Category: News

Grazed from Technorati. Author: Steve Woods.

This morning cloud computing giant Google announced, quietly, on its company blog that it had made yet another new acquisition. The roar of this latest purchase, however, will be heard for a long time to come, especially in Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington headquarters.

"We’re happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions," begins the post by Google’s Engineering Director, Alan Warren. If you’re an Android or iOS tablet user, you may’ve heard of Quickoffice’s suite of cloud-supported office productivity tools, designed to allow users to remotely create, edit, store and share PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents. According to Quickoffice, their product is on 300 million mobile devices worldwide…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Kicking off its third annual Cloud Summit, the North America Services Division of Ingram Micro Inc. IM -0.23% today launched 56 new products and services as part of its expanding portfolio of cloud and cloud-enabling technology solutions. The new announcements bring the number of Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace offerings to more than 100 solutions from 40 different technology vendors throughout North America.

Additionally, Renee Bergeron, vice president of Managed Services and Cloud Computing for Ingram Micro North America, provided the more than 400-plus partners attending the 2012 Cloud Summit with an update on the distributor’s strategic direction and expanding leadership role as a master aggregator of technology services and cloud computing. She also addressed the state of the market, noting once again the explosive opportunity and service revenue potential cloud brings to the IT channel…

Grazed from PC Week. Author: Will Greenwald.

Samsung is bringing video games to its HDTVs with cloud computing. The company is partnering with Gaikai to add the Samsung Cloud Gaming service to the company’s current 7000 and up series HDTVs.

Gaikai’s cloud gaming technology performs all the graphical processing in servers away from the HDTV or computer where a gamer is playing, streaming only the input, graphics, and sound back and forth between the player and the server. OnLive has seen some success with this technology, which can be accessed through computer and mobile clients or through the OnLive MicroConsole. Gaikai has made many console game demos available for play over Web browsers, and will make several full games available over Samsung Smart HDTVs, including Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed and FIFA games…

Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

Hewlett-Packard kicked off its annual HP Discover user conference, being held in Las Vegas this week, with a number of new cloud computing offerings, emphasizing a single architecture that can be used across both in-house and public clouds.

"Regardless of whether we’re helping people build a cloud, or if a customer consumes cloud services from us, [what HP offers] is built on one architecture," said Steve Dietch, HP enterprise vice president for worldwide cloud operations…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Elizabeth White.

Dell Boomi on Tuesday announced an improved cloud integration platform that helps organizations modernize, simplify and manage their changing IT environments. Dell Boomi AtomSphere Summer 12 expands application and data integration capabilities, enhances security and offers Boomi Assure, crowd-sourced regression testing. According to Rick Nucci, General Manager, Dell Boomi, "AtomSphere Summer 12 release addresses the concerns that IT leaders face when it comes to application and data integration."

Dell Boomi AtomSphere integrates applications and data in customers’ IT environments by acting as the connection between applications, whether they reside in the cloud or on-premise. The latest release of AtomSphere helps deliver predictable service levels for real-time data transfers in the cloud by reserving cloud resources. In addition, it provides a solution to manage their security policies with improved flexibility and governance…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Keith Yazmir.

Cloud computing is revolutionizing the way companies do business, but at a cost: alienating CIOs and their support staff.

Too often, cloud marketing is designed solely to capture the attention of CEOs, CFOs and others who are divorced from the day-to-day concerns of IT staff. This messaging highlights the revolutionary nature of the cloud. It talks about paradigm shifts. It promises to redefine IT roles. The cloud has been positioned as radical change – tough to swallow if you work in IT.

As a research-driven communication strategy firm our work is predicated on a very simple idea: that it’s not what businesses say that matters, it’s what their audience hears. For us, developing truly resonant and persuasive messaging requires understanding how your audience views the world and constructing messages that fit within that worldview…

Grazed from MidSize Insider. Author: Jennifer Marsh.

As mobile phones and smartphones become prominent in business processes, text messaging is also a way for business employees to communicate. Just like monitoring email messages is necessary for company protection, businesses have also needed a way to monitor text messages in case of data theft or when employees sell company data to a competitor. For midsize businesses, keeping data secure from competitors is an important aspect when entrusting employees with data communications outside of the corporate network…

Grazed from NextGov. Author: Katherine McIntire.

The federal government on Wednesday will begin accepting security certification applications from companies that provide software services and data storage through the cloud.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the governmentwide cloud security assessment plan known as FedRAMP, aims to protect federal data as agencies increasingly turn to Web-based storage and computing…