Grazed from SBWire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

The Cloud Computing World Series will make its final stop of 2011, when it arrives in Hong Kong for the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia, taking place on the 30th and 1st December at the Mira Hotel. The event follows on from the success last year’s first World Forum in Asia, which saw over 450 delegates attend. Over 700 delegates are expected this year.

The Cloud Computing World Forum Asia is the place to meet all the key decision makers from the cloud service and SaaS market in one place…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Kevin L. Jackson.

FCO Services, a part of the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is implementing a collaboration service on the the organization’s  Government Secure Application Environment (GSAE) private cloud infrastructure. On their website, FCO Services describes themselves as:

“[T]he trusted partner of governments and other organisations for whom security is essential. We develop close relationships with our customers building a deep understanding of their needs protecting their people, information and working environment.

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author:  Dan Rowinski.

Google has one of the largest and most secure clouds in the entire industry. You do not often hear of a successful distributed denial of service attack against Google and rarely are Google applications hacked (unless, of course, it reportedly comes from the Chinese government). How does Google keep the data centers that comprise its cloud so safe and are they the gold standard in data protection?…

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author:  Klint Finley.

This week the report Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st Century from the Carbon Disclosure Project has been making rounds in cloud computing circles. The report concludes that large businesses could use cloud computing to cut CO2 emissions by 85.7 million metric tons annually by 2020…

Grazed from OpenPR.  Author: PR Announcement.

It can be announced that Eric Yee, Head of Enterprise Sales at Google Greater China will be joining the list of prestigious speakers at the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia, taking place on the 30th November and 1st December at the Mira, Hong Kong.

Grazed from Law.com.  Author: Douglas Wood.

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author: Joe Brockmeier.

When selecting a cloud provider, you want to make sure that you’re getting the best bang for your buck – but that’s not easy. Unlike hardware offerings, which are relatively easy to compare, cloud providers are all over the map when it comes to pricing and features…

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Warwick Ashford.

UK civil servants are to be among the first in the world to use cloud computing to work on classified documents due to a partnership between UK start-up Huddle and government security chiefs.

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Chris Mellor.

Nasuni is offering a 100 per cent uptime guarantee for data access through its cloud filer gateway appliance.

Of course, it can’t actually rule out service outages, so it is offering compensation for outages if the 100 per cent uptime target is breached.