Author: David

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Syntergy Unveils Distributed SharePoint Computing in the Cloud

By David
Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

At the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, Syntergy, Inc., a leading provider of products for enhancing Microsoft SharePoint® Products and Technologies, demonstrated its flagship product, Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint, as a cloud solution. Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction…

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Cloud computing is the future of networking

By David

Grazed from Gulf News.  Author: Naushad K. Cherrayil.

Every new technology is hyped as a miracle, but cloud computing managed to fog the eyes of even experienced IT people because its whole purpose is to behave as if it is a miracle.

Resources appear magically wherever and whenever they’re needed, data travels to find the questions it needs to answer, servers pitch in with whatever work needs doing.

Cloud computing refers to networks of virtual servers that allow individuals and businesses to access information from any internet-connected device…

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With great cloud comes great responsibility

By David
Grazed from Voice And Data.  Author: Vince Lee.

There’s a good reason why everyone is talking about cloud computing. With infrastructure-as-a-service, for example, whatever computing power and storage capacity you might need is immediately available on tap. Combine this with virtualisation technology and organisations gain unprecedented flexibility to deploy virtual servers whenever and wherever they are needed…

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Vision Solutions Appoints Bob Johnson to Executive Vice President as Part of Sales and Marketing Expansion

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing market today announced that Bob Johnson is now the new executive vice president of sales and marketing for the company, leading its communications and business development strategies as it moves aggressively into new technology markets…

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Survey shows shift to cloud-based services, despite concerns

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Grazed from Network World.  Author:  Ellen Messmer.

A survey of 5,300 IT and security managers in 38 countries about cloud computing offers a vivid snapshot of expectations, anxieties and sometimes shattered hopes.

According to the Symantec "State of the Cloud" survey, 19% of the respondents said they had moved at least some applications to public software as a service, while 17% said they had adopted a private cloud arrangement. When it comes to public infrastructure as a service, 17% were using that, while 11% said they were using a hybrid arrangement linking private and public cloud services…

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Quipu Cloud Computing Provider Selected for Private Equity Event

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Quipu Applications, Inc., a cloud computing company revolutionizing the way entrepreneurs and VCs communicate and collaborate, today announced that the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BioVentures has selected its cloud-based BusinessPlan(TM) and incQubator(TM) business tools. incQubator will standardize presentations from 20 start-ups allowing 120 seed and venture capitalists attending the university’s Private Equity Roundtable event to easily identify the most promising organizations. The Private Equity Roundtable will be held on October 6th and 7th at the Little Rock Regional Chamber in Little Rock, Arkansas. The event is the fifth annual gathering of VCs reviewing start-up companies licensed by UAMS and will be streamed live on http://arcapital.com . One of the 11 companies previously funded, Myeloma Health, LLC, a cancer reference laboratory operating out of UAMS BioVentures incubator, is currently analyzing and reporting data on clinical samples from cancer centers in the U.S. and Europe…

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Cloud industry a ‘mess’ of suppliers and standards, experts warn

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Grazed from ITWorld.  Author: Antony Savvas.

The complexity of the cloud computing arena is a major stumbling block to adoption, according to delegates at this week’s NetEvents business IT symposium in Rome.

Ovum analyst Peter Hall presented the analyst house’s growth forecast for the cloud market and outlined a global $66 billion market for cloud services by 2016. He said the market was worth $14 billion in 2010 and that there would be a compound annual growth rate of 29%. Ovum’s figures cover software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service…

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World mourns the death of Steve Jobs

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Grazed from Reuters.  Author:  Jennifer Saba

Outpourings of public grief and appreciation swept the globe on Thursday after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Jobs, who touched the daily lives of countless millions of people through the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad, died on Wednesday at age 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He stepped down as Apple chief executive in August…

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How Enterprises Can Maximize the Cloud

By David
Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Michael Jackson.

Increasingly, cloud computing has become an IT priority for virtually every organization in business today. According to a June 2010 Pew Research Center survey, a decisive majority of technology professionals predict that, by 2020, most people will access software applications online and work through remotely-accessed server networks. SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud applications such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite are standard, acceptable alternatives to traditional client server enterprise applications. A new competitor to Amazon’s EC2 service surfaces almost every day, and virtually every technology company is incorporating the word “cloud” somewhere in their description…