Microsoft's Office Live Small Business closing today

Microsoft is sticking to its plan to shut down its Office Live Small Business (OLSB) suite of cloud-based services on Monday, even though it seems many customers are either unaware of the deadline or are having difficulties migrating.

Microsoft first announced its intention to close OLSB about 18 months ago and launched the suite's replacement, Office 365, in June of last year. Customers also have the option to migrate to non-Microsoft email and website hosting providers such as GoDaddy.

It seems that many customers of this cloud-hosted email and website hosting suite won't make the deadline to transition to another service.

It's unclear how many OLSB customers remain oblivious to the suite's impending shutdown. OLSB is used primarily for email communications and website hosting.

Recently, some Microsoft partners developed automated tools to transfer websites from OLSB to Office 365, including CloudVisors. However, Microsoft never developed its own tool to do this.

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Hosting Provider Deploys Brocade Solutions For Cloud Services

Australian hosting and cloud services provider, 6YS, has deployed Brocade’s ethernet fabric and routing infrastructure as a foundation for what it says is the rapid growth of its Ironpoint Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering.

6YS CTO, Martin von Stein, said that after a highly-successful trial, Brocade VDX 6720 data centre switches had been deployed at the company’s two data centers as the basis of a single, scalable Ethernet Fabric, and leveraged within its IRONPOINT enterprise cloud architecture.

According to Brocade’s regional director for the Australia and New Zealand region, Graham Schultz, “6YS is well known for successfully pioneering software as a service, which is really the forerunner of the cloud computing services we are starting to see today.” said Graham Schultz, Brocade’s Regional Director for the Australia and New Zealand region.

 

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Which Free Online Cloud Storage Is Best?

The cloud storage wars are escalating as Google, Microsoft and Apple (among others) vie for your files. But which to choose?

 

• Google Docs (Google Drive)

• Dropbox

• Apple iCloud

• Microsoft Windows Live SkyDrive

• IDrive

 

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US Unhappy With Australian Governments' Attitude To Offshore Cloud

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The Office of the US Trade Representative has issued harsh words in its latest foreign trade report about Australian federal and state governments for warning Australian companies and agencies about risks associated with storing data with offshore cloud providers. The US is also upset about continued restrictions on the foreign ownership of Telstra.

Apparently, the US Trade Representative believes that it is unfair on US companies that even Australian government agencies should insist on keeping data such as Australian electronic health records inside the country.

"A number of U.S. companies have voiced concerns that various Australian government departments, such as the Department of Defense, the National Archives of Australia, the Department of Finance and Deregulation's Australian Government Information Management Office, and the State of Victoria Privacy Commissioner, are sending negative messages about cloud computing services to potential Australian customers in both the public and private sectors, implying that hosting data overseas, including in the United States, by definition entails greater risk and unduly exposes consumers to their data being scrutinized by foreign governments," the report states.

Google Launches 'Cloud' Service

GOOGLE has launched a long-anticipated "Drive" service that lets people store photos and filed in the online "cloud."

Google Drive accounts with five gigabytes of storage were available free at drive.google.com and upgrades to more space on servers in the California company's data centres were available at rates set by size and country.

Google Drive software has been tailored for Windows and Macintosh computers as well as smartphones or tablets powered by Google-backed Android software.

Google Drive data can be reached from various devices, and deleting it from one deletes it from all. Scanned letters can be saved under the new service and fax messages can be sent or received.

Google Docs online text program was described as an integral component of Drive, letting people create and collaborate on documents.

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Xerox Throwing Cloud Computing Coming Out Party

Xerox for the past few years has steadily, and quietly, been building out its cloud offerings. Now officials from the venerable printer and copier company are ready to make some noise about it.

Xerox's traditional IaaS offering provides compute and storage capacity in a public, multi-tenant environment. The differentiating feature, according to Schilperoort, is the operating system models Xerox supports. In addition to Windows and Linux, it offers IBM AIX, Oracle Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM iSeries OS support. Through Xerox's ITO business, it also helps businesses deploy and manage on or off-premise private clouds.

Xerox also plays in the cloud market via the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that enables customers to offload app support from their own data centers yet still provide access via a variety of devices. The company hosts software, including custom-built business process apps from SAP and others for HR, vertical industries and more. Xerox also offers cloud-based disaster recovery and mobile device management services.

A challenge for Xerox and others is that the cloud can cannibalize more traditional IT outsourcing services. Anderson says Xerox can win in the market if it keeps a customer-focused vision and realizes that customers are not moving to the cloud all at once. If Xerox can get in on the game early in an enterprise cloud life cycle, it can grab long-term customers, Anderson says.

 

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Fast-growing Cloud Infrastructure Startup SingleHop Grabs $27.5M From Battery

Infrastructure-as-a-service startup SingleHop has raised $27.5 million in its first round of funding, cash that will help it quickly accelerate growth, the company announced today.

SingleHop has been slowly making a name for itself in the cloud computing and cloud infrastructure arena. The company’s proprietary management platform, called LEAP, makes it possible for clients to deploy and manage their web infrastructure from a unified platform. Its traction has been so good that it was named No. 25 on the Inc. 500 list for fastest growing companies in the U.S., leaping up from the No. 58 spot a year prior.

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Hubbub Over Content Rights Greets Google Drive

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google CEO Larry Page recently wrote that he hopes to show the company is "deserving of great love." But the Internet search leader may need to win more trust, based on the suspicions swirling around Google Drive, a new online storage service for personal documents, photos and other content.

As those words circulated on the Internet, fears about Google Drive undermining intellectual property rights mounted. Some interpreted the legalese to mean that if an author stores a novel on the service, Google suddenly owns the work and can do whatever it likes with it.

The way Google keeps documents in its data centers requires the company to obtain a license to "host, store (and) reproduce" the files. If, say, a screenwriter in China uses Google's services to collaborate on a movie script written in Mandarin with a script editor in Hollywood who only reads English, Google needs the rights for "translations, adaptations or other changes" to allow the two writers to work on the document in different languages and make revisions.

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Australia's Cloud Policy Ruffles The United States' Feathers

Australian government agencies are developing a Cloud framework for government agencies to follow, but a stance against storing classified data in off-shore locations has garnered ire from the US.

Australian Government Information Management Office guidelines released in February this year state agencies must adhere to IPP 4 – storage and security of personal information regulations, which requires agencies to ensure adequate security protections are in place against the misuse or loss of personal information.

However, the US government has labelled the policy as a trade barrier for companies with data centres in the US and in its 2012 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers says Australia is misinterpreting the US Patriot Act

 

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StratITsphere, ScaleMatrix Announce Data Center Partnership to Provide Greater Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity to Clients

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - April 26, 2012) - Colocation customers of two data centers in Texas and California will enjoy greater protection from disasters thanks to a new alliance announced today.

ScaleMatrix, a San Diego colocation and private cloud hosting provider, and StratITsphere, a
Houston-based data center, cloud computing, and IT & security infrastructure consulting firm, will provide high availability and geographic redundancy services to clients within each other's facilities.

StratITsphere found ScaleMatrix to be a good fit for similar reasons, including ScaleMatrix's ability to host clients requiring high density power of more than 30 kilowatts per rack in their San Diego data center.

Located outside the 500-year flood zone and off of any major thoroughfares, StratITsphere's Alpha Data Center facility boasts an ideal geographic location. Its Tier-IV design provides the best quality protection available from man-made and natural perils for client's mission critical systems and data.

ScaleMatrix's Green Giant San Diego facility boasts industry-leading efficiency ratings and some of the highest density floor space in the Western United States.

 

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How Cloud Computing Can Help Your Small Business

Large multinational firms have been excited about cloud computing for years. For them, cloud computing means freeing up technology resources, software, and hardware needed to build and run parts of their businesses.

The move toward the cloud has enabled companies like Salesforce and Amazon, to turn traditional technology solutions into value-added services. By moving resources to the cloud, Fortune 500 firms have abandoned developing their own business-critical applications and instead, essentially rent them from another company whose specialty is in delivering services over the Internet. This has saved these firms big money in time and resources.

The value proposition of using cloud computing is clear for large businesses but what about us small businesses?

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VPS.NET Launches Cloud Application Marketplace Built On Standing Cloud Platform

Boulder, CO and Providence, UT April 27, 2012 - VPS.NET, a leading provider of public clouds, today announced the launch of its new cloud application marketplace. Built on technology from Standing Cloud, a leading provider of cloud application management solutions, the marketplace gives VPS.NET customers a vastly simplified way to discover, deploy and manage applications in the cloud.  

As implemented by VPS.NET, Standing Cloud's turn-key Application Marketplace is an easy-to-use catalog of applications, software, development tools and deployment options, fully pre-configured to run instantly and reliably in the cloud, and optimized for the VPS.NET infrastructure. Once an application is deployed, Standing Cloud’s automated application lifecycle management services give customers an easy way to manage the application on a continuing basis, including monitoring, scaling, back-ups, upgrades, auto-restore and more.

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6YS Deploys Brocade Ethernet Fabric And Routing Infrastructure

Sydney, Aust. – April 30 2012 – 6YS, a pioneer Australian provider of hosted application and cloud computing services, has deployed an Ethernet Fabric and routing infrastructure from Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) as a foundation for the rapid growth of its IRONPOINT infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, which the company expects to grow 200 percent year-over-year.

Afterahighly-successfultrial, 6YS has deployed Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches at its two data centers as the basis of a single, scalable Ethernet Fabric. Brocade VCS (Virtual Cluster Switching) Fabric Technology, supported in Brocade VDX switches, is one of the “best of breed” technologies from key partners that 6YS is leveraging within its IRONPOINT Enterprise Cloud Architecture. 

 

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Cloud Computing Startup Deal Offered

Icehouse business incubator manager Nick Egerton says cloud computing is becoming an increasingly important tool of the trade for startups, and a new corporate partnership should help up-and-coming businesses get to market faster.

Microsoft's BizSpark Plus is allowing The Icehouse and the Wellington-based, Creative HQ, to offer startups of up to $60,000 worth of free cloud computing services for two years, with a discounted subscription after that.

 

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How Safe Is Cloud Storage For Your Priceless Photos?

It's easy to see where these concerns originate - it seems like every couple of weeks we hear about some big company or service being hacked. Sony Entertainment Network, Zappos, even Symantec, which makes the Norton Antivirus software, have been the victim of hackers. And Internet giants, like Microsoft Hotmail and Amazon, have experienced service outages and data loss.

As far as data loss, cloud services are far more reliable backup solutions than external hard drives. Yes, in rare instances cloud-based services have lost data, but external hard drives can fail, too. What's more important is not whether your backup solution can fail, but when it will fail. An external hard drive is far more likely to fail at the same time as your computer - whether from fire, flood or theft - resulting in total loss of all your precious photos. If a cloud service fails, you still have the original photos on your PC.

 

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Cloud Computing Co Gizmox Raises $3.5m

Cloud computing company Gizmox Ltd. has raised $3.5 million at a company value of $26 million. Gizmox shareholder Maayan Ventures Ltd. (TASE:MAYN), which owns 30.4% of the company, announced that investment funds IVIC and CIG invested $2.5 million, and current shareholders, Maayan Ventures, Citrix Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) and private investors, including Prof. Arie Scope, invested $1 million.

Gizmox CEO Navot Peled, Guy Peled, and Dan Lichtenfeld founded the company in 2007. The company's Visual WebGui solution converts applications to cloud environments. The company has raised $11 million to date.

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Xerox Throwing Cloud Computing Coming Out Party

Xerox for the past few years has steadily, and quietly, been building out its cloud offerings. Now officials from the venerable printer and copier company are ready to make some noise about it.

Xerox's traditional IaaS offering provides compute and storage capacity in a public, multi-tenant environment. The differentiating feature, according to Schilperoort, is the operating system models Xerox supports. In addition to Windows and Linux, it offers IBM AIX, Oracle Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM iSeries OS support. Through Xerox's ITO business, it also helps businesses deploy and manage on or off-premise private clouds.

Xerox also plays in the cloud market via the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that enables customers to offload app support from their own data centers yet still provide access via a variety of devices. The company hosts software, including custom-built business process apps from SAP and others for HR, vertical industries and more. Xerox also offers cloud-based disaster recovery and mobile device management services.

A challenge for Xerox and others is that the cloud can cannibalize more traditional IT outsourcing services. Anderson says Xerox can win in the market if it keeps a customer-focused vision and realizes that customers are not moving to the cloud all at once. If Xerox can get in on the game early in an enterprise cloud life cycle, it can grab long-term customers, Anderson says.

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SingleHop Announces Complete Redesign of LEAP Mobile App for iPhone and Android

SingleHop, Inc., a leading dedicated server and cloud hosting provider, and the first major provider to offer mobile administration tools in 2009, today announced the release of its entirely redesigned mobile app for iOS and Android platforms. The LEAP Mobile app extends all the functionality of its industry-leading infrastructure management platform, LEAP3, to users' smartphones.

Features Included in LEAP Mobile:

• Quickly manage infrastructure
• Deploy, restart, restore, reinstall, load balance, clone, suspend, manage and control all aspects of service
• Manage servers, cloud instances, and private clouds
• View and submit technical support tickets
• Access all current and past invoices
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Fast-growing cloud infrastructure startup SingleHop grabs $27.5M from Battery

Infrastructure-as-a-service startup SingleHop has raised $27.5 million in its first round of funding, cash that will help it quickly accelerate growth, the company announced today.

SingleHop has been slowly making a name for itself in the cloud computing and cloud infrastructure arena. The company’s proprietary management platform, called LEAP, makes it possible for clients to deploy and manage their web infrastructure from a unified platform. Its traction has been so good that it was named No. 25 on the Inc. 500 list for fastest growing companies in the U.S., leaping up from the No. 58 spot a year prior.

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Venture Capital Firm Invests in Web Host SingleHop

(The Hosting News) – A significant investment to the tune of $27.5 million was recently put toward the operations of cloud solution and automation provider SingleHop. Announced on Wednesday in a press release, it’s backed by venture capital firm Battery Ventures.

SingleHop provides a range of hosting services in the areas of cloud, dedicated, security, monitoring and more. Discussing the matter in a press release, SingHop CEO Zak Boca expressed enthusiasm, saying the move gives his company “great operational advantages.”

The company’s operations are hosted through data centers in the Chicago, Illinois areas. However, earlier this month, the company made news by announcing its plans to open its first western-based data center in Phoenix, Arizona. This site itself will allow the web host to operate ten thousand servers.

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Google launches 'cloud' service

GOOGLE has launched a long-anticipated "Drive" service that lets people store photos and filed in the online "cloud."

Google Drive accounts with five gigabytes of storage were available free at drive.google.com and upgrades to more space on servers in the California company's data centres were available at rates set by size and country.

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Making E-discovery Work For Legal Eagles

A successful cloud strategy is one that takes into account the potential obstacles for preserving and collecting information for the purposes of e-discovery. Knowing where the service provider’s provisions end and where your organisation’s start is vital to ensuring a comprehensive, efficient and effective electronically stored information (ESI) request response.

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Tracey Brunstrom & Hammond migrates to the Cloud

A dispute that the cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms have built a paradigm shift in enterprise technology and IT as a whole. Companies of all sizes – both public and private – seeking to reduce storage costs, improve overall efficiency and integration with partners, are increasingly turning to the cloud to house information and run essential business functions remotely.

Australia was rated among the leaders in each category, contributing to its overall second place ranking in what is one of the fastest growing information technology sectors globally. 

Today, software and service providers are introducing tools to help users manage, preserve, collect, process, review, analyse and produce documents on a single, do-it-yourself platform harnessing the power of SaaS-based technology dominated by the cloud.

With the movement of e-mail, user files and workgroup data to cloud computing, new challenges for e-discovery have emerged. The sheer volume of data and the expense of storing this data are the primary drivers behind the move to cloud computing.  These drivers are also the primary reason preserving and collecting data from the cloud remains a challenge for organisations.

A successful cloud strategy is one that takes into account the potential obstacles for preserving and collecting information for the purposes of e-discovery. Knowing where the service provider’s provisions end and where your organisation’s start is vital to ensuring a comprehensive, efficient and effective electronically stored information (ESI) request response. 

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New Google Drive Sync App

Syncdocs is a new hybrid application that turns Google Docs into a free online storage drive. This Google drive is accessible from any PC or mobile.

With Syncdocs, Google Docs is simply accessed as the G-Drive on the local PC. Files and folders across multiple PCs and mobile devices stay in sync automatically. Anything saved to these folders is automatically mirrored online and across all linked PCs and users. Syncdocs can also integrate with other cloud storage providers, like Dropbox to sync Dropbox to Google Docs.

Syncdocs takes full advantage of Google's fast, reliable online storage - it keeps PC folders synchronized with Google and with other users.

In addition to providing file sync and online backup, Google documents are available right from the user’s Windows desktop. This means that Microsoft Office is no longer necessary to open or create Word, PowerPoint or Excel files on the PC. Moving to cloud computing used to mean abandoning the desktop, but with Syncdocs, users can work simultaneously in both cloud and desktop environments.

For easy collaborative work, Syncdocs also supports merging of changes from various users. It can even merge changes between desktop and cloud users. If multiple users make edits to a document concurrently, these changes are merged. For example, a user can edit a Google Doc offline using Microsoft Word, and then merge these changes back into Google Docs.

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New Google Drive Sync App

Syncdocs is a new hybrid application that turns Google Docs into a free online storage drive. This Google drive is accessible from any PC or mobile.

With Syncdocs, Google Docs is simply accessed as the G-Drive on the local PC. Files and folders across multiple PCs and mobile devices stay in sync automatically. Anything saved to these folders is automatically mirrored online and across all linked PCs and users. Syncdocs can also integrate with other cloud storage providers, like Dropbox to sync Dropbox to Google Docs.

Syncdocs takes full advantage of Google's fast, reliable online storage - it keeps PC folders synchronized with Google and with other users.

In addition to providing file sync and online backup, Google documents are available right from the user’s Windows desktop. This means that Microsoft Office is no longer necessary to open or create Word, PowerPoint or Excel files on the PC. Moving to cloud computing used to mean abandoning the desktop, but with Syncdocs, users can work simultaneously in both cloud and desktop environments.

For easy collaborative work, Syncdocs also supports merging of changes from various users. It can even merge changes between desktop and cloud users. If multiple users make edits to a document concurrently, these changes are merged. For example, a user can edit a Google Doc offline using Microsoft Word, and then merge these changes back into Google Docs.

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Amazon Cloud Computing Is Getting Bigger Too

Giant Internet retailer Amazon is flexing another online muscle that promises to be as powerful as its web sales business – its cloud-computing infrastructure.

BGR News this morning quoted a research made by DeepFields Network, which showed that with little fuss, Amazon’s cloud computing system is starting to exert influence on as much as 1% of the total Internet traffic in North America.

Cloud computing involved the storage, management and processing of data by users utilizing servers based on the Internet, rather than those that operate locally.

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Amazon Cloud Set Stage For Rapid Pinterest Growth

The explosive success of the social networking service Pinterest wouldn’t have been possible without the easy scalability of the Amazon cloud services, an executive for Pinterest said.

“The cloud has enabled us to be more efficient, to try out new experiments at a very low cost, and enabled us to grow the site very dramatically while maintaining a very small team,” said Ryan Park, operations engineer for Pinterest, at the Amazon Web Services Summit, in New York Thursday.

For more detailed information about Pinterest’s use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS), visit http://goo.gl/H4Cff

Reliable Encryption Is Essential To The Future Of The Cloud

The gospel in recent years has been that the future is in the cloud. The web will provide the services and storage you need, and it’s safer than keeping files locally. But in the wake of the Megaupload raid, some cloud storage companies are getting cold feet and are rushing to placate the emissaries of the content industry, such as the RIAA and MPAA. All that might add up to a dark and stormy future for the cloud, and your data.

The RapidShare business model is not terribly dissimilar from that of Megaupload. As such, the company has been looking for ways to distance itself from its unfortunate competitor. At the National Press Club, RapidShare recently went a step further by laying out a framework it feels cloud storage providers should adopt to better combat piracy — and it’s straight out of the RIAA’s playbook.

RapidShare suggests that all uploads be scanned for copyrighted content, which would probably put a stake in the heart of fair use once and for all. The plan also indicates the files uploaded should be private by default, with the user being forced to explicitly share a file publicly. RapidShare also says that sites should hire significant numbers of new staff to actively scan user data when there is reasonable suspicion an account is being used for piracy.

To be clear, RapidShare is advocating a system by which a cloud storage provider can look at your personal data if Fox, Universal, or any other content provider suspects you of wrongdoing. Not only does this smack of privacy invasion, it has to make you question the innate security of these services.

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US unhappy with Australian governments' attitude to offshore cloud

The full report can be accessed from here.
The Office of the US Trade Representative has issued harsh words in its latest foreign trade report about Australian federal and state governments for warning Australian companies and agencies about risks associated with storing data with offshore cloud providers. The US is also upset about continued restrictions on the foreign ownership of Telstra.
Apparently, the US Trade Representative believes that it is unfair on US companies that even Australian government agencies should insist on keeping data such as Australian electronic health records inside the country.
"A number of U.S. companies have voiced concerns that various Australian government departments, such as the Department of Defense, the National Archives of Australia, the Department of Finance and Deregulation's Australian Government Information Management Office, and the State of Victoria Privacy Commissioner, are sending negative messages about cloud computing services to potential Australian customers in both the public and private sectors, implying that hosting data overseas, including in the United States, by definition entails greater risk and unduly exposes consumers to their data being scrutinized by foreign governments," the report states.

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What should Cloud providers know about their customers?

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Users need to verify the security features of their IaaS provider.

When customers sign up for an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) plan from one of the number of vendors in the market, usually a name and credit card is needed before data is stored in the provider's Cloud. But just what are public Cloud providers doing with that information?

Security remains one of the chief concerns users have related to deploying the Cloud, studies have suggested, and various providers seem to tout their security features for protecting data in the cloud. IBM, though, may take that even a step further by not just protecting data that's in the cloud, but regulating which customers use their cloud services. Find out which Iaas is right for you, visit http://www.CloudHostingProviders.com.au

The Cloud Computing Skills Shortage

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Across the IT industry, CIOs, technology vendors and consultants agree that there is a serious shortage of cloud computing skills that threatens to hamper adoption. Whether it's software engineers who know how to develop applications for the cloud, resource planners who can estimate an enterprise's need for computing capacity, architects who can integrate services from different cloud vendors, or administrators who understand how to configure and support cloud-based services, a wide range of cloud-related skills are in great demand, and companies can't leverage the benefits of cloud computing without them. Know more about the shortage in cloud computing skills at http://www.CloudHostingProviders.com.au

Amazon CTO: 'You Should Be Able To Walk Away' From Cloud Providers

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Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels spoke specifically within the context of the company's pay-as-you-go pricing model in which consumers pay for as much, or as little, of the services they want. But, according to many, AWS and other cloud providers don't necessarily make it easy to leave. Sure the systems can be turned on or off depending on need, but just how easy is it to move data out of AWS's Simple Storage Service (S3)?

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