HostingCon 2011 – August 8-11. The Premier Conference and Trade Show for the Hosted Services Industry.
HostingCon 2011 Abstract:…
Cloud will have huge impact on SME’s
Cloud computing, as everyone knows, has been the topic of the new decade thus far, and the proliferation of hand-held devices like
SingleOS Kicks Off Discount On Fuscan Cloud Hosting PaaS For cPanel
SingleOS, the company that produces the Fuscan Linux Cloud, a Shared Cloud Hosting automation software for cPanel/WHM announced 50% discount on licenses during HostingCon 2011. The company is presented at booth #745 at the exhibition hall of HostingCon.
Share Hosting providers that want to take advantage of the discounted licenses of Fuscan can sign up from this page – https://www.singleos.com/accounts/cart.php. The code HOSTINGCON11 will cut the list price of the licenses…
UK police planning major switchover to cloud computing
Police across the UK are considering a major move to cloud computing, dumping on-premise IT in an aggressive bid to cut costs, ComputerworldUK.com can reveal.
In a move likely to be seen as controversial given the sensitivity of police data, the Metropolitan Police is planning how to run a variety of front-end systems – for managing patrols, operations, incidents and investigations, managing evidence and forensics, and collating information – in the cloud. It is understood that if the project goes ahead, the Metropolitan Police would be the lead customer, with other forces buying services through a framework deal…
HTC Buys Cloud Services Company Dashwire
Taiwan’s HTC Corporation revealed on Friday that it has acquired Seattle-based cloud services company Dashwire Incorporated, several news reports reveal.
The Agence France-Presse says that the deal will be valued “up to $18.5 million”…
What is the ‘cloud’? Take a video tour of Microsoft data centers
Just what is this “cloud” everyone has all of a sudden started talking about? “Cloud” this, “cloud” that; “cloud computing,” “cloud services.” Companies are hosting music “in the cloud.” People can save documents “to the cloud.”…
MicroTech Secures $10 Billion Federal Contract for STARS II
MicroTech, a technology and systems integrator, announced that it has won a $10 billion Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA (News – Alert)) for the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services II (STARS II)…
Senior VP of Yankee Group Emerging Markets joins list of speakers at the Cloud Computing World Forum Latin America
Cloud Visionary, Todd Papaionnou, Joins Battery Ventures
Former Chief Cloud Architect at Yahoo!, Todd Papaioannou, Joins Battery Ventures Team to Pursue Initiatives in Big Data and Cloud Infrastructure.
Battery Ventures, a multi-stage investment firm focused on technology and innovation worldwide, today announced that Todd Papaioannou has joined as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) in the firm’s Menlo Park office. In this role, Papaioannou will work alongside Battery’s Enterprise IT investment team to help identify and create new opportunities in Cloud Computing, Big Data, analytics and the Enterprise software environment…
The Universal Question: Public vs. Private Cloud Hosting?
It seems to be a universal question when the topic of cloud computing arises: whether to take the private cloud road versus public (and in certain situations, vice versa).
There is no doubt that making a business case for cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular.
But deciding what will be the best cloud solution for your business requires analysis regarding the level of control, security customization and support your organization needs, according to Internap (News 
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