HP adds support for Google Cloud Print service
Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Thursday enhanced its mobile printing service by adding support for Google’s Cloud Print, which will enable smartphones and tablet users to print documents from applications such as Gmail and Google Docs.
Users will be able to remotely print documents from applications on select HP printers with the EPrint capability, in which an email with print instructions is sent directly to the printer. The mobile application needs to have Google’s Cloud Print extensions.
Microsoft tops cloud service table
Microsoft Windows Azure has topped a cloud service table analysing the four months to January.
According to the table, produced by Compuware, the Google App Engine is narrowly beaten into second place, followed by GoGrid.
In January alone, average response times globally on Windows Azure were 10.229 seconds, according to the data, followed by 10.263 on Google App Engine.
Cloud and Efficiency Are Driving Data Center Decisions
Why Hollywood isn’t afraid of Amazon’s cloud
On Monday evening, Amazon announced the Cloud Drive, which enables users to upload e-books, songs, films, and any other digital media to Amazon’s servers. Users can then access their content from any Web-connected devices. Among the major Internet companies delivering digital entertainment, Amazon is first to make good on the promise of ubiquitous access to content.
Five Tips for Effective Backup and Recovery in Virtual Environments
Virtualisation is being rapidly adopted, particularly in small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) where time and money are always at a premium. It brings significant time, money and labour savings in a variety of areas, including procurement, administration, deployment, operation, reliability and recoverability. Virtualisation can radically simplify management of the entire environment and enable the SMB administrator to – do more with less.
Moreover, disaster recovery becomes significantly easier once a business has virtualized, provided the administrator adopts newer, more efficient technologies that are designed to work with the virtual infrastructure.
Unglamorus batch processing is ‘the new sexy’ for financial services IT
Amazon unveils Cloud Drive, a cloud-based online music service
Cloud computing is an evolution not a revolution
OK so the cloud is a revolution right? This is the most revolutionary computing delivery model to ever hit the planet and some of the most recent developments are truly astounding. Rackspace has launched a UK cloud data centre to address European compliance issues, Salesforce.com is leading a successful charge on the market — and the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is the most creatively branded piece of technology since the ‘Game and Watch’ edition of Donkey Kong.
Well, not quite.
How do I understand the true cost of putting IT in the cloud?
Cloud computing seems to be on every IT director’s shopping list, but do they really understand the costs of moving in-house resources into the cloud.
IT service providers are the companies doing cloud implementations. Not many businesses will build their own cloud infrastructures.
So the service providers need to be able to show CIOs how much it will cost to move systems to the cloud and how much it will cost to keep it in-house. But this information is not easy to gather.
But there are start up companies that are building businesses around this gap and they appear to be winning big customers.