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GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced its participation as a silver sponsor at Sys-Con’s 9th International Cloud Expo West Conference, the largest cloud computing event in the world, being held November 7- 10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif. Supporting multiple sessions in the event’s main agenda, GoGrid CEO, Warren Heffelfinger, CMO, Jeff Samuels and CIO, Mark Worsey are scheduled to present their perspectives on cloud computing infrastructure strategies based on their decade-long experience and industry leadership in Infrastructure Hosting and Cloud Computing…
Thinking about the cloud? Wondering what the heck it is? Want to know what your options are? Where do you start?
We are on the cusp of a transformative change in how we deliver services in the data center – cloud computing. Cloud computing as a term, has been around for quite a few years with a lot of hype and buzz, but its definition and terms related to it have been used to mean different things to different people. So what do I mean when am I talking about cloud computing?…
Grazed from The Drum. Author: Editorial Staff.
Almost three quarters of IT managers in the UK believe that cloud computing is not relevant to their business, according to new research.
Research carried out by global risk consultancy Protiviti, contacting 100 IT managers across the UK, found that 74% felt that cloud computing was not relevant to their business and that 8% who were using it, were only doing so for one or two services…
Blue-chip companies could reduce their carbon emissions by 50% if they migrate their data storage operations to the cloud, a new study says.
The study conducted by the Carbon Disclosure Project in London focussed on large IT companies in France and the UK and found that they could achieve large cost savings and carbon reductions by 2020 if they moved their IT systems to shared data networks…
Cloud-based solutions and virtualisation are among the top technologies tipped to take off in 2012, according to Quest Software, amid increasing demand for mobility and collaboration…
Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, is expanding its cloud-computing sales to the U.S. government, joining Google and Microsoft in seeking federal orders for Web-based services…
Rather than retool their existing accounting software, Thomson Reuters decided to build a completely new application from the ground up.
The result is Accounting CS, the first tax and accounting application designed to take full advantage of cloud computing and the continuous, free flow of real-time data that it allows…
Army Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency (NSA), discussed the cloud and how to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber-threats at a recent Information Systems Security Association conference in Baltimore and in a follow-up interview with eWEEK. As commander of U.S. Cyber Command, he also discussed rules of engagement for the military in cyberspace…
Much of our computing (including the storage of our personal data) is now being done remotely via the ‘cloud’. But what is it? Here is a brief history of this radical shift while, below, we assess the relative merits of four cloud computing services…
Unless one is getting his news from written sources, the Thailand flooding portends a crisis for businesses and consumers who are moving toward cloud computing or offsite data storage, especially if they are projecting rapid growth in their needs over the next 12 months.
It is not yet known the extent of the damage caused by the flooding in Thailand, but some estimates say about 20% of the country is now flooded. Thailand happens to be one of the largest producers of hard drives in the world. The technology industry is bracing itself for scarcity…