Category: News

August 5, 2011 Off

Austin Texas Cloud Communications Expo – September 13 – 15, 2011

By David
Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: PR Annoucement.

Sep. 13–15, 2011.  Austin, TX

If you are a communications professional, cloud communications fundamentally changes how your business will run, who purchases your goods and services, and how they pay for it. This event will provide you with a good grounding in the latest technologies, players and business models, and offer excellent opportunities to meet your peers and potential partners…

August 5, 2011 Off

Java 8 Gears up for the Cloud

By David
Grazed from IDG.  Author:  Joab Jackson.

Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java Community Process) have started mulling over what features to include in the next version of the programming language, Java SE 8. On the agenda for this new release: engineering Java for the cloud.

"Java 8 is supposed to set the scene for the cloud, for a wider deployment arena," said Mark Little, senior director of engineering for Red Hat’s middleware business, as well as Red Hat’s primary liaison for the JCP. Oracle left out many of the advanced features planned for Java 7 in order not to further delay the release, he noted. Those releases may very well be included in Java 8…

August 4, 2011 Off

Rackspace Cloud Computing Hosting Rises on Q2 Earnings Results

By David
Grazed from PRNews Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) are trading higher in the after-hours following the release of the company’s Q2 earnings results. Currently, shares are higher by 0.16%, trading at $36.82; they ended the regular session lower by 7.05%, at $36.76…

August 4, 2011 Off

HP to invest US$1b in APAC cloud computing centres

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Grazed from Business Times.  Author: Kamarul Yunus.

Hewlett Packard (HP) is investing some US$1 billion (RM2.97 billion) to set up at least six commercial data centres to offer cloud computing services in the Asia Pacific region this year.

HP Enterprise Services chief technology officer for Asia Pacific and Japan, Bradden Wondra said the company has identified six locations for the data centres, namely in Japan, China, India, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand…

August 4, 2011 Off

Legal Considerations for Cloud Telephony?

By David
Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: David Sims.

Do you ever wonder about any legal considerations with cloud computing? If you’re using cloud computing we imagine the subject has crossed your mind once or twice.

India’s industry journal Tech Circle recently featured an opinion piece by Anu Vaidyanathan, founder of PatNMarks, an intellectual property consulting firm and an academic.

Or put it another way: Just what do the Winklevi think they’re doing, suing Facebook (NewsAlert) until it becomes ridiculous?…

August 4, 2011 Off

Amazon Boosts Identity Management, Private Cloud Offerings

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Grazed from PCWorld.  Author:  Nancy Gohring.

Amazon Web Services will introduce new capabilities for enterprises on Thursday, including identity federation and support for private network connections to AWS.

Its new Direct Connect service allows enterprises to establish a direct connection to Amazon from their data center or colocation provider. They’ll be able to run a private line to one of several Direct Connect locations planned around the world, starting with one operated by Equinix in Virginia. AWS’ Virginia data center is connected to that facility…

August 4, 2011 Off

Explore Everything About Cloud Computing at INTEROP Mumbai – IT Exhibition & Conference

By David
Grazed from PRNews Wire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

INTEROP Mumbai 2011 (http://www.interop.in), the leading and most comprehensive business technology event worldwide will be conducting sessions exclusively for cloud users. These sessions will be presided over by key speakers from leading solution providers who will provide valuable insights into the issues and opportunities in cloud computing…