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Grazed from New York Times.  Author: David H. Freedman.

Most businesses, whether they realize it or not, already have at least a foot in the cloud. If they use Gmail, for example, they are going into the cloud to let Google’s computers handle their e-mail.

In fact, most of us have been tying into Internet-based services for more than a decade. But now, more and more business-oriented tools are becoming available online, including many that can be critical to running a company. This guide looks at the questions business owners ask and the trade-offs they have to make…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author:  Anuradha Shukla.

AboveNet, a provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, has signed an agreement with AWS to this end.

The company notes that companies of all sizes can leverage AWS Direct Connect to benefit from a web services platform in the cloud. Customers can use compute power, storage, and enjoy other services-gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services to keep up with business demand.  Following this agreement, AWS customers can use the secure, advanced network connectivity delivered by AboveNet…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Linda Tucci.

This year’s Amazon EC2 outage and Dropbox security breach may have put a little scare into companies, but it didn’t completely spook them, according to a recent study on cloud computing adoption. Organizations remain bullish on cloud computing, particularly in the midmarket, where nearly half plan to adopt some form of infrastructure or platform cloud services, the CompTIA study revealed…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Kaavo, an innovative provider of solutions for managing distributed applications in the clouds, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Logicworks, a leading provider of enterprise managed hosting and cloud computing for high-availability applications and content. Through this partnership, Kaavo has integrated with infiniCloud, Logicworks’ on-demand cloud computing service, to allow Kaavo customers to deploy and manage applications on the platform…

Grazed from Fox News.  Author: Liza Porteus Viana.

Victoria Livschitz immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in March 1991 along with her husband and infant daughter with $500, a few clothes and hope for a better future. All the political refugees knew about their new home city of Cleveland was that they had relatives there and that it was home to an orchestra.

They had no U.S. work experience, and jobs were hard to find in 1991. Livcschitz’s husband delivered pizza and she worked at a dry cleaners. Soon, they began giving chess lessons and Victoria played in a chess exhibition. Her skill caught the attention of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which wrote up a story on her chess prowess and eventually the Livschitzs opened up a chess academy. They used the money generated from the academy and tutoring lessons to finish college. While Victoria was finishing her bachelor’s of science degree at Case Western Reserve University, she began to develop an interest in technology and computer programming, taking computer jobs where she could find them…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Alert Logic, the leader in delivering Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, today announced the limited availability of the first fully managed advanced network security solution in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environments, the world’s largest public cloud. The result of a joint development program with Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, Alert Logic’s managed network security solution for Amazon EC2 environments addresses the pressing challenge of network-based intrusion detection, a key requirement for PCI compliance…

Grazed from PR Web.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider Horizon Data Center Solutions has announced a corporate name change to more accurately reflect the company’s offering and future vision…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: JP Morgenthal.

One of the touted benefits of cloud computing is supposed to be that it is a metered service. Much like your water and electric, the cloud is supposed to allow users to access compute resources as needed and be charged only for what is used. This is a great model for users of cloud computing since the risk is nominal. However, it’s a very costly investment on the part of cloud service providers since they need to create, market, manage and support the service without any guarantees that the service will be used. Moreover, pricing this usage so as to be profitable can be a complex initiative since users expect to pay less than it would cost for them to acquire and manage the resources themselves…