Amazon cloud vs Google and Microsoft

Amazon cloud soars far above Google and Microsoft • The Register: " Amazon has equivalent products to all of the above, plus DNS services (Route53), hardware-based key storage (CloudHSM), application management (OpsWorks), detailed templating (CloudFormation), orchestration (Data Pipeline), performance monitoring (App Monitoring), API-based payment service (FPS), managed search (Amazon CloudSearch), data warehouse (Redshift), in-memory caching (ElasticCache), long-term cold storage (Glacier), domain name system (Route 53), direct connection to AWS edge network (Direct Connect), and cloud cost analysis (Trusted Advisor)."

Verizon Offering 500MB of Free Cloud Storage for the iPhone
Techlicious (blog)
Looking for a safe place to back up the photos and data on your iPhone? Sure, you could trust Apple's cloud, but if you want to double up on your security, Verizon has just released a free cloud storage app for its iPhone users. The app is somewhat ...

Microsoft Faults IT Security Practices in 'Cloud Computing' Report
Redmondmag.com
Microsoft claims that its CSRT tool is based on the Cloud Security Alliance's Cloud Controls Matrix, and that organizations can use it to check their existing IT capabilities vs. cloud servicescapabilities. Microsoft analyzed 5,700 responses to 27 ...

A New Realism Emerges as Enterprises Move to Cloud
Datamation
Despite these obstacles, my travels have confirmed that enterprises of all sizes across nearly every industry are moving quickly to take advantage of cloud services to achieve their corporate objectives. In fact, in most cases they are not expecting to ...

DISA to Spend Summer Exploring Security in the Cloud
Signal Magazine
Over the next several months, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will partner with Google to learn how to implement critical security capabilities in a cloud computing environment. The pilot program, involving selected members of DISA's ...

Cloud Expo New York: Is Your Organization 'Cloud-Ready'?
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Organizations across the world are increasingly starting to see the benefits of moving more and more services to the cloud. The focus on the cost-saving potential of cloud is rapidly shifting to completely transforming the business with cloud. As ...

Microsoft: Xbox One cloud processing can enhance lighting, physics
Joystiq
Speaking with Redmond Game Studios and Platforms GM Matt Booty, Ars Technica reports thatcloud computing will boost performance in games designed for Microsoft's Xbox One. While latency-sensitive actions will be handled by a user's Xbox One ...

Boundary Leads Way in Cloud Ops Management
Technorati
San Francisco-based Boundary is the first cloud-based IT operations management system and the company is leading the way in an evolving field. This past week, Boundary CEO Gary Read discussed his company's cloud-based innovation with San ...

DevelopIntelligence Offers Cloud Computing Training for Technical Teams and ...
EIN News (press release)
Over the past five years, businesses have been utilizing cloud computing techniques in order to simplify how they do business. But as businesses integrate Cloud Computing into their daily activities, the problem of training employees on how to use this ...

With Enstratius Acquisition Dell Cloud Services Strategy Enters New ...
With Enstratius Acquisition Dell Cloud Services Strategy Enters New Stage in EMEA ... As leader of the Cloud Services team in EMEA, I want to explain what this ...
en.community.dell.com/.../with-enstratius-acquisition-dell-clou...

Evolve IP Listed as Participating Contributor on the Cloud Security Alliance ...
Sacramento Bee
It also places Evolve IP with other leading cloud services pioneers in the effort to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, Hosting and Software as a Service (SaaS). For more information about Evolve ...

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Why Google is Amazon's strongest competitor

Why Google is freaking out Amazon | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld: "Taking innovative risks, such as building a cloud without the use of traditional virtualization, for example, means Google needs fewer resources and offers better performance. It can provide cloud services as a loss leader without killing the core business, and Google has a trusted brand. These all make Google the most serious AWS competitor. In a few years, Google could very well have an IaaS cloud offering that finally gives Amazon a run for its money. Given the maturation of this sector and the variability in buying patterns, Google could easily become the provider that finally does real battle with Amazon."

EMC accelerates transformation ToPrivate Cloud Computing for customers ...
Al-Bawaba
To help build a foundation for private cloud computing, EMC is also deepening its relationship with SAP and VMware by integrating their respective services capabilities and helping customers accelerate full-lifecycle transformation of SAP applications ...

TechTalk: Flickr offers 1 TB free cloud storage
Manoramaonline
In a major revamp, the famous photo sharing website Flickr has offered a massive 1 TB free cloud storage to its users to upload pictures and videos. The site has a fresh look now and allows single images up to 200 MB file size to be uploaded. But is it ...

Managing IT Without An IT Staff? 3 Keys To Choosing Cloud Services That Can ...
Business 2 Community
It's certainly not easy for a nontechnical employee to handle the technology needs of a growing business, but cloud services with excellent customer support can significantly lighten the load. We'd love to hear from any involuntary IT managers out there.

Retailers Turn Cloud Computing into Sales
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud computing involves a new way of thinking about data. In a cloud, a single server can host many virtual servers, slashing hardware costs. The virtual servers can scale on-demand depending on the need for computer capacity. That's very useful for ...

Cloud Computing Bootcamp at Cloud Expo New York: Full Agenda
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Learn the secrets of other CXOs in your peer firms, how they are thinking about the cloud as a new competitive advantage, new financial level and a new technology choice. Learn also about the two biggest trends in the last 100 years of computing and ...

Huawei unveils its next generation data centre architecture DC to maximize ...
AME Info (press release)
Commenting ahead of the conference Davis Fu, said: "We see significant investment being made incloud computing and data centre services in the region. however, adoption is still at the very early stages. Companies here are eager to take the first step ...

Xbox One, Creative Cloud Backlash Show Limits of Cloud ...
The move to embrace the cloud. Generally speaking, the concept of the cloud can be separated into two parts: cloud storage, and cloud computing. Examples of ...
beta.fool.com/joekurtz/2013/05/25/xbox...of.../35178/?...

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Ready to move to the cloud

Why I'm ready to ditch my dedicated server and move to the cloud | ZDNet: " . . . I only have to play network engineer a few times a year, and it’s usually for something simple. This level of mucking about with servers only comes along every few years, thankfully. But it’s painful enough that I’ve been looking at the alternatives. Can I hand the whole thing over to someone else? A lot of the reasons I need a powerful dedicated server have vanished over the past decade. . . ."

Ex Amazon Employee: Google Is 'A Threat 'To Amazon's Cloud
Business Insider
A former Amazon Web Services engineer recently conducted an Ask-Me-Anything session on Reddit, and one of the more surprising things he said was just how much of a threat Google's cloud computing service is to Amazon. That's because Google's cloud ...

Cloud Gaining Traction In Government, Education Markets - CRN.com
CRN
The potential for reduced costs is causing cloud computing to gain momentum in the government and education space. "I'm seeing SaaS offerings growing rapidly, driven by the education software developers seeing an opportunity to gain new customers," ...

IBM updates COBOL to extend System javascript:void(0)z into the cloud
V3.co.uk
The company said that its System/z COBOL software update would look to add Java 7 and XML server capabilities to the platform, allowing the mainframe line to host cloud computing applications and services. The update is part of what IBM sees as an ...

Adobe announces Creative Cloud
HollandSentinel.com
You also get 20 gigs of cloud storage for sharing, storage and collaborating, Web hosting services and training tutorials. You also receive a membership to Behance ProSite integrated into your Creative Cloud subscription. Behance is an online portfolio ...

Tableau, Marketo IPOs Ending Facebook's Tech Chill?
Investor's Business Daily
Big Data and cloud computing IPOs soared Friday as investor appetite for new issues — particularly potential highflying techs — seems to have fortified. Tableau Software (DATA), which helps companies mine and make sense of the massive silos of data ...


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Google Strengthens Cloud Platform

Google Strengthens Cloud Platform
InformationWeek
Certainly, Amazon.com has realized revenue from cloud services. The company's Amazon Web Services division is estimated to have brought in over $2 billion in revenue last year. As anticipated,Google opened Compute Engine (GCE), its on-demand cloud ...

Level Platforms and Anchor Simplify Management of Cloud Storage for MSPs
San Francisco Chronicle
Latest technology integration enables managed service providers (MSPs) to fully monitor and manage the health and activity of Anchor cloud services from within Managed Workplace. (PRWEB) May 16, 2013. Level Platforms today announced that Managed ...

How a best practices registry could make cloud safer - USA Today
USA TODAY
(Editor's note: Formed in 2008, the Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit coalition of senior executives and cybersecurity experts formed to promote the use of best security practices for cloud computing. CSA members who contributed to this essay ...

How Manufacturers Can Benefit From Cloud Computing
Manufacturing Business Technology
Manufacturers are also integrating cloud services into their own products. M.G. Bryan is using our Windows Azure cloud-computing platform for remote asset management. Working with our partner Rockwell Automation, M.G. Bryan designed an equipment ...

With Photos, Google Finally Makes Cloud Computing Tangible for Consumers
Gotta Be Mobile
One of the problems with talking about the cloud is that it's this obscure concept that consumers don't really grasp. At best, many consumers think of the cloud as this mythical storage center in the universe where their files are stored and backed up ...

Fujitsu introduces high level cloud computing based services
Business Standard
Fujitsu's Tsuneo Kawatsuma made a conceptual presentation to indicate the shift of Cloud computing from private space to public space and the mid- area which facilitates both private and public computing. Following the Tsunami in March 2011, people are ...

A successful private cloud migration starts with data and apps
InfoWorld
The use of private clouds is becoming old news, as many enterprises are much more comfortable with this approach to cloud computing than they are with moving their data to the public cloud. Indeed, the private cloud is a valuable resource if you pick ...

CohesiveFT Shortlisted for Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure Award
WhaTech
The Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure Award recognises a company with a demonstrable track record established in the last 12 months that can be used as an exemplar to the global datacentre industry that has achieved transformation of traditional ...

Tech Stock Woes: Cloud Shift Seen Cutting Into IT Spending
Investor's Business Daily
Worries that cloud computing services are taking IT spending away from "old guard" hardware and networking companies has been a drag on tech stocks, says Barclays in a report. Many tech firms... "Cloud services will drive a shrinking IT spending pie.

Cloud Computing: Businesses Diversify their Cloud Portfolios
Formtek Blog (blog)
The RightScale survey also found that large organizations tend to diversify their cloud portfolio. 47 percent of larges businesses say that they have a hybrid cloud strategy that makes use of both public and private cloud services and applications ...

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RapidShare mass layoffs, struggle to find new business model

RapidShare lays off most of its staff as it struggles to find new business model — Tech News and Analysis: "The company is now looking to get a stronger foothold in the B2B cloud storage market, and sell personal file storage and backup solutions to consumers. However, the mass layoffs weren’t the first sign that these plans may not be going as expected: Sidler, who joined the company just two weeks ago, is RapidShare’s fourth CEO since 2010."

Cloud computing can slash IT expenses by half, DataOne executive says
Tempo
DataOne Asia, the leading independent provider of IT services in the Philippines, says that businesses can operate this way using the right technology such as cloud computing. “Businesses that migrate their IT systems to the cloud could save at least ...

These Tech Giants Covered by the Cloud, Too: Pros
CNBC.com (blog)
One of the biggest secular trends in technology is toward cloud computing, which allows consumers and businesses to access data and applications anywhere, anytime. "You have to focus on cloud as a tech investor at this point," Ken Allen, technology ...

Cloud Computing – The Wave of the Future
SYS-CON Media (press release)
"Trust is an ongoing journey and sits at the foundation of any vendor relationship - the companies that don't consistently earn trust won't be around long," noted Henrik Rosendahl, Senior VP of CloudSolutions at Quantum, in this exclusive Q&A with ...

Cloud Expo NY: Essential Open Source Software for Building the Open Cloud
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud computing is more than a buzz-phrase it's a transformative IT paradigm shift. The emphasis in the cloud is on elasticity, scalability, agility and open. Not just open standards but open APIs and open source. The delivery of software is also going ...

Former Amazon Employee: Working On Amazon's Cloud Can Be A Dull Job
Business Insider
When it comes to cloud computing, there's no bigger name than Amazon Web Services (AWS). Yet the company is surprisingly tight-lipped about its cloud. It doesn't disclose revenues. It will only let a scant few top-level AWS execs talk to the press and ...

Tableau, Marketo software IPOs soar to the cloud
Business Recorder (blog)
The companies are being buoyed by new technologies like mobile and so-called "cloud" computing, trends that are creating tremendous business opportunities for young enterprise firms, investors say, leading them to grab market share from incumbents like ...

Venyu's Cloud Computing Honored by Network Products Guide
NewsMaker (press release)
BATON ROUGE, LA -- (Marketwired) -- Powering its market leadership in cloud computing, business continuity, and battle-tested data recovery solutions, Venyu today announced the company has secured two premier honors in the "2013 Hot Companies and Best ...

Google Cloud Storage - Google Developers
Support for Google Cloud Storage API for Google App Engine is experimental, innovative, and rapidly improving. Because it is such a new feature, App Engine's ...
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/.../overvie...


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Amazon is a threat to HP, Dell and Oracle

Amazon’s growing threat to H-P, Dell and Oracle - MarketWatch: "While Netflix may be the face for providing its subscribers access to movies such as “The Hunger Games” and TV shows like “Mad Men,” it’s Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.91% actually streaming that content to their screens. And the e-commerce giant has gone well beyond movie streaming, having used its massive technology backbone and expertise to solve the cloud computing needs of many large and small enterprises.As such, Amazon has quickly become a significant force in the market for corporate IT services, where it now competes against big technology names like Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc.and Oracle Corp.— to name a few. . . ."

Overcome FUD with a clear cloud services policy: Ovum
Computerworld Australia
Hodgkinson also urged policy makers to explain the difference between cloud computing and cloud services. He defined cloud computing as the suite of technology innovations, including scalable infrastructure, virtualization, automation and self-service ...

Computerworld Australia

SAP takes step into cloud computing sector
Financial Times
SAP has already dipped its toe into cloud computing with the acquisition of SuccessFactors, a so-called software-as-a-service company that was designed from the ground up to deliver its technology over the internet. However, big companies have been ...

Google simplifies content management on its cloud storage service
PCWorld
Google's cloud team is now getting ready for the I/O conference. It will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco between May 15 and May 17. While Google's cloud services may not get as much attention as Android and the company's consumer ...

Oracle puts cloud computing market at $207 billion by 2015
The Guardian Nigeria
Speaking at cloud computing conference organised by the firm, Country Manager, Oracle Nigeria, Layo Ajayi, said cloud computing services help businesses cut down Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) on Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and in the same ...

Cloud computing and the hospitality industry.
bdaily
This is arguably true for all but the hotel industry which has been largely receptive to the benefits ofcloud computing. Hotels handle information on internal servers and record customer visits through booking and in house data systems. Migration to ...

Cloud services need more government action: Ovum
ARNnet
Government policy-makers need to up their game and work harder in order to create a level playing field for Cloud services adoption, according to global findings from Ovum. “The logic of governmentCloud computing policy usually starts with the ...

Skali Sees Significant Growth In Cloud Services
Bernama
Skali Sees Significant Growth In Cloud Services. KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 (Bernama) -- SKALI Group of Malaysia, an integrated eGovernment and eBusiness company, expects this year to be a pivotal year for cloud computing given its ability to deliver ...

Dimension Data Joins Amazon, Rackspace With Three-Tiered Cloud Storage
CRN
Global solution and services provider Dimension Data this week unveiled tiered storage capability across its global cloud, making the company one of only a handful of cloud storage providers worldwide able to offer three tiers of service. Johannesburg ...

CRN

Dell Buys Enstratius Cloud Computing Firm
HispanicBusiness.com
Texas computer maker Dell Inc. has acquired Minneapolis-based Enstratius, a private cloud-computing firm. Terms were not disclosed. Enstratius, founded in 2008, said it helps hundreds of companies worldwide automate the process of cloud computing, ...

Global Cloud Computing Market Revenues to Hit $35.6B in 2013
PCBDesign007
Visiongain's analysis indicates that the total value of the global cloud computing services market revenues reach $35.6 billion by the end of 2013, driven by increasing adoption of cloud services from the enterprise side. Companies are often held back ...


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Can HP survive missteps?

Turning around an aircraft carrier while undergoing refitting is not easy-- Cassidy: Will Hewlett-Packard survive its missteps? - SiliconValley.com: " . . . announcing it was eventually getting out of the PC business, which killed sales; and then not getting out of the PC business, which caused confusion; buying software company Autonomy for way more than it was worth . . ."I think HP is here to stay," said Trip Chowdhry, of Global Equity Research, "but it will be very different from what people think it to be." Chowdhry says the company will need to move quickly to adjust to a technology landscape in which the cloud is the center of the tech experience for the nation's workers. Big internal corporate networks with servers, routers and other hardware that Hewlett-Packard sells are becoming a thing of the past.Of course, CEO Meg Whitman has said repeatedly that she is pushing for a bigger presence in cloud computing and emphasizing opportunities the company can seize in security and big data. She's also said shareholders and others need to be patient; that it's going to take time to turn HP around. . . ."

Interop Cloud Experts Debate SDN's Future
InformationWeek
Microsoft has been learning the same lessons through cloud services such as Azure, said Rajeev Nagar, group program manager for Windows core networking. "Scale changes everything," he said, adding that "when you're provisioning and de-provisioning ...

Cloud computing for a growing business
Telegraph.co.uk
... from cloud computing with PC World Business - Many business leaders have read about the benefits of the cloud, but are either too busy to research the technology fully or are sceptical that the advantages ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Cloud Computing 2.0 Provider Demonstrates Value for SaaS Companies
Tophosts
CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwired – May 8, 2013) – ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, today released a case study detailing how its cloud computing 2.0 solution can help ...

The Art Of Reinvention: SAP Puts Its Weight Behind A Better, Faster And ...
Forbes
This week the company announced a bold new plan to re-invent itself as a cloud computingcompany. A major part of the company's cloud plan is to provide its products over the Internet using a subscription-based approach, rather than the per server, per ...

Cloud computing is the new normal
V3.co.uk
Cloud computing has been around for quite a few years now, so isn't it about time we accepted that the cloud is simply part of the way IT is delivered these days, rather than some exotic and dangerous cutting-edge technology? The very name 'cloud ...

V3.co.uk

More small businesses are adopting cloud computing in Ireland - Microsoft ...
Siliconrepublic.com
More organisations across Ireland are implementing cloud computing, in particular, companies with five to 50 employees, the second annual Microsoft/Amárach CloudIndex reveals. Fifty-three per cent of organisations with five to 50 staff members are now ...

Siliconrepublic.com

Skali sees more firms embracing cloud computing - The Star Online
The Star Online
PETALING JAYA: Integrated e-Government and e-business firm Skali Group Malaysia expects 2013 to be a pivotal year for cloud computing as more organisations now realise the agility and lower operating costs that the service offers. Last year, the firm's ...

Cloud services first: A next-generation
Delimiter
analysis We believe it is time for governments to elevate their policy thinking aboutcloud services to confront their ICT strategy conundrum. They must address increasing fiscal constraints and disappointment with existing approaches to boosting ICT ...

Delimiter

Dell and OnApp cooperate on pretested cloud packages
ITworld.com
... to launch cloud services. By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service | Cloud Computing. May 09 ...The packages provide all that's needed to roll out a virtual infrastructure for public and private cloud services, the companies said. They combine a fully ...

The logic of rendering movies in the cloud
Sydney Morning Herald
Famed Australian digital visual effects company, Animal Logic, is mulling the use of public cloud computing services to help render the visual effects in future blockbuster movies. Animal Logic has arguably been the highest-profile private owner of ...

Evaluating Security Needs for Private Cloud - Cloud Computing ...
The Trustworthy Computing blog shares Microsoft perspectives about cloud computing. From security in the cloud to the evolution of IT, we show how Microsoft ...


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Adobe embraces the cloud

Adobe's professional cloud push arrives at its final destination | Software - CNET Reviews: "Adobe's not just rebranding all of its professional applications with the Creative Cloud moniker (except Lightroom -- so far). Now it's created a supercell composed of Photoshop CC, Dreamweaver CC, InDesign CC, so on and so on, ad infinitum. You'll only be able to get individual copies of those packages by subscription, though that individual-product subscription toll has dropped to $10 a month from $20. The updates will roll out to all CC subscribers on June 17."

Cloud storage company Box to buy Crocodoc
Times of India
SAN FRANCISCO: Box, a cloud-storage company, said it has agreed to acquire Crocodoc, a small start-up that provides the technology behind document viewers found on some of the world's most popular websites, including Facebook and Dropbox.

Times of India

Mostly bark, little bite in SAP's cloud offerings
InfoWorld
In 2010, it launched Business ByDesign as a SaaS offering to resounding yawns from the cloud computing industry. Vowing to improve, SAP did what all big companies do when they want to move quicker into a market. Innovate? Nope -- it bought other ...

Cloud computing practices represent a fundamental shift in IT
TechTarget
Latest Headlines. Harvard Business Publishing shares cloud migration lessons learned · Dell shuffles cloud computing cards again with Enstratius buy · Opscode Chef configuration automation tool aids cloud management · View All News ...

Dell and OnApp cooperate on pretested cloud packages
InfoWorld
The packages provide all that's needed to roll out a virtual infrastructure for public and private cloud services, the companies said. ... Making it easier to launch cloud services should help increase competition, and result in more choice and lower ...

Options abound for cloud computing in healthcare
TechTarget
This is the first in a series of tips exploring cloud computing in healthcare, including cloud services and applications. Public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud: For all the talk aroundclouds, organizations mostly want to know how this affects ...

How Cloud Computing Changes Enterprise IT Economics
Computerworld India
After a recent speaking engagement, in which I focused on creating ahybrid cloud computing strategy, an attendee approached me with a question. "How," he asked, "can I show that our storage is less expensive than AWS?" When I asked him to elaborate, ...

Computerworld India

How Netflix is revolutionizing cloud computing just so you can watch '16 and ...
ITworld.com
Companies such as EBay (EBAY) and Intel (INTC) have started using (Netflix's) products with their own cloud computing systems, as did the Obama campaign during the last election. Scott VanDenPlas, who managed much of the (Obama) campaign's ...

ITworld.com

How Cloud Computing and Mobility Are Changing The Hiring Process
Business 2 Community
Cloud computing might be commonplace now, but it is still revolutionizing many traditional industries. One of those sectors is the hiring and recruiting space, where cloud computing has made it easier for your company to connect with candidates. With ...

Cloud Computing: The Tricky Business of Hot Upgrades
Formtek Blog (blog)
Jay Heiser, Gartner research vice president, told Ellen Messmer of Network World that “Gartner clients are almost universally disappointed by what they regard as the incompleteness in cloud-computing contracts where they still don't see the level of ...

Cloud computing themed V3 tablet app issue goes live
V3.co.uk
The May issue of the V3 Tablet App is now available for download for the iPad via the Apple App Store, with this edition focusing on cloud computing and its impact on the world of enterprise IT. You can get your hands on it by simply registering free ...
 
V3.co.uk

Box Acquires Crocodoc To Add HTML5 Document Converter And ...
By Leena Rao
Cloud storage company Box has acquired HTML5 document embedding service and Y Combinator alum Crocodoc, both companies announced in a press briefing today. Fi..
TechCrunch

Google App Engine Blog: Automatically Process Cloud Storage ...
Do your customers upload files to Google Cloud Storage for your applications to process? For example, a photo app may want to create thumbnails of new ...
googleappengine.blogspot.com/.../automatically-process-cloud...

MezeoCloud | Mezeo Software
MezeoCloud is a deployable software solution that transforms your choice of storage into a next-generation Cloud Storage Platform with the capabilities needed ...
www.mezeo.com/mezeocloud/

Aston Martin embraces cloud computing - Telegraph
Microsoft Office 365 allows Aston Martin's 1600 staff to work in the cloud from anywhere in the world.
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../aston-martin-cloud-computing.html


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Google Cloud Drops Custom Linux For Debian

Google's Cloud Drops Custom Linux For Debian - Cloud Computing -: "Google has been using its own custom version of Linux, Google Compute Engine Linux, as it loads its customers' applications into its infrastructure as a service. It announced Thursday that it's dropping that approach in favor of using the Debian Linux distribution."


Cloud computing is silver lining for Russian firms
AFP
RIGA — Russian police marched into a small company's office in Moscow and told everyone to sit down and wait to be interviewed. They left hours later with all the computers. "You can imagine how much of a problem it was. We had no backups," said the ...

AFP

5 Cloud Computing Trends For 2013
CloudTweaks News
In 2012, cloud computing became a much bigger trend in the business and networking world. IDC have predicted a 130% increase in cloud computing by 2016, meaning an increase to $43 billion. Here are some of the five trends to look out for that are ...

Are Cloud Tools Changing the Landscape of the Internet?
QR Code Press
cloud computing The landscape of the web is endless, which is one of the amazing things about the new age we live in. New technologies are regularly being introduced and just as people begin using them in their everyday lives, something else is ...

QR Code Press

AMD announces new and improved hardware acceleration features for Adobe ...
TweakTown
AMD has announced that it has significantly improved hardware acceleration for Adobe's Photoshop Creative Cloud and Premiere Pro Creative Cloud services. The company says that the collaboration between Adobe and AMD to provide high-quality,...

TweakTown

SecureIT awarded Cloud Computing Security Contract from EDC - PRWeb
PR Web (press release)
SecureIT worked with EDC to develop an IT strategy using cloud computing to meet its business and security obligations while supporting EDC business goals such as increased mobility and resource efficiency. SecureIT will develop a plan and assist EDC ...


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Brick-and-mortar stores must look to cloud computing

Sunnier Days Ahead for Retailers that Use Cloud Computing
Wired
In order to remain competitive and press their advantage further, brick-and-mortar stores must look to the cloud computing revolution as a way to upgrade their technology without busting their budgets. Perhaps most important, clouds offer retailers a ...

Wired

How private or hybrid cloud storage solutions can improve care
TechTarget
Earlier, an indication was made that by answering the "where" question, other situations could arise that require more than simply providing cloud storage, and could require heavier cloud-computingtasks. Massaging stored patient data into detailed ...

HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company's chief initiative
ITworld.com
Turmoil in the upper ranks has caused consternation among customers over the past few years and while Amazon made early inroads in dominating the market for cloud services, HP has been relatively late to the game. The company announced its strategy ...

3 Questions To Ask When Choosing A Cloud Storage Solution
Business 2 Community
3 Questions To Ask When Choosing A Cloud Storage Solution image choosing cloud storage solution You've heard enough about the advantages of cloud computing for small businesses, and you're ready to start using the cloud to store your data. But how ...
 
Business 2 Community

Cloud Caution: Healthcare Market Slowly Adopting Cloud - CRN.com
CRN
Vincent also explained that some of the externally located medical teams that are related to hospitals, such as clinical offices, have started kicking the tires on cloud computing and are often beginning to adopt cloud services in order to eliminate ...

Using public cloud when provisioning enterprise IT services
TechTarget
This is a good question because it illuminates a powerful concern that still shadows the public cloud services market: What is the value of the cloud? If the value were totally apparent, there would be wider adoption of such services, but the growth of ...

Amazon takes on Apple's Photo Stream with Cloud Drive Photos iOS app
Apple Insider
Amazon on Friday released its Cloud Drive Photos app, and corresponding 5 gigabytes worth of freecloud storage, in what is essentially a competitor to Apple's own iCloud-based Photo Stream service. Amazon Photos. Like Photo Stream, images are ...

'Google Drive' Cloud Storage Service Goes Down. Again.
International Business Times
Google Drive Outage Photo: International Business Times Google Drive is currently experiencing a service outage. Do you use Google Drive? What do you think of Google, Google Drive and cloud services overall? Sound off in the comments below.

International Business Times

With Cloud Drive Photos, Amazon makes a play to be the cloud app for iOS photos
GigaOM
He presciently noted there would be a time when competitors — he named Google or Dropbox — would come along with better cloud-storage options for mobile photos. Well, here comes Amazon with one such solution. Cloud Drive Photos, already available on ...

Amazon debuts Cloud Drive Photos app for iOS, provides access to pictures on ...
TweakTown
Amazon has released a rather specialized app for iOS. Cloud Drive Photos allows iOS users to access to their Amazon Cloud storage, but only to their pictures. The app also allows iOS users to easily ...

TweakTown

Google Cloud Storage Overview - Google Developers
Google Cloud Storage allows world-wide storing and retrieval of any amount of data and at any time. It provides a simple programming interface which enables ...
https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/overview

Moving to the cloud let London-Gatwick airport kill 200 servers ...
Cloud computing and a "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy aren't technology ... and applications to instead acquiring needed features through cloud services. ... Adobe's move to a subscription license and cloud storage model for its pro ...
www.citeworld.com/.../london-gatwick-moves-cloud-kills-200...

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Free cloud storage to 100GB or more

Supersize your free cloud storage to 100GB or more
PCWorld
But thanks to the rapid rise of entities like Dropbox, SugarSync, and Google Drive, cloud storageand syncing services are nearly ubiquitous today, acting as hard drives in the sky that help you do all kinds of things—such as creating a bulletproof ...

Cloud computing to dominate SME's ICT spend
Moneycontrol.com
Of course, cloud computing raises concerns about security, stability, and data ownership. Cloud computing adoption rates have been steadily increasing since 2009; however, there are concerns over efficiently managing disparate cloud services.

Moneycontrol.com

Avectra Executive to Present Session on Cloud Computing at the Virginia SAE ...
IT Business Net
WHAT: An executive from Avectra, a leading Social CRM developer of web-based member and donor-based software for associations and not-for-profits, will lead an educational session on the best way to utilize cloud computing to deliver a competitive edge ...

Exablox's New On-Site/Cloud Storage Needs No Software Install - eWeek
eWeek
Exablox, a promising VC-backed startup that launched its first product April 24, combines the on-site and cloud worlds by offering an on-premises storage appliance coupled with a cloud-based management system to handle unlimited cloud storage. As a ...

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Cloud computing a hot area of play Downunder
ARNnet
Chicktong said the global launch of Avnet Services is timely given momentum is building in Cloud computing (particularly SaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) – a key reason why Avnet Cloud Services was hatched ...

Research and Markets: Cloud Business Solutions, Social Media, and Platform ...
Fort Mills Times
Cloud business solutions, social media, and platform systems of engagement represent major IT market shifts. The lines of business are taking over from the IT departments. Systems of engagement leverage the apps market segment. A key cloud computing ...

Companies spending less on office space thanks to cloud
CloudTech
The overlap between cloud computing and enterprise mobility is becoming ever more pronounced. And according to a new survey from Rackspace Hosting, the proliferation of cloud computing, and mobilising workforces means that companies are likely to ...

The taxman cometh for cloud services
InfoWorld (blog)
based cloud services company. In the CRN article, Falcon warned, "Massachusetts has been very aggressive in attracting startups and innovative companies. Certainly, we want to hold onto the talent that we develop at MIT and at other institutions. But ...

StorageCraft Cloud Services Made Available
UCStrategies
Companies are able to utilize offsite backup of servers as a result of StorageCraft Cloud Services, and this means that complete system and data disaster recovery will be possible through the new partnerships. SYNNEX and Lifeboat VARs will also be able ...

Carbonite CEO: Small Business Cloud Momentum Accelerates
Talkin' Cloud
When Carbonite (NASDAQ:CARB) announced Q1 financial results today, CEO David Friend credited growing small business cloud backup momentum. Moreover, channel partners -- from small resellers to cable companies and big cloud services providers ...

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Protect your company against vanishing cloud services

How to protect your company against vanishing cloud services
GigaOM
If the 75-percent-of-all-startups-fail statistic applies equally to cloud computing as it does to other sectors, we're about to see a lot more sad emails to users warning them to move their data or find a new provider within the next month. It sucks to ...

StorageCraft Technology Launches Cloud Services in US, Canada
Web Host Industry Review
Cloud storage services provider StorageCraft Technology announced on Friday it is now offering StorageCraft Cloud Services through its value added resellers, via Lifeboat and SYNNEX distribution. StorageCraft was recently singled-out in a new study ...

Canadian Tire Building Cloud Computing Centre in Winnipeg
Digital Home
“The Canadian Tire Advanced Cloud Computing Centre will serve as the core digital hub for…Canadian Tire Retail, Mark's, FGL Sports, Partsource, Gas+ and our Financial Services division,” said Eugene Roman, Chief Technology Officer of Canadian Tire ...

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New QTS Lab Will Advance High-Security Federal Clouds
Data Center Knowledge
QTS (Quality Technology Services) wants to help federal agencies get comfortable withcloud computing, and is dedicating some of its data center space toward this goal. The company, in conjunction with i2 Sentinel Associates, has set up a testbed ...

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Growth of Cloud Computing and ERP Continues to Accelerate
Technorati
The switch could lead to better computing centers and is positive news considering the immense growth of cloud computing in recent years. It is being heralded as another step forward for the future of enterprise cloud services. The news of a better ...

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'Restictive' EU Cloud Ideas Worries UK G-Cloud Boss McDonagh
ChannelBiz
The head of the G-Cloud and director of IT for the Home Office Denise McDonagh has raised concerns about “restrictive” cloud computing ideas emanating from the European Commission. McDonagh ... The UK Government's efforts to embrace publiccloud ...

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How Big Data can help in meeting big energy needs
Power Engineering Magazine
Whether it is electrical transmission and distribution grid management, oil pipes for pump liquid fuels or managing wind and tidal energy firms, cloud computing and Big Data is used to reduce the distribution losses and deliver at the most cost ...

Weekend Roundup: Android booms from Samsung Galaxy S4 and tablet line-up ...
ITProPortal
Weekend Roundup: Android booms from Samsung Galaxy S4 and tablet line-up, Top 10 tips for cloud computing, Cameras on Kaspersky. by Will Dalton, 04 May, 2013 04 May, 2013 News. Weekend Roundup: Android booms from Samsung Galaxy S4 and ...

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New Magellan GPS taps cloud computing and social media
Salt Lake Tribune
Its new $249 SmartGPS takes advantage of the Cloud and social media in an effort to co-exist with smartphones rather than compete with them. The SmartGPS looks like an overgrown iPhone with a five- inch screen. It plugs into the cigarette lighter in ...

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Amazon Cloud Grows Cloud Partners, Cloud Competitors

Amazon Web Services is in the middle of a worldwide tour, selling itself to customers and partners and gearing up for competition from a variety of new competitors.--

Amazon's Boom in Cloud Partners - NYTimes.com: " . .  . Last week the data storage giant EMC and its affiliate VMware, which are worried about the Amazon service, announced creation of Pivotal, a company that includes its own Amazon-type cloud. This summer, Google is likely to announce an expansion of its own Amazon Web Services-type unit, called Google Compute Engine. Both Pivotal and Google are working hard on partner networks of their own. Elsewhere, a wealth of consortia with the word “open” in their names are looking for their own openings. Many of these companies are heavily backed by older incumbent companies. . . ."

The week in cloud: So much for a million clouds; AWS chief takes on private clouds
GigaOM
Summary: Shhhhh, it looks like cloud computing is not immune from industry consolidation and Amazon Web Services gets testy about private cloud adoption. Clouds ... There have been other examples of cloud services shutting down. One cloud watcher ...

RightScale Sees Increase in Multi-Cloud Use and Adoption
CloudTimes
rightscale top100 square RightScale Sees Increase in Multi Cloud Use and AdoptionCloud computing is catching on in business, but not all alike, as recent reports say. For example, the firm RightScale that mediates between users and public cloud ...

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StorageCraft makes Cloud Services available to US, Canadian distributors
Wall Street Journal
StorageCraft Cloud Services allows companies to use offsite backup of servers for complete system and data disaster recovery. StorageCraft Cloud Services offers anytime, anywhere access to data and instant system failover in the cloud. It provides ...

Cloud Computing at the Hotel California, Check-in and Never Leave!
Forbes
The Bloomberg Bloomberg piece goes on to point out that “earlier this month, Microsoft rolled out a new set of cloud services designed to more directly challenge Amazon and vowed to match the online retailer's lowest prices for competing products.

Cloud computing only for techies? Nah, college students chipping in
Daily News & Analysis
Cloud computing is a web-based service that provides a host of services to companies from data analysis to data management. There are private clouds that are specific to one network of computers or public cloud whose services are available to everyone.

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Why CFOs Should Oversee Company Cloud Initiatives
CFO.com Magazine
Why CFOs Should Oversee Company Cloud Initiatives. Finance chiefs that take a hands-on approach to managing their organizations' use of cloud computing can more effectively mitigate the legal, regulatory and privacy risks that lurk in the Cloud. Janet ...

Intelisys' Cloud Computing Offensive Is Picking Up Steam - CRN.com
CRN
based carrier and technology solution provider that is driving new cloud services sales with Intelisys. "I see huge growth ahead in my business because of my partnership with Intelisys. They are educating us on cloud and bringing VARs and agents that ...

Amazon Web Services Unveils AWS Cloud Professionals Certification Program
Talkin' Cloud
Amazon Web Services apparently feels there's a shortage of talent when it comes tocloud computing professionals that work within its public cloud environment. The result: Amazon has launched the AWS Certification Program and the first of several exams ...

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Eucalytpus Adds Netflix Tools , Amazon Options
InformationWeek
The Eucalyptus developers produced open source versions of Amazon's cloud service APIs. Amazon in March 2012 named Eucalyptus a partner in providing cloud services. With interest in privatecloud reaching an all-time high in the enterprise, a private ...

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For two tech vets, cloud computing is no fluff
Haaretz
Benny Schnaider and Rami Tamir have their head in the clouds, or more accurately, in cloud computing. This technology uses the Internet or other networks of large groups of servers running low-cost PC technology for data-processing rather than having ...

Maharashtra govt bets on cloud computing to speed up services
Livemint
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government is in the process of implementing cloud computing solutions in a bid to strengthen e-governance in the state while providing citizens services speedily and instantly, wherever feasible. Dubbed MahaGov Cloud, the state ...

Livemint

With HIPAA Compliance, Cloud Storage Platform Box Makes A Big Push Into ...
TechCrunch
Cloud storage company Box is making a big push into the healthcare sector today. Not only has Box received HIPAA compliance, but the company has announcing a new set of partners in the space, as well as an equity investment in drchrono, a startup that ...

In the near future, 'cloud computing' will just be 'computing'
GCN.com
Three years from now federal managers won't have debates about the benefits of cloud computingbecause most will assume that services are being delivered via some type of cloud infrastructure. Instead, they will be talking about big data; how they can ...

'Dumped! By Google,' Viral Blog Post, Underscores Anxieties And Risks Of ...
Huffington Post
And isn't that what online backup and cloud storage is for? To effortlessly back up the entirety of your computer, tax documents and all? To share sensitive information, like passwords, with others who need it? To have one central location to store and ...

Internap looks to integrate cloud with colocation services
ZDNet
By integrating the provisioning and management of related cloud services into their colo customer portal, Internap makes provisioning cloud services as part of your hosted infrastructure a relatively simple process. The cloud services they make ...

ZDNet

OpenText's Q3 Figures Released: Software Licenses, Cloud Services Push ...
CMSWire
One way or another, OpenText once again had an exceptional quarter on the back of its expandingcloud services and is now in such a strong financial position that it will pay shareholders a quarterly dividend in this quarter of US$ .30 per share ...

Cloud Security Alliance Reaches out to Small Businesses - eWeek
eWeek
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, announced a new membership level and working group designed to benefit the ...

eWeek

Drew Hendricks: 5 Reasons Cloud Computing Is Booming
Cloud computing has experienced serious growth in recent years--even the ... With cloud storage, everything is in one virtual place and it's simple to use a ...

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