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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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