Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Cloud Computing Saves Health Care Industry Time And Money

Cloud Computing Saves Health Care Industry Time And Money
NPR (blog)
Aided by cloud computing, researchers crunched, analyzed and sequenced massive amounts of information — something Cunningham could not have done on his own. ... Indeed, the company'scloud services may ultimately eclipse Amazon's retail sales.

Verizon Launches Cloud Services to Support HIPAA Compliance
eWeek
HIPAA has been an impediment to the growth of cloud computing in health care, as providers face hefty fines for data breaches, Dr. Peter Tippett, chief medical officer and vice president of Verizon's health care IT practice, told eWEEK. "In the last ...

eWeek

Oracle's New Cloud Computing Bets
New York Times (blog)
Oracle is offering the cloud computing service it introduced last year as a separate entity, which can be leased by business and kept behind their own security firewalls. Oracle has a new cloud database, called 12c, which is a sharply different way of ...

New York Times (blog)

What I Learned at the Cloud Computing Revolution
Fortune
By Alan S Cohen, contributor. FORTUNE -- I recently spent the past year on the front lines of the computing revolution, bringing network virtualization technologies to dozens of telecommunications companies, new cloud computing entrants, and ...

Parallels makes cloud services easier to sell
ZDNet
Parallels is aiming to cut down the time and cost needed for independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers to bring their cloud services to market by promoting its Application Packaging Standard (APS). Alex Danyluk, senior director of ISV and SaaS ...

Cloud Computing Strategy for Insurers? A Little Bit of Both
PropertyCasualty360
Insurers find themselves much more comfortable doing business with the privatecloud services available on the market today because these services offer a controlled environment that doesn't have the public perception that their customer data is being ...

PropertyCasualty360

Adobe Unveils Acrobat XI With New Cloud Services
eWeek
Adobe Systems has announced its Adobe Acrobat XI software with cloud services, a new solution that provides enhanced document productivity across devices and platforms. In a meeting with the press, Mark Grilli, senior director of product ...Meanwhile ...

eWeek

Unchecked cloud use complicates e-discovery
ZDNet
"Consumer cloud services, particularly those that are free, have terms and conditions and operational models that do not necessarily support enterprise e-discovery requirements," he said. Furthermore, when data gets stored on services such as cloud ...

The State of Cloud Computing Around the World: China
CloudTimes (blog)
... key promoters of the country's cloud computing strategy. They certainly benefit a lot from cloud services due to their huge data center footprints and customer base, as well as the network access capabilities already set in place. At the moment ...

CloudTimes (blog)

Cloud Computing '101′ Podcast: Is Moving To The Cloud A Good Move For ...
Business Insider
If you've been confused about exactly what moving to the 'cloud' means or if you've been trying to decide whether moving to the cloud is right for you, then this podcast can certainly help you to sort out all the details to consider so you can make an ...

Cloud computing development tools call for collaboration, integration
TechTarget
Software development is software development; the basics don't change when you introduce cloud computing. But moving to cloud-based development presents a few new opportunities, as well as some challenges. Though each enterprise is different, these ...

Cloud Computing: The Future of IT Spending is with the Cloud
Formtek Blog (blog)
Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC, said that ”By the end of the decade, IDC expects at least 80% of the industry's growth, and enterprises' highest-value leverage of IT, will be driven by cloud services and the other 3rd ...

Rackspace: A Beneficiary Of The Growth In Cloud Computing
Seeking Alpha
We are bullish on Rackspace Hosting Inc. (RAX), as it has continued to show impressive top and bottom line growth, despite the tough competition in the cloud hosting industry. Earnings are expected to grow by 45% over the next year, whereas the company ...

Public Cloud Services Expenditures To Reach Nearly $109 Billion This Year
T.H.E. Journal
Organizations will spend nearly $109 billion worldwide this year on public cloud services, an increase of 19.6 percent over last year, according to a report from information technology research and advisory company Gartner. The report, Forecast ...

Joe Weinman: Investing in Cloud Computing
Data Center Knowledge
As we noted in our Data Center Investor review of third quarter action on Wall Street, investors are eager for ways to participate in the buzz around cloud computing. What's the best way to invest in this sector? It's not simple, as Joe Weinman of Telx ...

Cloud Computing and Operations
Today's Medical Developments
The idea of the desktop is going away, making room for innovative technologies such as smartphones and tablets. Today's mobile devices are, in essence, small computers, and customers now carry the tools to access data anytime in their pockets. It is no ...

Symantec Updates Core SMB Security Cloud App
InformationWeek
"Symantec has seen flat revenue in a growing market and needs to take advantage of this trend incloud services," said Techaisle CEO Anurag Agrawal via email interview. Agrawal, whose research firm focuses on SMBs, noted that the number of cloud ...

European Union Outlines New Cloud Strategy
CIO
European authorities outline a proposal for a single set of rules to harmonize cloud computing among member states, with an eye toward a substantial economic boost. Some leading U.S. tech trade associations are praising the EU's efforts to better ...

CIO

ExtremeTech's cloud Bill of Rights
ExtremeTech
The cloud is everywhere these days. Like its real-life namesakes, the concept and implementation of cloud computing is vague, fluffy, and hard to define. Larry Ellison had a point when he declared that cloud computing has been redefined “to include ...

ExtremeTech

TeamLogic IT, IndependenceIT Offer Nationwide Cloud Services
CRN
Seth Bostock, independenceIT's executive vice president of business development and strategy, said his company will help TeamLogic IT migrate its offerings to the cloud. "We are becoming their cloudplatform essentially," he said in an interview with CRN.

Will Platform Cloud Giants Feel CloudBees' Sting?
Wired (blog)
It's easier to get started on a platform cloud as opposed to an infrastructure cloudsuch as Amazon Web Services — which merely offers access to raw computing resources, such as virtual servers — but a platform cloud also provides less flexibility...

Wired (blog)

Oracle Public Cloud Computing & President Mark Hurd
TalkinCloud
The Oracle Cloud Computing Partner Program is designed for partners that want to build privateclouds or for partners that want to shift customers into Oracle's Public Cloud. At Oracle OpenWorld 2012, President Mark Hurd and Channel Chief Judson ...

Oracle Public Cloud Computing Partner Program
TalkinCloud
Oracle's cloud partner program has five components that cover both private clouds and the Oracle Public Cloud. At Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Channel Chief Judson Althoff offers details. Recorded by Talkin' Cloud (http://www.talkincloud.com).

Enhancement of Cisco's Cloud Channel Program
UCStrategies
Cisco Systems Inc. is enhancing its cloud channel program with the aim of helping solution providers capitalize. Cisco is looking at two sides of the cloud computing market: public cloud services that partners offer to end user customers and service ...

VMware: OpenStack friend, foe, or frenemy?
InfoWorld (blog)
The OpenStack Foundation is already taking shape as a compelling force in cloud computing, and has an admirable mission of enabling any organization to create and offer cloud computing services while running on standard hardware. The group had been ...

Companies have cloudy understanding about cloud computing
FierceEnterpriseCommunications
Companies should start getting a grasp on what cloud computing entails. According to recent Gartner analysis, the public cloud services market is predicted to grow 19.6 percent this year to a total of $109 billion worldwide, and the market is forecast ...

Don't Bet on a Hewlett-Packard Comeback
Businessweek
In cloud computing, the company has at least four different versions—a public cloud, a privatecloud service, a cloud based on a hardware appliance, and a cloud designed on the Palm technology now called Gram. It's about the bench. One of the ...

NAB signs IBM to develop private cloud services on demand
The Australian
NAB group business services group executive Gavin Slater said the private cloud model would give the bank much-desired flexibility as services could be bought on a consumption basis as opposed to capital expenditure. "NAB's internal private cloud is an ...

GSA not properly tracking its cloud transition, report finds
Nextgov
The auditors said taking these steps will not only help track the progress of this transition, but also “prepare for future transitions to other cloud computing solutions.” Casey Coleman, GSA's CIO, said in a letter to the IG's office that he agreed ...

Microsoft attacks JavaScript scaling with TypeScript
GigaOM
Javascript is wildly popular but needs enterprise-class capabilities if it's going to continue to be used to build business applications. That's why Microsoft is offering TypeScript a superset of JavaScript that adds these needed perks available as a ...

GigaOM

Interoute nominated for Best Cloud Computing Provider and Best Virtualisation ...
IT News Online
Interoute is owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, delivering cloudinfrastructure and services to international enterprises along with its Unified ICT suite of products and solutions. Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC) is ...

Insider Threats To Cloud Computing
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing uptake by businesses has shifted the general model of organizational information complexes. Business enterprises have a lot of data to store and use. Even as they shift to the cloud, there are major dangers around security. In most ...

Larry Ellison Has Some Strange Ideas About Cloud Computing
By Fredric Paul
For Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, cloud computing seems to mean whatever he says it means. During his packed keynote address Sunday at the company's Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Ellison announced four major cloud ...
ReadWriteWeb

Adobe announces Acrobat XI with tablet-friendly touchability, cloud ...
By Steve Dent
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today unveiled Adobe® Acrobat® XI software with cloud services, a powerful new solution that rises to today's complex document challenges. The industry standard for PDF ...
Engadget

Larry Ellison Just Took On Amazon With A New Cloud Service ...
By Julie Bort
For a guy that once called cloud computing "complete gibberish," he's now offering clouds in every way they can be offered: software-as-a-service (where companies pay monthly to use an app over the Internet), platform-as-a-service (where companies pay monthly to have someone else host their apps, typically custom-developed apps) and infrastructure-as-a-service (where companies ... The two newcloud services were part of four big announcements Ellison made on Sunday night.
Business Insider

2Physics: Topologically-Protected Quantum Cloud Computing
By Quark
A first generation quantum computer, which must be an integration of extremely high technologies, will be used in a ``cloud computing" style since only limited number of groups, such as governments and huge industries, will be able to ...
2Physics

ISCOS 2012 : International Symposium on Cloud and Services ...
ISCOS 2012 : International Symposium on Cloud and Services Computing. ... All topics of CLOUD COMPUTING . . . TSNM 2012 IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Special Issue on Management of Cloud Services. ICIW 2013 International Conference on Internet and...
WikiCFP

OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for ...
By Roger Jennings (--rj)
Monday, October 01, 2012. Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/1/2012+. A compendium of Windows Azure, Service Bus, EAI & EDI,Access Control, Connect, SQL Azure Database, and other cloud-computing articles. image222 ...
OakLeaf Systems

Oracle's Ellison Stakes Out Territory in the Cloud - Arik Hesseldahl ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
Ellison disclosed four new Oracle products and services, including a new version of its database software dubbed 12c — the C is for “cloud” — that he said is tuned for the multi-tenant environments common in the cloud computing world, where ... Oracle also announced two cloud services, one which Ellison described as “infrastructure-as-a-service,” the other a private cloud service where customers will be able to enjoy the benefits of public-cloud service provider like Amazon Web ...
AllThingsD

Oracle Refreshes MySQL with New Features | SiliconANGLE
By Mellisa Tolentino
“We're adding a new line of business, cloud computing, to our traditional business of selling software and selling hardware… and we're going to sell it on the fastest computers in the world,” Ellison said on Sunday. “It makes a lot of sense for Oracle to be in all three tiers of cloud services.” “The infrastructure that we're offering isn't conventional infrastructure. What we're offering is our OS, our VM, compute services and storage services on the fastest, most reliable machines in the world ...
SiliconANGLE

Google BigQuery updates: Faster, easier and more data formats
By Raj Sarkar
Increased import quotas from 1000 jobs per day to 1000 jobs per table per day, and boosted the file size limit from 4GB to 100GB; Faster data exports from BigQuery to Google Cloud Storage, by enabling large tables to be exported as multiple files in parallel; Permanently save common queries in the BigQuery interface. To learn more about how Google BigQuery can help you ... Labels: bigquery,cloud platform, cloud services · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook ...
Official Google Enterprise Blog

Fire & Ice: David Pallmann's Web & Cloud Blog: Windows Azure ...
By David Pallmann
The platform is really in a mature place now, especially after the dazzling debut of new features that came in June of this year. Today, Windows Azure is the only cloud computing platform that provides both a comprehensive PaaS and IaaS ...
Fire & Ice: David Pallmann's...

EU Pushing for Cloud Computing Standards, Partnerships
The European Union is making a hard push for cloud-computing standards and ... public procurement” of cloud services in Europe, including “join procurement ...
slashdot.org/.../eu-pushing-for-cloud-computing-standards-par...

HP's Cloud Services Wants OpenStack Lovers | Dice Blog Network
HP Cloud Services wants to talk to people who are passionate about the public cloud and ...
news.dice.com/.../hps-cloud-services-has-125-positions-availa...

Oracle OpenWorld: Ellison Unveils Expanded Cloud Services
"It makes a lot of sense for Oracle to be in all three tiers of cloud services," he said , ... "Our customers, to fully embrace cloud computing, need to have all three ...
www.crn.com/.../oracle-openworld-ellison-unveils-expanded-c...



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