News

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InnovationFuture Apple Devices Use Cloud For StorageFuture mobile devices from Apple will save and sync large amounts of data over the Internet. How...

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Open DataHow The City Of London Makes Use Of Open DataGovernments do it, cities do it too: Open Data is a way to put information to work that has been...

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Healthcare Cloud StorageMedical Cloud As A ServiceSiemens partners with Dell to provide a cloud storage space for medical data - one goal being to...

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Competition3 Million Dollar Prize for better health algorithmA US health care provider announces a competition to better predict the need for hospitalization...

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ReportThe Era Of Big DataThe newest McKinsey Quarterly is out and it focuses on companies capturing and analyzing large...

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Big DataMicrosoft Opening Doors For HadoopPlans of porting Hadoop to Windows and wider integration with other MS products

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EventsVISION Cloud@Medientage MünchenThe "Medientage München" is a yearly gathering for media big wigs in Germany. VISION Cloud was...

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SentimentOutages, Intrusions Spark CriticismAfter an outage of Amazon EC2 and intrusions of the Sony Playstation network, observers and analysts...

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RoundupWeek In The Cloud: Ideas, Innovations And InspirationThis week: KPMG predicts rising cloud investments in 2012. Cloud-provider Box gets 81 million in new...

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RevisitIs iCloud The Future Of Computing?Comments about the newly available storage solution are enthusiastic.

Use cases

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DownloadWhite Paper: Why Should Media Companies Consider The Cloud?A deeper view on why and how cloud platforms could help media companies in all phases of the content...

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VideoGet Well: Vision Cloud Healthcare Use CaseHow can cloud computing provide benefits for healthcare? What needs to be done and what are key...

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Telco Use Case VideoA Phone Is Not A PhoneHere is a video explaining the Telecommunications Use Case and how we tackle the massive storage...

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HealthcareSmart Medical Devices Store Every HeartbeatFor many it will sound creepy, for some it might be a matter of survival. Whatever your opinion is,...

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LegislationCloud Computing In Europe: Legal Issues Differ From Country To CountryAccountability and compliance are becoming issues for cloud computing, especially in Europe where...

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SurveyAre You A Data-Journalist?Together with the European Journalism Centre we have developed a survey to learn more about training...

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MediaWhy A Cloud For Data-Journalists Must Be Flexible And FluidThe "Online Journalism Blog" provides an insightful article, covering how the BBC special news team...

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HealthcareHealthcare: New Devices Talk Data And Know The CloudGiven the importance of health data, there are surprisingly few medical devices making collecting...

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MediaSteps Towards Data-Driven Newsrooms: The Tools, The WorkflowShort excerpt and link to an article on O'Reilly Radar, discussing the current state of data usage...

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TelecommunicationMobile Future: Integrating Smart Phones And Social MediaFor some this will be creepy, for others like seeing a goldmine. In a video a startup named Viewdle...

Tools

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VideosThe New, Colourful World Of DataData-Visualization is popular with users - and forming a new market that affects IT and cloud...

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VisualizationBeautify Your Data With D3.JSBig Data can often be hard to grasp. Visualizing it by using the right tools can make it easier to...

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New APITutorials: How to use data from the World BankResearchers and analysts can now access tons of data, here are videos showing the new features.

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InnovationOne to watch: NumecentCompany introduces "cloud paging" technology, enables faster execution of software stored in the...

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ResearchUniversity of Messina: Cloud Computing TestbedsVISION Cloud partner University of Messina shares insights on how to create a testbed for cloud...

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GrowthOpenStack Plans To Form Foundation in 2012Rackspace, NASA and other founders consider forming a new organization, primarily for further...

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DemoSearching for needles in very big haystacksGiven that the size of stored data is rising steadily, there is a growing demand for tools that help...

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Code tricksEnhance Media Clouds With Responsive CSS TricksUsing some elegant CSS code snippets pictures, videos and tables can be presented on all screen...

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MarketsSpeedy Transfer Costs YouThe success of Amazon Web Services creates a market for new services. One example is Aspera, which...

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CodingVisualizing The 10.000 Code Modules Of FacebookThe Facebook front-end works with modules of PHP code. But, how can developers possibly see the...

Interviews

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InterviewHow Infochimps Extracts Value From Big DataClouds, APIs, Big Data. Big buzzwords. Often, it is not clear what exactly companies are offering...

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InterviewTracking Sport Bets: Trust And Security Are Key IssuesUnderstanding and dealing with real-time analytics has become pivotal in the world of Big Data and...

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InterviewHow SAP Uses Cloud Computing To Provide New ServicesQuestions to Dietmar Meding, Vice President SAP Business ByDesign. He is overseeing the developments...

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Partner InterviewInterview: Telenor Highlights Cloud DevelopmentsFredrik Solsvik provides an insight of major cloud-related developments and points out the impact it...

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InterviewMetadata is a mess - what can be done to fix it?CONTENTUS, a German research project has found an interesting way to map, transform and then merge...

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See The Context: The Quest To Understand News BetterGlocal is the name of an EU-funded project that adresses needs of photo-journalists and editors....

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InterviewBuzzdata: A New Way To Find Hidden InformationThe platform enables groups to investigate data, share and discuss results. Read our interview with...

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Data ToolsStatwing: Powerful Data Analysis, Simple To UseGiven the rising interest in data analytics, there will be new tools. Here is one fresh and...

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ConferenceInternational Conference on Cloud ComputingProf. Massimo Villari, a VISION Cloud Partner from the University of Messina, provided an extensive...

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Partner InterviewInterview: Umeå UniversityWe wanted to know how the project partners view current challenges and opportunities in cloud...

Research

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ReportingVISION Cloud: All Public PresentationsWe attended many conferences, to present and discuss our concepts. Here you find all material in one...

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ReportingVISION CLOUD: All Scientific ContributionsHere is complete collection of all published research articles. All were written in the first year...

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Estimates as of 2011How Many Servers Worldwide?Tracking the size and growth of data centers, based on published numbers and estimates. Plus: A 2011...

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Innovation3 Cloud Computing Research InitiativesIntroducing three of the most innovative project dealing with cloud computing

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ReportingVISION Cloud: All DeliverablesThese documents provide an insight what the consortium has worked on. Have a look all our work...

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Partner ProfilePartner Profile: France Telecom's Orange StorageFrance Telecom's Orange is committed to leverage cloud computing technology in order to offer more...

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StorageAmazon S3: Cloud Storage Almost Doubled In Less Than One YearThe number of objects stored on the Amazon "Simple Storage Service" has grown from roughly 260...

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DisseminationEnterprise Storage Summit At BrightTALKVISION Cloud will participate with a presentation about storage clouds: Limitations, Challenges and...

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Partner ProfilePartner Profile: SiemensWho is involved in the VISION Cloud project and what do these partners expect from this project?...

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ScienceCrunching Big Data With Big CloudsHow researchers can use distributed computation to solve big data problems and collaborate in new...

Services

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DevelopmentVISION Cloud Related Services OfferedInterested in cloud storage development? Or looking for a solution to a specific cloud challenge? On...

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