Cloud computing is changing the world

How cloud computing is changing the world ... without you knowing

The Guardian (blog)
Moving clinical records to the cloud provides healthcare professionals with mobile access to this information. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the ...

The Guardian (blog)

Amazon S3 API for cloud storage leads pack, for now

TechTarget
Even if it proves to be a temporary standard, the Amazon Simple Storage (S3) application programming interface (API) gives developers a robust and simple ...

Big data, cloud computing experts hard to hire, bosses admit

TechRepublic (blog)
The growth in demand expected for cloud services has significant implications for the high level skills required by service providers, it said. "Employers report ...

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Cloud Storage Strategies, Reduce Data Loss

Cloud Storage Strategies Could Reduce Data Loss

eWeek
While cloud storage has gained significant ground in terms of adoption, the ... Widespread acceptance of cloud storage indicates the impact cloud storage can ...

Cloud Architecture: Get It Right The First Time

InformationWeek
Cloud expert David Linthicum, speaker at Interop 2013 New York, shares advice on why ... Informed CIO: Private Cloud Automation · Cloud Storage: Changing ... is former principal of Blue Mountain Labs, a cloud computing consulting firm. ... that in many instances use of cloud services is not exercised in a very good way...

How to ensure rogue cloud services don't leave you in the lurch

Network World
SafeGov.org is a recommended forum assisting IT providers in gaining a better understanding ofcloud computing offerings as they relate to the public sector...

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Cloud Services Employees Can Not Access

Desk Stop: Top 5 Cloud Services Employees Can't Access

CRN
Desk Stop: Top 5 Cloud Services Employees Can't Access ... An analysis of cloud services used in more than 100 large businesses found most employees had ...

CRN

Oracle CFO Says Cloud Computing Will Lift Profit Margins

Bloomberg
Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world's largest database-software maker, will boost operating margins by shifting to services delivered via the Web from software ...

Baseline

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Alibaba, Cloud Computing services, Big Data

Alibaba acquires private cloud service Kanbox

WantChinaTimes
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group announced its acquisition of private cloud computing service Kanbox on Wednesday. The internet giant plans to ...

WantChinaTimes

The rise of the machines in the study of politics: 5 things I learned ...

Washington Post (blog)
Cloud computing and similar innovations have led to a steep decline in the cost of big data analysis. (David Paul Morris/BLOOMBERG). I had the pleasure the ...

Washington Post (blog)

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Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Big Data

Cloud computing and the rise of big data

TechRepublic (blog)
Cloud computing democratizes big data – any enterprise can now work with ... If they manage public cloud services, they don't have to touch the lower layers of ...

Cloud Storage and TV Antennas Go to Court

Wall Street Journal
Cloud Storage and TV Antennas Go to Court. By Gary Shapiro. Innovations like cloud computing would not be possible without the Supreme Court verdict in ...

Wall Street Journal

Emerging nations more upbeat about Cloud computing: Study

New York Daily News
New Delhi, Oct 1 — Cloud computing has in the last few years caught the imagination of IT leaders in emerging nations like India, Brazil and China who are ...

Economic Times

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Cloud Storage, NSA-Free

NSA-Free Cloud Storage Promised by Finnish Company

Tom's Guide
Finnish information-security company F-Secure plans to offer a cloud-storage service that can't easily be accessed by the U.S. National Security Agency...

Windows Azure cloud services achieve critical federal security ...

Jeffrey Meisner
Windows Azure is the first public cloud platform, with infrastructure services and ... The FedRAMP process, now mandated for all federal cloud services, makes ...The Official Microsoft Blog

Cloud Computing Enters The Growth And Innovation Phase, IDC Says

IT Jungle
According to IDC, spending on public cloud computing (as opposed to private cloud services) will grow from $47.3 billion this year to $107 billion by 2017...

The Japan Daily Press

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Cloud Computing, Legacy Vendors

Cloud Computing, Legacy Vendors And The Only Reality That Matters

Forbes
They justify HP positioning themselves as a viable provider of broad cloudservices. Stating that the undisputed market leader, in terms of both adoptions AND ...

Computing

HP Enterprise Cloud Services Selected for USPS Federal Cloud ...

Wall Street Journal
HP Enterprise Cloud Services Selected for USPS Federal Cloud Credential ... "HP is committed to supporting federal cloud computing initiatives like USPS' ...

New Independent Consulting Study Shows Value of Cloud Services ...

Wall Street Journal
Cloud Services Adoption Is Widespread and Business-Critical Apps Are Moving to the Cloud. The study confirms the trend that enterprises are moving to the ...

Times of India

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Nirvanix cloud service, abrupt shut down

Nirvanix confirms abrupt shut down rumors (but doesn’t apologize for royally screwing customers) | VentureBeat: "Nirvanix . . . an alternative to industry giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), and formed partnerships with lots of notable tech firms like Symantec, IBM, Dell, Ooyala, and many others. . . . The shutdown is likely to send a chill up the spine of anyone using a lesser-known cloud storage provider, and could have larger implications going forward. For instance, companies may be more hesitant to go with a smaller cloud storage service for fear of a repeat of Nirvanix happening — even if that smaller cloud storage service is cheaper and makes more sense to use than the larger, more established services."

Don't Live in Fear of Your Cloud Storage Provider Going Under

CIO
Don't Live in Fear of Your Cloud Storage Provider Going Under. The closure of cloud storage provider Nirvanix sent a chill through the cloud storage industry ...

CIO

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Verizon Terremark, public cloud computing, storage

Verizon Terremark launches public cloud compute, storage | ZDNet: " . . . Ultimately, Clarke said Verizon Terremark wants to up the ante on cloud service level agreements and entice customers by competing on reliability, security and operational efficiency. "The table stakes are being price competitive, but the implementation and service offering is what actually matters," said Clarke. Verizon Terremark plans to start on boarding customers this month. Pricing plans, which weren't outlined, will be via negotiated prices and contracts as well as online via credit card."

Verizon's next cloud services emphasize performance, granular billing

PCWorld
VMware VMs, for instance, can run on Verizon's cloud. Other hypervisors, namely Microsoft's Hyper-V and the open source KVM, will be supported in the future...

CivSource

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NSA, Internet Spying, Offshore Havens, Data Privacy

NSA Internet Spying Sparks Race to Create Offshore Havens for Data Privacy - WSJ.com: "Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and other American technology companies were put on the defensive when Edward Snowden's allegations about U.S.-government surveillance of Internet traffic emerged this spring. Outside the U.S., some companies and politicians saw an opportunity. Three of Germany's largest email providers, including partly state-owned Deutsche Telekom AG, teamed up to offer a new service, Email Made in Germany. The companies promise that by encrypting email through German servers and hewing to the country's strict privacy laws, U.S. authorities won't easily be able to pry inside. More than a hundred thousand Germans have flocked to the service since it was rolled out in August. . . ." (read more at link above)

Identifying and mitigating cloud computing vulnerabilities
TechTarget
In less than a decade, cloud computing has grown from an intriguing niche to a mainstream market segment. Future expectations are high, with Morgan Stanley ...

MSPmentor (blog)

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Northern Virginia Amazon Cloud Problematic?

Repeated problems with this data center make one wonder --

Amazon cloud goes down in Northern Virginia • The Register: "Amazon's mammoth compute cloud experienced problems . . . disrupting the constellation of sites that depend on it, such as Heroku. The faults in the company's Northern Virginia US-EAST-1 data center cluster were spotted by Amazon at . . . . Affected services included the mainstay EC2 compute service, load balancers, the Redshift data warehouse, the relational database service, and the simple email service."

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CloudFlare CEO: ‘Insane’ NSA gag order is costing US tech firms customers

CloudFlare CEO: ‘Insane’ NSA gag order is costing U.S. tech firms customers: "We've now moved beyond mere talk about how the National Security Agency's surveillance programs may hurt U.S. cloud providers, says Matthew Prince, the chief executive of CloudFlare. The companies are already feeling the pain. CloudFlare, a Web site security firm and network provider with clients that run the gamut from WikiLeaks to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, is getting  50 to 100 calls per day from customers demanding more answers about the firm's involvement with the U.S. National Security Agency, Prince says. But that's information the company can't give out, he explains, and the inability to say anything about government requests is seriously hurting his business. "We get calls regularly that say, 'CloudFlare must be working with the NSA,' which we're not," Prince said. "We've gone so far as to litigate requests that did not meet with our processes, but I can't tell you anything beyond that, which is insane.""

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Shuttleworth Says Prism Will Drive Cloud to Other Jurisdictions

Shuttleworth: Prism Will Drive Cloud to ‘Other Jurisdictions’ - The CIO Report - WSJ: "Mr. Shuttleworth says that programs like Prism will lead some countries to offer cloud vendors conditions that will make it more attractive for customers to store their data. “Other jurisdictions will emerge… that will provide an environment for your cloud where you can have more clarity about data,” he said. Just as certain countries are seen as better places to register ships, “data is going to become something of which we expect to be mindful of the regulatory environment in which it lives.” According to Mr. Shuttleworth, a growing awareness of data compliance, access and management will lead countries to “become interested in creating national strategies around that… I don’t see it as terribly unhealthy if we see cloud concentrating in certain jurisdictions,” he said. “I think regulatory competition is healthy.”"

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