Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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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