set to announce that the company's cloud platform now provides native support for "Green Button" data--consumers' energy usage data provided in a simple, common, ...
Cloud servers crowd out other servers
EE Times India
IHS iSuppli reports that shipments of cloud servers will reach 8,75000 units in 2012, nearly double the 4,60000 shipped in 2010, with growth rates keeping at 23-30 per cent until 2015 when 18 lakh units would have been sold. ...
EE Times India
5 Tips For Sending Health Data To Cloud
InformationWeek
Health IT managers are reluctant to use cloud computing for data storage, says Iron Mountain exec Ken Rubin. Here's his advice for smart handling of health data. By Nicole Lewis InformationWeek Recent research on cloud computing in healthcare suggests ...
Usergrid + Apigee Will Lead to Cloud-based Mobile Data Tool, Say CEOs
ReadWriteWeb
The Usergrid philosophy is contrary to quite a lot of the cloud-centered design methodology promoted by SaaS - the idea that the server can do everything, and a thin device can serve as the portal. Instead, Usergrid has promoted the idea of richer ...
AIS Network Issues "Easy Come, Easy Go" Pledge for Cloud Hosting Customers
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
AIS Network CEO Jay Atkinson says his cloud hosting company doesn't hold data "hostage." Unlike most hosting companies, AISN will give customers their data back if they decide to leave, he said. Businesses that are wary of cloud computing, ...
Ignition Leads $20M Round In Cloud Security And Identity Company ...
By Leena Rao
With more than 3.8 million subscribers, Symplified offers a cloud identity and access management service for enterprises. Businesses can use Symplified for cloud identity management, access control, single sign-on for employees, user ...
TechCrunch » Enterprise
CA's Clarity PPM v. 13: Not Every Business Task is a Job for the Cloud
By Scott M. Fulton, III
Way back in 1984, a company called Applied Business Technology Corp. produced a partly open source project management tool called Open Workbench. After it became part of a ...
ReadWriteCloud
Proposed New Cloud Standard Could Give Amazon Serious ...
By Sam Dean
In the cloud computing arena, one of the biggest debates in 2011 surrounded cloud "lock-in," as many businesses and organizations are demanding increased portability of cloud applications between platforms, and increasingly pursuing ...
OStatic blogs
Cirrus Tech Launches CloudTO Cloud Hosting | FindMyHost Directory
By FindMyHost News
Web Hosting Services - Toronto, Ontario - Cirrus Tech Ltd. announces the launch of CloudTO cloudhosting in Canada, the latest offering from the Toronto web.
FindMyHost Directory
Cloud Peak Energy - The Power In Powder
Cloud Peak has its issues, but a demanding valuation isn't one of them.
Investopedia.com Headlines
Amazon's DynamoDB shows hardware as means to an end ...
By Derrick Harris
Somewhat lost in the greater story of Amazon Web Services' new DynamoDB NoSQL database is that the new service runs atop a solid-state storage system. By abstracting those SSDs behind a NoSQL service, AWS is trying to prove that ...
GigaOM
Cloud Security Firm Symplified Raises $20 Million in Series C ...
By Nicole Henderson
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud security firm Symplified announced on Wednesday that it has raised $20 million in a Series C round of venture capital financing led by Ignition Partners. Existing investors include Allegis Capital, ...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
Cloud Connect 2012 Organizational Readiness Track | Everest Group
By Scott Bils, Partner, Everest Group
The technology is the easy part. It's the cultural issues that are hard.” This quote from a recent conversation with a Fortune 500 CIO perfectly summarizes why we're holding the first-of-its-kind Organizational Readiness track at Cloud Connect.
Everest Group
CCP: 'Cloud gaming perfect for free-to-play success' | Game ...
CLOUD GAMING EUROPE: But is the cloud enough to make free-to-play a perfect bet? Namco Bandai isn't convinced.
Develop
Appreciating the Complexities of Cloud Computing | Blogs ...
By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
Make the Financial Case for Virtualization and Cloud Computing A lot of IT organizations have come to recognize that virtualization by itself makes IT more com.
Mike Vizard
Cloud enterprise app maker Tidemark grabs $24M from Redpoint ...
By Sean Ludwig
Enterprise performance management company Tidemark has raised $24 million in its third round of funding. The company makes cloud-based apps that help businesses interpret and act on real-time data.
VentureBeat
3M Cloud Library: Are they ready? | Tampa Bay Library Consortium
By Jessica
Here are some of our (Al and Jessie) notes and thoughts from a webinar we viewed on Monday, January 16th for the 3M Cloud Library. Doug Monson is our local 3M representative for TBLC and would like to help us learn more about 3M's ...
Tampa Bay Library Consortium
Choosing a hybrid cloud provider
Building a hybrid cloud? Don't dive into a cloud service-level agreement unprepared. This expert webcast outlines what to ask potential cloud providers.
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../Choosing-a-hybrid-cl...
How cloud can change your life | Smarter Computing Blog
“Can all of our stuff go to cloud?” “Do we need internal IT at all?” “Can't I just do it all in the cloud?” “How come you cost so much more than the public cloud?” ...
www.smartercomputingblog.com/.../how-cloud-can-change-y...
Microsoft Brings the Cloud Down to Earth for Enterprises: System ...
System Center 2012 is a true “private cloud builder.”
www.microsoft.com/.../01-17MSPrivateCloudDayPR.mspx?...
“Cloud Commuting” – Where Technology is Taking Us - InFocus
While reading an article I came across the term “Cloud Commuting” – it's one I ... While cloud, and all its variations, continues to evolve and become more ...
infocus.emc.com/.../cloud-commuting-where-technology-is-ta...
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