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Known for manufacturing storage solutions in the enterprise, desktop, mobile computing, consumer and retail markets. It was only a matter of time before Seagate introduced their very own Network Attached Storage (NAS) product, the Seagate BlackArmor NAS. No, BlackArmor isn’t some epic World of Warcraft item to lust over. This is serious business, just as backing up your data should be. Read the full Seagate BlackArmor NAS 420 Review.

RingCentral leverages the cloud computing model to offer a Web-based phone system for SMBs as an alternative to traditional phone carriers such as AT T and newcomers such as Google Voice or Ifbyphone. RingCentral Office costs $99.99 per month for up to four users and includes several of the bells and whistles business users have come to associate with traditional phone and fax services.
– Much is made about Skype and Google Voice, applications that let consumers use the
Web as a medium for voice communications, but you don’t tend to hear a lot
about business phone systems living entirely in the cloud.
RingCentral aims to change that with the introduction of RingCentral Office, a …

RingCentral leverages the cloud computing model to offer a Web-based phone system for SMBS as an alternative to traditional phone carriers such as AT T and newcomers such as Google Voice or Ifbyphone. RingCentral Office costs $99.99 per month for up to four users and includes several of the bells and whistles business users have come to associate with traditional phone and fax services.
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Much is made about Skype and Google Voice, applications which lets consumers leverage the Web as a medium
for voice communications, but you don’t tend to hear a lot about business phone
systems living entirely in the cloud.
RingCentral hopes to change that with the
introduction of…

As an experiment, I decided to bring my Evolutionary Computing presentation on making the journey into free, open-source software — a slide show originally created in OpenOffice Impress 2.4 — into Google Docs, which happens to have a presentation app in addition to the better-known Docs and Spreadsheets components. I revised the presentation — taking some things out, adding others and providing some updates on what I’m doing — and output it as a PDF.

German network monitoring software maker Paessler has debuted CloudClimate.com, which posts the real-time results of performance monitoring of several cloud-hosting services such as Amazon EC2 and GoGrid CloudServers, as well as cloud storage services such as Amazon CloudFiles and S3. The goal is to give customers a way to compare services and to help service providers find problems in their environments. Its also a way for Paessler to showcase its solutions.
– A network monitoring software maker is creating a Website that shows
the real-time performance of several public cloud computing
environments, including Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud.
Paessler AG, a German software company that also has offices in
Portland, Ore., is using its PRTG Network Monito…

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington takes Google and the cloud computing model to task for a recent personal e-mail breach at Twitter. Google and Twitter defend the security of Google Apps, with other pundits seeking to condemn or defend Google’s cloud computing model. The issue rekindles the debate over the security of using Web-based applications in the workplace.
– Google and the cloud computing model were the victims of some jibes from
popular blog TechCrunch in the wake of a personal e-mail account hack at Twitter.
The attack, centered on the security of Google Apps’ password system,
rekindled the debate about whether it is safe for businesses to use the…

By working to shift the center of application development to the Web, Google isn’t only improving its own position, but is also doing Apple, the open-source community, Microsoft and the rest of us a big favor.
– There’s a new chapter under way in the saga of Google versus Microsoft one
that comes in the form of two major product announcements that have tech
pundits licking their chops for a clash of the computing titans.
In one corner, we have Google, which announced
plans to develop a second Linux-base…

Users of the Cloud Servers API will have control panel and programmatic access to Rackspace’s cloud infrastructure services, which are Cloud Servers, Cloud Files and Slicehost. The API for standards-based cloud servers is designed to give IT managers and software developers better control over their cloud infrastructures.
– Cloud services provider Rackspace on July 14 released the public beta of a
new API for software developers interested
in better and more direct control over their own hosted computing structures.

The Cloud Servers API immediately becomes an
alternative to Amazon EC2, an online platform used f…

Cloud computing serves up computing power, data storage or applications from one data center location over a grid to thousands or millions of users on a subscription basis. This general kind of cloud for example, services provided online by Amazon EC2, Google Apps and Salesforce.com is known as a public cloud because any business or individual can subscribe. Private cloud computing is a different take on the mainstream version, in that smaller cloudlike IT systems within a firewall offer similar services, but to a closed internal network. This network may include corporate or division offices, other companies that are also business partners, raw-material suppliers, resellers, production-chain entities, and other organizations intimately connected with a corporate mother ship. Public or private, cloud computing is getting the IT industry excited. Gartner analysts in March 2009 said global cloud services revenue could move beyond $56.3 billion this year from $46.4 billion in 2008 and grow to $150.1 billion in 2013. IBM Vice President of Cloud Services Ric Telford offers eWEEK readers his take in the following slide show.
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As cloud computing environments become more commonplace and complex, users will have a difficult time integrating the various cloud services and ensuring their integrity, according to Gartner. That will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service brokerages,” which will essentially negotiate the relationship between the end users and providers and make it easier for businesses to manage their cloud services.
– As the use of cloud computing grows and the model becomes more complex, end users are going to need help integrating the various combinations of services, according to research firm Gartner.
The need will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service brokerages,” or third parties whose job it…