Oracle Plans Cloud Push to Take On Salesforce

Oracle Plans Cloud Push to Take On Salesforce, Workday
Bloomberg
(ORCL) plans to unveil the first new version of its flagship database program in five years and an expanded line of high-end servers, as the software maker steps up its effort to win more cloud-computing business. At its OpenWorld conference in San ...

Bloomberg

Cloud Computing Hurt by Lack of Innovation, Data Privacy Concerns
eWeek
Government regulations, exit strategies and international data privacy led the list of concerns that are eroding business confidence in cloud computing, according to findings from a joint survey by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA ...

eWeek

Qualys IPO Climbs After Slow Start for 'Cloud' Firm
Wall Street Journal
Other recent IPOs in the cloud-computing space have been winners. For example, Palo Alto Networks Inc. (PANW), which provides computer-security firewalls designed to let users collaborate on the Internet, has climbed more than 50% since its July debut.

NASDAQ Launches Cloud Computing App - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
On Tuesday, NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. ( NDAQ ) announced the launch of an Amazon Web Services-powered cloud computing platform - FinQloud. The platform has been created to assist the financial services industry in storing and managing financial data ...

American industry groups dissect EU cloud computing report
Nextgov
The EU document, "Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe," is designed to help harmonize policies for cloud computing networks, which store information on remote servers accessed over the Internet, and which routinely cross international ...

The dark side of OpenStack
GigaOM
Just weeks before for the big OpenStack Summit, a new report cautions prospective users not to buy into the hype around this (or any) open-source cloud computing platform. Gartner Research VP Lydia Leong suggests that prospective users proceed with ...

GigaOM

3 ways to improve cloud performance
InfoWorld (blog)
Performance issues hold back some cloud computing efforts. This happens because many of those who stand up cloud-based applications did not account for the latency systemic to many cloud-based systems. For the most part, these performance issues are ...

Change.org: 20M users but not a single server
GigaOM
The online social networking platform for promoting social change handles more than 20 million users, but has a tiny in-house IT footprint thanks to its use of cloud servicesfrom Amazon and Rackspace. The key thing, says infrastructure manager Kyle ...

GigaOM

Microsoft Azure Aims To Streamline Cloud Pricing
CRN
While most cloud services are priced on services used, such as storage, RAM and CPU, Microsoft Azure's offering is based on monthly commitment and on the amount of money the user agrees to spend. For example, users committing to spend $500 to ...

Big Data and Cloud: Delivering Value from Day One
Wired (blog)
Harnessing this data can be invaluable to providers of cloud services – but there are few technologies that can gracefully handle the volume, variety and velocity of machine data in the cloudin a timely manner to make it truly useful. One pre ...

Cloud Computing Is Making A Leap In Space Technology
CloudTweaks News
The most recent example of how cloud computing is changing the outlook of far-flung science for ordinary mortals is the Mars Rover project. It is now possible to create forums that can follow the exploits of the space probe vehicle on its maiden career ...

IBM Launches Global Initiatives to Help Managed Service Providers Capture ...
R & D Magazine
As more clients embrace cloud computing, they are looking to local technology providers known as Managed Service Providers (MSP) to help them quickly develop cloud based services in a more simplistic, secure and economical way. ... Access to Global ...

Cloud computing removes the digital divide
Global Telecoms Business
... infrastructure is heavily invested but poorly used. However, the three layers in the architecture ofcloud computing -- infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service -- correspond well to these three aspects of the ...

Research and Markets: Global - Cloud Computing for Government and Business ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Cloud computing is a vehicle that will allow for government and business transformation. It is especially important for governments, in particular, to abandon silo thinking - in other words, if governments are serious about adopting cloud computing ...

Panel Discussion: Clearing the Fog Around Cloud Computing
FederalNewsRadio.com
28 panel entitled: "Clearing the Fog Around Cloud Computing." From the left are, Kopp; Thomas Bayer, chief information officer at the Securities and Exchange Commission; Mike Parker, deputy chief information officer at Treasury Department; Thomas Bayer ...

Newvem Announces Usage Analytics for Amazon S3
eWeek
The company's cloud analytics platform helps businesses devise how to best use Amazon's S3cloud storage service through metrics and data visibility. Newvem, which provides cloud analytics to Amazon Web Services customers, announced the launch of ...

The Old Law of Cloud Computing
Who's Who Legal
If one was to read the many articles about cloud computing one might come away thinking that personal data is the only dataset sitting in the cloud. This is not true, and we will increasingly seecloud services powering all the computing tasks and ...

How Cloud Computing is Changing Healthcare
Business 2 Community
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services projects that healthcare expenses will reach 19.5% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product by 2017. It's not surprising then that cloud computing is finding its way into the healthcare industry in a big way ...

How to ensure you are getting the right cloud service
ComputerWeekly.com
Examples of these risks include: loss of compliance; business continuity – the recent reported outages of major cloud services show that 100% availability may not be guaranteed; and data security. Cloud services are outside the direct control of the ...

How To Counter Threats Of Cloud Computing
CloudTimes
Security logo How To Counter Threats Of Cloud Computing Phishing is a popular scam to bait internet users into providing private information. It usually acquires information for the purpose of identity theft. A “phisher” usually sends emails to various ...

Three questions that can make any open source cloud vendor squirm
TechTarget
The term "open cloud" isn't just a new, subordinate cloud computing buzzword, it's fast becoming a religion. So, at which church do you pray -- the church of OpenStack, the church of CloudStack, the church of Eucalyptus or do you attend services at the ...

Cloud's a highway, but I hit some speed bumps on the post-PC road
BetaNews
So while I applaud Joe's boldness in fully embracing cloud computing, I know that at least some offline capability will remain a bottom-line requirement for me. Have I fallen off the post-PC bandwagon? Hardly. I still value the raw mobility of the ...

BetaNews

Perimeter E-Security Announces Cloud Mobile Device Management
Manufacturing Business Technology
Milford, CT – Perimeter E-Security, the leading provider of secure cloud services, today announced that it has added Mobile Device Management (MDM) technology to its broad portfolio of secure messaging and network security services. With Perimeter's ...

Top 5 Cloud Computing Trends Of The Future
CloudTweaks News
Businesses are using cloud computing (both private and public) to supplement their internal infrastructure and applications. Experts predict that these services will optimize business process performance. The adoption of cloud services is a new ...

More firms look to the cloud
Financial Times
Cloud computing enables users to access information stored remotely over the internet. Supporters claim that the technology not only gives people the flexibility to access information whenever they are at a computer, but can enable small companies to ...

Officials Discuss Cybernet Transformation Efforts
Department of Defense
28, 2012 – Defense officials gathered at the National Press Club yesterday discussed DOD efforts to transform its cyber operations into cloud computing technology that's envisioned to provide added agility, security and cost effectiveness. Robert J ...

Photobucket and Free Cloud Storage!!= What do you Choose?
The Sudbury Star
Photobucket and Free Cloud Storage!!. and this is a different media because Photobucket more focused on photo sharing, and while Cloud Storage as Hard Drive online to backup your photo files from computer virus attacks. Cloud Storage Online have many ...

The Sudbury Star

Regulators pull their head out of the cloud
SC Magazine UK
In the former's case it was about ensuring understanding and giving clarity, as well as harnessing financial benefits, while the ICO's guidance is about reminding businesses of their responsibilities towards personal data as more look to cloud ...

ESADE Law School professor warns of cloud computing security ...
Despite the uncertainties surrounding the subject, Professor Ramon Miralles had the following to say, "Cloud computing is both the present and the future; we have to get out there, but not at any price". Professor Miralles is Co-ordinator of ...
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European Union Unveils its Cloud Computing Strategy
By Ignacio M. Llorente
During the last two years I have been reporting about the different consultation events undertaken during the development of the cloud computing strategy. Now, finally, the European Union has just announced a strategy to boost the use of ...
Cloud Strategy and Innovation

HP Blogs - Service technology, Oracle OpenWorld, Cloud Comput ...
By HP_ES
My “3 compelling business reasons” series looked at creating business cases for cloud computing, mobility and big data solutions with a focus on the real business reasons for adoption. This brings me to my next topic: Security. Rogers Communications solves ... From managing the chaos of big data to driving business improvement – we have exciting cloud services and solutions you'll want to hear about. Be sure to visit the HP booth to learn more! Everyone's Tags: Finance and ...
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NASDAQ Launches Cloud Computing App - Zacks.com
By Zacks Equity Research
On Tuesday, NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ - Analyst Report) announced the launch of an Amazon Web Services-powered cloud computing platform – FinQloud. The platform has been created to assist the financial services industry in ...
Zacks Investment Research - All...

Protect Your Data With a Personal Cloud
By Fran Berkman
The Personal Cloud. Sharing is at the heart of cloud computing. Cloud services provide smart and easy-to-use channels to selectively make files available to friends, family and colleagues. On the downside, security and privacy are serious ...
Mashable!

Can you reccomend a good cloud storage where... - Renoise Forums
Hi guys, I am looking for a good cloud storage where I can have 1 or 2 gigabytes free.. + have password protected share, for free. I know box.com ...
Renoise Forum

Cloud Computing at the NCI 
By Latest News
A new cloud computing centre has been opened here in the city this afternoon. The facility is based at the National College of Ireland in the IFSC as part of their school of computing. It's been funded by businessman Denis O'Brien and has ...
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Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe ...
By John Casaretto
The opportunity to jump in to cloud services at this point is a reaction to the unleashed potential ofcloud services within Europe and an unfulfilled need for standards. With no existing standards and clear contracts that guide cloud computing ...
ServicesANGLE

Samsung Shows Us Just How Power Hungry the Cloud is in New ...
By Megan Treacy
Samsung/via. Samsung Semiconductor has created an infographic called "Clean the Cloud" that breaks down the numbers on just how fast cloud computing is growing and the data centers that power those operations are growing along with it ...
Latest Items from TreeHugger

CSA, ISACA Study Finds Government Regulation Tops List of ...
Aside from issues around government involvement, having an exit strategy is also a major concern for enterprises looking at cloud services. For this reason, a lot of cloud platforms claim to prevent vendor lock-in by enabling users to move ...
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EU chalks out cloud computing strategy - Computer Business Review
Implementation of cloud computing to generate €160bn for EU economy by 2020.
CBR - News

Cloud Recap: NY Times vs Wired, IOPS for Amazon RDS, Nasdaq ...
By Travis Balinas
Cloud computing can mean many different things depending on whom you speak with and what their experience has been thus far with the cloud…It's a fast-growing segment…worldwide revenues fromcloud services are expected to reach ...
Transforming IT Operations

Cloud Services Market to Top $109 Billion in 2012: Gartner
Cloud / Cloud Services Market to Top $109B in 2012: Gartner. right ... The worldwide cloud services market shows no sign of slowing down, with IT research firm ...
www.eweek.com/.../cloud-services-market-to-top-109b-in-201...

European Cloud Computing Strategy - European Commission
European Cloud Computing. ... Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe - [pdf 105KB]. Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe ...
ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/.../index_en.htm

Red Hat | Public Cloud Storage Meets Enterprise Levels-of-Service ...
Public Cloud Storage Meets Enterprise Levels-of-Service with Red Hat Storage. September 26, 2012. Red Hat Storage Team. With the rise of cloud computing ...
www.redhat.com/.../public-cloud-storage-meets-enterprise-lev...

Cloud computing companies seek FedRAMP reviews - Federal Times
Industry participation is higher than expected in a new program that assesses the security of companies' cloud-computing products and services.
www.federaltimes.com/.../Cloud-computing-companies-seek-F...

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HP Offers 'Test The Cloud' Packages

HP Offers 'Test The Cloud' Packages
InformationWeek
"The client service engineer (assigned to each proof-of-concept customer) acts as a subject-matter expert with that customer," said Patricia Wilkey, global director, cloud services, a unit of HP Enterprise Services. If the customer wants to run a ...

Cloud computing? You still can't dodge data protection rules
ZDNet
As cloud computing slowly moves into the mainstream, more and more personal data is being moved out of companies' own datacentres and into the cloud, which means the data could potentially reside on servers anywhere on the planet. But the UK has ...

Gaming In The Cloud Is Great News For Players, If The Industry Can Keep Up
Fast Company
When you're streaming and playing from the cloud, you don't need to wait months or years on a lead time for the newest version of a game--it's simply expected that asdevelopers make improvements, you'll see those updates reflected in your gamesmuch ...

Fast Company

EU to Urge Cloud Computing for Government Agencies
Businessweek
European Union regulators will urge government agencies in the EU to use cloud-computingservices to reduce costs, according to a European Commission strategy for cloud computingpublished today. Public agencies in the EU, the bloc's biggest buyer of ...

Taxman signs up for cloud storage over PSN
ZDNet
The deal, signed via the CloudStore - the online marketplace that allows public sector organisation to buy cloud services from suppliers on the G-Cloud framework – will see the taxman move from local storage to cloud storage. The shift will begin this ...

ProfitBricks Partners with MassChallenge, Provides Second Generation Cloud ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
BOSTON — ProfitBricks, the cloud computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider that has completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, announced today a partnership with MassChallenge, the largest-ever startup-accelerator, and the ...

Facebook gets involved with cloud storage via Dropbox integration
ZDNet (blog)
Facebook gets involved with cloud storage via Dropbox integration. Summary: Now even Facebook is jumping into the cloud storage game thanks to Dropbox, and it could present an interesting challenge in the enterprise space. Rachel King. By Rachel King ...

10 issues that erode cloud confidence
BetaNews
Cloud computing is finally beginning to mature to the point where it's an attractive proposition for an increasing number of enterprises and small businesses, but even so many firms are still very hesitant to make the move online. ... As cloud services ...

BetaNews

RightScale gets your cloud ready for the holidays
GigaOM
The beauty of cloud computing is that it can scale up and down as needed. This is particularly helpful for retail businesses, which see huge spikes and valleys in demand during the holidays. Now RightScale says it can help them more proactively manage ...

GigaOM

Visionary pushing Canada toward cloud, identity future
ZDNet
The Canadian government plans to release a digital economy strategy by the end of the year, and one observer is gunning to use the milestone as a trigger for building a cloud computing industry secured by a standards-based identity infrastructure.

Promise Technology Looks to Channel for Hybrid Cloud Storage
TalkinCloud (blog)
For cloud integrators or cloud services providers looking to either deploy hybrid cloud storageenvironments for customers or develop cloud-based services, hybrid cloud storage products like those from Promise Technology can provide big opportunities ...

Analyzing the Cloud with Ben Kepes
Forbes
Ben is considered an authority on the subject of Cloud Computing and cloud was the buzz word this year at DreamForce. As a father and demanded analyst for a number of technology companies across; New Zealand, Australia and the USA, Ben speaks ...

EU eyes a cloud computing heaven
AFP
BRUSSELS — With the cloud computing business still in its relatively early days, the European Union moved on Thursday to secure a toehold in a potentially lucrative market it says could deliver 2.5 million new jobs. "We want to make Europe not just ...

Tier 3 Adds $10M, Led by Intel Capital, to Expand Cloud Services
Xconomy
Cloud-computing service provider Tier 3 has raised another $10 million to expand its IT products for big businesses. The new money first showed up in a filing with the SEC. A company spokeswoman says new investor Intel Capital led the Series B round, ...

Red Hat Pushes For Cloud Storage Maturation
Channelnomics
Everything from web apps to cloud services leverage object-based storage in order to float copious amounts of data through the HTTP protocol. In order to deploy a “modern and agile IT infrastructure,” Red Hat is focused on “data destination ...

IBM Extends Cloud Reach, Takes On Amazon And Salesforce
CMSWire
Only recently Gartner estimated that this year alone, cloud services would be worth roughly US$ 106 billion and that the market would grow over the next four years so that by 2016 its worth would be over US$ 200 billion annually. So it is easy to see ...

Cloud Computing: The Next Step Towards the Future
CloudTweaks News
The initial attempt at cloud computing can be dated even before that, when very few organizations had mainframes, which wer the business computer systems used before personal computers. The cost of acquiring a mainframe and the cost of maintenance was ...

Newvem adds Amazon S3 storage analytics to its roster
GigaOM
As Amazon rolls out more cloud services, like its Glacier archiving capabilities, customers need help deciding where their different data sets should be stored most effectively, said Newvem CEO Zev Laderman. ”Our analytics show what files or objects...
 
GigaOM

Interoute CTO Blasts Cloud Computing Myths
Midsize Insider
There are many myths and misunderstandings about cloud computing, says Ping! Zine. While Gartner predicts a huge increase in takeup of cloud services this year and in the future, others are not so sure. Matthew Finnie, chief technology officer of ...

Startup Stackdriver snags StyleFeeder founder as CTO
GigaOM
Asked why he picked Stackdriver over other suitors, Jacob said that while he loved the cloud computing space, “it's really about the team. These are the people I want to spend time with.” Jacobs will be a member of the company's core engineering team.

Latency matters in a hybrid cloud
CNET
This lesson is highly relevant to cloud computing. By design, a hybrid cloud can be used to abstract away details of underlying physical resources such as their location. Abstraction can be advantageous; we do it in IT all the time as a way to mask ...

Towers Watson Releases Cloud-based Life Insurance Financial Modeling
Insurance Networking News
MoSes Azure takes advantage of security features available in Windows Azure Cloud Services. “MoSes Azure provides a signature example of one of the ways that cloud computing can help insurers address their risk, regulatory and IT cost management ...

Huawei showcases latest cloud computing solutions
China Daily
JAKARTA -- Huawei, China's leading global information and communications technology solutions provider showcased its latest Cloud Computing and Business Support System solutions Wednesday in Jakarta, in a bid to further enhance its commitment to ...

The Opportunity in Packaged Cloud Services – Today at 2pm ET
The VAR Guy
Join Joe Panettieri, editorial director, Nine Lives Media, and his special guests Jaywant Rao, director, Global Alliances, Savvis and Tim FitzGerald, VP, Cloud Solutions Group, Avnet. They will discuss the opportunity for VARs and MSPs in packaged ...

European Union determined to take to the cloud
Vancouver Sun
BRUSSELS -- EU telecoms regulators spelled out on Thursday how they want to accelerate the use of “cloud” computing by public bodies and companies, in the hope of boosting the bloc's GDP by nearly 1 trillion euros through the next eight years. Concerns ...

Cloud Paves the New Silk Road for Kazakhstan in Central Asia
Forbes
When I met with Kazakhstan officials to consult on their G-cloud, it was clear that cloud computing can have an enormous impact to help Kazakhstan modernize its government and diversify its economy. Kazakhstan is the economic crown jewel of Central ...

Oxygen Cloud Has New Take on Cloud Storage
Virtualization Review (blog)
Oxygen Cloud Has New Take on Cloud Storage. There are myriad Web-based storage tools, and the free ones really ain't that bad. The paid ones are even better. For pure backup I use Carbonite, and the $55 a year is little to pay for peace of mind. I ...

Ace Communcations Fly's into Cloud Hosting - with FlexHost
Sacramento Bee
26, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Ace Communications Group, a telecommunications provider headquartered in Southeastern Minnesota, now offers cloud computing through its recently formed Flexhost division. Originally called Phlexnetworks, the service ...

C3 Solutions Adopts Tripwire VIA, Bolsters Customer Partnerships With Security ...
U.S. Politics Today
Tripwire, a leading global provider of IT security solutions, announced today that C3 Solutions, a customized technology solutions provider, has implemented Tripwire® VIA™ to strengthen security and offer customers a safe, compliant cloud computing ...

Why Cloud Computing Is Efficient Computing - Microsoft on the ...
By Jeffrey Meisner
Microsoft On the Issues is the Microsoft blog on technology policy and corporate affairs. On this blog, Microsoft shares thoughts on how the computing revolution can accelerate economic growth by enabling companies and individuals to ...
TechNet Blogs

The Dynamic State Of Cloud Computing Monitoring And Evaluation ...
By cloudtweaks
Monitoring and evaluation in cloud computing are essential processes. They determine whether a company's applications on the cloud are effective, safe, and efficient. They also help eliminate failures in cloud computing's functions, ensuring ...
CloudTweaks

Press Release From the European Commission on Cloud Computing
By Maurice van der Woude
The European Commission's new strategy for “Unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe” outlines actions to deliver a net gain of 2.5 million new European jobs, and an annual boost of EUR 160 billion to EU GDP (around 1%), ... Cloud providers and users are also looking for clearer rules when it comes to the delivery of cloud services, for example regarding the question where legal disputes will be resolved or how to make sure that it will be easy to move data and ...
EuroCloud Europe

Europe Shoots For The Clouds: EC Lays Out New Cloud Strategy To ...
By Ingrid Lunden
Up to now, the European Commission has kept a relatively light position on where it stands withcloud services -- putting more effort into the wider issues like broadband and mobile regulation and ensuring that users all get a fair deal as these ...
TechCrunch

EU cloud computing strategy: Europe must not mist new opportunities
By admin_dzafer
European Conservatives and Reformists group industry spokesman Giles Chichester MEP and civil liberties spokesman Timothy Kirkhope MEP have welcomed proposals published by the European Commission which aim to 'unleash the ...
ECR_en

EU praises cloud computing | Baltic News Network - News from ...
By BNN
Since cloud computing could deliver 2.5 million new jobs, EU is ready to make moves to boost its popularity among businesses and the public sector.
Baltic News Network - News from...

EU Commission Publishes Plan to Drive Business, Government ...
September 27, 2012 -- The European Commission announced on Thursday details regarding its new strategy to use cloud computing technologies to drive European business and government productivity.
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EU to Boost Cloud Adoption
By Guest Blogger
With substantial research revealing that cloud computing can significantly cut costs by up to 20%, and with cloud computing technologies advancing at an impressive rate, the savings and benefits withcloud hosting are only set to increase; hence why ... What is also interesting to note is that Greece, who are embroiled in a severe financial struggle, are showing more interest for cloud services than countries such as Germany, which is one of Greece's biggest European creditors and a ...
Virtual Internet Blog

5 Things That The Private Cloud Is Not | Business Computing World
By Kevin Tea
“The growth of private cloud computing is being driven by the rapid penetration of virtualization and virtualization management, the growth of cloud computing offerings and pressure to deliver IT faster and cheaper,” said Tom Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst at ... However, the majority of private cloud services will evolve to enable hybrid cloud computing, expanding the effective capacity of a private cloud to leverage public cloud services and third-party resources.
Business Computing World

Lockheed Martin Delivers SolaS™ Hybrid Cloud ... - Exec Digital
By WDM Group PR Network
... the availability of the Lockheed Martin SolaS™ Hybrid Cloud Solution. SolaS, or Solution as a Service, represents Lockheed Martin's mission-focused approach to secure cloud computing that combines best-in-industry... ... The solution allows customers the flexibility to use a single storefront to leverage cloud services from the Lockheed Martin SolaS Private and Community clouds and partner public cloud providers. By automating and orchestrating end-to-end services through this ...
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Stepping Into the Cloud: Practice Management Tools - Attorney at ...
By Joan Feldman
... how much of our business we want to put there. Or where to start. Enter Nerino Petro, Diane Ebersole and Bryan Sims, who recently helped demystify cloud computing during a tip-packed session before a big crowd at the Illinois State Bar Association's Annual Solo and Small Firm Conference. ... Once you dip your toe into the cloud, you will likely begin to wonder if cloud servicesmight make sense for other things. The short answer is, well, yes. The bigger question is how far will you ...
Attorney at Work

UK: Information Commissioner's Office issues guidelines to ...
By Dissent
More and more businesses are looking to use cloud computing, with the economies of scale they offer giving access to a range of computer technologies and expertise that would be difficult to afford in-house. But data protection regulator ICO is ... A recent online YouGov survey commissioned by the ICO found that 46 per cent of UK adults online who use cloud storage are concerned about the security of their information in cloud storage. The survey also found that only 39 per cent of ...
Privacy News - PogoWasRight.org

5 Reasons to Attend GigaOM's Structure:Europe Event - The Next Web
By Martin Bryant
GigaOM is bringing its Structure conference to Europe next month, with an event that will explore the evolution of cloud computing. ... 5 reasons to attend GigaOM's Structure:Europe conference on the future of cloud computing. 27th September ...
The Next Web

Railway stairs, IT demand, and cloud services | TechRepublic
Railway stairs, IT demand, and cloud services. By Nick Hardiman. September 27, 2012 ... Thecloud and BYOD are just a replay of the 80's in terms of shadow IT: ...
www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/railway...it.../5803

EU strategy to promote economic growth through cloud computing
Many of us are using 'cloud computing' without even realising it. Web based e mail, Facebook and Spotify all use the technology to store data such as pictures, ...
ec.europa.eu/news/science/120927_en.htm

Hybrid cloud computing | Ubuntu
What is a hybrid cloud? Hybrid cloud computing is an an architectural approach that enables you to combine the best of both the private and public clouds.
www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private-cloud/hybrid-cloud

Tonido Launches Private Cloud Storage alternative to Google Drive for
19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — CodeLathe, the leader in Personal Cloud software and services, today announced Tonido Cloud, a secure, private cloud storage and ...
www.tonido.com/.../tonido-launches-private-cloud-storage-alt...

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5 Ways Cloud Computing is Disrupting Everyone's Job

5 Ways Cloud Computing is Disrupting Everyone's Job
Forbes
Plus, surveys have shown that already, more than one-third of IT budgets are going tocloud computing. It's not uncommon for line-of-business executives to have larger IT budgets than IT department executives. IT executives are not becoming ...

Forbes

Why private cloud services need to be market-priced
ZDNet
That's the gist of Steve Kaplan's latest post on the new ways private cloud servicesneed to be funded. Kaplan, who is VP of data center virtualization for Presidio, says the current financial structure for most data centers is an "anathema to private ...

ZDNet

Cloud Computing Technology - Investment Strategy: IBM, Microsoft, Intel ...
Seeking Alpha
Cloud computing is a pay-per-use consumption and delivery model that enables real-time delivery of configurable computing resources (for example, networks, servers, storage, applications, services). It is a computing model providing web-based software, ...

Debating the Definition of Cloud Computing Platforms
Forbes
Historically, back in those early days of cloud, PaaS was a development paradigm, a way to develop scalable cloud apps. Now many in the cloud computing sector seem to have co-op'ed the term as a deployment architecture or worse. I would argue that ...

Avnet, Amazon Web Services Partner on Cloud Services
TalkinCloud (blog)
Avnet, Amazon Web Services Partner on Cloud Services. by Joe Panettieri on. 9.25.12. Avnet Technology Solutions (NYSE: AVT) and Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) have inked acloud computing partnership to empower VARs, MSPs, ISVs and other channel ...

Hello Cloud Storage, Goodbye Rolodex (and Other Workplace Trends)
CIO
Tablets, cloud storage, flexible working hours, telecommuting, web-based documents, enterprise social networking, casual dress and open workspaces top the list of trends responders think will be common in the workplace five years from now. LinkedIn ...

Cloud Computing and Kyotoism: An Update
Global Warming (blog)
Wouldn't you know it, the day after I review Mark Mills's analyses (in 1999 and 2011) of the digital economy as a key driver of demand growth for coal-fired electric power, I receive an EnergyFactsWeekly in my email box featuring new analysis by Mills ...

Global Warming (blog)

Acronis Nabs Red Hat Exec To Help Boost Cloud Storage Business
CRN
Acronis, a developer of storage software that unifies the protection of data across multiple storage infrastructures and platforms, hired a former Red Hat executive to boost its cloud storagecapabilities. Scott Crenshaw, who until a few days ago ...

BT One: Cloud services to simplify global collaboration
FX-MM
They want solutions such as desktop sharing, unified messaging, video, voice-to-text services and secure cloud storage. The BT One portfolio has now been updated to answer to these demands with a single unified communications framework for devices, ...

The power of IT (it's not all in energy consumption)
GigaOM
Location independence, a key attribute of cloud services, means that processing can be done where power is cheap. Restated, this means that relative prices, which express relative costs of generation plus costs associated with transmission and ...

GigaOM

Fighting FUD: cloud players try to make sense of European data protection laws
GigaOM
Optimists hope that the EU's expected cloud computing recommendations will resolve concerns around diverse data protection laws that slow cloud adoption. Realists hope for the best, but prepare for less. The reality is Europe remains a collection of ...

GigaOM

Cloud naivety and electric car dreams
ZDNet
Some people have a very unrealistic view of where and how the power for these vehicles is going to be generated, and in much the same way there seems to be a widespread lack of understanding about where cloud computing 'comes from'. I've spent more ...

How to encrypt your cloud storage for free
PCWorld
Nobody pays attention to your payroll system unless it's not working. When you're running a small business, it's no small task to please your staffers every payday and satisfy Uncle Sam at tax time. Larger companies employ payroll personnel to ...

$100+ Billion Market for Public Cloud Services
Customer Think (blog)
It's Time B2B Marketing Steps Out of the Box and On to the Cloud—Up, Up and Away! There are no more “ifs” and “buts” or “when”—Cloud for the enterprise is real and the questions now are “how”, “why” and “what”. IDC chief cloud analyst, Frank Gens, ...

Clarifying Cloud
CRN (blog)
Today, the IT solution provider is focused on Technology Services, unified communication and collaboration, cloud computing, product solutions, network systems integration, cyber security, mobility and social media solutions. The $343 million company ...

Access to cloud services goes up for government agencies
Sydney Morning Herald
In its "Cloud Computing Strategic Direction Paper" released in April, 2011, AGIMO said it would investigate a ''storefront'', or a centralised catalogue for agencies to choose from pending the outcome of a parallel data centre strategy. AGIMO first ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Cisco Cultivating Elite Class Of Cloud Partners
CRN
Cisco unveiled the Cloud Channel Program at its 2011 Partner Summit in New Orleans as a way to organize Cisco partners around their potential cloud computing opportunity with the vendor. According to Cisco figures culled from various research reports, ...

Cost-effective ISO27001 and Cloud Computing training package provides core ...
Einnews Portugal
Cost-effective ISO27001 and Cloud Computing training package provides core skills. /EINPresswire.com/ IT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in information security training, has today launched a cost-effective training offer aimed at delegates who need ...

With data centers, web giants have great eco-responsibility
GigaOM
Efficiency is even better for applications running on public clouds such as those provided by Amazon Web Services. Many large cloud providers (including Amazon and Google) take efficient data center design very seriously, and cloud services for virtual...

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GE, NASA examine cloud computing potential for ATM
ATWOnline
Announcing the project, GE said: “Cloud computing will enable airlines and air traffic controllers to perform their tasks by sharing not only real-time information but also data analysis and decision support tools to improve aircraft operations and ...

5 (more) key cloud security issues
CSO
As we're adopting cloud computing, we're more aware of the security concerns it raises than we were of issues created by other large-scale technologies we adopted in the past. This is a wonderful thing! But security nirvana has yet not been achieved.

Norway ends nine-month ban on Google Apps use by city authorities
ITworld.com
However, the decision does not give city authorities carte blanche to use all cloud services, according to the Norwegian Data Protection Commissioner. The use of Google Apps was banned in January by the ... If Google or other international companies ...

Cloud Computing: Connections Matter Free Webinar Sept. 27
Equities.com
The first webinar, Cloud Computing: Connections Matter, focuses on how enterprises and large organizations can secure their connections to the Cloud and other locations. (Logo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080626/LATH527LOGO). "One of the ...

HP Aims Dense ProLiant Systems at Virtualized, Cloud Infrastructures
eWeek
... environments and embracing private and hybrid clouds. Hewlett-Packard is rolling out two new dense ProLiant servers that officials said will enable enterprises grow their virtualized data center environments and continue on their paths to cloud ...

EC's eco-friendly Eurochip cloud computing plan strikes a duff note
V3.co.uk (blog)
... are questions over whether EC-sponsored research can ever keep pace with the rapid cycle of change in the IT industry. The Eurochip website still proudly boasts that its technology will provide the bedrock for partner firm Nokia's Ovi mobile cloud ...

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Lifting the fog on cloud adoption
Sydney Morning Herald
Business by and large has headed for the cloud, but don't act precipitously. THE adoption of cloud computing is running at a brisk pace. A recent Gartner survey found 40 per cent of Australian companies already use cloud services, and only 11 per cent...

Sydney Morning Herald

Sponsor post: Brocade. The leader in cloud-optimized networks
GigaOM
Brocade is the clear leader in cloud-optimized networks and continues to push the boundaries through both industry-leading products and game-changing business solutions. Take the easier path to virtualization. Learn why 90 percent of the Global 1000 ...

Dropbox It Like It's Hot: Integration With Facebook Brings Cloud File Sharing ...
AllFacebook
Cloud storage service Dropbox announced an integration with Facebook that allows users to share files within groups on the social network. Once users link their Dropbox and Facebook accounts, they can share documents, photos, and videos on groups' ...

AllFacebook

nGenx Revamps Cloud Partner Program
Channel Partners
Cloud-services provider nGenx announced Wednesday the launch of its nFinity Partner Program, enabling ISVs, telcos, MSPs and VARs to offer nFinity Desktop, nFinity Cloud and nFinity Apps, which provide access to core line of business and Microsoft ...

Cloud Storage APIs for the next generation Enterprise
By Ajay Ohri
... biggest players in the cloud storage API space- and you may find others. But since the article is aimed at enterprise readers willing to park confidential content on the cloud, this is a list of the biggest cloud storage providers which offer API access. ... Amazon S3 4) Amazon. Amazon s3 API. Amazon remains the overwhelming leader in cloud services for the enterprise even though it is not the cheapest, but they offer a very useful complement to their whole cloud suite. Documentation ...
ProgrammableWeb

IBM Launches Set of Cloud Services for MSPs and SMBs | Web Host ...
A recent study by cloud host Rise showed that migration towards cloud services is growing rapidly with 76 percent of organizations using at least one cloud computing service. The new global cloud services will mostly be directed at the areas ...
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How Small Businesses Can Optimize Their IT Efficiency And Costs ...
By Gregory
Cloud computing services are becoming more popular day by day. As more businesses get onto the platform, the results are different. Some companies complain of lower efficiency and sometimes higher costs in their daily activities. Given that ...
CloudTweaks

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Gatch, CTO of ...
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Cloud Computing: Terracotta Offers Free Real-Time Big Data Access
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ...
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The Editor's Cut: 5 Myths of Cloud Computing
By Rob Chambers
5 Myths of Cloud Computing. Our friends at Interoute have posted a great press release on Total Telecom,"Common cloud myths put to bed" They are attributed to CTO, Matthew Finnie, and include: Myth 1 - Cloud computing isn't right for ...
The Editor's Cut

Rometty to succeed Palmisano as IBM chairman — Cloud - GigaOM
By Barb Darrow
Related. Can HP jumpstart its cloud computing effort? The troubled IT giant is about to tweak itscloud services effort according to a Bloomberg News... HP wants back into the smartphone market it abandoned. HP's CEO Meg Whitman said that ...
GigaOM

IT ecosystem: Who's prepared for the cloud tsunami? | Thoughts on ...
By Loic Simon
The most advanced of them also announce the future availability of their Cloud Services Aggregation Platform. Infrastructure Integrators – CSIs. Infrastructure integrators who serve large customers also practice a sort of Cloud Washing when ...
Thoughts on Cloud Blog

ERS blog » Cloud Computing Standards
By Arindam Dutta
Cloud Computing Standards. September 26th, 2012 by Arindam Dutta. Leave a comment Go to comments. Necessity is the mother of invention – Plato. Gartner's “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2012” predicts that cloud computing will reach a plateau of productivity in 2-5 years' time. The key ... As part of this interface the client will be able to discover the capabilities of thecloud storage offering and use this interface to manage containers and the data that is placed in them.
ERS blog

Putting Partners at the Center of Cisco's Cloud Strategy ... - Cisco Blog
By Alexandra Krasne
The worldwide cloud services market will likely surpass US$109 billion in 2012. What's more, thecloud services market is a high-growth sector within the overall IT marketplace, a recent Gartner report says. No shock there! So what are you ...
Cisco Blog

MediaFire releases iPhone app with access to cloud storage
By George Tinari
MediaFire released a highly anticipated iPhone app for the first time today that will allow its over 150 million monthly users to access their files stored in the cloud on their iPhone or iPod touch. What's nice about it is that you can download it ...
IntoMobile

DeMistifying the Cloud | BriteCore® Insurance Processing System
By Chastin Howerton - Documentation Specialist
Two of the most dynamic advancements in technology in the last several years have been cloud computing and the virtually unlimited access to information through the Internet. Just as the assembly line hurtled our country forward in the ...
BriteCore® Insurance Processing System

Cloud Services Bring Benefits Of BPM | Business Computing World
By Martyn Christian
Cloud Services Bring Benefits Of BPM. By Martyn Christian, in Cloud September 26, 2012. Business process management (BPM) used to be something that was seemingly out of reach for SMEs – and deemed only affordable and achievable ...
Business Computing World

The Coming of Third-Generation Cloud Computing
While cloud computing has much to offer in terms of simplifying IT administration, there is still a long way to go before reaching nirvana.
www.itbusinessedge.com/.../the-coming-of-third-generation-cl...

[Research] Data on Nonprofit Cloud Computing: Anywhere, Anytime ...
Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was ...
www.bethkanter.org/cloudnp/

Companies » OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software
Companies Supporting The OpenStack Foundation. The OpenStack Foundation would not exist without the support of the Platinum and Gold Members and ...
www.openstack.org/foundation/companies/

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