Alive in the Cloud - cloud computing

Prism, spying and cloud computing

2013-06-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

Prism, spying and cloud computing: should businesses be worried?National Business ReviewOur 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

Cloud Computing Democratizes Big Data

2013-06-15T00:00:00.000+12:00

How Cloud Computing Democratizes Big DataReadWriteShare 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 CapsSeeking AlphaApparently the world's largest

Microsoft steps up drive to grab cloud services market

2013-06-13T00:00:00.000+12:00

Microsoft steps up drive to grab cloud services marketThe Express TribuneKARACHI: 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 elitesGCN.comHewlett-Packard and Lockheed Martin have

Cloud computing giants caught in military intelligence data grab

2013-06-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

Cloud computing giants caught in military intelligence data grabComputerWeekly.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

VMware Partners and Cloud Co-opetition

2013-06-08T00:00:00.000+12:00

VMware Partners Wrestle With Cloud Co-opetitionInformationWeekNow 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 ServicesInformationWeekThose researchers will focus on cloud

KT to launch cloud services in Japan

2013-06-07T00:00:00.000+12:00

KT to launch cloud services in JapanZDNetKT 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 CloudInformationWeek SMB (blog)Charles Babcock | May 30, 2013 09:

Consumer cloud services causing security time-bomb for enterprises

2013-06-06T00:00:00.000+12:00

Huddle: Consumer cloud services causing 'security time-bomb' for enterprisesZDNet (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

Encryption can make cloud computing safer

2013-06-05T00:00:00.000+12:00

Encryption can make cloud computing saferUSA TODAYWe'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.comEli Lily

Graphics Card for Entire Internet

2013-06-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

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

SAP to focus on cloud computing

2013-06-01T00:00:00.000+12:00

SAP revamps management to focus on cloud computingReutersFRANKFURT (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 ServicesWall Street JournalMicrosoft Steps Up Japan Cloud

Amazon cloud vs Google and Microsoft

2013-05-30T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon cloud soars far above Google and Microsoft • The Register: " Amazon has equivalent products to all of the above, plus DNS services (Route53), hardware-based key storage (CloudHSM), application management (OpsWorks), detailed templating (CloudFormation), orchestration (Data Pipeline), performance monitoring (App Monitoring), API-based payment service (FPS), managed search (Amazon

Why Google is Amazon's strongest competitor

2013-05-28T00:00:00.000+12:00

Why Google is freaking out Amazon | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld: "Taking innovative risks, such as building a cloud without the use of traditional virtualization, for example, means Google needs fewer resources and offers better performance. It can provide cloud services as a loss leader without killing the core business, and Google has a trusted brand. These all make Google the most serious AWS

Ready to move to the cloud

2013-05-25T00:00:00.000+12:00

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

Google Strengthens Cloud Platform

2013-05-23T00:00:00.000+12:00

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

RapidShare mass layoffs, struggle to find new business model

2013-05-21T00:00:00.000+12:00

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

Amazon is a threat to HP, Dell and Oracle

2013-05-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon’s growing threat to H-P, Dell and Oracle - MarketWatch: "While Netflix may be the face for providing its subscribers access to movies such as “The Hunger Games” and TV shows like “Mad Men,” it’s Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.91% actually streaming that content to their screens. And the e-commerce giant has gone well beyond movie streaming, having used its massive technology backbone and

Can HP survive missteps?

2013-05-17T00:00:00.000+12:00

Turning around an aircraft carrier while undergoing refitting is not easy-- Cassidy: Will Hewlett-Packard survive its missteps? - SiliconValley.com: " . . . announcing it was eventually getting out of the PC business, which killed sales; and then not getting out of the PC business, which caused confusion; buying software company Autonomy for way more than it was worth . . ."I think HP is here to

Adobe embraces the cloud

2013-05-16T00:00:00.000+12:00

Adobe's professional cloud push arrives at its final destination | Software - CNET Reviews: "Adobe's not just rebranding all of its professional applications with the Creative Cloud moniker (except Lightroom -- so far). Now it's created a supercell composed of Photoshop CC, Dreamweaver CC, InDesign CC, so on and so on, ad infinitum. You'll only be able to get individual copies of those packages

Google Cloud Drops Custom Linux For Debian

2013-05-15T00:00:00.000+12:00

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

Brick-and-mortar stores must look to cloud computing

2013-05-14T00:00:00.000+12:00

Sunnier Days Ahead for Retailers that Use Cloud ComputingWiredIn order to remain competitive and press their advantage further, brick-and-mortar stores must look to the cloud computing revolution as a way to upgrade their technology without busting their budgets. Perhaps most important, clouds offer retailers a ...WiredHow private or hybrid cloud storage solutions can improve

Free cloud storage to 100GB or more

2013-05-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

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

Protect your company against vanishing cloud services

2013-05-09T00:00:00.000+12:00

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

Amazon Cloud Grows Cloud Partners, Cloud Competitors

2013-05-07T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon Web Services is in the middle of a worldwide tour, selling itself to customers and partners and gearing up for competition from a variety of new competitors.-- Amazon's Boom in Cloud Partners - NYTimes.com: " . . . Last week the data storage giant EMC and its affiliate VMware, which are worried about the Amazon service, announced creation of Pivotal, a company that includes its own

Cloud Computing News

2013-05-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

Cloud computing news digest-- For two tech vets, cloud computing is no fluffHaaretzBenny Schnaider and Rami Tamir have their head in the clouds, or more accurately, in cloud computing. This technology uses the Internet or other networks of large groups of servers running low-cost PC technology for data-processing rather than having ...Maharashtra govt bets on cloud computing to speed up

Experience, Wisdom, Cloud Computing

2013-05-02T00:00:00.000+12:00

With Experience Comes Wisdom in Cloud Computing, Survey Shows Forbes Actually, cloud computing is, in a way, the bottling and packaging of information technology experience. But still, even with something so nicely pre-packaged as cloud, there is still a learning curve that must be climbed. The good news is that cloud ... SMEs must embrace the cloud to achieve global growth The Guardian (blog)