Google’s Schmidt to Testify for Senate on ‘Power of Google’
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a set date with the Senate on Capitol Hill to discuss the search engine’s expansive Internet market power.
Schmidt, who served as CEO of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for a decade before co-founder Larry Page retook the reins in April, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Sept. 21 in Washington, D.C.
Open Cloud Initiative Launches to Drive Open Standards in Cloud Computing
Grazed from PRWEB. Author: Shanley Kane.
This week the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI), a non-profit organization established to advocate open standards in cloud computing, announced its official launch at the OSCON 2011 Open Source Convention. Its purpose is to provide a legal framework within which the greater cloud computing community of users and providers can reach consensus on a set of requirements for Open Cloud, as described in the Open Cloud Principles (OCP) document, and then apply those requirements to cloud computing products and services, again by way of community consensus…
Know your Cloud Types
You may know your nimbostratus (take an umbrella) from your cirrocumulus (you probably won’t need one) but what about the difference between Cloud backup and Cloud archiving? Or Cloud services and Cloud applications?
HP pledges support for OpenStack cloud platform
Hewlett-Packard is the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to join in on the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.
HP already has plenty of its own cloud solutions for IT departments, ranging in scale as well as private and public. Nevertheless, because OpenStack is a collaborative effort and free for all under the Apache 2.0 license, lots of other tech companies have found some benefit in supporting the project.
Putting Data In The Cloud? Retain Control
Brocade’s McHugh: VARs Are ‘First Mile To Cloud’
The evolution of cloud computing has raised a host of questions on the survivability of traditional VARs and systems integrators (SIs) in a cloud world, but a key executive with one major networking and data center vendor said that the cloud era represents key opportunities for solution providers to build business and grow.
The Cloud: Tailor-made for Unstructured Data?
The primary reason that cloud computing, and cloud storage in particular, is drawing such high interest these days is the enterprise’s need to handle increasing amounts of unstructured data.
Federal Cloud Initiatives Move Forward As Cloud-First Mandate Looms
Federal cloud computing initiatives are gathering momentum, as about two-thirds of federal agencies have identified applications to move to the cloud and half of those have started the migration process, a recent
Cloud computing: The new game changer
Like gravity, cloud computing is invisibly shaping our changing world. Mobile, affordable technology with third party data storage, delivered to you, via the internet in real time. Where is all this data? Somewhere in the clouds?
Actually it’s somewhere in a data storage facility that a company like Facebook or Google has built. Real steel and concrete buildings that need to power up, cool down, back up and quickly deliver the mountains of data we all generate.