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Cloud Providers should Focus on SMB RequirementsOctober 1, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News, Cloud Computing | short link
The increasing number of small and midscale businesses in the Asia Pacific region presents a huge potential for business. They may appear granular but the number of SMBs is growing steady in number. Their business requirements may be challenging but it...
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Cloud Providers should Focus on SMB RequirementsOctober 1, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Articles | short linkLarry Ellison and Marc Benioff StandoffSeptember 29, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
Marc Benioff once again reignited its long time hostility and war of words with Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison. He lashed out his sour remarks in front of a huge number of 15,000 customers and stakeholders at the big Dreamforce affair a few weeks ago. He...
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Zetta, the Enterprise Cloud Storage Provider, Raises $9 MillionSeptember 28, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
This month, enterprise cloud storage provider Zetta announced that it has raised $9 million in a third round of funding, bringing the total funding to $31.5 million. Both existing investors Foundation Capital and Sigma Partners participated. The compan...
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Piston Cloud to Create World’s Most Secure OpenStack DistributionSeptember 27, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack™ company, officially entered the market today to introduce pentOS™, an easy, secure and open cloud operating system for managing enterprise private cloud environments.
Building and Betting on O...
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Seeing the Data Center through the CloudsSeptember 22, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
Guest article written by Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Cloud Marketing Manager, Interxion
The path to the cloud continues to dominate business strategy, proving its value and confirming it is not a passing trend. With Gartner estimating the cloud services...
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ZeroPC: Personal Virtual Desktop in the Cloud – Disrupt 2011September 18, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
ZeroDesktop, Inc., a leading developer of fully featured public and private cloud computing solutions, announced a new “Freemium” plan for its ZeroPC (http://www.zeropc.com) personal desktop in the cloud, providing worldwide consumers with 1GB of f...
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Verizon’s CloudSwitch Acquisition Added Value to its Cloud EnterpriseSeptember 18, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
Verizon again made a milestone when it acquired CloudSwitch last month; this was following its earlier purchase in January of Terremark, a premier cloud storage provider. The latest acquisition of CloudSwitch is expected to boost the cloud enterprise v...
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Facebook Teams Up with Cloud Service Provider HerokuSeptember 16, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
By teaming up with cloud application platform Heroku, Facebook is providing its developers a faster way to get Facebook apps up and running in the cloud. Developers have long been able to host their Facebook apps on Heroku on their own, but now Facebo...
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Amazon Web Services Set to Earn FISMA AccreditationSeptember 15, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
Amazon Web Services announced today that it has received Federal Information Security Management Act (known as FISMA) Moderate Authorization and Accreditation from the U.S. General Services Administration.
FISMA is a US federal law that was enacted in ...
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Deutsche Telekom to Shield German Cloud Companies’ Data From U.S. GovernmentSeptember 15, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
T-Systems, the information technology unit of Deutsche Telekom, is trying to get regulators to introduce a certificate for German or European cloud operators that will help companies guard data from the U.S. government.
According to Bloomberg, Reinhard...
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Taiwan’s Top Telecommunications Companies Embark on Cloud VentureSeptember 13, 2011 | via feedproxy.google.com | Category: Cloud Blog Posts & News | short link
3 of the biggest telecommunication firms in Taiwan announced recently that they will invest on a multi billion project on cloud computing solutions. Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., Taiwan Mobile Corp. and Far EasTone Telecom Co., Ltd. each stated their i...
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Bitcasa Debuts Infinite Storage, Blows Your Hard Drive’s MindSeptember 13, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Uncategorized | short link
Today’s Startup Battlefield featured newcomer Bitcasa, showing you what a world with infinite storage will look like. CEO Tony Gauda demonstrated the power of Bitcasa, by streaming not one but two 1080 dpi movies – and at the same time.
Why you’d...
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3 Sessions You Can Only Find at Mobilize 2011September 12, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Uncategorized | short link
Insight, opportunity and growth abound at Mobilize 2011. CloudTimes is a media sponsor for the two day event, which will unveil the newest opportunities at the crossroads of mobile and cloud computing – from products and services to new technologies ...
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Dreamforce 2011 Conference ReviewSeptember 10, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Uncategorized | short link
Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com’s CEO discussed its new recent development platforms in the last Dreamforce 11 Conference. Here he emphasized on the model of social enterprise as a counterpart for the “platform as a service” battle in the cloud. He ...
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Private Cloud Competition IntensifiesSeptember 9, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Articles | short link
OpenStack continues to grow, but over the past week, product updates and acquisitions from Citrix, Eucalyptus, Red Hat and VMware signify that the competition to become the dominant private cloud provider and win over the enterprise also intensifies. E...
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Private Cloud Competition IntensifiesSeptember 9, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Cloud Articles | short link
The organizations are curious to move their in-house hosted COTS based and customized business applications to cloud managed environment. The oversold benefits of the cloud computing viz., no upfront capital investments, ‘pay as you use’ subscripti...
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What Caused Microsoft’s Outage?August 29, 2011 | via cloudtimes.org | Category: Uncategorized | short link
Last August 17, 2011 was a difficult day for the North American users of SkyDrive and Microsoft Office 365 because they experienced a 3-hour blackout on their cloud system. This was still followed by a series of interruptions during the week.
Microsoft...
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