Cloud computing promise for Indian IT in 2013

Social media, cloud computing hold promise for Indian IT in 2013
Firstpost
New Delhi: Flat IT budgets and uncertain macro environment may continue to challenge the Indian IT-BPO industry, but as technology becomes more central to everyday lives of consumers and corporate alike, 2013 promises to be a good year for the $100 ...

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Christmas Eve AWS outage stings Netflix but not Amazon Prime — Cloud Computing News: "If you’re not a Netflix subscriber, you may not yet know that issues at Amazon’s US-East data center facility took down Netflix’ streaming service on Christmas Eve — arguably the worst possible time. Starting at 1:50 p.m. PST, as GigaOM’s Janko Roettgers reported, Amazon’s US east facility reported issues with its Elastic Load Balancing service that carried over into Christmas morning.  Interestingly, Amazon Prime Instant Video streaming service, which competes head-on with Netflix and which also runs on AWS, appeared to be unaffected by the US East snafus."

Amazon, Google battle over retail, mobile gadgets, cloud computing to escalate
Newsday
^BC-Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013 Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013 By Alexei Oreskovic and Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos got word of a project at Google Inc to ...

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Cloud Computing Technology Overview 2012
A technical overview of cloud computing from a lawyer's perspective.
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HP Sees Seminal Cloud Storage Moment Arriving in 2013

HP Sees Seminal Cloud Storage Moment Arriving in 2013
IT Business Edge (blog)
For that reason, the folks at Hewlett-Packard are making the case that when it comes to building next-generation cloud computing platforms, the conversation should start with building modern shared storage systems. According to David Scott, senior vice ...

Financial services and the public cloud: Go or no go?
GigaOM
But if you talk to others in the cloud services arena, the answer gets more nuanced. An earlier GigaOM post on this topic sparked a debate on Twitter about just how much CIOs really know about what their devs are doing. My feeling is that many ...

GigaOM

Need Work? Learn Cloud Computing: 7 Mil Jobs by 2015
Sci-Tech Today
Looking for a tech job in the new year? Cloud computing could be your ticket. Cloud-related skills represent virtually all the growth opportunities in IT employment worldwide and demand for cloud-related positions is expected to grow by 26 percent ...

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Legally rip DVDs to the cloud from your couch

Legally rip DVDs to the cloud from your couch.
IGN
As streaming services continue to make headway in the home entertainment industry, Best Buy-owned CinemaNow has announced a new program that allows users to legally rip and store the DVDs to the cloud — all from the comfort of your own home.

Cloudy Skies Ahead: 3 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2013
Forbes
So, it would seem as if cloud computing is fairly mainstream, right? Well, yes and no. Based on my predictions below, I anticipate an even broader adoption of cloud computing in 2013 as companies seek to leverage its inherent benefits. 1. IT will turn...

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Almost 1.7 Million Cloud-Related Jobs Went Unfilled in 2012: Estimate
Forbes
Cloud Services Principal Manager: “Provides business and technical leadership and direction for delivery of cloud services and utilities for IT infrastructure. Will direct a team responsible for standardizing Cloud computing technical designs ...

Forbes

Red Hat Buys ManageIQ, Gains Hybrid Cloud Tools
InformationWeek
Research: IaaS Buyer's Guide · Research: 2012 State of Cloud Computing · More >>. The acquisition is aimed at making Red Hat a stronger player in the creation of multi-hypervisor, on-premises clouds capable of working with various public cloud services.

2012 will go down as the year of cloud computing
Reno Gazette-Journal
During the past 12 months, Microsoft and many other technology providers have built and enhancedcloud services for both business and personal use. Cloud storage and solutions for backup, sharing files and collaboration have exploded. Everyone I know ...

Amazon Web Services to accommodate big data storage
InfoWorld
High Storage, an Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) package, is designed to run data intensive analysis jobs, such as seismic analysis, log processing and data warehousing, according to the company. It is built on a parallel file system architecture ...

Cloud computing: Dare to be boring
InfoWorld
Cloud computing is one of the most exciting technologies to come along in a very long while. This is largely due to the race in the marketplace to provide the most innovative cloud features and functions. It's a race to keep up with the hype; it's also ...

Cloud computing: Only 5% techies are jobs ready
Times of India
CHENNAI: While cloud computing is widely recognised as the next big opportunity to watch out for, it has already made significant inroads in the industry. However, the IT workforce may not keep pace with the developments. The industry ready workforce ...

Times of India

Red Hat Buys ManageIQ For Hybrid Cloud Computing, Reports Revenue Jump ...
CMSWire
One final acquisition for the year — open source cloud management vendor, Red Hat has announced that it has agreed to buy enterprise cloud management vendor ManageIQ for US$ 104 million in cash. It has also announced a hike in revenues of 18 ...

How cloud computing, tablets will reshape the desktop
TechTarget
IT departments are embracing both cloud computing and mobile devices for their multiple benefits. At first, these two technologies may seem to be fairly independent; mobile technology focuses on driving efficiencies in data centers, while the cloud ...

First Steps to Creating a Cloud Computing Strategy for 2013 - Forbes
2013 will be one of the most pivotal years for cloud computing because trust in these technologies is on the line. Expectations are high regarding these ...

Research as a Service: Cloud Computing Accelerates Scientific ...
Ninety percent of these researchers were pleased with their ROI using cloud services to build their application and would use cloud resources again. Of course ...

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Cloud Computing Strategy for 2013

Looking ahead to 2013--

First Steps to Creating a Cloud Computing Strategy for 2013
Forbes
CIOs excelling as strategists are also using cloud computing planning to punch through the hype and make cloud technologies real from a customer, supplier and internal efficiency standpoint. Lessons learned from these cloud computing planning efforts ...

Forbes

Cloud Computing: Best And Worst News Of 2012
InformationWeek
With KPMG predicting a doubling of cloud services revenue over the next two years, it's a good time to point out where cloud computing has gained strength over the past year in capabilities and services. At the same time, we should look at the cloud's ...

Don't Forget About The Cloud Computing ETF
Seeking Alpha
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business ...

Oracle Sales, Profit Top Estimates on Cloud Computing Demand
Businessweek
Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison has been using acquisitions -- including RightNow Technologies Inc. and Taleo Corp. this year -- to add cloud computing software that customers can access online instead of storing on their own servers. That's ...

DOE to broker its own cloud services
GCN.com
They hope that the report, “The Department of Energy National Laboratories and Plants: Leadership in Cloud Computing,” will serve as a status report and a vehicle to share implementations and best practices for cloud computing across the nation ...

A clearer outlook
Risk.net
Cloud computing promises enormous performance advances and cost efficiencies, and the transfer of all the headaches of systems implementation, maintenance and upgrades away from user organisations to cloud service providers. These are precisely the ...

Risk.net

Asustek unit eyes health care cloud services
Focus Taiwan News Channel
2012/12/19 20:13:06. Taipei, Dec. 19 (CNA) Asus Cloud Corp., the cloud unit of Taiwan's leading PC brand Asustek Computer Inc., established a health care alliance based on its cloud computingservices Wednesday to extend its range of cloud applications.

Bitcasa – Infinite cloud storage
The Gadgeteer
The Cloud is heating up with new cloud storage entrant Bitcasa offering infinite cloud storage at an extremely reasonable price. Bitcasa states that it encrypts everything uploaded, keeps three copies of your data for redundancy and you can also use ...

United States Attorneys Standardize on Panzura Global Cloud Storage System ...
Marketwire (press release)
CAMPBELL, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 19, 2012) - Panzura, a leading provider of global cloud storage solutions, today announced that the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) has awarded a contract to standardize globally on Panzura for its ...

Cloud Computing: Cloud Storage Success and Worries
Formtek Blog (blog)
Yaniv Bensadon, CEO at FixYa, said that “Cloud-based file storage is becoming the expected method for file sharing these days, both on personal devices and in the workplace. Such solutions simplify document sharing and collaboration across teams, which ...

Bitcasa offers 'infinite' cloud storage on Windows 8 and Android ...
By Ian Kar
0. 0. Bitcasa adds Android and Windows 8 support and offers "infinite" cloud storage for users. Mac and iOS versions to arrive in January. Cloud services like Dropbox, SugarSync, and Google Drive have data limitations which some users find ...

Google's Winter Cleaning: The Drawbacks of Cloud Computing on ...
IT solutions, ... But this announcement does beg the question: how can I be sure the cloud services I ...

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What 100M computing hours on Google’s cloud can do

Cloud computing a boon for research--

Scientists show what 100M computing hours on Google’s cloud can do — Cloud Computing News: "The projects, most of which are led by university researchers (and one by a Google researcher), tackle a variety of pharmaceutical and biological challenges, as well as the problem of analyzing petabytes of data generated by a forthcoming astronomical survey project. . . . Google’s Exacycle program is hardly the first attempt to use to cloud for good. In 2010, for example, Microsoft launched a version of the NCBI BLAST data-analysis tool on its Windows Azure cloud and gave away free access to researchers. Amazon Web Services also hosts its own research grant program that awards access to its cloud computing infrastructure. Both companies also host large genomic and other datasets that are available to anyone using their services. Free or not, though, cloud computing has proven a boon for researchers hungry for computing power but not keen on waiting in line for supercomputer resources or sending massive data across the network. . . . "

Cloud Computing: Four Predictions For The Year Ahead
Forbes
The cloud has become a well-used buzzword, but for good reason. Cloud computingstrategies have provided organizations with many benefits in 2012, especially as budgets, products and applications were set aside for both public and private cloud ...

ETF Chart of the Day: Cloud Computing
ETF Trends
As phones such as the Samsung Galaxy SIII and the Apple iPhone 5 flood consumer markets worldwide, we have a second opportunity to examine an ETF that focuses specifically on “Cloud Computing.” SKYY (First Trust ISE Cloud Computing Index) debuted ...

VPR News: Panel Says Don't Tax Cloud Computing
Vermont Public Radio
A legislative study committee has recommended that lawmakers oppose taxing computer software that's accessed over the Internet. The committee, which included members of the business community, debated whether a cloud computing tax will hurt...

Tax study committee recommends exemption for cloud computing
vtdigger.org
Those against the tax on cloud computing said the economic benefits of an exemption would outweigh lost tax revenue, by keeping businesses, jobs, and especially software companies in the state. The legal and tax definition of cloud computing is ...

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Let's not repeat the mistakes of Web history in the cloud | Cloud Computing ...
InfoWorld (blog)
I've often pointed out in this blog that the rise of cloud computing has some parallels with the rise of the Web and the technology created to support the Web in the 1990s. There were clear mistakes made back then, and it appears that some of us are ...

A Look Back At The Cloud Computing Trends Of 2012
CloudTweaks News
This year, the winds of change have blown the cloud to a higher level. Studies predict that cloud computing will be on the rise for some a long period of time and that it will be a major source of revenue and employment globally by 2015. Industry ...

Cloud computing predictions for 2013
DatacenterDynamics
Broader IT skill sets required: As the tech industry continues its shift towards cloud computing and companies continue to implement public, private and hybrid clouds at an increasing rate, the typical IT manager, system administrator and even the CIO ...

DatacenterDynamics

6 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2013
Siliconindia.com
The research spoke of Forrester's top 10 cloud predictions for the year 2013. According to James Staten, Forrester US infrastructure and operations principal analyst, next year enterprises will realize the do's and not's in the cloud computing platform ...

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Outlook 2013 — Cloud Computing & Communications Channel Challenges
Channel Partners
Channel Partners recently polled analysts, providers and partners about the outlook forcloud computing and communications in 2013. Each respondent shared their top three industry predictions, channel opportunities and channel challenges. This slide ...

Cloud Computing: Businesses Fret Over Weak Cloud SLAs
Formtek Blog (blog)
By Dick Weisinger, on December 18th, 2012. Before jumping into Cloud computing, many customers worry about the risk of losing control of their data and applications once they move to the cloud vendor. Â It seems like there might be good reason to worry.

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Cloud Services for Education: Alternatives to Google

Cloud Services for Education: Alternatives to Google
bookmarkAmazon, cloud, cloud computing, IT solutions, security ... computing, storage, email, database management, private cloud services, and networking.
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Monitor The Status Of Apple's Cloud Services On The New System Status Page ...
MakeUseOf
Despite the best of efforts, outages are part and parcel of online services. With cloud services and our 24×7 dependence on them, service disruptions can be more than irksome. Giving users a way to check the current status is one way of customer support.

What we'll see in 2013 in cloud computing — Cloud Computing News
GigaOM
For the past few years, all the legacy hardware powers — Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM– scrambled to prove their relevance in a new world where cloud computingmakes hardware branding irrelevant. But HP is in the hottest seat this coming year ...
 
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Official document reveals the rules of Oracle's cloud
InfoWorld
An official document containing policies and pledges for customers of Oracle's cloud servicesreveals that many aspects fall in line with industry standards, while others may prompt cause for worry among customers, according to analysts. The document ...

Some Cloud Computing Tips for you
The Edinburgh Reporter
Cloud computing is a term that we have all been hearing lots about over the last few years. You may already be making good use of its facilities. Or, you may be wondering what it means and whether it could be of interest for you. So, you could be ...

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Google lets more users host App Engine applications in Europe | Cloud ...
InfoWorld
App Engine is Google's cloud-based platform for hosting Web applications written using Java, Python or an experimental implementation of the Go programming language. [ Also on InfoWorld: Google to start charging small businesses for Google Apps.

Getting Ready for Cloud Computing 2013
Datamation
If you've been holding back about moving to the 'Cloud', it is time to get onboard the Cloud Computing express. Not only has every major research firm published market forecasts indicating that Cloud services are growing exponentially, but we see ...

EMC And VMware's New Collaboration Will Target Booming Cloud Services ...
Seeking Alpha
The new organization will enable EMC to focus on the cloud services market, to take on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft cloud Azure. EMC has acquired many assets in cloud computing, Big Data and the analytics space such as Greenplum and Pivotal ...

New Virtualization and Cloud Computing Capabilities at the Allen ...
By Sidney Morgan
Cisco IT continues to improve upon virtualization and cloud computing capabilities in its Allen, Texas data center. We have added new capabilities in recent months that improve the self-service features available to users. On the Cisco IT ...
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ZenDeals turns to cloud computing to eradicate invalid coupons ...
It takes complex cloud computing and machine learning to execute. Which is one reason why this problem hasn't been solved previously. Another is that the ...
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Corona Labs Corrals A Cloud - Cloud-computing - Platform as a Service
InformationWeek (blog)
The extent to which this is true may determine how well Corona Cloud fares against the competition. Game-oriented cloud services have been proliferating, in part because billing for cloud services is more predictable than software license renewals and ...

2013: The Shape of Cloud Computing to Come
E-Commerce Times
Among my predictions for how the cloud landscape will shift in 2013: Cost management will take center-stage in the cloud. Many businesses are discovering the hard way that cloud servicesacquired on demand can quickly become surprisingly expensive.

Mixing Private Public Cloud Storage
Business Solutions Magazine
Hybrid cloud storage (combining off-site public and private cloud services) can provide new opportunities for VARs and MSPs (managed services providers) and could potentially restructure the way storage is bought and sold in the future. “The entire ...

Cloud Computing in the EU: ICO Releases Guidance on Personal Data and ...
JD Supra (press release)
The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recently issued Guidance on Personal Data and Cloud Computing, offering best practices for companies that are using - or contemplating using - cloud computing services to store or process ...

What next for Cloud Foundry? — Cloud Computing News
GigaOM
What we still don't know is what the emergence of this new entity means for the CloudFoundry ecosystem — the third parties that built their own platforms atop the CloudFoundry platform. Officially, no one's saying anything beyond VMware's opaque ...

GigaOM

KPMG Survey Reveals Rising Demand for Cloud Services
CloudTimes (blog)
kpmg-cloud-computing KPMG Survey Reveals Rising Demand for Cloud Services · dell-boomi-logo The Quest for a Cloud Integration Strategy · London-School-of-Economics-cloud Cloud and the Global Economy - Study by LSE · australia-cloud-computing Australia ...

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Service governance morphs into cloud API management | Cloud Computing ...
InfoWorld
The ability to manage cloud APIs becomes one of the most important aspects of a cloud computing architecture and the resulting business solution. No matter if you call it SOA governance, service governance, or API management, SOA is a core component to ...

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Glide Apps Coming To Windows, Android, iOS

Glide Apps Coming To Windows, Android, iOS - Cloud-computing -
InformationWeek
Since then, Apple, Google and Microsoft have all introduced their own cloud storage, sharing and productivity services, leaving TransMedia to reposition its offerings in an effort to survive amid the giants. Glide Effortless became Glide OS and its ...

Jingdong Mall to build cloud-computing centers
China Daily
Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co, known as Jingdong Mall, will invest up to 4 billion yuan ($639.5 million) to build cloud-computing centers in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and in Jiangsu province in the coming years, said a report in the ...

Most IT pros do not trust cloud services with sensitive data
ComputerWeekly.com
Just over half of IT professionals who focus on cloud computing do not trust cloud services for any of their personal data, a survey has revealed. Some 86% of those polled by Lieberman Software said they do not trust the cloud for their organisation's ...

Mobile cloud services offered by Android and Apple are the new lock-in
V3.co.uk
Mobile cloud services offered by Android and Apple are the new lock-in ... Microsoft has Zune and Xbox Live, whereas Google has a slew of cloud-based services including Gmail and Google Drive, which come as standard when you get an Android device.

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StorageCraft Releases Cloud Services, ShadowProtect 5
MarketWatch (press release)
"With the launch of StorageCraft Cloud Services, we have extended the backup, file and folder recovery, onsite failover, and virtualization capabilities into the cloud. In addition, ShadowProtect 5 features support for the latest Microsoft Windows ...

Costanoa VC launches $100m cloud services fund
Digital Media Wire
Costanoa Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley-based early-stage investment firm focused on the cloud services arena, said on Wednesday it has formally launched operations after raising $100 million for its initial fund. It also has made its first 10 ...

Digital Media Wire

NASA's cloud computing odyssey: From Earth to Mars - space, NASA, cloud ...
Computerworld Australia
But getting there was a long journey, and it's the story of how NASA moved from relying on what it could provide on-premise to using the cloud to do the heavy lifting. The implications go far beyond Curiosity: cloud computing is a key factor in letting ...

Oracle buys DataRaker for energy analytics smarts — Cloud Computing News
GigaOM
Other than its well-publicized cloud computing push, Oracle has been buying more into vertical application niches for years. On Thursday it's done more of the same with news of its planned acquisition of DataRaker, which specializes in “cloud-based” ...

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How Cloud Computing Is Shaping Your Business, How Business Is Shaping The ...
CMSWire
By moving from selling on-premises to cloud services vendors receive a smaller recompense initially, but over the course of a contract lifetime, it is generally accepted that long term contracts with cloud vendors cost more than the price of on ...

Inktank Joins Dell's Emerging Solutions Ecosystem With Open Cloud Storage ...
Marketwire (press release)
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 13, 2012) - Inktank, the only company to provide enterprise-level support for the Ceph Distributed Storage System, today announced that it has joined Dell's Emerging Solutions Ecosystem and will offer Ceph storage ...

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Savvis Cloud Storage Takes On Amazon, Google

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Savvis Cloud Storage Takes On Amazon, Google
InformationWeek
Savvis is moving more convincingly into standard cloud services. The managed hosting provider launched Savvis Direct as a beta compute service Monday, following on its Dec. 3 launch of Symphony Cloud Storage, its long-term storage equivalent to ...

Enterprise Cloud Readiness Index Highlights Top Markets for Enterprise Cloud ...
Sacramento Bee
What are the countries that have the optimal network conditions for the adoption of enterprise cloud services? Pyramid Research has recently completed the Enterprise Cloud Readiness Global Index, which is the result of an analysis of enterprise cloud ...

DOE, National Labs Reveal Sweeping Cloud Strategy
InformationWeek (blog)
The Department of Energy and its national laboratories released a wide-ranging cloud computingstrategy and overview that for the first time pulls together the disparate cloud computing efforts of the agency's 22 national laboratories. The strategy ...

Mirantis pitches a do-it-yourself OpenStack cloud
GigaOM
Here's the thing about OpenStack — techies inside companies often want cloud computingcapabilities and have the wherewithal to test them out but not the time or energy to knit together the disparate pieces that go into an OpenStack cloud. Mirantis ...

Enterprise ICT Strategy Meets Cloud Services
CloudTimes
There is a possibility that cloud evangelists are lumped in the same category, if they are promoting cloud computing as a tech enhancement instead of a business strategy. Many ICT executives handle technology evangelists by simply not entertaining them.

CloudTimes

Infor Takes Public Sector Suite to Cloud to Accommodate Shrinking Budgets
Talkin' Cloud
Infor has announced a cloud services version of the software suite. Infor is relying on cut or shrinking budgets and an interest in doing things a different and more cost-effective way to bring on new customers—or presumably to keep existing customers ...

PEAK Internet selects NeoNova to bring Cloud Service to Western ISPs
Sacramento Bee
10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NeoNova® Network Services, an industry leader in cloud services and authorized Premier Reseller of Google Apps™, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver Google Apps to PEAK Internet. As a wholesale ...

Google Mail And Drive Took A Brief Lunch Break This Afternoon
RedOrbit
After all, as we're still in the early days of cloud-based computing, many of these offerings are prone to minutes or even hours of downtime, interrupting workflows and giving us something entirely trivial to complain about. Today, users got a chance ...

GET: Dropbox and SkyDrive for TOP UPLOADING!! Free Cloud Storage
Victoria Advocate
Dropbox and SkyDrive into the main comparison when selecting online backup to find the best system. But do you think this is the real solution for the best online storage?. Because Online Storage already Trends in 2012 as Hard Drive online to backup ...

Cisco cloud and managed services programs unite
TechTarget
Cisco recently merged its Managed Services Channel program with its Cloud Provider and Cloud Services Reseller program to create a unified platform called the Cloud and Managed Services Program (CMSP) with a joint go-to-market strategy for partners.

Cloud computing in 2013 | GoGrid Blog
Although cloud services have been gaining momentum and garnering a lot of ... In 2013, enterprise executives will get real about cloud computing and finally ...

Cloud Storage
Transporter Provides Your Own Private Off-Cloud Storage for Sharing Files. Written by ... Did You Know Cloud Computing Has Been Around Since the '50s?

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Cloud Storage Market Worth $46.8 Billion by 2018

Cloud Storage Market Worth $46.8 Billion by 2018
Sacramento Bee
According to a new market research report "Cloud Storage Market (Incl. Cloud Storage Gateways, Backup & Recovery, Data Movement & Access, Data Replication, Hsm & Archiving, Security And Storage Resource Management Solutions) - Worldwide ...

IBM Launches Cloud Docs; Eyes Google, Microsoft
InformationWeek
The company faces big competition in its bid to become a player in the market for end-user cloudservices in the enterprise. Google offers its basic Google Apps for Business, which includes word processing, spreadsheet and presentation apps, as well as ...

Cloud Computing Can Enhance Academic Research
HispanicBusiness.com
Cloud computing can be utilised to enhance academic cooperation between the Kingdom's universities and other academic institutions around the world, an expert in the field said Thursday. At the opening of the Google Apps Event, Yehia Ahmad, ...

Red Hat Updates CloudForms Open Hybrid Cloud Management Platform
Talkin' Cloud
CloudForms was designed as a cloud management platform that enables enterprises to create and manage IaaS hybrid clouds while also making self-service computing resources available to their end users in a managed, governed and secure way.

Must 'Cloud' Translate To 'Ungovernable'?
NetworkComputing.com
Cloud computing gives us a lot of choices of where to run workloads: our own data centers, a private cloud within a premises data center, a public cloud or a hybrid. But where workloads and services reside isn't the conversation we need to have ...

Big data in the cloud? Be careful what you pay for
ZDNet
Summary: Cloud computing is a powerful technology for renting servers and storage, but if you work with big data, the costs of going outside your own datacentre could be prohibitive. Jack Clark. By Jack Clark for Cloud Watch | December 7, 2012 -- 15:51 ...

VeriStor Cloud Backup Aims to Eliminate Traditional Backup Costs
Talkin' Cloud
The new VeriStor Cloud Backup was also designed to alleviate day-to-day management overhead that comes with legacy data protection products. The backup and recovery offering is a combination of secure cloud storage infrastructure, end-to-end ...

The unpleasant truths about database-as-a-service
InfoWorld
That said, there are a few problems you need to consider before you load your data onto USB drives and ship it to a cloud computing data center. First and foremost, you're dumping your data onto USB drives, when are then dropped off at UPS. No kidding ...

IT Security is Cloud Centric
CIOZone
For IT security, Gartner analysts are predicting that 2013 is going to be about expansion of cloudcomputing and the struggle by the enterprise to achieve appropriate security for it. According ... It seems the answer may just lie in the evolution of ...

Box and Sony offer users 50GB of free cloud storage until December 2013
Mobile Burn
Sony Ericsson teamed up with Box.net last year to offer its customers 50GB of free cloud storage. The two companies have since changed their names to Sony Mobile and Box, but both sides have decided to continue their partnership into next year. Sony ...

This week in cloud: Rackspace whoops, sizing Amazon cloud and more
GigaOM
Cloud news you can use this week: rough times for Rackspace; a look at Amazon Web Services revenue; EMC-VMware come clean (kind of) about spinoff; and Heroku spiffs up its add-on marketplace for developers. clouds photo: Flickr / karindalziel. Given ...

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Private Cloud Certification | Microsoft Learning
Prove your expertise in managing and implementing Microsoft private cloud computingtechnologies. With Windows Server and System Center, you will build ...
www.microsoft.com/learning/.../private-cloud-certification.asp...

[1212.1284] Integrated Green Cloud Computing Architecture
Abstract: Arbitrary usage of cloud computing, either private or public, can lead to ... overall access to cloud services in the greenest or most energy-efficient way.
arxiv.org/abs/1212.1284

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10 ways cloud computing will change in 2013

10 ways cloud computing will change in 2013
ZDNet
Cloud isn't always cheaper, it's just likely to be cheaper if organisations follow the right use model. To get the best ROI out of cloud services and platforms organisations need to model the cost profile of applications, monitor the resources they use ...

Microsoft joins cloud storage price war with 28 percent Azure cut
ZDNet
Microsoft has cut the price of its Windows Azure Storage service by up to 28 percent, just days after key rivals Amazon and Google dropped their cloud storage pricing. The big providers are clearly engaged in a price war. On 26 November, Google Cloud ...

Social Networks Continue Push For Control
InformationWeek
Despite the underwhelming adoption of social network alternatives such as Diaspora and Tent.io, social networking could become more like WordPress, a service that users could run for themselves through a cloud computing service provider. You shouldn't ...

Cloud computing costs: do they stack up?
Sydney Morning Herald
Its calculations show the total cost of ownership (TCO) of cloud computing is 15 per cent lower than the traditional onsite server environment over a five-year life cycle. TCO includes all direct and indirect costs of owning a particular asset. But do ...
 
Sydney Morning Herald

Cloud Services Providers Confident Despite Questions Around Cost Savings ...
Sacramento Bee
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 6, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud-based services revenue in two years is expected to comprise nearly twice its current share of provider revenue, even as providers believe that showing evidence of cost savings is the biggest ...

Amazon And Google At War Over Cloud Storage Prices
Forbes
Google made the first move cutting prices of its standard Google Cloud Storage by 20% and then followed it up with another 10% cut after Amazon followed up by reducing the prices of its S3 cloud storage services by about 25%. As a large number of ...

The risks of cloud computing
FierceFinanceIT
For further proof, International Working Group recently conducted a study on Cloud ComputingResiliency and it showed that since 2007, about 568 hours were logged as downtime between 13 major cloud carriers. The pricetag for these outages? About $72 ...

Drop Box & Amazon Cloud >> or BACKUP with Unlimited Cloud Storage
Victoria Advocate
Which one would you choose between Drop Box & Amazon Cloud or other alternatives and this is really important because before saving your files i think you should choose the best with Unlimited Space. And you know Cloud Storage already Trends in 2012 ...

Egenera Expands EMEA Footprint, Gains New Tech with Fort Technologies Buy
Talkin' Cloud
Ease of use and automation will increasingly become a critical factor for our success," said John Fitzgerald, managing director of Interactive Network Communications GmbH, a cloud servicesprovider, in a prepared statement. Fitzgerald noted the ...

Browser hacks enable free cloud computing
New Scientist (blog)
Cloud computing is big business. Companies and individual users rent bandwidth from large cloud services to perform all manner of tasks, from hosting small websites to churning through large, computing-intensive tasks like modelling new drug compounds.

New Scientist (blog)

Cloud Computing and Cisco UCS
By Ranjit Nayak
In my blog last week I introduced a series of conversations in which Mike Spanbauer, Industry analyst at Current Analysis, Cisco Executives, Jim McHugh and Brian Schwarz discussed several topics. One of the topics they discussed was the ...

Microsoft joins cloud storage price war with 28 pc Azure cut | ZDNet
Prices for cloud storage have plummeted on the three major platforms just within the last couple of weeks, but who provides the cheapest service?

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Successful cloud adoption

Successful cloud adoption: It's the fit, stupid
InfoWorld (blog)
Indeed, cloud computing providers tend to push their technology as the solution to any and all business problems. Unfortunately, there is not a universal fit for cloud computing technology, so you have to be careful to match the business problem you're ...

Can Symform's P2P Cloud Storage Platform Really Work?
Forbes
On a start-up budget, they didn't want to build a data center and were hoping to usecloud storage. But even the cloud storage costs were prohibitive, so they abandoned the project. Recognizing that other people were surely having the same issue, they ...

Forbes

NTT Communications Joins Arrow Sphere to Provide NTT Cloud Services
Sacramento Bee
NTT Communications (NTT Com), a member of the NTT Group -the numberone Fortune Global 500 telecommunications company - announced it has joined the ArrowSphere cloud services platform, a service from Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions ...

What Bilbo Baggins Teaches Us About Cloud Computing
Windows IT Pro (blog)
Cloud computing and the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins? What might they have in common? On the surface, you'd have to say nothing. But I've been thinking about The Hobbit lately, with the much-anticipated Peter Jackson epic set to debut in theaters soon ...

Windows IT Pro (blog)

iSoftStone Teams with IBM to Co-build A Cloud Computing Center of Excellence ...
Sacramento Bee
BEIJING, Dec. 4, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- iSoftStone Holdings Limited ("iSoftStone" or "the company," NYSE: ISS), a leading China-based IT services provider, today announced that it has signed an agreement with IBM and the Xiangyang city government to ...

CenturyLink gives businesses simple, affordable cloud services with the US ...
Equities.com
... Inc. (NYSE: CTL) today announced that it has combined the strength of its national network with its industry-leading portfolio of Savvis cloud services for the United States launch of savvisdirect, a simple, cost-effective cloud computing solution ...

Kerio Connect 8 Takes Vendor's Email, Calendaring Server to the Cloud
Talkin' Cloud
Kerio Technologies took a small step into the cloud computing realm with the launch of SaaS capabilities in Connect 7, but now the vendor is taking a much larger step intocloud with the release of Connect 8. Previously, Kerio enabled its partners and ...

Talkin' Cloud

Cloud computing gaining a strong foothold in IT Hub of Salt Lake
Economic Times
Various firms and training institutes are now focussing on cloud services. The area is witnessing growth of companies that provide cloud computing services, as well as training centres that are creating a workforce for this growing demand. "In India ...

Economic Times

Rackspace Launches New Features, Enhanced Services on Open Cloud Platform
Talkin' Cloud
Additionally, Rackspace's Managed Cloud Services are now being made available for seven new products the company has launched over the past several weeks as part of its open cloud platform. According to the vendor, the new services provide customers...

Talkin' Cloud

Protect Corporate Use of Social Media and Cloud Services With Scrambls for ...
Equities.com
LEE, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/04/12 -- Scrambls for Enterprise launched today giving organizations a means for their employees to safely collaborate over social media sites like Twitter® and Facebook, and share files with cloud services like Dropbox ...

Non-IT sees cloud computing advantages, drives adoption
Enterprise IT teams may have embraced virtualization, but despite cloud computing advantages,cloud -- specifically public cloud services -- isn't getting the ...

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IT pros have few cloud computing security concerns

AWS re:Invent 2012 IT pros have few cloud computing security concerns
TechTarget
LAS VEGAS -- Even though Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy admitted this week that cloud computing security is the No. 1 concern of potential AWS customers, attendees at the company's inaugural re:Invent conference expressed ...

Facebook Enters Cloud Storage With iOS And Android Rollout Of Photo Sync ...
TechCrunch
Facebook can now save photos you don't publish, which effectively makes it a cloud storage locker. Today it starts rolling out its Photo Sync background uploads feature to all users after having tested it on Android since August and iOS since earlier ...

TechCrunch

Feds Pull Plug On 'One Stop' Cloud Portal
InformationWeek
Apps.gov was introduced as a "one stop shop for cloud services" by Kundra in September 2009. The idea was to make it easy for federal agencies "to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based IT services," Kundra wrote in a blog post at the time. The former ...

Ceph Day Amsterdam 2012 (Object and cloud storage)
The Data Center Journal (blog)
As luck or fate would turn out, I was in Nijkerk which is about an hour train ride from Amsterdam central station plus a free day in my schedule. After a morning train ride and nice walk from Amsterdam Central I arrived at the Tobacco Theatre (a former ...

Google vs. Amazon Cloud Storage Price War: MSPs Take Note
MSPmentor
Anybody else notice the escalating Google vs. Amazon Cloud Storage Price War? For channel partners that build services atop Google Cloud Storage or Amazon Simple Storage Service, the price war is fantastic: Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) cut prices twice ...

Exclusive: Microsoft bringing cloud music player to SkyDrive.com
LiveSide
When Microsoft officially launched Xbox Music in October, the company officially acknowledged thatcloud storage is coming next year to the Xbox Music service, however there were no mentions of whether this cloud storage will be based on the SkyDrive ...

GFI, Cloud Services Alliance Signals Hosting Shift
Channelnomics
GFI Software, which specializes in hosted IT technologies for MSPs, has partnered with Cloud Services Depot to bring network operation center (NOC) services to the GFI Max RemoteManagement platform. MSPs using GFI Software will now have access to ...

Why Amazon thinks big data was made for the cloud
GigaOM
According to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood, big data andcloud computing are nearly a match made in heaven. Limitless, on-demand and inexpensive resources open up new worlds of possibility, and a central platform makes it easy ...

GigaOM

How to Know When It's Time to Move Your IT to the Cloud
Greater Lansing Business Monthly
Have you ever received an invitation to a cloud computing event and wondered if you should go? Maybe you're thinking, "What is the big deal about cloud computing, anyway? My current computer systems are working fine. What is the cloud going to do for ...

Google offers 10 times as many cloud computing options, plus drops ...
Google rolls out major expansion of cloud compute and storage options in Europe; drops ... by about 5% and reduced the price of its Google Cloud Storage by 20%. ... cost and widest breadth of cloud services and instance types for customers.

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Google Cloud Storage vs. Amazon S3: Price War Accelerates

Google Cloud Storage vs. Amazon S3: Price War Accelerates
Talkin' Cloud
Time for VARs, MSPs and rival cloud services providers (CSPs) to panic? Not exactly. Smart channel partners are charging a premium for cloud storage in specific vertical markets. For instance, health care providers and legal firms are typically willing ...

Proformative Announces Top 5 Benefits of Cloud Computing and Launches ...
Equities.com
Cloud computing and cloud services have become so prevalent and integral to organizations of all sizes that Proformative is hosting another Cloud Computing Survey to gain even more insight into the topic. Cloud Computing is very easily applied to the ...

GOT: Google Cloud Storage & Sugarsync or BACKUP with Unlimited Space
Victoria Advocate
If you look at the Google Cloud Storage & SugarSync you will find the prime of their system but you must be smart in choosing the best online backup. Because Online Storage already Trends in 2012 as Hard Drive online to backup your important files from ...

Microsoft Building Cloud-Based Music Locker into SkyDrive
PC Magazine
Microsoft's been a little late to the party with its cloud storage offerings – at least, when compared to that which one can do on competing services from Google and Amazon, to name a few. However, Microsoft appears to be a bit closer to catching up if ...

Edit: Work In Progress—Cloud Services For SMBs
CRN.in
Dhaval Valia, CRN, November 30, 2012, 1030 hrs. Cloud computing is a natural progression for a channel partner with an established base of customers and strong influence in the mid-market and SMB space.

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EU aims to make cloud computing energy efficient

EU aims to make cloud computing energy efficient
Ynetnews
Researchers say that move could potentially save companies using cloud computingtechnology in their data centers billions of euros. The EuroCloud server project is headed by a team of researchers from the UK, Cyprus, Finland, Switzerland and Belgium; ...

Ynetnews

Researchers Steal Cloud Computing Power Via Browsers
InformationWeek
Computer scientists at North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon have demonstrated that it is possible to conduct large-scale cloud computing tasks anonymously at no cost by abusing cloud-based browsers, such as Amazon Silk, Cloud ...

Amazon's Vogels on 21st-century apps and “IT life events”
GigaOM
Maybe big businesses really do understand cloud computing after all. When I sat down with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference on Wednesday, we began the discussion by talking about applications designed to ...

GigaOM

Businesspeople Take Charge of Cloud Computing, But Still Depend on IT: Survey
Forbes
Cloud computing may represent the beginning of a shift of control of business technology away from information technology departments and into the hands of managers and professionals from other parts of the business. While a third of executives ...

Forbes

Workday Sales Beat Estimates on Corporate Cloud-Computing Demand
Bloomberg
Workday Inc. (WDAY), a maker of Web-based human-resources software, reported third-quarter revenue that beat analysts' estimates as more companies switched to its cloud-computing tools to manage their workforces. In its first quarterly report since ...

GFI MAX™ Partners with Cloud Services Depot to Offer MSPs Network ...
Sacramento Bee
CLEARWATER, Fla., Nov. 29, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- GFI Software™ today announced that GFI MAX RemoteManagement™ users now have the ability to add Network Operations Center (NOC) services from Cloud Services Depot to their managed services ...

Cloudian® to offer S3 Cloud Storage Support for Apache CloudStack
Sacramento Bee
The Cloudian solution enables cloud service providers and enterprises to seamlessly deploy S3-compatible cloud storage quickly and cost-effectively along with a state-of-the-art cloud computingplatform under a common user interface and single ...

Hybrid Mobile-Cloud Computing: Driving the Future of Enterprise Mobility
Sacramento Bee
Hybrid Mobile Cloud (HMC) computing represents a systems in which a local, native mobile application with a great user interface, is married with cloud computing to provide an intelligent and scalable solution that is better than either native mobile ...

Symantec gets into cloud file sharing with Norton Zone
ZDNet
Accessibility from virtually anywhere with an Internet connection on the most popular computing and mobile devices are the basic requirements for any cloud storage service these days. So all of the talk about real-time updates and seamless photo ...

Asian tech companies are eating HP, Dell and IBM's cloud lunch
ZDNet
Summary: Cloud computing is rearranging the datacentre infrastructure market: large server makers are seeing their dominance wane as competition grows from low-cost Asian manufacturers that sell directly to the clouds of Google, Amazon and others.

ZDNet

Cloud storage giant Amazon cuts S3 prices, waits for rivals to die
Register
Generally it is agreed that Amazon leads in offering cloud services with companies like Google (see news yesterday) and Microsoft, with its Azure offering, some distance behind. Amazon's idea is to build up its cloud computing infrastructure and gain ...

Google Cuts Cloud Storage Prices by 30%
By Emil Protalinski
Google on Monday announced new Cloud Platform features, including new storage and compute capabilities, lower prices, and more European Datacenter support. The price cut was some 20 percent, but after Amazon cut its S3 prices by ...
The Next Web

Google Cloud Storage - more value for performance - Google ...
By Scott Knaster
Earlier this week, we announced a collection of improvements across Google Cloud Platform including 36 new Compute Engine instances, Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage, Object Versioning, and European datacenter support. We also announced that we are reducing the price of standard Google ... by Raj Sarkar. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: app engine, cloud platform, cloud services, google cloud storage, google compute engine ...
Google Developers Blog

Not To Be Outdone By Amazon, Google Reduces Its Cloud Storage ...
By Frederic Lardinois
This is competition at work: earlier this week, Google announced that it would reduce the price of its standard Google Cloud Storage by just a bit over 20%. Then, Amazon announced yesterday that it would reduce the price of its S3 cloud ...
TechCrunch

Cloud app services company rPath acquired by SAS — Cloud ...
By Om Malik
rPath, a cloud company, is rumored to be for sale and is close to being acquired, according to our sources. The buyer being mentioned: business analytics software maker SAS Institute.
GigaOM

Hackers can steal cloud computing time | SciTech | GMA News ...
A vulnerability in cloud-based mobile browsers may allow hackers to steal cloud computing time from users of such apps in mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, a tech site reported Thursday.
GMA News Online

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