Put A Clamp on Cloud Music? Village Voice Insists Yes Music writers have rung in the New Year with cloud complaints. A recent edition of New York City’s “Village Voice,” America’s largest weekly newspaper, finds head music columnist Maura Johnston picking away at premium music-listening services for the dearth in their artistic content. Her article, [...]
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LAPD Refuses To Go On the Cloud
LAPD Refuses To Go On the Cloud Google Mail may be the most popular email service in the world, but it evidently fails to meet strict security guidelines as laid out by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). On 14 December 2011, the Los Angeles City Council voted to scale back the city’s email services [...]
50GB of Free Cloud Storage Available in HP App Catalog
50GB of Free Cloud Storage Available in HP App Catalog Box.net has launched its Box for TouchPad, which is available immediately in the HP App Catalog. In addition to offering enterprise-grade content storage and sharing to tablets, Box for TouchPad App makes available 50GB of free cloud storage for the lifetime of the account. Box [...]
BitNami Offers Free Micro Instant Cloud Hosting
At BitNami, we’re committed to making it easy for anyone to run their favorite open source applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. We’re excited to announce that we’re making it even easier to run BitNami apps in the cloud by offering a free plan for our BitNami Cloud Hosting service! The new free tier of [...]
Onlive – Cloud Based Video Game System
Disney joins 50 game publishers who have provided games for the OnLive platform, with many more coming. OnLive is the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video game services, delivering real-time interactive experiences and rich media through the Internet. With groundbreaking video compression technology, OnLive harnesses cloud computing to provide the power and intelligence needed to instantly [...]
GogoBeans – Shaking to Share – Cloud Content Sharing & Storing Application
GogoBeans – Cloud Content Sharing & Storing Application Do you like an online repository of data, music, pictures, web pages, applications and other social content accessible anywhere from internet, shared with your friends under your privacy terms? Looking to change from the conventional way of tapping & clicking your cell phone to connect with your [...]
Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis
Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis When Google launched Google Apps Premier Edition for $50 per user per year, it raised the question, “How much should we be paying for email?” But it’s not just this eye-popping price that should trigger the question about where you should run your email. [...]
Bringing Information Technology to the Forefront through Cloud Computing
Bringing Information Technology to the Forefront through Cloud Computing “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” – Milan Kundera, Czech novelist, playwright and poet. This is an age of marketing. From pins to planes, everything’s branded. Therefore, unless you can market your product or service, no one will buy – even if it’s [...]
Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars To Watch – Complete List
Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars To Watch Over the past couple of months, CloudTweaks offered to its readers corporate profiles of some of the most innovative and fast developing start-ups in Europe. Some companies on the list are already well-known in the cloud computing sectors while others are still developing their services. What [...]
Box.net, Amazon Cloud Drive – The Future Of Cloud Storage And Sharing…
The Future Of Cloud Storage And Sharing… The online (or cloud) storage business has always been a really interesting industry. When we started Box in 2005, it was a somewhat untouchable category of technology, perceived to be a commodity service with low margins and little consumer willingness to pay. All three of these factors remain [...]
Google Apps Messaging and Collaboration Products – Security Whitepaper
Security Whitepaper – Google Apps Messaging and Collaboration Products Introduction The security of online services is a topic of increasing interest to enterprises as the number of third party hosted service offerings has expanded in recent years. The emergence of various “cloud computing” concepts and definitions has highlighted not only questions about data ownership and [...]
Finding a Cloud Computing Job – Mobile Cloud Services Are Hot Hot Hot!!
There is an overwhelming need for individuals who can create mobile applications that connect to the cloud. Below are some quotes from a couple of the largest technology research analyists in the world. “Juniper Research expects the total market for cloud-based mobile apps to grow 88 percent between 2009 and 2014. About 75 percent of [...]
Cloud Computing is Changing the Way Business is Done
Cloud Computing is Changing the Way Business is Done Not too long ago hardly any one was using Google Apps for accessing and updating their documents, now it appears almost everyone uses Google docs when connected to the Internet instead of The Microsoft Office tools. Similarly some 2-3 years ago there were just a few [...]
Cloud computing provider RightScale – How the Cloud Industry is Scaling
Cloud computing management provider RightScale updated its blog this morning with some impressive figures that point to company’s growth: its customers’ cloud computing usage has increased by 1000% in one year. While the post accompanies a press release, it would be a mistake to dismiss the numbers as just PR. The increased usage reflects three [...]
Cisco Live Snapshot: Cloud Computing Adoption Surges Ahead
Cloud Benefits Clear Despite Debate Over Definitions Shows Network Instruments Onsite Survey LAS VEGAS, June 30 /PRNewswire/ — According to a survey conducted during Cisco Live, 71 percent of organizations have implemented some form of cloud computing, despite an unclear understanding as to the actual definition of the technology. From the exhibition floor, Network Instruments [...]
