Saturday, July 14, 2012

Cloud Providers: The Case for Universal Standards

Cloud Providers: The Case for Universal Standards
Wall Street Journal (blog)
With the adoption of cloud computing clearly not subsiding, there is now an urgent need for a globally accepted, universal standard and code of behavior for service providers delivering these solutions, Guest Contributor Charles Weaver says. Today, he ...

US bank regulators warn on due diligence in using cloud computing services
Reuters Blogs (blog)
A number of cloud computing vendors have suffered data breaches.

Cloud Computing: Windows Server Painted Azure
SYS-CON Media (press release)
What it's done exactly is add Azure-y features to Windows Server so service providers can build Azure-like infrastructure clouds out of their Windows Server data centers and offer turnkey cloud services. They don't have to use Microsoft's infrastructure.

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud partnerships rising, but issues remain
Hindu Business Line
Companies such as Bharti Airtel and Hewlett Packard India had tied up to providecloud computing services recently. Though Bharti Airtel has been providing cloud services to some enterprises, the new partnership is focusing on small and medium ...

Hindu Business Line

Can Microsoft recover its super powers? Doubts persist
GigaOM
The company that morphed from an upstart in the PC era by continuously taking on, then supplanting bigger, market-leading rivals, is in that position again — trying to make up ground in smartphones, in tablets, in cloud computing and in virtualization ...

Gartner: Cloud putting crimp in traditional software, hardware sales
Network World
Enterprise spending on cloud computing growing at a faster rate than overall IT spending will pose a challenge to legacy hardware and software vendors, Gartner cloud forecaster Ed Anderson says.Cloud computing is expected to grow 19% in 2012, becoming ...

Cloud Computing: MapR Claims Title as De Facto Standard for Hadoop
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The champagne has been flowing over at MapR since Google announced the integration of its Distribution for Hadoop with Google Compute Engine, the start-up's second big win in a row. Amazon Web Services' has extended its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cloud Computing Gets Bigger As Dropbox Doubles Capacity Of Online Storage
International Business Times
Cloud Computing just got a shot in the arm as online storage service provider Dropbox decided to double the capacity of its offerings to consumers without hike in prices owing to intense competition and also offers a new 500GB service plan at $499 a ...

The Cloud: Fun Facts about Cloud Computing
Formtek Blog (blog)
The Cloud: Fun Facts about Cloud Computing. By Dick Weisinger, on July 13th, 2012. Charles Babcock, editor at InformationWeek, recently included '5 Cloud Facts' as part of his cover story piece on an investigation on the economics of Cloud computing.

The Sun Shines on 'The Cloud'
Wall Street Journal
The cloud-computing industry is booming. IDC, a research firm, says public information-technologycloud services world-wide had $16 billion in revenue in 2009. That's forecast to more than double this year and to hit $73 billion by 2015, adding ...

5 Cloud Services that Recently Integrated with Dropbox
Business 2 Community
More cloud services are realizing the benefits of integrating their product with popular file-hosting service Dropbox. ... The collaboration tool now also integrates with cloud storage tools Dropbox and Box so you can easily add projects and ...

Business 2 Community

Box CEO: Full technical disclosure will come - but cloud's too young for it yet
ZDNet
Until the cloud market gets bigger, companies will have no motivation to disclose the innards of their IT infrastructure to the public, according to cloud storage company Box's chief executive Aaron Levie. While Box will give technical details to its ...

DoD releases cloud computing strategy
Federal Times (blog)
Bookmark and Share. The Defense Department will expand its use of cloud computing through a four-step plan, which includes incentivizing DoD components to use shared cloud services and training acquisition professionals to procure cloud technologies.

Standards Pack Serious Personal Cloud Punch
Wired News
If you're paying for cloud-based services that don't participate in a standards-based ecosystem you're not getting your money's worth. Ask for it, writes Jon ... Are you paying for cloud services that don't play nice with other services? You're not ...

Wired News

Federal Agencies Struggle To Meet Cloud Mandate
InformationWeek
Federal agencies need to do a better job of planning their transitions to cloud computing and unplugging legacy systems as the changeover is made, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. The GAO examined cloud adoption at ...

Greenpeace: Apple Clean Energy Output Improving, Not There Yet
PC Magazine
Apple could set new precedents in coal-free cloud computing, Greenpeace said, but the computer company is still "mostly talk and not enough walk."

CloudStore: Just £11000 of cloud services bought last month
ZDNet
Summary: The latest figures show sales in five figures in last month after a particularly fruitful April for the public sector's cloud marketplace.

FFIEC's New Cloud Info 'Disappointing'
BankInfoSecurity.com
IT security expert Francoise Gilbert says the FFIEC's new resource document oncloud computing understates the risks all banking institutions should consider. What. ... Data Security Expert Says Cloud Services Pose Special Risks. By Tracy Kitten, July ...

BankInfoSecurity.com

Ushering in the Future with Cloud-Connected Backup
The VAR Guy
When you introduce your customers to cloud storage and backup, you're bringing them technology that's critical to the competitive success of their business. ... After all, it means that the other 50 percent are not entirely convinced that cloud ...

GAO Audit Finds HHS Is Meeting Federal Goal for Using Cloud Computing
iHealthBeat
According to a Government Accountability Office audit of seven federal agencies, HHS is among five agencies that met a federal goal for using cloud computing in three service areas. The audit also identifies shortfalls in HHS' cloud computing plans ...

2012 London Olympics Preparedness: Can Cloud Computing Get IT Across the ...
Midsize Insider
On July 27th, 2012, the Summer Olympics get underway in London and for two weeks the eyes of the world will be on Britain's capital, watching as elite athletes from around the world compete for gold. For IT professionals watching from afar, the London ...

SHI International Goes Back to the Future with New Cloud Briefing Center
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The center is a futuristic office straight out of the pages of science fiction and delivers an immersive, interactive experience to give visitors a comprehensive view of SHI's innovative cloud computing services, technologies, and capabilities. The ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Around the Blawgosphere: Bar Associations Too Cautious on Ethics of Cloud ...
ABA Journal
Clouded Judgment At My Shingle, Washington, D.C., solo Carolyn Elefant takes various state bar associations to task for their uniformly similar recommendations that lawyers get their clients' express consent when they store clients' data in cloud ...

ABA Journal

Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2012
The VAR Guy
Take a look and you'll get a feel for Microsoft's strategies across cloud computing and cloud services, server and applications software, desktops, and mobile devices (tablets and smartphones). Photo: Windows Phone 8, which Microsoft is pitching to ...

Cisco Systems Stumbles in the Cloud
TechNewsWorld
In the stampede of established players and relative startups seeking to capture a piece of the rapidly expanding cloud market, it is inevitable there will be a few casualties. ... Since the "consumerization of IT" and cloud services depend on ...

Managed Care Outlook: Cloud Computing for Healthcare ...
By onlinetech
Recently, Managed Care Outlook: The Insider's Business Briefing on Managed Healthcare featured an interview by Attorney Tatiana Melnik of Dickinson Wright with April Sage, Online Tech Director of Healthcare Vertical and Marketing, titled ...
HealthWorks Collective - The...

Cloud Computing Makes it to the Pentagon
By Guest Blogger
As cloud computing has continued to grow over the last year we have seen it come into place in a plethora of new business sectors and even into the NHS and UK.
Virtual Internet Blog

MSPAlliance Writes Cloud Computing Article for Wall Street Journal ...
By Charles Weaver
After 12 years, the MSPAlliance is still committed to reaching end-users and helping them understand the benefits of managed serivces (and cloud computing) as.
MSPAlliance

Samsung brings an extra 5GB of cloud storage to ... - Android Authority
By Lucian Armasu
Samsung adds 5GB of cloud storage to Galaxy S3 and other Allshare Play capable devices, from SugarSync.
Android Authority

The Data World: AWS Reaches 1 Trillion | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Kaamil
According to recently released statistics, Amazon Web Services' S3 Services (Simple Storage Service) is now home to more than a trillion (12 zeros) objects, courtesy of its cloud computingclients. The newly ... The details behind S3's makeup are not available to the public, however, S3 is being used as a host and storage facility by a number of very popular online services – some of whom are also widely known as cloud storage providers – such as Dropbox and Tumblr. Zmanda and...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Weekly #Cloud Roundup – Cloud Future is Open, OpenNebula ...
By Travis Balinas
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of July 9th that are ...
Transforming IT Operations

Top 5 Free Cloud Storage Providers | Crunchy Hub | Blog Interact®
Cloud Storage is the online storage where we can store the data using some third party. Here are the Top 5 Free Cloud Storage Providers.
Blog Interact® » Stories

FFIEC's New Cloud Info 'Disappointing' » FISMA Focus
By jim
Data Security Expert Says Cloud Services Pose Special Risks. An attorney who specializes in data security issues says a cloud computing resource document that the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council issued July 10 falls ...
FISMA Focus

SAP Cloud – Findings from Co-Innovation Engagements - SAP Blogs
By Sven Denecken
Thanks to cloud computing, the power to streamline business processes, collaborate on actionable insights, and make informed decisions can be yours right now. Not in one year, not in six months. Now. With cloud-based solutions, ... Extensions allow companies to obtain business agility by streamlining and consolidating in-house solutions before adding new, innovative business processes with cloud services. SAP's cloud portfolio provides the best of both worlds with hybrid ...
SAP on the Cloud

This Week in Cloud: July 13, 2012 - The CA Cloud Storm Chasers ...
By Derek Stevens
Cloud computing is one of the main contributors to the increased spending as more companies start to adopt the technology. Spending on public cloud services is predicted to rise from $91b in 2011 to $109b in 2012. Still, cloud services ...
CA Community

Future of Cloud Computing | Innovation
For anyone looking for summary level insights and perspectives on Cloud Computing, the recently released North Bridge 2012 Future of Cloud Computing ...
blogs.sap.com/.../future-of-cloud-computing-survey-results-fr...

Department of Defense's Cloud Computing Strategy
Cloud computing will enable the Department to consolidate and share commodity IT functions resulting in a more efficient use of resources. Cloud services can ...
www.infosecisland.com/.../21906-Department-of-Defenses-Cl...

The Cloudcast - Ben Kepes on Cloud Computing Trends in 2012 ...
The Cloudcast (.net) #46 - The Big and Small World of Cloud Computing (39:47) Date: July 5, 2012 By:...
cloud.dzone.com/articles/cloudcast-ben-kepes-cloud

Top Five Facts about Cloud Computing « The Nuage Consulting ...
Cloud Computing is less expensive than On-Premise Systems. ... 61% said it was easier to provision cloud services themselves and 50% said it takes too long to ...
nuagecg.wordpress.com/.../five-facts-about-cloud-computing-...

Massachusetts Bar Association Publishes Cloud Computing Ethics ...
The Massachusetts Bar Association published Ethics Opinion 12-03 regarding the use of cloud computing in law practice, specifically referring to lawyers' use of ...
virtuallawpractice.org/.../massachusetts-bar-association-publish...

What's Holding Us Back From Embracing Cloud Computing?
The clouds are rolling in. The cloud computing industry is seeing rapid growth and demand from consumers. Cloud computing providers are some of the most ...
alurasolutions.com/whats-holding-us-back-from-embracing-cl...

Top Android Apps For Cloud Computing
You can choose to sync the information in the wallet with your smartphone through cloud. This is another very popular product from android for cloud computing.
www.techiestuffs.com/.../top-android-apps-for-cloud-computi...

SpotCloud: Federation unites cloud services broker's marketplace
In part one of this three-part tip series on the evolution of cloud federation, network services expert Rebecca Wetzel discusses cloud services broker Enomaly ...
searchcloudprovider.techtarget.com/.../SpotCloud-Federation-...

5 Ways Cloud Computing Can Help Your Small Business Dominate
In an economy that provides limited advantages from which the small business owner can capitalize,cloud computing has been a breath of fresh air. With the ...
www.itarticle.net/5-ways-cloud-computing-can-help-your-sma...

The Cloud Services at RNP
Cloud Services in other NRENs ... "Cloud computing is a universal collection of data which extends over ... Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to ...
tical_2012.redclara.net/doc/...dia1/5_Jose_Luiz_Ribeiro.pdf



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