Why Cloud Computing Needs To - And Will - Go Open Source

Why Cloud Computing Needs To - And Will - Go Open Source
Forbes
They're the “big three” buzzwords companies cite to justify their investments in cloud computing. But while today's leading cloud players have the best technological interests in mind, financial interests are prohibiting them from delivering an open environment ...

Xerox Promotes Cloud Services For SMBs
InformationWeek
The public cloud is nearly uniformly an Intel x86 instruction set environment. But when Xerox quietly launched public cloud services aimed toward small and midsize business (SMB) users in early January, it needed to host IBM iSeries (the former AS/400) and ...

Small and Mid-Size Businesses See Productivity in the Cloud: Surveys
Forbes
For small to mid-size businesses, the cloud represents opportunities to level the playing field with larger companies with tremendous IT assets. Cloud computing is a natural solution for smaller businesses that can't make the investments in rooms full of ...

Forbes

Oracle Keeps Its Head in the Cloud
Wall Street Journal (blog)
A week after VMware unveiled its $1.26 billion deal for networking-software provider Nicira, Oracle says it's buying Xsigo, another company that greases cloud-computing systems by virtualizing the routers and switches that make the systems possible. In short ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Oracle snaps up Xsigo for SDN smarts
GigaOM
Xsigo's software-defined networking technology simplifies cloud infrastructure and operations by allowing customers to dynamically and flexibly connect any server to any network and storage, resulting in increased asset utilization and application ...

GigaOM 

Oracle Buys Virtualization Provider Xsigo to Boost Cloud Services
PC Magazine
Software manufacturer Oracle announced today that it has acquired network virtualization provider Xsigo Systems in an effort to boost its cloud capabilities. San Jose-based Xsigo connects any server to any network, increasing customers' performance ...

Cloud Computing Data Protection Report: Privacy and IT Advisory Firm Eosensa ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The report, entitled "Protecting Sensitive Data In The Cloud," is available as a free download fromwww.eosensa.com . Data Privacy, Compliance, and IT Security professionals will find valuable information in the report that will assist them in designing and ...

Top Cloud Services for File Sharing and Syncing
PCWorld
Top Cloud Services for File Sharing and Syncing. With the help of cloud services, you can edit your documents on any Internet-connected device, and keep them up-to-date. We looked at Box, Dropbox, MediaFire, SkyDrive, and SugarSync to determine which ...

Cloud Computing: Apple Has Talked to Twitter about Investment: NYT
SYS-CON Media (press release)
At sometime in the last few months Apple talked to Twitter about making a strategic investment in the social networking firm, according to a story that ran in the New York Times last Friday and has subsequently gotten a lot of play. It says that if they ever come ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

CDW Expands Cloud Offerings with Salesforce Cloud Services
MarketWatch (press release)
"This new partnership with salesforce.com is a cornerstone of our diverse cloud computingofferings," said Matt Troka, senior vice president, product and partner management, CDW. "Our customers in the public and commercial sectors are constantly looking ...

When there's a third party in the cloud
Computerworld Australia
When contracting for cloud-computing services, one challenge is that there may be more parties involved than your company and the cloud vendor. The vendor might outsource some of the services covered in the contract, or it ... Combining and integrating multiple cloud services into one or more new services that meet the client's needs, including integration and secure movement of data between the client and multiple cloud vendors. * Aggregating the demand forcloud services among a community of clients with ...

Distributed Computing (Cloud) Services
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Computing Journal: Forrester's James Staten: "Not everything will move to the cloud as there are many business processes, data sets and workflows that require specific hardware or proprietary solutions that can't take advantage of cloudeconomics.

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Oracle buys cloud computing firm Xsigo
Proactive Investors USA & Canada
Xsigo chief executive, Lloyd Carney added: “As customers are focused on reducing costs” and improving “their network utilization, virtualization allows customers to scale compute and storage for their public and private clouds to changing demands.” ...

Proactive Investors USA & Canada

Oracle Purchases Xsigo to Advance Cloud Computing Capabilities
CMSWire
Software-defined networking. That's the latest thing to have, if you're a giant software company intent on being a player in the age of the cloud. On Monday, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to buy Xsigo Systems, a move that strengthens the ...

Netflix open sources cloud-testing Chaos Monkey
GigaOM
Netflix has open sourced Chaos Monkey, a service designed to terminate cloud computing instances in a controlled manner so companies can ensure their applications keep running when a virtual server dies unexpectedly. In the past year, Chaos Monkey ...

GigaOM

Top cloud services for online backup
ITworld.com
Backing up your valuable files is a necessary chore, but cloud services can make the process fairly painless. We tried three. By Paul Lilly, PC World | Storage, cloud storage Add a new comment .... The Webcast Cloud Computing Knowledge Vault was viewed ...

Oracle to Buy Cloud Infrastructure Provider
Wall Street Journal
Now, cloud-computing companies are taking a growing interest in controlling the routers and switches of networks by using a similar virtualization model in order to manage data-center hardware and cut down on bottlenecks and inefficiencies. VMware Inc.

Cloud driving DevOps transformation, importance
ZDNet
Cloud computing has placed additional emphasis on communication and cooperation between enterprise developers and IT operations in order for the DevOps model to work and for business needs to be met effectively, analysts say. Michael Azoff, principal ...

Cloud computing increases IT innovation says IBM study
MyHostNews.com (press release)
Web Hosting News – AUCKLAND, New Zealand – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released the results of a nationwide survey of New Zealand IT managers' opinions on what Cloud computing means for in-house IT teams. The results suggest that Cloud adoption ...

Has Trust Really Moved to the Cloud?
Computerworld Australia
Trust, ladies and gentlemen, has moved into the cloud. This is different from expecting people to have confidence in the website of the bank they deposit their money in. Banks have not been able to position themselves as arbiters of trust the way social ...

SMBs slow to adopt cloud-based productivity applications
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: File sharing is by far the most popular use of cloud services by small businesses but most are sticking to on-premise spreadsheets or word processors, according to new research from IT social network Spiceworks. Heather Clancy. By Heather Clancy for Small Business ..."The two million IT professionals in Spiceworks are managing the transition to cloud computingevery day," said Adam Weinroth, executive director of vendor marketing at Spiceworks. "Many of the complex technologies once reserved for ...

Mexico hotel giant puts its IT in Texas
Computerworld
Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. has been shipping application development work offshore for years, but cloud computing may help make America a data center services exporter. Take Grupo Posadas, a large hotel group in Mexico. It has five data ...

Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking
Computerworld
IDG News Service - Oracle said Monday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will support Oracle's ongoing foray into cloud computing. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close within a few ...

Oracle to buy cloud-infrastructure firm Xsigo
MarketWatch
(NASDAQ:ORCL) agreed to acquire Xsigo Systems Inc., a provider of network virtualization technology, continuing its buying spree to embrace cloud computing. Financial terms weren't disclosed. Based in San Jose, Calif., Xsigo has more than 300 enterprise ...

Cloud computing growth causing increasing disruption: CompTIA
eChannelLine
The increasingly integral role of cloud computing in IT operations is accompanied by significant change and disruption for cloud users, their IT staffs and their technology providers, according to new research from IT trade association Dell CompTIA. Few of the data in the study -- CompTIA's Third ... "There's still quite a bit of opportunity out there that for the channel that remains untapped, including integration and aggregation of different cloud services," April said. "The channel is playing a role in the customer not ...

Is The Cloud Really Ready For Business?
Forbes
And there have been at least 10 times over the past year alone where my cloud computing service has hiccupped…throwing me offline or being inaccessible for anywhere between five minutes and an hour. All with good reasons. But it's still not very comforting. This is the state of The Cloud in 2012. And I endure. The tech guys tell ... It's just that big, reliable cloud services are still going down too often. And big companies, with big IT staffs and big budgets, are suffering. And to small business owners, already nervous ...

Gartner Says Nexus of Forces - Social, Mobile, Cloud and Information - Is the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Without cloud computing, social interactions would have no place to happen at scale, mobile access would fail to be able to connect to a wide variety of data and functions, and information still would be stuck inside internal systems. The model of cloud computing is what Gartner calls a ... Mobile independent software vendors using cloud services have more options to access information and processes than ever before -- without having to own it all. Crowdsourcing can be done through mobile communities because ...

Oracle To Buy Cloud Infrastructure Technology Provider Xsigo
Fox Business
... Infrastructure Technology Provider Xsigo. Published July 30, 2012. Dow Jones Newswires. Oracle Corp. (ORCL) agreed to acquire Xsigo Systems Inc., a provider of network virtualization technology, continuing its buying spree to embrace cloud computing.

App Review: Box Cloud Storage App for Windows Phone ...
By Lucas
There are many cloud services out there: SkyDrive, which is built into your Windows Phone, iCloud, Dropbox and many more. One of ... WP8 leak points to separate Xbox Music cloud storage service 12 Comments Posted on: Jul 28th, 2012 ...
WMPoweruser

Daily Kos: What 'Cloud' Computing Is And Why It Should Worry You
By rss@dailykos.com (CartoonDiablo)
In order to fix this came "Cloud" computing which essentially outsourced the problem; large remote server hubs or "clouds" managed by private companies would take the place of buying servers. In these clouds websites would ..... One of the advantages of cloud storage is it give one the ability to remotely wipe a lost/stolen mobile device without losing the data in back-up. If we can trust the ... BTW, no one is forcing anyone to use cloud services, it's a choice. But if you use any 3rd party ...
FISA

Cloud Computing Data Protection Report | Telecom Reseller
By jeffowen
Privacy and IT Advisory Firm Eosensa Analyzes Cloud Data Protection Capabilities in New Industry Report TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eosensa, a leading information security …
Telecom Reseller

Boosting Productivity Through Mobility And Cloud Services ...
By Richard Roberts
Uptake of cloud services in SMEs is set to increase dramatically in the next three years, taking the adoption level of some cloud service or application moved into the cloud to almost 100 percent. Progressive companies that have already rolled ...
Business Computing World

How to Survive a Cloud Outage | Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud computing solutions offer organizations tremendous opportunities for efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. They also create some scenarios in which a business can find themselves in trouble. A single cloud outage can shut an ...
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Hangout on Air - SADA Says
By SADA Systems
SADA Says | Cloud Computing Blog. » Let's Hangout! Google Hangout ... you could be using Gmail! Add Google Enterprise and SADA Systems to your circles and enjoy being in the loop for relevant updates and news happening in the cloud!
SADA Says | Cloud Computing Blog

Cloud Computing: What Does It Mean to You?
By pierrekhawand
If you Google "cloud computing," you'll find more than 200000000 results. Yes, that's 200 million of them. But you don't even need to Google it. Just look around your office, and you are likely to find many cloud services that are in place: from ...
The TechSoup Blog

Cloud Computing Customer Services | Cloud Computing Australia
By admin
Cloud Computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructures, training new personnel, or licensing new software. It encompasses ...
Cloud Computing Australia

Securosis Blog | Proxies—Meet the 'Agents' of Cloud Computing
Proxies—Meet the 'Agents' of Cloud Computing. You remember agents, right? ... In terms ofcloud services, what does that all mean? For the last two years we ...
https://securosis.com/.../proxies-meet-the-agent-of-cloud-comp...

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LOCC Assures #Olympics Website Is Prepared for Traffic

LOCC Assures #Olympics Website Is Prepared for Traffic
NY Convergence
... effort to ensure the official Olympic website, www.london2012.com, can handle the estimated 1 billion people trafficking the site throughout the games, the London Olympics Organizing Committee turned to SOASTA to outfit the page with its cloud services.

Zimcom revenue trends upward
Cincinnati.com
The company, now 13 years old, has experienced double-digit growth for the last three years, which mirrors the national trend in cloud computing services. Zimcom currently employs six network engineers and plans to hire two more this year. Zimcom assists ...

Spectrum offers SOA and Cloud Computing education and consultancy services ...
Daily Ethiopia
Spectrum Training, a part of Spectrum group of companies and the leading IT Networking and Security training, certification and consultancy services provider in the Middle East region today announced that it has joined hands with Service Oriented ...

RIMS providers have the expertise
The Hindu
The well-publicised efficient advantages of cloud computing have triggered an attraction for the cloud, facilitating increased adoption of the technology by business firms. Customers today are interested in managed cloud services to achieve higher uptime ...

The Hindu

Spectrum to offer SOA, cloud training
Trade Arabia
SOA design principles are used during the phases of systems development and integration, whereas the Cloud Certified Programme covers the fundamental topic areas pertaining to cloud computing and met minimum CCP qualifications by demonstrating ...

KPMG Webcast To Focus On International Tax Implications Of Cloud-Based ...
Melodika.net (press release)
KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, will host a timely webcast focused on the international corporate tax implications of cloud computing, on Tuesday, July 31, from 2 p.m to 3 p.m. (ET), to help companies better understand the potential tax risks ...

Our View: Take Your Time
DefenseNews.com (subscription)
That's why the notion of cloud computing has proved so attractive. By shifting the Pentagon's data to the cloud, advocates argue, you can erect higher defenses around that single pool of information, making that data more secure than under today's piecemeal ...

Effective Mobile Business Applications from Fanggle
Melodika.net (press release)
The concept of cloud computing has been a revelation to the modern computer industry. It has opened up opportunities for different sized organizations, be it small or big, to access networks while easily hosting services at unbelievably low market rate.

Tech entrepreneur buys firm's website-hosting division
Scotland on Sunday
Homegrown outfits leading the charge into cloud computing include Glasgow-based Iomart, Inchinnan's Amor Group and Pulsant, the Edinburgh-based technology firm that emerged from Scottish internet service provider Ednet. Foreign firms are also getting ...

Scotland on Sunday

The physical reality of our digital world
ABC Technology and Games
We speak of cyber space and cloud-computing. But how much of our digital infrastructure is grounded in physical reality? And what are some of the future implications of the growing push to move more of our data into cloud based technology? Add comment ...

Movers & Shakers for July 29, 2012
MetroWest Daily News
In this role, Pucciarelli will provide ongoing insight and guidance to business and technology executives seeking to leverage the critical technologies of cloud computing, mobility, social business and big data/analytics. For the last six years, as program ...

New Technology And Internet Articles: Cloud Computing Clarified
By izzer cow
Cloud Computing Clarified. “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein The methods we use to communicate and manage information continue to develop and evolve – to the extent that often they ...
New Technology And Internet Articles

U.S. military begins moving its information technology (IT ...
By jim
... applications from what officials call “application silos” to a cloud-computing approach. “This strategy will align with all department-wide military IT initiatives, federal data center consolidation and military cloud computing efforts,” says Teri Takai, the DOD's chief information officer. ... “It focuses on the creation of department core data centers, enterprise cloud infrastructure and sustainment of cloud services.” The DOD's new cloud-computing strategy is outlined in a white paper online at ...
FISMA Focus

Non-Profit Humour: Charity thinks cloud computing actually in a cloud
By john suart
Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: animation, charity, cloud computing, comedy, communications, funny, humor, Humour, it, johnsuart.com, joke, marketing, non-profit, nonprofit, not for profit, NP Humour, third sector, voluntary sector ...
Non-Profit Humour Blog

Spectrum offers SOA and Cloud Computing education and - PR 2.O
By kailash.k
Spectrum partners with Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Academy (SOAACA) to offer Certified Training and Consultancy Services on SOA and Cloud. Dubai, UAE, 29th July 2012 - Spectrum Training, a part of Spectrum group of ...
PR 2.O - Online PR, Press Release...

SMBs embrace the new wave of cloud CRMs | WestHost Official Blog
By Clint Reeves
This is 10% higher than last year and confirms a general trend towards increasing cloudutilization by SMBs as we approach 2016, considered a watermark year for cloud computing.Cloud hosting is also becoming increasingly popular for ...
WestHost Official Blog

OpenStack: Something for Everyone | Softize
By jon dawson
The mission of OpenStack was to create a scalable, free and open source platform that allowedcloud development on any type of cloud computing or virtualization infrastructure. Without getting overly technical, the OpenStack platform is used ...
Softize

Video: Building and HPC Cloud at DuPont – Architecture & Best ...
By Rich Brueckner
In this video, Dr. Hai Zhu from DuPont describes reviews the requirements, challenges and architectural decisions made in the implementation of a cloud computing platform at DuPont. DuPont is building a dynamic, multi-disciplined R&D ...
insideHPC

Weekend Reading: Top Web Hosting News from July 23 – 27, 2012 ...
By Liam Eagle
This week's most notable web hosting industry news stories included news of several acquisition deals (including cPanel, VMware and cloud host Six Degrees) several high-profile instances of downtime (at Windows Azure and Twitter), along with an attempt at founding a. ...July 24, 2012 — VMware announced on Monday that it has acquired software defined networking provider Nicira for $1.26 billion in a step that will help position it as a leader in virtual networking for cloud services .
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

One example of a how a SaaS product shook the foundations of its ...
By jstevens
It allows the rapid deployment of new cloud services using a utility pricing model. It offers a simple, cloud-delivery mechanism for ISVs to get their feet wet and explore new options for both testing and deploying a SaaS version of their product.
Virtual Internet Blog

The ongoing challenges | Rust Report
By admin
Many companies including telcos, software providers, system integrators, Internet service providers and hosting companies have all jumped on the bandwagon to offer their flavour of cloud computing services. All over the world there are ...
Rust Report

RIMS providers have the expertise - All VoIP News
By AllVoIPNews
The so then-publicised efficient advantages of cloud computing have triggered an attraction for the cloud, facilitating increased adoption of the innovation by business firms. Customers today are interested in managed cloud services to achieve ...
All VoIP News

Making the Most of Cloud Computing in the Military & Department of ...
As I have discussed in a recent post, Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel is pushing for government IT initiatives that “enable the delivery of digital information and ...
blog.blackboard.com/.../making-the-most-of-cloud-computing...

Highly Available Infrastructure for Cloud Computing – A Guest ...
Posted on behalf of Kai Yu. Infrastructure high availability is extremely critical to cloud computing. In a cloud system that hosts a large number of databases and ...
en.community.dell.com/.../highly-available-infrastructure-for-...

Cloud computing - how 1960! - Librarian of Fortune
I had the great good fortune of being on a panel with Roger Summit at the SLA conference, and was struck with how innovative Roger was. When he invented ...
www.librarianoffortune.com/.../cloud-computing-how-1960.h...

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Who Ultimately Pays for Cloud Computing?

Who Ultimately Pays for Cloud Computing? It Depends
Forbes
(Percentages add to greater than 100% since companies may be paying for multiple cloud solutions in different ways.) The diversity in financing for cloud services means organizations are still exploring how cloud investments will be made. Ultimately, the ...

Forbes 

Cloud Computing: Businesses Favor Private Clouds
Formtek Blog (blog)
In fact, more than half of businesses working with Cloud Service Providers (CSP) are opting for private clouds while about a third are choosing public cloud services. That's based on a report by CA Technologies called “Service Providers Put Their Heads in ...

Oracle: Cheapest Pure Play On Cloud Computing Market
Seeking Alpha
Oracle (ORCL) is the leading producer of enterprise software and a leading producer of computer hardware and products. On June 6, the company announced that it will be focusing its products and efforts on cloud computing namely through platform as a ...

Roundup: Six Degrees Acquires Cloud Computing Centre
Data Center Knowledge
London's Six Degrees group announced it has raised £8 million (~$12.5 million) in new funding from Penta Capital and that it has completed the acquisition of Cloud Computing Centre (CCC), a Surrey-based managed cloud hosting expert. CCC's cloud ...

Cloud Computing: AppFog Promises Cloud-on-the-Cheap
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Two-year-old AppFog, which started out in life as PHP Fog, is proposing to rent outcloud infrastructure that it in turn rents from Amazon, Azure, Rackspace and HP charging only for the total amount of RAM used in deployments. It doesn't matter if it's coming ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

How Cloud Computing Has Shifted Engineering Hiring Demands: Part 2
Data Center Knowledge
Knowing how to communicate effectively and “think outside of the data center” are both important as we move into a world of cloud computing and data center distribution. Beyond personality shifts, hiring managers and organizations are looking for engineers ...

Data Center Knowledge

Microsoft Investigates Azure Outage In Europe
InformationWeek
The Windows Azure cloud compute service was unavailable to many users in Europe for 2.5 hours on Thursday, starting at 11:09 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time. ... Research: 2012 State ofCloud Computing · Cloud Storage: Changing Dynamics Beyond Services ... services, points to "more of an infrastructure issue" where some undetected single point of failure in a network switch or other device temporarily disrupted availability, said Chris Leigh-Currill, CTO of Ospero, a supplier of private cloud services in Europe.

Nexcom Chooses Windstream Hosted Solutions for Cloud Services
NASDAQ
Nexcom, based in Charlotte, has increasingly relied on cloud computing to succeed in business, offering applications that enable its clients to better track compliance and sales. The company had previously relied on another firm to host its servers, but said ...

Weather Acquires Cloud Aggregator intY
Sacramento Bee
CASCADE is a key enabling technology allowing service providers and resellers to bring together cloud computing applications from multiple vendors in an integrated solution, with one touch provisioning, billing and management of all services. ... Mark Herbert, Business Development Director and Founder of intY said, "intY now has the ability to execute its global plans to revolutionize the way Cloud Services are aggregated and delivered through service provider and reseller channels to deliver proven success in ...

Chart: Apple, Facebook spending a lot on infrastructure
GigaOM
We're smack in the middle of earnings season, so what better time to look at what our favorite providers of consumer cloud services spend on capital expenditures?... Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been coveringcloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for GigaOM since 2009. He has written ... And that is where Cloud Storage and Disaster Recovery solutions help organizations in implementing a comprehensive disaster recovery solution which is easy and affordable.

GigaOM

Cloud Computing: DocuSign Raises $47.5 Million D Round
SYS-CON Media (press release)
DocuSign, which claims to be the global standard for legally binding, secure electronic-signatures, has raised a $47.5 million D round led by Kleiner Perkins, an investment that will put Kleiner partner Mary Meeker, once Wall Street's leading Internet analyst, ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Competitors – More And More Are Out For Your Cloud Computing Leads!
Business 2 Community
Just this week, InfoWorld published a slideshow highlighting the big-name entries into the cloud-computing race. While Amazon continues to dominate, the arrival of new tech giants could only mean you'll have a lot more heavy contenders to compete with for ...

Business 2 Community

Amazon Rules the Cloud, But the Best Supported Platform Can Still Win
OStatic (blog)
With the advancement of numerous open source cloud computing platforms, and commercial offerings taking shape around these platforms, there are finally signs of real competition for Amazon in the cloud computing space. There is no question that Amazon Web ... According to the Amazon Web Services blog in a summary of 2011 usage of its cloud services, individuals, businesses and organizations are putting data in Amazon's EC2 S3 storage service at an incredible rate. The blog reports: "As of the end of 2011 ...

MegaPath Brings Innovative Communications and Cloud Services to Southwest
Embedded.com
PLEASANTON, Calif., July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MegaPath Corporation, one of the leading providers of managed data, voice and security services in North America, today announced the opening of a new Phoenix, Ariz. field sales office. As part of the ...

Actionable Strategies to Publish Cloud Computing Paper
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
New York, NY, July 27, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Actionable Strategies, a boutique consulting firm serving clients globally, has been selected to publish a white paper on the future of Cloud Computing standards for the Cutter IT Journal. The abstract was developed ...

Megaupload Lawyers Ask for Judge to Restore Business
CIO
However, there are concerns about the known drawbacks to cloud-computing models, specifically security and control, that are making private cloud models the best choice for many organizations today. Private clouds are emerging as a way for enterprises to take advantage of ...Perimeter E-Security, Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Jaquith gives you an insider's view of what customers should ask for - and expect - when adopting cloud services. Mobilizing Your Collaboration Strategy. A project-based approach to ...

Q&A: Microsoft's Roskill Outlines Office 365 Opportunities, Cloud Incentives For ...
CRN
In his tenure as Microsoft's channel chief Roskill has overseen the overhaul of the company's partner program, now known as the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN), and helped define the channel's role as Microsoft expands into cloud computingand other new ...

CRN

This Week in Cloud, July 26 2012: Cloud skills wanted, VMWare acquires Nicira ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
A 2011 Cloud Adoption study by BitNami, Cloud.com, and Zenoss of 500 IT professionals, found that one of the biggest inhibitors to cloud computing is a lack of training. ITprenuers and CA ...How to get what you paid for after signing on for cloud services.

Microsoft Adds HIPAA Compliance Features to Azure for Cloud Health Data
eWeek
Microsoft will offer BAA agreements in Azure for Web and worker roles in Cloud Services as well as tables, queues and binary large objects (BLOBS), which store unstructured data, such as video, audio and images. Companies also can obtain BAAs for ...

Cloud Computing: Xamarin Gets $12 Million A Round
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Computing: Xamarin Gets $12 Million A Round. Xamarin's focused on mobile apps with Visual Studio and C#. By Maureen O'Gara. Article Rating: Select rating, Give it 1/5, Give it 2/5, Give it 3/5, Give it 4/5, Give it 5/5. July 27, 2012 01:28 PM EDT. Reads ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

IDG Enterprise AMD Cloud Computing KnowledgeVault
CIO
The IDG Enterprise AMD Cloud Computing KnowledgeVault offers busy IT executives high-level insights and research on cloud computing trends. The brief videos and other resources in this KnowledgeVault cover the building blocks of cloud computing, how ...

Which Governance Framework Is Right For Cloud Computing?
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing is revolutionizing how organizations use technology worldwide and for a good reason, it leverages on economies of scale more than any application of technology in recent history. And with the economic stability of the world swaying back ...

Virus Computer WARNING!! Backup your Files with Cloud Storage
The Barrie Examiner
... files today. and do you know that approximately 85% of your files on the Hard Drive Computer, will not be safe because the Computer Virus attack. so the best solution is to save your important files in On line Storage media or also called theCloud Storage.

The Barrie Examiner

SixCloud Web Hosting Acquires 'Cloud Computing Center' in UK
Greatresponder.com
GreatREsponder.com on July 27, 2012 : SixDegrees cloud and web hosting company announced on Thursday July 26, 2012 that it have finalized and materialized the acquisition of cloud computing center or CCC based in Surrey UK. CCC is a mid size web ...

Greatresponder.com

Ethernet group crafting cloud, SDN specs
EE Times
Specifically, the effort aims to define ways users can ask for and get on an ad hoc basis the kinds of Ethernet services they need from carriers when using cloud computing services. “When you are setting up and operating cloud services, there are some issues ...

EE Times

Skydrive not most reliable cloud storage provider – still good
myce.com
From the recent consumer previews of Office 2013 and Windows 8, we've learned that Microsoft's cloud storage platform Skydrive will play an important role. Recently we reported about an user who saw his Microsoft Live account blocked, losing access to the ...

How a Private Cloud Help Applied Materials Save Suffering Engineers
CIO
The plan IT devised--move the CAD systems to a private cloud--was risky. Theoretically, it could provide everything engineering needed--reduced complexity and errors, improved cycle times, and real-time collaboration. But "we couldn't find anyone who had ...

Why government CIOs need to get their head in the cloud
ITWorld Canada
In order to effectively transition from siloed government IT systems to one centralized system, government CIOs have been turning to cloud computing services to help move forward with the new delivery model. But anyone familiar with the complexity of government IT knows that moving toward cloud services in the data centre comes with new management and IT policy headaches – especially when it comes to security. McAfee and the Security and Defense Agenda, a Brussels-based think-tank, recently released a ...

Red Hat's Top 4 Priorities for 2013: Cloud, Virtualization, And…
The VAR Guy
4. increased revenue from channel partner relationships, including original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), IHVs, ISVs, cloud computing providers, value added resellers (“VARs”) and system integrators, and from our own international expansion, among other means. Hmmm… now let's dissect each ... Question for Egan: Are there specific sales pitches that channel partners should use when trying to shift CIOs, IT departments and cloud servicesproviders (CSPs) from CentOS to paid, subscription-based Linux?

Nine Questions Every MSP and CSP Should Anticipate
MSPmentor
Again, these are questions that customers and prospects may ask of you, or that you should proactively address to elevate your game when it comes to selling cloud services: Why should our business leverage cloud services? And what's the difference ...

How Cloud Computing Can Cut Costs For Your Small Business
By Under30CEO
Ever since Henry Ford first designed an assembly line at his car manufacturing plant, automating workflow has been paramount in the success of American businesses. Cloud computing represents the most significant step in the streamlining ...
Under30CEO

Cloud computing rejuvenates small businesses « CopperEgg
By CopperEgg
The flexibility of cloud storage structures allows small and medium-sized businesses to migrate as many or as few mission-critical applications to the cloud and be charged accordingly, rather than being expected to pay large consistent fees, ...
CopperEgg

AppFog Promises Cloud-on-the-Cheap | Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud Computing: Leveraging Cloud Storage. By Pat Romanski. “Every organization has a storage hog, maybe many, and they get all the blame for the growth in storage capacity. Withcloud storage we've provided organizations with a way to ...
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Cloud Services With High Security On The Cloud
By GetCloudServices
Cloud computing or better yet, cloud services are not new. 2011 saw big giants and small companies alike, embracing this revolutionary technology that makes computing so much simpler and less costly. When everything, from software, ...
GetCloudServices Cloud Server,...

ESaaS - Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
Our primary activity here is matching vendors and other innovations to the best practice standards defined for Cloud Computing by organizations like NIST. For example one of the key areas that NIST highlights is offline replication. In short ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

International Journal on Cloud Computing: Services and ...
By cfptech
Mobile Clouds for new millennium, mobile devices. Social Clouds (Social Networks in the Cloud) Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Architecture CloudApplications in Vertical Industries Cloud storage and ...
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Evaluating Security Concerns with Cloud Computing | ERP Software ...
By Roger Borek, Borek Business Solutions
Cloud computing is real and companies of all types and sizes are jumping on the bandwagon. With the total market size from various analyst firms ranging from $10B to $25B, there's no stopping it. Cost and flexibility are certainly key in driving ...
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The Jelastic Spotlight: Max Matveev and DragonCalc « Jelastic ...
By Judah Johns
Jelastic — Rock-Solid Java in the Cloud, Java Server Hosting, Java Cloud Computing. java,cloud, paas, hosting, ... They were one of the first companies to adopt Cloud computing concepts and put them into practice. Then, a few years ago, ...
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The fuzzy mud puddle test: can your cloud storage provider access ...
By Jaap-Henk
Cloud storage providers (like Dropbox, iCloud or SpiderOak) store your data in encrypted form. But depending on who stores the decryption key (and how), the cloud storage provider may still be able to decrypt your data, and hand it over to ...
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8 Mistakes to Avoid when Securing Cloud Services | HealthWorks ...
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8 Mistakes to Avoid when Securing Cloud Services. Like it? 0. comments. 0. Posted July 27, 2012. Keywords: cloud computing, eHealth. There's solid demand these days for services like DropBox.com or Box.net that allow easy but secure file ...
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Brightcove Q2 '12 Revenues Climb 41%; Zencoder Acquired For ...
Brightcove said the Zencoder deal "signals our expansion into standalone cloud services that developers can use as building blocks for custom systems." That could suggest Brightcove will launch a third platform with a suite of cloud services, ...
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Amazon will keep on raising its cloud spending — Cloud Computing ...
By Barb Darrow
Amazon didn't wow the street with its Q2 earnings news but the company will definitely keep investing in its cloud infrastructure. For its upcoming quarter, it plans to spend a strapping $800 million to $900 million capex money on technology, ...
GigaOM

Securing Cloud Services: A pragmatic approach to security ...
Cloud Computing represents a major change to the IT services landscape. Cloud services, such as SalesForce, Amazon Web Services® and Microsoft® Azure®, offer enterprise grade computing power to businesses of all sizes, without the ...
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AT&T's Top MSP Makes Private Cloud Services, VDI Push ...
By Joe Panettieri
Cloud Computing News and Information for CSPs, MSPs and VARs ... 7.27.12. BTG (Breakthrough Technology Group), AT&T's top revenue generating solutions partner, has been pushing aggressively into the cloud services market.
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Cloud computing bookshelf: Great summer reads
With record-high temps scorching most of the U.S., it's the perfect time to turn off the computer, grab a book and hit the beach. So we asked a few of our cloud ...
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Google Talk, Twitter, Azure Outages: Bad Cloud Day

Google Talk, Twitter, Azure Outages: Bad Cloud Day
InformationWeek
Google's video chat service had plenty of company on the disabled list on tough day for cloud computing. By Paul McDougall · InformationWeek. July 26, 2012 03:25 PM. When it comes to thecloud, it never rains. It pours. Google reported Thursday that its ...

Deploying Open-Source Cloud Systems: 5 Pros and 5 Cons
eWeek
As these major vendors continue to build out their public cloud infrastructure to battle with the incumbent services leader, Amazon Web Services, there are some underlying questions about whether the same technologies are ready for the enterprise. After all ...

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Cloud Computing: The IT Expectation Gap
SYS-CON Media (press release)
We wanted to be able to offer the complete continuum of products and services from traditional infrastructure build to cloud services," stated Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist and Managing Partner at SHI, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with CloudExpo ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing: Akamai Posts Strong Second Quarter
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Paul Sagan, President and CEO of Akamai, stated that "Akamai's very strong second quarter results were driven on the top line by increased adoption of ourcloud infrastructure solutions as well as continued growth of content delivery solutions. Our bottom ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing: Symantec Dumps Its CEO
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Symantec Wednesday pushed its CEO and president of three years Enrique Salem out and installed its chairman, former Intuit CEO Steve Bennett, in his place. Shares rose a cheery 13.5% to $14.96 on the news. "While progress has been made over the last ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

ZapThink Announces Cloud Computing for Architects Course
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
ZapThink, a Dovel Technologies Company, is now delivering version 2.0 of the Cloud Computingfor Architects course at its headquarters in McLean, Virginia. The two-day Cloud Computing for Architects course is the only architect-focused course on Cloud ...

Why crowdsourced computing benchmarks are the future
GigaOM
Cloud computing and open source software have freed IT practitioners from so much legacy vendor baggage over the past few years. Isn't it time to free them from inane benchmark boasting, too? A crowdsourced platform where users share their real-world ...

GigaOM

Peaks and Valleys: Software Licensing for Elastic Cloud
Wired News
One of the most compelling aspects of cloud computing is its elasticity. With cloudprovisioning models such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, organizations can scale up capacity to support business growth and/or temporary spikes in demand much more easily than ...

Wired News

Cloud Computing: Box Raising Money at $1.2 Billion Valuation: WSJ
SYS-CON Media (press release)
After reportedly snubbing an acquisition bid from Citrix worth at least $700 million earlier this year, Box, the cloud storage start-up, is raising more money at the tune of a $1.2 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reports. It supposedly has designs on going ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

AppFog lets you pick your cloud, (almost) any cloud
GigaOM
For companies wanting to put workloads on a public cloud without having to sweat the details, Appfog has a bold proposition. It says its new PaaS will abstract out all that annoying tweaking and tuning for loads running on Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft or HP ...

BMC Updates Its Cloud Building, Management Platform for Broader Use
eWeek
Cloud Lifecycle Management 3.0 is a cloud-building tool that enables service providers to offer a broader set of services through the cloud, Lilac Schoenbeck, Senior Manager of Solutions Marketing in BMC's Cloud Computing group, told eWEEK. ... configurable cloud services from a service catalog and self-service portal;; provisioning of fully configured services, not just individual VMs;; tight, efficient administrative control;; intelligent, policy-driven placement and optimization;; broad resource support for physical and ...

Unisys (UIS) To Provide Private Cloud Storage Service For IRS
iStockAnalyst
(By Balaseshan) Unisys Corp. (NYSE:UIS), a global information technology company, said it would provide private cloud-based storage service for the information records of Internal Revenue Service (IRS), under the Enterprise Storage Acquisition task order.

Google Talk is silenced
GigaOM
This snafu, which cut many people off from their instant messaging/video chat app of choice, along with today's WIndows Azure snafu in Europe, show the dark side of cloud computing. google_talk. If you're looking to chat on Google Talk this morning, you're ...

Cloud Computing: Microsoft Extracts Royalties from Linux User
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Ahead of making a clean sweep of the Android device makers, Microsoft this week changed tack and nailed Dublin-based Amdocs Software Systems Ltd, the software contracting side of giant Amdoc Ltd, which supplies billing and CRM widgetry to big telecom ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Six Degrees Group Announces New Funding and Cloud Hosting Acquisition
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Jul 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Six Degrees Group today announces it has raised GBP 8 million in new funding from Penta Capital and that it has completed the acquisition ofCloud Computing Centre (CCC), a Surrey-based managed cloud ...

Windows Azure outage hits Europe
GigaOM
This is just the latest reminder that while the cloud offers customers great scale and potential cost savings, not even the largest, most well financed public cloudsare immune from downtime. Windows Azure experienced a widely publicized “Leap Day” outage ...

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Security nous lacking in cloud app development
ZDNet
The maturing cloud computing trend has spurred more enterprise applications to be built for access via the cloud network, but one Hewlett-Packard executive argues that developers have yet evolved in tandem with regard to putting security at the forefront of ...

Are Foreign Cloud Providers Exploiting Privacy Concerns?
CIO
Tech officials are warning House subcommittee members that foriegn cloud services providers are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers. By Kenneth Corbin Thu, July 26, 2012 . CIO — A panel of technology officials Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee about the challenges of overseas expansion confronting the burgeoning cloud computing market, including privacy and security concerns and efforts by foreign governments to protect ...

Best Buy's mindSHIFT: Managed, Cloud Services Blanket US
MSPmentor
While parent Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has been navigating strategy changes and executive changes, mindSHIFT CEO Paul Chisholm has kept his organization focused on IT outsourcing, expanded cloud services, new offices and potential acquisitions.

Is cloud computing secure?
Sydney Morning Herald
I guess, 'it depends' is the answer to whether the cloud is secure." Ian Lamont, IT security specialist with luxury car manufacturer BMW, said security comparisons should not be made between cloud services and more established on-premise data storage methods. "It is like comparing apples and oranges," Lamont said. ... I was worried about security but still wanted to use cloud storage. As a workaround I have encrypted my volumes where I store sensitive data and back up the volume online. Commenter: cloud user ...

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Windows Azure Hit by Cloud Outage in Europe
Data Center Knowledge
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform is experiencing a significant service outage in western Europe, the company said this morning. Azure compute services are largely unavailable for customers in the region. Microsoft services for West ...

Google Details Its 1 Gigabit Fiber Network In Kansas City, Will Come With TV ...
TechCrunch
That's about 100 times faster than most current residential broadband connections in the U.S. There will be no monthly caps or overage charges. Google Fiber will also come with 1 terabyte ofcloud storage and HD TV service. Users in Kansas City will have to ...

Dimension Data puffs up cloud partners
Register
In February, the company rolled out its converged hosting and cloud services from its Cloud Services division. Like Amazon Web Services, it spans the globe, but unlike AWS it comes in a white-label version. The white-label kit allows service providers to use ...

Cloud Analytics – Tapping the Value of Big Data
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
For many organizations, the answer is increasingly cloud storage. Like its name implies, cloud storage is a world-class storage infrastructure managed by a dedicated third party that provides virtually limitless managed capacity for any enterprise need.

Twitter outage makes three
GigaOM
GigaOM · Home · Apple · Cleantech · Cloud · Europe · Mobile · Video. Jul 26, 2012 - 9:00AM PT. Twitter users endured second major outage this summer. By Barb Darrow · 3 Comments · Tweet · Email This. Google Chat and Windows Azure outages are one ...

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Decommissioning Legacy to Drive Real Clouds, in the Fast Lane
SYS-CON Media (press release)
We can probably all agree that the cloud computing service-based model of application delivery has received more than its fair share of hype, over-embellished hyperbole and hyper-cross-talk in the last few years. Surely now then we have come to a new ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Report: Cloud Driving Multidimensional Channels
Channelnomics (blog)
With each passing year, experience is bringing businesses closer to moving mission-critical infrastructure, applications and data to cloud services and virtualized environments. Cloud computing is already big business and only getting bigger. It's stratifying ...

Integrated Systems and Enterprise Cloud Adoption
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Why is it that cloud computing is maturing but adoption is lagging? This transformational approach has huge potential but compared to the buzz surrounding it, enterprises are just taking baby steps towards widespread adoption. When invited by IBM to do a ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Flurry gets into cloud services with AppCloud, powered by Trestle ...
By Devindra Hardawar
Mobile app analytics and advertising company Flurry is embarking on new territory today with the launch of the Flurry AppCloud, a collection of cloud services that developers can easily implement in their apps.
VentureBeat

Cloud Computing Explained | LiveHelpNow Blog
By Kathryn
“Cloud computing.” Sounds mysterious, abstract, shapeless. Looking at those words, there's no way of knowing exactly what the term means. Regardless, I can almost guarantee you're using it.Cloud computing refers to storing and sharing data on a third party server — accessible from the internet — instead of your in-house hard drive. Not tied to a specific location, this data can be ...Another bonus: cloud services are completely scalable. Two services worth looking into are Microsoft ...
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UK Host Six Degrees Acquires Fourth Cloud Host This Year with ...
By Nicole Henderson
UK web hosting provider Six Degrees announced on Thursday that it has acquired cloud hosting provider Cloud Computing Centre. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed in the press release. In addition to the acquisition, Six ...
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Cloud Storage: Addressing Common Concerns
By GetCloudServices
The two biggest concerns about cloud storage are reliability and security. Know how to address both. ... Follow what's happening at Get Cloud Services. Home; Blog. ← Using A Virtual Machine For Your IT Services ...
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More from Information Week: Cloud Storage | Flash Memory Summit
By LeeStein
Today, we'll take a look at applications driving cloud storage. Note that ... Covering a variety of SSD implementations in Cloud Computing and Storage, The Enterprise Applications Track, part of the Flash Memory Summit (Aug. 22-23) at the ...
Flash Memory Summit

Will Hiring for the Cloud Ever Stop? – Jobs. Trends. Insight.
By Abby Lombardi
It seems that there is no end in sight for cloud computing hiring demand. In June ... In fact, cloud computing jobs remain online for 44 days, meaning that it is likely that Recruiters will spend more than 6 weeks on average filling these positions.
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Cloud Computing Is Changing Business Models
By admin
A shift to cloud computing, the proliferation of mobile devices, a sharp increase in online transactions, a tsunami of Big Data – each of these factors is a domino in a chain that is mapping new patterns for the government IT business.
Envision Gov IT

The cloud now has a silver lining – KYOCERA Cloud Connect ...
By kyocerasocialmedia
Cloud computing and cloud storage are becoming mainstream in today's business environment, as customers want to store and access data from anywhere at any time. Here we talk with Kyocera's Product Marketing Manager, George Kharoufeh , about how the cloud works and ... “Evernote is among the world's fastest growing cloud services with over 34 million users today. The application is a tool for users to “Remember Everything” including captured memos, photos and web ...
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FFIEC cloud computing risks document: Where's the beef? - Security ...
By msavage
It seems the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council could have done a little better with its cloud computing advisory. Earlier this month, the FFIEC issued a statement on outsourced cloud computing. The resource document outlines ...
Security Bytes

Still not quite ready for the cloud? | 1099News
By Angela
We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it turns out that organizations that have not yet embraced some sort of cloud computing are already falling behind in their technology and communication. North Bridge's 2012 Cloud Computing Survey ...
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How the cloud has changed the business world | memeburn
By Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter
According to Eric Knorr and Galen Gruman at InfoWorld, cloud computing refers to “virtual servers available over the Internet.” Not really the nebulous definition one envisions, but as cloud computing is in its earliest stages, the actual ...
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threats- Trend Cloud Security Blog – Cloud Computing Experts
In light of the introduction yesterday of the seminal Cyber Security Act and the Presidents OP-Ed in the WSJ: Taking the Cyberthreat Seriously. It is time we learn ...
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Cloud Computing for Architects: DC – September 27-28, 2012 ...
The Cloud Computing for Architects course an intensive, two day “fire hose” of information that prepares you to leverage the Cloud to achieve real business ...
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Hybrid Cloud Storage
Hybrid cloud storage incorporates the use of both on premises resources as well ... Home ·Cloud Servers · Cloud Services · Cloud Computing · Company · Blog ...
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HP Blogs - Review: Cloud Computing: Beyond the Hype - The HP ...
Late last year I was asked to provide some inputs to Paul McFedries, as he wrote a book oncloud computing. That was my first interaction with Paul.
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BRIC IT Market, Cloud Computing Market in India & Augmented ...
B. Cloud Computing Market in India 2011-2015 This research forecasts the Cloud Computingmarket in India to grow at a CAGR of 54.5% over the period ...
www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2012/07/18/6444909.htm

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