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Grazed from CIO Today.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

A report from Apple that 85 million people have signed up for its iCloud service is an indication a significant number of computer users are willing — even happy — to entrust their personal data, from documents to music to last summer’s vacation snaps, to other digital hands.

While not a new concept, Apple’s iCloud and its undeniable success shows the extent to which people are willing to trust "the cloud" — servers in a dedicated facility possibly thousands of miles away — to hold their data, not as a backup of what’s on their own hard drives but as the sole repository of their digital lives.

In addition to Apple’s offering, Microsoft says 17 million people a month use its SkyDrive service, and Dropbox reportedly has more than 50 million users…

Grazed from Cloud Computing World Forum.  Author: PR Announcement.

Grazed from Cloud Computing World Forum.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud computing will have "a major impact on everything from agriculture to education" in Africa, according to the editor of one of the region’s most prominent online IT publications.

Grazed from DataCenter Dynamics.  Author: Penny Jones.

Fujitsu made its impression of the Cloud clear at this year’s Fujitsu Forum, held in Munich in October. Fujitsu’s pragmatic German CEO Rolf Schwirz’s strategy was dished out with no ‘ifs and buts’ as he detailed the company’s move into the Cloud and how it plans to target the growing market.

In Schwirz’s view, Fujitsu is not competing in a new market, and it already has the technology the market requires. Instead, Fujitsu’s focus on the Cloud will be all about service levels and flexible offerings that promise easy deployment, easy contracts and little emphasis on the underlying technology behind the Cloud offering.

“From a technology perspective, cloud computing is actually internet computing – you use the Internet for cloud. It is not a new technology; it is simply a new delivery model. And for all delivery models, one thing will remain important: you have to offer a solution to the customer,” Schwirz said during his keynote speech…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CLOUDSHARE, Inc., a global cloud-computing company that delivers innovative cloud-based IT pre-production solutions for developers, businesses and service providers, announced today that customers have provisioned over 150,000 SharePoint servers since the introduction of CloudShare ProPlus in March of 2011.

"CloudShare’s phenomenal growth in the SharePoint developer community is great proof for how important the cloud has become for developers and testers of software," said Guri Stark, CEO, CloudShare. "The cloud is irreversible; the genie is out of the bottle."

CloudShare ProPlus is designed for pre-production development, testing, POC, demo and training of applications of all sorts. It is the ideal development sandbox and it is all in the cloud…

Grazed from PR Web.  Author: PR Announcement.

AccessVia announces that the US Coast Guard Exchange has selected AccessVia Web dSignShop Software-as-a-Service to print shelf-edge signs and labels in the Coast Guard Exchange stores. AccessVia Web dSignShop SaaS, delivered in an enterprise cloud-computing model, delivers the best of both worlds to retailers: sophisticated and scalable signing systems without the hassle of operating the technology.

The AccessVia scalable Enterprise Cloud Platform and Web dSignShop SaaS application are designed for retailers who want to outsource implementation, maintenance and support activities. Retailers subscribing to Web dSignShop SaaS gain an unparalleled agility to deliver fresh shelf-edge merchandising programs and find that the availability of their IT department is no longer required to accomplish their goals…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Apica, a leading load testing and performance-monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, today announced its sponsorships for two significant cloud computing industry conferences being held next week, Cloud Connect and SIIA’s Cloud/GOV 2012.

Apica will also be exhibiting at both conferences and provide live demonstrations of its Apica WebExcellence Suite, which includes Apica LoadTest, Apica WebPerformance and Apica WebOverload. This suite helps users test, monitor and optimize cloud applications enabling a true understanding of how cloud applications will be and are performing…

Grazed from Enterprise Networking Planet.  Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

According to VMware, there are now 90 service providers and data center partners around the world that are vCloud Powered. The vCloud program was first announced in 2011 and by August had at least 25 data center partners. The new vCloud Integration Manager is all about helping data center partners to get their cloud deployments setup in an integrated way with existing customer relationship management systems…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:   Maureen O’Gara.

EMC moved to make Hadoop safe for the Joe Blow big company that wants to figure out what’s in all that unstructured data it’s got.

It’s integrated the Hadoop file system into its Isilon scale-out NAS storage and lets the two of them cuddle up with its Hadoop-digesting Greenplum analytics machine. Greenplum also handles structured data so users can run queries across both datasets.

EMC says that makes Isilon the very first enterprise-class scale-out NAS system with native Hadoop support, giving Hadoop Big Data enterprise comfortable features like snapshots, replication and backup…

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: Editorial Staff.

This report analyzes the Global market for Cloud Computing Services in US$ Million by the following Product Segments: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2008 through 2017. The report profiles 298 companies including many key and niche players such as Akamai Technologies Inc., Amazon Web Services, LLC, CA Technologies, Caspio, Inc., Dell Inc., Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., ENKI, Flexiant Ltd., Google, Inc., GoGrid, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P, IBM Corporation, Joyent, Inc., KloudData, Inc., Layered Technologies, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Netsuite Inc., Novell, Inc., OpSource, Inc., Oracle Corporation, RightScale, Inc., Rackspace Hosting, Inc., Red Hat, Inc., Salesforce.com, Inc., Skytap, Inc., Terremark Worldwide, Inc., and Yahoo! Inc. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. Company profiles are mostly extracted from URL research and reported select online sources…