CNET
Box, a cloud-storage company focused on the business market, has raised $125 million in its latest round of funding, the company posted on its blog today, giving Box a valuation of $1.33 billion. The round was led by General Atlantic, with participation from ...
Mountain View cloud storage startup Box gets $100 million funding round ...
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- Private equity firm General Atlantic said Tuesday it has invested $100 million in Box, the fast-growing Mountain View cloud-storage startup seen as a likely candidate for an initial public offering. The investment -- the third funding round by ...
Box and Dropbox Come of Age in Cloud Computing
New York Times (blog)
Two of the buzziest competitors in cloud computing are settling into coexistence — and maybe figuring out ways to take on the giant in the market, Amazon.com. Aaron Levie, the chief executive of Box. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg NewsAaron Levie, the chief ...
New York Times (blog)
Chinese Angel Innovation Works Bullish on Cloud Computing
Wall Street Journal (blog)
For angel investor Innovation Works, heaven would likely be filled with a load of Chinese companies using cloud storage as enabling systems–this sector being the firm's latest investment target as it looks to complete a final close of its second fund later this...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Exclusive Cloud Computing Hiring Event August 16th in Reston, VA
PR Newswire (press release)
Technology careers, the most common and ever-growing occupation in demand, has shown an abundance of openings for Software Engineers, Java Developers, Systems & Network Engineers, Websphere Cloud Computing Engineers and more. Utilizing ...
Cloud Broker Services: Will Agencies Favor Federal Over Industry?
govWin (blog)
As cloud computing evolves, the integration of cloud services can be too complex for cloudconsumers to manage. A cloud consumer may request cloud services from a cloud broker, instead of contacting a cloud provider directly. A cloud broker is an entity that ...
Social Media, Mobile Technology, Cloud Converging: Gartner
eWeek
The combination of cloud computing and mobile technology allows information to become more readily available and more pervasive, the report notes, as independent mobile software vendors usingcloud services have more options to access information ...
Outlook.com + SkyDrive: Microsoft Reimagines Cloud Storage
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
But with these changes, I've become a convert, and while I've written a lot about SkyDrive this year, be sure to at least check out 2012: A Cloud Odyssey - From Live Mesh to SkyDrive for a peek at how I've begun integrating SkyDrive into my daily workflow.
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
Amazon pitches better-than-ever cloud deals
GigaOM
Amazon is offering customers unprecedented deals to stick with its cloud services. Some big companies can get annual “true up” deals while many report incentives to use reserved, rather than on-demand, instances. And Amazon is making an effort to keep ...
GigaOM
Storage Strategies NOW Reports That Zetta.net Achieves Distinct Cloud Storage ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SUNNYVALE, CA, Jul 31, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Zetta.net, a provider of 3-in-1 online server backup solutions, today announced that storage analyst firm Storage Strategies NOW reports that the company's use of the WebDAV (Web Distributed ...
Cloud computing: 10 ways it will change by 2020
ZDNet UK
Right now we are in the early days of cloud computing, with many organisations taking their first, tentative steps. But by 2020 cloud is going to be a major — and permanent — part of the enterprise computing infrastructure. Eight years from now we are likely to ...
ZDNet UK
Office 2013′s SkyDrive Integration Combines Local, Cloud Storage
LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
SkyDrive is the cloud storage service holding Microsoft's “anywhere, everywhere” vision of Windows 8 together, and in a recent post on the Office Next blog, senior Office program managers took the time to explain how the productivity package was built from ...
Box scores a big $125M payday
GigaOM
The Series E cash influx led by General Atlantic Partners, brings total funding for the enterprise cloud storage player to a whopping $287 million. shutterstock_58487323. Enterprise cloud storage player Box netted a huge $125 million Series E funding round ...
GigaOM
Open source Chaos Monkey brings order to cloud
ITworld.com
But open source is a community that's grown way past the borders of the Linux community, and the pervasiveness of cloud computing in particular should see these tools become popular in their use, regardless of any bad blood Linux users might have.
Turn Current ERP Clients Into Cloud Computing Leads
Business 2 Community
As you may have heard, many big-names in the tech world are slowly making their way into thecloud and foreshadowing heavy competition. Like some of them however, you may have already felt the change in the winds and have started to lift up a version of ...
Oracle, VMware Deals Show SDN, Virtual Networks Are Key to Cloud
eWeek
Oracle, which is making a rush into the cloud computing space, bolstered its efforts July 30 with the acquisition of Xsigo Systems, one of a number of smaller companies that are aggressively pushing the network virtualization and software-defined network ...
SUSE is Most Widely Available Enterprise Linux Vendor in the Cloud
MarketWatch (press release)
"In the highly competitive cloud computing market, service providers are looking for any advantage to be able to offer maximum flexibility and return on investment to their customers," said Doug Jarvis,cloud solutions marketing manager, SUSE. "The licensing model for the SUSE Linux Enterprise product portfolio and tools such as SUSE Studio are tailored to fit the cloud business model so providers can easily deliver customized Linux cloud services with enterprise-class service level agreements." SUSE's Approach ...
Cloud computing specialists snapped up
Financial Times
Less than a week after VMware announced plans to spend $1.26bn to acquire Nicira, the cloud computing network virtualisation specialist, Oracle has agreed to buy Xsigo, another supplier of network virtualisation technology, for an undisclosed sum.
Maravedis: Cloud as the enabler for M2M mass adoption
FierceWireless
A majority of respondents, 61.3 percent, indicated that cloud would have the most positive impact on cost to implement, operate, and maintain. Cloud computing has already dramatically reduced the cost to implement IT infrastructure to launch and support ...
Amazon's cloud music service gets scan and match
CNET
It remains to be seen how much the public will embrace cloud storage. Amazon's adoption would seem to be a positive sign, however. It seems logical that the company would have forgone licensing the service had it believed Apple's scan-and-match was a ...
ePlus Offers Cloud Readiness Assessment Services to Provide Customers With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Readiness Consultation is the first step in ePlus' systematic approach to enabling customer'scloud computing, from assessment through execution and on-going managed services and security monitoring. Through the eCloud Readiness Consultation, ePlus identifies the best cloud adoption strategy and creates a ... As part of the ePlus Service Advantage, Data Center solutions, ePlus offers the following cloud services: -- eCloud Readiness Consultation to assess and design an optimalcloud computing strategy ...
DeepField Maps the Intricacies of the Cloud
TechNewsWorld
While it is mostly important to companies that are actively using public cloud services to support critical business processes, which is modest today, that is likely to increase over time. "Many of the biggest complaints about cloud computing relate to ...
Dangerous assumptions about clouds
CSO
Her comments reflected an understanding that Europeans need access to the best Cloud servicesregardless of geography and that to enjoy the full benefits of Cloud computing, there cannot be a balkanized system of Clouds around the world where as one ...
Cloud computing service market gets bustling
VietNamNet Bridge
It's the time when technology firms can finish their preparations in infrastructure and services in order to commercialize cloud computing and provide services on the market. Hien said small and medium enterprises would be the strategic clients to use the ...
VietNamNet Bridge
When Clouds Collide, You Get Lightning
CFO.com Magazine
As the cloud carnival slowly makes its way through town, organizations (fortunately) are becoming increasingly aware of many of the pitfalls associated with the adoption of non-trivial, enterprise cloud computing solutions. Oft-cited risks ... These arise when users and department heads go it alone, provisioning and deploying IT systems (most often cloud services) that are sourced externally and funded from local discretionary budgets without the involvement of the IT department or even the knowledge of the CFO.
Google Boosts Cloud Services with Partner Program - 'Net Features ...
By Michael Garrity
... to extend the ecosystem based around its cloud computing and storage products, Google has launched a brand new Cloud Partner Program to provide its customers with a number of fresh ways to utilize its increasingly improving cloud services. ... so that they can jump right into the cloud, while tech partners will offer the actual software used to connect a customer's existing tools (or new tools) with Google Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, or SQL-based BigQuery database engine.
'Net Features
The Investor's Guide to Cloud Computing
By Gary Spivak
The Investor's Guide to Cloud Computing. by Gary Spivak, Investment U Research Tuesday, July 31, 2012: Issue #1826. When I started in IT in the mid 1980s, all computer applications ran on the mainframe – a large computer that was efficient ...
Investment U
The Collaborative Cloud | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing ...
By Abdul
With the changing tides in business and end-user practices, it is becoming apparent that the influence of cloud computing is expanding, and that it is definitely here to stay for the foreseeable future. The cloud computing paradigm is changing ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...
Cloud computing service market gets bustling — TalkVietnam
By english
It's the time when technology firms can finish their preparations in infrastructure and services in order to commercialize cloud computing and provide services on the market. Hien said small and medium enterprises would be the strategic ...
TalkVietnam
Cloud Computing To Reduce Carbon Footprint
By Guest Blogger
A new cloud based tool is to be implemented in order to help councils and energy companies reduce their carbon emissions. Cloud service provider, Assimil8,
Virtual Internet Blog
Working In A Cloud Computing Environment
By GetCloudServices
Cloud computing provides the ability to catapult your business over that if your competitors while leveraging the best that technology can offer. Know more here. ... Follow what's happening at GetCloud Services. Home; Blog. ← Hybrid Cloud ...
GetCloudServices Cloud Server,...
Choosing Cloud Storage; Why JustCloud? :: JustCloud News
By admin
With so many cloud storage providers out there, it can all get a little confusing, can't it? Some are offering this, some are offering that, and some are more expensive or cheaper than others. With each provider's arms trying to … Contin...
JustCloud News
The 7 most common challenges to cloud computing Pt. I
By Shamun Mahmud
As a review, FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) serves as the primary program for federal acquisition of cloud computing services. In order to sell Cloud services, a CloudService Provider (CSP) must become ...
The DLT Blog
Google Boosts Cloud Services with Partner Program - Web Hosting ...
By 'Net Features : wm-webhosting
... the ecosystem based around its cloud computing and storage products, Google has launched a brand new Cloud Partner Program to provide its customers with a number of fresh ways to utilize its increasingly improving cloud services...
Web Hosting Panel
Video: HP and AMD: Cloud Computing Made Simple | Inside-Cloud ...
In this video, Jeff Carlat, Director of Industry Standard Servers and Software at HP discusses how cloud computing is made simple with the partnership of HP CloudSystem Solutions and AMD Opteron processors.
Inside-Cloud
Expert: Cloud computing has its benefits, pitfalls « CopperEgg
Businesses that believe they don't have to adopt cloud computing because the technology is a flash in the pan should rethink this strategy, because industry ...
copperegg.com/expert-cloud-computing-has-its-benefits-pitfalls/
Box Gets a $125 Million Round - Cloud Computing Journal
Box, the cloud storage and file-sharing start-up, has gotten a massive $125 million E ... “Distributed computing (cloud) services are proving to be more universal, ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2322992
Press Releases > Growth of Cloud Computing Brings Change and ...
Downers Grove, Ill., July 24, 2012 – The increasingly integral role of cloud computing in IT operations is accompanied by significant change and disruption for ...
www.comptia.org/.../Growth_of_Cloud_Computing_Brings_C...
ZapThink Announces Cloud Computing for Architects Course
McLean, VA (PRWEB) July 26, 2012. ZapThink, a Dovel Technologies Company, is now delivering version 2.0 of the Cloud Computing for Architects course at ...
www.prweb.com/releases/2012/7/prweb9733684.htm
How Cloud Services Keep Your Business Running At All Hours Of ...
Tags: advantages of the cloud for business, article writers, cell phone, cellular telephone, Cloud,cloud adoption, Cloud Computing, cloud service, cloud services ...
https://www.cloudtweaks.com/.../how-cloud-services-keep-you...
Benefits of Cloud Computing
The benefits of Cloud Computing are endless. So, we thought a post on advantages of Cloud Computing is a must on this blog. Cloud Computing benefits are ...
dcloudcomputing.com/benefits-of-cloud-computing/
5 Quotes Explaining Cloud Computing - SSD Cloud Computing ...
We've discussed before the importance of having an understanding on growing industry trends, cloud computing being no exception. While most of the cloud ...
www.cloudproviderusa.com/5-quotes-explaining-cloud-comp...
How Cloud Computing Can Cut Costs For Your Small Business
Cloud computing represents the most significant step in the streamlining of everyday office environment tasks since email and the computer itself.
under30ceo.com/how-cloud-computing-can-cut-costs-for-you...
CX.com Cloud Storage for Business on YouTube | CX.comTags: chat, cloud storage, CX Rewind, CX.com for Business, Groups, ...Thanks to all member ...
blog.cx.com/.../cx-com-cloud-storage-for-business-on-youtub...
Google establishes partner program for cloud services
10 most powerful cloud computing companies ... such as the Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage.
www.networkworld.com/.../072412-google-establishes-partner...
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