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Latest News Oct 16, 2012 What Cloud Consumers Need To Look Out For In Cloud Contracts What Cloud Consumers Need To Look Out For In Cloud Contracts Many people think cloud computing contracts look out for service providers alone. There are different factors that fuel this attitude. Even then, many consumers still feel like they have no choice. Providers tell them what they can and cannot get. This development is negative for the industry. However, if you want to be a consumer for cloud products, the future is looking bright. With more providers on the market, competition will force some of these dominating companies to think twice. In the meantime, you need to look out for yourself when working on cloud computing ... Read more... Playing In The Clouds: A Gamer’s New Paradise Playing In The Clouds: A Gamer’s New Paradise Long ago and far away, the home game of Pong brought families together around the television that up until then was only accomplished by a celebrity’s death, a monumental speech, or the moon landing. From there, the game console industry began to grow by leaps and bounds. Soon enough, names like ... Read more... The One Lesson The Cloud Needs To Learn From Facebook The One Lesson The Cloud Needs To Learn From Facebook People, websites, talk shows, and even doctors discuss more about a Facebook epidemic than they are talking about an obesity epidemic. In fact, the massive amount of time that young people spend checking their status updates is not only the latest Hollywood fad, but also a reflection of the new level of online social interaction that Mark Zuckerberg has managed to create. You don't need to be a psychology or sociology major to know how he managed to bring together so many people. ... Read more... Featured Free Resource Business Agility Through Agile Lifecycle Practices Read this report to learn how to approach agile development in a way that ensures end-to-end business agility. Survey Says: 3 Years More For Cloud Before It Covers The Whole Sky Survey Says: 3 Years More For Cloud Before It Covers The Whole Sky A recent survey conducted by ISACA on the 2012 Cloud Computing Market revealed good news for the IT people. You would be surprised to know that, despite its popularity, cloud computing is going through its infancy stage. The study shows that ... Read more... Important IaaS Cloud Industry Platforms Worth Knowing Important IaaS Cloud Industry Platforms Worth Knowing Every now and then one often hears of a new terminology in the cloud platforms. As the industry grows by leaps and bounds, it is hardly necessary to expect nothing short of dramatic and innovative changes. In this wave of developments, the established companies bask in all the glory while the new fish in the pond try to surface to the ground. Still, the latter are providing an alternative platform that might be revolutionizing the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) scene by their open-ended technologies. ... Read more... Press Release: DreamHost Introduces DreamCompute Public Cloud Computing Service DreamHost Introduces DreamCompute Public Cloud Computing Service A Scalable, Resilient, and Secure OpenStack Powered Cloud for Entrepreneurs and Developers ... Read more... Featured Free Resource The Big Shift to Cloud-based Security Keeping IT systems secure and running within regulatory compliance mandates, especially for mid-sized and even small businesses, seems next to impossible. There are many reasons for this -- but fortunately, several recent technological trends show that it doesn't have to be this way. The Future Gets Closer To An Intelligent Car: Or Is It Just A Passing Cloud? The Future Gets Closer To An Intelligent Car: Or Is It Just A Passing Cloud? Though Internet technology inside vehicles has come up pretty recently, 2008 or so, the look of things is changing rapidly in the auto industry in that vein. Cloud computing is quickly becoming a part of automobile blueprints in major assembly plants. One of the oldest makers of automobiles in the United States that began its operations after the first Model-T discovery in 1910 has already signaled a future of an intelligent car. ... Read more... The Cloud: Focusing On Cloud Performance – Part 2 The Cloud: Focusing On Cloud Performance – Part 2 Continued from Part 1 Companies are usually recommended to do a workload analysis exercise before deciding on moving a process to the cloud and choosing a provider. For vendors it is, again, critical to understand in both business and computational terms (like number of records, size distributions, CPU and memory consumptions) the loads of the companies they wish to serve. While this may sound obvious, the outcome of a study conducted by the IEEE will explain why it needs to be articulated. The study published in November 2010,  ... Read more... Get Off Of My Cloud Get Off Of My Cloud One of the main detractors of cloud computing for the uninitiated is security.  With so many individuals having access to a service provider’s cloud, can there be a solid guarantee for any user that their information is safe?  The top concerns when considering using a cloud service are: ... Read more... You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from CloudTweaks Media. If you would like to manage your newsletter preferences or if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please click here. 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