Saturday, January 21, 2012

Quantum Tech Could Secure the Cloud

Quantum Tech Could Secure the Cloud Through 'Blind' Data Processing
TechNewsWorld
By Richard Adhikari A group of scientists has shown the potential for quantum computers in a cloud-based system to provide a new level of security using so-called blind computing. The idea behind blind quantum computing is that the computer processing ...

Polycom Cloud-Based VaaS Platform Aimed at SMBs
eWeek
Unified communications provider Polycom Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) detailed its strategy to enable service providers to offer cloud-delivered, video as a service solutions to its customers. The company also unveiled RealPresence Cloud, a wholesale offering ...

System Center 2012: Private Cloud for the Masses?
Windows IT Pro
As the attention about cloud computing has shifted from a purely public cloud view towards a build-your-own private cloud model, IT pros run into a familiarity problem: We know how some parts of a cloud work, but other parts are brand-new to most of us ...

Windows IT Pro

Piston Releases Private Cloud Based on OpenStack
Data Center Knowledge
Public cloud computing is fast to deploy, scalable and economical, but it's not a fit for all enterprises. Regulated industries and government agencies must look to private clouds to meet their compute and storage needs, while still remaining in ...

What MegaUpload's Demise Teaches about Cloud Storage
PCWorld (blog)
As these users recently discovered, it turns out to be a bad idea to store files with a cloud service that allegedly relies on piracy for a big part of its revenue. Perhaps the best strategy for the future is to be wary of companies like MegaUpload. ...

Cloud Solutions Reduce Costs for City of Sterling Heights with Help from AT&T
Sacramento Bee
The city is addressing these challenges by using an AT&T* solution which allows them to store data in the Cloud, and make it available virtually anytime, almost anywhere through an easy to use online interface. AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service(SM) ...

Regional cloud hubs are state and local game-changers, IDC says
GCN.com
By Rutrell Yasin The emergence of regional cloud hubs could significantly change the way state and local governments procure online computing services, according to a new report by IDC Government Insights. A regional cloud hub involves a government ...

Cloud Turbulence
CRN
By Scott Campbell, CRN Solution providers aren't the only ones seeking to capitalize on cloudcomputing. Distributors are making their mark in the cloud as well, investing heavily in their owncloud programs and tools with one goal in mind: staying ...

4 cloud myths that won't go away
InfoWorld (blog)
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld You would think that rank-and-file IT staffers and leaders would understand the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing by now. However, the misconceptions continue to show up, some of which are disconcerting. ...

PCI in the cloud: Segmentation, security compliance is possible, experts say
SearchSecurity.com
Merchants interested in outsourcing their payment processes or looking to reduce internal architecture complexities have been turning to cloud providers, but experts caution that no matter where the credit card data resides, the merchant ultimately is ...

Cloud Computing And Social Media: Electronic Discovery Considerations And Best ...
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
[2] Social media platforms are a subset of a larger category of applications referred to as cloudcomputing. Cloud computing encompasses various platforms that users can access over the Internet, in which the storage of data is diffused across a ...

Calls for cloud security transparency getting louder
SearchSecurity.com
Cloud security transparency today equates to a non-disclosure-agreement discussion between an enterprise and service provider over the provider's controls. The end result may satisfy the customer and lead to business for the provider, but the process ...

The Patriot Act and Your Data: Should You Ask Cloud Providers About Protection?
CIO
Does the USA Patriot Act give the US government too much access to data stored on the cloudservers of American providers regardless of where those servers are located? That's the concern among European IT leaders. By Stephanie Overby CIO — Worries ...

CRM data integration provider Scribe boosts cloud offering with GUI ...
ZDNet (blog)
According to the Manchester, NH-based company, Scribe Online provides a cloud-based alternative to integration middleware, and simplifies the integration experience without sacrificing performance or functionality. The goal is to allow companies to ...

NetLED: Japan's cloud-based, smartphone-controlled lighting system
TechSpot
By Jose Vilches Japanese citizens who are conscious about the environment and have more money than reason can look forward to the latest in lighting technology: thecloud-based NetLED system. Launching this upcoming February in the land of the rising ...

TechSpot

Cloud Pushes Further Into Financial Services
InformationWeek
Early adopters' success leads investment banks, brokers, market makers, and asset managers to push more sophisticated applications into the private cloud. By Nigel Kneafsey, Wall Street & Technology In the span of a few short years, cloud computing has ...

'Cloud security platforms can help manage mobile devices'
InformationWeek India
Cloud security platforms can help overcome this challenge, enabling IT organizations to securely manage mobile devices. The mobile client will be tied to a cloud security solution regardless of the network the end-user is using. ...

CIOs come around to cloud storage
GigaOm
20, 2012, 9:21am PT No Comments It's not surprising that Aaron Levie says CIOs are ready to sign off on big corporate cloud storage deals. He is, after all, co-founder and CEO of Box – a company staking its claim as an enterprise-grade cloud storage ...

GigaOm

Should NoSQL startups be afraid of DynamoDB?
GigaOm
Their entry into the field makes it clear to all large enterprises that this is an important trend – as we have seen that traditional databases do not fit well with cloud computing. New database technologies will be needed in the cloud, and also in the ...

GigaOm

Are the clouds breaking up?
Washington Technology
By David Hubler A new type of government cloud services, labeled "regional cloud hubs,” will significantly change the way state and local governments procure online computing services, according to a new report from IDC Government Insights. ...

European Union's Fears Over Cloud Privacy Issues "Overblown," U.S. Officials Say
Technorati
Their hope is that Europe's tightening will have a direct fallout on how the US handles private data in the cloud. Microsoft initiated the problematic issue of privacy last June. A company executive "spilled the beans" at the launch of Office 365 in ...

Technorati

The Rise of Cloud Computing Ecosystems
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: It would be fair to say that in the last year the dominant form of cloud computing has been infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). As popular as those services have proven to be, the odds are good that IaaS is not going to be the dominant form of ...

Open Group publishes standards to align cloud strategies
ITworld.com
By Antony Savvas, Techworld | Cloud Computing Add a new comment January 20, 2012, 9:47 AM — The Open Group has published two new industry standards that enable businesses to integrate SOA (service orientated architecture) and cloud computing into ...

NextIO and Rackspace Discuss PCI Express I/O Virtualisation Solution for Cloud ...
Business Wire (press release)
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NextIO, the pioneer in I/O consolidation and virtualisation solutions, will join Rackspace, the service leader in cloud computing, in presenting an educational session titled “Meeting today's challenging Cloud Computing demands ...

Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links #42 by @tbalinas via @Zenoss
By Travis Balinas
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, Big Data, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of ...
The Cloud Management Blog

IDC: New Gov't Cloud Architectures Reduce Costs Through Sharing ...
By Scott M. Fulton, III
Government computing resources, like any other government procurement, used to be purchased by agencies for those agencies... and nobody else. It didn't make sense to share, because the ...
ReadWriteCloud

Cloud computing will lead to new server development | MacNews
By dsellers
This indirectly increases usage of microprocessors that will help the cloud computing to deal with issues such as security, says the research group. The rising demand for cloud computing services among enterprises and customers has its ...
MacNews Latest News

Friday Cloud News Roundup | GMO Cloud America
By miccilopez
Cloud Computing News Highlights: Cloudwashing, Oregon State Bar, FedRAMP, Cost Savings withCloud, Cloud Application, Encryption as a Service.
GMO Cloud America

Megaupload Saga Teaches Painful Lessons About Cloud File Storage
By John Paul Titlow
After yesterday's dramatic, international sting operation, the people behind Megaupload are in custody, their Web empire and fancy cars having been seized by authorities. Founder Kim Dotcom and his associates are charged with piracy on a ...
ReadWriteWeb

Quantum Tech Could Secure the Cloud Through 'Blind' Data ...
By Richard Adhikari
Researchers led by the University of Vienna's Stefanie Barz have demonstrated the possibility of using quantum computing to unconditionally secure cloud computing. The scientists' work, written up in the journal Science, essentially ...
TechNewsWorld

Piston Delivers First OpenStack-Based Cloud OS | LinuxGram
By rhall2091
The first OpenStack-based cloud operating system came out Wednesday. The start-up Piston CloudComputing Inc delivered the thing, which makes sense since.
LinuxGram

Your “Smart TV” Just Became a Cloud Expert
By Laura Yecies
Samsung's Smart TVs will now use SugarSync to give people access to their photos, music, movies and more from the Cloud directly to the TV.
SugarSync Blog – Learn about...

Dedicated box or Cloud for Shared Hosting - Web Hosting Talk
By srinidhi95
Dedicated box or Cloud for Shared Hosting Dedicated Server.
Web Hosting Talk - Dedicated Server

How Secure is the Cloud? Part 2 | Info Exchange
By admin
Businesses which have struggled in these tough economic times are finding some relief in the cloud. The cloud can save an organization a lot of money. Never the less, the cloud is not perfect for everyone, particularly when it comes to security ...
Info Exchange

Cloud Myth # 3: Cloud computing is an all-or-nothing proposition ...
By Karen Karger
InfoWorld's David Linthicum has it right — there are many Cloud myths that just won't go away. His contends that, rather than taking an all-or-nothing approach to Cloud computing, you can instead “move to cloud-based systems, such as ...
EasyStreet

Introducing of A Solution for Private Cloud Security - Private Cloud ...
By Thomas W Shinder - MSFT
This is a multi-author blog aimed at Private Cloud computing with a focus on infrastructure (virtualization, management, datacenter, storage, networking, and other cloud-enabling technology). Content comes from Microsoft Services & Product ...
Private Cloud Architecture Blog

Cloud Security Monitoring!
I will try to define the subject(s) and then provide analysis and recommendations for architecting security monitoring of public cloud assets deployed in IaaS, ...
blogs.gartner.com/anton.../2012/.../cloud-security-monitoring/

Microsoft Private Cloud
Microsoft Private Cloud – Unlimited Virtualization Rights . .... In this whitepaper, we compare privatecloud solutions from Microsoft and VMware. We do this by ...
www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_EAC...

Security In Cloud Computing: DreamWorks* Case Study ...
DreamWorks Animation relies on security in cloud computing to protect intellectual property while outsourcing certain workloads with a cloud provider.
www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/security-in.../3800749



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