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InfoWorld Home / Cloud Computing / News / Google establishes partner program for cloud... July 25, 2012 ... Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter. ] Google will offer resources around its cloud offerings, such as the Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage. Google did not detail what ...Service partners provide advice and implementation help in using Google cloud services. Companies such as Computer Sciences Corp., WiPro ...
Cloud Computing: Apple Misses, Stock Tanks, Blame the Rumor Mill
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Apple missed by Wall Street standards when it reported its Q3 numbers Tuesday and its stock tanked, dropping more than 5% after-hours, down roughly 31 bucks to $570 at best. It sold only 26 million iPhones, down 26% sequentially. Wall Street expected ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
On-demand cloud services help new providers get into the market fast
TechTarget
Developing a cloud services strategy isn't easy, and sometimes service providers or nascentcloud providers need a little help getting started. On-demand cloud services -- or white-labeledcloud services -- can offer an easy way for new providers to get into ...
Symantec Replaces CEO; Sharpens Cloud Computing, Mobile Focus
The VAR Guy
Cloud Computing: Symantec was somewhat slow to catch the cloud computing wave. Salem back in 2009 predicted that cloud services and SaaS would gradually represent 15 percent of Symantec's revenues. That's a healthy $1 billion, he said at the time.
US Groups: Foreign Cloud Providers Marketing Against Privacy Concerns
PCWorld
Cloud computing services from outside the U.S. are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers, according to some representatives of the tech industry. ... Congress also needs to consider ways to better protect stored information on cloud services, Lofgren said. The U.S. ... Box Adds Windows Phone to the Mobile Mix Box is expanding its mobile reach by making its cloud storage and file sharing service available with a new app for Windows Phone smartphones.
Nirvanix Partners with CenturyLink to Remove Bandwidth Roadblocks to Cloud ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Because many Nirvanix Cloud Storage nodes are on the CenturyLink network, companies around the globe can now obtain direct bandwidth pricing without going through intermediate carriers, making it easier for customers to benefit from the superior ...
VMware buys Nicira: Open-source threat or cloudy opportunity?
Computerworld (blog)
In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what the future holds for open-source software-defined networking and cloud-computing generally. Nicira logo. By Richi Jennings: Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention: ...
Third-Party Cos. Can Sell Google Cloud Services
MediaPost Communications
The ability for consumers to traverse from one device to another and for brands to target ads cross-platform will require cloud services to store data and content. Google announced a partnership program that allows third-party companies to use and sell its ...
MediaPost Communications
Google Sets Up Partner Program For Cloud Services
CRN
Google will make available to partners technology resources such as Compute Engine to configure and manage applications running on Google's infrastructure; Google BigQuery to import and analyze data; and Google Cloud Storage for archiving, backup and recovery, and primary storage solutions. The platform also includes service ... “We've had a lot of businesses hearing about cloud computing and sitting on the sidelines and saying, 'I don't want to be locked out of the cloud,” Cope said. “For us as a manager of ...
BMC Aims to Provide Private Cloud Accounting--Are You?
NetworkComputing.com
Cloud computing has become a more integral part of IT infrastructures, but enterprises are just now looking at how resources are being consumed and tracking them back to specific business units and users. To help enterprises bring more ... Even if IT doesn't actually charge back forcloud services, having insight into how resources are consumed is necessary to plan and model cloud deployments, said Dennis Drogseth, vice president of Enterprise Management Associates. Moving IT resources into the cloud should ...
Cloud Computing: GoodData Raises $25 Million
SYS-CON Media (press release)
GoodData and its Cloud BI Platform, which got started in the Czech Republic, have closed a $25 million C round from Tenaya Capital, along with Next World Capital and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, Fidelity Growth ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Terremark Hybrid Cloud Solution Supports Stefanini's Global Growth
MarketWatch (press release)
"Stefanini is an early adopter of Terremark's cloud services in Brazil, and we have grown ourcloud environment to take full advantage of the cost savings and flexibility of cloud computing. We believe that the combination of Terremark's cloud computing and ...
Cloud Computing: VM-Aware Storage Start-Up Nails Another $25 Mil
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Tintri, a producer of purpose-built VM-aware storage appliances, has closed a $25 million D round led by Menlo Ventures. Existing investors NEA and Lightspeed Venture Partners joined in. It says the round was oversubscribed and brings total investment to ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Computing: VMTurbo Joins the OpenStack Push
SYS-CON Media (press release)
It figures that the service providers currently outfitting private and public cloudinfrastructures are going to go with one or two of those three so it wants to have all the bases covered, which is why it's joining the OpenStack community. It figures it'll take it a little ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Ci&T Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program
MarketWatch (press release)
"Being a part of the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program empowers us to provide our clients with progressive and powerful cloud-based solutions," said Daniel Viveiros, Cloud ComputingServices Manager, Ci&T. "By leveraging Google Cloud Platform's broad set of application development, cloud storage, large scale computing, and big data capabilities we can allow our clients to focus on innovation and revenue-generating activities, rather than maintenance and other technical issues." Google's Cloud Platform ...
The Morning Download: State Street Takes Its Cloud in Hand
Wall Street Journal (blog)
It also expects to generate significant revenue from the private cloud itself, by selling privatecloud services to its customers. The upshot is the cloud provides agility the company needs to compete. “If every CIO in the country ... The Google Cloud Partner Program is intended to help customers find resellers and consultants to help them implement Google services such as Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage. Unlike the old days, where vendors wooed partners with perks including payments, GigaOm's Barb ...
Dimension Data Launches Global Cloud Partner Program
Sacramento Bee
"The Dimension Data OneCloud Partner Program helps our partners bring their own cloud services to market more quickly," said Steve Nola, CEO of Dimension Data's Cloud Business Unit. "Building, integrating and launching a new cloud service is ...
Cloud Computing Is Becoming a Sunny Option for Businesses
BusinessNewsDaily
Are you a cloud-watcher? If you run a small business, the answer is increasingly "yes." Cloud computing has gone mainstream and is playing an increasingly integral role in information technology operations for all shapes and sizes of businesses, a new ...
Independent Consulting Study Shows File Sync Has Emerged as the Fastest ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN MATEO, CA, Jul 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cloud provider SugarSync announced today that a new commissioned study from Forrester Consulting was released tracking the exponential growth of Personal Cloud services over the last ...
Amazon Web Services Use Yields 626% ROI, More: IDC
eWeek
To maximize the potential of cloud computing implementations, customers must evaluate the architecture of their applications. If availability is considered important, IDC recommends that organizations architect their applications across AWS Availability Zones ...
For its new cloud, Google learns old tricks
GigaOM
But the advent of cloud computing model changes the partnering fundamentals. Traditional software vendors — those ... Service Partners include consultants and systems integrators who offer hand-holding and implementation services around the Google Compute Engine, Google BigQuery and/or Google Cloud storage. Technology Partners offer tools ... The race is on to get customers to adopt cloud services and it appears that all the major players want partners to help grease the skids. Photo courtesy of Flickr user ...
Congress Has Its Head in the Cloud
Heritage.org (blog)
Today the House Judiciary Committee will discuss the technological and innovative power that cloud computing offers to individuals, the private sector, and the government. Cloud computing is the movement of IT capabilities away from individual computers ...
AirTight Launches Most Secure and Lowest Cost Enterprise Grade Cloud Wi-Fi ...
MarketWatch (press release)
AirTight's pioneering Cloud Services family of cloud-hosted subscription services delivers the world's first and only "No Capex" multi-tenant WIPS, PCI wireless compliance and controller-less WLAN access solutions all in a single device. AirTight's ...
It's time for a real accreditation process for cloud storage services
TechTarget
Many cloud storage providers are hiding behind smoke and mirrors to intentionally misrepresent their offerings, which only confuses customers. Why are they doing this? To increase profits, of course. .... A voluntary "VAR consumer reporting bureau" (similar to the Better Business Bureau) specific to cloud computing could allow those who have discovered falsehoods and anomalies or who have been wronged in some way to report their findings confidentially. The claims could be investigated and verified or ...
Google sweetens Cloud Platform offerings with partner scheme
ZDNet (blog)
According to a blog post on Tuesday from Google Cloud Platform sales chief Eric Morse, the technology partners provide tools that tie into the Compute Engine, BigQuery and Cloud Storageproducts, while the service partners provide consulting services for ...
Cloud Computing Described Through The Analogy of (US - InfoQ
By JP Morgenthal
Ask a technical person what cloud computing is and you will most likely get a boilerplate answer that somewhere in it includes the terms “elastic”, “agility”, “broad network access”, “dynamic”, and “measurable”. However, for most individuals ...
InfoQ Personalized Feed for Fergus Neff
The Pros And Cons Of Cloud Computing For Film Professionals ...
By Catherine
Cloud computing is big and here to stay. In fact it is hard to think why it took cloud computing so long to become prominent. The pros come thick and fast: convenience, low cost, a back up of your data online. But not everyone loves technology.
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
Nirvanix Partners with CenturyLink to Remove Bandwidth ...
By Robert Powell
SAN DIEGO, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Nirvanix, the leader in enterprise-class cloud storage services, today announced a strategic channel alliance with CenturyLink, Inc. (CTL) that enables customers to access Nirvanix Cloud Storage ...
TR Newswire
Do Cloud Computing and Innovation Go Hand-in-Hand? | Service ...
By Denise Dubie
With its ease-of-use and on-demand appeal, cloud computing wins raves reviews from many IT organizations. Taking on the cloud typically lessens the burden for budget- and resource-constrained IT shops, but to some, it remains unclear if ...
Service Assurance Daily
Hybrid Cloud Storage - Cloud Server and Cloud Services Hosting
By GetCloudServices
Hybrid cloud storage greatly contributes in the reduction of DR/BC costs (Data Recovery and Business Continuity). With hybrid cloud storage, there is more security. Hybrid cloud storageallows your cloud computing experience to be as safe ...
GetCloudServices Cloud Server,...
Cloud Computing Offers New Way For SMEs - Ventures Africa
By TomJackson
VENTURES AFRICA – The continuing progress of cloud computing in Kenya offers SMEs an opportunity to meet their technological needs in a cost effective way. Various analysts and experts are keen to stress the impact virtualisation and ...
Ventures Africa
Box preparing enterprise cloud storage app for Windows Phone ...
By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Juan Carlos Perez
Box plans to announce a new application for the Windows Phone OS and a partnership with Qualcomm, moves that it hopes will boost adoption of its cloud storage and file-sharing service on mobile devices.
Computerworld UK Applications
Testimony on the Hill: Innovation and Cloud Computing « A Smarter ...
By Guest
By Dan Chenok, Executive Director, IBM Center for The Business of Government I am testifying today before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on.
A Smarter Planet Blog
Box Releases Its First Windows Phone Cloud Storage Client ...
By Stephen Schenck
Just a few hours ago, we were lamenting that Microsoft's SkyDrive isn't a full-featured cloud storage offering, limiting what file types it supports to documents and media. That was keeping apps from using the service to automatically backup ...
Pocketnow
Box Launches Cloud Storage App On Windows Phone | Geeky ...
By Roland Hutchinson
Box has launched a version of their cloud storage application for Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, and the company behind the app also announced a deal with Qualcomm which will see Qualcomm powered devices come with 50GB of ...
Geeky Gadgets
Cloud Storage Service 'Box' Releases Its Official Windows Phone ...
By Hamza
Although many people might be under the impression that due to its integration with SkyDrive, Windows Phone is not a good platform to be on for fans of other cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Box. Fortunately, the folks over at ...
AddictiveTips
Cloud Computing Stresses People Out: Survey
The cloud was supposed to make everything simpler for consumers and businesses: no more worrying about hardware requirements, for example, or local file ...
slashdot.org/topic/.../cloud-computing-stresses-people-out-sur...
The Transformational Cloud - Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud Computing Journal: Just having the enterprise data is good. ... Cloud Computing Journal: Forrester's James Staten: "Not everything will move to the cloud ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2319116
Is Space Weather a Threat to Cloud Computing? -- Virtualization ...
Solar flares might take your cloud-based data for good, but you might have other problems besides dead data.
virtualizationreview.com/.../space-weather-threat-cloud.aspx
Report: Cloud computing to transform M2M applicationsRCR ...
Machine-to-machine, cloud computing, Carriers, Maravedis, Internet of things, mobile cloud,cloud service, M2M.
www.rcrwireless.com/.../cloud-transform-m2m-application/
Actionable Strategies To Publish Cloud Computing Paper | PRLog
Actionable Strategies, a boutique consulting firm serving clients globally, has been selected to publish a paper on the future of Cloud Computing standards for ...
www.prlog.org/11933616-actionable-strategies-to-publish-clo...
Health Care & HIPAA Cloud Computing & Hosting | Logicworks
The Logicworks Private Cloud offers a hosting environment with cloud computing capabilities as well as built-in security features for HIPAA infrastructure ...
www.logicworks.net/industries/health-care
Cloud computing journey starts with the data centre - Computerworld
In a special series, Fairfax Business Media Asia will be previewing speakers from the CIO Summit 2012.
www.computerworld.com/.../Cloud_computing_journey_starts...
In a special series, Fairfax Business Media Asia will be previewing speakers from the CIO Summit 2012.
www.computerworld.com/.../Cloud_computing_journey_starts...
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