ZDNet (blog)
By Gery Menegaz | May 29, 2012, 3:00am PDT Summary: How do you know if cloud computing makes sense for your organization? And if it makes sense for your organization what sort of services should you buy into? Here are the questions to ask.
ZDNet (blog)
4 Causes Of Cloud Bill Shock
InformationWeek
Some companies shoot for reduced costs only to find unexpected expenses drive up the cloud computing bills. Do any of these problems lurk in your company? By Beth Stackpole InformationWeek While the promise of the cloud is more cost-effective IT, ...
The Next Leapfrog for Development: Leveraging Cloud Computing
Huffington Post
In order to maximize their impact in Emergency Response, Humanitarian Development and Conservation, international NGOs would be better served by banding together to off-load IT operations tasks to solution providers who see hosting and cloud services ...
Google Apps Clears Key Security Hurdle
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google said Monday it had received ISO 27001 certification for Google Apps for Business, a recognition of its information security practices that will make its cloud services more palatable for use in government and ...
Vectorworks Cloud Services Launches in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
This initial Cloud Services offering allows users of Vectorworks software to access and share files and make design decisions from anywhere. Changes to users' Vectorworks files are automatically synchronized to their private cloud storage, ...
Cloud computing firm Iomart riding high
BBC News
Hosting and cloud computing company Iomart has increased full-year profits after being boosted by a number of acquisitions. The Glasgow-based firm made pre-tax profits of £5.7m in the year to 31 March, compared with £2.8ma year ago.
BBC News
Flexiant Cloud Orchestration Underpins Self-Provisioning Cloud Services for ITEX
Tophosts
Livingston, Scotland - 29th May 2012 - Flexiant, a leading European provider of cloud orchestration software for on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services, today announced that ITEX, the technology solutions specialists for offshore ...
Doing their very best to stall cloud storage
InformationWeek
Not surprisingly, the Cloud was a big theme. EMC announced they were going to make improvements to Atmos to make it more acceptable as a cloud storage platform. Every product needs development to stay competitive and Atmos is a fine example of a ...
Venyu opens up cloud services offering to channel partners
eChannelLine
By Mark Cox Venyu is announcing that its recently-launched VenyuCloud virtualization platform, a new cloud service that has so far been available only to its direct sales force, is now available to partners. Venyu has been in operation since 2009, ...
PaaS Market Will Be Next Cloud Battleground: Study
eWeek
Frost & Sullivan, an IT analysis and consulting firm, predicts that the platform as a service market will be the next area of keen competition for cloud innovators, as the infrastructure- and software-as-a-service spaces have been commoditized.
Cloud Computing: GoGrid Private Cloud Now Available in Amsterdam
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Although the benefits of Public Cloud computing-increased agility, maximized operational efficiency, and increased IT control-have been widely embraced by businesses, analysts say many organizations remain unclear about the reasons for choosing a ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
PROMISE Technology's SmartStor Cloud Wins Best Choice Award at Computex 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
"PROMISE has been developing cloud storage solutions for several years now, and provides a rich portfolio of storage cloud solutions from public cloud for data centers, private cloud and hybridcloud solutions for enterprise, and much more to meet the ...
PCI DSS Compliance in the Cloud: Challenges and Tactics
Wired News
Perhaps the largest point of confusion with regards to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and cloud computing is the question of upon whose shoulders does compliance fall? In 2011, several cloud providers began asserting that...
Wired News
Exclusive Cloud Computing Conference Set for November 8-9, 2012
Accountingweb.com
Cloud Summit 2012 is the exclusive conference for business owners, accounting professionals,Cloud users, and alike, to demo the latest technological advances in virtual solutions. This year's event is the 3rd annual Cloud Summit hosted by Cloud9 Real ...
IBM bans Dropbox, Siri and rival cloud tech at work
InformationWeek
IBM has banned employees from using Dropbox and Apple's iCloud at work as it claws back permission to use third-party cloud services. The rethink has also resulted in a edict against the iPhone 4S's Siri voice recognition technology at Big Blue.
Profitable Cloud Growth Helps iomart Group plc Post Strong Annual Results
MarketWatch (press release)
iomart Group plc (aim:IOM), the UK cloud computing and managed hosting services provider, has today (29 May 2012) announced strong annual results for the year ended 31 March 2012, with profits up by 68% to £11.2m (2011:£6.6m).
British Telecom Pours Resources Into US Cloud Services Channel
CRN
By Chad Berndtson, CRN British Telecom is in the midst of a major US channel blitz, staked to the idea that it can more than double its SMB conferencing channel revenue here over the next two to three years on the back of cloud services offerings such ...
CompanionLink Relieves Cloud Anxiety for Business Professionals
SYS-CON Media (press release)
“Data is not shared with cloud services that may later sell or profit from your customer database and calendar. We believe people should not be forced to host their business and personal relations online for the benefit and profit of sync vendors.
Hey! Put down that Cat6 and plug the cloud app gap instead
Register
Cloud computing isn't the future; services are the future – and vendors are increasingly talking about “managed services” opportunities in the cloud. Such talk may perk up the ears of managed service providers (MSPs) that have spent years honing their ...
eFileCabinet(R) Document Management Website Provides Cloud and Desktop Flexibility
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The eFileCabinet® Website features a document management suite that lets users store, manage, access and share files in the cloud from anywhere and is offered as a desktop version which operates as a local client/server with a cloud backup option.
AT&T Study Shows Step-Up in Disaster Planning
Sci-Tech Today
By Barry Levine AT&T's annual study found that mobile security services and cloud computing have become major parts of disaster recovery plans, according to the study. Sixty percent of respondents are investing in mobile security services, ...
Sci-Tech Today
Cloud Computing: Too Risky for Mission Critical?
Formtek Blog (blog)
By Dick Weisinger, on May 29th, 2012 Most analysts are convinced that companies have moved or are moving to the cloud in a big way. Forrester says that sometime this year we will have reached the point where 50 percent of companies are using some form ...
Sumo Logic to Showcase Leading Log Management and Analytics Service at Cloud ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Slam'12, produced by Cloudcor, is one of the world's largest independent cloud computing conferences. Cloud Slam'12, now in its fourth year, encompasses a tried and tested hybrid format event, which last year attracted a global audience in excess ...
Greenplum entices developers with fully loaded Hadoop sandbox
InfoWorld
By Ted Samson | InfoWorld In a move to garner valuable support from the developer community while honing its own big data chops, EMC-offshoot Greenplum has unveiled a cloud computing cluster called Analytics Workbench, built on Hadoop, ...
Fedora 17 brings cloud computing and virtualisation enhancements
V3.co.uk
by Daniel Robinson The Fedora Project has officially released version 17 of its leading-edge Linux distribution, adding the latest update to the OpenStack cloud computing platform, JBoss Application Server 7 and oVirt, a virtualisation management tool.
CloudPassage Looks to Lock Down Cloud Servers
Server Watch
By Kenneth Corbin (Send Email) For IT pros, the benefits of the cloud are by now familiar. But as enticing as the agility, streamlined management and on-demand provisioning benefits that cloud computing offers, security remains an area of deep concern.
Server Watch
Clavister's New Security Products Meet the Cloud Challenge
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Security remains the main challenge hindering adoption of Cloud services a view supported by an IDC IT Cloud Services User Survey, which found 74 per cent of IT executives and CIOs cited security as the top challenge preventing take up of the Cloud ...
Quanta Computer lands orders for cloud computing servers from ...
Quanta Computer has obtained orders for 100000 servers for cloud computing from Japan-based telecom carrier NTT, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News report.
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia
See what cloud can do! Dell unveils ARM servers — Cloud - GigaOM
By Stacey Higginbotham
The move is a significant one for the chip world as well as for Dell, as it proves how the needs ofcloud and webscale customers have turned the chip and vendor community on its head, and provides Dell with the potential to make a high-dollar system for clients and stave off commoditization happening in the world of x86 gear. .... I can't say if GigaOm has an hidden agenda or not but more competition isn't just good for Google it's good for consumers of cloud services as well. It's bad ...
GigaOM
Microsoft and Private Clouds « Perspectives on Cloud Computing ...
By cczarneckiltre
There is a large interest in this area of cloud computing and there is always much to report on, whether new products from dedicated private cloud organisations such as Eucalyptus, or the computing giants such as Oracle. Today, my focus is ...
Perspectives on Cloud Computing...
Finno | Regions4Cloud – The opportunity of Cloud Computing, short ...
By Magda Paolillo AGINNOVAZIONE
Opinions from “European Regions for Growth – The opportunity ofCloud Computing“, round table held in Brussels and commissioned by Microsoft in order to promote the exchange of best practices on digital innovation and Cloud Computing ...
Finno
Top 5 Upcoming Cloud Events 2012 - DMG Federal
By dmgeditor
Cloud computing is growing in popularity every day. The cloud allows us to think and do things in ways never previously possible. Despite its popularity, there seems to be a lot of confusion for many people with regard to what exactly cloud ...
DMGFederal.com
Revealed: The jobs that will be wiped out by cloud computing ...
By Nick Heath
As businesses switch to cloud computing demand for some traditional IT roles will plummet - but new, different jobs will be created instead. ... Revealed: The jobs that will be wiped out by cloud computing. By Nick Heath. May 29, 2012, 5:08 AM PDT ... Howard Elias, COO for information infrastructure and cloud services at storage giant EMC, said: ”There are not going to be fewer people involved in IT, but they will be involved in IT in different ways. “If you are a server, storage or network...
CIO Insights Blog | TechRepublic
New £40m cloud computing development investment fund - modisblog
By Modis Blog
The government has created a new £40m Enterprise Capital Fund, designed to provide loans specifically for British businesses developing products and services in the cloud computing and software-as-a-service arenas. Announcing the new ...
modisblog
Cloud Computing With Early Start-ups | Blogging Idol | Blogosphere
By Chris Lau
Cloud Computing adoption in the enterprise was last introduced as possible, so long as strategies are considered first. Venture capital funding is an extension of corporate strategy. The difference is that venture capital funds accelerate the ...
Blogging Idol | Blogosphere
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Ositov, CTO of OS33 ...
By candicearnold
We take all those things that you're running, so, all your old legacy infrastructure and your cloud services, and we can automate them and run them as a single unified platform. We kind of sit in the middle; we become the glue that brings ...
Sramana Mitra
Benefits Of Managed Cloud Services - Internet Business Consulting ...
By Mari Orr
Managed cloud services are models that enable network, applications, storage and sharing of information to be accessed from different parts of the world at a faster speed. This has lead to reduction in costs and increased efficiency in the ...
Rovin Net
BIME CHINA Partners with China Mobile at 4th China Cloud ...
By vendorpageid_72
BIME CHINA Partners with China Mobile at 4th China Cloud Computing Conferenc... May 29, 2012 - 08:18AM. BIME CHINA, a pioneer in powerful cloud business intelligence, today announced a partnership with China Mobile, the leading ...
Spiceworks Community
Cummins Power Generation drives power for connected cloud ...
By Mark Vanderkolk
Data centers are fast becoming big business as increasing numbers of companies turn to these external experts for specialized data storage services, making cloud computing one of the biggest growth industries. As the business grow, so too ...
Cummins Power Blog
Cloud Compliance Audit: Learn More On The United Certification ...
By Balaji
Customer support is essential for cloud computing customers. Thus, the audit verifies that the vendor has an established ticketing system and a help desk, and that it staffs their Network Operations Center (NOC) with trained personnel. 5.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
Panzura Integrates Panzura Global Cloud Storage System with EMC ...
EMC Atmos provides essential building blocks to implement a private, public or hybrid cloud storage environment. Deployed with the Panzura Global Cloud ...
www.panzura.com/.../panzura-integrates-panzura-global-cloud...
The Cloud Storage Services Battle: What Every Mobile Provider ...
If operators and device makers follow the same short-term mentality of allowing cloud servicescompanies to dictate their cloud storage strategy, this story will ...
www.wirelessweek.com/Articles/.../Cloud-Storage-Service-Batt...
E-discovery: The relationship between cloud computing, e-discovery ...
May 22, 2012 • Reprints. Regular Internet users have likely heard the terms “ cloud storage,” “cloud computing,” and/or “the cloud.” The “cloud” refers to electronic ...
www.insidecounsel.com/.../e-discovery-the-relationship-betwe...
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