Two European entrepreneurs shared their vision of startup innovation on the opening day of Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, Monday.
Eirkur Hrafnsson, chief executive officer and co-founder of GreenQloud headquartered in Iceland, and Jan Rezab, CEO and co-founder of Socialbakers, based in the Czech Republic, spoke about ‘green’ geo-thermal powered cloud computing strategies and social media analytics.
Hrafnsson started by making the connection between cloud computing and green gas emission – basically, running “clouds” on renewable energy...
Imogo Mobile Technologies Corp. (otcqb:IMTC) (formally monza ventures inc. (otcbb:MZAV) or the "Company") is pleased to announce it is expanding into the high growth area of Cloud Computing Services and Cloud Data Storage. With Cloud Computing being one of the fastest growing sectors in business, the management of Imogo (previously Monza Ventures) is confident this strategy will provide a basis for growth and value for the shareholders...
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has announced today that it is buying server startup SeaMicro for $334 million in a bold and surprising move to bolster its server business against long-time rival Intel. AMD has failed to secure a spot in the mobile space and now hopes to double down on its server business with SeaMicro, which specializes in highly dense and power-efficientservers for large-scale cloud computing...
Global IT services provider CSC recently released a study on cloud computing, and I had the opportunity to talk with two of CSC’s executives about the study and the company’s own cloud offerings. You can see the study, titled CSC Cloud Usage Index, here.
Before sharing some of the interesting findings, let me point out that this was a pretty comprehensive study: it was conducted by independent research firm TNS, which surveyed more than 3,500 cloud computing users in eight countries. Small, medium and large private and public sector organizations were represented in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Brazil, Australia, Japan and Singapore. Interviews were conducted between October 2011 and November 2011. The goal, according to CSC, was to learn about outcomes and experiences regarding cloud, rather than predictions and intentions...
The IT industry may need to go on the offensive for better security, RSA executive chairman Art Coviello said on Feb. 28 at the annual RSA Conference. He said since the RSA experienced a breach, it has learned from the incident and made changes to help improve cloud computing and IT security.
“We are sharing and using them to drive strategy and investments and our product roadmap," Coviello told the crowd at the opening speech of the RSA Conference, according to the Register. "We hope the attacks on us will strengthen the urgency and resolve of everyone because we are not alone - we've never witnessed so many attacks by hackers.”...
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Moving some aspect of your campus IT operations to the cloud won't eradicate your worries about that function. But a well-considered contract can go a long way to mitigating your concerns, according to Steve McDonald, general counsel for Rhode Island School of Design.
Since the typical cloud deal starts with a form contract from a vendor, it's essential that colleges and universities review it to ensure it reflects the actual business terms that have been agreed. Otherwise, "it likely will include only the vendor's standard terms, which probably won't be the complete deal and probably won't favor you," McDonald noted...
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) allows businesses to sub-navigate IT through self-service deployment of applications in the cloud, putting the role of the CIO and the IT department at risk.
John Abel, chief architect for Oracle, told attendees at Oracle's Cloud Conference in London this week that CIOs need to be smart in ensuring that their role isn't jeopardised by the cloud.
"CIOs need to make sure that they are part of the business conversation early on. For the first time, thanks to cloud computing, the business is able to sub-navigate IT," said Abel. "Project control is becoming increasingly important for CIOs, because now the business thinks that it doesn't need IT and it can go and procure its own IT capabilities with SaaS."...
The Award was given by Cloud Computing Magazine, the authoritative source of news and articles for the global technology industry, which is published by TMC.
It is the first time that such an award, which gives recognition to companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing to bring new differentiated offerings to market, has been made. 2X Software in particular was identified as having demonstrated innovation, as well as the ability to improve the security of cloud environments, by the Award organisers.
2X Software is a privately-held global leader of desktop and application delivery, remote access and cloud computing solutions and has offices in the USA, Germany, UK, Australia and Japan apart from Malta. 2X is a highly-acclaimed innovator, whose products receive wide-spread recognition, and its customers include world-renowned organization such as Mazda, Harvard University, Fox News and many others...
I had the privilege of chairing the infrastructure track at last week's Cloud Connect conference. Three of the presentations were particularly interesting, offering a good perspective on just how dramatic an effect cloud computing is having on IT. Summed up, the capability and agility of cloud computing is forcing an extremely rapid evolution.
In a sense, these effects are akin to what would happen to an established living ecosystem were significant change to occur within. One could expect to see existing species be stressed by the development of new characteristics in the ecosystem, forcing them to adapt rapidly to survive. Those that fail to adapt will, inevitably, dwindle into extinction...
Writing on the Azure blog the firm's corporate vice president for service and cloud, Bill Laing, said while the firm had still to fully determine the cause of the issue, the extra date in the month appeared the most likely cause...
Many companies are just getting started with cloud computing, but others are already well entrenched. Indeed, some organizations in this latter camp have built massive private clouds that support significant portions of their operations.
These giant, multi-petabyte clouds present unique management challenges for CIOs and business leaders, including ensuring adequate security and service levels, and positioning the new cloud offering in such a way that internal customers want to use it. And because so much about cloud services is relatively new, organizations are learning to deal with the hurdles even as they deploy these mega-clouds. The biggest challenge in implementing private clouds is the massive culture and operating model shift from a 'do-it-for-users' model to a 'user self-service' model."...
Callidus Software Inc., the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that it has signed a partnership with SESTRA, to market the CallidusCloud(TM) suite in Mexico and Central America. The agreement was signed in the first quarter of 2012.
The two companies will showcase CallidusCloud sales effectiveness solutions at "Creando Lideres Comerciales Efectivos" -- a sales leadership workshop that will bring together sales executives, managers, and industry thought leaders from Mexico to deliberate on the latest sales trends and opportunities in the country. The workshop will be held on March 1, 2012 at Hotel Fiesta Americana Grand Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico. The workshop will focus on techniques to drive sales effectiveness by optimizing sales process management using leading indicators and by developing effective sales leadership practices including sales coaching and collaboration...
A statement from CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics organization, said the platform -- dubbed "Helix Nebula-the Science Cloud" -- would be made available to government bodies and industry after a two-year pilot phase.
Also participating in the program are the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German-based European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), which like CERN are gathering vast volumes of information that cannot presently be processed...
Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today announced its plans to extend its real-time public cloud offering to Asia in the second quarter of 2012, starting with a public cloud in Tokyo and following with a Singapore-based operation catering to the greater Southeast Asia region.
The plan is in response to existing customers who plan to expand their businesses into the two regions, and from partners like Telefonica who are encountering heightening demands for bullet-proof, real-time infrastructure that can handle the increasing need for machine-to-machine and real-time mobile communications...
Collaboration vendor Intralinks has upgraded its service aimed at giving organisations greater control over content sharing in line with corporate security and compliance restrictions, making it an enterprise alternative to services such as Dropbox.
Available now, Intralinks Connect is a cloud computing based service that provides authorised users with access to documents anywhere, at any time, but with role-based access to the information, with an audit trail and optionally backed by multi-factor authentication...
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The Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT), in partnership with Dell Inc. and Fairmount Partners, today announced the emerging growth companies that will be showcased in the Phorum 2012 National Cloud Conference Demo Pit. The diverse group of participating companies are all headquartered on the East Coast, near to the Philadelphia-based conference, and were selected for their innovation in the use of cloud computing technology to solve strategic business problems. They include:
AboutOne – contact management tool, aboutone.com
Adaptivity – enterprise cloud decision support provider, adaptivity.com...
Evolve IP, one of the country's fastest-growing cloud-based technology providers, has reinvented its corporate website at www.EvolveIP.net . The new site is a comprehensive resource for organizations of all sizes that want to learn more about cloud computing technologies, uses, and benefits. The site also provides a broad array of training and support materials for Evolve IP's growing portfolio of businesses that use its cloud-based technology services. And lastly, the site features everything a company needs to know about the vast opportunities available to channel partners interested in representing Evolve IP's technology and services.
The new EvolveIP.net site is organized into six primary areas:
-- Services defines the company's three families of products that meet business technology needs: The Evolved Office, The Evolved Data Center, and The Evolved Network...
Considering a move to the cloud for one or several of your key services? If so, you are not alone. Cloud computing is growing exponentially as more and more vendors are starting to offer services, and as more businesses are beginning to see the potential for cost savings as well as the ability to offer new services that were beyond their capacity. When moving services to the cloud, you are moving critical parts of your IT infrastructure and corporate information assets to systems that you will not have direct administrative access to. You will be relying on your vendor to provide security, auditing, and change management for these components, and will be relying upon them to secure your data.
Security in the cloud is very good, and in many cases the economies of scale vendors have at their disposal along with the specialized staffing means it will be better than what you could reasonably accomplish on your own, but you do want to make sure you understand all aspects of security in the cloud...
Zynga was once a big buyer of cloud computing services. Today, it's becoming a seller.
In 2009, when FarmVille started taking off--it grew to 10 million daily active users in six weeks, 25 million in five months--the company began to lean heavily on rented resources to handle the load. Zynga used Amazon Web Services, and over time, shunted more and more of the day-to-day load of running its games to AWS. By January 2011, AWS was handling 80 percent of Zynga's load. Only 20 percent was on servers that Zynga owned.
But at Zynga scale, using that infrastructure became inefficient, according to Zynga's CTO of infrastructure, Allan Leinwand, who I spoke with earlier in February. And by inefficient, he means expensive..
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You may have seen that there are quite a few events, conferences and exhibitions on Cloud Computing taking place around the globe. But this is a cloud computing event with a difference - this is the only Cloud Computing Summit dedicated to telco professionals!
The 3rd Annual Telecom CloudServices Summit takes place 23-25 April 2012, Scandic Hotel Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany.
The audience is made up of over 60% Operators, ensuring that you will not only hear the best speakers but also benefit from fantastic networking opportunities.
In the past three years, they’ve seen great growth in the Telecom Cloud Services Summit: The 2012 event is full of exciting innovations to spice up your journey into the Cloud!
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Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has announced today that it is buying server startup SeaMicro for $334 million in a bold and surprising move to bolster its server business against long-time rival Intel. AMD has failed to secure a spot in the mobile space and now hopes to double down on its server business with SeaMicro, which specializes in highly dense and 
Global IT services provider 
The IT industry may need to go on the offensive for better security, RSA executive chairman Art Coviello said on Feb. 28 at the annual RSA Conference. He said since the RSA experienced a breach, it has learned from the incident and made changes to help improve 
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) allows businesses to sub-navigate IT through self-service deployment of applications in the cloud, putting the role of the CIO and the IT department at risk.
The Award was given by Cloud Computing Magazine, the authoritative source of news and articles for the global technology industry, which is published by TMC.
The outage on Microsoft's 
Callidus Software Inc., the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that it has signed a partnership with SESTRA, to market the CallidusCloud(TM) suite in Mexico and Central America. The agreement was signed in the first quarter of 2012.
Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today announced its plans to extend its real-time public cloud offering to Asia in the second quarter of 2012, starting with a public cloud in Tokyo and following with a Singapore-based operation catering to the greater Southeast Asia region.
Collaboration vendor Intralinks has upgraded its service aimed at giving organisations greater control over content sharing in line with 
Evolve IP, one of the country's fastest-growing cloud-based technology providers, has reinvented its corporate website at 
Zynga was once a big buyer of cloud computing services. Today, it's becoming a seller.