In Depth: Which cloud services are right for you?

Cloud services comparedCloud computing is no longer the future – it's here. Chances are you already use web-based email, store some or all of your music, photos or videos online, or even just stream your televisual entertainment to your living room stra.....»»

[Via: TECHRADAR][Cat: top]Jan 28th, 2012

Medical Devices Get Wireless, Smart, Secure

AT&T's cloud-based machine-to-machine communications services help device maker nSpire collect data faster, save international roaming charges......»»

[Via: INFORMATIONWEEK][Cat: top]Dec 27th, 2011

White House Moves To Future-Proof Government IT

Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel's priorities for 2012 include making sure IT investments pay off, shared services, cloud computing, data center consolidation, and cybersecurity......»»

[Via: INFORMATIONWEEK][Cat: top]Dec 27th, 2011

Responding to the Competitive HD Threat: How Cable Can Add More HD to its Arsenal

Presentation that provides in-depth discussion about the competition that is heating up for Cable TV as they respond to Satellite TV services......»»

[Via: INSTAT][Cat: communication]Dec 26th, 2011

Presentation: Code2Cloud: Automating The Whole Software Dev/Deploy Cycle

Ryan Slobojan presents Code2Cloud used to automatically set up a number of tools useful for development and deployment: Hudson, Git, task repository, wiki, Cloud Foundry Deployment Services and Maven. By Ryan Slobojan.....»»

[Via: INFOQ][Cat: software]Dec 26th, 2011

Hewlett-Packard"s new CEO emphasizes "cloud" strategy, tech company hikes dividend

SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday it plans to raise its dividend for the first time in over a decade and one day soon sell "cloud computing" services to the public......»»

[Via: WASHPOST][Cat: top]Dec 26th, 2011

Through 2014 Public IT Cloud Services Will Grow at More Than Five Times the Rate of Traditional IT Products, New IDC Research Fi

Worldwide revenue from public IT cloud services exceeded $16 billion in 2009 and is forecast to reach $55.5 billion in 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.4%, a newly published IDC document finds......»»

[Via: IDC][Cat: software]Dec 26th, 2011

Enterprises in APEJ Less Skeptical about using Cloud and are Adopting Private Clouds as a First Step, says IDC

Results from IDC’s latest annual Cloud Services and Technologies End-User Survey show that although enterprises in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ are becoming more open to the idea of utilizing cloud services and computing, some concerns about t.....»»

[Via: IDC][Cat: services]Dec 26th, 2011

Market Analysis Presentation: Worldwide Application Development and Deployment Cloud Services, 2011

This IDC market analysis presentation (MAP) provides a composite view of public cloud services market dynamics across the application development and deployment family of markets. Key competitive markets that are discussed include platform as a service (P.....»»

[Via: IDC][Cat: software]Dec 26th, 2011

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide SaaS & Cloud Services, 2011: New Models for Delivering Software

SaaS is the service enablement of all three primary software markets: applications, application development and deployment (AD&D), and system infrastructure software (SIS), and virtually all software vendors are at various stages in a seminal transition i.....»»

[Via: IDC][Cat: software]Dec 26th, 2011

Japan Cloud Services 2011–2015 Forecast Update

This IDC study (a translation of the Japanese report IDC #J11290106) summarizes the analysis of the Japan cloud services market overview and trends as of September 2011. This study also updates the Japan cloud services market size forecast by segment for .....»»

[Via: IDC][Cat: software]Dec 26th, 2011

Clustered Services With Apache Whirr: From Dev Up

Apache Whirr is an incubator project focused on simplifying management of distributed services such as Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and Cassandra. Using Whirr, you can in a single line startup a cluster from scratch in the cloud provider of choice, or even f.....»»

[Via: DZONE][Cat: java]Dec 26th, 2011

Clustered Services With Apache Whirr: From Ops Down

Apache Whirr is an incubator project focused on simplifying management of distributed services such as Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and Cassandra. Using Whirr, you can (in a single line) startup a cluster from scratch in your cloud provider of choice, or eve.....»»

[Via: DZONE][Cat: java]Dec 26th, 2011

IBM Launches Java PaaS, SmartCloud Services

Big Blue takes on Oracle with its new enterprise public cloud offerings......»»

[Via: DEVX][Cat: java]Dec 26th, 2011

What the HDD shortage means for cloud computing

While the rest of the IT world is reeling from the hard drive shortage, users of cloud computing services should have a relatively painless experience -- even if their providers don't. Joyent's Steve Tuck talks about his experience and how the HDD shortag.....»»

[Via: GIGAOM][Cat: media]Dec 27th, 2011

The Cloud, Day 19: IT Department Included

Yes, the 30 Days With the Cloud saga continues. After a bit of a holiday hiatus, the series is back in gear and taking a look at the backend support that comes with using cloud services......»»

[Via: PCWORLD][Cat: top]Dec 27th, 2011

The year Flash lost the mobile war: a look back at 2011"s top IT stories

2011 was a year of upheaval in IT, with Flash losing the mobile war to HTML5, RSA succumbing to a hack leaving SecurID products exposed, HP and RIM making big mistakes in core markets, cloud services taking off (while suffering some outages), and more rap.....»»

[Via: ARSTECHNICA][Cat: top]Dec 28th, 2011

2011 in Review: The Year for Photographers and Creatives

This was the year of new cameras and emerging camera categories, an explosive array of desktop, mobile, and cloud-based software and services, and a renewed focus on Web design and Internet standards......»»

[Via: PCWORLD][Cat: top]Dec 28th, 2011

SugarSync

File synchronization service SugarSync offers more cloud storage space with a free account than any of its rivals and is even more intuitive than its biggest competitor, Dropbox. SugarSync shows a few quirks here and there, as all syncing services seem to.....»»

[Via: PCMAG][Cat: top]Dec 30th, 2011

Moving files through the cloud: your favorite free file-sharing services

The cloud. It's where our music, bookmarks, passwords, and even our backups increasingly can be found. A decade ago, online storage was paltry—10 megabytes, or maybe 20 if the service provider was feeling generous. Now, it's measured in gigabytes. T.....»»

[Via: ARSTECHNICA][Cat: top]Dec 30th, 2011