NASA uses Amazon's cloud computing in Mars landing mission

NASA uses Amazon's cloud computing in Mars landing mission
Los Angeles Times
Although it boasts having "Earth's biggest selection," Amazon.com's reach has stretched to Mars. Better known for being an e-commerce giant, Amazon has become a major player in cloud computing, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory using the ...

eBay Deploys OpenStack Cloud For R&D
InformationWeek
OpenStack has gotten a lot of attention as an open source cloud-computing framework. It was originally developed at NASA, and has attracted ... Cloud services can play a role in any BC/DR plan. Yet just 23% of 414 business technology pros responding to ...

Wozniak Cloud Storage Worries Mirror IT Security Fears
eWeek
Comments from Apple co-founder and computer engineer Steve Wozniak concerning his fears about the migration to cloud storage have reopened the debate over security and privacy issues surrounding cloud storage. Wozniak's remarks—made after ...

DreamWorks using HP cloud to build global collaboration infrastructure
ZDNet (blog)
DreamWorks using HP cloud to build global collaboration infrastructure. Summary: DreamWorks Animation is deploying a joint solution from HP Cloud Services and Panzura's Global Cloud Storage System to develop its own global collaboration infrastructure.

NetApp Throws Weight Behind Cloud Storage Standard
IT Business Edge (blog)
NetApp Throws Weight Behind Cloud Storage Standard. Posted by Michael Vizard Aug 9, 2012 9:32:40 AM. Nobody likes to find themselves locked into a particular vendor, and that's doubly true when it comes to cloud computing. The standard that is ...

Why Google and Amazon Don't Offer Private Cloud Services
CloudTimes (blog)
private cloud Why Google and Amazon Dont Offer Private Cloud Services The term cloud computing immediately evokes services that high profile companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Rackspace or Salesforce.com offer to their customers. This is ...

CloudTimes (blog)

Ignore The Cloud Hype: CenturyLink Is Overpriced
Seeking Alpha
Both Amazon and IBM cloud computing services have performed better than expected. AmazonCloud Service revenues are lumped under as "Other Revenues" where it contributed $1.58 billion for the fiscal year 2011. There are estimates that cloud services ...

Consumer Cloud Computing: The New Battleground
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
blueocean, a services organization with a deep focus on market intelligence, social media and data analytics, has revealed interesting insights relating to consumer's understanding of cloud computing, this according to a new study conducted in India ...

Suppliers underwhelmed by gov's G-Cloud services catalogue
Register
The number of tech companies lining up to join the government's G-Cloud service has dropped by nearly half with just over two weeks to go before new applications can be submitted. Existing suppliers, meanwhile, have left the government's directory of ...

Big data VC firm Data Collective steps out of the shadows
GigaOM
For almost two years, Data Collective has been lurking in Silicon Valley's shadows, investing seed money in a slew of big data and cloud computing startups without ever showing its face to the public. On Thursday, the firm officially launched with a ...

GigaOM

Cloud backup versus cloud storage comparison
TechTarget
Cloud storage, on the other hand, is when users and/or applications access the cloud storagedirectly across the Internet or VPN via Web services APIs. Web services APIs are variations of the REST or SOAP interface that will soon be standardized as ...

Cloud-One Rational Consulting Market Responds to Demand as IBM Sets ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
As demand for Cloud computing steadily increases, IBM sets ambitious Cloud revenue target for 2015, and concerns over software change management spur an unprecedented increase in the complementary software consulting market. ... In a survey conducted ...

Cloud Strategy Critical for Business, Financial Success
Billing World
A new survey of senior financial executives at U.S. companies reveals that cloud computing is likely to have a significant impact on their businesses in the very near future. The study by CFO Research, and sponsored by Google, shows that three quarters ...

Canonical: Cloud Bursting Important, But Not Key Sales Feature
TalkinCloud (blog)
Vendors have been hyping the importance of bursting in their cloud computing strategies, most of which revolve around a hybrid cloud mix of both public and private cloud services, but while bursting is a useful tool to have during peak times, such as ...

LUMINEX And Nirvanix Introduce World's First Cloud-Based Tape Vaulting ...
Dark Reading
LUMINEX CloudSAFE(TM), a complement to the company's industry-leading Channel Gateway mainframe virtual tape solution, enables customers to vault mainframe tape volumes in the enterprise-proven, globally dispersed Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network ...

Valve's Steam: Not just for games anymore
GigaOM
Many of the launch titles will take advantage of popular Steamworks features, such as easy installation, automatic updating, and the ability to save your work to your personal Steam Cloud space so your files may travel with you.” When it comes to ...

GigaOM

TM unit VADS sees cloud computing driving growth this year
Malaysia Star
KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Bhd's unit VADS Bhd expects its ICT services, namely cloud computing and telepresence offerings, to drive its business growth this year. VADS chief executive officer Ahmad Azhar Yahya said as the ICT and business ...

Microsoft opens Office and SharePoint up to web developers
GigaOM
With the next release of Office and SharePoint, developers can build add-ons that run in Windows Azure (or Amazon, or other clouds.) A bigger question is when Office and SharePoint themselves will make the transition into Microsoft's multi-billion ...

GigaOM

Livedrive app offers 2TB of cloud storage to Chromebook users
Ubergizmo
How much cloud storage do you have at the moment? 2GB? More than that? Well, I am proud to say that Livedrive is offering Chromebook users an offer that they cannot refuse – we are talking about 2TB worth of cloud storage for you to stash away all of...

Ubergizmo

Best of the Data Center Blogs, August 9th
Data Center Knowledge
Is Cloud Computing Really Cheaper? - At Forbes, Reuven Cohen discusses cloud economics. “Iscloud computing really cheaper? I set out to attempt to get an answer. Many of the people I spoke to have described cloud costing as a 'Dark Art', a surprise at ...

Salesforce Attracts Big Rivals as Strategy Delivers
Businessweek
The bet paid off, as companies look to use online services -- now called cloud computing -- to cut costs and streamline operations. “There are more competitors entering a market pioneered by Salesforce,” said Rick Sherlund, an analyst at Nomura ...

Government Cloud: Layered Technologies Buys New World Apps
TalkinCloud (blog)
The company announced it has acquired New World Apps, a secure private cloud and communitycloud computing provider focused on the government markets. With experience and expertise in serving the U.S. intelligence community, ... Over the next few years ...

Infosys unveils Cloud Ecosystem Hub as unified enterprise gateway to...
IT-Director.com
With CMS 10, HP puts workload configuration data newly in hands of those who can best use it; July 2012. Where cloud computing takes us: Hybrid services delivery of essential information; July 2012... The move shows the demand for managing "cloud of ...

Cloud Storage of Data
Precision Pays
It doesn't look like the ag world is ready to embrace the cloud to store precious data. Our latest ZimmPoll asked the question, “Will you use the cloud to store your data?” According to the results 62% said No, too many risks. Only 20% said Yes ...

IDC Report: Future of Cloud Computing Uncertain According to Government IT ...
ExecutiveGov
IDC Government Insights found that despite the growing demand for cloud services in government agencies, many employees aren't sure what these services “will specifically mean to them and their organization.” Shawn McCarthy, IDC research director said ...

If Your Head's in the Cloud, You May Be Onto Something
Indo American News
HOUSTON: Almost without really knowing it, as we have gotten used to what our Smartphones can do for us, we have taken the leap into the realm of Cloud computing. ... transformed, such as through Integrated Voice Retrieval, a method to send callers to ...

Indo American News

Cetrom to Illustrate Value of the Cloud at ASAE Annual Meeting in Dallas
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Cetrom Information Technology, Inc. (Cetrom), a Cloud Computing pioneer and leading provider of custom Cloud solutions for global SMBs, announced it will illustrate the value of the Cloud to association leaders by exhibiting at the Center for ...

Rackspace Rises 8% As OpenStack Rollout On Track
Investor's Business Daily
Rackspace Hosting (RAX) shares jumped 8.1% on Wednesday, a day after the cloud computingfirm reported Q2 profit in line with analyst estimates and said its rollout of OpenStack software remains on track. Rackspace aims to make OpenStack, ...

SevOne Scales Up Its Network Monitoring Cluster Solutions
eWeek
The company's clustered SevOne appliances are designed to scale to meet the scaling demands of such trends as big data, cloud computing and virtualization. .... 3: How to Avoid Cloud ComputingFailure. 4: HoundDog Helps Solution Providers Bark up the ...

Discussion on Cloud computing: What does it really mean for IT jobs ...
I fully agree that a number of traditional IT jobs will disappear and that new ones will be created. But with the digitization of the world, with the consumerization of IT there are tremendous opportunities for IT literate people outside the IT ...
on TechRepublic

A belt and suspenders for your cloud storage ~ I, Cringely
By Robert X. Cringely
At Chez Cringely everything is backed-up locally two ways, backed-up to cloud storage, and backed up again to a drive in another city.
I, Cringely

Secure Cloud Computing 101
By Jovi Umawing
Recently, GFI Software's Christopher Boyd, senior threat researcher, spoke with the Associated Press to offer three practical tips for users on how to keep their information safe online and in thecloud.
GFI Labs blog

Giving Up Control: Putting Everything In The Cloud | CloudTweaks ...
By Watson
Such measures include the use of private cloud services, open source cloud computing and the utilization of a multiplicity of open source and PaaS services. The concerns of an organization should always focus on improvement of service ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it | Thoughts on Cloud Blog
By Don Cleveland
Last year, I read an industry article that said when a CEO was asked about his plans for cloud computing, he responded that it was “a lot of hype” and made a comparison that “back in the day,” time sharing made a lot of sense. These days, he continued, computers are so cheap ... View all posts by Don Cleveland →. This entry was posted in Industries and tagged C-Suite, CIO, cloud,cloud-computing, cloud-services, innovation, Larry-Ellison, Nicholas-Carr, Rackspace, The-Big-Switch .
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

E-tailer 360Buy Launches Cloud Storage Service JBox | TechNode
By Charlie Sheng
E-tailer 360Buy Launches Cloud Storage Service JBox. by Charlie Sheng on August 9, 2012 • 3:50 pm No Comments. [Translate]. More and more Chinese tech companies are doing their could storage services including Sina, Baidu, Tencent, ...
TechNodeTechNode | TechNode

How to Measure Your Cloud Computing ROI - SSD Cloud ...
By Courtney C
Then, yesterday I came across this article, “5 Ways To Compute Cloud Computing ROI,” so I did some research, like most people when contradiction arises I often feel the need to pick a side, and I would like it to be the right side.
Cloud Provider USA

Cloud Service Provider | Enterprise IT Spend | Flexiant | Cloud ...
By JimWFoley
Cloud computing is to grow 48.7 percent in 2012 according to Gartner: The fastest-growing segment within the ITO market is cloud compute services, which is part of ... At the start of this year Flexiant engaged with analysts, such as Gartner, to explain why we believed that value will migrate from enterprise IT to outsourced managed cloud services thereby creating 'the decade of the service provider'. We explained that, unlike other vendors in the market, our primary customer was the ...
Cloud Orchestration software...

Open Source Cloud Efforts in Japan
By Masayuki Hayashi
... years, the increase in Cloud popularity has been remarkable. OpenStack, CloudStack, CloudFoundry, and other advancements in cloud computing have become a key focus for IT industries, system engineers and communities. ... The goals of this taskforce are to provide a higher quality ofcloud services, to promote interoperability experiments with open source implementation, and to share their expertise industry-wide. With the rise of open standardization of cloud services, and the...
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Cloud Backup Service | Cloud services | online backup services
By Vidhya
When many online backup companies seem to get trapped in a whirlpool by announcing shutdowns of cloud services, deferring new releases, dropping out new ventures and reducing sales force leaving customers frustrated and perplexed ...
The Vembu Blog | Online Backup...

Study Reveals Lack of Cloud Knowledge
By Guest Blogger
A study conducted in multiple countries around the world by blueocean has found that consumer awareness and understanding of cloud computing is still really.
Virtual Internet Blog

Is The Cloud A Safe Place To Store Your Family Memories? : Digital ...
By Paul Cook
In the simplest way, cloud storage is an online form of storage present on various servers that store digital content such as photos, videos, documents, music and apps. So it is basically data backed up on the servers of a third party such as Google, ... As far as data loss is concerned, cloud services are way more secure than your hard drives at home that are exposed to higher risks of theft, misuse and loss. The cloud is being monitored 24/7 by automated systems and professional staff ...
Digital Photography & Creative Lifestyle

Nirvanix and Luminex join to move mainframe data to the cloud ...
By Sonia Lelii
Cloud provider Nirvanix and Luminex Software are partnering to get mainframe administrators to join the cloud bandwagon. The two companies are offering a cloud-based Virtual Tape Library (VTL) service for mainframe environments. ... TwinStrata CloudArray moves inside the cloud for DR TwinStrata adds in-cloud option to its CloudArray cloud storage gateway that installs at the cloudprovider site and fails over applications for DR. READ MORE ...
Storage Soup

Dell Drives Cloud Services Expansion Through PartnerDirect ...
In the resale model, Dell provisions an instance of Dell Cloud Services for the ... This competency enables channel partners to provide cloud services and ...
content.dell.com/.../2012-08-06-dell-vcloud-channel-program

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Thinks Cloud Computing Will Be ...
Steve Wozniak: Cloud Computing Will Cause 'Horrible Problems In ... Wozniak: Cloud ... Steve Wozniak: Cloud Computing Lessen People's Control over .
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../steve-wozniak-cloud_n_1748269...

DreamWorks Animation drives innovation with HP Cloud Services
HP today announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG (Nasdaq: DWA) is integrating HP Cloud Services with Panzura's Global Cloud Storage System to create ...
www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2012/120809b.html

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