Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Cloud Computing a Game Changer for Your Company? 5 Questions to Ponder
Forbes
Think of cloud computing as a continuum that stretches all the way from one-off projects — that is, companies simply moving some IT assets to the cloud to gain cost savings — all the way up to a game-changer that strategically leverages online...

Forbes

Cloud storage
CNET
With more than 120000 customers, including 82 percent of the Fortune 500, the company has made a name for itself as one of the leaders in the enterprise cloud storage and data management space. And though Box.com has Microsoft, and more recently, ...

Why Box.com is king of enterprise cloud storage
CNET
Dropbox and Google Drive may get the ink, but in enterprise cloud storage, no one may be more important than Box.com. CNET sat down with CEO Aaron Levie to talk about the future of the business. by Daniel Terdiman May 15, 2012 4:00 AM PDT Follow ...

Microsoft Sees Cloud As SMB Security Cure
InformationWeek
Microsoft pushing the idea that cloud services offer more cost-effective security for SMBs than the alternative. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek If cloud computing were marketed as a medicine, it would be a wonder drug. Its healing powers would be so ...

Netcelerate's New Website Contributes to Cloud Computing Awareness
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
As the benefits of cloud computing solutions continue to gain momentum in Canada and worldwide, Netcelerate is doing their part to provide clear and straightforward information about hosted telephony, internet and managed IT services.

SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors acquisition
InfoWorld
By Chris Kanaracus | IDG News Service SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the ...

NVIDIA Introduces World's First Virtualized GPU, Accelerating Graphics for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
With the NVIDIA VGX platform in the data center, employees can now access a true cloud PC from any device -- thin client, laptop, tablet or smartphone -- regardless of its operating system, and enjoy a responsive experience for the full spectrum of ...

Oracle Positioned to Succeed in the Cloud Computing Market
NetworkComputing.com
In the second of a three-part series on Oracle's cloud computing offerings, Network Computing takes a look at the vendor's position in the software and hardware markets. Part one, "Oracle Embraces Cloud Computing, the New Consumption Model," examined ...

Top 10 Cloud Influencers, Thought Leaders
Wired News
Cloud computing is everywhere these days and is becoming increasingly vital to any IT strategy. Forrester forecasts that the global cloud market will grow from $40.7 billion to more than $241 billion in 2020. Let's take time to reflect on how we got to ...

Wired News

Information Services Group Joins Cloud Security Alliance
MarketWatch (press release)
The CSA is a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders dedicated to promoting best practices on security assurance within cloud computing environments and to providing education on the uses of ...

NVIDIA Unveils Cloud GPU Technologies, Redefining Computing Industry for Third ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Kepler cloud GPU technologies shifts cloud computing into a new gear," said Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA president and chief executive officer. "The GPU has become indispensable. It is central to the experience of gamers. It is vital to digital artists ...

SAP Faces Uphill Battle On Database, Mobile, Cloud
InformationWeek
It also puts in perspective the company's comparatively young, three-pronged strategy to push into the database, mobile-computing, and cloud-computing markets. After the first day of SAP's annual SAPPHIRE event in Orlando on Monday, there were signs ...

Video: SAIC's Cloud Computing Centers
Data Center Knowledge
In December 2011, SAIC recently put into operation a new cloud computing data center in a colocation facility. The data center is dedicated to enterprises clients processing massive amounts of information and operating private clouds.

New Baidu Cloud phone unveiled: Changhong H5018 with 300GB of cloud storage
Engadget
By Richard Lai posted May 15th 2012 12:49PM That new Baidu Cloud phone we told you about last week? You're looking right at it! Following the flagship Dell Streak Pro D43 (which was branded with what was then known as Baidu Yi aka version 1.0 of the ...

Nvidia to Offer Graphics Chip for Cloud Computing Centers
Bloomberg
(NVDA) said it has made a version of its processors that will work in cloud-computing centers, offering high-end graphics to users of remote devices like Apple Inc.'s iPad. Nvidia has worked with Citrix Systems Inc. (CTXS) to make the technology work, ...

SAP combines enterprise core with ready-to-use cloud
BetaNews
By Ed Oswald SAP aims to show that it is a serious player in the cloud computingsector today, announcing several new cloud initiatives under what it calls an "accelerated" strategy. The company's deeper commitment to the cloud stems from its $3.4 ...

BetaNews

Citigroup's Public Bet on the Private Cloud
U.S. News & World Report
By John Sandman Cloud computing emerged as disruptive technologies often do—in an entrepreneurial spirit of collaboration in which resources and costs are shared. But so is data, inadvertently or not. When Citigroup embraced the cloud, the cost-saving ...

Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds Will All Need an IT Service Culture
NetworkComputing.com
Whether IT focuses on a public, private or hybrid cloud computing strategy, it's going to be measured on service like never before. As a result, more and more IT executives are focusing on service culture development. Servicing the systems and the ...

Download the Cloud Applications Deep Dive report
InfoWorld
... Thanks to the success of Amazon EC2, Salesforce, and other public cloud services, most enterprises understand the value of cloud computing, and an increasing number of enterprises are exploring the idea of getting into the cloud computing business.

Terremark Expands North American Cloud Infrastructure Capacity
MarketWatch (press release)
MIAMI, May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Seeing increasingly strong enterprise demand for secure cloud computing solutions across North America, Terremark, a Verizon Company, increased its cloud infrastructure capacity by deploying a node of its ...

Choosing a Cloud Hosting Provider with Confidence
InformationWeek
Cloud computing is rapidly transforming the IT landscape, and the conversation around adopting cloud technology has progressed from "if" to "when." Enterprises are showing strong interest in outsourced ("public") cloud offerings that can help them ...

IDA urges S'pore businesses to take up cloud computing
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: The government is taking the lead when it comes to the adoption of cloud computing. The Infocomm Development Authority Singapore (IDA) said it has awarded a key tender to allow Singapore's first private computing cloud infrastructure for all ...

Kelway Launches ServiceWorks Suite of Cloud Services
The Complete Managed Services Resource
Kelway, which was launched as an IT supplier in the 1990s, offers an approach to cloud computing that is intended to remove complex jargon and misleading metrics, giving businesses more transparent cloud services. In fact, business outcomes, ...

Ubitus to Provide the Industry's Most Scalable GPU-accelerated Cloud Gaming ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ubitus Inc., the technology leader enabling interactive rich media cloud services, will demonstrate its next-generation GameCloud® technology at GTC 2012 using the new NVIDIA GeForce® Grid(TM) ...

Red Hat to debut EL7 in late 2013, take lead in cloud era, execs predict
ZDNet (blog)
Red Hat's open source innovation model and open source architecture, which, executives emphasized, is the foundational layer of cloud computing. Make no mistake about it, VMware and Microsoft, and any other company that tries to get in its way: Red Hat ...

SAP Sapphire: SuccessFactors' Lars Dalgaard swings for the cloud fences
ZDNet (blog)
By Andrew Nusca | May 15, 2012, 12:07pm PDT Summary: Former SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard makes his pitch that SAP bought a winner that can take the company into a cloud-based future. ORLANDO, Fla. — Lars Dalgaard could sell ice to an Eskimo.

ZDNet (blog)

Pink Visual's Groundbreaking Cloud-Based PVLocker.com Celebrates One-Year ...
MarketWatch (press release)
VAN NUYS, CA, May 15, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- PVLocker.com, the adult entertainment site that Cnet once said could help determine whether cloud services are "a slice of heaven or just vapor," celebrates the one-year anniversary of its official ...

Nvidia announces the Nvidia VGX, the world's first GPU developed for cloud ...
The Verge
By Nathan Ingraham on May 15, 2012 02:45 pm 17Comments Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is kicking off the 2012 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) conference right now, and he just announced that Nvidia has developed the world's first GPU for cloud computing, ...

Structure 2012: the ongoing cloud computing evolution — Tech ...
By GigaOM
GigaOM's fifth annual Structure conference examines how cloud computing is changing the way business is done around the world and brings together the leaders innovating, shaping and defining the ongoing cloud computing evolution.
GigaOM

Cloud Computing: Qualtrics Raises $70 Million | Cloud Computing ...
We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? ... large enterprise, a growing business, a government organization, or a service provider, Cloud Expo New York is THE place you need to be June 11-14...so you can better understand both the provision and use of the cloud services that increasingly transforming IT and business alike.
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Cloud Storage Calls to all Technophobes! :: JustCloud News
By admin
It's true that not everyone feels they were built for the twenty-first century. A lot of words in the internet universe's vast index of phrases can easily confuse and send many running for the hills. But 'cloud storage' need not … Co...
JustCloud News

Files and Folders Connects Your BlackBerry Playbook to Cloud ...
By Matt Cameron
Cloud storage is all the rage nowadays. With so many places offering lots of free online storage, many users have signed up for multiple services. Files and Folders allows you to access the most popular of these services with ease from your ...
BlackBerry Cool

HP Blogs - Synergies of Cloud Computing, Big Data and Analyti ...
By Nadhan
I recently shared my thoughts on the various triggers for Industry Cloud Computing. There are certain synergies that apply across multiple industries thanks to the powerful combination ofCloud and Big Data, which opens up a wealth of data ...
Enterprise Services Blog articles

Video: SAIC's Cloud Computing Centers Google ... - Nearshore Journal
By admin
International (SAIC) is a Fortune 500 company providing cybersecurity and IT outsourcing services to enterprises and government agencies. In December 2011, SAIC recently put into operation a new cloud computing data center in a ...
Nearshore Journal

HP moves HP Cloud Services to public beta | DailyFT - Be Empowered
By bandara
HP last week made its first public cloud services available as a public beta. Advancing the company's Converged Cloud portfolio, HP Cloud Services deliver an open-source-based publiccloud infrastructure with business-oriented features that ...
DailyFT - Be Empowered

Nvidia announces the Nvidia VGX, the world's first GPU developed ...
By Nathan Ingraham
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is kicking off the 2012 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) conference right now, and he just announced that Nvidia has developed the world's first GPU for cloud computing, based on Nvidia's Kepler GPU.
Know All That!

Sui Generis--a New York law blog: Cloud Computing, Client Portals ...
By NBlack
Yes check (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Lately I've been busy writing blog posts for the MyCase blog and writing articles and blogs posts for the ABA GPSolo eReport, Ms. JD, and starting this Friday, I'll be blogging bi-weekly at the Lawyerist blog ...
Sui Generis-a New York Law Blog

Check Out Cubby, Cloud Storage's Latest Competitor - Business ...
By Kevin Smith
Once cubby is downloaded, you will be guided through the process of setting up an Cubby also adds an icon to your menu bar so that you can access the service Easily sync your added content to the cloud by clicking this button. Collaboration ...
Business Insider

RUMOR - Cloud storage on the way to Wii U | GoNintendo - What ...
By RawmeatCowboy
hitting the system in 2013- involves the Nintendo Network- allows for 512 MB of online storage to ...
GoNintendo

Moving Enterprises to the Public or Hybrid Cloud (Part 12 of 12)
By Ladd Wimmer
The final post in this 12 part series concludes why large organizations should use the cloud. ...Hopefully four key themes emerged for justifying the use of Public and Hybrid cloud services: Manage ... Cloud computing will continue to expand.
nttcom.tv

Cloud Competition: Microsoft Cuts Prices, Adds Platform
By Richard
Guest Post by Sharon Shapiro of Cloud Sherpas Although it only entered the cloud computingmarket in July 2011, Microsoft has already made a name for itself with Office 365, its hybrid cloudsolution available to businesses. But despite its.
Cloud News Daily

Study: Cloud Computing Cuts $5.5 Billion Annually from Federal ...
Study: Cloud Computing Cuts $5.5 Billion Annually from Federal Budget The federal government saved nearly $5.5 billion a year by moving to cloud services.
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2273860

Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference to Feature Acquia ...
The event brings together some of the most influential individuals in cloud computing with leading industry executives in panel discussions, fireside chats, and ...
www.acquia.com/.../goldman-sachs-cloud-computing-confere...

HPC in the Cloud: Cloud Computing Saves Big Money for the Fed
According to a new report from MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange, the federal ... The findings were revealed last week at the inaugural Cloud Computing ...
www.hpcinthecloud.com/.../cloud_computing_saves_big_mon...



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