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Grazed from Network Computing. Author: Lee H. Badman.

Cloud-based VoIP and unified communications for the mobile space are both accurately described as growth markets. Though adoption rates may not quite be blistering, cloud UC is gaining traction as ShoreTel throws its offering into the mix.

ShoreTel is a well-established VoIP player that has made a couple of strategic acquisitions. Buying Agito last year gave the premise-centric ShoreTel platforms a mobility-minded boost, and the recent purchase of M5 Networks provided a well-respected anchor in cloud-based VoIP. This brings us to today’s news about the next big thing from ShoreTel, which combines compelling elements of all parts of the business. At the same time, what’s not quite in the ShoreTel announcement is also significant…

EasyCloud has just released the most powerful Wordpress Cloud Hosting platform available on the market today. Complete with 5 premium templates, 20 powerful features and instant scalability all running in a dedicated environment for under $20/month. EasyCloud Wordpress are built in 3 easy steps and only take 5 minutes to deploy. Each server comes with built-in administration tools to make support even easier.

"Our goal was to bring the development time for Wordpress installations down to a minimum while offering the power of the cloud to web designers and even regular consumers." says EasyCloud CEO, Jared Rice.

Easy Wordpress users are also greeted with several key common features, including Instant Facebook Page, iPad/iPhone /Android ready templates, Google Drive Backup, Dropbox Backup, Auto Local Backup, Auto Remote Backup and several popular SEO plugins. One of the most mentioned features is their "White Label” Support Chat.

Held on the 12 and 13 June at Earls Court, the event showcased the growing business and consumer interest in cloud computing across the globe, hosting some of the biggest names and organizations from the IT industry, including over 100 global exhibitors and 200 expert speakers.

Among the highlights were Apple’s former CEO, John Sculley, who delivered a talk on how cloud computing is enhancing the telemedicine industry, while hundreds crammed into the keynote theater on day one to listen to Amazon’s iconic CTO, Werner Vogels, talk about the meteoric rise of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its role in the industry’s development.

Grazed from Hexus. Author: PR Announcement.

As cloud computing becomes a more mature sector of the IT industry, most enterprises have already regarded this technology as a key point in the building of future information architectures to meet the needs of massive data processing. To better address the high demands for cloud computing, Apacer, a leading memory module manufacturer, has announced an industry-leading and enterprise-level 16GB bulk storage DDR3-1600 high-speed server memory module. Ituses both internal and external voltage reference (Vref.) circuits, allowing the storage system to directly use external Vref.with high efficiency while eliminating signal noise. It helps to facilitate continuous massive data processing and helps to optimize the cloud computing and storage performance in those environments, giving a more stable server storage experience.

This newly-launched DDR3-1600 16GB 2Rx4 ECC RDIMM server memory module from Apacer is 100% JEDEC compliant and has built-in ECC. Thanks to its outstanding hardware design and advanced memory chips, server systems can boost operation efficiency by 20% and builders can provide multiple and superior storage device options to customers. To help create optimal product performance, the DDR3 server memory module has gone through rigorous reliability tests. It is fully compatible with the latest Intel/AMD 2-way server platforms and supports the latest Intel Quad-Channel Xeon E5-2600/4600 series and AMD Quad-Channel Opteron 6000 series server platforms for communication network devices, demonstrating incomparable platform compatibility…

Grazed from Mass High Tech. Author: Bob Burke.

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular in higher education, normally a slow adopter of new technology. Cloud computing can be used for business continuity planning, or storing archived copies of data off to a cloud storage area – even students’ papers and music that can be stored and retrieved whenever they want. This reduces hardware, software, and personnel costs and saves on space, repair, and electricity. It also allows the school to stay current with technology and enables multiple staff to view admissions simultaneously — in or out of the office.

However, the issue of security cannot be overstated in a cloud computing scenario. In reality, security is less about the nuts and bolts of how to protect the data than the idea that administrators must determine who actually owns the data and who has access to it. All this information is being put on these machines out there “somewhere”; thus, the college administrator needs to know who is administering these machines and who has access to them…