Monday, May 21, 2012

Securing Cloud Environments

Intel and McAfee Unveils Strategy for Securing Cloud Environments
CloudTimes
Intel and its subsidiary McAfee just unveiled their strategy for the security of cloud environments. Both partners aim to develop offerings that will raise the concerns of businesses on cloud computing by bringing together McAfee's software security ...

Cloud storage isn't as secure as you think – report
MyBroadband
Those wanting to make sure their documents and photos do not fall into the hands of strangers should make sure to encrypt any files saved in cloud services. Those wanting to make sure their documents and photos do not fall into the hands of strangers ...

MyBroadband

After Amazon, how many clouds do we need?
GigaOM
This Google-Microsoft news broken this week by Derrick Harris, proves to anyone who didn't already realize it, that Amazon is the biggest cloud computing force (by far) and as such, wears a big fat target on its back. With the success of Amazoncloud ...

GigaOM

Oracle Cloud Recipe Revealed with the Oracle Cloud Cookbook
DABCC.com
Mokum Solutions, Inc. provides an online resource that reveals the much needed recipe for Oracle Clouds through its Oracle Cloud Cookbook. Mokum Solutions, Inc. is renowned for having designed and managed many of the world's largest and most complex ...

Tech Tips: How Secure is "the cloud"?
Carroll County Times
Many businesses have also taken to sharing files using "cloud" services — services that store information on a server and allows access through the Internet — and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, allowing users to share files with each other over the ...

HP's Christian Verstraete: The Value of Hybrid Cloud Computing
Datamation
HP's head of cloud computing talks the issues facing companies as they migrate to the cloud. What's the best solution for most companies, a public cloud or a private cloud? In the view of Christian Verstraete, HP Chief Technologist for Cloud Strategy, ...

Analyst Commentary: Oracle clarifies its Cloud strategy
BusinessCloud9
Lachal notes: Oracle was relatively slow to recognize the importance of Cloud computing, as members of its surprisingly frank customer panel pointed out during the recent analyst event. However, these customers also agreed that Oracle has finally got ...

Vodafone turns to AWS for cricket app
Register
But the company has nailed a cricket-streaming app first time, thanks to cloud services from Amazon Web Services. One of VHA's predecessor companies, 3 mobile, sponsored several series of Big Brother. At the end of many episodes, viewers were exhorted ...

Start Small, Grow Tall: Why Cloud Now
ITworld.com
The cloud is the hottest thing in computing today, and enterprises are eagerly seeking to adopt it. They realize that cloud computing holds the promise of curing today's "data center sprawl," with its colossal complexity, considerable costs, ...

Ramco to battle global turf on cloud
Business Standard (blog)
In early 2000, when Rs cloud computing' was just a concept, Ramco took on the challenge of bringing the complex enterprise software to the cloud. After about three years of R&D, the company launched its on-demand ERP (also known as RODE or Ramco ...

Lies, damned lies and facts - G-Cloud team hits out at VMware and other critics
BusinessCloud9
“We believe the government's targets are a drop in the ocean compared to the potential savings that can be achieved through Cloud Computing. And with budgets under so much pressure and front-line services being affected, we find it concerning that many ...

Encrypt your cloud-stored files warns report
BusinessTech
By SAPA-DPA | 20 May 2012 Those wanting to make sure their documents and photos do not fall into the hands of strangers should make sure to encrypt any files saved in cloud services. Not even the popular online storage service Dropbox is entirely ...

BusinessTech

Nvidia takes GPU technologies to the cloud
Techgoondu
Nvidia's introduction of cloud GPU technologies follows its 1999 invention of the GPU and its 2006 creation of Cuda, a parallel-processing technology. “Keplercloud GPU technologies shifts cloud computing into a new gear,” said Huang Jen-Hsun, ...

Techgoondu

Security dominates mid-May's 27 software downloads
BetaNews
Cloudfogger 1.1.1349 is a free tool that enables you to encrypt your data including both local files and those held in cloud storage accounts such as Dropbox. As well as security tools, a number of interesting utilities released this week.

BetaNews

Can Nvidia's Kepler processor revolutionize virtual desktop hosting?
ITworld.com
Rather, it's the fact that the Kepler processor is designed to supply cloud services, is branded VGX and includes a gaming counterpart called GeForce GRID. This means it's been tuned to provide virtualized desktops-and to do so efficiently.

SK Telecom connects Expo with fast wireless networks
The Korea Herald
The net symbolizes cloud computing, the emerging technology that will change the way consumers and enterprises process and use mobile data and content, a SK Telecom spokesperson explained. Models show smartphones powered by LTE networks in front of the ...

CloudStore 2.0 - not quite there yet?
BusinessCloud9
Government CIO Andy Nelson commented: “Using Cloud solutions in the public sector that have been assured and accredited will almost always be less expensive, and we will only pay for what we use. We had overwhelming interest in the first CloudStore.

Oracle VM Server Sizing - One Size Does Not Fit All
DABCC.com
The Oracle VM for x86 Server Sizing Advisor was created by Mokum Solutions, Inc., a well-known consultant and integrator of Oracle technologies in private and public clouds. With Mokum, users get accurate Oracle VM Server sizing results.

AMD's Rory Read Says; "There's enough processing power on every laptop on the...
DecryptedTech
The numbers actually show a tendency of consumers to be concerned about putting their information in cloud services. With the increase in breaches, laws like CISPA, Google and Facebook privacy concerns and more the average consumer is starting to think ...

DecryptedTech

The Role of UPS Power Management in Virtualisation and Cloud Computing
Australian Techworld
Virtualisation in IT has brought many significant benefits and changed the way data centres are designed and operated. In a virtualised data centre, applications, services and databases run on fewer physical servers than before and the operator makes ...

IBM builds smart tech center in S. China
Xinhua
IBM will develop cloud computing and the "Internet of Things" technologies in its Hainan center, part of the government's efforts to make Hainan a leader in the country's smart technology drive, officials said. The "Internet of Things" refers to a ...

Why Investors Are Buying EMC Like Crazy
Seeking Alpha
IBM (IBM) is also a formidable competitor for EMC, third behind EMC but possibly EMC's most dangerous rival in the cloud computing market. IBM is trading at about $198 per share and has a market cap more than quadruple that of EMC.

3 surprising companies that may sneak up on Apple
Ninemsn
Later this week, China's dot-com darling will roll out its updated Baidu Cloud platform. A Baidu executive on Friday revealed that several Baidu Cloud partnerships will be announced in the coming days. There's a reason China chose Baidu over the ...

WebFilings grows quickly with its playful vibe
DesMoinesRegister.com
During spring 2008, right as cloud computing started to emerge, the former EAI team started itching to work together again. The team felt that cloud technology would help launch a company. In August 2008, after months of investigating, ...

Opinion: Do you want the good news first?
San Jose Mercury News
Thanks to cloud computing for the masses, anyone anywhere can for a tiny hourly fee now rent the most powerful computing and storage facilities on Amazon's "cloud" to test any algorithm or start any company or publish any book.

Snap up the new iPad with Vodafone's Smartphone Plans
DI-VE
iOS 5.1 also works seamlessly with iCloud, a breakthrough set of free cloud services including iTunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream and Documents in the Cloud, that work seamlessly with other devices. The new Retina display delivers four times the number ...

Etisalat appoints new digital services officer
Trade Arabia
The new division which will focus on various industry verticals such as machine-to-machine (M2M), cloud services, commerce, digital advertisement, advanced communications, digital entertainment, and video services aims to boost the group position in ...

Who Will Rule the World's Largest Mobile Market?
DailyFinance
After trying to sell its own forked Android operating system, Baidu is going to go it alone with its ultra-cheap OS that leverages a suite of cloud services from the company. As Eric notes, the company has long teased the introduction of a very basic ...

Hewlett Packard: 75% Profit Likely By Mid 2014
Seeking Alpha
One might think that a PC-maker like HP would simply be intent to follow others' lead in areas such as Cloud Computing, but HP has actually bucked the trend and added its own flavor to the web services game by implementing its Cloud Printing service ...

Unified Monitoring™ A Business Perspective
Australian Techworld
Virtualisation, outsourcing, SaaS, and cloud computing are creating fundamental changes, and ushering in an era in which enterprises distribute increasingly critical IT assets and applications across multiple service providers.

Not a Windows User? Not a Problem with Cloud Storage ...
By admin
It's no secret that cloud storage has a lot to offer PC users of the home and business varieties. Automated scheduled backups have revolutionized the way we save and store our data; file sharing has eliminated the need to send … Continue R.
JustCloud News

The GigaSpaces Blog - Bare-Metal PaaS
By Nati Shalom
Cloud and Virtualization are not mandatory, and the number of cloud providers that supports bare-metal clouds is growing, as David Linthicum pointed out in his article Going native: The move to bare-metal cloud services. It's a fact that virtualization is not a requirement ... also provide access to the bare metal. You can count on more providers to join the fray as cloud computing users continue to demand that their managed hosting environments work like their native environments.
The GigaSpaces Blog

DDD Summit 2012 Summary - #DDDesign - Journal - CQRS and ...
By Rinat Abdullin
Rinat Abdullin on efficient software development, cloud computing and CQRS. Journal · About Me · Published · Projects · CQRS · Autofac · xLim · RoadTrip · Archive · Posts · Monthly · Comments · Wiki. Top. Journal · About Me · Published ...
CQRS and Lokad.CQRS

Leveraging the Cloud for Better User Experience at Cloud Expo ...
Using real world examples from Adobe, Herff Jones and Navy Federal Credit Union, this session will highlight the advantages cloud computing provides for quickly developing custom software and applications with compelling user ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Predictive Analytics Leads to Successful Recommendations - All ...
By AllVoIPNews
Christos holds several patents in the areas of large-scale information classification, management, and retrieval, cloud services, distributed systems, congestion control in packet networks, and network transport of multimedia/video traffic. The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in New York City, June 11-14, 2012, and in Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8, 2012. The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara ...
All VoIP News

IDC: ANZ executives are willing to bypass IT to go to the Cloud ...
By admin
The research found that whilst the move to public cloud services is not the major workspace driver at the moment – this mantle is taken by desktop/notebook refreshes, operating system upgrades and mobility-related projects – there is little ...
Rust Report

REFEDS meeting, live blog « eCampus Norge
By IngridM
The intent is making it easier both to interfederate, and for service providers to connect to all the federations they need. One piece of advice that is relevant for cloud services: Make your policy available in English. Otherwise the cloud vendors ...
eCampus Norge

Computer and Internet Law Weekly Updates for 2012-05-20 | Barry ...
By Barry Sookman
Computer and Internet Law Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13 http://t.co/Ctin1VPg # Google eyes Meebo buy http://t.co/kp1N44jb # Apple backs down from iPad 4G.
Barry Sookman

Citrix Buys Virtual Computer | Web 2.0 Journal
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computingand Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ...
Latest News from Web 2.0 Journal

Cloud Computing Growing on the Businesses Priority Front | Cloud ...
The study shows cloud computing emerging as an investment priority. ... For emergency management, the biggest advantages of cloud computing come down to ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2279089

Cloudsoft Application Management Platform Supports HP Cloud ...
Open Source Application Management Available in New Public Cloud ... their Application Management Platform (AMP) support for HP Cloud Services, HP's new ... exploit the benefits ofcloud computing: using cloud without losing control.
www.cloudsoftcorp.com/.../cloudsoft-application-management...

Vectorworks Cloud Services now offered in the UK, Ireland ...
“We are very pleased to offer the benefits of cloud computing directly to our UK customers through ...
planet.vectorworks.net/.../vectorworks-cloud-services-now-off...

Cloud Computing & Virtualization for the Public Sector & Enterprise ...
Cloud Computing and Virtualization for Public Sector and Enterprise 2012, scheduled for May 15 at The International Hotel in Canary Wharf London, is a ...
www.datacenterknowledge.com/.../cloud-computing-virtualiza...

5 popular options for cloud storage | Inman News
Cloud computing image via Shutterstock. ... All of the tech titans -- including Apple, Microsoft and most recently Google -- offer cloud storage products. Google ...
www.inman.com/buyers.../5-popular-options-cloud-storage



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