Greenpeace is calling on major internet networking companies to do more to cut their carbon emissions from data centres and to use renewable energy.  He states that “data centers will consume 1,963 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, greater than the current electricity consumption of France, Germany, Canada and Brazil combined.” Holy Moly, all these cloud hosting data centers really need to be better at offering green cloud hosting centers.   Hopefully with all the green hosting efforts and the cloud computing and using less energy and consuming less.

Later their organization added: “We are calling on IT industry giants to put their might behind government policies that give priority grid access for renewable sources like wind and solar energy.” adding “IT companies should also support economy-wide climate and energy policies around the world that peak climate emissions by 2015.”

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Tried Jungle Disk iPhone Application today and thought it was pretty cool. My review of the Jungle Disk iPhone app is as follows. It’s a very simple application where when you login to the app you see standard username and password.  It will take you to your online disks that you have set up.  You can check out everything that you put on there.  Very simple way to see everything that you have put on your Jungle Disks cloud hosting account.  There isn’t much more to it then that.  From what I see you can’t move anything or do anything other then that.

They are running a contest that I want to win, you can read the full article here. And no, I was not paid in any way to write this article.  I wanted to tell everyone what I thought about the iPhone application.  I think it’s good but could use a whole lot more functionality.  Here is a screenshot!

As you can see, this little cloud hosting application is very simple.  I’m sure in the next versions, there will be a lot more in the functionality.  The ability to move around files on the fly is useful… Can you make it so we can select folders and move everything.  I want to be able to mass add things on the fly.  From a marketing perspective you should have the ability to upgrade my account on the fly.  I want to access my documents and email.  One of the biggest things I love to do with this app is be able to access my music on the fly and anywhere.  I have tons of music and it can’t all fit on the my precious little iPhone.  I think this little best cloud hosting app could do so many things.  Hope these tips actually get to the person that they should! #jungledisk .

Here is a brief from their article today:” Today Jungle Disk, LLC, a subsidiary of Rackspace  (RAX 18.54, +0.07, +0.38%) , the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, announced the availability of a free Jungle Disk App that allows users to access and manage their data stored with Jungle Disk via iPhone(R), iPod Touch(R) and iPad(TM). As the newest addition to Jungle Disk’s portfolio of online backup and storage solutions, the app expands the number of ways Jungle Disk users can store, backup and share data in the cloud.”

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SoftLayer Partners With Cloud Hosting Tools Company Cloudkick, a developer of cloud management software that will help their clients with their CloudLayer computing instances and resources.  This should help all their cloud computing customers to have better monitoring, and fault detection, and trend analysis.

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A recent piece of cloud news:

Abiquo Launches A New Generation of its open source cloud management software. The abiCloud version 1.5, which is being announced at the company’s US launch today, supports Microsoft’s Hyper-V and allows users to convert a running VMware hypervisor to Microsoft’s Hyper-V via drag and drop.

CEO Peter Malcolm says, “The platform represents the next generation of virtual management. It shares some of the same capabilities of VMware’s Virtual Center but additionally offers vendor neutrality, workload management and resource management of physical servers, storage management and the ability to scale applications.”

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You manage & control it all… Rackspace allows you to scale from 1 cloud server to 50 cloud servers in a minute, depending on what you need, and you only pay for what you use. Accessible via an online control panel, it is super easy for the user to access his servers from any location.

Pricing with Rackspace.com starts at $10.95 per month or 1.5¢ per hour plus bandwidth.

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The Cloud Security Alliance has revealed its list of top cloud security threats to all those people that are planning on switching into the cloud hosting world.  For people wanting to enter into the world of cloud computing and breaking the barrier into the unknown world.  The Cloud Security Alliance polled 29 information security experts from all areas in the cloud space  to get their opinions on current security threats within this cloud environment.

Here are the first three threats to Cloud Security:

1. Abuse and nefarious use

2. Insecure Application Programming Interfaces

3. Malicious insider risks

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