6 ways to keep your data safe in the cloud

6 ways to keep your data safe in the cloud
GigaOM
These suggestions might seem like common sense, but the more we use cloud services, the more we put ourselves at risk of identity theft and other negative effects of cybercrime. Here are six ways to at least make it more difficult to steal your data ...

GigaOM

Dell Drives Cloud Services Expansion Through PartnerDirect Channel Program
MarketWatch (press release)
PLANO, Texas, Aug 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dell's U.S. and Canada channel partners now are able to offer Dell Cloud Services to their customers under Dell's PartnerDirect Program. By expanding the partner offering, more customers can have the ...

Cloud Computing: Founder Offers $8.84 Billion for Best Buy
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Best Buy founder Richard Schulze's dream of regaining control of the troubled store chain and taking it private advanced Monday morning to the point of his offering between $8.16 billion and $8.84 billion for it. He said in a publicized letter to the ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Wozniak: Cloud Computing Will Cause “Horrible Problems”
The Mac Observer
News: Wozniak: Cloud Computing Will Cause “Horrible Problems” ... As a result,cloud services are often controlled by terms and conditions that limit a user's right of control and access or give the cloud service certain rights over the user's own data ...
The Mac Observer

Ci&T Predicts Major Cloud Computing Advances for the Second Half of the Year ...
MarketWatch (press release)
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA, Aug 06, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- With the benefits of cloud computing widely known, the technology is in the midst of major advances as it firmly solidifies itself as a standard within the enterprise. Ci&T, a Nearshore ...

IDC Government Insights Report Finds Growing Demand for Cloud Services ...
MarketWatch (press release)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Aug 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- IDC Government Insights today announced a report detailing the growing demand for cloud services and enterprise architecture resources among government agencies. The new study, Best Practices: Some ...

One more harsh lesson in cloud security
ITworld.com
I like cloud services, and use services like Dropbox to share files across all of my machines. Most of my data is locally stored, because I still can't see the advantage in such slow upload times when I can just buy a bigger removable drive. But as my ...

Intelisys: Free Training On How To Sell Cloud
CRN
Master agent Intelisys Communications has begun offering free workshops for telecom agents and IT VARs looking for training on various cloud topics, with plans to expand the program, dubbed Cloud Services University, to virtual courses and certification.

Cloud Computing: SAP to Pay Oracle at Least $306 Million in Damages
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Related Topics: SOA & WOA, Java, .NET, Open Web, Oracle, SAP. SOA & WOA: Article. Cloud Computing: SAP to Pay Oracle at Least $306 Million in Damages. The deal would have to be approved by the federal judge who cut the award. By Maureen O'Gara ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Research with Potential Application to Cloud Computing Data to be Presented ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, Aug 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Volt Technical Resources, a staffing business of Volt Information Sciences, Inc. today announced that Dr. James McCaffrey, Associate Vice President, will present new research at the 13th IEEE IRI International ...

Cloud Computing: Apple Reportedly Interested in Buying The Fancy
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Computing: Apple Reportedly Interested in Buying The Fancy. The Fancy raised $10 million on a reported $100 million valuation last fall on top of the $8.7 million it previously got. By Maureen O'Gara. Article Rating: Select rating, Give it 1/5...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Red Hat: Open cloud requires open APIs and stacks
ZDNet (blog)
Like Citrix, Red Hat once hoped to establish its own platform as the de facto standard for opencloud computing. And like Citrix, the Linux giant backed off that dream in light of the community's demands for multi-vendor backed open cloud platforms.

What's the point of a cloud storage gateway?
Register
Deep Dive What exactly is a cloud storage gateway? We know what direct-access storage (DAS) is, and understand SANs and NAS, forms of networked storage. Cloud storage is, obviously, storage in the cloud. But when, where, how and why do we need a ...

Telx Names John Freimuth as General Manager, Cloud and Enterprise Services
MarketWatch (press release)
He joins Telx from Internap, where he served as Vice-President of managed hosting and cloud computing. Freimuth was responsible for the overall results of this strategic business unit which became the fastest growth area for Internap. Freimuth was ...

Cloud Privacy Update Tackled By Lawmakers
InformationWeek
"ECPA was passed in 1986, well before we commonly used the Internet for e-mail, much less for 'cloud computing' and remote storage," said Nadler in a statement. "Communications technology is evolving at an exponential rate and, as such, requires ...

Apple iCloud 'not secure': Cloud rains on BYOD parade
Computerworld (blog)
A cloud system [has] to be very secure...the creators have to have detailed expertise in networking...areas where Apple is historically rubbish. ... [But] it must be secure, it said so on the Apple press release. ... The hack is anyone's worst ...

'Calculating Cloud ROI' gives IT managers the math to argue for cloud budget
Network World
When the time comes to get in line to ask the chief financial officer (CFO) for budget money forcloud services, will you be ready to compete with everyone else in the organization who also has their hand out? Financial managers want to see return on ...

Cloud Computing: Public Cloud Reportedly Coming from VMware
SYS-CON Media (press release)
VMware is going to go up against Amazon, Microsoft, Google and presumably Rackspace with its own public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service developed as Project Zephyr according to CRN, which thinks it could create some channel conflict for vCloud ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Silver Spring Networks Launches SilverLink Cloud Services
Utility Products
Silver Spring Networks, a networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks, announced SilverLink cloud services, an insight-as-a-service solution. According to a release, leveraging these smart grid operational services, customers ...

HP Challenges Amazon with Cloud Storage Alternative
Technology Guide
HP's cloud storage infrastructure is based on the OpenStack technology, a multi-tenant cloud computing environment that was originally developed by Rackspace and NASA. It has since evolved into three interrelated products and includes control panels ...

Cloud computing could change local government - if it's given the chance
Cloud Pro
It was easy to miss but the news that six London boroughs are co-operating to move some of their services to the cloud could be a glimpse of the future. Under Project Athena, Lambeth, Lewisham, Barking and Dagenham, Brent, Croydon and Havering ...

Informatica Cloud Summer 2012 to Simplify Data Integration in the Cloud
CMSWire
For one, Google has introduced its big-data crunching cloud offering BigQuery. Cloud-servicesprovider Informatica, in turn, has partnered with Google in helping developers and enterprises move large amounts of data across services through Cloud ...

IBM cloud facility to deliver Confianz services
Hindu Business Line
G. Dharanibalan, executive, offerings management and development, global technology services, IBM, India/South Asia, said that enterprises are adopting cloud computing to not only change the economics of IT, but to help drive transformative business ...

Kiwi cloud computing code
Stuff.co.nz
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals, previously the Computer Society, finalised a voluntary code in May that set out the information cloud computing companies should provide to customers about their services. That includes where ...

Stuff.co.nz

MWEB Business extends its cloud offering
Fin24
Cloud computing involves the delivery of computing and storage as a service to a community of end-recipients, essentially entrusting services with a user's data, software and computation over a network. Designed for South African businesses, the MWEB ...

AICPA Offers How-to Guide on Cloud Technology for CPAs
Accounting Today
“The accounting profession has developed a good understanding of the concept of cloud computing, but not its value proposition,” Higgins said. “Firms often have difficulty seeing the strategic value of technology.” In the book, the authors describe the ...

A business guide to Cloud computing
Gadget
As “moving to the cloud” became a widely accepted and promoted marketing phrase, many CEOs and business owners have been caught up in the hype of adopting cloud services, and been disappointed. Chantel Lindeman, an analyst for Frost and Sullivan, ...

Gadget

Google CIO: Cloud Will Dictate Business Processes
CloudTimes
The massive adoption of cloud computing is further boosted by enterprise-focusedcloud services such as Amazon's AWS (Amazon Web Services), which leveraged lower costs and allowed startups and small companies to run their businesses viacloud for a ...

CloudTimes

Technology: Cloud on the horizon?
Risk.net
Another question the FFIEC raises is whether users of cloud computing would be able to continuously monitor applications in the same way they can for in-house software – a big barrier to the uptake of cloud services, says Intergence Systems' McLaurin.

Risk.net

Cloud computing: Five ways it will change IT | TechRepublic
By Nick Heath
Takeaway: Autonomy founder Mike Lynch on the myths about cloud computing and what it means for the IT department. Autonomy founder Mike Lynch knows a lot about cloud computing – as he puts it “Autonomy worked in the cloud before it ...
European Technology Blog | TechRepublic

iCloud breach highlights some hard truths about the consumer cloud ...
By Derrick Harris
You're giving up control. This is a good mantra to keep in mind when considering the use ofcloud services. The problem isn't so much security technology as it is about process, policy and, perhaps, business model. Cloud-storage Dropbox, for ...
Apple

Steve Wozniak: Cloud Computing Will Cause 'Horrible Problems In ...
By Seth Fiegerman
Wozniak didn't offer much in the way of specifics about what these "horrible problems" would be, but he did hint at concerns about signing away rights to digital property stored in the cloud and generally losing ownership of that property.
Business Insider

Dropbox Leads The Way In Cloud Storage | CloudTweaks.com ...
By cloudtweaks
Dropbox Leads the Way in Cloud Storage Most cloud service startups rely on newer and more appealing technology than the bigger guys. When a big IT ... Cloud Computing Companies and Information Database · CloudTweaks.com – Cloud ...
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The Woz thinks the cloud computing trend will be "horrendous ...
By John Callaham
There's no doubt about it; more and more people and services are moving to the cloud for their computing needs. Cloud storage services such as Microsoft's SkyDrive, Google's Google Drive, Apple's iCloud and Dropbox are being used more ...
Neowin

New Cloud Computing White Paper Available! « The Slalom Blog
By Joel Forman
Slalom Consultant Joel Forman specializes in cloud computing and the Windows Azure Platform. ... There are many companies today who have yet to explore the opportunities that may exist for their organization in the way of cloud services.
The Slalom Blog

Ci&T Predicts Major Cloud Computing Advances for the Second Half ...
By admin
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/06/12 -- With the benefits of cloud computing widely known, the technology is in the midst of major advances as it.
Nearshore Journal

RESTful Cloud Computing – SOA that Finally Works | Inside-Cloud ...
In this video, Jason Bloomberg from ZapThink discusses a REST-based application developed by the US Coast Guard. In this talk, he ties together SOA, REST, and Cloud Computing into a set of practical approaches that provide greater agility ...
Inside-Cloud

Oliver Speaks At AITP: Trends In Mobility & Cloud Computing | Bull ...
By Bull City Mobile
OSI President and Founder, Andy Oliver is set to speak at the Association of IT Professionals of RTP at the NC State University Club this Thursday, August 9. The topics include Trends in Mobility and Cloud Computing.
Bull City Mobile

August #cloudchat: What level of resiliency is right for your cloud ...
By Katie Keating
Particularly when a cloud outage affects consumers' ability to access services such as video on demand, social media sites or sensitive data like a bank account, cloud computing goes under extreme scrutiny. For this month's #cloudchat on ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

Gartner Releases Their Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2012 ...
By Louis Columbus
Enterprises are beginning to change their buying behaviors based on the deployment speed, economics and customization that cloud-based technologies provide. Gartner cautions however that enterprises are far from abandoning their ...
Business 2 Community

Where Providers Can Make Money In Cloud Services, Now | IP Carrier
By Gary Kim
Where Providers Can Make Money In Cloud Services, Now. If you agree with the notion of product life ... Cloud-based advertising (think Google) and cloud-based sales force automation (think Salesforce.com) and other software as a service apps are in the full deployment stage. Infrastructure as a service is getting close to full deployment and acceptance. Public cloud storage has a ways to go before it will reach full deployment, though. undefined. Posted 1 minute ago by Gary Kim ...
IP Carrier

Do Cloud Computing and Innovation Go Hand-in-Hand? - CA ...
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 ...
community.ca.com/.../do-cloud-computing-and-innovation-go...

HP Brings Just-in-Time Discovery to Cloud Computing - Network ...
... in the data center to improve management and scaling of cloud services. ... Increased use of private cloud computing and virtualized infrastructures ...
www.networkcomputing.com/cloud.../hp.../240004292

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