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Secure Cloud Hosting Now Available in Europe: Firehost

cloudtweaks — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:13:02 +0000

Secure Cloud Hosting Now Available in Europe: Firehost At Cloud Expo Europe last month, FireHost officially announced our expansion into Europe, with our newest data center locations in London and Amsterdam. We’ve taken our unique cloud hosting environment, un-matched security, support and scalability that you have experienced in the US, and made it available in [...]

Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 8

sourya — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:18:51 +0000

Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 8 This is the ninth in a continuing series on startups raising funding. You can read the series here: Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Today, there are two startups in focus – AppDynamics and ShopKeep.com. AppDynamics (http://www.appdynamics.com/) Top VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led [...]

Cloud Computing In China Looks Set To Soar

Muz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:22:35 +0000

Cloud Computing In China Looks Set To Soar China is notorious for being a closed market, however, as the largest single market in Asia it could prove to be the game changer necessary to tip the scales of Cloud Computing adoption (at least in Asia). While we all know that a single grain of rice [...]

Cloud Computing: Its Implications on Education

Cenon — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:55:54 +0000

Cloud Computing: Its Implications on Education Cloud computing is something which has become popular in almost all aspects of our lives. Indeed, it has even attracted the attention by the people in the academe, more specifically, in the field of education. But there is really no need to be surprised about it; in fact, some [...]

VMware Introduces VMware vCloud® Integration Manager™

cloudtweaks — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:32:22 +0000

VMware Introduces VMware vCloud® Integration Manager™ to Help Service Providers Accelerate the Delivery of vCloud Services Nearly 90 VMware Service Providers now deliver VMware vCloud® Powered Services Based on VMware vSphere®, VMware vCloud Director™ and the vCloud API PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 7, 2012 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud [...]

Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 7

sourya — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:19:14 +0000

Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 7 This is the eighth in a continuing series on startups raising funding. You can read the first six in the series here: Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Today, there are two startups in focus – Symplified and Tidemark. Tidemark [...]

What Accountants Must Know Before Choosing The Right Cloud Application Vendor

cloudtweaks — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:18:30 +0000

What Accountants Must Know Before Choosing The Right Cloud Application Vendor With the recent worldwide popularity of cloud computing, it is expected to gain more momentum with more and more industries making use of such technology. The accounting profession can experience the most benefits because the accounting field processes a lot of data which can [...]

Skytap Helps Power Orasi’s New Application In The Cloud With HP

cloudtweaks — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:04 +0000

SKYTAP HELPS POWER ORASI’S NEW APPLICATION PERFORMANCE TESTING SOLUTION IN THE CLOUD WITH HP CloudPerform Solution Leverages Industry’s Leading Hybrid Cloud to Accelerate Performance Testing SEATTLE, Wash. – February 7, 2012 – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that it was selected by Orasi Software, Inc., a leading services provider, to power its new Orasi [...]

Disaster Recovery Plans In The Clouds

Rick — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:47:44 +0000

Disaster recovery plans in the clouds Both large and medium/small-sized companies have significantly increased their organizational data in recent years. Analyzing large data sets will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth and innovation, according to a research by MGI and McKinsey’s Business Technology Office. The ability to store, compound [...]

Did Cloud Computing Win New York Giants the Super Bowl?

Jeff Norman — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:37:42 +0000

Did Cloud Computing Win New York Giants the Super Bowl? By now you know: the Giants dwarfed the pompous Patriots in what’s being deemed one of the oddest battles in Super Bowl history. Eli Manning summoned one of his signature fourth-quarter drives to score the winning touchdown in an eleventh hour finish. His talent, alongside [...]