Friday, May 18, 2012

User Guide to Finding Storage Space in the Cloud

A User's Guide to Finding Storage Space in the Cloud
New York Times
One day, you'll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put information, photos and music on a floppy disk, a memory card or a USB fob to carry it from one device to another.

Scoop: Google, Microsoft both targeting Amazon with new clouds
GigaOM
17, 2012, 12:21pm PT No Comments Google is hard at work on a cloud computing offering that will compete directly with the popular Amazon EC2 cloud, according to a source familiar with Google's plans. Not to be outdone, other sources have confirmed ...

GigaOM 

NetSuite Announces 2012 "SUITEY Award" Winners For Cloud Computing Excellence
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NetSuite SuiteWorld 2012 -- NetSuite Inc. (NYSE:N) , the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced the winners of the annual SUITEY Awards, ...

Consumers Slow to Embrace Cloud Services for Digital Media, Says Parks Associates
MarketWatch (press release)
Parks Associates and industry leaders will explore business models, profit strategies, and consumer interest for cloud services, storage, and computing at CONNECTIONS(TM) at TIA 2012, June 5-7, in Dallas, Texas. Cloud sessions feature executives from ...

MicroTech Unveils Advanced Virtual Environment for Private Cloud Computing
MarketWatch (press release)
VIENNA, Va., May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Leading Service Provider and Technology Integrator MicroTech announces a new cloud computing solution -- the MicroTech Advanced Virtual Environment; a next generation technology solution that offers ...

iomart Group plc Named as one of World's Top 20 Cloud Services Providers
MarketWatch (press release)
iomart Group plc (aim:IOM), has today been named as one of the fastest growing cloud service providers in the world. iomart is ranked at 20 - the best ranking of any non-US provider - in Talkin'Cloud 100, the annual report published by leading IT ...

IBM SmartCloud: As Much Cloud As You Want
InformationWeek
"Think of a continuum of infrastructure-as-a-service," said Tim Kounadis, program director for IBM Cloud Services, in an interview before Wednesday's announcement. Customers uncomfortable with any form of off-premises computing can build out private ...

Cloud Computing Standards | CTO Power Panel at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Prior to joining the management team at Appcore, he served as General Manager of Cloud and Digital Media at Telx, a leading colocation and interconnection provider and was Director of Vertical Marketing for Equinix, one of the largest data center ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Public cloud execs dish out Top 10 tips for enterprises building hybrid clouds
ZDNet (blog)
Maybe we need to call it cloud-class now.” It's still early in the game, but most cloud providers believe the blended, hybrid cloud model is here to stay. So how do service providers advise enterprises these days? First, know what cloud computing is ...

UK government may miss cloud computing targets
BBC News
The government may miss its cloud computing targets because of a lack of enthusiasm from public sector IT staff, a report has found. The G-Cloud plan calls for 50% of new government IT spending to move to cloud computing services by 2015.

BBC News

Document Capture Technologies-DCMT IP Initiative for Scanning and Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DCT's patented security features can be embedded in all types of OEM products creating secure data capture at the source and transfer data securely to cloud computing services and back to devices. The convergence of distributed capture and shared ...

Broadview Networks Wins 2012 Cloud Award
MarketWatch (press release)
RYE BROOK, NY, May 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Broadview Networks, a leading provider of hosted voice, data and cloud computing solutions, announced today that it has won the B2B Customer Strategy Award in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards.

Cloud computing provides disaster protection for SMBs
Hostway
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly adopting cloudtechnology to protect themselves against unplanned disruption, according to a new study. Some 40 per cent of respondents in the recent Symantec 2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness ...

Hostway

NetSuite Honors Partners, Solution Providers and Developers at SuiteWorld 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
NetSuite's extensive network of developers and partners is crucial to helping enterprises of all sizes realize the benefits of cloud computing, enabling them to increase productivity, reduce costs, and streamline operations.

Numerix Recognized for Pricing, Insurance and Cloud Computing Innovation by ...
MarketWatch (press release)
According to Structured Products' editors, Numerix's accomplishment is also due to its dynamic partnership with Microsoft to help clients burst pricing and risk calculations to the cloud with Numerix CrossAsset on Microsoft Windows HPC and Azure.

What Cool Things Can I Do with All This Free Cloud Storage Space?
Lifehacker
I have over 8GB of Dropbox space, 5GB on Google Drive, 20GB on Amazon Cloud Drive, 50GB on Box, and 7GB on Microsoft's SkyDrive—and I want to take advantage of all of it. Any suggestions? We hear you! With all the cloud services handing out free space ...

Private Cloud Evolves With Better Management, Connected Experiences
AllAfrica.com
The role of information technology (IT) in the enterprise is changing from being a supplier of devices to becoming a supplier of pooled computing resources, with cloud computing giving IT professionals an opportunity to increase their strategic value ...

IBM Advances SmartCloud and Adds New Customers, Partners
eWeek
IBM announced enhancements to its SmartCloud cloud computing solution and highlighted several new customers and partners on the platform. IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced advancements to its SmartCloud Services and added new customers and partners.

Cloud Computing and the Need for a SSAE 16 (SOC 1) or SOC 2 Audit Report in ...
PR Web (press release)
In an increasingly competitive business environment, SSAE 16 and SOC 2 Audits are providingcloud computing companies a competitive advantage amongst their competition. SSAE 16 Professionals has assembled top tier talent whose sole focus is on helping ...

VISI to Host Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar in May
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Jason Baker, VISI's Chief Technology Officer, will cover a recommended three step approach when contracting services from an enterprise cloud provider including on how to identify the business IT stakeholder requirements, map the business requirements ...

Cloud computing slugs it out with legacy
iTWire
Adoption of cloud computing has reached a tipping point - but don't expect legacy systems to disappear for at least two more decades according to Paul Daugherty, chief technology architect of Accenture. Speaking at the SuiteWorld conference in San ...

Earthlink debuts hosted desktop services, adds cloud expert to executive team
BetaNews
By Ed Oswald Earthlink this week strengthened its cloud services offerings, debuting a hosted desktop solution that allows customers access regardless of device and via both the Internet and secure MPLS connections. Over 250 applications are supported, ...

Cloud Computing and Emergency Management: Tracy and Hepburn Lead The Way
Emergency Management (blog)
A couple years ago, I walked into a meeting at work and announced that the future was in cloud computing. Most of the folks looked at me blankly, some looked puzzled, but the IT people just nodded wisely. Now, just a couple years later, ...

Cloud computing as key to improved data protection
Help Net Security
More than half (55%) of US organizations expect their use of the cloud to increase as part of their business continuity strategy over the next year, according to CA. Canadian organizations are starting to make the switch but are less advanced than...

Help Net Security

Cloud Computing Standards | CTO Power Panel at Cloud Expo New ...
His broad range of experience includes the development, introduction, and marketing of software products for cloud computing, data center automation, SOA governance, business intelligence, web application servers, and development tools.
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The Hot Topic at the Cloud Computing Conference in Tel Aviv ...
By Yaron Azerual
The most important reason for using cloud services is cost savings. Cloud services achieve this cost saving by sharing infrastructure resources. For example, running multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, or sharing storage, ...
Radware Blog

IBM Global Financing Supports IBM's Advanced Cloud Services
By lisagoetz
IBM Global Financing Supports IBM's Advanced Cloud Services. Published May 17, 2012. Categories: Industry News. As businesses embrace the transformative power of cloud computing to gain a significant advantage, IBM unveiled ...
MonitorDaily

LenderMobile Enhances Cloud-Computing Functionality on Its iPad ...
By NationalMortgageProfessional.com
LenderMobile, a provider of mobile mortgage loan applications for iPads, has added two new features to its LenderMobile+ flagship app in response to users' requests. The new imaging feature lets loan originators and borrowers take photos ...
National Mortgage Professional Magazine

Cloud Computing Expo 2012 | Cloud Spectator
By Kenny
Cloud Glossary · What is Cloud Storage? What is Cloud? What is IaaS? What is PaaS? Why useCloud ... Join us at the largest cloud computing event this summer in New York City! Click here to go to the homepage. If you want to see the ...
Cloud Spectator

Why Cloud Computing Needs a Cloud-Intelligent Network - Webtorials
By Webtorials
Why Cloud Computing Needs a Cloud-Intelligent Network. ZK Research on behalf of Cisco Systems. Cloud computing has been on the horizon of most CIOs for the better part of half a decade. Cloud computing represents the next evolutionary ...
Webtorials

Why You Should Use A Portable Hard Drive Instead Of Cloud Storage
By Kevin Smith
The transition from desktop to cloud computing is definitely upon us. As companies scramble to launch the next online storage killer, we wanted to remind you that cloud services should be considered a supplement to external hard drives ...
Business Insider

OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5 ...
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
A compendium of Windows Azure, Service Bus, EAI & EDIm Access Control, Connect, SQL Azure Database, and other cloud-computing articles. image222 ..... Proprietary database software will lose some of its attraction, and the movement to big data and the cloud services that deliver database systems for big data will cut right into the proprietary vendors' bottom lines. 2. Data warehouse/BI specialists. They did not see this coming. They've been busy working with traditional analytics ...
OakLeaf Systems

A Computer User's Guide to Cloud Storage - The New York Times ...
By The New York Times
A Computer User's Guide to Cloud Storage. One day, you'll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put information, photos and music on a floppy disk, a memory card ...
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HP Betas Its OpenStack Public Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
Nearly 40 companies have announced support for HP Cloud Services ... years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media.
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2275656

Cloud Computing in Schools | Ave Maria Press
Classrooms Ascending to the Cloud: Cloud Computing in Schools ... Schools have used some form of cloud storage to distribute the PDF files to their students. ... Apple made some changes recently to their cloud services combining them into ...
https://www.avemariapress.com/.../cloud-computing-schools/

Cloud Computing and Mobile Processing Saves Small Business ...
Cloud computing, put broadly, is a term used to describe any service available on the internet. More specifically, cloud computing refers to a hosting environment ...
www.forbes.com/.../cloud-computing-and-mobile-processing-...

Navigating New Waters with Cloud Services - InFocus
For many years the IT industry has been “solutioning” on behalf of its customers, but with Cloud Services EMC truly delivers the “trusted advisor” approach.
infocus.emc.com/.../navigating-new-waters-with-cloud-service...

ScaleXtreme CloudStack Integration Verified as Citrix Ready | Cloud ...
ScaleXtreme's cloud-based server management tools are trusted to enhance Citrix Networking and Cloud Computing Solutions; ScaleXtreme CEO to speak at ...
www.virtualization.net/4129-scalextreme-cloudstack-integratio...

Why is Cloud computing so hard to define anyways? | Data Center
I just returned from the Cloud Computing Association conference where I was able to participate on a cloud computing panel discussion with some professors, ...
blog.schneider-electric.com/.../2012/.../cloud-computing-defin...

GeForce GRID Processors for Cloud Gaming | Cloud Computing ...
Render cloud games, workstation apps, and virtual desktops with maximum performance, efficiency, and end-user experience with GeForce Grid Technology.
www.nvidia.com/object/grid-processors-cloud-games.html

Cloud Computing Security Benefits Dispel Adoption Barrier for Small ...
Cloud Computing Security Benefits Dispel Adoption Barrier for Small to Midsize Businesses.Cloud services reduce time and money spent managing security ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../cloud-computing-security-benefits-disp...



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