Category: News

July 25, 2011 Off

University of Western Australia consolidates to private cloud

By David
Grazed from ITNews.  Author:  James Hutchinson.

The University of Western Australia has embarked on an 18-month project to consolidate approximately 1000 disparate servers to a private cloud platform in Amcom data centres.

The institution would look to migrate 400 terabytes of data currently held on-campus to Amcom’s two Perth-based facilities under a $9 million, three-year agreement signed with the Western Australia service provider over the weekend…

July 25, 2011 Off

Telcos face ‘significant’ cloud challenges

By David
Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: Peter Dinham.

Ovum analyst and author of a just published report into the market, Mark Giles, telcos face “considerable challenges when it comes to supporting and selling cloud services.”

July 24, 2011 Off

Europe turns to the Cloud

By David
Grazed from Business Day Technology.  Author:  Kevin J. O’Brien.

When the founders of Shutl, a British courier service that makes deliveries in 90 minutes in busy London, decided to set up a business that ran exclusively on cloud computing, they needed to get creative.

Data privacy laws in Europe restrict the transfer of information about individuals outside the 27-country European Union. That had prevented many companies on the Continent from moving to the cloud, where data may be stored on remote servers in Asia, the United States or elsewhere at a lower cost than what a company would pay for its own servers…

July 24, 2011 Off

2nd Cloud Computing Live World Series Forum Asia and Cdn World Forum Asia Announced

By David
Grazed from SBWire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

The Cloud Computing World Series will make its final stop of 2011, when it arrives in Hong Kong for the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia, taking place on the 30th and 1st December at the Mira Hotel. The event follows on from the success last year’s first World Forum in Asia, which saw over 450 delegates attend. Over 700 delegates are expected this year.

The Cloud Computing World Forum Asia is the place to meet all the key decision makers from the cloud service and SaaS market in one place…

July 23, 2011 Off

UK Uses Cloud Computing for Secure Collaboration

By David
Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Kevin L. Jackson.

FCO Services, a part of the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is implementing a collaboration service on the the organization’s  Government Secure Application Environment (GSAE) private cloud infrastructure. On their website, FCO Services describes themselves as:

“[T]he trusted partner of governments and other organisations for whom security is essential. We develop close relationships with our customers building a deep understanding of their needs protecting their people, information and working environment.

July 22, 2011 Off

How Does Google Protect Your Data in The Cloud?

By David
Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author:  Dan Rowinski.

Google has one of the largest and most secure clouds in the entire industry. You do not often hear of a successful distributed denial of service attack against Google and rarely are Google applications hacked (unless, of course, it reportedly comes from the Chinese government). How does Google keep the data centers that comprise its cloud so safe and are they the gold standard in data protection?…

July 22, 2011 Off

Cloud Companies

By David

Microsoft – http://www.microsoft.com

Novell – http://www.novell.com

CloudShare.com – http://www.cloudshare.com

Irdeto – http://www.irdeto.com

EnSTratus – http://www.enstratus.com

Fortify – http://www.fortify.com

Trend Micro – http://www.trendmicro.com

RightScale – http://www.rightscale.com

VMWare – http://www.vmware.com

Virtual Bridges – http://www.vbridges.com

Dolphin – http://www.dolphin-corp.com

DataChambers – http://www.datachambers.com

Translattice – http://www.translattice.com/