Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Top 12 Countries for Cloud Computing (US is #4); and the BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard 2012 (pdf)

Top 12 Countries for Cloud Computing  (US is #4)
PropertyCasualty360
Data privacy: Balance between laws and regulations and free ability to move data through the cloud efficiently 2. Security: Proper management of risks inherent in storing and running applications in the cloud 3. Cybercrime: Laws providing meaningful ...

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Business Software Alliance: Global Cloud Computing Scorecard 2012 (pdf)
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Cloud Computing Market for SMBs in Asia-Pacific (Excl. Japan) to Reach US$16.5 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SINGAPORE, Feb 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Small and medium businesses (SMBs, companies with less than 1000 employees) in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) will invest US$16.5 billion in cloud computing solutions, according to the latest ...

RSA and Zscaler Teaming Up to Deliver Trusted Access for Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE:EMC) and Zscaler today announced they are jointly developing a cloud-based solution to assert continuous trust in identities accessing any web application or cloud service. The solution is designed to help enable ...

RightScale, Equinix Partner on Cloud Services
Data Center Knowledge
(Source: Equinix) In a blue-chip partnership targeting the intersection of colocation and the cloud, data center service provider Equinix and cloud computing specialist RightScale are helping customers connect private clouds with large-scale public ...

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud computing and the rise of the virtual office
Humans Invent
To put the success of Cloud into context so far, Amazon's web services (AWS) achieved revenues of $500 million in 2010 and predicted $750 million for last year, while Merrill Lynch research predicted that the Cloud computing market will be worth $160 ...

IBM and Business Partners Drive Client Success in the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
Expected to grow to more than $214 billion by 2020,* cloud computing has become a catalyst for capturing new business value through innovation, stronger customer relationships, and faster time to market while reducing cost and complexity.

Automated encryption for cloud storage
Help Net Security
SafeGuard Encryption for Cloud Storage automatically encrypts files uploaded to the cloud from any managed endpoint. This simple process requires little more than choosing a password, which allows secure file access from anywhere – thereby improving ...

Help Net Security

Silly Businesses, Cloud Computing isn't Just for Cost Savings
CloudTweaks News
A similar shift is taking place right now with cloud computing. The discussion around cloud computing has moved beyond 'if' it is going to happen and is now a question of 'when.' The cloud makes IT hardware and software a commodity so only the largest ...

CloudTweaks News

Ericsson Joins OpenStack, Aiming at Operators With Cloud Ambitions
PCWorld
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Ericsson has joined OpenStack as part of its plan to serve operators that want to become cloud computing providers, the company said on Tuesday. OpenStack is an open-source community that develops software for private and ...

3 tips for using cloud services to extend your data center
ITworld.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers found that 41% of security and IT respondents said their organizations have already implemented cloud computing, most going with SaaS offerings. To plot your cloudstrategy, analysts and other experts say you should start by ...

How to choose your cloud service provider
ITworld.com
By Thor Olavsrud, CIO | Cloud Computing Add a new comment February 28, 2012, 7:41 AM — Many organizations have now gone so far as to dip their toes into the shallow end of cloud computing, and many more are thinking about testing the waters.

Cloud Computing, Big Data and EMC's Impressive Quarterly Results
CloudTweaks News
One of my recent articles explored the idea of cloud computing contributing to lower margins at Microsoft (See: Can Cloud Computing Be Bad For Microsoft?). While that may still be true with respect to Microsoft's highly profitable MS Office suite, ...

CloudTweaks News

Cloud Computing Jobs Plentiful - Finding Great Talent More Difficult
Infoboom
Recent predictions indicate strong growth for the cloud over the next five years, meaning businesses of all sizes will have to create cloud computing jobs and then find IT pros with the right kind of expertise. While many universities and colleges now ...

ioBridge Provides Internet Connectivity Technology and Cloud Services for New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
28, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- ioBridge, Inc. ( http://www.iobridge.com ) is pleased to announce that Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc. ( http://www.zodiacpoolsystems.com ) selected ioBridge to provide Internet connectivity technology and cloud services ...

ITpreneurs Offers Cloud Essentials Course in Dubai
MarketWatch (press release)
"Comprehensive, certified training is extremely important for the growing cloud computingindustry," said Sukhbir Jasuja, CEO, ITpreneurs. "We heard great feedback on this training and our company is looking forward to continuing this course offering.

Cloud Computing services: SMEs can reduce computing costs, achieve greater speed
Economic Times
Cloud Computing has emerged as a new area in IT and is at the top of the mind for every chief information officer (CIO) today. SMEs that contribute to one-third of IT investment (as per EMCZinnov study 2012) find Cloud Computing as the most appealing ...

Dell Planning Cloud Computing Certification for Partners
TalkinCloud (blog)
As you may guess, most of our conversation centered around Dell's cloud strategy. And to help bring channel pros along for the cloud ride, Davis noted the coming weeks will see the launch of a cloud computing certification.

USA Ranks 4th In World Cloud Computing Report
Infoboom
According to the results of the Global Cloud Computing Scorecard, recently released by the Business Software Alliance, there are wide variations in countries' readiness for a global network of cloud services, and this has serious implications for ...

Creating the Infrastructure for Cloud Computing (Book Excerpt) by Intel Press
DABCC.com
Written for the professional IT engineer, Creating the Infrastructure for Enterprise Cloud Computing is the essential practical guide to the theory, practice, and implementation of virtual service grids. The book is organized into separate sections ...

Simplifying cloud deployment
ITworld.com
Like most new technologies, cloud computing can require significant changes in business processes, application architectures, technology infrastructure, and operating models that must be properly understood. Having a well thought-out strategy can mean ...

Redpine Signals and Exosite to Showcase a Wi-Fi Enabled Cloud-Computing ...
SunHerald.com
BOSTON -- Redpine Signals, Inc., a leading developer of ultra-low-power, high-performance multi-standard wireless chipsets and modules, and Exosite, a provider of cloud-connectivity solutions for embedded applications, today announced a cloud-connected ...

RightScale and Equinix Partnership Delivers New Cloud Management Service for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MIAMI, Feb 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX) , a provider of global data center services, and RightScale(R), Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced a strategic global partnership to deliver a complete ...

Employees get the cloud, but IT -- not so much
InfoWorld (blog)
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld Recently, InfoWorld's Galen Gruman pointed out that cloud storage is beginning to see productive use -- and IT is not having any of it. After all, why let productivity get in the way of preventing an unlikely security ...

Lighthouse Computer Services Launches Data Management Cloud Services Powered ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Actifio™, the Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform company, today announced that Lighthouse Computer Services will launch a new suite of cloud services based on Actifio's PAS platform integrated with IBM hardware.

Doro shows off smartphone and cloud services for the elderly
ComputerActive.co.uk
Doro, a specialist manufacturer of simple mobile phones for the elderly, has announced its Android smartphone and accompanying cloud services. The PhoneEasy 740 is unlike most other Android smartphones as it has a slide-out keypad with big buttons, ...

ComputerActive.co.uk

Document Security Systems to Expand IP Portfolio in Cloud Computing, Mobile ...
Bradenton Herald
By Document Security Systems, Inc. ROCHESTER, NY, Feb. 27, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- Document Security Systems, Inc. (NYSE Amex: DSS; "DSS"), a leading developer and integrator of cloud computing data security and security printing technologies which ...

Connectria: Cloud Computing Company No Longer Hidden in the Cloud
Infoboom
The cloud hosting company is not a household name, even within the tech world. But a leading financial site has pegged it as the second-ranking cloud hosting provider in North America. Globally, it ranks fourth. How did that happen?

Dell Advances Public Cloud Security with Trend Micro SecureCloud Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
Dell's comprehensive cloud offerings also include private and hybrid clouds, as well as application integration and consulting services. Privacy and security issues are a growing concern as more companies turn to cloud computing and virtualization.

Telcos see future in the cloud
CNET
In the cloud. John Chambers, Cisco Systems' CEO, talks about cloud services at Mobile World Congress 2012. We've all heard this schtick before: Carriers don't want to be the purveyors of dumb pipes. Their equipment suppliers--namely, Cisco Systems and ...

Cloud Computing Vendors: The Top Cloud Computing Mega-Vendors
By Michael Gabriel Sumastre
A clear consensus exists: the term Cloud computing has become synonymous with resource optimization that brings about cost-effectiveness on top-line &... ... Small and medium businesses, according to a survey by Search Cloud Computing, are jumping into the Cloudahead of large enterprises. CRN, an online specialist information services provider, is estimating that by 2014, SMBs will spend as much as $100 billion for Cloud services. In this regard, business decision-makers are ...
TrainSignal Training

ISACA Issues Six Principles for Effective Cloud Computing
By Press Release
The growing shift to cloud computing can deliver significant value—but most enterprises have little knowledge of the perils of transferring IT decision-making away from technology specialists to business unit leaders. Eliminating oversight and ...
The Data Center Journal

Driving through the clouds - Cloud computing in the automotive ...
Aggressive manufacturers now also use cloud computing to drive product innovation - from development to end of life. Cloud services offer easier provisioning for software development and testing, which can measurably reduce the time and ...
MA RSS

ioBridge Provides Internet Connectivity Technology and Cloud ...
By ioBridge
28, 2012 — ioBridge, Inc. (http://www.iobridge.com) is pleased to announce that Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc. (http://www.zodiacpoolsystems.com) selected ioBridge to provide Internet connectivity technology and cloud services for its new ...
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Getting Your Head Into The Cloud Computing | the pluralsight blog
By Paul Ballard
Would you like to more about cloud computing and what it can do for your organization? In this video excerpt from David Chappell's course “Cloud Computing: Seeing The Big Picture” you'll learn what factors should be considered in ...
the pluralsight blog

DataSift now gulps two years from the Twitter firehose — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
Cloud Computing News · Events · GigaOM.tv · Research · Home · Apple · Broadband · Cleantech · Cloud · Collaboration · Mobile · Video · Cloud. DataSift now gulps two years from the Twitter firehose. By Barb Darrow Feb. 28, 2012, 12:01am ...
GigaOM

ioBridge Provides Internet Connectivity Technology and Cloud ...
ioBridge Provides Internet Connectivity Technology and Cloud Services for New Intelligent Pool Control System by Zodiac Pool Systems. ... Devices connect securely and directly with ioBridgeCloud Services via an Internet connection.
ITbriefing.net

e-Jobs Observatory: Virtualization and Cloud Computing Forum (in ...
By KP
The Virtualization & Cloud Computing Forum 2012 is taking place this year in Athens - Greece on April 14th, 2012. This event offers knowledge about virtualization and cloud computing, for those who are interested, such as key business and ...
e-Jobs Observatory

6 Principles For Effective Cloud Computing | Business Computing ...
By Ramses Gallego
Eliminating oversight and governance from cloud computing decisions can create significant risk to organisations, effectively undermining any benefits of moving to the cloud and, at the same time, potentially creating serious issues for ...
Business Computing World

NaviSite Chooses Desktone to Deliver Desktops as a Service (DaaS)
NaviSite, Inc., a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, today announced a partnership with Desktone, Inc., the pioneer of Desktops as a Service (DaaS) to offer ... Virtualization & Cloud Computing News, Support, Podcasts, Videos, Downloads for the Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services), Application Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization (VDI), ...
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Download Gladinet Cloud Desktop 4.0.847 - FileHippo.com
Gladinet Cloud Desktop mounts cloud storage as local folders. Users can access their cloudfiles in Windows Explorer. Supported storage includes Amazon S3, AT&T Synaptic, Box.net, EMC Atmos onLine, FTP, Google Docs and Picasa, ...
FileHippo.com

Private Planet and NEC join forces for global cloud computing ...
By Gary Marshall
London-based Private Planet has signed a global deal with NEC to deliver a white-label personal cloud computing solution for mobile and telecom operators. The collaboration will integrate Private Planet's cloud platform technology and ...
Smart UK Project

Cloud Computing Market for SMBs in Asia ... - Nearshore Journal
By admin
SINGAPORE, Feb 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Small and medium businesses (SMBs, companies with less than 1000 employees) in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) will invest US$16.5 billion in cloud computing solutions, ...
Nearshore Journal

View From the Wings at RSA - Cloud Computing | Microsoft ...
By trusted-cloud
The Trustworthy Computing blog shares Microsoft perspectives about cloud computing. From security in the cloud to the evolution of IT, we show how Microsoft works to build a trustworthycloud.
TechNet Blogs

Cloud Computing - Ecademy
The term 'Cloud Computing' was born in the middle of 2007. ... From cloud services, the company doesn't have to spend large amounts of money on licensing ...
www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=174837



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