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LiquidFrameworks, a leading provider of mobile field operations management solutions for companies in the oilfield, industrial, and environmental industries, today announced that it was named as one of three finalists for the 2013 UP-START Cloud Award for the Best Mobile Solution category. LiquidFrameworks was recognized for changing the way companies in the oil and gas, industrial, and environmental services industries manage their mobile field operations. Their FieldFX product suite is a complete mobile field operations management solution that empowers companies with the ability to organize and manage jobs, quotes, field tickets, equipment, contracts, price books, and labor, along with customer-specific electronic forms.

The UP-START Award finalists are disruptive and next-generation cloud computing companies, who are defining cloud technology and were selected by cloud industry experts during a 2-stage open vote, will present their solutions to attendees of the UP Cloud Computing Conference in Santa Clara on December 3, 2013, where the final round of voting will commence…

Grazed from HelpNetSecurity. Author: Kent Landry.

As we head into 2014, people in the cloud virtualization industry begin to wonder exactly what to expect from the technology in the New Year. We’ve seen some interesting and exciting developments emerge recently, including advancements in software-defined networking, explosions in cloud consumerization applications like Dropbox, and such instrumentation innovations as the “smart house”—an automated home that connects your thermostat, smoke detector, alarm system, appliances, and lighting to the Internet, giving you complete remote access and connectivity—the Internet of Things.

After nearly five years in the cloud industry, I’ve made many predictions for different technologies, but I’m particularly excited about what’s in store for the cloud. As we’ve seen in 2013, cloud computing has really changed the way business is done, bringing a whole new level of transparency and accountability to the customer experience…

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With the growing adoption of cloud computing comes a new class of leaders. They come from both IT and the business side of their organizations. They understand and are comfortable with the notion of bringing in new types of solutions to address business problems, as well as to super-charge innovation. At the same time, they understand the needs of the business, and are capable of communicating with and listening to business users from across the spectrum.

What does it take to bring about these special traits? The move to cloud is fraught with potential cost overruns, dashed expectations, data loss, and ham-handed attempts to quash “unsanctioned” projects. Highly effective cloud leaders need to know how to deftly navigate these shoals, and move cloud efforts forward. Here are 10 qualities that help define highly effective cloud leaders in this new era, who are moving their organizations forward. Highly effective cloud leaders:..

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In this video, Tom Salkield, Director of Professional Services at NTT Com Security outlines the key findings of a new research report commissioned by NTT Com Security.

NTT Com Security’s global research covered 700 organisations in the UK, USA / Canada, Germany, Nordics, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. The study shows that while over a third (36 per cent) of UK companies have adopted cloud in the last one to two years, almost a quarter (22 per cent) have yet to adopt cloud technology. This is compared to an average of 14 per cent globally…

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With the prospect of government taking a peek into online data and communications, cloud service providers are kicking up security a notch to ensure privacy for clients. Will this be enough to prevent Big Brother from watching?

Businesses that have at least some reliance on cloud computing in order to share and store some of their most important documents may have a few reasons to feel unnerved about who can and cannot access them. The main cause of anxiety for many enterprises, particularly those in the US, is the potentially frightening prospect of government-sponsored snooping…

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Awesome Cloud Services, the company that delivers white label cloud services, recently announced they published a step-by-step guide designed to help IT providers close new business.

The sales guide provides insightful information and tips for technology providers that include Explaining the Fundamentals of Cloud Computing, Relating Cloud Computing with Analogies, Overcoming Objections, and Recommending Deployment Models. It offers insights and guidance to help cloud resellers and channel partners close new business…

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Unbeknownst to many, the seemingly new and exciting idea of cloud computing technology is actually almost as old as computers themselves. Cloud computing simply refers to a variety of technologies that use numerous computers connected through a real-time communication network like the internet to share information. Having advanced greatly since its conception decades ago, cloud computing is a very useful tool for companies and individuals that do not wish to invest in their own network computing hardware but still need to store and transfer significant amounts of data.

It has become a technological buzzword recently thanks to whistleblower Edward Snowden, who revealed documents proving that the American government had been spying on foreign nationals and officials in addition to stealing huge amounts of information from cloud servers of online giants like Google and Yahoo, prompting the question – can cloud computing be secure? What should you know about cloud computing before deciding to take advantage of its services?…

Grazed from CloudPro.  Author: Jamie Hinks.

Cost shouldn’t be the sole driver of cloud technology with supplier and analysts claiming that its transformational qualities outstrip the savings it can provide companies with.  Cloud Pro reports that a number of suppliers and analysts have told them that the fact cloud isn’t causing a sea of change in individual companies could be potentially damaging in the long term.

“There has been no root and branch change in businesses IT operations. People have just become focused on moving the same process they ever had to a lower-cost platform like cloud,” said Neil Kinson, VP EMEA at Redwood Software…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Derrick Harris.

When CenturyLink bought cloud startup Tier3 for $200 million earlier this month, it acquired a technology platform and a group of people that should let the telecommunications giant take full advantage of its dozens of data centers and expansive fiber network. The man heading up that effort is Jared Wray, the founder and CTO of Tier3 who’s now the CTO for cloud computing at CenturyLink, and he came on the Structure Show podcast this week to share his thoughts on evolving from being a small cloud provider into, potentially, a very large one.

Here are some highlights of our interview with Wray, centered around his thoughts on what it will take for other cloud providers to finally emerge from the shadows of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google. If you want to hear about CenturyLink’s plan for building a single cloud platform out of its Tier3, AppFog and Savvis acquisitions, or about the intricacies of selling cloud computing to enterprises, you’ll want to listen to the whole show…

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The emergence of a new set of business needs, driven by changes in the energy landscape, has led utilities to deploy intelligent energy networks. Implementation of sensing and metering devices will enable access to new data and trigger a data explosion that necessitates the use of data management solutions, in turn boosting the prospects of ICT providers in the energy industry.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Data-driven Utilities, finds that big data analytics and forecasting software will become the cornerstone of business in utilities and will bring significant growth opportunities for ICT vendors…