August 7, 2011 Off

SingleOS Kicks Off Discount On Fuscan Cloud Hosting PaaS For cPanel

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Grazed from Online PR News.  Author: PR Announcement.

SingleOS, the company that produces the Fuscan Linux Cloud, a Shared Cloud Hosting automation software for cPanel/WHM announced 50% discount on licenses during HostingCon 2011. The company is presented at booth #745 at the exhibition hall of HostingCon.

Share Hosting providers that want to take advantage of the discounted licenses of Fuscan can sign up from this page – https://www.singleos.com/accounts/cart.php. The code HOSTINGCON11 will cut the list price of the licenses…

August 7, 2011 Off

UK police planning major switchover to cloud computing

By David
Grazed from PC Advisor.  Author: Leo King.

Police across the UK are considering a major move to cloud computing, dumping on-premise IT in an aggressive bid to cut costs, ComputerworldUK.com can reveal.

In a move likely to be seen as controversial given the sensitivity of police data, the Metropolitan Police is planning how to run a variety of front-end systems – for managing patrols, operations, incidents and investigations, managing evidence and forensics, and collating information – in the cloud. It is understood that if the project goes ahead, the Metropolitan Police would be the lead customer, with other forces buying services through a framework deal…

August 7, 2011 Off

HTC Buys Cloud Services Company Dashwire

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Grazed from Social Barrel.  Author: Solon Harmony Dolor.

Taiwan’s HTC Corporation revealed on Friday that it has acquired Seattle-based cloud services company Dashwire Incorporated, several news reports reveal.

The Agence France-Presse says that the deal will be valued “up to $18.5 million”…

August 6, 2011 Off

What is the ‘cloud’? Take a video tour of Microsoft data centers

By David
Grazed from Yahoo News.  Author: PR Announcement.

Just what is this “cloud” everyone has all of a sudden started talking about? “Cloud” this, “cloud” that; “cloud computing,” “cloud services.” Companies are hosting music “in the cloud.” People can save documents “to the cloud.”…

August 6, 2011 Off

MicroTech Secures $10 Billion Federal Contract for STARS II

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Grazed from Financial Tech Spotlight.  Author: Rajani Baburajan.

MicroTech, a technology and systems integrator, announced that it has won a $10 billion Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA (NewsAlert)) for the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services II (STARS II)…

August 6, 2011 Off

Senior VP of Yankee Group Emerging Markets joins list of speakers at the Cloud Computing World Forum Latin America

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Grazed from Online PR News.  Author: PR Announcement.

Mr Swain is Senior Vice President in Yankee Group’s Network Research group, and leads the Emerging Markets team which contributes research and consulting deliverables related to both fixed and wireless telecommunications markets. Based in Bogota, Columbia, he maintains continuous contact with various global players to produce his analysis, demand modelling, forecasting and market reports…
August 5, 2011 Off

Cloud Visionary, Todd Papaionnou, Joins Battery Ventures

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Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: PR Announcement.

Former Chief Cloud Architect at Yahoo!, Todd Papaioannou, Joins Battery Ventures Team to Pursue Initiatives in Big Data and Cloud Infrastructure.

Battery Ventures, a multi-stage investment firm focused on technology and innovation worldwide, today announced that Todd Papaioannou has joined as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) in the firm’s Menlo Park office. In this role, Papaioannou will work alongside Battery’s Enterprise IT investment team to help identify and create new opportunities in Cloud Computing, Big Data, analytics and the Enterprise software environment…

August 5, 2011 Off

The Universal Question: Public vs. Private Cloud Hosting?

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Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Erin Harrison.

It seems to be a universal question when the topic of cloud computing arises: whether to take the  private cloud road versus public (and in certain situations, vice versa).

There is no doubt that making a business case for cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular.

But deciding what will be the best cloud solution for your business requires analysis regarding the level of control, security customization and support your organization needs, according to Internap (News Alert), a provider of IT infrastructure and cloud services…

August 5, 2011 Off

Microsoft commits to help plug gaps in cloud computing in PH

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Grazed from SunStar.  Author: PR Announcement.

MICROSOFT Philippines will help promote cloud computing services as an effective solution in organizing government and commercial infrastructures.

In a press statement, it said it made the pledge during the recently concluded policy workshop “Leveraging the Cloud to Promote Sustainable Development.”…