Friday, September 21, 2012

7 Cloud Facts You Can’t Afford to Ignore

Google Enterprise Recap: 7 Cloud Facts You Can’t Afford to Ignore

1. Consumer technology is beating business technology (http://goo.gl/LV392)

2. The cloud gives you access to infinite compute power (http://goo.gl/JiJNz)

3. Mobile technology is accelerating and advancing rapidly (http://goo.gl/vU3lE)

4. Social technologies are transforming businesses (http://goo.gl/7rkyN)

5. The physical world is being recreated virtually (http://goo.gl/RqWep)

6. “Faux clouds” confuse the marketplace (http://goo.gl/wZYPP)

7. The cloud revolutionizes IT procurement & budgeting (http://goo.gl/8Y3bo)

Tonido Launches Private Cloud Storage System
CIO Today
... easy-to-use solution that delivers anywhere, any-device access to corporate data. Tonido Cloud enables this objective at 1/4(th) cost of Public Cloud storage/sync services like Dropbox Teams, while providing complete control and visibility of ...

CIO Today

Cloud Services Market Expanding to $109 Billion in 2012
Maximum PC
Cloud It wasn't too terribly long ago that "cloud computing" was a loosey-goosey marketing term being thrown around by anyone and everyone in the software space. And now? There's been a marked shift towards cloud-based services, which is a market that ...

Maximum PC

Lenovo Expands Cloud Storage Biz with Stoneware Acquisition
Tom's Hardware Guide
"Adding Stoneware cloud computing into the Lenovo line up presents a significant opportunity to leverage their success, and enhance our PC Plus offerings, all to the benefit of our customers," said Peter Hortensius, senior vice president, and president ...

Will OpenStack Usher in a Cloud Revolution?
Datamation
If you're already tired of all the hype surrounding cloud computing, you'd better brace yourself for another cycle focused on OpenStack, the open-source cloud platform that's touted as the operating system for the cloud. The forces aligning behind ...

ViaWest Selects A10 Networks aCloud for Cloud Services Deployment to its ...
Sacramento Bee
19, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- A10 Networks™, the technology leader in Application Networking, today announced that ViaWest, one of the largest privately-held data center, cloud computing and managed services providers in North America, has standardized ...

Cloud Computing: from hype to reality
ITProPortal
For many of us in the IT industry there is a certain feeling that cloud computing is finally taking a grip on UK businesses, more companies seem to be taking the plunge into the cloud and putting a greater number of applications into the cloud. But how ...

Salesforce.com targets cloud storage market
ComputerworldUK
Salesforce.com, the software as a service (SaaS) giant, has jumped into the public cloud storagemarket with what could be an eye toward one vendor in particular: Box. At the company's annual Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, CEO Marc ...

Apply Today For TechStars Cloud 2013
Business Insider
This is the second year that TechStars is running a thematic accelerator in Texas focused just oncloud computing. At Foundry Group, we believe in thematic investing both as a way to organize and filter the massive number of opportunities to look at ...

APAC SMB cloud market to hit $19.8B
ZDNet
Cloud services in the report were broadly categorized as hosted infrastructure, Web presence, hosted communication and collaboration, and online business applications. Each of these cloudservice categories will see a spike in market value between 2012 ...

Enterprise Dropbox Envy: Nasuni Rolls Out Mobile Cloud Storage Option
NetworkComputing.com
September 20, 2012. Just as jelly is to peanut butter, consumerized cloud storage options like Dropbox are to mobility. ... Dropbox is but one of the public cloud-based storage options that enterprise users are bringing to work, of course. But the ...

Taco Cloud Truly Is The Future Of Computing
WebProNews
Thankfully, somebody has heard that call and has come up with the perfect solution to get America invested in Cloud computing. Say hello to ... You have a service that can transfer large files that were impossible to send over email thanks to Cloud ...

Do Telcos Have Klout in Cloud?
Wireless Week
Cloud computing can play an important role in lowering costs for telecom operators and make them more nimble and agile. But the jury is still out whether telcos can compete in the cloud servicesmarket. Yet, with traditional revenue streams like voice, ...

Cloud Computing For The Telecommuter
CloudTweaks News
Working from home is a more cost effective, efficient, and easy option. That is why many companies have adopted it fully or partially. Cloud computing helps telecommuting to be effective because there are so many applications hosted online you can use ...

Do you really want your CMO in charge of IT?
GigaOM
But the truth is, more spending is devoted to off-premises “cloud” services, including software as a service (SaaS). And in that case, it makes sense for the manager of a given department to help choose which services are used. And that, clearly, is ...

GigaOM

Study: Cloud Services Could Save Feds Billions
Government Technology
Early adopters of the cloud in federal government are showing benefits to the move, according to a new study by Meritalk. The study, titled Mission-Critical Cloud: Ready for the Heavy Lift?, hypothesized that the federal government could save $16.6 ...

Government Technology

GigaMedia's New Cloud Business to Launch in March 2013 -- Platform ...
Sacramento Bee
20, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- GigaMedia Limited (NASDAQ: GIGM) today provided more details on its new cloud computing business, GigaCloud, and announced launch is planned for March 2013. GigaCloud provides a unique, integrated platform of critical ...

Amazon's Bigger, Faster, Better Superhighway to the Cloud
E-Commerce Times
Amazon was the first to recognize the potential market that we now call cloud services. ... One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your ...

Private Cloud Computing: What It's Not and Why It Matters
Midsize Insider
The private cloud is many things, say its champions: a way to move data off a local server stack but still retain the benefits of being "alone"; a way to reduce costs and a way to improve agility. But amid all that this subset of cloud technology does ...

HP installs UK cloud overlord to get its cumulus in one sock
Register
HP has hoisted Business Critical Server boss Michael Clifford into a newly created role intended to join-up its cloud services portfolio. Businesses are gradually ... HP estimates cloud computing will be worth £143bn worldwide by 2013. Wilson said ...

Asciano travels to the cloud with Fujitsu
ZDNet
Asciano is taking on the complete suite of enterprise cloud services offered by the service provider, including desktop infrastructure, messaging, collaboration, unified communications, and database services. Fujitsu will also be providing consulting ...

Joyent Tools Cut Data Center Power Consumption
InformationWeek
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Cloud Security Debate Turns Spurious
DABCC.com
Just about every survey lists security as the number one reason that IT organizations are hesitant to embrace cloud computing. But what most of those surveys fail to recognize is that most internal IT organizations are not all that good at IT security ...

New Generation of Kognitio Fully Harnesses Power of External Big Data ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Kognitio, driving the convergence of Big Data, in-memory analytics and cloud computing, today announced the release of version 8.0p with extended connectivity capabilities. The company said the new version of its flagship software makes it possible for ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Prepare to invest billions in the cloud, EU warns businesses
EUobserver.com
Meanwhile, last month a paper by the International Data Corporation estimated that total revenue from public IT cloud services exceeded €17bn ($21.5 billion) in 2010 and will reach €58bn ($72.9 billion) in 2015. The Commission regards cloud computing ...

The Morning Download: Big Data and the Cloud Transform HR
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Ahead of the Tape's Spencer Jakab says the company's “technological bête noire” has been companies harnessing cloud computing for database applications – Oracle's most lucrative business line by far is servicing existing traditional database customers.

Wall Street Journal (blog)

First-time users 'driving cloud computing growth'
ashdowngroup.com
First-time users 'driving cloud computing growth' Over the last few years, the way many businesses and organisations access IT services and infrastructure has completely changed. Rather than purchase hardware and software directly from a manufacturer ...

NJVC opens up one-stop marketplace for cloud services -- Government ...
Forbes
Currently, I'm General Manager, Cloud Services for NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Before this, I served in senior management positions with various companies ...

European companies should gird for big cloud spending — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
The Brussels-based publication cited as its source a leaked copy of an upcoming European Commission report on cloud computing strategy commissioned by EC VP Neelie Kroes. The money quote (so to speak): Governments and industry ...
GigaOM

Cloud Storage Vendor Scality Releases CDMI Server Dewpoint ...
September 20, 2012 -- Organic cloud storage provider Scality announced on Tuesday that it has launched Dewpoint, its Cloud Management Data Interface server. According to Scality ... Related Topics: cdmi, cdmi server, cloud computing, scality , software and tools, storage, Storage Networking Industry Association. Organic cloud ... Related posts: Cloud Brokerage Ingram Micro to Sell Netmagic Cloud Services · The Open Group Publishes Standards for SOA and Cloud Computing...
theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Pavlovsky, Product ...
By candicearnold
Sramana Mitra: Fair enough. And the second use case? Steve Pavlovsky: Multiple people working on the same application. SM: What's new about that? What's new in the work flow? SP: There are a couple of things that are new. We believe ...
Sramana Mitra

Cloud term | Rickscloud
By Rick Blaisdell
According to a national survey recently carried out by Wakefield Research, 51% of respondents believe that cloud computing is related to the weather. ... half (51%) of respondents believe that cloud computing is related to the weather. This might be seen as somewhat paradoxical, because it was discovered that 97% were actually using cloud services. The survey was carried out through e-mail invitation and online survey during the August 2012 and it included 1000 American adults.
Rickscloud

Cloud Innovation – Hot Topics – Cloud Computing Best Practices
By Neil McEvoy
Telco Cloud Services: The role Telcos will play in delivering next generation Cloud services: IPv6: Platform for the X Internet; SIP & SAML: Integrating social media with unified comms through Identity 2.0; Identity 2.0 – Achieving Mobile ...
Cloud Computing Best Practices

Project 1709 – Canon Starts Cloud Storage (and sharing) Service ...
By Admin
On September 17th Canon announced it will start a cloud storage solution that let you upload, organize and share your precious pics. It's beta for the time being, and only on invite. Strong integration with Facebook. Consumers interested in the ...
CanonWatch

Cloud Computing: Wal-Mart Banishes Kindles from Its Stores | SOA ...
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 ... Cloud Storage: Myths and Realities. POWER PANELS: ...
Latest News from SOA World Magazine

Public cloud market to reach $109 billion this year, analysts say ...
By CopperEgg
This trend was highlighted in a new report by Gartner. Analysts forecast the overall public cloud computing market to grow nearly 20 percent in 2012 and generate approximately $109 billion in revenue. While the many different aspects of the ...
CopperEgg

Growing Cloud Computing Opportunities | SADA Says | Cloud ...
By meredith.tiras
Meredith Tiras I told you back in July that SADA Systems is expanding into 3000 additional square feet – we're thrilled that it's almost here! Earlier this week, our we shared a glimpse into the new space (if you missed it, check it out here). We're ...
SADA Says | Cloud Computing Blog

Eight Ways to Mitigate Operational Risk in the Cloud for Financial ...
By Patty Hines
Rod outlined the business problem arising from cloud services in financial services because of a lack of controls, informational insight and process transparency. Rod also discussed that although cloud computing increases risk, it also ...
All About B2B

CIO's Guide to Cloud Computing and On-Demand
By Appirio
If you're in enterprise technology, the Dreamforce keynote is an event you look forward to all year. Over the past year, Salesforce has really embraced the notion of social as core to every one of their applications, from sales to service to ...
CIO's Guide to Cloud Computing...

Nebulous 'cloud computing' term baffles most Americans - GeekWire
Geeks like us hear the words "cloud computing" almost every day, using it ourselves to explain a host of different online-based services. But how do folks in the ...
www.geekwire.com/.../clouds-survey-cloud-computing-fluffy-...

Is cloud computing fast enough?
Remember, the public cloud computing model relies on connection to an ... question is also made easier if we know exactly what the cloud services a firm buys ...
blogs.avg.com/business/cloud-computing-fast-enough/

Riverbed Introduces New Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateway ...
Whitewater appliances running WWOS 2.0 will enable enterprises to better leverage cloud storageto meet their critical backup requirements, modernize their ...
www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press.../press_091012

Scalability in Cloud Computing - Web2, Cloud Computing, Social ...
scalability The manoeuvre from physical to virtual servers makes a real economic sense by casting aside physical hardware; additionally it also makes a ...
www.web2andmore.net/2012/.../scalability-in-cloud-computin...

Cisco Announces New Cloud Services, but Is Anyone Listening ...
The Motley Fool - Last month's cloud computing partnership is just one of many for the ... Cisco Announces New Cloud Services, but Is Anyone Listening?
www.fool.com/.../cisco-announces-new-cloud-services-but-is-...

NetApp - Cloud Storage Webcasts - Cloud - Data Storage Solutions
Get informed. Listen to industry thought leaders discuss the latest news, trends, and tips for cloud computing. Sign up for our free Webcast Cloud Storage series.
www.netapp.com/us/solutions/.../cloud-storage-webcast.html

Newsroom - Calendar - Commission adopts its Cloud Computing ...
Cloud computing is promising a revolution in technology of a similar scale to ... of private industry and public sector users to shape demand for Cloud services in ...
europa.eu/.../commission-adopts-its-cloud-computing-strategy



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