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Lesser Known Threats Of Cloud Computing
Security has been one of the major stumbling blocks which has prevented cloud computing from achieving wide acceptance from the business community. Threats in offsite infrastructure are vastly different from the ones that you encounter in traditional onsite management facilities. Different approaches that would involve both vendors and buyers need to be employed when dealing [...]
Is Box.net The Facebook Of Cloud computing?
A relatively new player in the cloud computing business, Box.net, is making big waves these days, with many drawing parallels between the company and Facebook. Like the most popular social networking site in the world, Box.net is the brainchild of a college dropout, 26-year old Aaron Levie, who was previously enrolled in the University of [...]
Cloud Printers A Security Risk?
The modern printer is one of the most versatile bits of office equipment around. New printer models can scan, copy, and print your documents in a flash. Some advanced printers can even be hooked up to the Internet and through cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Print and Hp ePrint, you can use them remotely [...]
A great Cloud Computing Industry synopsis
I love this bunch of paragraphs from Phil Wainewright of ZDNET. He captures the essence of the Cloud dilemma perfectly… The further that SaaS vendors penetrate into the higher echelons of enterprise computing, the more they’re accused, like the pigs running the show at the end of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, of becoming just like [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health’s Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health's Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
Healthcare coming to The Cloud
The cloud is destined to play a much larger role in healthcare than it has so far. That will be especially true as more providers adopt e-health records and other digitized clinical systems. It will also be pushed along by storage-hungry systems like 3-D medical imaging and health information exchanges looking to provide more efficient [...]
2011 To Be A Banner Year For Business Cloud Computing?
So far, the year 2011 is proving to be one of the most prolific years yet for the cloud computing industry. Innovations have been moving at an electric pace, and developments with certain specialty fields are fast emerging as well. One of the areas in cloud computing that have seen a significant amount of upgrading in recent [...]
Cloud Computing Predicted To Become Mainstream Soon
IDC, a recognized analyst firm, is predicting that cloud computing will become mainstream in just a few years time. This prediction is based on their collected data of buying trends and computing patterns. IDC is forecasting that during 2011, cloud computing services will outpace other IT products and offerings by up to five times. They [...]
How Cloud Computing Affects The Real World
There are many cloud computing products in the market right now, however awareness for them is not that yet widespread. Cloud computing may appear intimidating to ordinary computer users, which explains why there is not that much knowledge about it yet. However there are many benefits that can be gained from it. From the ground [...]
CSC To Offer New ‘Cloud-In-A-Box’
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) wants to grow its small cloud-computing business by building cloud systems at its customers’ offices. On Feb. 2, the Falls Church, Va.-based IT consultancy plans to unveil BizCloud, cloud-computing hardware and software it will assemble in about 10 weeks at a client’s facility. Like data-center-based cloud services, BizCloud [...]
CSC To Offer New 'Cloud-In-A-Box'
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) wants to grow its small cloud-computing business by building cloud systems at its customers’ offices. On Feb. 2, the Falls Church, Va.-based IT consultancy plans to unveil BizCloud, cloud-computing hardware and software it will assemble in about 10 weeks at a client’s facility. Like data-center-based cloud services, BizCloud [...]
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Cloud Computing: Start-up Promises Free Elastic Cloud Security
A year-old Silicon Valley SaaS start-up called CloudPassages broke cover Wednesday claiming that it can do what other security companies have failed to do and that’s protect elastic cloud servers. It’ll get off the ground by offering its base technology for free. The company’s purpose-built widgetry is supposed to work with anybody’s cloud – public [...]
HP cloud computing comes to the UK
HP is making its biggest move into cloud computing with the introduction of private and public cloud infrastructure and services hosted in the UK. Unveiling Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute, the company said the new technology allows UK businesses to store and process data in HP datacentres in hosted private clouds or in a multi-tenancy public cloud [...]
Intel To Open Cloud Computing Research Center At Stanford, Will Invest $100M In University Research
Intel Labs is opening up its deep pockets once again today, announcing a $100 million cash investment in U.S. university research over the next 5 years. The company plans to develop and open several branded “Intel Science and Technology Centers” at a number of universities for sponsored research and innovation throughout 2011. The first Center [...]
Amazon Launches Bulk cloud computing E-Mail Service
Amazon Web Services Jan. 25 launched a bulk e-mail service for businesses and developers, providing a messaging option for the cloud computing provider’s arsenal of Web-based services. AWS intends Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) as an alternative to the thorny work of building a custom messaging platform or licensing an e-mail service from a [...]
IBM slated To Build Asia’s Largest Cloud Computing Data Center
International Business Machines’ ever-expanding cloud computing services will continue development in Asia. The company announced it is collaborating with Range Technology Development, out of China, to build a state of the art cloud computing data center in Langfang City in Hebei province. It will be the largest cloud computing center in Asia, says IBM. “This [...]
New Enterprise paradigm is Cloud + Apps
A growing storm of enterprise apps is blowing in wind bringing with it new provisioning models. “We’ll see a move away from the ‘build’ to the ‘buy’ mentality, as many enterprises move away from custom to packaged applications,” said Rikke Helms, managing director of the Global Telecom division and vice president of the EMEA region [...]
Cloud Computing Defies Lock-In at the Web 2.0 Summit
Interesting… Clouds are amorphous. They don’t have well-defined boundaries. So it is with cloud computing, though that didn’t stop a few leading cloud computing vendors from trying to nail the concept down. On Tuesday at the Web 2.0 Summit, O’Reilly Media founder and conference co-chair Tim O’Reilly plumbed the depths of the cloud with Paul [...]
Amazon Web Services Takes Advantage of GPUs in the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows users of its cloud computing platform to take advantage of the extra power graphics processing units (GPUs) can give. The company hopes the move will attract high-performance computing applications to its service. AWS has added a new Cluster GPU instance to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, which provides [...]
Microsoft Finds Cloud Computing Is Good for the Environment
By comparing on-premises business applications to cloud-based equivalents, the researchers found that cloud computing has positive effects on the environment, especially if you are a small company. A Microsoft study bears out what environmentally-conscious companies have hoped for all along: cloud computing has the potential to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions by 30 percent [...]
Holy Cow! Autonomy private cloud hits 17 petabytes
Autonomy is a software and infrastructure company that was a wide range of offerings including running a private cloud for storing information and other uses for its customers. The company has announced that its private cloud computing platform has hit an impressive milestone. The private cloud now manages more than 17 petabytes of information. That [...]
Interest Growing in Private Cloud Computing
While there’s still plenty of room for growth among enterprises for straight ahead, consolidation-oriented server virtualization projects, many organizations are looking to take their virtualization deployments to the next level. How? By shaping their data centers into elastic and self-service platforms akin to those built by large cloud computing outfits such as Amazon.com and Salesforce.com. [...]
Kristin’s Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
Kristin's Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
U.S. army takes cloud computing to Afghanistan
TAMPA — The U.S. military is taking cloud computing into rugged terrain in Afghanistan, where according to Lt. Gen. Richard Zahner, the basic hardware and software technology is being packed into mobile boxes that later this year will start to play a key role in networking for soldiers in the sky and on the ground. [...]
Hilarious: Why Larry Ellison hates the phrase “Cloud Computing”
I just found this video on YouTube. My hero Larry Ellison on the absurdity of the phrase “Cloud Computing”. It’s pretty friggin funny… embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt
Hilarious: Why Larry Ellison hates the phrase "Cloud Computing"
I just found this video on YouTube. My hero Larry Ellison on the absurdity of the phrase “Cloud Computing”. It’s pretty friggin funny… embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt
Packt invites IBM Cloud Computing authors and book ideas
Packt Publishing is planning to advance its line up of IBM Cloud Computing books and is currently inviting book ideas and potential authors interested in writing them. Some of the topics which Packt finds immediately attractive are: IBM Smart Business Test Cloud IBM Cloudburst IBM LotusLive IBM LotusLive iNotes Desktop Workloads IBM Smart Business Desktop [...]
