Google Cloud Storage: high performance that just works

Google Cloud Storage: high performance that just works - Google ...
By Scott Knaster
The performance of cloud storage services (and indeed most web services) depends on two main factors: the network that moves the data between us and the end user, and the performance of the storage service itself. 1. Network When you ...
Google Developers Blog

Virtela Wins Cloud Computing Excellence Award
MarketWatch (press release)
DENVER, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Virtela, the world's largest independent managed network, security and cloud services company, today announced that its Cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) service has won the 2011 Cloud Computing ...

Dell buys Clerity in latest bet on cloud computing
CBS News
Dell said Tuesday that it has bought business software company Clerity Solutions, the PC maker's latest bet on cloud computing. The Round Rock, Texas, company did not say how much it was paying for Clerity. Cloud computing is meant to save money and ...

Cloud Computing: Dell Acquires Wyse Tech to Gain Cloud Share
Motley Fool
However, this move into cloud computing brings on a new set of competitors, including Amazon.com. Dell stock has risen about 15% over the last year. Do you think that adding cloud computing onto its list of offerings will boost the share price even ...

Citrix aims to become the Red Hat of cloud computing with CloudStack
BetaNews
By Ed Oswald Citrix is making its mark on open-source cloud computing, following CloudStack software's release to the Apache Foundation. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based technology company acquired the rights to CloudStack with last year'sCloud.com ...

BetaNews

HP Awarded U.S. Army Contract for Enterprise Cloud Computing Services
MarketWatch (press release)
PALO ALTO, CA, Apr 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- HP (NYSE:HPQ) Enterprise Services today announced it has been selected by the US Army to provide the Department of Defense and other federal agencies with enterprise cloud computing services under ...

HP receives Army cloud computing contract
CBS News
Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that its enterprise services unit has received a contract from the Army for cloud computing services that could be worth up to $249 million. Cloud computingallows workers to fetch computer programs and key documents ...

Webair Cloud Storage Services Reach New Heights with EMC Isilon
MarketWatch (press release)
Prior to the deployment of the EMC Isilon-based Webair Cloud Storage Service, each Webair client was provided a dedicated storage system. To accomplish full redundancy, standby appliances and more complex configurations were often required.

YouDazzle Brings the Power of Cloud Computing and Networking Marketing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In addition, YouDazzle today brought the $100 billion cloud services market opportunity to millions of home-based businesses by introducing the first sales distribution model that makes it easy for anyone to learn cloud technology and enter this ...

Independent Survey Results: How Businesses Are and Will Be Using Cloud Storage
MarketWatch (press release)
... Survey revealing that 28% of organizations surveyed were using cloud computing services as a way to control IT costs, up substantially from 13% in 2009. Cloud storage is one of the many ways that organizations are leveraging cloud services today.

3 best practices for your cloud computing first-timers
InfoWorld
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld As enterprises continue to move to cloud computing, blunders will occur, but we'll also see success with the cloud. Now is a good time to survey what works -- that is, the best practices around cloud deployment.

Five Cloud Computing Trends Affecting Cloud Strategy Through 2015
IT Business Edge
Click through for five trends that must be factored into the IT planning process, as identified by Gartner, Inc. Continual monitoring of cloud computing trends, with regular updates to the enterprise's cloud strategy, will be essential to avoid costly ...

Terremark launches private cloud offering
InfoWorld
By Nancy Gohring | IDG News Service Terremark is offering enterprises a new private cloud service that includes the option to burst onto a public cloud. The private offering, introduced Tuesday, should appeal to customers in industries like financial ...

EU Releases Guide for Improving Security in Cloud Contracts
PCWorld
ENISA's goal is to improve the public sector's understanding of the security of cloud servicesand the potential indicators and methods that can be used during service delivery, the authors said. Procuring and managing service contracts for cloud ...

StorSimple extends portfolio of cloud-connected storage appliances
InfoWorld
With those features and integration with multiple cloud services -- including ones offered by Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Rackspace -- the company hopes it can break down a lot of the barriers preventing enterprises from using the cloud for storage.

Terremark launches private cloud edition
ITworld.com
April 03, 2012, 12:43 PM — Some enterprise customers just aren't comfortable throwing their data into a public cloud environment, says Ellen Rubin, vice president of cloud products for Terremark, which is owned by Verizon. So, the company announced ...

Terremark Launches Enterprise Cloud Private Edition
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
This private cloud solution is built on the leading enterprise-class architecture of Terremark's flagship cloud computing offering, the Enterprise Cloud, but is designed as a single-tenant environment to meet the security compliance requirements of ...

Making the Case for Cloud Storage
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet
The attraction of cloud storage is not hard to understand because it can be used in a variety of ways. The most popular ones are: Overflow capacity - Cloud storage can provide short term storage capacity to cope with occasional spikes in demand for ...

Aframe Expands Its Cloud Video Production Platform to North America, Fuelled ...
MarketWatch (press release)
With Aframe and the power of cloud computing, users can share, search and collaborate without on-site equipment or full-time staff, and only requiring an internet connection. As the video production industry embraces another transformational shift ...

Cloud computing to create 2 mn jobs in India by 2015
Business Today
As an increasing number of enterprises adopt cloud computing, there will be a sharp slump in the demand for installation and maintenance engineers. For many in the industry, the option will be stark: reskill or perish. Cloud computing, which has ...

Business Today

Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative
Computerworld
Network World - As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, virtualization, unified networking and big data, according to Cisco and EMC, which have teamed to ...

New in cloud: Brokers that let you select providers by the job
GCN.com
By Rutrell Yasin A new development in cloud computing the emergence of cloud brokers, services that let organizations choose cloud providers by the job and change providers on the fly depending on prices or services. They can help government agencies ...

Can the cloud revive manufacturing?
Embedded.com
BERKELEY, Calif – Cloud computing could help usher in the next wave of technological innovation and, with it, provide a new engine for economic growth, say the authors of a forthcoming study on the emerging cloud computing ecosystem.

Intelisys Announces Agreement to Acquire Cloud Services Coalition (CSC ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PETALUMA, CA and LAS VEGAS, NV, Apr 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Intelisys Communications, Inc., the nation's leading master agency distributor of business technology services, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire Cloud Services ...

GreenButton™ Introduces New Cloud-Based Media Indexing Service
Seattle Post Intelligencer
GreenButton™, a cloud services company specializing in cloud enablement for software vendors and enterprises, today announced the availability of GreenButton inCus, a new audio indexing solution powered by the Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing ...

HP Expert Chat focuses on how IT can enable cloud adoption while maintaining ...
ZDNet (blog)
View the full Expert Chat presentation on cloud adoption best practices. Cloud computing has sparked the imagination of business leaders, who see it as a powerful new way to be innovative and gain first-mover advantages — with or without traditional ...

HOB GmbH & Co. KG: Multi-Tenancy -- a Must for Cloud Service Providers
MarketWatch (press release)
CADOLZBURG, Germany, Apr 03, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloud computing -- the current topic at many IT departments. Current research proves the increasing popularity of cloudsolutions at companies. They expect more flexibility, less costs and therefore ...

Citrix Gives CloudStack To The Apache Software Foundation
NetworkComputing.com
Less than a year after acquiring Cloud.com, Citrix is sending CloudStack, the open-source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines as a highly available, scalable cloud computing platform, to the Apache Software ...

Amazon APIs Are Fine ... For Amazon
NetworkComputing.com
If I didn't know better, I'd say that there are many in the cloud community that are happy to capitulate standards to Amazon. What's next? Letting Cisco define networking standards, Microsoft define OS, Web content, and document standards, Apple define ...

Report lends advice to government organizations adopting cloud ...
By Simply Security
To ultimately change this – educate government organizations and ensure they are leveraging the services of cloud computing effectively and appropriately, the CIO Council and the Chief Acquisitions Officers Council recently said in a joint report. ... implementing the 'cloud first' policy and moving forward with the 'federal cloud computing strategy' by focusing on ways to more effectively procure cloud services within existing regulations and laws,” the report's executive summary states.
Simply Security

The Lippis Report » Download Library » Cloud Computing ...
By nicholaslippis
Cloud computing is a disruptive technology model that is changing the way public sector organizations consume information and communications technology (ICT), and how they deploy and deliver services to stakeholders. A trusted network infrastructure is the foundation for any ...the chief advantages and business drivers. Case study snapshots describe how public sector organizations have successfully implemented cloud services models in various environments worldwide.
The Lippis Report

5 Reasons Why Cloud Computing Offers IT a Silver Lining
By Mark Morley
Hybrid Cloud Computing is an Imperative – Ultimately there are two main cloud computingenvironments, public and private, but many companies will make use of both types of cloud services thus creating a hybrid cloud environment.
All About B2B

Survey Results: More Signs Cloud Storage is Moving to the ...
By Nicos Vekiarides
In January 2012, Enterprise Strategy Group published their 2012 IT Spending Intentions Survey revealing that 28% of organizations surveyed were using cloud computing services as a way to control IT costs, up substantially from 13% in 2009. Cloud storage is one of the many ways that organizations are leveraging cloud services today. With public and private cloud storage available from a number of well-known providers such as Amazon, AT&T, Nirvanix, RackSpace, Google, HP ...
TwinStrata Blog

Cloud Computing to Enhance your Business and the Environment ...
By Jackie Lyon
Cloud Computing to Enhance your Business and the Environment. April 3, 2012 By Jackie Lyon. What: A free speaker series sponsored by Adjamian Affiliated Inc. discussing how cloud computing can enhance your business and the ...
U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce

YuuWaa For Android: 2 GB Cloud Storage, Support For Multiple ...
By A. Rehman
The ever-increasing number of cloud storage services and their respective mobile clients can leave users thinking how many is too many. Just last month,
AddictiveTips

Cloud Computing Conferences, Events and Publications
By mattgodson
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way business is conducted. Although still in its infancy as far as potential developments are concerned, cloud computing, as the next generation model to replace software licensing, has already had a ...
Conferences, Events and Publications

Ensuring cloud computing performance on data communications ...
By Digital West Networks Inc.
An excerpt from an a three part article published at LightwaveOnline.com. The right protocol for the job. Communication issues within the data center are being addressed by the IEEE 802.1 DCB (Data Center Bridging) initiative, which extends ...
Digital West Networks, Inc.

Citrix ditches OpenStack for Apache – software, OpenStack, open ...
By cwhitehouse
In The News: Citrix ditches OpenStack for Apache – software, OpenStack, open source, internet,cloud computing, Citrix cloud, Apache software – Grid & Cloud Computing – IT Services – Techworld. Published on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 at ...
Enterprise Strategy Group

Terremark launches private cloud offering - terremark, internet, cloud ...
By Nancy Gohring
The new service lets users burst traffic to public clouds, including Amazon's. ... the cloud will use a hybrid approach. Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDG News Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at @idgnancy.
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9 Trends That Impact The Future Of Mobile Cloud Computing ...
By Balaji
9 Trends that Impact the Future of Mobile Cloud Computing Mobile cloud is the convergence ofcloud computing and mobile apps. ... By moving apps from the PC to the tablet, enterprises are putting more effort on their mobile cloud services.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Basho's Riak Cloud Storage Release is AWS S3-Compatible | Cloud ...
If they haven't already, Cloud leaders like Windows Azure and Amazon Web ... start providing products to compete with established cloud-computing services. ... Storage, which is designed to enable both public and private cloud services.
cloud.dzone.com/articles/bashos-riak-cloud-storage

Cloud computing, virtual image sprawl and labor costs - SOA Talk
A “simple” approach to cloud computing ... Cloud Services, Enterprise architecture ... While public cloud providers can be expected to ramp up to manage ...
itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/.../cloud-computing-virt...

HP receives Army cloud computing contract - Yahoo! Finance
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that its enterprise services unit has received a contract from the Army for cloud computing services ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../hp-receives-army-cloud-computing-174...

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