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Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Joyent and Guardtime’s cloud computing technology enables Levira, the Estonian government’s majority owned service provider, to offer secure cloud-computing services to Governments and enterprises in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe. Levira also aims to start providing secure cloud services for multinational corporations that need to comply with the data residency requirements also outside of their home soil.

"Joyent’s double hulled virtualization and Guardtime’s keyless signature technology makes a formidable combination for enterprises and governments who wish to move to a cloud computing environment but hesitate due to security and trust-related concerns," said Mart Einpalu, CEO of Levira. "Our mission is to become a leading cloud computing service provider in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe and our unique ability to give our clients tools to prove with mathematical certainty that their data has been safe and in compliance with the regulations is a paramount requirement to achieve that."…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Concerns over data security and a limited knowledge of cloud computing are putting Canada’s economic competitiveness at risk, as business and IT leaders fail to adopt new cloud technologies, according to an TELUS and IDC Canada study released today.

The study, commissioned by TELUS, reveals that the majority of Canadian organizations currently using cloud computing say it has transformed the way they work by allowing them to re-focus resources on meeting strategic business objectives. Yet 71 per cent of Canadian businesses are risking their competitive edge because they aren’t open to alternative IT delivery models that can bring new levels of productivity and enhanced customer service to their organizations…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Florence de Borja.

With all the hustle and bustle brought about by cloud computing, small and medium-sized enterprises are really very confused when it comes to searching for a service provider who can deliver on his promises such as streamlining of operational expenses, reduction of capital expenses and the like. Because many entry-level users have doubts, fears, and uncertainties regarding cloud computing, it helps them if some entities can provide information about the subject so that they are well informed when they decide to move to the cloud.

In essence, a cloud computing service provider must be able to deliver on his promises to provide a reliable and secure environment in the most scalable, cost-effective, and simple manner. The service supplier must have state-of-the-art technology so that he can provide the best availability and performance. Aside from that, the cloud computing vendor must provide 24/7 access to the cloud environment from anywhere in the world using various platforms and devices. Technical support must be in place 24/7 so that users can quickly get help when they need it. The cloud computing provider must be able to build a network infrastructure that is fault-tolerant and comprehensive…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud provider Datapipe, a global provider of managed services, infrastructure, and IT cloud computing, today announced it has been recognized by Talkin’ Cloud on its Top 100 Cloud Services Provider list. Datapipe ranked #21 for its ability to deliver cloud computing solutions and management of AWS, CloudStack, and VMware environments.

Stratosphere(TM), Datapipe’s flagship cloud offering, is built on a world-class network, and available as a secure public or hosted private cloud. Engineered to meet enterprise requirements for governance, usability, compliance and interoperability, Stratosphere(TM) is a globally available, high-performance managed cloud computing platform. Datapipe’s CEO, Robb Allen, elaborates on why his company’s cloud platform continues to be selected as a top cloud offering:…

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Smartvue Corp., a global video surveillance company, announced today at the 2012 Electronic Security Expo its new Cloudvue surveillance service powered by Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Azure.

To meet the challenges of scalable, worldwide, video surveillance and security, Smartvue helps organizations simply and securely take advantage of cloud computing and storage by delivering live, recorded, and stored network video surveillance through its Cloudvue service powered by Windows Azure…

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A recent survey revealed user attitudes and adoption plans for cloud storage; full results are available at http://bit.ly/cs-survey-2012results .

• Nearly three-quarters of cloud storage users estimated they could recover their data within 24 hours
• One out of every eight organizations that do not use cloud storage responded that it would take "more than a week" to recover their data.

Respondents were attendees at the recent Cloud Computing Expo at Javits Center in New York June 11-14, an audience expected to offer more sophisticated insight into the use of cloud computing than a general IT audience. Seventy-three percent of respondents have implemented some form of cloud computing already, with more than a quarter (28 percent) having done so for three or more years…

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PiCloud, the leader in providing easy access to conventional computing power on the cloud, and D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in commercial quantum computing technology, have announced a formal development partnership. Projects are underway to integrate the two companies’ technologies.

"PiCloud is a cloud computing platform dedicated to giving every developer, scientist, and engineer in the world a supercomputer at their fingertips," stated PiCloud co-Founder Ken Elkabany.

The partnership will align the two companies’ development goals. D-Wave’s development library will be integrated with PiCloud’s cloud platform to give developers easy remote access to both quantum and conventional computing power from within the same framework. With the thousands of cores that can be leveraged on-demand with PiCloud, developers will be able to access a new type of supercomputing / quantum computing hybrid capability from anywhere with Internet access…

Grazed from Delimeter. Author: Editorial Staff.

When we talk about cloud computing, often what we’re actually talking about is two ends of a spectrum. On the one end are the giant public cloud providers. These are global players like ourselves with Windows Azure and others like Amazon, Google and Salesforce. We operate truly huge cloud computing facilities, available globally and serving hundreds of thousands of organisations. This is where you’ll often find the most affordable pricing in the cloud computing landscape, due to the sheer scale of the infrastructure which has been built. There are some fantastic resources available over at our Global Foundation Services site if you’re interested in what this scale actually looks like.

On the other end of the spectrum are private cloud users, who have built their own cloud computing facilities to cater to a single organisation or a small associated group. I’m talking here about private sector corporations, as well as large government departments. It’s in this segment of the cloud landscape where you’ll find the most flexible and customised solutions being used, as organisations gain complete control over their infrastructure…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

One of the issues information technology managers raise about cloud computing — as well as the overlapping “bring your own device” phenomenon — is that the stuff end-users bring into the workplace sooner or later become IT’s headache. It may be the security issues that are introduced, it may be the support issues that crop up when users run to their IT departments for help when things stop working.

In a new survey of 350 CIOs and IT managers, sponsored by Host Analytics, some of these frustrations come to the fore. Well over than a third, 37% of respondents report that they have already been asked to take ownership of cloud solutions that were already purchased by the business without IT’s input…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Google App Engine got some important feature updates Wednesday as well as new European data centers that could make the platform more attractive to developers outside the U.S. That should help prove to skeptics that Google is serious about its platform as a service and about developers as a key constituency.

The fact that Google App Engine will now run on more than three European data centers means that developers over there can get to work without worrying about data restrictions. “That’s a really big deal for our European customers who want local data centers not only for better performance but also for legal reasons. Their apps will run out of the EU and their data will reside there,” said Greg D’Alesandre, GAE senior product manager in an interview…