Author: David

CloudNOW, a nonprofit executive consortium of the leading women in cloud computing, announced during Cloud Connect Santa Clara today, the first annual CloudNOW Awards presented to 10 outstanding women in cloud computing for their contributions, accomplishments and thought leadership.

"It was amazing and gratifying to have the caliber of candidates participate in our first annual awards," said Jocelyn DeGance Graham, founder of CloudNOW. "As we continue to fulfill on our mission, we plan to expand the awards next year to recognize the outstanding contributions of more women in the cloud and further the reach of women in technology."…

Google’s Drive, aka Gdrive, cloud storage service is finally due for release, more than four years after it was first rumored in 2007. Clearly, users want cloud storage, both at the enterprise and the retail levels. Just look at the success of Dropbox and Box.net, not to mention Amazon.com’s S3. Of course Apple is in that game as well with its iCloud document-syncing cloud service. I use them all.

So what’s new with Gdrive? Not much.

We’ve been able to store stuff for free using Google Apps for years. Moreover, we’ve had other more retail-oriented cloud storage systems, such as Dropbox, that already work pretty well and have been battle-tested. While I wouldn’t put state secrets on these services just yet, their security is much better than a USB thumb drive’s, which is the real-world alternative for most users…

The Internet highway may start looking like a proverbial New York traffic jam at rush hour soon.

Feel free to substitute any town you like because Cisco says there’s going to be a faster-than-expected 18x surge in worldwide mobile data traffic between 2011 and 2016.

That’s when mobile cloud traffic should account for 71% of total data traffic, or 10.3 exabytes a month, up from a mere 269 petabytes a month now, outgrowing global fixed data traffic by 3x.  That’s like 33 billion DVDs or 4.3 quadrillion MP3 files…

CX Inc. the fastest growing cloud storage and data file management system, introduced their CX Android application today. With the new application, Android and Kindle Fire users will now have additional devices for getting into the CX cloud.

"CX, which launched its production release in October, is one of the fastest growing cloud computing storage applications welcoming on average 30,000 new customers every week," Brad Robertson, CEO of CX Inc. "While, CX can always be accessed via the mobile web client – users can now go native on their devices with the latest additions of the native Android and Kindle Fire applications. These recent additions compliment CX’s ever-growing list of applications that enable secure syncing, creation, consumption, and collaboration of content in the cloud with CX. As promised, CX.com will continue to be your secure digital command center, through which you can take control of all your content from any device."…

A lot of companies have woken up to the fact that they can make huge profits by foraying into this domain.

A lot has been said about cloud computing. As a matter of fact, it has often been projected as the need of the hour. Perhaps this hype has been purposely created by cloud computing companies for their own benefit. Experts suggest that it is impossible for a technology of this kind (read: not yet fully developed) to cause a stir.

However, it cannot be denied that ‘cloud’ has certainly sparked a flurry of interest. In such a scenario, a lot of companies have woken up to the fact that they can make huge profits by foraying into this domain. The following tips would help you in separating the good from the bad:..

Contrary to Steve Jobs’ dictum that the 9.7-inch iPad is as small as a tablet can get, Apple is testing a widget that’s around eight inches and has gotten as far as qualifying suppliers for it, according to the Wall Street Journal.  It’s supposed to be working with screen makers AU Optronics of Taiwan and LG Display of South Korea.

The device would reportedly have the same resolution as the current iPad…

After a year that has seen much of the buzz around Hewlett-Packard Co. focused on the software side, hardware was front and centre on day one of the vendor’s global partner conference as the vendor launched its new generation of Gen8 servers and announced a new cloud computing partner specialization.

Canada has been a little behind the curve on cloud computing adoption with our more conservative business nature, but in the last six months customers have begun moving into the proof of concept stage and it’s time for HP and its partners to really build an ecosystem arond cloud computing, said Dave Frederickson, vice-president of enterprise servers, storage and networking (ESSN) with HP Canada…

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Indra, the number one IT multinational in Spain and a leader in Europe and Latin America, announced today the launch of a new cloud management solution. The solution will provide broad variety of innovative services and mobility to companies in markets throughout the world.

Operational improvements, cost reduction and a focus on core business are the major benefits for customers of this new cloud management system…