Monday, March 19, 2012

The cloud has entered the "awkward teenage" phase

By Andi Mann, CA Technologies
Cloud computing is growing up, and it's time for IT management to loosen its grip. It won't be an... Whether they reside on- or off-site, these solutions deliver real-time visibility into the performance of critical cloud services. Even in the most ...
GigaOM

Cloud computing is entering its teen years - All VoIP News
By AllVoIPNews
The cloud has entered the "awkward teenage" phase, as James Staten at Forrester Technology recently noted. Luckily, it's not overrun with rowdy adolescents the way other research paradigms have been. It's been maturing, to cut a long story ...
All VoIP News

Cloud computing does to IT what Toyota did to car making
Livemint
He also heads the company's analytics and cloud computing initiatives. During a visit to Mumbai last week, he said IBM is sharpening its focus on the use of innovative technologies and solutions to manage the growing demands on infrastructure that ...

Cloud Computing is expected to create 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015
TECH.BLORGE.com
by Susan Wilson If Microsoft is correct, the push to switch to cloud computing will create 14 million jobs by 2015. That would be worldwide job growth with seven million of those jobs in China and India. North America will account for less than a half ...

Cloud computing: Research group offers tips on competition in cloud computing
Afrique en Ligue
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Information Technology service providers are well-positioned to deliver cloud services, but first they have to understand the dynamics of the sector and define clear objectives for their cloud strategies, according to a new ...

Malta's Microsoft Innovation Centre to focus on cloud computing for industry
Malta Independent Online
Opening a recent half-day conference on how 'The Cloud' has opened a new wave of innovation in computing, Ms Zammit outlined Microsoft Malta's plan for encouraging innovation and embracing the cloud, and highlighted the benefits that businesses can ...

Ninefold launches affiliate program
iTWire
Australian public cloud computing and storage company, Ninefold, has launched an affiliate program which it says will allow businesses and individuals with an online presence to generate revenue. Ninefold managing director, Peter James, ...

Cloud, data centre conference opens in Abu Dhabi
ITP.net
CEO of ICT Fund Eesa Bastaki, CEO of Injazat Data Systems Ibrahim Lari, NYU-Poly Professor Jonathan Chao at the International Conference on data management and cloud computing in Abu Dhabi. By Georgina Enzer Published March 18, 2012 Injazat, ...

ITP.net

Zurich Australia touts 'experience-oriented' architecture
iT News
By Liz Tay on Mar 19, 2012 7:00 AM (2 minutes ago) Zurich Financial Services is looking towards analytics, mobile services, cloud computing and APIs in a bid to win customer loyalty through improved, personalised services. Speaking at an FST conference ...

An Update On The Infor/Salesforce Partnership
Seeking Alpha
... which is a rollup of several traditional 90's era software systems, to be on the list of main stage guest and certainly not a partner target for cloud apps leader (and the poster child for thecloud computing era) Salesforce.com.

COMODO, Bitdefender, Zoolz Cloud Apps Hit The Play Store, Offer Users Tons Of ...
Android Police
A flurry of cloud storage apps have hit the Play Store in recent days, with COMODO Security Solutions, Bitdefender, and Genie9 all releasing official cloud solutions. Each of the new apps puts its own twist on cloud storage, offering slightly different ...

IBM battles dire mainframe myths
ITworld.com
March 18, 2012, 7:15 AM — The perception of mainframe technology as outmoded or inefficient is wildly inaccurate in a number of important ways, according to IBM's chief architect for cloud computing, Frank DeGilio. In a presentation at the Share user ...

Key Messages from IDC Directions 2012 for “The Intelligent Network” – Part 1
The Viodi View
That platform consists of some a mash up of: cloud computing, mobile broadband, mobile services/devices/platforms- OSs/apps, social networks, and big data/analytics. Many or all of those technologies will be integrated/ combined to offer new types of ...

Whitman steadies HP but big challenges remain
San Jose Mercury News
Whitman's "third bucket" consists of broader trends, such as the rise of online services and cloud computing. These are changing how customers use HP products, she says, but they offer new business opportunities such as helping clients protect and ...

Five Best Non-iPod Digital Music Players
Lifehacker
Streaming music is great, but if you're somewhere without a data connection, like a flight or underground on the subway, some of our favorite cloud services won't do you much good. For times like those, or when you need a device that's loaded up with ...

Cochran out, Eldh in as Symantec channel chief
ChannelBuzz.ca
While there, he was responsible for the go-to-market strategy for Symantec.cloud in the Americas, but Spring notes that he also “built a partner distribution team and extended the reach of Symantec.cloud services in the market.

ChannelBuzz.ca

Perspectives on IT Security in Eastern Europe: First Impressions from Two Very ...
Public CIO (blog)
4) Cloud Computing and mobile applications are also hot issues – just as in the USA. What was on the mind of attendees during Q/A panel sessions? Implementing public and private cloudsas well as smartphone security. 5) The security appliance market is ...

Press Release: NYU Abu Dhabi and Injazat convene international conference on ...
MEED (subscription) (press release)
... York University (NYU-Poly), in collaboration with Injazat, information technology and business process services provider in the region, opened a two-day international data center and cloud computing technology conference at Injazat headquarters.

Registration for Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 Now Open
PR Urgent (press release)
United under the conference theme “Transform your IT,” the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 agenda gives IT and business decision-makers a holistic view on how solutions ranging from cloud and virtualization to platform, middleware, ...

Kindle for the iPad updated for Retina display
Technology Bloom News
Features like having the ability to open PDF files in mail or Safari and sending them into the Amazon Cloud storage. Most of the other apps for the iPad that are used to help customers read books, etc, should be getting the update as well.
 
Technology Bloom News

Internet Initiative Japan Offers Very Attractive Growth And Valuation
Seeking Alpha
The latest news is that IIJ has tied-up with China Telecom (CHA) to offer cloud services in China from this summer. IIJ will build and oversee operations of the cloud platform using China Telecom's infrastructure. About the only negative aspect from ...

NYU Abu Dhabi and Injazat convene International Conference on data management ...
Zawya (registration) (press release)
Data centers and cloud computing form the basis for most large-scale Internet applications, including search engines and social network sites. Technological advancements in this field have a significant impact on the information and communications ...

Zawya (registration) (press release)

Watching the future unfurl at SXSW
Asheville Citizen-Times
One of the stickers handed out at the mixer was a clever play off the old motto of the “Land of Sky” and the newly wired WNC: “Closer to the Cloud, Asheville NC” — that's “cloud” as in cloud computing. But no, Asheville is not a little Austin, ...

Will UC Channels “Train” Business Users?
UCStrategies (blog)
Such concerns include exploiting public and private “cloud” based services, as well as integrating legacy telephony systems and business applications. Clearly, the complexities involved will demand external expertise on an ongoing basis as software ...

Australia's Largest Rooftop Commercial Solar Power Project Announced
Energy Matters
As a cloud enabler, NEXTDC's enterprise-class data centre facilities address the challenges of security, connectivity and neutrality that have hindered the wider acceptance of cloud computing. The Company's services are underpinned by the principles of ...

Energy Matters

OCR deputy: Lessons for providers in HIPAA settlement
ModernHealthcare.com
Asked if the same type of liability exists for providers using increasingly popular third-party cloud storage systems, McAndrew said the same patient data encryption and protection requirements apply. "So wherever it is as it moves it is not accessible ...

User Experience Vision For Startups
TechCrunch
When Dropbox was founded, there were probably more than 100 companies that were offering some sort of cloud storage or backup. How did Dropbox grow so fast? Phenomenal virality aside, the key to Dropbox's success was a fantastic product.

TechCrunch

SXSW 2012: Artists, you have 42 different ways to make money
Los Angeles Times
As music moves to the digital space, either via hard drives or cloud services, making a connection, as well as selling a product, has become a challenge. "What is the equivalent of a cheer, a scream, on a computer?" asked Alex Asseily, founder of audio ...

MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition for entrapreneurs
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
CureAid (Egypt): The team's project, DAWA, is an Electronic Medical Records product which utilizes cloud computing to have patients' data available on the cloud to all the clinics participating in the network. It creates a strong business between ...

CIA wants to spy on you through your appliances
Network World
The latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing." Previously "dumb" appliances will be replaced with "smart" energy-efficient appliances. Microsoft showed off the ...

German Government Recognises OCCI as Leading the Cloud ...
By admin
Today, we are happy and proud to find the German Federal Minstry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) fully endorses OCCI in its freshly published analysis on “The Standardisation Environment for Cloud Computing”. This is a big vote of ...
Open Cloud Computing Interface

A Call for More Cloud Storage Standards Support
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), ...
All DABCC Virtualization & Cloud...

147 - VIP - English Podcast | Cloud Computing | Fun English Lessons
By admin
In this VIP English podcast we talk about cloud computing and organizing your life. Learn about how to use technology to better organize your life and also learn phrases and slang for everyday spoken English.
Fun English Lessons

Erich Clementi | Cloud computing does to IT ... - Nearshore Journal
By admin
He also heads the company's analytics and cloud computing initiatives. Right direction: Clementi says he is happy that IBM had sold its PC business to Lenovo in 2005. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint. During a visit to Mumbai last week, he said ...
Nearshore Journal

Kforce Recruiting Network Admin – Virtualization, Cloud Services in ...
By Iza
Network Admin – Virtualization, Cloud Services. Kforce is at present recruiting Network Admin – Virtualization, Cloud Services in Southfield Michigan: Sunday, March 18, 2012 07:37:49 GMT. Network Admin – Virtualization, Cloud Services ...
Lexxio

CloudFail.net » Blog Archive » Cloud Services | LON | Control Panel ...
By cloudfailbot
At approximately 6:10 AM CDT , Rackspace Cloud Engineers identified an issue affecting a small number of our customer's ability to work with or view their servers via our Control Panel and API. We are currently experiencing intermittent ...
CloudFail.net

Cloud PLM: what do you need to know about multitenancy
By Oleg
Time sharing was very popular on mainframe (this is why many people consider mainframes as one of the technological roots of cloud computing). ASP concept when another company “hosted” product for customers is another early example ...
Beyond PLM Blog

HP Ready to Contend with Amazon on the Cloud
CloudTimes (blog)
Senior vice president and general manager of HP's cloud services, Zorawar “Biri” Singh said that NYSE: HPQ plans to market a more business friendly with more service features on the cloud computing solutions. NYT reports that among the software ...

CloudTimes (blog)

Octo Consulting Group Sponsors The 2012 AFCEA Belvoir Industry Days Conference ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Mr. Nare will be part of the Technology Panel speaking about “Cloud Computing for Federal Agencies”. Octo Consulting Group, is a proud to announce that Ashok Nare, the company's newly appointed Chief Technology Officer, will be speaking at the 2012 ...

Northern Ireland's schools get education cloud
PC Advisor

Cloud Computing Easily Understood - PaaS | Cloud Computing ...
More and more enterprises are deploying cloud computing and IT departments are requiring new capabilities with cloud storage infrastructure. Hadoop and Map ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2208121

Lenovo Cloud Storage announced, is available for download today ...
Lenovo and SugarSync have come forward with details of a new partnership offer . The offering is called Lenovo Cloud Storage and as the name implies, Lenovo ...
www.technologytell.com/.../lenovo-cloud-storage-announced-...

Lockheed Martin · Lockheed Martin Broadening Cloud Computing ...
Under the framework agreement, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions, the corporation's business area that provides cloud computing ...
www.lockheedmartin.com/.../isgs-uk-cloud-computing-0314.h...

FAQ: The lowdown on open source cloud computing
How do its pros and cons affect enterprise cloud? ... Amazon, Google cloud rate cuts · GoogleCloud Storage rates slashed by up to 15% · View All News ... Experts agree that they're set to make major waves in the cloud computing market as a ...
searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/.../FAQ-The-lowdown-...

Eucalyptus 3: Design, Build, and Manage | Cloud Computing ...
3 day, hands-on training course about building a private cloud. The course includes lectures, walkthroughs, labs and in-class discussions.
www.eucalyptus.com/services/.../design-build-and-manage



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