Computerworld
By Kenneth Corbin CIO - The federal government may not be renowned for its operational speed or agility, and certainly IT is no exception, but federal agency CIOs and their employees have gradually been warming to the new model of cloud computing, ...
Amazon Releases Desktop App for Its Cloud Storage Service
Computerworld
That changed Wednesday with Amazon's release of a free desktop program for its cloud storage service. There are versions of the software for Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac 10.6 and 10.7. The software is a cinch to install in Windows.
Khosla Leads Nirvanix's $25M-Plus Round For Cloud Storage
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Nirvanix Inc., whose cloud storage is used by customers that require terabytes of capacity, has raised more than $25 million in Series C funding led by Khosla Ventures as it looks to capitalize on major technology shifts transforming corporate IT ...
Premio Showcases Open-Source Cloud Computing Platforms with Off-the-Shelf Data ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., May 03, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With a spotlight on its cloud computing platforms in booth #508 at the 2012 Interop Expo May 8-10 in Las Vegas, Premio (http://premioinc.com/ ) is demonstrating how data centers or enterprises ...
Private cloud computing models alleviate some cloud security issues
TheServerSide.com
By Lucas Stewart Private cloud computing seems to be surrounded by much fog and misinformation as to exactly what it means for the enterprise. What types of companies are a good fit? Who might need a private cloud? Are security issues the only reason?
Cloud Computing Boosts Building Performance, Collaboration
GlobeSt.com
NEW YORK CITY-To those in the design, construction and building operations industry, the concept of cloud computing can have many different meanings, from servers to code to different devices – even the kitchen sink. But panelists at the 2012 Buildings ...
GlobeSt.com
Nirvanix Raises $25 Million for Cloud Storage
Data Center Knowledge
Cloud storage specialist Nirvanix, Inc. has raised more than $25 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures, the companies said today. Current Nirvanix investors Valhalla Partners, Intel Capital, Mission Ventures and Windward Ventures ...
Zynga Takes On Amazon In The Cloud
Forbes
This is a guest post by Reuven Cohen, an entrepreneur who founded cloud services firm Enomaly. Republished with permission from his blog Elastic Vapor. While some are happy to debate definitions of cloud computing, I prefer to focus on the ...
Forbes
PricewaterhouseCoopers: Here's What Makes The Cloud So Cool
InformationWeek
In a guest editorial for Forbes Mike Pearl, the cloud computing leader for international professional services giant PricewaterhouseCooper, succinctly and clearly explained just why the cloud is so awesome. Okay, maybe he didn't use the word “awesome ...
The Cloud and the Changing Role of the Investor
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Melissa Jun Rowley Tech entrepreneurs can see clearly now; the rain is gone, thanks to the cloud. Cloud computing is making it easier and more affordable for people all over the world to be entrepreneurs, and individuals and businesses are acting ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
How Mobile Operators in Europe Monetize Consumer Cloud Computing Services
Sacramento Bee
How Mobile Operators in Europe Monetize Consumer Cloud Computing Services analyzes the pricing models for cloud services launched by mobile operators in Europe. It begins by reviewing the existing pricing models and highlighting their limitations for ...
Deltek Predicts Operational Agility and Cost Efficiencies Will Fuel $3.2B in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
While IT spending by federal agencies is experiencing the same budget pressures as other segments of federal spending, the cost savings associated with cloud computing are serving as an enabler of its adoption inside many agencies.
Amazon tries to catch up in personal cloud storage and falls further behind
ZDNet (blog)
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | May 2, 2012, 3:49pm PDT Summary: With the release of Google Drive, all the other personal cloud storage companies had to play catch-up. One, Amazon, has tripped. Ignore the Web page, the Amazon Cloud Drive App. will run ...
Piston Cloud CEO to Present at 2012 Interop Las Vegas
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced its Co-founder and CEO, Joshua McKenty, will be participating in a panel session at Interop Las Vegas titled, ...
Cloud Services Showdown: Google Drive, Dropbox, Box & Cubby Compared
Tablet PC Review
Box is similar to Dropbox in its cloud storage and synchronization services. However, Box adds some clever collaboration tools to the mix, as well. For example, you can share individual files or entire folders with a few clicks.
Hortonworks Vice President of Corporate Strategy to Present at Goldman Sachs ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development and support of Apache Hadoop, today announced that its Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Shaun Connolly, will be presenting at Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference, ...
Real and perceived security threats of cloud computing
TechTarget
Public clouds make enterprise IT uneasy. For one thing, it's a disruptive technology -- a significant shift toward compute resources becoming a shared utility. It also creates a lack of visibility and less control over IT assets.
Windows 8 to integrate cloud services, ditch Windows Live branding
Ars Technica
By Peter Bright | Published May 2, 2012 4:15 PM The Windows Live branding that Microsoft has used since 2005 for its range of consumer-oriented cloud services will fade away over the next few months, as the company positions the online services as an ...
New book on cloud computing helps organisations develop a cloud programme
InformationWeek
Founded in 1995, EIN News is an international leader in real-time news tracking and digital information services. Our systems continuously scan the web, indexing news from thousands of worldwide sources. The data is then filtered and organized into ...
NIST to Host June Forum/Workshop on cloud computing.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room
Government, industry, academia and individuals are using cloud services. NIST's role in cloud computing is to help accelerate the secure and effective adoption of cloud computing in the federal government. The agency leads efforts to develop standards ...
Appcara Showcases A Radically New Approach to Cloud Application Lifecycle ...
MarketWatch (press release)
As cloud computing expands beyond simple, predefined workloads, AppStack is poised to provide exceptionally fast time-to-market for key business applications -- maximizing time, knowledge and profitability. Despite widespread use of cloud applications, ...
Nirvanix nabs $25M from Khosla, others to perfect enterprise cloud storage
VentureBeat
Enterprise storage startup Nirvanix has raised $25 million in its third round funding, with a goal to bring enterprise cloud storage to the largest companies in the world. Nirvanix offers its more than 1200 customers across the globe access to the ...
VentureBeat
Cloud Computing: Nirvanix Raises Over $25M Series C Round
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The company plans to utilize the capital infusion to significantly expand its engineering organization and accelerate the delivery of innovative new cloud storage services while increasing its global footprint across sales and marketing.
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud services for Windows 8 gets “re-imagined”
Ubergizmo
Cloud services including calendar, contact list, instant messaging, inbox and cloud storage will also be accessible via your Microsoft account. And since services are part of your account, they can be shared across all Microsoft products and services...
Ubergizmo
Infosys offers small cooperative banks cloud computing for 'anywhere anytime ...
Times of India
MUMBAI: Infosys has started offering its core banking solution on the cloud and is targeting smaller banks by offering fee-based usage of the product. "We are working with some cooperative banks on this and area also looking at the African market for ...
Deutsche Telekom to Reveal how to Exploit the Potential of Cloud Computing in ...
Sacramento Bee
By Telecoms IQ With the market for cumulative cellular M2M connections forecast to rise from 110 million connections in 2011 to 365 million connections by 2016, now is the time to establish the strategies and partnerships needed to secure your share of ...
SafeNet to Present at the 2012 "All About the Cloud" Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
Mr. Weiss will present "Cloud Monetization: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimizing Your SaaS Business Model" where he will demonstrate how successful SaaS companies have evolved their business models to fully realize the benefits of cloud computing.
Cloud Expo East Five Weeks Out
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Carmen Gonzalez The only place to be June 11-14th is the NY Javits Center atCloud Expo 2012 East. Join us there as delegates from all over the world come to listen to and engage with speakers and sponsors from the leading Cloud Computing, ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Nirvanix gets $25M to build a bigger, better storage cloud — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
Cloud storage vendor Nirvanix will use $25 million in in Series C funding round led by new investor Khosla Ventures to add to its engineering staff and expand global sales and marketing coverage.
GigaOM
Khosla Leads $25M Round In Enterprise Cloud Storage Company ...
By Leena Rao
Enterprise cloud storage provider Nirvanix has raised $25 million in Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures with previous investors Valhalla Partners, Intel Capital, Mission Ventures and Windward Ventures participating in the round. The new investment brings Nirvanix's total capital ... “The advantages of cloud computing are becoming more clear all the time, and it is inevitable that storage will also move to this architecture. Data, particularly unstructured data, is exploding in ...
TechCrunch
Does Amazon's new cloud storage service hints at bigger role in the ...
By Phone Arena
In a way, Amazon's release of a general cloud storage service seems natural; Amazon already offers several consumer and developer-facing cloud services for some time now. So it seems ...Amazon is perfectly suited to compete in mobile with their cloud offerings – they already providecloud computing and database services to developers, and their Cloud Player and Amazon Prime streaming services are “prime” examples that cloud computing is one of their core competencies.
PhoneArena - News
NIST to Host Cloud Computing Forum June 5-7 | FedScoop
By David Stegon
Government executives from Europe, Asia and North America, including U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel, will discuss views on the potential for cloud computing technology to transform public services. In another session ...
FedScoop
Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live ...
By editorial@silverlightshow.net (Silverlight Show )
We have talked quite a bit about SkyDrive and using your Microsoft account for the sign-in and roaming capabilities of Windows 8. These are just two aspects of a broad service infrastructure that you can tap into when using Windows 8 (and ...
SilverlightShow: Silverlight Community
Google Drive: Hybrid of Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing
By Larry Magid
While other services mostly store your files, Google Drive -- with some file types -- also allows you to view and edit them because of the Google Docs integration. This integration can lead to a bit of confusion.
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed
Cloud Computing - Still Cloudy? - Ecademy
Fueled by its ability to reduce costs and increase efficiency, Cloud Computing has been the talk of the town among business leaders in the financial services realm. Due to the mounting pressure from stakeholders and regulatory reforms to ...
Ecademy: user blogs
Microsoft ditches Windows Live brand, explains new approach to ...
By Donald Melanson
In his latest blog post for the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft's Steven Sinofksy explains the company's new approach to cloud services in Windows 8 and Windows Phone, and confirms one big change: it's doing away with the Windows ...
Engadget
Digital Strategy and Cloud Services | inQbation
By Joseph
One of the greatest marriages in the history of business development is that of the cloud and enterprise-level business planning. Three Cloud Services Options. The tech world is loaded with buzzwords, and cloud computing is one of them.
inQbation
Vinod Khosla VC Firm Invests In Cloud Storage Firm Nirvanix ...
By John Furrier
The $25M round represents the first investment by Khosla in the cloud storage services sector and demonstrates further validation of Nirvanix's enterprise cloud technology—cloud tech already deployed at the likes of IBM, USC, Relativity ...
SiliconANGLE
NELA Conference on Cloud Computing | e-Science Community
By Donna Kafel
After reading Regina Raboin's blog post, Of Cloud Computing and e-Science, you want to consider attending the New England Library Association ITS spring conference, Cloudy with a chance of connecting to the future, on Friday June 8th, ...
e-Science Community
CloudFail.net » Blog Archive » Cloud Services | ORD/DFW | API ...
By cloudfailbot
At approximately 8:50 PM CDT , Rackspace Cloud Engineers identified an issue with our API. We are currently experiencing intermittent accessibility and some functionality may be degraded. Our Engineers are diligently working on the issue.
CloudFail.net
Building blocks in the cloud – what services do staff and students ...
By Nick Skelton
Some of the popular ones include Skype for video chat, Doodle for scheduling meetings, and Dropbox for cloud storage. These cloud services have many advantages, e.g. they make it easy to collaborate with people outside the University.
IT Services @ Bristol
The Rise of The Vertical Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
While some are happy to debate definitions of cloud computing, I prefer to focus on ... and distinct differentiation in a market dominated by me-too cloud services.
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2267974
Cloud Storage and Backup Provider Symform Raises $11 Million ...
So while the cloud storage market is becoming increasingly competitive as the big guys like Google move in, there is still a need for additional cloud services like ...
www.thewhir.com/.../cloud-storage-and-backup-provider-sym...
Nirvanix Simplifies Cloud Storage with 'One Click to the Cloud' at ...
SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nirvanix, the leading provider of enterprise-classcloud storage services, today announced that it will demonstrate ...
www.prnewswire.com/.../nirvanix-simplifies-cloud-storage-wit...
Security Considerations for Cloud Computing (Part 4) - Resource ...
In this article, we will continue with the theme and pick up on the third essential characteristic ofcloud computing: pooled resources.
www.windowsecurity.com/.../Security-Considerations-Cloud-C...
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