Cloud Computing for the Poorest Countries

Cloud Computing for the Poorest Countries
New York Times (blog)
In Tuesday's article on Amazon Web Services, I wrote about lots of different data-crunching companies, mostly in the developed world. In the long term, however, as companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft sell computing everywhere, the most dramatic ...

New York Times (blog)

Eucalyptus CEO Says VMware Not Ready To Challenge Amazon In Cloud ...
CRN
Virtualization giant VMware made headlines this week when it announced it would join the OpenStack Foundation to make its cloud services compatible with the foundation's open-source standards. While many hailed the move as an extension of VMware's ...

GSA Announces Cloud Email Services for Federal Government
U.S. Politics Today
30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. General Services Administration announced that it is now offering cloud based email services, making it easier for government agencies to move to cost saving cloud services. Through 20 blanket ...

Four big cloud providers respond to four big cloud computing questions
TechTarget
But does that hold true when the customer is dealing with a cloud provider? In the relatively new realm of enterprise cloud computing, the answer is both yes and no. Executives from four topcloud providers -- Microsoft, Amazon.com, Rackspace and ...

People think cloud computing involves actual clouds
Grist Magazine
... get confused between weather and weather-related metaphors. To wit: A new survey has found that a shocking number of people believe that cloud computing involves actual clouds, as in the things in the sky where rain comes from. WebProNews reports: ...

American Diversified Holdings Corporation (ADHC) Confirms Cloud Computing ...
Equities.com
"Image customers today are trying to manage all sorts of cloud services such as email, web portals, BlackBerry, mobile apps, storage, etc. from multiple vendors with multiple passwords and logins. Now Business Cloud Box can seamlessly integrate these ...

VMworld 2012 Highlights Progress in Virtualized Networks, Phones, Cloud
eWeek
VBlocks are preconfigured, converged-function cloud computing systems that can run hundreds to more than 6,000 virtual machines, depending on customer needs. In three years, VBlocks have become a $900 million business for Cisco (which supplies ... The...

eWeek

ManageIQ EVM recognized as Best of VMworld 2012 Finalist for Private Cloud ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
30, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- ManageIQ (www.manageiq.com), a leader in enterprise cloudmanagement, today announced it has been named as a finalist in the "Best of VMworld 2012" for private cloud computing. The Best of VMworld 2012 awards winners ...

Will cloud computing kick the IT door in for women?
PC Advisor
Poke your head into most data centers today and youre bound to notice a distinct gender gap. While women still represent only a fraction of IT workers today, some experts believe that cloud computing will offer the wedge in the door that women need to ...

Oracle, Red Hat team on CAMP cloud standard
InfoWorld
Although the use of PaaS services has grown dramatically in the past few years, through services like Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Microsoft Azure, each vendor offers its own console to users, making the migration of workloads from one ...

Nobody Has Any Idea What the Cloud Is
Gizmodo
Nobody Has Any Idea What the Cloud Is A recent survey has unearthed an interesting/borderline depressing fact—one in three people think cloud computing has to do with literal clouds. That's right: many of us think we need an umbrella to access SkyDrive.

Should Microsoft, Apple, And Google Give Users More Cloud Choices?
Fast Company
The companies are using their platforms to push their own cloud services instead of, say, Dropbox or Box. Is this anticompetitive? The lead lawyer in the Microsoft antitrust suit and Box's Aaron Levie sound off. Next year, IDC ... To log in to a ...

Fast Company

The very best cloud storage apps for iOS
Know Your Mobile
Your guide to the iPhone's best cloud services. Published on ... This cloud storage service ties in with the world's most popular word processing package seamlessly, which is great news for anyone who likes to work while away from their desk. It also ...

Cloud Security Alliance Forms Big Data Working Group
Dark Reading
“Everyday 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are being created resulting in a myriad number of data security and cloud-computing security concerns,” said Sreeranga Rajan, Director of Software Systems Innovation at Fujitsu Laboratories of America. “By ...

Cloud UC strategies: Hosted unified communication service models diverge
TechTarget
Cloud computing is the new architecture that binds IT and networking into a single system, and its primary value isn't cost management or opening IT to public hosting. The value is the flexibility thatcloud will bring to the way we empower workers ...

When You Move To The Cloud, Plan For The Storms
Forbes
Cloud computing infrastructure plays a rapidly increasing role in business-critical online operations. A recent study of ... It is essential to evaluate the roles and failure modes of cloud services in your application, and how they affect durability ...

IBM Brings Big Data Analytics, Cloud to US Open Tennis
eWeek
IBM continues its tradition of providing technology to drive the US Open tennis tournament, this year bringing its big data analytics and cloud computing prowess to the fore as well as adding a new iPad app.

The Shifting Role Of IT In Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
The Shifting Role Of IT In Cloud Computing. The line between cloud computing and information technology is hazy, but it is always safe to say that they complement each other, with cloud computing representing the latest paradigm for remodeling IT services.

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FedRAMP certification eases government customers into the cloud
TechTarget
Until recently, government agencies that sought cloud services had to shop around for a cloudprovider that could live up to their strict, sometimes unique requirements -- with few guarantees from a provider, other than its word, that a particular ...

Dell to bring cloud onshore
The Age
Kremer later told IT Pro Dell's existing facilities offered a range of cloud computingservices, from self-service, self-configuration at “very aggressive price points” - a market dominated by Amazon Web Services - to full consulting and managed ...

The Age

Indian government is catching up to the cloud: Andrew M Dutton
Times of India
SAN FRANCISCO: VMware's general manager for Asia Pacific and Japan, Andrew M Dutton, says the response to cloud computing from state governments in India has been proactive, compared with the "'UPA government which is preoccupied with other ...

IFA 2012: Toshiba launches inaugural cloud storage device
ITProPortal
"Whilst cloud storage is becoming increasingly popular, many consumers still prefer traditional storage hardware as they're concerned for the security of their data. STOR.ECLOUD eliminates these worries as it combines the best of both worlds. It ...

ITProPortal

Idea Cellular launches 3G dongle with cloud services
Myiris.com
Idea Cellular, India`s 3rd largest mobile operator has launched 3G dongle with cloud based services, today. This product in its category offers three key features including internet access; storage capacity of 2GB on the cloud, making it convenient for ...

Government eases into cloud with caution
Stuff.co.nz
The Government will encourage its own agencies to access software hosted in the "cloud" in New Zealand but is eschewing overseas-based cloud services such as Google Apps for now. The approach, revealed in a Cabinet paper issued yesterday, is likely to ...

Classic Rock Is Most Popular For Cloud Streaming
Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Most Americans say they don't understand cloud computing, but they know enough to say they'll mostly use it to stream classic rock. Citrix published the results of a poll of ... An early example of cloud storage might be Hotmail, which stored all your ...

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Half of Americans think cloud computing is affected by stormy weather
New Statesman (blog)
The Independent councillor said that the Government should be doing more to harness clean industries for the Connemara area and he named wind energy and cloud computing as two obvious examples. “Connemara in particular could become a centre of ...

Why Businesses Shouldn't Trust Apple's Cloud Services
DABCC.com
Add in synchronized bookmarks (including on Windows systems), a basic photo backup courtesy of Photo Stream, and even cloud-based backup and sharing for iCloud-enabled apps, and the service is a steal. To learn more and to read the entire article at ...

What Makes A Cloud Project A Tech Success?
TechWeekEurope UK
That's because the fundamental premise of cloud computing is delivering IT services where the technology is under the covers, and users are enabled without having to get hung up on how the system works. ... Cloud services treat users as customers ...

TechWeekEurope UK

IBM debuts zEnterprise EC12, its secure system for cloud computing and ...
CTR
With operational analytics and near real-time workload monitoring and analysis, clients can use the new zEC12 for a variety of workloads, including hybrid clouds that can take advantage of the System's 25 percent more performance per core and 50 ...

OpenStack grows up: Names SUSE and Cisco execs to leadership ...
By Barb Darrow
Lew Tucker - VP and CTO, Cloud Computing, Cisco - Structure 2011. The OpenStack Foundation ...He was CTO and VP of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems' before becoming CTO of Cisco'scloud efforts two years ago. After choosing its ...
GigaOM

Does Bad Weather Affect Cloud Computing? [Humor] - How-To Geek
By Jason Fitzpatrick
Indian government official Vishwa Bandhu Gupta deserves a Master Class Troll Lifetime Achievement Award for his performance in this five minute video and complete bamboozling of a poor reporter. Before we ridicule the reporter for buying ...
How-To Geek

Some Americans believe stormy weather interferes with cloud ...
By Mike Flacy
While many Americans use cloud computing every single day, that doesn't mean they necessarily understand it. ... However, over 90 percent of that group admitted to several common actions that uses cloud storage for user data. These actions included online banking and shopping, browsing social networks ... main deterrents to cloud computing. However, some respondents do believe that businesses can lower costs with cloud services as well as increase consumer engagement.

The Economics of Cloud Computing
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The Economics of Cloud Computing Publisher: Cisc | 2012 | EPUB + PDF | ISBN: 1587143062 | 150 pages | 3 Mb This concise book delivers the insight and t.
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SAS Furthers Cloud Computing for Business «
By Richard Snow
With all the hype about the cloud, customers are still confused about differences between hosted services, software as a service and cloud computing. Nevertheless, cloud computing is one of six technology developments that Ventana ...

Are Enterprises Ready for Private SaaS & PaaS? - Cloud Computing ...
John Yung is CEO at Appcara, where he leads the company's Cloud application integration and mobility vision. Prior to Appcara, he was Vice President of Cloud Computing Business Solutions at Savvis, where he led Symphony VPDC ...
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Survey: Most Americans Think Cloud Computing Has to do with the ...
By Staff
Also, one-third believe that the cloud is a thing of the future, even though 97 percent of these people are using cloud computing for everyday functions such as banking and file sharing. The survey also revealed that a lot of Americans like to ...
Your Black World

OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8 ...
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
[See Derrick Harris's BiqQuery story in the Other Cloud Computing Platforms and Services section below.] Meanwhile, I encourage folks that are comfortable with SQLBI to stretch the envelope a bit into the world of NoSQL like HBase.
OakLeaf Systems

John Fox Interview: How Industry Professionals Use The Cloud ...
By Catherine
I use cloud computing as a means of uploading scripts and collaborating on pre-production. I have often used cloud storage for sharing daily renders, project files and rushes and for sharing OMF exports for sound designers and XML ...
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American Diversified Holdings Corporation (ADHC) Confirms Cloud ...
By admin
A recent report by Forrester Research called “Sizing The Cloud:” indicates that the cloud computingindustry is projected to grow from $40 billion in 2010 to over $241 billion by 2020. This increase will provide massive opportunities for ... “Image customers today are trying to manage all sorts of cloud services such as email, web portals, BlackBerry, mobile apps, storage, etc. from multiple vendors with multiple passwords and logins. Now Business Cloud Box can seamlessly integrate ...
Nearshore Journal

Companies leveraging the cloud need wider range of skills ...
By CopperEgg
Some businesses may feel that once they adopt cloud computing solutions, they no longer have to put in any additional work because the vendors themselves take care of any cloud performance or other issues. However, Forbes contributor ...
CopperEgg

beehive.govt.nz - Government moves ahead with cloud computing ...
By Admin
Internal Affairs Minister Chris Tremain says the Government is taking the next steps towards the adoption of cloud computing, paving the way for improved services and significant cost savings. Cloud computing will enable government ...
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Horizon Data – The future of Enterprise Cloud Computing ...
By John
A few days ago, during VMWorld 2012, VMWare presented Horizon Data an amazingly robust enterprise suite that combines many VMWare technologies (Project Octopus, Project AppBlast, ThinApp, VMware Horizon Application Manager and ...
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5 Informative Cloud Forums - SSD Cloud Computing News and ...
By Courtney C
Google Cloud Storage. There is no better place to start than learning the basics from Google. On Google's own discussion board, users can learn and ask questions about anything related to storing data with Google. Business professionals can get a sense for how Google operates their own cloud services and compare. Beginners will be able to comprehend basic cloud information by applying it to Google products they are already familiar with. 2. Cloud Computing at TechNet ...
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VMware vCloud Suite for Cloud Computing & Cloud Management
Virtualization has dramatically reduced IT costs while greatly improving efficiency . Now business units need rapid access to IT resources to support faster ...
www.vmware.com/products/datacenter...suite/overview.html

6 cloud storage companies - Box (1) - FORTUNE
Techies have made cloud storage - yes, storage - exciting. Here's how the services stack up.
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Most Americans Don't Understand Cloud Computing

Most Americans Don't Understand Cloud Computing: Does It Really Matter?
Forbes
The ideal underlying the cloud computing approach is that end-users — and even IT professionals — can run computing jobs with no awareness of what servers or networks are making it all happen. So, it's not surprising that a new survey shows there isn't ...

Forbes

VMware Launches vCloud Suite, Cloud Ops Forum
eWeek
The world's largest virtualization software provider also introduced a new community group, the CloudOps Forum, whose purpose will be to promote cloud-based IT from VMware's point of view. The announcements were augmented by the additional news ...

Americans Think Cloud Computing Comes From Actual Clouds
WebProNews
All the major tech companies now offer some form of cloud storage and computing for consumers and businesses. Even though it's everywhere, Americans still don't really grasp it. A recent ... “This survey clearly shows that the cloud phenomenon is ...

SUSE Launches OpenStack Cloud Platform
InformationWeek
An OpenStack-based automated cloud computing platform, SUSE Cloud promises improved resource utilization and speedier workload provisioning while also adding another voice in support of the OpenStack effort. Douglas Jarvis, the company's cloud ...

New Relic Delivers Windows Server Monitoring
eWeek
New Relic Server Monitoring is a core capability of the company's free SaaS, or software as a service, application performance management (APM) tool that gives users visibility into server resource utilization as well as deeper insight into cloud ...

Cloud computing by the numbers: Understanding the true cost Of cloud services
ComputerworldUK (blog)
With VMworld in full swing this week and Microsoft's cloud-centered Windows Server 2012 launching soon after, your options for technology to build and deploy enterprise clouds is about to expand significantly. Meanwhile, Amazon continues to drop prices ...

TwinStrata simplifies cloud Storage delivery and access with new subscription ...
CTR
TwinStrata Inc., provider of cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions, announced Tuesday that customers can now purchase both Google Cloud Storage and TwinStrata CloudArray through a single subscription-based bundle.

Cloud Computing Confusing to Many: Survey
eWeek
For example, 51 percent of respondents, including a majority of Millennials, believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing. Nearly one-third see the cloud as a thing of the future, yet 97 percent are actually using cloud services today via ...

Performance management tools help IT services provider Savvis scale to meet ...
ZDNet
Summary: Using a range of performance, operations orchestration and Business Service Automation solutions from HP, services provider Savvis has improved its incident resolution and sped the delivery of new cloud services to its enterprise clients.

Why Cloud Computing Is Hazy for Many Americans
TechNewsDaily
Cloud computing, or using remote Internet servers to store data, may be one of the most misunderstood terms in our country today. A new survey reveals the depth of misconception swirling around the simple term "cloud" — people say they don't use cloud ...

DMTF Releases Specification for Simplifying Cloud Infrastructure Management
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
As companies have adopted cloud computing, vendors have embraced the need to provide interoperability between enterprise computing and cloud services. DMTF developed CIMI as a self-service interface for infrastructure clouds, allowing users to ...

EMC Launches Storage Resource Management Suite for Cloud Environments
eWeek
Cloud computing and IT services provider EMC Corp. announced the release of the Storage Resource Management suite, which includes the company's ProSphere, Storage Configuration Advisor and Watch4net platforms. SRM is designed to deliver ...

Salesforce announces Dreamforce 2012, world's largest enterprise technology ...
EventsNetwork
Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced Dreamforce 2012, the world's largest enterprise technology and cloud computing event ever. In its 10th year, Dreamforce expects to welcome more than 70,000 registered attendees ...

Open source leads the way into the cloud
Network World
Looking around the cloud computing landscape, it is impossible to not find an explicit example of open source technology in use. In every layer of the cloud, there is open source to be found, from Linux at the operating system level to a panoply of ...

Cloud Service To Track Cloud Services
Sci-Tech Today
Key features of Splunk Storm include the ability to index and store machine data from any source, format, platform, or cloud provider. Splunk's search language enables the ability to search machine data, filter events, correlate information across data ...

Sci-Tech Today

Ladies and gentlemen, please secure your belongings for takeoff and landing
Computerworld (blog)
It seems to me that all of these cloud services need to begin speaking to each other, and more importantly, agreeing on the ways they are going to secure personal data. Advanced security features such as, Security Assertion Markup Language, Two-factor ...

IBM Mainframe and Cloud Computing
The Data Center Journal (blog)
The zEC12 enterprise system is aimed at cloud users and has improved security, analytics and large scale cloud capabilities.IBM is looking at supporting private cloud capabilities with the mainframe's virtualization abilities and also states that ...

Amazon Surges in Cloud Computing
brandchannel.com
“This survey clearly shows that the cloud phenomenon is taking root in our mainstream culture, yet there is still a wide gap between the perceptions and realities of cloud computing,” said Kim DeCarlis, vice president of corporate marketing at Citrix ...

Cloud Computing: Size Matters
CTR
It's downright fashionable for businesses to move to the cloud right now. If you take a moment to read the laundry list of benefits that cloud services claim to provide, it seems like a no-brainer. Cloud computing can reduce IT infrastructure costs and ...

CTR

Monetizing the Cloud in Today's Market
The VAR Guy
We believe the transition to an annuity-based cloud services model can be challenging for many partners. These challenges include getting employees up to speed in learning how to sell cloud computing, selecting from numerous cloud vendors and ...

3 'Real-Deal' Cloud Companies to Buy
Investorplace.com
But while a simple dictionary can help you nail down “cloud computing,” pinpointing the definition of “cloud operator” is much more difficult — because so many diverse tech companies have declared themselves cloud operators. But if you're an investor ...

Amazon, the Cloud and the Case for Free Kindles
Forbes
As reported in the New York Times earlier this week, Amazon.com is spending a lot of time and effort providing a new generation of data-hungry start-ups with the kind of massive computing power and storage available only through cloud computing.

EMC Recognizes "Journey To the Cloud Award" Winners at VMworld 2012
Businessweek
EMC Corp oration (NYSE: EMC) today announced the recipients of the third annual EMC™ Journey to the Cloud Awards. These prestigious awards recognize two premier customers, a distinguished partner and an exceptional individual who are driving ...

Sony to up R&D budget for cloud computing, displays - Today's Technology News
San Francisco Luxury News
TOKYO: Sony, Japan's biggest exporter of consumer electronics, plans to boost research-and-development (R&D) spending on cloud computing and display panels as it tries to rebound from four straight losses spurred by slumping television sales.

U.S. Intelligence Agencies Seek A Private Cloud OS
InformationWeek
CIA CTO Gus Hunt, speaking at InformationWeek's GovCloud conference last year, said cloud computing, because if its virtual, dynamic nature, could potentially be more secure than traditional IT approaches. "I've created a world in which my workloads ...

Companies That Are Revolutionizing Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
Earlier this summer, EMC made a splash with their acquisition of Syncplicity, a cloud storage company. Syncplicity, originally founded by three ex-Microsoft employees, offers a service similar to Dropbox. What sets Syncplicity apart from its ...

CloudTweaks News

Google+ ready for business with IT-friendly bells and whistles
GigaOM
NewNet Q4: Platform mania and social commerce shakeout - 01/19/2012 · NewNet Q2: Google closes the quarter with a bang - 07/12/2011 · Report: How Mobile Cloud Computing Will Change Tech - 09/28/2009 · what is this? Share This Story. Tweet · Email ...

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Maximizing cloud potential requires prep work
Financial Post
Many organizations are diving head first into the latest IT game changer, cloud computing (CC). While a comprehensive technical and financial analysis is usually undertaken, few companies thoroughly consider the organizational implications of this...

Financial Post

Advantages Of Cloud Computing | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
By cloudtweaks
Now anyone can use the services of cloud computing at affordable rates. Speed and scalability ofcloud services. With cloud computing, the user has no need to install the hardware or software for a new application; he or she can easily scale ...
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Cloud Computing 101: How To Utilize “The Cloud” in Higher Ed ...
By Lance
cloud computing savings. Cost Savings Whether you believe it or not, implementing cloud serviceswill save you money. Like Formstack, most cloud-based services charge monthly to use the software. But if you weigh the yearly price of the software versus hiring a full-time employee or even outsourcing, the savings are obvious. Using Formstack as an example ... services for higher education: Dropbox (free cloud storage service that lets you store files and access them from anywhere) ...
Formstack Blog

A Most Common Place to Fake Cloud Smarts? The First Date ...
By Saroj Kar
And the interesting one, 17 percent pretended to recognize about cloud computing during a first date.Cloud services term widely misunderstood. The term cloud service is becoming more and more popular in recent years, and not only in the ...
SiliconANGLE

Companies that are revolutionizing cloud computing | Rickscloud
By Rick Blaisdell
Earlier this summer, EMC made a splash with their acquisition of Syncplicity, a cloud storagecompany. Syncplicity, originally founded by three ex-Microsoft employees, offers a service similar to Dropbox. What sets Syncplicity apart from its ...
Rickscloud

Cross Platform Cloud Services That Your Business Needs | Modern ...
By edralyn
Platform-Cloud-Services. Business technology is evolving. With so many ways to connect, different devices and businesses utilizing mobile computing, having the right services to connect everyone is as important as your business strategy. With the ... One of the major benefits of cloud computing is fewer resource requirements and storage to complete the same tasks. As cloud ... One method of reducing resource limitations is by utilizing cloud storage and file transfers. In the past large ...
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Amazon cloud storage options enhanced with Glacier | Tek-Tips ...
By Greg Schulz
In case you missed it, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced their cloud services (ElasticCloud Compute or EC2) along with storage offerings. These include Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB, Elastic Block Store (EBS), ...
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Classic Rock Will Rule 'the Cloud'
By Jeff Giles
“Many Americans still do not completely understand what cloud computing is,” concluded Citrix VP Kim DeCarlis, “yet they spend a good portion of their day benefiting from cloud services, whether it's connecting with friends, downloading ...
Ultimate Classic Rock

Microsoft joins startups in building the new app infrastructure stack ...
By Stacey Higginbotham
Microsoft is joining several startups in trying to entice developers to use its cloud as a specialized backend for their mobile applications. Microsoft's Windows Azure Mobile Services joins offerings from Parse, Kinvey and Apigee in trying to ...
GigaOM

Private Cloud 2.0 – Enterprise Cloud Search – Cloud Computing ...
By Neil McEvoy
In the Enterprise 2.0 white paper I wrote a few years ago, I built on the core concepts of what Andrew McAfee had introduced, primarily the integrated role of Cloud Computing and also the overlap with BPM (Business Process Management).
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Free Public Cloud Services Are Putting Your Data at Risk | expertIP
By Rachel Foster
A new study commissioned by Citrix revealed that most Americans don't have a good understanding of cloud computing. Only 16% associated the word “cloud” with computing, although 95% use cloud services for things like online shopping ...
expertIP

Amazon, A Mighty Mover In Cloud Computing. | UTMB Library Link
By abienkow
Amazon has done a lot to re-shape the publishing landscape. Apart from selling books at prices few book stores could approach, let alone match, Amazon launched the KINDLE, the first really useful and practical e-book reader. In that one ...
UTMB Library Link

Free 25GB Box Cloud Storage Driver - box.com
Box is a cloud storage, the alternative of online drivers such as Dropbox, SkyDriver, Google Driver, SugarSync,…With Box, you store files online – then access them anywhere, anytime, on any device. Box is a safe solution to storage your files, ...
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Most Americans Confused By Cloud Computing According to - Citrix
Nearly one third see the cloud as a thing of the future, yet 97 percent are actually using cloud services today via online shopping, banking, social networking and ...
www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID...

Insider Threat Blog: Insider Threats Related to Cloud Computing ...
The security of cloud computing is a popular research topic; and insider threats in ... Using cloud services to simply store and/or transfer encrypted information, ...
www.cert.org/.../insider_threats_related_to_cloud_computing-...

VMware vSphere: Enterprise Cloud Computing & Virtualization ...
vSphere accelerates the shift to cloud computing for existing datacenters, while also underpinning compatible public cloud offerings, paving the way for the only ...
www.vmware.com/products/datacenter.../features.html

Dell Cloud Services – Europe Availability and New Offerings ...
Dell Cloud Services – Europe Availability and New Offerings .... determining a cloud roadmap can leverage Dell's Virtualization and Cloud Computing consulting ...
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Why businesses shouldn't trust Apple's cloud services | TechRepublic
Why businesses shouldn't trust Apple's cloud services. By Erik Eckel .... Top 10 ways cloud computing meets today's changing IT needs VIDEO (8 of 13) Top 10 ...
www.techrepublic.com/blog/mac/why-businesses.../2262

Open Cloud Computing: Why Go Open? [Infographic] - Rackspace
Rackspace has changed the game again with the OpenStack-powered open cloud. The RackspaceCloud is now built on OpenStack, the open source cloud ...
www.rackspace.com/blog/open-cloud-infographic/

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Amazon Reshapes Computing through the Cloud

Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing
New York Times
Amazon's efforts are just the start of a global competition among computing giants. In June, Googlefully introduced a service similar to A.W.S. Microsoft is also in the business with its offering, Windows Azure. If only for competitive reasons, Amazon ... 

Amazon Cloud Drive arrives in the UK
ZDNet
Amazon has released its Cloud Drive app in the UK, where it will compete with similar services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft's SkyDrive. The release occurred "towards the end of last week", a spokesperson for Amazon told ZDNet UK.

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Washington Post (blog)
Pity Google? One upside for the Android software maker in Apple's patent victory over partner Samsung is how that decision could spill over to a federal antitrust investigation into Google, according to one analyst. Google is being investigated by the ...

A cloud's real carbon footprint
Broadcast Engineering (blog)
The percentage of total power consumed in servers is greater in private cloud computing than that in public cloud computing. In both public and private cloud storage services, the energy consumption of storage hardware is a small percentage of total ...

Does the US understand cloud computing?
ZDNet
51 percent of respondents, including a majority of Millennials, believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing. 95 percent are actually using cloud services today via online shopping, banking, social networking and file sharing, even though ...

VMware Focuses On Private Cloud, Dumps Unpopular Pricing
InformationWeek
VMware is pushing deeper into private cloud computing, the company made clear as it kicked off its VMworld conference in San Francisco Monday. The cornerstone of VMware's approach is a package of its core data center virtualization products integrated ...

IBM Unveils zEnterprise EC12, a Highly Secure System for Cloud Computing ...
Sacramento Bee
Services and Financing for zEC12 One of the hallmark benefits behind IBM System z is its powerful business continuity features, especially important today in light of the industry's ongoing appetite for resilient cloud computing environments. To help ...

Sony to Boost Research Spending on Cloud Computing, Displays
Bloomberg
Sony Corp. (6758), Japan's biggest exporter of consumer electronics, plans to boost research-and-development spending on cloud computing and display panels as it tries to rebound from four straight losses spurred by slumping TV sales. The company's ...

Cloud Computing: The Cloud's Roller Coaster Ride of Hype to Productivity
Formtek Blog (blog)
... 2006 · January 2006 · Cloud Computing: Businesses Report Dramatic ROI From Cloud Services » ... Interestingly, Gartner places 'Public Cloud Storage' nearing a low point of the 'Trough of Disillusionment'. And 'Infrastructure as a ... The relative ...

TwinStrata Simplifies Cloud Storage Delivery and Access with New Subscription ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TwinStrata, Inc., the leading innovator of cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that customers can now purchase both Google Cloud Storage and TwinStrata CloudArray® through a ...

Rackspace Acquires Email Application Integrator Mailgun
eWeek
Cloud computing specialist Rackspace announced it has acquired Mailgun, a provider of Web services for integrating email inboxes into applications. The move is aimed at enhancing Rackspace's product portfolio—making it possible to integrate cloud ...

Cloud computing removing duplication, fostering collaboration and taking ...
Calgary Herald
Cloud services also offer businesses a platform for growth by permitting them to design and launch complex implementations with almost zero upfront capital investment. And because the technology is constantly refreshed “in the cloud,” the frequent ...

SOFTBANK TELECOM And VCE Team On Japan Cloud Strategy
Sacramento Bee
28, 2012 -- TOKYO and RICHARDSON, Texas, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SOFTBANK TELECOM and VCE today announced a strategic alliance designed to accelerate the adoption ofcloud computing by companies of all sizes in Japan. ... SOFTBANK TELECOM is ...

Trend Micro Launches Trend Ready for Cloud Service Providers Program
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The Trend Ready for Cloud Service Providers program helps educate enterprises about the risks and benefits of cloud computing, and provides an approach to adopting public cloud services without compromising data security." Craig Hurley, NTT America's ...

Pabst CIO Ben Haines brewing cloud-first IT
ZDNet
BlackBerries were tossed---along with the servers that went with them---for Apple iPhones and cloud mobile device management tools. Haines' method is to replace commodity infrastructure with cloud services. Over the weekend, Pabst cut over from its San ...

ZDNet

Missing Trends, HP and Dell Need a Reboot
NewsFactor Network
Scrambling to catch up in the arenas of cloud computing, touch-based computing and "Big Data," PC makers like Hewlett-Packard and Dell are in desperate need of a reboot. The latest reminder of HP's ineptitude came amid its report of an $8.9B quarterly ...

Cloud Storage: Tame Your Fears
Windows IT Pro
Those are all examples of cloud computing, and they're becoming more and more common in the workplace. You might already be in the cloud. But, you might say, it's one thing to host email or non-essential files offsite; it's quite another to go ahead ...

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VMware Cloud Product Transition Faces Hurdles
Investor's Business Daily
VMware (VMW) took the wraps off new product bundles and software licensing pricing aimed at making the company a bigger player in cloud computing, as analysts see a company in transition. At the VMworld user conference in San Francisco on Monday, ...

Splunk targets cloud-server data with Storm
GigaOM
What everyone playing in this space realizes is that the intersection of cloud computing and big data is going to be huge. Many people love using cloud servicesand also love the idea of capturing and analyzing all the data they're generating while ...

GigaOM

SkyDrive Brings Its Cloud Storage Service to Android
Lifehacker
SkyDrive Brings Its Cloud Storage Service to Android Android: Microsoft promised an SkyDrive Android app and today they've delivered. If you've wanted to access all the files in your SkyDrive account, you now can from your Android smartphone or tablet.

Airtel, Microsoft partner to provide cloud services to SMBs
Zee News
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it has partnered with Microsoft India to offercloud computing services to small and medium business enterprises (SMBs). Bharti Airtel will deliver Microsoft's cloud-based Office365 solution to SMBs through its ...

Zee News

New OMB Reporting Guidance Hopes to Clarify Agency Cloud Investments
govWin (blog)
New guidance from OMB will affect how agencies report cloud computing investments in their FY14 Exhibit 53 and Exhibit 300 reports. Come next February we should have a much better idea of both the status of cloud adoption across the federal government ...

govWin (blog)

VMworld: Quantum Rolls Out Q-Cloud Storage
DABCC.com
Q-Cloud uses Quantum's DXI-Series deduplication appliances on-premises as targets for the backup and Quantum vmPRO virtual backup for backing up virtual machines. The DXi-Series appliances now include a cloud storage gateway that enables ...

Storm of Confusion: 51% believe stormy weather interferes with cloud computing
Stark Insider
Cost was cited as the top deterrents to using the cloud, a result I found surprising given all the free consumer cloud services out there (Gmail, Pandora, Flickr, Facebook, almost all online banking, etc.) “The cloud.” I can't think of a buzzword in ...

Stark Insider

Tier 3 spiffs up cloud management
GigaOM
More granular cloud management features will make it easier for companies and service providers to set up group policies and lessen server sprawl in their environments, says Tier 3 CTO Jared Wray. Tier 3 Founder and CTO Jared Wray. Tier 3 says its new ...

GigaOM

Cloud Technology Partners Responds to Exponentially Increasing Demand for ...
RedOrbit
Cloud Technology Partners Responds to Exponentially Increasing Demand for Cloud Services – Names Industry Notable Francesco Paola Vice President. August 28, 2012. Repost This. BOSTON, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Cloud Technology Partners(TM), the ...

IBM buys Kenexa for $US1.3b
The Age
Oracle and SAP have both recently been buying "cloud computing" companies. Such technology allows businesses to run software remotely rather than installing software in-house. Computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard have also been busy ...

The Age

Calculate 'return on agility' to find the cloud's real value
InfoWorld
The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services ... Most people who create a business case for cloud computing -- or any new technology or approaches, for that matter -- don't bother with the deeper analysis because it's both hard and complex.

Primus Launches Enhanced Cloud Computing Platform
Digital Home
The PrimusCloud Server platform provides enhanced levels of end-client management capabilities and has two distinct levels of storage performance – standard cloud and premium cloud. Primus created a single cloud product that spans the different grades...

Digital Home

Learn why success greets NYSE Euronext's Community Platform for Capital ...
ZDNet
We'll learn about how this innovative cloud and groundbreaking business model targets the needs of Wall Street IT leaders, how the business of the financial services industry has received them, and explore how providing cloud services as a business has ...

United States : VMware Defines New Operating Model for the Cloud Era ...
Equities.com
VMware s Cloud Ops IP helps IT transition to a new operating model for cloud computing that promises to accelerate delivery of new business value and innovation. Part of the comprehensivecloud solution VMware unveiled today, Cloud Ops draws on ...

Cloud Security: Fears And Challenges | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
By cloudtweaks
Recent studies have shown that more than 60% of IT managers admit to security as the main stumbling block to their integration of cloud computing, with data protection and a perceived lack of regulation being their chief concerns. In another ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

The Birth of the Cloud Computing Era: HP Expands with vCloud ...
By Amber Harris
HP's Converged Cloud has expanded with VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and was unveiled at VMworld 2012 on Monday. The software intertwines VMware's virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into one SKU, which ...
SiliconANGLE

Does Agentless Security for Virtualization Also Work in the Cloud ...
By Christine Drake
Trend Cloud Security Blog – Cloud Computing Experts. ; Home · About ... Regardless of where you are with your cloud deployments, you want security that can easily adapt as your cloud computingneeds evolve and change. At this year's ...
Trend Cloud Security Blog - Cloud...

Most Americans Confused By Cloud Computing According to ...
By David Marshall
For example, 51 percent of respondents, including a majority of Millennials, believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing. Nearly one third see the cloud as a thing of the future, yet 97 percent are actually using cloud services ...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technolog...

Building an End-to-End Windows Store App - Part 2: Integrating ...
By S.Somasegar
Building an End-to-End Windows Store App - Part 2: Integrating Cloud Services. MSDN Blogs > Somasegar's blog > Building an End-to-End Windows Store App - Part 2: Integrating Cloud Services.... These days, however, many applications benefit from consuming and integrating with a variety of backend services running in the cloud, and I'd like mine to do so, as well. In this regard, one of the top areas of feedback we've received from developers is the desire for a turn-key set of ...
Somasegar's blog

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/27/2012+
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
It also brought a name change from hosted service to cloud service for the compute deployment unit. There is a little bit of confusion about the use of cloud services because, to make the deployment of a single virtual machine as simple as ...
OakLeaf Systems

Nirvanix, TwinStrata Launch Cloud Storage Starter Kit | TalkinCloud
By Chris Talbot
Cloud storage vendors Nirvanix and TwinStrata have teamed up to jointly launch an enterprise cloudbackup and archiving service with a flat $48 annual fee. ... Cloud Computing News and Information for CSPs, MSPs and VARs. Subscribe: Newsletter · RSS · Twitter · Facebook · LinkedIn · Home · Talk With Us .... Cloud Computing FAQ. NEW: Check out our FAQ for questions and answers aboutcloud services providers (CSPs) and the cloud computing market for VARs and MSPs.
TalkinCloud

Private Cloud 2.0 – Windows 8 – Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
Therefore this is likely to go hand in hand with their accompanying Private Cloud strategy, and this paper does an excellent job of explaining the IT spectrum that stretches from the 'extra enterprise' right through to consumer IT devices and ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

7 Deadly Sins Of Cloud Computing | Business Computing World
By Mike Small
7 Deadly Sins Of Cloud Computing. ... Cloud computing provides an increasingly popular way of procuring IT services that offers many benefits including increased flexibility as well as reduced cost. It extends the spectrum of information technology (IT) service ... easily be used or migrated. Cloud services (built using cloud platforms, platform as a service [PaaS] in particular) may be based on a proprietary architecture and interfaces making it very difficult to migrate to another provider.
Business Computing World

Cloud Computing Security and Your Small Business | paixoes e ...
By Amargyla Outhavarium
Cloud Security has a very significant role in not only big business but also small business. Running a small business can lead you to be a successful person in the future. Cloud computing is believed as helping you dealing with data security ...
paixoes e desejos

Otixo Provides iOS WebDAV Access for CX Cloud Storage
By CX
Otixo Provides iOS WebDAV Access for CX Cloud Storage. Posted by CX · Tweet. Have an iPhone? Want WebDAV access? Check out Otixo, one of CX's latest partners, which enables users to save files from a WebDAV-enabled iOS app to ...
Blog.CX.comBlog.CX.com | Sync,...

IBM Unveils zEnterprise EC12, a Highly Secure System for Cloud ...
By WDM Group PR Network
IBM Unveils zEnterprise EC12, a Highly Secure System for Cloud Computing and Enterprise Data. ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New, cutting-edge System z® capabilities for security and analytics dramatically boost cloud ...
Press Releases

SOFTBANK TELECOM And VCE Team On Japan Cloud Strategy ...
By WDM Group PR Network
28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SOFTBANK TELECOM and VCE today announced a strategic alliance designed to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing by companies of all sizes in Japan. SOFTBANK TELECOM will work with ... of VCE™ Vblock™ Systems. SOFTBANK TELECOM is standardizing its Cloud Services on Vblock Systems, which bring together leading technologies from VMware, Cisco and EMC into an intelligent converged infrastructure system with seamless support.
Press Releases

VMware vCloud Suite for Cloud Computing & Cloud Management
Simplify the monitoring, management and security of your datacenter with VMware vCloud Suite, an integrated cloud infrastructure solution.
www.vmware.com/go/vcloud-suite/

Do You Need Cloud Computing? | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
Cloud computing, often referred to as cloud storage, is a service that allows users to ... Cloud services such as Smart Recruiters allows small and medium-sized ...
https://www.cloudtweaks.com/.../do-you-need-cloud-computin...

The Story of Cerebrata's Cloud Storage Studio | Cloud Zone
In the last post about our Cloud Storage Studio/e product, I mentioned how we stopped working on that product in favor of a desktop based product. In this...
cloud.dzone.com/articles/story-cerebratas-cloud-storage

Cloud Computing Lead Generation via Existing Consumers
A change is coming in the tech world, precipitated by the ominous cloud – cloud computing, that is. Some businesses have already taken up the challenge of ...
it.toolbox.com/.../cloud-computing-lead-generation-via-existin...

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