Cloud Computing Journal

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Connection Engine, the leading email intelligence and targeting platform, today announced the availability of its latest product - Buyer Score. Buyer Score is a powerful tool for segmenting email subscribers based on their valu... (more)

SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/17/12 -- AltiGen Communications, Inc. (OTCQX: ATGN) (PINKSHEETS: ATGN), the leading provider of software-based Unified Communications solutions, and ExtraTeam, a leading solutions integrator and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, today announce a... (more)

Time Warner Cable has reached a verbal agreement for carriage of MSG, MSG+ and Fuse, effective immediately. MSG will return to Time Warner Cable’s lineup in time for tonight’s Knicks, Sabres and Devils games. Time Warner Cable expressed appreciation for the concern and encouragem... (more)

Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also search fo... (more)

After reported fines of $20 - $54 million against companies violating the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act (SCRA), the financial services industry has cried out for accurate and efficient means of complying with SCRA’s requirement that lenders verify their borrowers’ active milit... (more)

Last summer a CIO for a high profile ecommerce company told me that the smartest way to play the cloud was to rent the spike.  I just read the same thing from Zynga’s Infrastructure CTO Allan Leinwand in Inside Zynga’s Big Move To Private Cloud by InformationWeek’s Charles Babcoc... (more)

Big Data is opening new frontiers in what is possible in large volume data processing. Previously unheard of mountains of data can now be efficiently and economically processed. Data warehousing was so far reserved only for the biggest corporations that could afford expensive pro... (more)

Bluedrop Performance Learning Inc. (TSX-V: BPL) has successfully expanded into the healthcare training market with the official launch of its online nursing community, Nursing Powered by CoursePark (formerly NursesNetwork.com). In only its second month of activity, more than 10,0... (more)

By the time this blog post hits the airwaves, 6fusion will have launched it’s second major software product in the first 45 days of 2012. For those of you that run start up software companies, you know what kind of pace it means. To be perfectly transparent, things are, well, nuc... (more)

Ideas International Limited (IDEAS, ASX:IDE) has added two new clients in Spain that are using the IDEAS RPE2 server performance standard to monitor their contracts with outsourcing providers. “We are delighted to add two new clients in Spain,” said IDEAS CEO Stephen Bowhill. “W... (more)

By Maureen O’gara, Cloud Expo A Tel Aviv start-up called Porticor that’s just hit the radar says it’s got a way to secure the cloud, any cloud. Fancy that, a trustworthy cloud. And Porticor delivers its data encryption solution to IaaS and PaaS users through the cloud in minutes... (more)

We have previously provided a Quickstart guide to standing up Rackspace cloud servers (and have one for Amazon servers as well). These are very low cost ways of building reliable, production ready capabilities for enterprise use (commercial and government).  And Bryan Halfpap has... (more)

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Minnesota Timberwolves today announced the renewal of a corporate sponsorship agreement with AT&T* for the communications company to be the preferred wireless service provider of the Timberwolves. Highlights of the sponsorship includ... (more)

Mayor Jerry Sanders and San Diego City Councilmen Kevin Faulconer and Todd Gloria on Thursday helped usher in a new chapter in the ongoing economic revival of downtown with the opening of EvoNexus Downtown San Diego, a unique technology incubator that is home to startups pursuing... (more)

Our colleague, Lori MacVittie, has been honored with the CloudNOW Top Ten Women in Cloud Award for her contributions, accomplishments, and thought leadership.  Now you might think it would be cool working with such a cloud know-it-all: she writes the best blogs/articles, she corr... (more)

SANTA ANA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/17/12 -- Compushare, Inc., the nation's leading cloud technology provider for the financial market, has again been recognized as an industry leader in the fifth-annual MSPmentor 100, a distinguished list and research report identifying the worl... (more)

A new publication explains how standards-based interoperable digital identities are needed to transform healthcare to a paperless and fully electronic business environment. It is being issued in conjunction with the annual meeting of Healthcare Information and Management Systems ... (more)

As a result, it said, of "customer feedback and evolving usage patterns," Microsoft cut the price of its cloud-ified SQL Azure database 48%-75% for databases larger than 1GB and introduced a new entry-level 100MB model. It blogged that it's noticed that many projects start small b... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Wide and cheap availability of cloud-based media services is upon us. With the transformations these services are already bringing to the consumption of music, video and interactive media, change has likewise come to professional workflows.... (more)

Aravo Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based Supplier Lifecycle Management (SLM) and business social network solutions, announced the availability of Premium Memberships in Aravo AssureTM, the industry’s first ‐‐ and only ‐‐ business social network with a focus on r... (more)