Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

YouDazzle today announced that it has for the first time combined online file sharing and web meetings in a simple, centralized interface accessible via any device, harnessing the communications power of the cloud for companies and professionals of all shapes and sizes. In addition, YouDazzle today brought the $100 billion cloud services market opportunity to millions of home-based businesses by introducing the first sales distribution model that makes it easy for anyone to learn cloud technology and enter this lucrative market space.

"The cloud will change the way the world lives, works, plays, and learns. Our goal is to provide a rich but simple way for anyone to synchronously and asynchronously collaborate and interact on any device," said Cary Cole, founder and CEO, YouDazzle. "We’ve developed a simple cloud-based service for companies of all sizes to dazzle their clients, prospects and colleagues. Professionals can conduct business in an elegant, branded data room by storing, sharing or presenting data at any time from anywhere."…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Virtela, the world’s largest independent managed network, security and cloud services company, today announced that its Cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) service has won the 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award presented by global media company TMC. The award recognizes companies that most effectively leveraged cloud computing efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market in the last year.

Virtela was honored for exemplifying innovation and excellence in the cloud computing market by helping global companies manage the pervasive use of smartphones and tablets in the enterprise and implement successful mobility strategies. Gartner recently announced that worldwide smartphone sales grew 47% in the fourth quarter of 2011 to reach 149 million units, to total 472 million units sold for the year. This number will increase in 2012 as more devices make their way into the enterprise, spurring companies to implement mobile device management…

Grazed from PR Web.  Author: PR Announcement.

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, file synchronization, storage, and collaboration tools, today announced that it has been invited to speak at the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit Europe 2012 (HCTS EU) to a group of senior-level executives about the future of the cloud computing industry. Analyst group, 451 Research, is hosting the two-day conference at the Hotel Russell in London on the 2nd and 3rd April.

Anthony Foy, SkyDox CEO, will take part in a panel debate on cloud storage business models together with other major vendors across the hosting and cloud storage sector. Drawing on expertise in building profitable companies and increasing shareholder value, Anthony will be providing insights on how vendors can meet demand from Information Communication Technology (ICT) decision-makers for value added storage and collaboration service that help them drive operational efficiencies. Over 250 hosting and infrastructure providers, software and hardware vendors, enterprise decision-makers and financers will be attending the event…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

As enterprises continue to move to cloud computing, blunders will occur, but we’ll also see success with the cloud. Now is a good time to survey what works — that is, the best practices around cloud deployment. Here is my initial list, but it will evolve over the next few years.

Note: These are mainly management concepts dealing with the people aspect of cloud computing. The best practices around the use of the technology are emerging, but the most common breakdowns seem to be reside within brains, not servers…

Grazed from Gadget.com.   Author: Tim Walter.

With the arrival of uncapped and affordable ADSL products for SMEs, cloud computing is set to transform the way that businesses consume ICT services within the next two years, says TIM WALTER of Nashua Mobile.

The high price and erratic quality of bandwidth in South Africa are the two of the major factors that have held back cloud computing. With the arrival of innovative and affordable data products such as uncapped ADSL products aimed at SMEs, this picture is rapidly changing…

Grazed from SmartHouse Media.  Author: Oonagh Reidy.

International cloud services are making significant headway in the Australian enterprise market, with Amazon Web Services, Apple and Google widely used here.

Two thirds of Oz enterprises that use IaaS (infrastructure as a serivce) are using a cloud computing service from an offshore provider with servers located ouside the country, according to technology analyst Telsyte.  This means "the opportunity is ripe for local providers to fill the void for Australian cloud services," say analysts.

The Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Market Study surveyed 260 Chief Information Officers and showed the massive penetration of the big cloud computing vendors within local enterprises…

Grazed from Broadcast Newsroom.  Author: PR Announcement.

ScienceLogic™, Inc. CEO David Link will participate in a FOSE 2012 panel discussion on April 4 about government cloud computing and the factors to consider when selecting a service provider. The panel is part of the Cloud & Virtualization Conference taking place at FOSE, which will be held April 3-5. ScienceLogic will exhibit its IT operations and cloud management technology in booth #504.

Session Title: Cloud First: Key Government Considerations for Selecting the Right Service Provider…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Rachel Dines.

Historically, disaster recovery (DR) preparedness required substantial time and financial investment; for many, DR was out of reach. Today, cloud-based DR is poised to shake up legacy approaches and offer frustrated infrastructure and operations professionals a compelling alternative.

Instead of enterprises buying resources in case of a disaster, cloud computing and its pay-per-use pricing model allows them to pay for long-term data storage while only paying for servers during testing or in the event of a disaster. This provides significant cost reduction and removes several barriers to entry for many firms looking for faster recovery than what they can receive from tape…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Marshall
 

Grazed from NextGov.  Author: Bob Brewin.

The Air Force said it will consider commercial cloud computing services for 1 million users of its unclassified networks as they shift from desktop computers to dumb terminals.

The Air Force Space Command, which manages the service’s networks, announced early last month it was considering the move to thin or zero clients to cut operations and maintenance costs and improve security.

Desktop computers store files and applications on local hard drives while thin clients and zero clients access applications stored on remote servers. Zero clients consist of a keyboard, mouse and monitor with no local processing power, while thin clients have some built-in processing power to support rich graphics displays and multimedia applications…