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Grazed from The Boston Globe.  Author:  Michael B. Farrell.

There are jobs in the cloud.

The rise of cloud computing services – running software and storing files online, rather than on a computer hard drive – is expected to create 20,000 jobs in the Boston area by 2015, according to a report produced for Microsoft Corp. by Framingham research firm IDC Corp.

Most of the jobs will come as companies shift from maintaining their own, expensive computer servers toward cloud services, which allow access to enterprise software and data via the Internet, according to the report, which was scheduled to be released Monday…

Grazed from ITWire.  Author: Stuart Conner.

Last week research firm Longhaus released a report ranking the top 45 providers offering cloud services to the Australian market. It had culled these from an initial list of 175 contenders.

In a posting on the Longhaus blog, the principle author of the report, Longhaus research director Scott Stewart, said: "The study confirms that there can still be big risks with some clouds, probably much higher than most would care to consider…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Jeff Norman.

New York Times “Bits” writer Quentin Hardy declared major victory last week for cloud computing.

The triumph resounded well enough to earn the title “The Week the Cloud Won.” After lengthy months of incremental progress, cloud’s organizations have finally chipped away at the big boys of technology like Dell and Hewlett Packard. These heavy hitters in “enterprise computing” dwindled in earnings, whereas Salesforce.com, a major cloud computing company, saw its profits skyrocket by nearly 40%…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…