Bank app store part of community cloud developments
Community-based cloud services for banks, including an app store for financial services organisations, are being incubated on the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) network.
The 40-year-old shared messaging service, used by world banks to complete financial transactions, could offer the secure and reliable cloud platform that financial organisations are looking for.
Beta Cloud VPS will be launched by Host1Plus
London, United Kingdom, June 16, 2011 – Host1Plus web hosting and cloud hosting provider launches beta Cloud VPS from 1st July.
Host1Plus will be giving away 10,000 cloud machines worth $1.5 million. This introductory offer will run for 3 months granting all beta testers 3 months of free VPS products and services.
Google Acquisition Could Reinvigorate its TV Plans
More than a year after Google first demonstrated Google TV, it remains stalled in its effort to reinvent television for the Internet age.
8×8 Expands Cloud Hosting Services With Zerigo Acquisition
Hosted VoIP and cloud services provider 8×8 has acquired Zerigo, a Littleton, Colo.-based specialist in virtual private services, managed DNS and monitoring tools. 8×8 focuses on SMB customers, and the move expands what it can provide for cloud hosting services, 8×8 said Monday.
7 Emerging Cloud Computing Vendors Providing Performance and Optimization Services
Gartner predicts that by 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets because of cloud computing. Those that retain IT assets will have fewer and fewer as time goes by.
This shift means that IT has to make some decisions about how they handle their cloud resources, both during and after transitioning to the cloud. How will they manage performance across the WAN? How can they best allocate resources in a way that reduces costly waste and redundancies? How can they maintain and develop assets with the greatest ROI?
Report: Cloud Computing Catching On in Emerging Markets
While cloud computing gains steadily in the U.S., U.K. and Germany (and rather slowly in Canada), it’s taking off in emerging markets like Brazil, China and India. According to a study by GfK Custom Research, and covered by FineChannel, cloud computing enjoys relatively high penetration rate in emerging markets, regardless of company size…
Growth of Public Cloud Unified Communications Sluggish: Survey
Is Your Company At Risk of a DDoS Attack?
U.S. companies face a significant and persistent threat from cyber attacks, and one of the greatest risks of all is what’s known as a “distributed denial-of-service” (DDoS) attack.
VMware spells out limits to the cloud
People and processes are barriers to cloud adoption, not technology and security, according to VMware.
“Technologically, the issues [around cloud adoption] aren’t significant. The biggest issues are people and process issues,” said Tod Nielsen, president at VMware, who was in London for VMware Forum 2011.
“People ask about security and privacy. But when you get to the heart of the issue, those issues are about people not trusting each other. People want to control what they own.”