Practical Cloud Computing from Scratch

Practical Cloud Computing from Scratch Dr A. Lawrence Lowell A gentle introduction to cloud computing and it's practical implementation. Over a day-long intensive hands-on course, we'll introduce cloud computing, and implement real More »

Layered Tech Names Jeff Reich New Chief Risk Officer

Layered Tech Names Jeff Reich New Chief Risk Officer Reich has extensive experience in cloud computing, having served as chief security officer for Rackspace Hosting(R), vice president and chief security officer of More »

Cloud Computing Is A Big Focus Area For Us”

“Cloud Computing Is A Big Focus Area For Us” … which is rapidly being adopted by SMBs, while large enterprises are getting on the private cloud. They are hosting their data centers More »

IBM looks to capitalise on cloud computing

IBM looks to capitalise on cloud computing IBM SA yesterday said it had expanded its cloud computing services by adding more solutions such as data backup and archiving. The aim was to More »

Skytap Invited to Present at Leading Cloud Computing Conferences

Skytap Invited to Present at Leading Cloud Computing Conferences Description: Skytap will discuss the ins and outs of virtual private clouds and how it resolves the challenges data center managers face when More »

Latest Application Programming Interface (api) News

Kookoo Telephony 2.0 Now Offers SMS Service
According to Ozonetel, KooKoo is an interface or an application interface program (API) between a user's web application and the caller. It takes phone commands from the user and executes them on user's behalf to the caller. With user's, the web page
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Arsenault Associates releases Dossier Version 6.1 fleet maintenance software
Dossier 6.1 also includes the new Dossier Data eXchange (DDX) Application Program Interface (API) that allows Dossier to connect to other systems in real time. “In 2011, many of our customers are connecting their business systems,” he says.
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NEC Launches M100 Storage System for Windows, Linux and VMware Environments

NEC Launches M100 Storage System for Windows, Linux and VMware Environments
IRVING, Texas, Oct 11, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, today launched the next generation of storage architecture, the M100 storage area networking
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Overland Storage to Host Investor and Analyst Briefing at the NASDAQ
The briefing will include presentations from key members of the Overland Storage Executive Team and a top Storage Industry Analyst from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a world-renowned IT and business strategy firm. Key topics to be discussed are
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Agco Buys Grain-Storage Business
By BOB TITA Agco Corp. agreed to buy grain-storage-bin maker GSI Holdings Corp., a move that will expand Agco's business operations beyond manufacturing farm tractors and combines. The $ 940 million purchase of GSI from private-equity firm Centerbridge
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IBM to sell global data migration engine, NAS/iSCSI SAN
By Lucas Mearian Computerworld – ORLANDO – IBM next week plans to unveil software that will allow data to be automatically migrated between storage tiers on an array and between arrays — no matter where they are in the world.
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Latest Application Programming Interface (api) News

Accent reduction increases chances for jobs and promotions
For companies and web services that want to brand and integrate Evoca features into their applications, Evoca also licenses Evoca Enterprise, our RESTful HTTP API [application programming interface]. For more information about Evoca subscriptions or
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Oracle rigs MySQL for NoSQL-like access
Memcached creates a hash table of commonly accessed database items that is stored in a server's working memory for quick access, by way of an API (application programming interface). Memcached would provide a natural non-SQL interface for MySQL,
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FreshList App Creates Useful Virtual Marketplace for Local Produce
The app uses the Twilio API (application programming interface) for text messaging which permits people to purchase and sell produce in real time. This could mean big changes in sales for those food businesses that either don't have the staff,
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Storage vexations of server virtualization

Storage vexations of server virtualization
Storage administrators list five ways that server virtualization complicates their lives — and reveal how they handle each headache. By Stacy Collett Computerworld – Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say
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Red Hat Expands Storage Portfolio With Gluster Acquisition
With $ 136 million buy, Red Hat will integrate Gluster's unstructured data management into its storage offerings. By Deni Connor Red Hat announced Tuesday that it will acquire Gluster for $ 136 million in cash to add to its storage portfolio.
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Red Hat's Open-Source Software Lowers Costs

Red Hat's Open-Source Software Lowers Costs
With the cloud, software and applications are stored on remote servers and delivered over the Internet rather than individual computers. Cloud service providers take on the role of utilities. They sell the products that let clients use the cloud and
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Securing The Cloud: Questions and Answers
Cloud presents a new consumption and delivery model that allows users to rapidly deploy resources, which can easily scaled up and down, with processes, applications, and services provisioned on demand. Cloud infrastructures and platforms present
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Harmonic Production Storage Platform Enables Efficient Multiplatform Edit

Harmonic Production Storage Platform Enables Efficient Multiplatform Edit
The unique Harmonic production storage solution has allowed Crawford to implement a highly efficient DNxHD workflow in which editors working privately or collaboratively on different platforms can share content in a single storage pool.
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Latest Application Programming Interface (api) News

Coast Computer Services Announces Remote Virus Removal Service for Users of
Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, UserCake, RDF (Resource Description Framework), API (Application Programming Interface), HTML(Hypertext Markup Language), DHTML (Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language), XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language),
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Northwest Regional High School ready to launch FIRST Robotics team

Northwest Regional High School ready to launch FIRST Robotics team
Started in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST — which stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology — holds annual competitions for high school students interested in science, technology, engineering or mathematics careers.
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Seifsa expects fresh support for manufacturers in Gordhan's mini-Buget
South Africa's metals and engineering sectors signalled on Friday that they anticipated that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan would unveil an “enhanced support package for the manufacturing sector” in his Medium-Term Budget Policy Framework,
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British Audio Engineering Introduces 10DC Compressor/Limiter at AES in NYC
DMN Newswire–2011-10-13–British Audio Engineering (BAE) is debuting at AES its newest product, the 10DC compressor/limiter, a complement to the company's line of Class A series outboard gear. The product launch will be at 11:00 AM on Friday,
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Latest Hybrid Cloud News

Isle of Man heads to hybrid cloud
It has chosen to adopt a hybrid model, using a number of products from EMC's portfolio to make the transition become a reality. The private aspect of the cloud is based on EMC's Unified Storage hardware with solid state flash drives, increasing the
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Nimbula release builds out cloud ecosystem
While the Director 1.5 release itself is designed to support geographically distributed cloud environments for enterprises and service providers to build private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructures, the new partners are hoped to broaden the appeal
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Red Hat buys Gluster storage company, OpenStack support included
Red Hat execs said this scale-out software solution will be critical for enterprises' private and public cloud needs and hybrid storage cloud needs as well. CTO Brian Stevens pointed out during a conerence call today that hardware storage solutions
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NFC Forum launches spec for peer-to-peer data exchange

NFC Forum launches spec for peer-to-peer data exchange
Now, SNEP enables the use of the openly standardized NDEF in peer-to-peer mode, allowing for seamless interchange of data. “Application developers no longer need to concern themselves with how their NDEF data gets transferred between NFC-enabled
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Experienced entrepreneurs to mentor high-tech start-ups
So I am looking at things (like) peer-to-peer banking, new forms of investment banking, expert financials that do XPOs (private IPOs)." At the annual Techventure, venture capitalists also got to see innovations that could potentially be game-changers.
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Take a Peer To Lunch. Regularly.
I've heard people dismiss peer's opinions as, well, opinionated. And of course they're opinionated, but they're also just like you – trying to solve problems for the business. The needs of one IT shop, even in a different industry, are often the needs
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