Category: News

August 8, 2011 Off

ElasticStack wants to power your organization’s cloud

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Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Dan Kusnetzky.
 
ElasticStack has been working on an open stack of software to help service providers and organizations start up their own clouds since 2008. The company has seen some success in Europe and recently (June 2010) entered the U.S. market…
August 8, 2011 Off

ISACA issues Cloud computing guide to help enterprise increase value and manage risk

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Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Georgina Swan.

For all the talk of Cloud computing, the governance issue remains, for many enterprises, the great unknown. Cloud computing inevitably impacts business processes, making governance vital to managing risk and adapting to take advantage of new opportunities.

Industry body, ISACA, is looking to change that, issuing a new guide for implementing controls and governance…

August 8, 2011 Off

Red Hat to Present a Cloud Technology Update via Live Webcast on August 10

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Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT – News), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that members of the Red Hat executive team will host a press conference that will be broadcast live via webcast at 12pm ET on Wednesday, August 10.

To view the live webcast, or to watch the replay, please visit:

August 7, 2011 Off

Cloud will have huge impact on SME’s

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Grazed from Financial Times.  Author: Rajesh Ravi.

Cloud computing, as everyone knows, has been the topic of the new decade thus far, and the proliferation of hand-held devices like

smartphones and tablets necessitate the need to move away from traditional methods of computing and data storage. The connected world is becoming more diverse and benefits of the cloud model like immediate provisioning, higher responsiveness, lower business costs, flexible configurations and secured infrastructure, hold the key to the future. FE’s Rajesh Ravi attended the Intel Cloud Summit 2011 held in Penang, Malaysia, where he spoke with Gregory Bryant, Intel’s vice president (sales & marketing group)…

August 7, 2011 Off

SingleOS Kicks Off Discount On Fuscan Cloud Hosting PaaS For cPanel

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Grazed from Online PR News.  Author: PR Announcement.

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…

August 7, 2011 Off

UK police planning major switchover to cloud computing

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Grazed from PC Advisor.  Author: Leo King.

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…

August 7, 2011 Off

HTC Buys Cloud Services Company Dashwire

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Grazed from Social Barrel.  Author: Solon Harmony Dolor.

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”…

August 6, 2011 Off

What is the ‘cloud’? Take a video tour of Microsoft data centers

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Grazed from Yahoo News.  Author: PR Announcement.

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.”…