Egnyte pledges cloud storage flexibility
ZDNet
What makes this company more than just another cloud storage service provider is its focus on giving SMBs more than one place to keep their files, if they want. Those places might include Egnyte's own resources, infrastructure from Amazon Web Services ...
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Guidance for cloud computing
'Clear and direct guidance' for cloud computing
ZDNet
Those are the cautionary words of Thomas Erl, co-author of the just-released book, Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, who points out that a lot of the work that took place behind creating and building service oriented architecture is ...
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ZDNet
Those are the cautionary words of Thomas Erl, co-author of the just-released book, Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, who points out that a lot of the work that took place behind creating and building service oriented architecture is ...
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Big Data Security and Privacy Risks
Cloud Computing Experts Detail Big Data Security and Privacy Risks
Data Informed
“As big data expands through streaming cloud technology, traditional security mechanisms tailored to securing small-scale, static data on firewalled and semi-isolated networks are inadequate,” the report states. Important changes in the computing ...
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Data Informed
“As big data expands through streaming cloud technology, traditional security mechanisms tailored to securing small-scale, static data on firewalled and semi-isolated networks are inadequate,” the report states. Important changes in the computing ...
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Why cloud storage startup Box is considering OpenStack over Amazon S3
Why cloud storage startup Box is considering OpenStack over Amazon S3
GigaOM
Right now, the backend for cloud storage startup Box is “kind of boring,” said engineering VP Sam Schillace at GigaOM's Structure 2013 conference. But it looks like some interesting changes could afoot. On stage with GigaOM senior writer Derrick Harris ...
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GigaOM
Right now, the backend for cloud storage startup Box is “kind of boring,” said engineering VP Sam Schillace at GigaOM's Structure 2013 conference. But it looks like some interesting changes could afoot. On stage with GigaOM senior writer Derrick Harris ...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Cool Cloud Tools For iPad
8 Cool Cloud Tools For iPad
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
The iPad, like all mobile devices, is inherently cloud-centric. Without an Internet link to ferry data, the tablet computer's capabilities are severely limited. And its dependence on cloud-oriented apps will only increase. Gartner predicts that 40% of ...
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InformationWeek SMB (blog)
The iPad, like all mobile devices, is inherently cloud-centric. Without an Internet link to ferry data, the tablet computer's capabilities are severely limited. And its dependence on cloud-oriented apps will only increase. Gartner predicts that 40% of ...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Cisco to integrate Citrix's NetScaler in cloud services portfolio
Cisco to integrate Citrix's NetScaler in cloud services portfolio
ZDNet
According to the two companies, the latest partnership targets enterprise and service providers looking to automate cloud services. Provision will be integrated and deployment will be simplified with Nexus 7000 routers. Cisco's security, network ...
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ZDNet
According to the two companies, the latest partnership targets enterprise and service providers looking to automate cloud services. Provision will be integrated and deployment will be simplified with Nexus 7000 routers. Cisco's security, network ...
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership
Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday | TechCrunch: " . . . the SAP angle has interesting possibilities. SAP has aligned closely with Amazon Web Services. Oracle could be looking to Microsoft to be its partner for big data, in-memory computing. For Pivotal, its effort is as much about big data as it is about application development. They also face SP as a competitor in the space. . ."
Oracle moves to embrace cloud upheaval
Financial Times
Oracle will this week lay out plans to move deeper into the cloud-computing market, as Wall Street worries that the US software company's traditional business is being disrupted by a technology transition that is bringing a new wave of start-ups to the ...
Media File Sharing via The Cloud Catching On
Broadcast Engineering
The different types of cloud services can be boiled down to two basic industry terms, “CloudWashed” and “Cloud Formed.” Cloud Washed, the most popular and easiest to deploy, gets a broadcaster up and running very quickly, but can be vulnerable to ...
What CIOs Need to Consider When Migrating to Cloud Is the Next Big Move
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The benefits of moving from an on-premises model to subscription-based, cloud-hosted computing are substantial. With cloud computing, CIOs have the opportunity to capitalize on a variable-cost structure. Until recently, data centers have needed to load ...
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Oracle moves to embrace cloud upheaval
Financial Times
Oracle will this week lay out plans to move deeper into the cloud-computing market, as Wall Street worries that the US software company's traditional business is being disrupted by a technology transition that is bringing a new wave of start-ups to the ...
Media File Sharing via The Cloud Catching On
Broadcast Engineering
The different types of cloud services can be boiled down to two basic industry terms, “CloudWashed” and “Cloud Formed.” Cloud Washed, the most popular and easiest to deploy, gets a broadcaster up and running very quickly, but can be vulnerable to ...
What CIOs Need to Consider When Migrating to Cloud Is the Next Big Move
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The benefits of moving from an on-premises model to subscription-based, cloud-hosted computing are substantial. With cloud computing, CIOs have the opportunity to capitalize on a variable-cost structure. Until recently, data centers have needed to load ...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
GAO sheds light on IBM-Amazon CIA battle
GAO sheds light on IBM-Amazon CIA battle
Washington Technology
IBM said it could build the CIA's cloud computing infrastructure for less, but the CIA thought Amazon's more expensive solution was technically superior, according to the Government Accountability Office. But GAO ruled in favor of IBM's protest after ...
Washington Technology
IBM said it could build the CIA's cloud computing infrastructure for less, but the CIA thought Amazon's more expensive solution was technically superior, according to the Government Accountability Office. But GAO ruled in favor of IBM's protest after ...
Microsoft Study Finds Gap in SMB Cloud Perception, Reality
CIO Today
Adrienne Hall, general manager of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, said in a statement that "there's a big gap between perception and reality when it comes to the cloud." She said SMBs that have adopted cloud services have "found security, privacy ...
CenturyLink buys Portland cloud computing startup AppFog
MENAFN.COM
CenturyLink has acquired a Portland startup called AppFog and will integrate it into a subsidiary called Savvis, according to several sources familiar with the ...
Coherent regulation best for cloud services
Invest in Australia
However, Australians also have concerns about sharing personal information and there are challenges to regulation intended to protect users, according to a new Australian Communications and Media Authority paper, The cloud: services, computing and ...
Regain your visibility and control over cloud computing costs
Network World
Network World - When cloud computing was in its infancy, proponents raised interest in the technology by telling companies they could save money by running their applications on infrastructure they didn't own or operate. In fact, some companies wouldn ...
Omnicom, Salesforce Partnership Builds Cloud Services, Data Infrastructure
MediaPost Communications
Omnicom, Salesforce Partnership Builds Cloud Services, Data Infrastructure. by Laurie ...Omnicom Media Group will tie together online services and build out physical data hubs with support from Salesforce and its marketing cloud technology. Annalect ...
'Click To Compute' In Cloud Could Boost Tech Stocks
Investor's Business Daily
It sees VMware (VMW) and Microsoft (MSFT) playing larger-than-expected roles in a gradual evolution of cloud computing, with IBM (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) perhaps having a bigger presence among users of the OpenStack open-source cloud ...
Google's balloon-powered Internet takes flight: Behind the scenes with Project ...
ITworld.com
Google is bringing new meaning to the word "cloud computing." No Google is not rolling out a new SaaS solution. Instead Google is launching Project Loon that aims to bring Internet access to every corner of the globe via high-altitude balloons. Yes ...
3 Companies Poised for the Shift to Cloud Systems
Motley Fool
With as much press as cloud computing gets, you'd think that companies around the world already have, or are in the process of, shifting their internal systems and applications to cloud-based solutions. Turns out, according to research from Gartner ...
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CIO Today
Adrienne Hall, general manager of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, said in a statement that "there's a big gap between perception and reality when it comes to the cloud." She said SMBs that have adopted cloud services have "found security, privacy ...
CenturyLink buys Portland cloud computing startup AppFog
MENAFN.COM
CenturyLink has acquired a Portland startup called AppFog and will integrate it into a subsidiary called Savvis, according to several sources familiar with the ...
Coherent regulation best for cloud services
Invest in Australia
However, Australians also have concerns about sharing personal information and there are challenges to regulation intended to protect users, according to a new Australian Communications and Media Authority paper, The cloud: services, computing and ...
Regain your visibility and control over cloud computing costs
Network World
Network World - When cloud computing was in its infancy, proponents raised interest in the technology by telling companies they could save money by running their applications on infrastructure they didn't own or operate. In fact, some companies wouldn ...
Omnicom, Salesforce Partnership Builds Cloud Services, Data Infrastructure
MediaPost Communications
Omnicom, Salesforce Partnership Builds Cloud Services, Data Infrastructure. by Laurie ...Omnicom Media Group will tie together online services and build out physical data hubs with support from Salesforce and its marketing cloud technology. Annalect ...
'Click To Compute' In Cloud Could Boost Tech Stocks
Investor's Business Daily
It sees VMware (VMW) and Microsoft (MSFT) playing larger-than-expected roles in a gradual evolution of cloud computing, with IBM (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) perhaps having a bigger presence among users of the OpenStack open-source cloud ...
Google's balloon-powered Internet takes flight: Behind the scenes with Project ...
ITworld.com
Google is bringing new meaning to the word "cloud computing." No Google is not rolling out a new SaaS solution. Instead Google is launching Project Loon that aims to bring Internet access to every corner of the globe via high-altitude balloons. Yes ...
3 Companies Poised for the Shift to Cloud Systems
Motley Fool
With as much press as cloud computing gets, you'd think that companies around the world already have, or are in the process of, shifting their internal systems and applications to cloud-based solutions. Turns out, according to research from Gartner ...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
European cloud computing companies see positives in NSA scandal
European cloud computing companies see positives in NSA scandal
Times of India
PARIS/LONDON: France has its Sovereign Cloud project, while across the Rhine data firms have created the label Cloud Services: Made in Germany, all trying to reassure big companies that their information is stored away from the prying eyes of US spies.
Will The Xbox One's Cloud Computing Work In Australia ?
Gizmodo Australia
Microsoft has been making some big promises regarding the Xbox One's potential for cloud computing and today, at E3, we were shown a demo showing its potential to dramatically increase the amount of calculations the console can make per second. The ...
'Cloud is influencing a tremendous rise in entrepreneurial activities across ...
InformationWeek India
'Cloud is influencing a tremendous rise in entrepreneurial activities across the world': Dr Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon One of the most well-known and respected thought leaders in the cloud computing space, Dr Werner Vogels leads Amazon's charge for ...
Best Cloud Storage (Skydrive, Dropbox, Google Drive Or Amazon)
SidhTech
Seeing as cloud storage solutions are extremely popular, can you rely on them to be there for you when you want them? With this question on our minds we are ... Take into consideration that somecloud services might lag. Most cloud providers will ...
Cloud computing could cut US enterprise energy use by 87 percent, says ...
FierceEnterpriseCommunications
While research conducted last year by McKinsey & Company for the New York Times found that data centers are wasteful power hogs, this report suggests that cloud computing can reduce data center energy demand through server consolidation and ...
What Savvis Cloud Services Gain From AppFog
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
Microsoft has made sure Azure functioned as a developers' platform, and Red Hat added Red Shift to its lineup to give Linux developers a cloud platform. Progress Software recently bought the Rollbase platform to move itself into the world of cloud ...
Chunghwa Telecom to invest NT$13 billion in cloud computing center
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, June 17 (CNA) A groundbreaking ceremony for Taiwan's first Tier 4 cloud computing center was held by Chunghwa Telecom Co. in Banqiao, New Taipei on Monday. Chunghwa Telecom Chairman Lee Yen-sung said the new facility will cost an ...
3 roles for tape in the cloud
InformationWeek India
Tape is an ideal way to "seed" a cloud. Seeding is getting the initial data to the cloud storagefacility. Instead of transferring data across an Internet connection for days or weeks, it can be copied to tape and sent to the cloud provider via an ...
Cloud Computing Exchange - MeriTalk
UPCOMING EVENT. CCX Quarterly Meeting Wednesday, June 19, 2013: The City Club of Washington at Columbia Square in Washington, D.C. from 8 to 10 ...
https://www.meritalk.com/ccx
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Times of India
PARIS/LONDON: France has its Sovereign Cloud project, while across the Rhine data firms have created the label Cloud Services: Made in Germany, all trying to reassure big companies that their information is stored away from the prying eyes of US spies.
Will The Xbox One's Cloud Computing Work In Australia ?
Gizmodo Australia
Microsoft has been making some big promises regarding the Xbox One's potential for cloud computing and today, at E3, we were shown a demo showing its potential to dramatically increase the amount of calculations the console can make per second. The ...
'Cloud is influencing a tremendous rise in entrepreneurial activities across ...
InformationWeek India
'Cloud is influencing a tremendous rise in entrepreneurial activities across the world': Dr Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon One of the most well-known and respected thought leaders in the cloud computing space, Dr Werner Vogels leads Amazon's charge for ...
Best Cloud Storage (Skydrive, Dropbox, Google Drive Or Amazon)
SidhTech
Seeing as cloud storage solutions are extremely popular, can you rely on them to be there for you when you want them? With this question on our minds we are ... Take into consideration that somecloud services might lag. Most cloud providers will ...
Cloud computing could cut US enterprise energy use by 87 percent, says ...
FierceEnterpriseCommunications
While research conducted last year by McKinsey & Company for the New York Times found that data centers are wasteful power hogs, this report suggests that cloud computing can reduce data center energy demand through server consolidation and ...
What Savvis Cloud Services Gain From AppFog
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
Microsoft has made sure Azure functioned as a developers' platform, and Red Hat added Red Shift to its lineup to give Linux developers a cloud platform. Progress Software recently bought the Rollbase platform to move itself into the world of cloud ...
Chunghwa Telecom to invest NT$13 billion in cloud computing center
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, June 17 (CNA) A groundbreaking ceremony for Taiwan's first Tier 4 cloud computing center was held by Chunghwa Telecom Co. in Banqiao, New Taipei on Monday. Chunghwa Telecom Chairman Lee Yen-sung said the new facility will cost an ...
3 roles for tape in the cloud
InformationWeek India
Tape is an ideal way to "seed" a cloud. Seeding is getting the initial data to the cloud storagefacility. Instead of transferring data across an Internet connection for days or weeks, it can be copied to tape and sent to the cloud provider via an ...
Cloud Computing Exchange - MeriTalk
UPCOMING EVENT. CCX Quarterly Meeting Wednesday, June 19, 2013: The City Club of Washington at Columbia Square in Washington, D.C. from 8 to 10 ...
https://www.meritalk.com/ccx
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Prism, spying and cloud computing
Prism, spying and cloud computing: should businesses be worried?
National Business Review
Our clients over the years have asked questions like: “Do privacy and security considerations mean we shouldn't move our data and its processing from our internal servers to cloud computing? And should we allow it to go to the States, given spying ...
Sony: 'of course' PS4 can do cloud computing
Shacknews
Microsoft has been keen to promote Xbox One's use of the cloud. Xbox One's official website, for example, states that "thanks to the power of the cloud, Xbox One will keep getting better." Cloud computing supposedly makes Xbox One four times more ...
CIA re-evaluates $600 million Cloud Computing contract
BusinessCloud9
While there's been a lot of attention paid to allegations of US security forces snooping on Cloud Computing services in recent weeks, the CIA is proceeding with its own plans for a Cloudintelligence system - and Amazon and IBM are lined up on the ...
Six Not-so-Blind Men and the Cloud Elephant
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
And there were views that converged in a common theme: "Cloud Connects". Jeremy, as always, got the ball rolling with the very provocative challenge: panelists had to devise a succinct sentence that starts "Cloud Computing is like..." and summarized ...
IBM Is Getting Aggressive in the Cloud
Motley Fool
In conjunction with the acquisition, company executives commented that IBM wants to become competitive by offering value-added services, not just cloud storage and access. In the following video, Fool.com contributor Doug Ehrman discusses details of ...
The Personal Cloud that Tomorrow Needs
The Next Web
Gartner also predicts that personal cloud will become widely adopted by 2015, but that in 2014 less than 10 percent of consumers will use cloud services as their main storage. Among other things, this all ensures the next couple of years will see a ...
Red Hat announces OpenStack-powered product offerings to deliver on open ...
Al-Bawaba
The new offerings include Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, a solution that serves as the foundation for advanced cloud users who are seeking to build an OpenStack-powered cloud, and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive offering ...
SIGNPOST: Even a covert cloud has a silver lining
BDlive
The results: “Almost half of office workers [45%] would use or purchase unapproved cloud servicesto get a job done and more than a third [36%] already have.” Those involved in “knowledge work” — interpreting information — are the worst “offenders ...
Cloud computing saves energy, and here's the data to show it ...
The gains in energy efficiency from moving business software to the cloud mostly come from the fact that the data centers hosting these cloud services are far ...
gigaom.com/.../cloud-business-software-saves-energy-and-her...
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National Business Review
Our clients over the years have asked questions like: “Do privacy and security considerations mean we shouldn't move our data and its processing from our internal servers to cloud computing? And should we allow it to go to the States, given spying ...
Sony: 'of course' PS4 can do cloud computing
Shacknews
Microsoft has been keen to promote Xbox One's use of the cloud. Xbox One's official website, for example, states that "thanks to the power of the cloud, Xbox One will keep getting better." Cloud computing supposedly makes Xbox One four times more ...
CIA re-evaluates $600 million Cloud Computing contract
BusinessCloud9
While there's been a lot of attention paid to allegations of US security forces snooping on Cloud Computing services in recent weeks, the CIA is proceeding with its own plans for a Cloudintelligence system - and Amazon and IBM are lined up on the ...
Six Not-so-Blind Men and the Cloud Elephant
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
And there were views that converged in a common theme: "Cloud Connects". Jeremy, as always, got the ball rolling with the very provocative challenge: panelists had to devise a succinct sentence that starts "Cloud Computing is like..." and summarized ...
IBM Is Getting Aggressive in the Cloud
Motley Fool
In conjunction with the acquisition, company executives commented that IBM wants to become competitive by offering value-added services, not just cloud storage and access. In the following video, Fool.com contributor Doug Ehrman discusses details of ...
The Personal Cloud that Tomorrow Needs
The Next Web
Gartner also predicts that personal cloud will become widely adopted by 2015, but that in 2014 less than 10 percent of consumers will use cloud services as their main storage. Among other things, this all ensures the next couple of years will see a ...
Red Hat announces OpenStack-powered product offerings to deliver on open ...
Al-Bawaba
The new offerings include Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, a solution that serves as the foundation for advanced cloud users who are seeking to build an OpenStack-powered cloud, and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive offering ...
SIGNPOST: Even a covert cloud has a silver lining
BDlive
The results: “Almost half of office workers [45%] would use or purchase unapproved cloud servicesto get a job done and more than a third [36%] already have.” Those involved in “knowledge work” — interpreting information — are the worst “offenders ...
Cloud computing saves energy, and here's the data to show it ...
The gains in energy efficiency from moving business software to the cloud mostly come from the fact that the data centers hosting these cloud services are far ...
gigaom.com/.../cloud-business-software-saves-energy-and-her...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Cloud Computing Democratizes Big Data
How Cloud Computing Democratizes Big Data
ReadWrite
Share on: How Cloud Computing Democratizes Big Data. Financial firms have been crunching Big Data for years - with the help of cloud computing, now it's everyone else's turn. ReadWritecloud. Previous Next. Previous; Show; Next. How Cloud Computing ...
2 Outperforming, Rallying Cloud Computing Mid Caps
Seeking Alpha
Apparently the world's largest computer company paid $2 billion for the world's largest privately heldcloud computing infrastructure provider. Quartz reports that with this move, IBM aims to bolster itscloud services as it seeks to become a veritable ...
ReadWrite
Share on: How Cloud Computing Democratizes Big Data. Financial firms have been crunching Big Data for years - with the help of cloud computing, now it's everyone else's turn. ReadWritecloud. Previous Next. Previous; Show; Next. How Cloud Computing ...
2 Outperforming, Rallying Cloud Computing Mid Caps
Seeking Alpha
Apparently the world's largest computer company paid $2 billion for the world's largest privately heldcloud computing infrastructure provider. Quartz reports that with this move, IBM aims to bolster itscloud services as it seeks to become a veritable ...
Skyera shows enterprise solid-state cloud storage systems at Cloud Expo New ...
Sacramento Bee
Skyera will also show its 44-terabyte skyHawk, a complete enterprise solid-state storage solution with the low latency and scalability that cloud services demand – with the highest density, smallest form-factor and lowest power consumption in the ...
3 more cloud computing myths dispelled
InfoWorld (blog)
There continues to be much mythology in the cloud computing space, as I've pointed out in the past. It's time we dispel three more myths so that we can better understand the reality of the cloud. [ Busted: 4 cloud myths that won't go away. | From ...
Secure cloud computing: Where the reseller fits
Techday NZ
By properly assessing the risk to availability posed by the cloud computing model, resellers can work with operators and end users of cloud services to minimise their risks and maximise the security postures. Resellers should advise and assist their ...
Lockheed Martin Receives Highest Level FedRAMP Authorization To Provide ...
Sacramento Bee
Through Lockheed Martin's proven Solutions as a Service (SolaS®) cloud strategy, the corporation has offered a flexible, mission-focused approach to secure cloud computing since 2009. The SolaS Secure Community Cloud combines best-in-industry ...
Softlayer Platform is a “Real Growth Engine” for IBM Cloud Services ...
By Mellisa Tolentino
This acquisition would bolster IBM's cloud computing efforts by creating a new cloud services division within its Global Services unit, where SoftLayer will continue to operate independently. The acquisition will also help the company “beef up ...
SiliconANGLE
IBM Acquires Cloud-Computing Firm SoftLayer | News & Opinion ...
By marrying SoftLayer's public cloud services with the IBM SmartCloud portfolio, the computer manufacturer aims to make cloud computing easier and faster.
IBM Acquiring SoftLayer, Forming New Cloud Services Division
The acquisition will strengthen IBM's position in cloud computing and will help speed business adoption of public and private cloud services. Financial terms ...
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Sacramento Bee
Skyera will also show its 44-terabyte skyHawk, a complete enterprise solid-state storage solution with the low latency and scalability that cloud services demand – with the highest density, smallest form-factor and lowest power consumption in the ...
3 more cloud computing myths dispelled
InfoWorld (blog)
There continues to be much mythology in the cloud computing space, as I've pointed out in the past. It's time we dispel three more myths so that we can better understand the reality of the cloud. [ Busted: 4 cloud myths that won't go away. | From ...
Secure cloud computing: Where the reseller fits
Techday NZ
By properly assessing the risk to availability posed by the cloud computing model, resellers can work with operators and end users of cloud services to minimise their risks and maximise the security postures. Resellers should advise and assist their ...
Lockheed Martin Receives Highest Level FedRAMP Authorization To Provide ...
Sacramento Bee
Through Lockheed Martin's proven Solutions as a Service (SolaS®) cloud strategy, the corporation has offered a flexible, mission-focused approach to secure cloud computing since 2009. The SolaS Secure Community Cloud combines best-in-industry ...
Softlayer Platform is a “Real Growth Engine” for IBM Cloud Services ...
By Mellisa Tolentino
This acquisition would bolster IBM's cloud computing efforts by creating a new cloud services division within its Global Services unit, where SoftLayer will continue to operate independently. The acquisition will also help the company “beef up ...
SiliconANGLE
IBM Acquires Cloud-Computing Firm SoftLayer | News & Opinion ...
By marrying SoftLayer's public cloud services with the IBM SmartCloud portfolio, the computer manufacturer aims to make cloud computing easier and faster.
IBM Acquiring SoftLayer, Forming New Cloud Services Division
The acquisition will strengthen IBM's position in cloud computing and will help speed business adoption of public and private cloud services. Financial terms ...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Microsoft steps up drive to grab cloud services market
Microsoft steps up drive to grab cloud services market
The Express Tribune
KARACHI: With cloud defining the future of information technology, world's leading software companies seem to have stepped up campaigns to educate consumers and businesses about the benefits of cloud services. Microsoft Pakistan is one of them.
HP, Lockheed join FedRAMP elites
GCN.com
Hewlett-Packard and Lockheed Martin have been granted provisional approval to offer cloud servicesunder the federal government's FedRAMP cloud security program, bringing to four the number ofcloud providers achieving the highest security level ...
The Express Tribune
KARACHI: With cloud defining the future of information technology, world's leading software companies seem to have stepped up campaigns to educate consumers and businesses about the benefits of cloud services. Microsoft Pakistan is one of them.
HP, Lockheed join FedRAMP elites
GCN.com
Hewlett-Packard and Lockheed Martin have been granted provisional approval to offer cloud servicesunder the federal government's FedRAMP cloud security program, bringing to four the number ofcloud providers achieving the highest security level ...
Cisco Cloud Services Resellers Offered Long List of Benefits to Enable ...
The VAR Guy
Earlier this week at its 2013 Partner Summit in Boston, Cisco Systems (CSCO) rolled out a newCloud Services Reseller program featuring a number of new benefits designed to make the point to partners the networking vendor is all-in with existing ...
ScanSource Allies with Intelisys for Carrier, Cloud Services
Channel Partners
While other distributors have taken steps to become cloud services aggregators, ScanSource is taking a different tack. "We're looking at how this type of program and offers will be adopted by our partners and then we'll make decisions from there ...
Panzura Raises $25 Million in Funding for Cloud Storage Solution
Web Host Industry Review
Related Topics: cloud computing, finance and investments, panzura, storage technology. Cloud storage startup Panzura announced on Friday it has successfully raised $25 million in Series D funding to further develop its cloud storage solution. The move ...
Cloud Storage Company Panzura Raises $25 Million
Pulse 2.0
San Jose, California based cloud storage company Panzura has raised a $25 million round of funding. Meritech Capital led this round of funding. Matrix Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Opus Capital, and Chevron Technology Ventures also participated in this ...
Cisco Shifts from Supply to Demand in Cloud
Channelnomics
Over the last two years, the company has built up a strong stable of cloud builders and Cisco-basedcloud services. Currently, the company boasts some 1,7000 cloud certifications and 350 Cisco-powered cloud services in the market, with an almost equal ...
The VAR Guy
Earlier this week at its 2013 Partner Summit in Boston, Cisco Systems (CSCO) rolled out a newCloud Services Reseller program featuring a number of new benefits designed to make the point to partners the networking vendor is all-in with existing ...
ScanSource Allies with Intelisys for Carrier, Cloud Services
Channel Partners
While other distributors have taken steps to become cloud services aggregators, ScanSource is taking a different tack. "We're looking at how this type of program and offers will be adopted by our partners and then we'll make decisions from there ...
Panzura Raises $25 Million in Funding for Cloud Storage Solution
Web Host Industry Review
Related Topics: cloud computing, finance and investments, panzura, storage technology. Cloud storage startup Panzura announced on Friday it has successfully raised $25 million in Series D funding to further develop its cloud storage solution. The move ...
Cloud Storage Company Panzura Raises $25 Million
Pulse 2.0
San Jose, California based cloud storage company Panzura has raised a $25 million round of funding. Meritech Capital led this round of funding. Matrix Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Opus Capital, and Chevron Technology Ventures also participated in this ...
Cisco Shifts from Supply to Demand in Cloud
Channelnomics
Over the last two years, the company has built up a strong stable of cloud builders and Cisco-basedcloud services. Currently, the company boasts some 1,7000 cloud certifications and 350 Cisco-powered cloud services in the market, with an almost equal ...
Business Continuity Encompasses the Cloud
Baseline
Business continuity has become a high priority for companies, and one of the most significant recent trends in BC planning and practices is the emergence of cloud computing as a key component. "The cloud has fundamentally changed business continuity ...
Going Green with Cloud Computing
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Survey participants - IT decision makers that have implemented cloud services for at least one year - reported they are achieving better results, faster deployments and lower costs than expected as a result of cloud computing implementations. Luth ...
Operation PRISM will have effect on cloud industry - for good or bad
Cloud Pro
One of the most-quoted fears about moving to cloud is that the data is not secure. For many companies, the idea that vital customer data is held in an unspecified place, available for access by unknown people is a big inhibitor to the idea of cloud ...
IBM buying cloud computing company SoftLayer - Yahoo! News
News: ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) — IBM is buying cloud computing company ... unit will be combined in a Cloud Services division under the charge of Erich Clementi, ...
Fast-Growing Cloud Services Market Drives Cloud Automation ...
Public cloud services & private cloud infrastructure are growing fast, and this ... Google began offering its own public cloud computing services a year ago.
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Baseline
Business continuity has become a high priority for companies, and one of the most significant recent trends in BC planning and practices is the emergence of cloud computing as a key component. "The cloud has fundamentally changed business continuity ...
Going Green with Cloud Computing
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Survey participants - IT decision makers that have implemented cloud services for at least one year - reported they are achieving better results, faster deployments and lower costs than expected as a result of cloud computing implementations. Luth ...
Operation PRISM will have effect on cloud industry - for good or bad
Cloud Pro
One of the most-quoted fears about moving to cloud is that the data is not secure. For many companies, the idea that vital customer data is held in an unspecified place, available for access by unknown people is a big inhibitor to the idea of cloud ...
IBM buying cloud computing company SoftLayer - Yahoo! News
News: ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) — IBM is buying cloud computing company ... unit will be combined in a Cloud Services division under the charge of Erich Clementi, ...
Fast-Growing Cloud Services Market Drives Cloud Automation ...
Public cloud services & private cloud infrastructure are growing fast, and this ... Google began offering its own public cloud computing services a year ago.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Cloud computing giants caught in military intelligence data grab
Cloud computing giants caught in military intelligence data grab
ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
As the major IT suppliers call upon UK government bodies to entrust their systems and data to off-site cloud computing centres, this latest security scandal will reawaken concerns about US trampling of European data protection law. The National ...
ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
As the major IT suppliers call upon UK government bodies to entrust their systems and data to off-site cloud computing centres, this latest security scandal will reawaken concerns about US trampling of European data protection law. The National ...
Interest In Private Cloud Area Shapes Up As The Market MaturesCloudTweaks News
Cloud-Store. Private cloud overview. A cloud storage service is a viable tool that companies can use in storing data in their system and making it accessible within their network. Using a privatecloud storage will help companies to actively ... This ...
Clustrix at the 12th International Cloud Expo in New York
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Expo New York is the place where the cloud and Big Data industries converge. The Expo will feature 175+ sessions from a top-notch conference faculty who represent leading industry players in the cloud computing and Big Data industries.
IT end users gather in Dubai for latest installment of IDC's 'Cloud Computing ...
AME Info (press release)
More than 150 of Dubai's most influential IT end users gathered at the emirate's iconic Atlantis, The Palm for the latest installment of the 'Cloud Computing and Datacenter Roadshow', hosted annually by International Data Corporation (IDC), the premier ...
At Cloud Expo NY, Appcara Spotlights Seamless Launching & Simple ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The company was created by a group of cloud computing industry veterans in 2010 in Santa Clara, CA who previously built industry leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing services such as the Savvis Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), ...
Exclusive research: IT commits to cloud computing - Computerworld
Cloud budgets are rising as IT confronts security and ROI challenges, according to the 2013 Cloud Computing Survey from IDG Enterprise (free download).
Why Red Hat for open hybrid cloud? | Red Hat
In fact, the first clouds were built on open Red Hat® technology. And these same open technologies are defining the future of cloud computing and IT.
HP News - HP Achieves FedRAMP JAB Security Authorization for ...
HP ECS-VPC for U.S. Public Sector provides government agencies with consumption-based managed cloud services, designed for enterprise-grade workloads ...
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Cloud-Store. Private cloud overview. A cloud storage service is a viable tool that companies can use in storing data in their system and making it accessible within their network. Using a privatecloud storage will help companies to actively ... This ...
Clustrix at the 12th International Cloud Expo in New York
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Expo New York is the place where the cloud and Big Data industries converge. The Expo will feature 175+ sessions from a top-notch conference faculty who represent leading industry players in the cloud computing and Big Data industries.
IT end users gather in Dubai for latest installment of IDC's 'Cloud Computing ...
AME Info (press release)
More than 150 of Dubai's most influential IT end users gathered at the emirate's iconic Atlantis, The Palm for the latest installment of the 'Cloud Computing and Datacenter Roadshow', hosted annually by International Data Corporation (IDC), the premier ...
At Cloud Expo NY, Appcara Spotlights Seamless Launching & Simple ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The company was created by a group of cloud computing industry veterans in 2010 in Santa Clara, CA who previously built industry leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing services such as the Savvis Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), ...
Exclusive research: IT commits to cloud computing - Computerworld
Cloud budgets are rising as IT confronts security and ROI challenges, according to the 2013 Cloud Computing Survey from IDG Enterprise (free download).
Why Red Hat for open hybrid cloud? | Red Hat
In fact, the first clouds were built on open Red Hat® technology. And these same open technologies are defining the future of cloud computing and IT.
HP News - HP Achieves FedRAMP JAB Security Authorization for ...
HP ECS-VPC for U.S. Public Sector provides government agencies with consumption-based managed cloud services, designed for enterprise-grade workloads ...
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Saturday, June 8, 2013
VMware Partners and Cloud Co-opetition
VMware Partners Wrestle With Cloud Co-opetition
InformationWeek
Now the company is crowding some of those VMware-certified partners as it pushes into hybridcloud computing, providing services that some of these partners already provide themselves. Indeed, as VMware put the final touches to its vCloud Hybrid ...
NTT Expands Private Cloud Services
InformationWeek
Those researchers will focus on cloud services and security research, Gomi said. Cloud will hold particular interest for it, as it works to add more services to its NTT Global Cloud offering. "The center of gravity has been shifting to the U.S. So we ...
What will 'cloud computing' mean in 10 years?
InfoWorld
As a buzzword, like buzzwords of the past, cloud computing will eventually be baked into all our technology and barely discussed as a concept. Cloud ... In 10 years, pervasive cloud services will be the standard for assembling business solutions. We ...
Conroy unveils Australian government cloud computing policy
The Australian Financial Review
There are also concerns from some groups that many popular cloud services store information overseas, making it venerable to seizure by foreign agencies. Minister Conroy said cloud computinghelped save money and boost productivity. All public-facing ...
Hitachi Data Systems Launches Cloud Services Platform
eWeek
—New version of Content Platform: One seamless cloud storage platform for data protection, enterprise mobility and content cloud, it features advanced metadata management and sets a foundation for big data and analytics. —Cloud Services: An extension ...
Govt cloud code due in 2014
The Australian
As foreshadowed in The Australian, the National Cloud Computing Strategy will promote the uptake of cloud services in business and government through a range of measures, with the Australian Government Information Management Office handling most ...
Conroy launches national cloud computing strategy
Computerworld Australia
Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy today used the CeBIT trade show in Sydney as the venue for unveiling the government's national cloud computing strategy. The strategy is intended to boost adoption of cloud services and promote the cloud ...
Profits soar at cloud computing firm
BBC News
He added: "Trading since the year-end remains encouraging and in line with our expectations. "We continue to be well-placed to deliver an ever wider range of cloud services and with our growing credibility and strength we expect to be able to penetrate ...
Orange's cloud services group eyes North America, Asia
ZDNet
Its target: multinational accounts that are seeking a global platform and service provider that can help them move business applications into the cloud. One example is Tiens Group from China, a capital management firm that reaches across biotechnology, ...
Digital Foundry examines Xbox One cloud computation claims ...
By Richard Mitchell
Specifically, the company has said elements that aren't sensitive to the inherent latency of cloud computing – things like lighting and physics models – could be improved. Microsoft's Redmond Game Studios and Platforms GM Matt Booty has ...
Joystiq
LeoNovus to provide distributed cloud services for Trimark ...
By Dean Takahashi
“The rapidly growing demand for vast amounts of storage at data centers, whether for the enterprise or cloud services, needs a solution to lowering costs and ensuring data is secure,” said Gordon Campbell, Chairman and CEO at LeoNovus.
VentureBeat
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InformationWeek
Now the company is crowding some of those VMware-certified partners as it pushes into hybridcloud computing, providing services that some of these partners already provide themselves. Indeed, as VMware put the final touches to its vCloud Hybrid ...
NTT Expands Private Cloud Services
InformationWeek
Those researchers will focus on cloud services and security research, Gomi said. Cloud will hold particular interest for it, as it works to add more services to its NTT Global Cloud offering. "The center of gravity has been shifting to the U.S. So we ...
What will 'cloud computing' mean in 10 years?
InfoWorld
As a buzzword, like buzzwords of the past, cloud computing will eventually be baked into all our technology and barely discussed as a concept. Cloud ... In 10 years, pervasive cloud services will be the standard for assembling business solutions. We ...
Conroy unveils Australian government cloud computing policy
The Australian Financial Review
There are also concerns from some groups that many popular cloud services store information overseas, making it venerable to seizure by foreign agencies. Minister Conroy said cloud computinghelped save money and boost productivity. All public-facing ...
Hitachi Data Systems Launches Cloud Services Platform
eWeek
—New version of Content Platform: One seamless cloud storage platform for data protection, enterprise mobility and content cloud, it features advanced metadata management and sets a foundation for big data and analytics. —Cloud Services: An extension ...
Govt cloud code due in 2014
The Australian
As foreshadowed in The Australian, the National Cloud Computing Strategy will promote the uptake of cloud services in business and government through a range of measures, with the Australian Government Information Management Office handling most ...
Conroy launches national cloud computing strategy
Computerworld Australia
Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy today used the CeBIT trade show in Sydney as the venue for unveiling the government's national cloud computing strategy. The strategy is intended to boost adoption of cloud services and promote the cloud ...
Profits soar at cloud computing firm
BBC News
He added: "Trading since the year-end remains encouraging and in line with our expectations. "We continue to be well-placed to deliver an ever wider range of cloud services and with our growing credibility and strength we expect to be able to penetrate ...
Orange's cloud services group eyes North America, Asia
ZDNet
Its target: multinational accounts that are seeking a global platform and service provider that can help them move business applications into the cloud. One example is Tiens Group from China, a capital management firm that reaches across biotechnology, ...
Digital Foundry examines Xbox One cloud computation claims ...
By Richard Mitchell
Specifically, the company has said elements that aren't sensitive to the inherent latency of cloud computing – things like lighting and physics models – could be improved. Microsoft's Redmond Game Studios and Platforms GM Matt Booty has ...
Joystiq
LeoNovus to provide distributed cloud services for Trimark ...
By Dean Takahashi
“The rapidly growing demand for vast amounts of storage at data centers, whether for the enterprise or cloud services, needs a solution to lowering costs and ensuring data is secure,” said Gordon Campbell, Chairman and CEO at LeoNovus.
VentureBeat
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Friday, June 7, 2013
KT to launch cloud services in Japan
KT to launch cloud services in Japan
ZDNet
KT Corporation will launch a cloud computing service in Japan this week to meet growing the market's demand for reliable Internet storage systems to house mission-critical data. According to Yonhap News Agency's report Thursday, the service, named ...
Rackspace Meets VMware Halfway On Hybrid Cloud
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
Charles Babcock | May 30, 2013 09:30 AM. VMware Vs. Microsoft: 8 Cloud Battle Lines. (click image for larger view and for slideshow). Lew Moorman, president of Rackspace, thinks the San Antonio supplier of public cloud services knows a thing or two ...
National cloud plan to boost innovation
Sydney Morning Herald
The National Cloud Computing Strategy will promote cloud services to small business, non-profit organisations and the public, aiming to give them the "protection and tools they need to acquirecloud services with confidence". It also requires federal ...
Toshiba launches its first portable HDD with 10GB of free cloud storage – the ...
Al-Bawaba
E CANVIO, its first portable external hard disk drive (HDD) to offer both up to 2TB of storage capacity and 10GB of free subscription to Pogoplug PC cloud storage, enabling users to access their files on the HDD using mobile devices including ...
Silicon Labs Introduces High-Performance Oscillators for Cloud Computing
DailyFinance
To support the burgeoning demand for cloud computing-based services, data center equipment is migrating to higher speed serial data transmission, often 10G or faster. In parallel, there is a significant trend to maximize energy efficiency by ...
CeBIT 2013: Conroy unwraps National Strategy for Cloud Computing ( +7 photos)
ARNnet
“Cloud computing has reached its tipping point, it's no longer a trend,” Conroy told the audience. “It's an absolute business requirement, by freeing business from its infrastructure limitations and associated capital expenses, cloud services are ...
InterCloud Systems Launches Cloud Services Platform
Talkin' Cloud
Corporate enterprise and telecommunication service solutions provider InterCloud Systems, Inc. (ICLD) has launched InterCloudVm cloud services platform, designed to give both medium and large customers the ability to customize infrastructures and ...
So How Exactly Is Cloud Computing Changing the VFX Industry ...
By Max A. Cherney
So How Exactly Is Cloud Computing Changing the VFX Industry? Bill Westenhoefer accepts his Oscar at this year's ceremony. Would you rather render 10,000 hours of footage on 100 machines, or one hour on 1,000,000 machines? The cost ...
Indiewire
Surprised? Cloud providers bring in $2B in first quarter — Tech ...
By Barb Darrow
Given all the hoopla surrounding cloud computing it, it's not surprising that revenue from cloud services is growing. Total worldwide revenue from top Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service players hit $2 billion for the first quarter ...
GigaOM
The future is killer devices connected to amazing cloud services ...
By Jeffrey Meisner
The future is killer devices connected to amazing cloud services. Jeffrey Meisner. 29 May 2013 7:26 PM. Comments 0. The following is a post from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft.
The Official Microsoft Blog
DISA reopens cloud storage competition -- FCW
DOD's de facto cloud broker plans to cancel sole-source contract for unnamed intelligence agency... concept art for cloud services ... Agency wants competition for a sole-source contract it originally awarded in April for big data cloud storage.
fcw.com/articles/2013/05/28/disa-cloud-competition.aspx
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ZDNet
KT Corporation will launch a cloud computing service in Japan this week to meet growing the market's demand for reliable Internet storage systems to house mission-critical data. According to Yonhap News Agency's report Thursday, the service, named ...
Rackspace Meets VMware Halfway On Hybrid Cloud
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
Charles Babcock | May 30, 2013 09:30 AM. VMware Vs. Microsoft: 8 Cloud Battle Lines. (click image for larger view and for slideshow). Lew Moorman, president of Rackspace, thinks the San Antonio supplier of public cloud services knows a thing or two ...
National cloud plan to boost innovation
Sydney Morning Herald
The National Cloud Computing Strategy will promote cloud services to small business, non-profit organisations and the public, aiming to give them the "protection and tools they need to acquirecloud services with confidence". It also requires federal ...
Toshiba launches its first portable HDD with 10GB of free cloud storage – the ...
Al-Bawaba
E CANVIO, its first portable external hard disk drive (HDD) to offer both up to 2TB of storage capacity and 10GB of free subscription to Pogoplug PC cloud storage, enabling users to access their files on the HDD using mobile devices including ...
Silicon Labs Introduces High-Performance Oscillators for Cloud Computing
DailyFinance
To support the burgeoning demand for cloud computing-based services, data center equipment is migrating to higher speed serial data transmission, often 10G or faster. In parallel, there is a significant trend to maximize energy efficiency by ...
CeBIT 2013: Conroy unwraps National Strategy for Cloud Computing ( +7 photos)
ARNnet
“Cloud computing has reached its tipping point, it's no longer a trend,” Conroy told the audience. “It's an absolute business requirement, by freeing business from its infrastructure limitations and associated capital expenses, cloud services are ...
InterCloud Systems Launches Cloud Services Platform
Talkin' Cloud
Corporate enterprise and telecommunication service solutions provider InterCloud Systems, Inc. (ICLD) has launched InterCloudVm cloud services platform, designed to give both medium and large customers the ability to customize infrastructures and ...
So How Exactly Is Cloud Computing Changing the VFX Industry ...
By Max A. Cherney
So How Exactly Is Cloud Computing Changing the VFX Industry? Bill Westenhoefer accepts his Oscar at this year's ceremony. Would you rather render 10,000 hours of footage on 100 machines, or one hour on 1,000,000 machines? The cost ...
Indiewire
Surprised? Cloud providers bring in $2B in first quarter — Tech ...
By Barb Darrow
Given all the hoopla surrounding cloud computing it, it's not surprising that revenue from cloud services is growing. Total worldwide revenue from top Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service players hit $2 billion for the first quarter ...
GigaOM
The future is killer devices connected to amazing cloud services ...
By Jeffrey Meisner
The future is killer devices connected to amazing cloud services. Jeffrey Meisner. 29 May 2013 7:26 PM. Comments 0. The following is a post from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft.
The Official Microsoft Blog
DISA reopens cloud storage competition -- FCW
DOD's de facto cloud broker plans to cancel sole-source contract for unnamed intelligence agency... concept art for cloud services ... Agency wants competition for a sole-source contract it originally awarded in April for big data cloud storage.
fcw.com/articles/2013/05/28/disa-cloud-competition.aspx
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Thursday, June 6, 2013
Consumer cloud services causing security time-bomb for enterprises
Huddle: Consumer cloud services causing 'security time-bomb' for enterprises
ZDNet (blog)
Men are the worst offenders being that they are 30 percent more likely to use personal cloud storage at work than women. By age, the worst demographic is the youngest generation in the workforce as 89 percent of employees between the ages of 18 and 24 ...
Private cloud helps Future Group slash maintenance costs by 20 - 40 percent
InformationWeek India
While taking major steps in building and maintaining a private cloud, the company also started subscribing to certain public cloud services. For instance, about a year ago, the company deployedcloud-based Point of Sales (POS), where the POS business ...
Bonus cloud storage only available for students
Dubai Chronicle
One of the main consumer groups that frequently uses cloud services are students. ... Apparently, Microsoft is well-aware of that fact, since it recently announced that it will give bonus cloud storagespace on its platform SkyDrive for the students ...
US workers store corporate documents on personal devices, consumer cloud ...
FierceMobileIT
A full 91 percent of U.S. office workers store work documents on personal devices, such as USB drives, and 38 percent store documents on consumer cloud services, according to a survey of 2,000 office workers by Ipsos MORI on behalf of collaboration and ...
Australian government to embrace cloud computing
ihotdesk - IT News
Mr Conroy said adopting cloud computing into Australia's daily routine would add $AU3.3 billion (£2.1 billion) to the country's GDP by 2020, radically cutting expenditure. A similar strategy has been adopted in the UK. The G-Cloud Programme - which ...
Microsoft Enlists Azure Cloud Computing Platform to Combat Botnets
The VAR Guy
Microsoft (MSFT) has brought the considerable weight of its Windows Azure cloud computingplatform into its fight against botnet malware intrusions with a new program geared to better inform cybercrime fighting organizations of real and potential threats.
CIOs must take a considered approach that places cloud computing in the ...
CIO Magazine
"That's happening because as people get more comfortable with public cloud services, they layer in additional security capabilities and make it safer, and as certification models like FedRAMP and other things come up, then the security issues are ...
The cloud, simplified
FCW.com
The presentation itself comprised a crash course in cloud computing for the fed-heavy audience, beginning with its definition and ending with what agencies need to think about if they want to employ it. ... Cloud services can be provided in numerous ways.
Root Explorer Updated, Brings Multiple Tab Navigation and Cloud ...
By Tim-o-tato
The update brings some major enhancements such as multiple tabs for easy navigation, Google Drive and other cloud storage service support and an overhauled notification system for operations. What's New: Multiple tabs. Network (SMB) ...
Droid Life
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ZDNet (blog)
Men are the worst offenders being that they are 30 percent more likely to use personal cloud storage at work than women. By age, the worst demographic is the youngest generation in the workforce as 89 percent of employees between the ages of 18 and 24 ...
Private cloud helps Future Group slash maintenance costs by 20 - 40 percent
InformationWeek India
While taking major steps in building and maintaining a private cloud, the company also started subscribing to certain public cloud services. For instance, about a year ago, the company deployedcloud-based Point of Sales (POS), where the POS business ...
Bonus cloud storage only available for students
Dubai Chronicle
One of the main consumer groups that frequently uses cloud services are students. ... Apparently, Microsoft is well-aware of that fact, since it recently announced that it will give bonus cloud storagespace on its platform SkyDrive for the students ...
US workers store corporate documents on personal devices, consumer cloud ...
FierceMobileIT
A full 91 percent of U.S. office workers store work documents on personal devices, such as USB drives, and 38 percent store documents on consumer cloud services, according to a survey of 2,000 office workers by Ipsos MORI on behalf of collaboration and ...
Australian government to embrace cloud computing
ihotdesk - IT News
Mr Conroy said adopting cloud computing into Australia's daily routine would add $AU3.3 billion (£2.1 billion) to the country's GDP by 2020, radically cutting expenditure. A similar strategy has been adopted in the UK. The G-Cloud Programme - which ...
Microsoft Enlists Azure Cloud Computing Platform to Combat Botnets
The VAR Guy
Microsoft (MSFT) has brought the considerable weight of its Windows Azure cloud computingplatform into its fight against botnet malware intrusions with a new program geared to better inform cybercrime fighting organizations of real and potential threats.
CIOs must take a considered approach that places cloud computing in the ...
CIO Magazine
"That's happening because as people get more comfortable with public cloud services, they layer in additional security capabilities and make it safer, and as certification models like FedRAMP and other things come up, then the security issues are ...
The cloud, simplified
FCW.com
The presentation itself comprised a crash course in cloud computing for the fed-heavy audience, beginning with its definition and ending with what agencies need to think about if they want to employ it. ... Cloud services can be provided in numerous ways.
Root Explorer Updated, Brings Multiple Tab Navigation and Cloud ...
By Tim-o-tato
The update brings some major enhancements such as multiple tabs for easy navigation, Google Drive and other cloud storage service support and an overhauled notification system for operations. What's New: Multiple tabs. Network (SMB) ...
Droid Life
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Encryption can make cloud computing safer
Encryption can make cloud computing safer
USA TODAY
We're human, and humans make mistakes. Amazon's cloud storage customers recently learned this painful truth when a security testing firm discovered more than 126 billion data files had been exposed because users were unclear about privacy settings.
Pharma majors opting for Cloud computing to ensure data security, compliance ...
pharmabiz.com
Eli Lily uses cloud services for research and development efforts. GSK has chosen to ... The benefits of moving to the Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of information technology (IT) resources via the Internet with 'pay-as-you-go' pricing. It ...
MicroSD vs. cloud storage: Which do you prefer?
PhoneDog
Our gadgets have become personal memory storage devices for a lot of different types of data. We store our photos, music, videos, files, and all other types of information in them using three different methods: internal storage, microSD card, or cloud ...
Amazon Dominates in Cloud Services
Channel Partners
Several IT heavyweights have failed to close the gap on cloud-services revenue market leader Amazon Web Services, despite an increasing number of service launches and marketing initiatives. That's one finding in a new report from Synergy Research ...
Cloud, circa 2023
ZDNet
In his latest InfoWorld post, Dave Linthicum spculates that 10 years down the road, we'll be cruising along in our flying cars, wondering what happened to cloud. He makes a couple of interesting predictions about the state of cloud computing by 2023 ...
Cisco Systems' Management Presents at Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing ...
Seeking Alpha
One way to think about this I think that's important is to understand the Cloud Computing to sort of very different consumers of these cloud services. First, we talked about Enterprise IT consumingcloud services as we mentioned with the Salesforce.com ...
Virtual Internet Selected To Provide Cloud Hosting Services To The UK ...
IT Business Net
... sector bodies of commodity IT services that are cloud-based. A series of framework agreements with suppliers enable public sector organisations to procure Cloud services without the need for the full tender process and this is now the third ...
Government CIOs Eye Business Apps in Cloud Transition
CIO
CIO — WASHINGTON -- Cloud computing, identified by the White House as a chief priority for the federal government, is slowly gaining traction throughout the agencies, which CIOs are steering toward a point where unique, mission-critical applications ...
Cloud Computing Can Slash IT Expenses by Half: Report
SYS-CON Media (press release)
DataOne Asia, an independent provider of IT services in the Philippines, said businesses can significantly reduce expenses by putting in place cloud computing solutions, according to an article on PCAdvisor.co,uk. "Businesses that migrate their IT ...
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USA TODAY
We're human, and humans make mistakes. Amazon's cloud storage customers recently learned this painful truth when a security testing firm discovered more than 126 billion data files had been exposed because users were unclear about privacy settings.
Pharma majors opting for Cloud computing to ensure data security, compliance ...
pharmabiz.com
Eli Lily uses cloud services for research and development efforts. GSK has chosen to ... The benefits of moving to the Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of information technology (IT) resources via the Internet with 'pay-as-you-go' pricing. It ...
MicroSD vs. cloud storage: Which do you prefer?
PhoneDog
Our gadgets have become personal memory storage devices for a lot of different types of data. We store our photos, music, videos, files, and all other types of information in them using three different methods: internal storage, microSD card, or cloud ...
Amazon Dominates in Cloud Services
Channel Partners
Several IT heavyweights have failed to close the gap on cloud-services revenue market leader Amazon Web Services, despite an increasing number of service launches and marketing initiatives. That's one finding in a new report from Synergy Research ...
Cloud, circa 2023
ZDNet
In his latest InfoWorld post, Dave Linthicum spculates that 10 years down the road, we'll be cruising along in our flying cars, wondering what happened to cloud. He makes a couple of interesting predictions about the state of cloud computing by 2023 ...
Cisco Systems' Management Presents at Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing ...
Seeking Alpha
One way to think about this I think that's important is to understand the Cloud Computing to sort of very different consumers of these cloud services. First, we talked about Enterprise IT consumingcloud services as we mentioned with the Salesforce.com ...
Virtual Internet Selected To Provide Cloud Hosting Services To The UK ...
IT Business Net
... sector bodies of commodity IT services that are cloud-based. A series of framework agreements with suppliers enable public sector organisations to procure Cloud services without the need for the full tender process and this is now the third ...
Government CIOs Eye Business Apps in Cloud Transition
CIO
CIO — WASHINGTON -- Cloud computing, identified by the White House as a chief priority for the federal government, is slowly gaining traction throughout the agencies, which CIOs are steering toward a point where unique, mission-critical applications ...
Cloud Computing Can Slash IT Expenses by Half: Report
SYS-CON Media (press release)
DataOne Asia, an independent provider of IT services in the Philippines, said businesses can significantly reduce expenses by putting in place cloud computing solutions, according to an article on PCAdvisor.co,uk. "Businesses that migrate their IT ...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Graphics Card for Entire Internet
Imgix is an application programming interface, or API. Basically, this means that when you’re building a website, you can include code that plugs it into the imgix service. You point the service at all the photos that appear on your website, and then, when someone visits the site, imgix will deliver the appropriate photos and, in need be, reformat or resize them. If someone visit your site with an Apple iPad, the service can instantly reformat an image for the tablet’s “Retina” display.
Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: "The operation is just one of an ever growing number of online services that let outsource part of your web infrastructure. Cloud services from the likes of Amazon and Rackspace give you raw processing power for running almost any software, but countless other operations are serving up more specialized infrastructure services, ranging from the sort of image-processing provided by imgix to data analysis services from the likes of Google and startup Keen IO."
Adaptec by PMC Presents and Exhibits at China Cloud Computing Conference ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
BEIJING — PMC® (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store big data, will host a technical seminar at the China Cloud ComputingConference 2013. Who: Executives from PMC and Dell Data Center Solutions ...
The week in cloud: Can Windows Azure disrupt Amazon's cloud? Stay tuned.
GigaOM
After all, AWS is by far the largest provider of public cloud services and many (including Morgan Stanley analysts) see that run continuing well into the next decade. As reported earlier, new Morgan Stanley research projected that AWS will hit $24 ...
Clearing the Clouds for Midmarket Businesses
Australian Techworld
Cloud computing promises to help midmarket companies reduce cost and complexity in the IT equation – and gain the flexibility and agility they need to thrive. Yet charting a clear course to thecloud isn't always easy. In this paper, we aim to clear ...
Cloud Expo New York: Many Clouds and APIs but One OpenStack and jclouds
SYS-CON Media (press release)
His general focus area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in cloud computing, mobility and security. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems. He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS ...
Employees Accessing the Cloud
SYS-CON Media (press release)
For many organizations, cloud computing has become an integral part of their everyday business. Many companies are relying on cloud applications for fundamental operations such as CRM and email and are looking to increase ... The primary concern for ...
Dropbox vs Skydrive vs Amazon vs Google Drive: Best Online Storage Option
SidhTech
Cloud storage solutions are very popular, so the question is, can they be trusted to work as you want them, when you need? So with this in mind we take a look ... Then i made a test with four of the most well-known cloud services. These were Dropbox ...
30 years of accumulation: A timeline of cloud computing -- GCN
The term "cloud computing" is coined by University of Texas professor Ramnath ... service Dropbox Inc., founded by MIT student, making cloud storage a commodity. ... Energy Department sets up YourCloud to broker secure cloud services for ...
gcn.com/articles/2013/05/30/gcn30-timeline-cloud.aspx
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Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: "The operation is just one of an ever growing number of online services that let outsource part of your web infrastructure. Cloud services from the likes of Amazon and Rackspace give you raw processing power for running almost any software, but countless other operations are serving up more specialized infrastructure services, ranging from the sort of image-processing provided by imgix to data analysis services from the likes of Google and startup Keen IO."
Adaptec by PMC Presents and Exhibits at China Cloud Computing Conference ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
BEIJING — PMC® (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store big data, will host a technical seminar at the China Cloud ComputingConference 2013. Who: Executives from PMC and Dell Data Center Solutions ...
The week in cloud: Can Windows Azure disrupt Amazon's cloud? Stay tuned.
GigaOM
After all, AWS is by far the largest provider of public cloud services and many (including Morgan Stanley analysts) see that run continuing well into the next decade. As reported earlier, new Morgan Stanley research projected that AWS will hit $24 ...
Clearing the Clouds for Midmarket Businesses
Australian Techworld
Cloud computing promises to help midmarket companies reduce cost and complexity in the IT equation – and gain the flexibility and agility they need to thrive. Yet charting a clear course to thecloud isn't always easy. In this paper, we aim to clear ...
Cloud Expo New York: Many Clouds and APIs but One OpenStack and jclouds
SYS-CON Media (press release)
His general focus area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in cloud computing, mobility and security. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems. He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS ...
Employees Accessing the Cloud
SYS-CON Media (press release)
For many organizations, cloud computing has become an integral part of their everyday business. Many companies are relying on cloud applications for fundamental operations such as CRM and email and are looking to increase ... The primary concern for ...
Dropbox vs Skydrive vs Amazon vs Google Drive: Best Online Storage Option
SidhTech
Cloud storage solutions are very popular, so the question is, can they be trusted to work as you want them, when you need? So with this in mind we take a look ... Then i made a test with four of the most well-known cloud services. These were Dropbox ...
30 years of accumulation: A timeline of cloud computing -- GCN
The term "cloud computing" is coined by University of Texas professor Ramnath ... service Dropbox Inc., founded by MIT student, making cloud storage a commodity. ... Energy Department sets up YourCloud to broker secure cloud services for ...
gcn.com/articles/2013/05/30/gcn30-timeline-cloud.aspx
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SAP revamps management to focus on cloud computing
Reuters
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business software maker SAP said it was revamping its management to sharpen its focus on cloud computing as demand for the service which saves clients money grows. SAP and rivals such as IBM and Oracle are dashing ...
Microsoft Steps Up Japan Cloud Services
Wall Street Journal
Microsoft Steps Up Japan Cloud Services. Microsoft Corp. , the world's largest software maker, is enlarging capacity for its Windows Azure cloud computing services for Japanese businesses, betting on growing corporate IT spending in the country.
How the Xbox One draws more processing power from cloud computing
Ars Technica
UPDATE: The original version of this story misstated the 300,000-server capacity for Xbox One'scloud computing architecture as 30,000 servers. Ars regrets the error. While Tuesday's Xbox One presentation answered some questions about Microsoft's ...
Taiwan forms cloud computing initiative to join Facebook project
China Post
The Cloud Computing Association in Taiwan (台灣雲端運算產業協會) yesterday announced the formation of the Open Compute Project Taiwan initiative (OCPT). A certification center is expected to be established toward the end of this year, with a number of ...
Dell's downsized cloud ambitions might actually work out
InfoWorld
According to my friend Brandon Butler at Network World, "Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing an EMC ...
UAE's Cloud Computing As Security On An Upward March According To Latest ...
CloudTweaks News
A reputable research agency, on tech matters, has provided the latest details on this progress, to the effect that cloud computing security is taking a life of its own in the UAE. Reports show that the nation's gross returns on the security wing, alone ...
Colt expands cloud services platform with 20 European data centres
V3.co.uk
Colt vice president of portfolio and strategy Jon Bennett said: “Our enterprise cloud services are designed to deliver scalable cloud solutions as well as flexible service and commercial levels delivered via our service catalogue. “After consulting ...
Skyhigh Networks gets $20m boost to help businesses identify and manage ...
ZDNet
Skyhigh Networks helps companies discover which cloud services their employees are using so that they can address any potential security issues. The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, but existing investor Greylock Partners also contributed.
Google Cuts Prices On New Datastore Service
InformationWeek
Google reduces per-gigabyte pricing for Cloud Datastore by 25%, reflecting falling cloud storage prices; read operations are cheaper, too. 8 Great Cloud Storage ...
Hybrid public-private cloud usage more widespread than you think
Network World
Network World - Many times in discussions about cloud computing, the hybrid cloud – meaning a service that combines both off-site public cloud and on-premises private cloud computingresources – is thought of as being some nirvana state that will be ...
Microsoft details how Xbox One cloud servers will tackle processor ...
By Steve Dent
One of the Xbox launch's big reveals was that Microsoft added 300000 servers to Xbox Live, and now GM Matt Booty has detailed to Ars Technica how.
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Cloud Computing Grows Up Benefits Exceed Expectations ...
ISLANDIA, N.Y., May 21, 2013 – Cloud computing is exceeding expectations. ... participants—IT decision makers that have implemented cloud services for at ...
www.ca.com/.../Cloud-Computing-Grows-Up-Benefits-Exceed...
Cloud Computing and the Benefits | Visual.ly
An infographic on the benefits of Cloud Computing for small to medium businesses.
visual.ly/cloud-computing-and-benefits
Cloud has silver lining for telcos
The Age
Telstra's director of cloud services, Michael Riad would not comment on current growth rates, but the 4000 customers added in the three months since suggest growth is accelerating. Smaller ISP iiNet announced its Business Cloud offering in November ...
Terremark's VMware Cloud Software Story: It's Complicated
InformationWeek
It is eager to support VMware customers who wish to use its Enterprise Cloud services, and it will provide them with all the VMware components they need to duplicate the environment they have on premises. On the other hand, Terremark, a former ...
British Cloud Firm Wins Background Check Security Contract
InformationWeek
Skyscape Cloud Services, a British cloud SMB, has won a £1.5 million ($2.3 million) annual contract to provide security for the background check system British citizens use to reveal any criminal records to prospective employers. Following a number of ...
Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing centres
Economic Times
SYDNEY: Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centres in the country. The world's biggest software company said on Tuesday it was expanding ...
Reuters
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business software maker SAP said it was revamping its management to sharpen its focus on cloud computing as demand for the service which saves clients money grows. SAP and rivals such as IBM and Oracle are dashing ...
Microsoft Steps Up Japan Cloud Services
Wall Street Journal
Microsoft Steps Up Japan Cloud Services. Microsoft Corp. , the world's largest software maker, is enlarging capacity for its Windows Azure cloud computing services for Japanese businesses, betting on growing corporate IT spending in the country.
How the Xbox One draws more processing power from cloud computing
Ars Technica
UPDATE: The original version of this story misstated the 300,000-server capacity for Xbox One'scloud computing architecture as 30,000 servers. Ars regrets the error. While Tuesday's Xbox One presentation answered some questions about Microsoft's ...
Taiwan forms cloud computing initiative to join Facebook project
China Post
The Cloud Computing Association in Taiwan (台灣雲端運算產業協會) yesterday announced the formation of the Open Compute Project Taiwan initiative (OCPT). A certification center is expected to be established toward the end of this year, with a number of ...
Dell's downsized cloud ambitions might actually work out
InfoWorld
According to my friend Brandon Butler at Network World, "Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing an EMC ...
UAE's Cloud Computing As Security On An Upward March According To Latest ...
CloudTweaks News
A reputable research agency, on tech matters, has provided the latest details on this progress, to the effect that cloud computing security is taking a life of its own in the UAE. Reports show that the nation's gross returns on the security wing, alone ...
Colt expands cloud services platform with 20 European data centres
V3.co.uk
Colt vice president of portfolio and strategy Jon Bennett said: “Our enterprise cloud services are designed to deliver scalable cloud solutions as well as flexible service and commercial levels delivered via our service catalogue. “After consulting ...
Skyhigh Networks gets $20m boost to help businesses identify and manage ...
ZDNet
Skyhigh Networks helps companies discover which cloud services their employees are using so that they can address any potential security issues. The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, but existing investor Greylock Partners also contributed.
Google Cuts Prices On New Datastore Service
InformationWeek
Google reduces per-gigabyte pricing for Cloud Datastore by 25%, reflecting falling cloud storage prices; read operations are cheaper, too. 8 Great Cloud Storage ...
Hybrid public-private cloud usage more widespread than you think
Network World
Network World - Many times in discussions about cloud computing, the hybrid cloud – meaning a service that combines both off-site public cloud and on-premises private cloud computingresources – is thought of as being some nirvana state that will be ...
Microsoft details how Xbox One cloud servers will tackle processor ...
By Steve Dent
One of the Xbox launch's big reveals was that Microsoft added 300000 servers to Xbox Live, and now GM Matt Booty has detailed to Ars Technica how.
Engadget RSS Feed
Cloud Computing Grows Up Benefits Exceed Expectations ...
ISLANDIA, N.Y., May 21, 2013 – Cloud computing is exceeding expectations. ... participants—IT decision makers that have implemented cloud services for at ...
www.ca.com/.../Cloud-Computing-Grows-Up-Benefits-Exceed...
Cloud Computing and the Benefits | Visual.ly
An infographic on the benefits of Cloud Computing for small to medium businesses.
visual.ly/cloud-computing-and-benefits
Cloud has silver lining for telcos
The Age
Telstra's director of cloud services, Michael Riad would not comment on current growth rates, but the 4000 customers added in the three months since suggest growth is accelerating. Smaller ISP iiNet announced its Business Cloud offering in November ...
Terremark's VMware Cloud Software Story: It's Complicated
InformationWeek
It is eager to support VMware customers who wish to use its Enterprise Cloud services, and it will provide them with all the VMware components they need to duplicate the environment they have on premises. On the other hand, Terremark, a former ...
British Cloud Firm Wins Background Check Security Contract
InformationWeek
Skyscape Cloud Services, a British cloud SMB, has won a £1.5 million ($2.3 million) annual contract to provide security for the background check system British citizens use to reveal any criminal records to prospective employers. Following a number of ...
Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing centres
Economic Times
SYDNEY: Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centres in the country. The world's biggest software company said on Tuesday it was expanding ...
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