Thursday, October 4, 2012

Full Impact of the Cloud About 3 Years Away

Cloud's Full Impact is Still About Three Years Away, Survey Predicts
Forbes
Cloud computing is poised to reshape and disrupt the way organizations use information technology, right? Ultimately, yes — but a new industry survey says it may be a few years before the disruptive effect of cloud is fully felt across the business ...

Forbes

HP's Whitman: Wait till 2014 for turnaround to take
GigaOM
Forecasting the future cloud computing market - 04/04/2012 · What the Google-Motorola deal means for Android, Microsoft and the mobile industry - 08/16/2011 · Infrastructure Q2: Big data and PaaS gain more momentum - 07/19/2011 · What is this?

GigaOM

Oracle Touts Cloud Flourishes, Trashes Salesforce.com
InformationWeek
This type of engineered and integrated cloud infrastructure comes at a price premium over the plain vanilla type. As newcomers first approach the complexities of cloud computing, it has an inherent appeal, despite the price tag. A rough analogy is the ...

Cloud Computing Ground War
Inside Higher Ed
... e-mail and cloud services is becoming a ground war. Google and Microsoft have been jockeying to insinuate themselves into the hearts and minds of college students by striking deals with colleges and universities to provide free cloud computing ...

Cloud Storage in the Real World
T.H.E. Journal
Steinke: Those are all primarily the applications and data we store using the cloud. Remote file access has greatly benefited from our inclusion [of] cloud services. Both hosted and private [on-site]cloud solutions have opened collaborative ...

For US Mint, cloud computing security transparency effort pays off
TechTarget
TORONTO – For the United States Mint, its effort to gain insight into the systems and processes that secure its SaaS ecommerce system proved to be a worthwhile investment of time and resources. According to its chief information security officer ...

How Is Dropbox Positioned Vs. Apple And Google When It Comes To The ...
Forbes
The most important promise of cloud storage is “anywhere access,” which implicitly means it must have interoperability. All the largest platform providers – Microsoft, Apple, Google have their own competitive cloud storage products, but I firmly ...

Here's How Larry Ellison Invented Cloud Computing
Business Insider
But Larry Ellison, who once famously denounced the term "cloud computing," is now standing up to take credit for the concept, if not the currently fashionable term. NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson told Business Insider that he can vouch for Ellison. Nelson ...

Tucci To Intel Capital: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Partners Drive Success
CRN
Cloud computing and big data are driving the storage industry more than ever, but not every cloudis created equal, said EMC Chairman and CEO during a Tuesday keynote presentation at the Intel Capital Global Summit. During his time on stage, which was ...

IBM Debuts DS8870 Arrays in Big Data, Cloud Storage Revamp
Enterprise Storage Forum
IBM is giving its Smarter Computing initiative an added push today with the launch of several new products and services that focus on "security, cloud and analytics," according to the tech titan. The rollout includes new Power 770 and 780 servers that ...

United States : Oracle Unveils Expanded Oracle Cloud Services Portfolio ...
Equities.com
Delivering on the industry s broadest and most advanced Cloud strategy, Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, Oracle Product Development, announced that Oracle is expanding its Oracle Cloud services portfolio, and continues to demonstrate ...

Gadget upgrades grocery shopping with cloud computing
DVICE
Buying groceries can be such a pain, especially if you forget to buy something you need. That's the driving force behind the creation of a simple little bar code scanner that reads your kitchen items, and, through an iOS app, uploads everyone's needs ...

DVICE

Oracle set to extend cloud services, boost rivalry with Salesforce.com
Computerworld
The new cloud services include Oracle Planning and Budgeting; Oracle Financial Reporting; Data and Insight; Social Sites; Developer Cloud; Storage Cloud; and Messaging Cloud. Data and Insight will bring together "insightful and intelligent data from ...

Cloud Computing Myths Explained: Part 1
CloudTweaks News
Cloud Computing Myths Explained: Part 1. Cloud computing services and related developments are definitely changing the way we network, collaborate, consume information and deploy applications. ... Also businesses have witnessed some security breaches ...

Private cloud computing – some impeccable benefits
Blue MauMau
Advances in virtualization and distributed computing have allowed corporate network and data centre administrators to effectively become service providers that meet the needs of their "customers" within the corporation. Marketing media that uses the ...

GoDaddy To Close Cloud Computing Service
CRN
GoDaddy plans to close its cloud computing business, telling its SMB customers it will try to integrate the business into other services. GoDaddy CIO Auguste Goldman issued an email outlining the company's plans: "We are focused on SMBs and SMBs don't ...

Lack of local servers holds back cloud computing in the UAE [National, The ...
Equities.com
Cloud computing is being hampered in the UAE because of security fears over a lack of local service providers, experts say. But that is about to change, as Etisalat plans to roll out cloud services by the end of this year. Cloud is a system where ...

TelVue(R) Cloud Services Power Neon Alley, a New Anime Live Programmed ...
Stockhouse
The Neon Alley 24x7 Channel is being originated at TelVue's cloud-based "Virtual Broadcast Facility." This facility is the basis of TelVue's CloudCast™ service, which provides all the traditional video channel origination services of a brick and ...

Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter partners with CloudInsure on cloud coverage
Business Insurance
Looking help to insurers provide coverage for the risk surrounding cloud computing, reinsurance intermediary Guy Carpenter & Co. announced an agreement on Wednesday with CloudInsure, a provider of underwriting models and proprietary analytics.

Cloud News: Citrix, CloudStack, Nimbula, Hexagrid
Data Center Knowledge
“Citrix has gained a significant foothold in the cloud computing space with XenServer and more recently Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack),” said Peder Ulander, Vice President of product marketing, Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix.

Document Mgmt Roll-up: Adobe Acrobat XI Adds Cloud Services, Alfresco's ...
CMSWire
It's been a busy week for document management product releases. Adobe has finally released Acrobat XI, KnowledgeTree has released a number of easy-to-use templates for the legal and financial space, Pingar is offering automated SharePoint metadata, ...

How to get your IT team ready for the cloud
Network World
The IEEE is focused on interoperability among global cloud providers. In addition to hosting test bed infrastructure for vendors and providers to use, the IEEE's Cloud Computing Initiative, which launched in June, features a Web portal, six ...

Oracle's Leap to the Cloud
E-Commerce Times
Oracle is embracing cloud computing and doing so in a way that will help increase data center efficiency. The company's latest database software, Oracle 12c, is designed specifically for the cloud and it allows the nesting of databases together without ...

Avatar TechVentures Teams with Votela to Deliver UCaaS through Siemens ...
The Complete Managed Services Resource
A major new channel for delivering Siemens OpenScape Cloud Services was unveiled today at MSP World 2012 in Austin, collocated with ITEXPO (News - Alert) Austin 2012. Votela, the only combined carrier and North American distributor of Siemens' cloud ...

Adobe unveils Acrobat XI software with cloud services
Computer Business Review
Adobe Systems has unveiled its Acrobat XI software with cloud services, which will offer enhanced productivity while addressing the constraints of devices and different platforms. The PDF file application is designed to meet complex document challenges ...

What Cloud Computing Cannot Do For Your Business
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing cannot be used to rectify human inefficiencies and errors. This misconception often results when errors are already made and businesses are looking for ways to fix them. For instance, even though cloud storage could to some degree boost ...

Timing your move into disruptive technologies
Computerworld
Computerworld - Cloud computing. Mobile technology. Big data. Social networks. With so many disruptive technologies on the horizon, timing your move into each can make the difference between getting ahead of the competition and falling irreparably ...

Is there room for another cloud storage company? CloudMe says 'yes.'
GigaOM
That's a whole lot of users, but Mathias Ericsson, president of CloudMe , a Swedishcloud-storage company, said that's just scratching the surface of the opportunity — especially for players that differentiate themselves above and beyond the free or ...

GigaOM

Cloud computing on the dark side of the Moon
Wired.co.uk
"I just put two popular concepts -- space exploration and cloud computing -- together." So, will there ever be a supercomputer on the Moon? Though Nasa's Bhasin finds it interesting, he's really not sure it will ever happen. "Your guess is as good as ...

Wired.co.uk

What the Private Cloud Is Not
Campus Technology
Cloud computing hype is beginning to perpetuate some misconceptions that need debunking, according to information technology research and advisory company Gartner. Its new report, "Five Things That Private Cloud Is Not," clarified a number of issues ...

Cloud file-syncing heretic 4sync challenges the gospel of Dropbox
VentureBeat
“We believe in consumer freedom — freedom to use any device and still have access to your personal cloud.” Unfortunately for 4sync, the cloud storage landscape is a tough one, with cloud storage and syncing solutions tripping over themselves to stand out.

VentureBeat

Research and Markets: Temporal QOS Management in Scientific Cloud ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Cloud computing can provide virtually unlimited scalable high performance computing resources.Cloud workflows often underlie many large scale data/computation intensive e-science applications such as earthquake modelling, weather forecasting and ...

IT Leaders Forum: Shedding light on cloud computing
Computing
By Graeme Burton. 03 Oct 2012. Be the first to comment. josko-grljevic-thetrainline. For some, cloud computing represents a return to the era of the mainframe, when dumb terminals connected to central computers serving thousands of users. Further ...

Computing

HMRC: Moving our data to the cloud will make it MORE secure
Register
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is to move data it currently stores in local offices to a new centralised government cloud computing depository in a move it says will save it £1m a year and improve on the security of its IT services. HMRC said it had ...

4 Ways To End Your IT Break-Fix Rut
InformationWeek
Cloud computing may be the most overused term since personal computing, but the concept is here to stay. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services for IBM should get some credit for actually putting together an Interop presentation that skipped the cloud hype ...

Scoop: GoDaddy quietly kills its cloud computing business — Cloud ...
By Derrick Harris
Recent examples of cloud services shutting down include Motorola's ZumoDrive cloud-storage service, the Slicehost on-demand servers service (by Rackspace) and, nearly, TextDrive (by Joyent), which was saved at the last minute.
GigaOM

Oracle unveils expanded Oracle Cloud Services portfolio
By admin
Delivering on the industry's broadest and most advanced Cloud strategy, Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, Oracle Product Development, announced that Oracle is expanding its Oracle Cloud services portfolio, and continues to demonstrate significant ...
Mobile World

Oracle's Ellison focused on Cloud computing, not acquisitions ...
By hidden
Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison said he intends to drive growth at the world's No 3 software maker by promoting its current suite of cloud computing products and not through an acquisition.
Firstpost

Ellison: No More Major Acquisitions, Oracle's Focus is on Cloud ...
By Mike Wheatley
Oracle has been one of the slowest software companies to push cloud computing, with Ellison famously mocking it as “complete gibberish” back in 2008. At that time, the Oracle CEO insisted thatCloud computing was just a “fad” that would ...
SiliconANGLE

Europe unveils new cloud computing strategy
By Darren McCarra
The European Commision has published a new digital strategy aimed at "enabling and facilitating faster adoption of cloud computing" across all sectors. ... It's hoped that this will eliminate “complex contracts” and “extensive disclaimers” and establish a “basis of trust” that cloud users can have in their provider's ability to deliver cloud services. to establish procurement requirements whereby public sector agencies across all member states would be required to seek an agreed level of ...
The Sociable

Case Study: Cloud-Based Sales & Operations Planning in the Cloud ...
While cloud computing has revolutionized many aspects of business, its effects have been quite dramatic across supply and demand management. Cloud-based Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is particularly powerful, connecting ...
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Analysis Paralysis - Journal - CQRS and Cloud Computing
By Rinat Abdullin
How many times did you want to start a new project and implement some really exciting idea? I've been there multiple times myself. Most of my attempts failed in the very beginning, because I was trying to think or plan too much in advance: ...
Rinat Abdullin on Lokad Shared Libraries

Fire & Ice: David Pallmann's Web & Cloud Blog: Neudesic Launches ...
By David Pallmann
Today, we offer two distinct lanes of cloud services. For a single department / single app focus, a briefing is a lunch-and-learn; an assessment is a one-day visit that includes an architectural design session and scoping of a migration.
Fire & Ice: David Pallmann's...

Nine Technologies Transforming the Supply Chain, Part 1
By Steve DeAngelis
Software as a Service (SaaS) if a fairly well-known term associated with cloud computing. Although Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) is not a term that is as widely used as SaaS, Gartner ... An iPaaS is a cloud integration platform, enabling connectivity to SaaS and cloud services and providing a secure method of accessing on-premise applications behind a firewall. iPaaS can solve the problem of cloud silos by providing businesses a way to integrate cloud-based services with ...
Enterra Insights

Oracle Unveils Expanded Oracle Cloud Services Portfolio
Delivering on the industry's broadest and most advanced Cloud strategy, Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, Oracle Product Development, announced ...
www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1859000



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