OfficeDrop Sync brings another cloud storage option to Mac

OfficeDrop Sync brings another cloud storage option to Mac
tuaw.com
Originally launched as a means to snap and store searchable photos of office-related documents in the cloud, OfficeDrop has graduated to a fully fledged cloud storage option for any type of file with the introduction of OfficeDrop Sync for Mac. The ...

Will EU policy smother the cloud?
ZDNet
People in the tech industry generally prefer not to get caught up in politics, but it's now becoming vitally important to do so, especially if your business is in any way connected to cloud computingin any European market. Read on for the back story ...

I answered the CEO with just two words: 'The Cloud'
Computerworld (blog)
Given the business strategy, and the IT capabilities required to enable that strategy, deciding on acloud computing strategy might appear straightforward. On the other hand, the lack of broad experience among IT staff generally, and cloud computing ...

Cloud: What an Enterprise Must Know
Data Center Knowledge
The term “cloud computing” can have many different meanings to various organizations. IT executives are beginning to widely adopt the technology, even though there is still some confusion of the technology. Cloud computing isn't just one component or ...

TwinStrata and Google to Host "Beyond Disaster Recovery: Integrating Cloud ...
Sacramento Bee
NATICK, Mass., Oct. 30, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- TwinStrata, Inc., the leading innovator of cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that it is co-hosting a seminar with Google that features joint customers who ...

Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will ...
Network World
The conference, attended by some 9,000 executives focused on the changes security challenges, mobile computing, big data and cloud will be bringing to IT in the near future. Trying to get through it all can be daunting so we've tried to simplify that ...

Nasuni scores $20M to build out storage sales effort
GigaOM
Nasuni, which helps distributed companies manage their cloud storage securely, has $20 million in a new funding round — led by a mystery investor — to help it pay for new features and expand sales and marketing, said CEO Andres Rodriguez. Nasuni CEO...

GigaOM

Success in the Cloud: Tips for Effective Partner Offerings
The VAR Guy
Forward-looking CIOs are deploying cloud computing as a strategic weapon—not just for IT, but to enable full business transformation, eventually changing how they operate their business. Cost reduction. The public cloud makes it possible to spend less ...

Cloud bridges, gateways and brokers for external cloud deployment
Network World
Originally used as an inexpensive alternative to quickly deploy services outside the realm of IT, cloud computing is quickly becoming a de facto standard for new application resources. The challenge is how to manage those resources transparently. The ...

Nirvanix Moving Cloud Storage Customer Data Away from ...
By Liam Eagle
October 29, 2012 -- Cloud storage solution provider Nirvanix reported on Monday that it has launched a “Disaster Avoidance Program” to move customer data away from its Node 4 data center in New Jersey, in anticipation of the “Frankenstorm” expected as Hurricane... ... While the threat to the region is serious, the storm may also be a proof of certain properties of cloud services. Most notable in this case is the portability of the service – that it isn't tied to a particular geographic location ...
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Sandy takes out Gawker, Huffpo and other sites — Cloud Computing ...
By Barb Darrow
Hurricane Sandy's impact made itself felt on major media properties including the Huffington Post, Gawker, and Buzzfeed. All of those sites reported outages around 7 p.m. EDT.
GigaOM

Storage Gateway upgraded as Amazon moves it out of beta phase ...
By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs)
RSS Feed Cloud Computing ... generally available. The Storage Gateway is a software appliance that integrates local and cloud storage and can be used for file sharing, backup and disaster recovery. ...CIOs frustrated by 'fake' cloud services ...
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Dimension Data launches cloud services in Namibia
By Staff Writer
Dimension Data today launched cloud services in Namibia. Private organisations, service providers and governments around the world are fast engaging the concept of cloud computing and how African organisations are taking advantage of ...
IT News Africa news alert

D-Link Cloud Storage 2000 2-Bay NAS Announced - Storage Reviews
D-Link adds to its portfolio of cloud-enabled NAS products by announcing the ShareCenter 2-BayCloud Storage 2000 (DNS-320L), which offers a centralized ...
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Amazon cloud sales chief sued for going Google

Amazon cloud sales chief sued for going Google
CNET
According to Powers' LinkedIn profile and the lawsuit, he worked at IBM for two decades before taking over its cloud computing sales division for North America. After just five months at that position, he left IBM. After a six-month hiatus, he joined ...

Amazon suit shows Google as public cloud threat — Cloud - GigaOM
By Barb Darrow
At just a few months old, Google Compute Engine is seen as a threat to public cloud leader Amazon Web Services. At least that appears to be what Amazon thinks given its lawsuit against a former exec who is joining Google.
GigaOM

VMware Revenues Show Cloud Worries
InformationWeek
VMware's goal both here and abroad, however, is to participate in two of the fastest growing software markets in the world, data center virtualization and cloud computing. VMware doesn't separate revenues by product lines, so it's not possible to say ...

GreenQloud, Xeround Partner to Boost Cloud Storage Sustainability
eWeek
Cloud computing and data storage specialist GreenQloud and database software developer Xeround announced a partnership to run their zero-management clouddatabase solution for MySQL applications on GreenQloud's 100 percent renewable energy-powered ...

eWeek

Hurricane Sandy path kills events by Google, Facebook, WSJ (update)
Computerworld (blog)
Also, how much do our cloud-computing needs rely on that part of the county? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers hunker down and hope for the best for ... And we all rely on the cloud services they provide. ... The servers, housed largely in...high-intensity ...

Larry Ellison Gives Four Reasons to Love the Oracle Cloud
Forbes
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison believes cloud computing is rapidly gaining favor among businesses for a variety of reasons, but at or near the top of any such list of reasons are flexibility in consumption, the simplification of IT infrastructures and ...

A Dividend Payer Set To Take Control Of Cloud Computing Services
Seeking Alpha
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, but may initiate a long position in KEYN over the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha).

NAMA Boosts Operations With Cloud Computing
AllAfrica.com
Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has said that its recent deployment of Windows Server 2012, has improved the agencies services as well as led to the reduction of its Information Technology costs. The Chief Information Officer, (CIO) of NAMA, ...

Can MSPs Predict Cloud Outages? (Increasingly Yes; Here's How)
MSPmentor (blog)
Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine both suffered cloud services outages in recent days. MSPs, meanwhile, are striving to offer cloud monitoring services. But can managed services providers actually predict a third-party cloud outage — and put ...

“Fake” cloud services cause business concerns
ChannelBiz
The cloud hosting provider said this view was supported by the fact that 67 percent of respondents had been offered 'cloud' services that are fixed term, 40 percent had been offered services that weren't elastic or scalable and 32 percent had found ...

ChannelBiz

OneAccess Networks Introduces OneOptimization to Improve Cloud Service ...
Sacramento Bee
OneOptimization is another proof point of OneAccess' commitment to lead the evolution of the multi-service router (MSR) from a Layer 3 centric network element to a cloud-based application delivery solution. According to OneAccess, the key to this ...

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Cloud's Outlook For 2020

Cloud's Outlook For 2020 | Innovation

So what will cloud computing look like eight or ten years down the road? ... The first three wayscloud computing is changing in the future relate to software.
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Where is cloud computing heading in 2013?
PCWorld
Analysts have predicted a trend towards moving IT from on-premise to off-premise, newcloud applications and an increase in spending on cloud services next year. IDC head of research Matthew Oostveen said with cloud computing maturing this year, more ...

PCWorld

This week in cloud: Big outages, OpenNebula updates, Yottabyte debuts
GigaOM
photo: Flickr / karindalziel. Last week's cloud computing news was highlighted — if that's the right word — by major outages affecting Amazon Web Services on Monday and Tuesday and other snafus with Google App Engine, Dropbox and Tumblr on Friday.

GigaOM

How Green is Cloud Computing? – New Study
CloudTimes
“There are many reasons for moving to cloud computing, but a company choosing to do so for pure energy-efficiency reasons need to look closely at their whole IT set up as well as those of third-party offerings,” WSP director David Symons said. “Not all ...

Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson
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 ...

The Cloud: What's in it For You?
CloudTimes (blog)
Due to the popularity of cloud computing, you'll see a lot of large companies from other IT related sectors now staking their claim on the rapidly growing cloud market, but don't always assume that you'll be better off with a certain provider just ...

CloudTimes (blog)

CLU to host breakfast Nov. 6
Ventura County Star
Woody Rollins, an entrepreneur in the business of cloud computing, will discuss "Better Business in the Cloud" during the event slated from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. Rollins is co-founder and CEO of the ...

Cisco: Cloud computing to reach 4.3ZB in 5 years | Mobile ...
cloud computing, Cisco, report, cloud. ... From a business cloud servicesperspective, many ...
www.rcrwireless.com/.../cisco-the-explosive-growth-cloud-co...

Can the cloud withstand a "perfect storm'?
GCN.com (blog)
Cloud computing providers such as Amazon Web Services are facing another test of reliability as Hurricane Sandy moves up the East Coast toward a date with two other significant weather systems. Weather forecasters are predicting a strong, wide, slow ...

Free Cloud Services for Small Businesses
CloudTimes (blog)
DropBox. One of the key success stories related to cloud storage. DropBox offers a private file sharing solution that is free and easy to use. Instead of trading files back and forth via email (or worse, via physical discs and mail), you can use DropBox.

CloudTimes (blog)

For state CIOs, cloud moving into the mainstream
GCN.com
Cloud computing is moving from being viewed as an innovation on the edges to being widely accepted among state CIOs as they focus on moving and managing services such as e-mail and storage to the cloud. State CIOs are now gearing up for the ...

The US Patriot Act and cloud computing: trick or treat?
Cloud Pro
However, it would appear that many enterprises are scared enough of the looming threat of someone in an Uncle Sam mask demanding 'I want your data' to either avoid cloud storage altogether or rule out what might otherwise prove to be more economical ...

Google puts App Engine back online
GigaOM
It's a bad week to stop sniffing glue -- and to run big cloud services. Google App... Hacking hardware isn't just cool — it's also good business ... switches and data centers, it's more... See More Related Stories For: Cloud Computing / Dropbox ...

GigaOM

Search local inventory, coupons and more
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Rocela's Cloud services consider all aspects of the shift to Cloud Technologies; license impact to on-going software asset management; impact on underlying hardware and application performance to remote application management. Marie-Helene ... As cloud ...

HP's cloud CTO: 'It's time for CIOs to embrace opportunities of the cloud'
Siliconrepublic.com
Instead of resisting change and viewing cloud computing trends as a threat, CIOs need to start building services for their organisations and focus on protecting their organisations' data, Christian Verstraete, the CTO of Hewlett-Packard's Cloud ...

Siliconrepublic.com

Weekly Roundup: How State Tax Departments Are Classifying Cloud Computing ...
Bloomberg BNA
“Cloud computing vendors and users should expect state sales and use tax treatment of cloud computing to continue to change and evolve, but clarity and uniformity may not be achievable in the near term,” says Scott D. Smith with Baker, Donelson ...

VIDEO: Dreamhost CEO Simon Anderson on the Cloud
InternetNews.com
Anderson said that Dreamhost was starting to get a lot of requests from customers to launch cloud services similar to Amazon. Dreamhost decided to go with OpenStack and began contributing code to the open source effort 18 months ago. In comparison to ...

Zend To Support Mobile First, Cloud First Development
Dr. Dobb's
This type of composite architecture with a server-side mobile back-end, and UI on the mobile client side, best lends itself to an API-centric cloud services architecture. NOTE: PHP is already being chosen extensively for cloud and mobile applications ...

Whoopsie! Google App Engine goes down — Cloud Computing News
By Barb Darrow
It's a bad week to stop sniffing glue — and to run big cloud services. Google App Engine took a hit Friday, just days after Amazon Web Services suffered another very public snafu. GAE status page error. On Monday, it was Amazon Web ...
GigaOM

As Mobile Grows, So Does Cloud Computing CIO.com
As PC sales decline and smartphone and tablet sales climb, the world of computing is poised for a dramatic shift. While mobile users do, in fact, 'compute' with ...
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How The Feds Drive Cloud Innovation

How The Feds Drive Cloud Innovation
InformationWeek
The coolest cloud computing application in the world -- and in our solar system -- comes from NASA. The space agency is using commercial cloud services to process the digital images being transmitted to Earth from the Curiosity rover as it searches for ...

Cloud Computing: Not Innovative Enough? What if the Innovation Could Double?
Formtek Blog (blog)
But considering the dramatic change in people's perception about software that's been brought about by cloud computing, it seems hard to imagine what the world of software would look like if cloudvendors were able to double the amount of innovation ...

Cloud vendors: Who's cloud washing?
ZDNet
IBM's cloud computing is on four paths: (1) deliver a portfolio of IBM cloud computing services; (2) offer professional services to help independent software vendors (ISVs) design, build and delivercloud application services; (3) offer professional ...

Salesforce.com Joins U.K. Government G-Cloud Framework
Sacramento Bee
With this announcement, U.K. public sector organisations can now procure salesforce.com's trustedcloud computing applications and platform via the G-Cloud CloudStore to innovate and transform for the social era. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com ...

Hacking hardware isn't just cool — it's also good business
GigaOM
One of the best things about cloud computing — as both a business model and an architectural principle — is that hardware really doesn't matter. By and large, as long as applications and systems management software are intelligent enough to run the ...

GigaOM

Should you trust disaster recovery to the cloud?
FCW.com
Cloud computing can offer a useful disaster recovery solution. (Image: NASA). Implementing a disaster recovery plan can be like eating vegetables, getting enough fiber and sleeping at least eight hours a night. Most people understand why these things ...

NetSuite Announces Cloud 2012 Tour Event In Chicago
Sacramento Bee
NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson will be sharing strategic insights into the future of cloud computing, while a panel of executives from leading businesses, including Wrigleyville Sports and 2XL Corporation, will discuss how companies can use the cloud to ...

Cloud services can be used to improve talent management
Creamer Media's Engineering News
Business leaders can use the relevant data and expertise received daily from every department, merged with a cloud-based service that integrates people and processes, to analyse and shape its workforce to be more effective and productive, says global ...

IBM Australia unveils cloud computing solution
The Australian
IBM Australia will pour millions of dollars into a new cloud computing offering for the enterprise and government sector, but analysts believe the development could be a double-edged sword for the company. SmartCloud Enterprise+ (SCE+) is IBM's private ...

Gartner sees cloud computing, mobile development putting IT on edge
TechTarget
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A variety of mostly consumer-driven forces challenge enterprise IT and application development today. Cloud computing, Web information, mobile devices and social media innovations are converging to dramatically change modern ...

Rackspace Launches OpenStack-Based Cloud Storage - Network ...
Interop is the only event to give you a comprehensive and unbiased understanding of all the latest innovations-including cloud computing, virtualization, security, ...
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Oracle Pitches Federal CIOs Secure Cloud Services CIO.com
When government IT managers evaluate their cloud-computing options, they have to weigh the merits of a public, private or hybrid environment. And while a ...
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Windows 8 Won't Win Microsoft's Biggest Battle

Windows 8? It Won't Win Microsoft's Biggest Battle | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: "But now, you can run your applications on cloud services operated by the likes of Amazon, Google, Rackspace, and, yes, even Microsoft. You don’t have to set up your own physical servers. You can just spin up virtual servers from your web browser. And in this world, Microsoft is well behind. That’s because the building blocks of what we call cloud computing have been cooked up by the users rather than technology vendors — companies that have been forced to slap together their own own back end systems. And these tinkerers like source code, according to Tim Burke, vice president of Linux engineering at Red Hat. “That really plays into the open source type of model,” he says. “I think that’s fundamentally why Linux has been the dominant use case.”"

Get 10GB of Pogoplug cloud storage for free
CNET
Who says you can't get something for nothing? For the next 10 days, you can not only get something for nothing, you can get double. For this Cheapskate exclusive, Pogoplug is offering 10GB of cloud storage free of charge. Regular folks off the street ...

AT&T Government Solutions Receives Authority to Operate for Cloud Storage ...
Sacramento Bee
The ATO allows AT&T to offer cloud storage services to federal agencies through the GSA Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (GS00Q11AEA0002). AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service allows federal agencies to securely store ...

Cloud computing: Top five tax considerations for your business
Financial Post
Ernst & Young's latest Global information security survey reveals 45% of companies have already deployed or are evaluating cloud services. What's more, cloud revenue growth is expected to experience a 26% compound annual ... Cloud computing has the ...

Financial Post

Akamai beats estimates on cloud computing demand, shares rise
Reuters
"Even though IT spending globally is under a lot of pressure, it is not showing up in our results because one of the things the CIOs are doing is to move businesses to the cloud," Chief Executive Paul Sagan told Reuters. Cloud services revenue was up ...

The Risks And Benefits of Cloud Computing
Business 2 Community
Cloud computing is dependent on the internet. The most basic drawback of cloud computing is that you need internet connection to access the cloud and this direct tie to the internet means that this system is prone to outages and service interruptions ...

Business 2 Community

What It Will Take to Sell Cloud to a Skeptical Business
Forbes
Andi Mann, vice president for strategic solutions at CA Technologies, for one, questions whether CIOs are the right individuals to talk to about the success of cloud computing. And he takes the original Navint Partners report – which was based on ...

Forbes

KiteDesk Creates Integrated 'Streams' of Your Cloud Services, Including ...
CMSWire
Jack Kennedy, founder and CEO of Kitedesk, said in statement that cloud-based services and public APIs are a “huge opportunity” to provide personalized access to cloud-centered information. “When I look at my calendar, I want to see more than my next ...

Wealth Strategies: Salesforce, Amazon will fly in the cloud
Reuters
Loading... Published on Oct 25, 2012 by ReutersVideo. Oct. 25 - Wells Fargo's Walter Price says the shift toward cloud computing will be a major driver for companies like Salesforce.com and Amazon and feels that Windows 8 will be key for Microsoft's ...

Managed Hosting and Cloud Services Provider, OneNeck, Wins Five-Year Deal ...
Equities.com
SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- (Marketwire) -- 10/25/12 -- Managed hosting and cloud services company, OneNeck, announces it has entered into a five-year managed hosting and cloud services contract with ABC Medical. Under the terms of the contract, OneNeck will ...

The Impact of Cloud Computing On Developing Economies | The ...
Washington. District of Columbia. 20005. VIEW MAP. While there has been much discussion about the impact of cloud computing in developed countries, there has been little research on the impact that this will have on developing countries.
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Pogoplug Goes All In On Cloud Storage - SmallNetBuilder
By Tim Higgins
Pogoplug has removed the storage limits on its cloud storage service. ... D-Link Cloud Router (DIR-605L), Wireless N300, mydlink Cloud Services - $34.99 w/ $5 off code "DLKN334" + Free Shipping at Newegg.com, exp. 10/29 · D-Link Xtreme ...
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Oracle Pitches Federal CIOs Secure Cloud Services

Oracle Pitches Federal CIOs Secure Cloud Services
CIO
When government IT managers evaluate their cloud-computing options, they have to weigh the merits of a public, private or hybrid environment. And while a consensus seems to be emerging that non-sensitive information may be suited for a public cloud and ...

CIO

Yottabyte Launches Cloud Operating System
InformationWeek
Find out the nine questions you must ask before migrating apps to the public cloud in the CloudReady? special issue of InformationWeek. Also in this issue: It's time to lay to rest two common myths of the cloud computing era. (Free registration ...

Orange County Cloud Computing Provider to Donate 1% of 2012 Revenue to ...
Sacramento Bee
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 24, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Zumasys, a leading provider of cloud computingand infrastructure solutions to small and medium-sized businesses, has announced its pledge to donate 1% of its 2012 revenue to nonprofit organizations.

CISA Forms Taiwan Delegation to Demo Latest Cloud Computing Achievements ...
Sacramento Bee
40 members with the majority coming from renowned Taiwan ICT companies and associations including telecom, R&D, software & hardware in cloud computing areas, all appearing in the 2012 WCIT Show held in Montreal, Canada. The Taiwan delegation ...

OneSaas Connects Cloud Services to Drive Business Efficiencies
Sacramento Bee
With 39 percent of small businesses (SMBs) expecting to be using one or more cloud serviceswithin three years[1] and the segment forecast to grow to $14.4 billion in 2012[2], businesses are looking for ways to automate the data-driven workflow ...

T-Systems Building Massive Cloud Data Center in Germany
Data Center Knowledge
Being developed to meet high demand for cloud services in Germany, the new facility, together with the data center already running in Magdeburg, will form a “TwinCore” of two facilities to offer a high level of data and operational security. Upon ...

Data Center Knowledge

Amazon Cloud Services Suffer Another Outage
Midsize Insider
The weather may have been pleasant in Northern Virginia on Monday, October 22, but for Amazoncloud services, things were stormy indeed. The company suffered the fifth outage of one of its data centers in the past year and a half, taking with it a ...

Minnesota-based Curenci Signs with VISI for Cloud Computing Services
Equities.com
With a need to respond rapidly to demands for services, Curenci was looking for a cloud computingprovider that guarantees reliability, security, and provides an overall robust infrastructure. They chose VISI, also of ... TDS HMS is growing rapidly ...

SAP AG sales rise, company boosts outlook on cloud computing growth
China Post
FRANKFURT, Germany--Business software maker SAP AG saw its third quarter profit fall from a year ago because of a large one-time gain booked then, but the company raised its sales outlook for the year and said its business in cloud computing was ...

Cloud is Disrupting the Outsourcing Industry
Forbes
Half of the outsourcing service providers studied claimed that one-fourth of their pipeline of opportunities now included cloud,-based services ISG adds. The service providers also expect cloud services to grow faster than traditional IT outsourcing ...

Forbes

No Cloud Computing For Hartford |
By Jeff Cohen
One reason Google and other cloud computing services are popular is because they're free to the individual user. But if you're the city of Hartford, making the switch from local services to the cloud is an expensive affair. Here's our … Continue ...

Cloudyn tool specs out Amazon cloud costs in advance — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
We all hear how inexpensive Amazon cloud computing services are. We also hear about how many companies spin up way more Amazon EC2 compute power than they need. The net, net, net, is that Amazon, as cheap as it is, could be ...
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As Mobile Grows, So Does Cloud Computing

As Mobile Grows, So Does Cloud Computing
Computerworld
That growth is going to make the cloud computing phenomenon even bigger. Why? It's simple. Smartphones and tablets are application consumption devices. People don't do computing on them, they do computing with them. While the data may emanate ...

Cloud Computing: Vendor Churn Complicates Cloud Landscape
Formtek Blog (blog)
Cloud computing is currently experiencing phenomenal growth, and by some estimates, the growth rate in the cloud market is four to five times higher than the growth of spending on traditional software. IDC estimates that this year cloud service ...

Rackspace Adds Block Storage, Answers Amazon
InformationWeek
Engates said Rackspace didn't want to launch a cloud storage service until the framework was ready from OpenStack, the open source code project that is producing a set of core elements for private and public cloud computing. OpenStack's Cinder Project ...

Faster chips 'cut cloud-computing bills'
BBC News
On-demand, or cloud, services are built around what are advertised as clusters of generic computer servers. But analysis reveals that some clusters are 40% faster than supposedly identical groups of machines. The statistics were gathered by working out...

BBC News

It came from the cloud! 3 terrors lurking in wait
InfoWorld
Not much scares me this time of year -- except in the world of cloud computing. In fact, certain developments in cloud computing strike fear ... The absence of service governance for distributed cloud services. When you're managing hundreds of services ...

Zetta Adds Smart Cloud, Lean Local Copy To DataProtect Cloud Storage Software
CRN
Page 1 of 2. Zetta.net has expanded its DataProtect cloud storage technology with new integrated features that reduce local storage footprints while adding the ability to use local network storage to quickly recover or restore lost data. Zetta.net, the ...

Novell Introduces Cloud Interoperability for Network File Storage
Sacramento Bee
Cloud Storage Archiving: Organizations can archive data to Amazon S3, Box, CloudMe or Dropbox using the intelligent policy engine to identify unstructured data (files & folders) hosted on Microsoft network shares. Data can be identified on a variety of ...

eMazzanti CEO Speaks at NYXPO: Cloud Computing Driving the Virtual Office
Equities.com
The Era of Cloud Computing is Here Office workers used to be bound to their desktop PC, but today's mobile workforce needs immediate access to network data, systems, and processes through mobile devices or productivity will suffer. Fortunately ...

Amazon Failure Shouldn't Have Brought Down the Web
Sacramento Bee
For many organisations, quality of service is one of the top barriers to adopting cloud services. "We're seeing businesses rate quality of service as the second-most important issue for cloud computing," says Bramanis. "The first is data security." The ...

7 things we learned at Structure Europe
GigaOM
Hundreds of cloud computing purveyors (or would-be purveyors) and customers gathered in Amsterdam last week to discuss the state of cloud computing in Europe at GigaOM's Structure Europe conference, our first foray onto the continent. ...Another: They ...

GigaOM

Rackspace breaks out block storage with disk and SSD options ...
By Barb Darrow
Rackspace's new OpenStack-powered Cloud Block Storage comes in spinning disk and faster SSD tiers and lets customers mix and match block size with compute instances as needed, says company CTO John Engates. ... cloud storage photo: Flickr / getinet. Rackspace continued to roll out pieces of its OpenStack cloud Tuesday with the debut of Cloud Block Storage. Rackspace CTO John Engates. Unlike its current non-OpenStack storage, this offering lets customers mix and match...
GigaOM

Making the Move to the Cloud - Cloud Computing Journal - SYS ...
CIOs weighing the decision to move to the cloud can get practical information in the section, Cloud Computing Factors to Consider, which covers topics such as search and identification of data, cloudsecurity, scalability, and data access ...
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Cloud computing explained | News | TechRadar
Cloud computing explained - You use it everyday, and its popularity is growing, but the ... Microsoft SkyDrive cloud storage gets Dropbox-like features boost ... even these brands offer cloud servicesto private companies that enable them to ...
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Healthcare Industry to Spend Upwards of $5B on Cloud Solutions by 2017

Healthcare Industry to Spend Upwards of $5B on Cloud Solutions by 2017
HealthTechZone
A recent report finds that the fun is just beginning for healthcare in the cloud. The cloud computingmarket is poised to expand by an estimated 20.5 percent over the next five years to become a $5.4 billion market by 2017, according to “Healthcare ...

Case for cloud storage not that clearcut
The Australian Financial Review
“Cloud computing” refers to IT storage and processing that is located outside a user or organisation's local IT infrastructure. This means that traditional IT services, such as the provision of email and the storage of company records or financial ...

The Australian Financial Review

Cloud computing sans barriers may increase EU GDP by €250bn in 2020: IDC
Computer Business Review
Removing barriers to cloud computing in Europe through policy action could generate about €250bn EU GDP Growth in 2020, according to a new IDC study. The study found that policy actions intended at removing barriers to adoption of cloud services will ...

CloudLock aims to protect Google Apps from rogue apps
GigaOM
The beauty of cloud is that users can easily download and install lots of cool applications — from a variety of app stores. The danger of cloud… is also that users can easily download and install lots of cool applications from a variety of app stores ...

GigaOM

Factors That Hurt Cloud Computing Confidence
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing has been called a saint and other great names by friends and foe. It promises great benefits, cost cuts and efficiencies at individual and enterprise level. However, even as momentum grows, uptake figures have not been at all impressive.

Cisco Brings More Services and Solutions to the Cloud
UCStrategies
... Communications Strategies Logo Sm. Cisco is enhancing its cloud services in an effort to provide a more advanced suite of cloud offerings. Stocking up its one-stop shop for collaboration solutions, Cisco customers can now access enhanced ...

Dilbert disses cloud (or at least cloudwashing)
GigaOM
Dilbert's boss (he of the awesome two-point hairdo) tells Dilbert to move some of the company's functions to the Internet but to call the Internet “cloud.” Why? Because no one “will take us seriously unless we're doing something in the cloud,” says Mr.

GigaOM

Cloud, circa 2017
ZDNet
Technology and non-technology companies will be indistinguishable: Not only will non-tech enterprises (say, car parts manufacturers or business services) be consuming cloud services, but they will be both providing their own services out of their data ...

Google upgrades Chromebook 'cloud laptop' and chops price to £229
ComputerworldUK
Google has announced a major update of its Samsung Chromebook 'cloud laptop', chopping the price, upping the cloud storage on offer and overhauling the hardware spec. Google just won't give up on its Chromebook and perhaps, as with its best-selling ...

How cloud can threaten the end-user experience
FCW.com
As the government embraces initiatives such as cloud computing virtualization and data center consolidation, however, it should be aware of the downside. Such technological advances create a new layer of complexity that can wreak havoc on the end-user ...

Five cloud computing tips for SMBs - ReadySpace
By David Loke
You've read countless case studies of how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have turned to cloud computing to raise productivity, improve customer service and stay ahead of the competition. But is your company ready to jump onto ...
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NAMA boosts operations with cloud computing — The Punch ...
By oayodele
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency said it had subscribed to cloud computing through its recent deployment of the Windows Server 2012, thereby boosting its operations and cutting Information Technology cost. NAMA's Chief ...
The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely...

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Google's New Chromebook Caters to Cloud Crowd

Google's New Chromebook Caters to Cloud Crowd
TechNewsWorld
Google's newest Chromebook is less hefty, both in weight and in price, which may induce people who are on the fence to embrace the joy of cloud computing. The WiFi version can be had for $250, and a 3G model is on the way for $80 more. It comes with up ...

Content Insider 251 - Overeating
IT Business Net
Probably the biggest issue companies, cloud services and ordinary people have about The Cloud is the fact that there is a growing army of hackers, whackers, phisherpeople and cyberthieves who also just love harvesting personal information from the Big ...

Persistent Systems expands cloud and SMB offerings
Equity Bulls
... critical importance in the decision to adopt cloud services.* "We are committed to delivering the most advanced solutions in cloud computing and this acquisition will further expand our IP led solutions inthe cloud and SMB space," said Nara ...

Cloud Workplace unveils suite of business solutions
Times of Malta
BMIT Ltd, the data centre, cloud and managed services provider, has designed a suite of cloud services aimed at providing a one-stop, no-investment IT solution for work places. BMIT CloudWorkplace currently includes hosted Microsoft Exchange, hosted ...

A Cloud Computing Game-Changer
CRN (blog)
So with cloud computing reshaping the technology landscape, more than a few were waiting to see what Computex's next move would be. With big investments necessary to continue to grow at a rapid clip, the two Computex founders decided to make a deal ...

Workday IPO Shares Quickly Double: Overheating of Cloud-Computing Stocks?
NASDAQ
Riding a resurgent wave of enthusiasm for cloud computing, Workday ( WDAY ) has quickly doubled in value since its October 12th IPO at $28 per share. Though sales of the human-resource software maker are "jacking up" (surfing jargon), management ...

Cloud Storage: Three Acquisitions In One Week Signals Consolidation On The ...
CRN
based StorSimple's technology other than to call it a way to expand its cloud technology and help its customers better take advantage of hybrid cloud computing, it could be used to provide a cloud storage gateway using Microsoft's Azure cloud on the ...

The Cloud Versus The Device
The motley Fool (blog)
Where the classic software model, most completely embodied by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has persisted for decades, cloud computing is gaining acceptance rapidly. Given the clear dichotomy between these two models, we now have a framework by ...

Etisalat partners with Pacific Controls to provide Cloud services for enterprises
AME Info
Etisalat and Pacific Controls have announced the launch of cloud services for enterprises at the GITEX Technology Week 2012. The Pacific Controls Cloud Services- Etisalat Cloud Services will deliver Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud platform to ...

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The Cloud Business Case: Are Expected Cost Savings Realistic?
CloudTimes
According to Microsoft Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Services Ron Fraser, oftentimes thecloud is marketed as a cost-saving device and that the Chief Information Officer is tasked to map out a cloud computing strategy. However, cloud services ...

The Cloud is Gospel at Cloudforce 2012
PC Magazine
With cloud computing as the new normal, social networking a business must-have, and the ubiquity of mobile devices, Benioff had a lot to crow about the success of Salesforce.com—a $3 billion industry that is considered the No. 1, fastest-growing SaaS ...

Cloud computing: Red tape, patchy coverage hinder GDP growth in EU
Gemini (blog)
Removing red tape and providing a consistent legal framework could increase spending on public cloud services from Euro 35.2Billion to Euro 77.7Billion by 2020. "The migration to a new IT paradigm enabling greater innovation and productivity - the roll ...

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Cloud Management Challenges IT, Despite Progress
Internet Evolution
Cloud managers are going to war with few weapons. Although the cloud providers provide rudimentary tools for management... There should be stack of good technology sitting between thecloud managers and the cloud services, but I have yet to see it.

Salesforce Looks to Change Tenor of Cloud Computing Conversation
Most of the conversation surrounding cloud computing has been dominated by the desire to cut costs. Instead of treating IT as a capital expense, IT is increasingly being managed as an operational expense in the cloud. Many organizations ...
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Wither the hard drive? Facebook's secret plans for flash memory ...
By Stacey Higginbotham
Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro. NewNet Q2: Google closes the quarter with a bang - 07/12/2011 · Finding the Value in Social Media Data - 04/11/2011 · Report: How Mobile Cloud Computing Will Change Tech - 09/28/2009 ...
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Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval

Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval
Computerworld
"There is strong demand for cloud computing standards and to see one of our most active consortia partners contribute this specification in such a timely fashion is very gratifying," Karen Higginbottom, chairwoman of the ISO committee, said in a statement.

SAP launches cloud services on HANA in-memory DB
Computerworld (blog)
One component of the strategy, NetWeaver Cloud, is generally available. ... Unlimited-use developer licenses...are available now at no charge. [It] provides native integration to SAP and other on-premises applications, identity management and single ...

Microsoft Expands Cloud Storage with StorSimple Acquisition
TalkinCloud (blog)
The two companies have been doing integration work together for the last couple of years, and this acquisition no will doubt mean even greater integration between StorSimple's cloud storagesolutions and the growing suite of Microsoft cloud services ...

Customers wait and see as cloud wars rage
InfoWorld
We often hear about companies that dove feet first into cloud computing. What we don't hear, though, is that these businesses are typically larger, more aggressive firms that put a value on trying new things to get strategic advantage -- and their ...

Cloud Services Continue to Shake Up IT Outsourcing Industry
PC Advisor
Half of the service providers surveyed by ISG said that a quarter of the engagements in their pipeline included cloud computing services and all of them expected cloud services to grow faster than traditional IT outsourcing particularly in the Americas ...

Ubuntu 12.10 brings the cloud Juju
ITworld.com
That's all well and good, but frankly the bit that caught my eye in the press material coming out was on the server side, where cloud computing is the big news and Unity is background noise. The integration of OpenStack technology isn't new, according ...

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Focuses on Cloud Computing
ARC Advisory Group
In 2011, Oracle Cloud offered two tiers of cloud services: Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In June 2012, this evolved to social services (SaaS), application services (SaaS), platform services (PaaS), and common ...

Clueless About Cloud Computing
Business 2 Community
A recent survey from BSA, The Software Alliance found only a quarter of respondents used cloud services, compared to 34 per cent globally. Nearly 4000 people were surveyed and the majority had either never heard of cloud computing or had heard the term ...

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Cloud Graphics: Could Your Next Smartphone or PC Use a Virtual GPU?
TIME
Nvidia's throwing its silicon hat in the cloud computing ring with something it's calling a VGX or “virtualized graphics” card, available in high-end K2 or lower-end K1 models. The idea, Nvidia contends, is to offload virtual desktop (VDI) graphics ...

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Did OpenStack Let VMware Into The Henhouse?
InformationWeek
OpenStack provides the building blocks of cloud computing: compute, network, and storage management, with virtual machine provisioning built in. It has a monitoring/reporting system through its Horizon dashboard, plus image management in Glance.

Cloud computing 2012 - Looking back and moving forward - e27
By Joash Wee
Cloud computing has been a major topic for tech startups over the past few years. What has been done and what more opportunities are there in the cloud?
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