Will Aereo Court Ruling Impact Cloud Computing? (Video)

Will Aereo Court Ruling Impact Cloud Computing?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Benchmark General Partner Bill Gurley, Bloomberg Contributing Editor Paul Kedrosky and Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman discuss the impact of the Supreme Court Aereo landmark ruling. They speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg June 25)

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Cloud Computing, a Failed Revolution?

Gartner's Lydia Leong echoed this perspective in a couple funny tweets, plaintively noting that, far from being finished with cloud implementations, many IT personnel don't even really understand cloud computing. -- Has Cloud Computing Been a Failed Revolution?
CIO
Talk to IT personnel, or study what they look up on Google, and you may think they're done with cloud computing. Talk to analysts, though -- or, more ...(read more at link above)

Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing
Wired
Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that's already one of the hottest new ideas in the world of cloud ...

Google battles Amazon for corporate clouds
ITworld.com
By Joab Jackson, IDG News Service | Cloud Computing. June 17, 2014, 4:50 PM —Google says it's in the enterprise cloud market to stay and and will ...

Cloud Computing: Google Says Docker Shares its Vision
Social Times (blog)
The future of personalization is cloud computing, with the Linux open-source operating system underpinning the servers that drive the Internet. Docker ...

How cloud computing is like getting a rental car
The Tennessean
... or online word processors, like Google Docs, cloud computing can involve ... to small businesses that wish to leverage cloud computing capabilities.

Cloud computing breathing new life into Microsoft
Investor's Business Daily
Cloud computing breathing new life into Microsoft ... to better compete with Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and others.

Google Stands to Dockerize the Future of Cloud Computing
USFinancePost
Back in 2012, Google Inc. hired Eric Brewer, a computer science professor from the University of California, Berkeley, to redesign a brand-new ...

Acer to release new cloud apps in June, eyes partnerships in smart devices
ITworld.com
The cloud computing market is filled with plenty of competitors such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon. But Acer's Shih believes the company can ...

Google looks to the day when it can quit building its own servers
PCWorld
As cloud deployments get bigger and more widespread, the industry will eventually catch up to Google's style of computing and the company will no ...

Cloud Computing's Second Act Is All Business
Forbes
He conveys the observation that Google search traffic for the term “cloud ... The curtain is now opening on cloud computing's second act, which is all ...

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Google Cloud Platform (Google I/O 2013 video)

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Cloud Computing Legal Issues

Cloud Computing Is a Hot Topic… in Business and the Courtroom | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP - JDSupra:



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Arista Networks, Cofounder Lawsuit

Arista Networks Faces Lawsuit From A Billionaire Cofounder Who Is 'Suing Himself': "....Cheriton controls nearly a quarter of Arista, which he cofounded with Bechtolsheim and current Chief Technology Officer Ken Duda to build network switches that cut down delays between servers. He’s also the main shareholder and founder of OptumSoft, a 10-year-old cloud software developer that has spent much of its existence licensing software to and collaborating with Arista. When Arista goes public... Cheriton’s stake could possibly translate to a billion-dollar position–one he is jeopardizing with the lawsuit filed by OptumSoft in April...." (read more at link above)

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Arista Networks Stock Soars In IPO, Despite Bizarre Lawsuit By Billionaire Cofounder: "Investors may find Arista Networks’ ongoing legal battle with a cofounder bizarre, but that’s not keeping them from jumping all over the stock.... "

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Google, Docker, Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing

Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing | Enterprise | WIRED: "...Google will combine Docker with its cloud computing services, Google App Engine and Google Compute Engine. For the company, this is a way of fueling interest in these services as it strives to challenge Amazon’s dominance in the burgeoning cloud market. But considering Google’s widely recognized knack for building its own massive internet applications, from Google Search to Gmail, Brewer’s speech will also provide an enormous boost for Docker...." (read more at link above)

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Apple CloudKit, Toolkit For Making Cloud Apps

Apple Introduces CloudKit, An ‘Effectively Free’ Toolkit For Making Cloud Apps | TechCrunch: "....CloudKit is a new, “effectively free” developer framework that lets app creators tap into Apple’s iCloud so that they can more easily work cloud components into their mobile apps. In the past this has been a huge pain point for developers, forcing many of them to turn to third-party solutions like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services. By calling on different aspects of the CloudKit API, developers will be able to quickly drop in support for features like CloudKit authentication, search, and notification, things that previously would have required building on top of the aforementioned services from Apple’s competitors....." (read more at link above)

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Is It Safe to Conduct Business in the Cloud? (video)

How Safe Is It to Conduct Business in the Cloud?: Video - Bloomberg: (below)
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Xero U.S. CEO Peter Karpas discusses protecting the cloud from cyber criminals and helping small businesses with secure online accounting. He speaks with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg, June 2, 2014)

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How DigitalOcean Plans to Take On Amazon (video)

How DigitalOcean Plans to Take On Amazon: Video - Bloomberg:
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Mitch Wainer, co-founder and chief marketing officer of DigitalOcean, and Karl Alomar, chief operating officer, discuss how the company is taking on the competition with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: May 23 Bloomberg)

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IBM Cloud Computing Challenges

IBM's EPS Target Unhelpful Amid Cloud Computing Challenges - Businessweek: ".... In a court filing, Amazon blasted the elder company as a “late entrant to the cloud computing market” with an “uncompetitive, materially deficient proposal.” A federal judge agreed, ruling in October that with the “overall inferiority of its proposal,” IBM “lacked any chance of winning” the contract. The corporate cliché of the 1970s and ’80s, that no one ever got fired for buying IBM, had never seemed less true. IBM withdrew its challenge...."

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The Cloud, the Fog, the Computing Future

Modern 3G and 4G cellular networks simply aren't fast enough to transmit data from devices to the cloud at the pace it is generated, and as every mundane object at home and at work gets in on this game, it's only going to get worse. Luckily there's an obvious solution: Stop focusing on the cloud, and start figuring out how to store and process the torrent of data being generated by the Internet of Things (also known as the industrial Internet) on the things themselves, or on devices that sit between our things and the Internet. Marketers at Cisco Systems Inc.have already come up with a name for this phenomenon: fog computing. (source infra)

Forget 'the Cloud,' Computing's Future Is in 'the Fog' - WSJ.com:"....Here's the reality: Getting data into and out of the cloud is harder than most engineers, or at least their managers, often are willing to admit. The problem is bandwidth. If you're a company simply seeking to save the cost and headache of storing data yourself, the cloud is great as long as all you need to do is transfer data back and forth via high-speed wiring. But in the world of mass connectivity—in which people need to get information on an array of mobile devices—bandwidth is pretty slow. Any business that sends data to mobile devices, be it airline reservation systems for consumers or business data for a mobile sales force, grapples with the limitations of wireless networks. Overall, according to the World Economic Forum, the U.S. ranks 35th in the world in terms of bandwidth per user...."


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Your Organization Needs a Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Plan

Why Your Organization Needs a Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Plan | VMware SMB Blog - VMware Blogs: "....DR services have sprung up to address the complexity challenge, but in almost all cases they don’t make it any simpler – they just transfer the complexity to a managed services team, who manually manage the DR on a customer’s behalf. As a result, these services remain relatively expensive because the complexity is still there, and the customer is being billed for people time as well as the cost of the infrastructure. We think there’s plenty of room to make DR faster, cheaper and simpler for everyone by applying the tenets of large-scale, standardized hybrid cloud computing to the problem. The cloud is changing how IT organizations operate, and disaster recovery should not be an exception...." (read more at link above)


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European Cloud, EU Regulators, US Tech Companies

Will Marshall: European Regulators Take Aim at U.S. Tech Companies - WSJ.com: "Even as U.S. and European officials negotiate a major free-trade agreement, a new form of protectionism has surfaced across the Atlantic. Some in Europe are pushing for policies that would limit the free flow of data over the Internet. The calls for regulating the Web are also a symptom of a broader problem—a languishing economic partnership between the U.S. and Europe. Most pernicious is the proposal to create a "European cloud," a communications network that would prohibit data from traveling to servers outside the continent. Germany's largest telephone company Deutsche Telekom AG is an outspoken advocate of the idea, ostensibly hoping to quell privacy concerns. This would mark the end of an open, global Internet, which has been an incredible engine of economic growth. In an April report, the U.S. Trade Representative called the concept "draconian" and a way to give a "protectionist advantage" to companies based in the European Union...."

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