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Cloudcor Announces 4rd Annual International Cloud Slam’12, Cloud Computing Conference and Exhibition

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloudcor  today announced their fourth annual Cloud Slam’12(R) international cloud computing conference and expo – the next installment in the Cloud Slam quadrilogy, which takes place May 30 – June 1st 2012, in San Francisco, and broadcast globally.  The theme for this years Cloud Slam’12 conference is how Cloud changes our futures.

Primary areas of cloud computing covered will include:…

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Symantec O3 Offers Three Layers of Cloud Security

By David
Grazed from CIO-Today.  Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

With so much focus on security as all things cloud computing continue to rise, Symantec just rolled out a new cloud information protection platform and a roadmap for its services. Symantec also partnered with Salesforce.com on cloud security.

Dubbed 03 Cloud Identity and Access Control, Symantec’s security software offers three layers of protection for the cloud: access control, information security and information management. Companies that deploy 03 get a single, secure access point to cloud apps and services…

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Google Holds Top Spot in Cloud Service Provider Industry

By David
Grazed from Techzone360.  Author: Erin Harrison.

Google is being touted as the most prominent service provider in the cloud – the technology company recently topped the list of service providers in the Cloud & Technology Transformation Alliance’s cloud channel survey.

In today’s cloud computing environment, the service provider segment is a mix of telecom carriers, hosting companies, application and processing services and even application resellers, Channelnomics blogger Larry Walsh recently pointed out…

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Cloud Computing Provider, UltraLevel, Inc., Announces Cloud Data Center Events in Columbus & Cincinnati, Ohio

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

UltraLevel, Inc. ( http://www.ultralevel.com ), a leading virtualization solutions provider, announces two new seminar event dates for its popular SAFE Data Center series in Ohio, including Columbus and Cincinnati.

The free, half-day events will be presented in a town hall meeting style, where attendees can ask questions and receive answers about their own data centers and cloud initiatives. The seminar is split into two sessions, respectively; business and technical. Lunch is included and will be served during the first session. All attendees are encouraged and welcome to stay after lunch for the technical session…

March 2, 2012 Off

CIOs Must Fit the Cloud Into IT Strategy

By David
Grazed from CIO.  Author: Thor Ovalsrud.

Cloud computing is still in the testing and experimental space for many organizations, but its benefits are becoming clear to many. Cloud is rapidly shifting from a world of hype and possibilities to one of practical application, and CIOs that haven’t already considered what cloud means for their business need to step up the pace.

That was the consensus of six panelists brought together by information exchange solutions specialist IntraLinks in a roundtable discussion Thursday morning at the Gabarron Foundation in New York City.

The Promise of Cloud Computing

"You think about technology waves, and every once in a while you get one that you know is meaningful, that actually changes the way companies spend their money and invest in solutions; it actually changes the way the tech industry itself is shaped, and cloud computing is one of those things clearly," said Ted Schadler, vice president and principal analyst with Forrester Research, who moderated the panel…

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Cloud Computing and Export Laws: Are You Exporting Illegal Data?

By David
Grazed from InfoBoom.  Author: Gabriel Knight.

Cloud computing has opened a new world of discovery for data storage and sharing. Its ability to share both data and computing resources has caused the world to look upon it as the first major information technology of the 21st century…

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UN World Tourism Organization Partners With Microsoft for Cloud Computing

By David
Grazed from InfoBoom.  Author: Amanda Kondolojy.

Tourism used to be a business that relied heavily on advertising and word of mouth. Hearing stories about your friends’ recent trip to Mexico or seeing the beautiful lights of France on the cover of a magazine used to get potential travelers excited about visiting the world’s most luxurious places. However, the world has changed, and traditional methods of promotion are not considered as effective as they once were. How can the world of vacation planning adapt to the changing business landscape? According to Microsoft, the answer may be cloud computing…

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‘Science Cloud’ computing project will tackle biggest mysteries of the universe

By David
Grazed from MNN.  Author: Clara Moskowitz.

The Science Cloud will be tested by three organizations during a two-year pilot phase before it opens up to more groups.  A new cloud-computing project called the "Science Cloud" has just been launched by some of Europe’s biggest research powerhouses along with European IT companies.

 
The European Space Agency (ESA), along with the CERN physics lab (home of the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), hope to use the Science Cloud to carry out large complicated calculations probing some of the biggest mysteries of the universe…
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CIA wants big data, petascale computing to speed info analysis

By David
Grazed from GCN.  Author: Henry Kenyon.

The CIA is embracing big data to dramatically speed up the time it takes to analyze and act on the sea of data its sensors and agents collect, a top agency official said.

There have been profound changes caused by technology in recent years, much of it driven by social, mobile and cloud applications, said Ira “Gus” Hunt, the CIA’s chief technology officer, speaking at the recent AFCEA Emerging Technologies Symposium in Washington DC. One example of this is the Arab Spring uprising, which would not have been possible without those technologies, he said, adding that cheap, ubiquitous and networked devices change how the public and private sectors do business…

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Cloud Computing: Wayin Gets Second Round of Funding

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Wayin, the 18-month-old Scott McNealy start-up, has topped up its funding with a $14 million B round lead by US Venture Partners with the participation of TIBCO, the big Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini and a very locker room crowd of private investors including TV producer Burt Sugarman, real estate developer Michael Meldman, Gunthy-Renker co-CEO Ben Van de Bundt, former Great Plains CEO and ex-Microsoft SVP Doug Burgum, sportscaster Jim Gray and others.

Financing so far totals $20 million…