Cloud Technology, Healthcare Industry, Cyber Attacks (video)

Can Cloud Tech Transform the Healthcare Industry?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Imaging Advantage CEO Naseer Hashim discusses improving traditional healthcare with technology and the concerns of cyber attacks. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Trish Regan on “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg 12/10)

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Sports, Social Media, The Cloud (video)

Sports Evolves for Social Media Through the Cloud : Video - Bloomberg:
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Grabyo Chief Executive Officer Gareth Capon discusses the impact from technology for both sports fans and content providers. He speaks with Francine Lacqua and Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “The Pulse.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Google Cloud, Autoscaling, Google Compute Engine

From the Google Cloud Platform Blog: Autoscaling, welcome to Google Compute Engine:"The true power of cloud computing is unlocked when developers can build resilient and cost efficient applications that use just the right amount of resources necessary at any given time. So the same team that designed the scaling infrastructure for products like Google Search and Gmail have brought a highly anticipated feature toGoogle Compute Engine - intelligent horizontal Autoscaling. Today we are releasing the service into Beta, which means it is now available for everyone to start using. Autoscaling allows customers to build more cost effective and resilient applications. Using Compute Engine Autoscaling, you can ensure that exactly the right number of Compute Engine instances are available at any given time to handle your application’s workload. This saves you money when your application’s usage is low, and ensures your application is responsive when utilization is high. The Compute Engine Autoscaler is able to intelligently and dynamically scale the number of instances in response to different load conditions by defining the ideal utilization level of a group of Compute Engine instances. This means that when the actual utilization of your service increases or decreases, Autoscaler will detect the change and adjust the number of running instances to match. Autoscaler can respond to a number of different metrics such as CPU load, QPS on a HTTP Load Balancer and metrics defined using the Cloud Monitoring service...." (read more at link above)


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Amazon AWS, Massive Scale, Custom Network Gear

A Rare Peek Into The Massive Scale of AWS: "... So nearly five years ago, when this problem became apparent, AWS designed its own network routers and went to original design manufacturers to build the hardware, and put together a team to write the networking software stack on top of them. This is a course of action, Hamilton said laughing, where people “would get you a doctor and put you in a nice little room where you were safe and you can’t hurt anyone.” The first thing that Amazon learned from its custom network gear is what it learned about servers and storage a long time ago: If you build it yourself with minimalist attitudes and only with the features you need, it is a lot cheaper. “Just the support contract for networking gear was running tens of millions of dollars.”..."


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THE Cloud Question: Amazon or Google?

Amazon or Google is The Cloud Question:

Amazon's New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat | WIRED: "... Google introduced a product called Sustained Use Discounts, and this made things much simpler. If you used a lot of computing resources, you’d get a discount: no upfront fees. That’s the model that Amazon took a step toward this week... There are still differences. Amazon had previously demanded upfront payments from customers who wanted to take advantage of its reserved instances pricing. And while those payments are no longer required, customers still have to commit to using Amazon’s services for a year or more. That’s not the case with Google... late last year that Google really delivered a competitive offering, called Compute Engine. And now the company is fast catching up. In late March Google started a price war with Amazon, slashing its cloud computing prices, across the board, by 30 percent. That kind of price slashing is likely to continue, says Michael Crandell, the CEO of RightScale, a cloud management company. “There’s clearly a case of point-counterpoint going on, and it is a competitive market.” Byrne says that while Google doesn’t offer the wide range of products, it beats out Amazon in many respects. Google’s compute speed and network “is faster than Amazon’s,” he says. “They’re probably the only people where you can say that their infrastructure is really world-leading.” (read more at the link above)

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Andy Rubin, Startup Incubator

Google's Andy Rubin leaves to start incubator - GadgeTell | TechnologyTell: "The head of Google’s robotics division and a co-creator of the Android operating system, Andy Rubin, is leaving Google. Rubin plans to create a startup incubator, so he is leaving his current position at Google and will be replaced by James Kuffner, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal...Google acquired Android in 2005, thereby bringing aboard Rubin. As for Rubin’s replacement, Kuffner has been working with the robotics division at Google for years. Kuffner helped develop the idea for cloud robotics back in 2010, and he has worked as a research scientist in the same Google division for quite a while. Rubin was also involved in robotics when his career really began to takeoff in the 1980s." (read more at link above)
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The Cloud Market, Little Space for Rackspace?

Little Space Remains for Rackspace -- Ahead of the Tape - WSJ - WSJ: "... Rackspace was effectively shopping for a buyer, only to formally call off the effort a few weeks before the quarter’s end... Keeping business running during a period of such uncertainty is a notable feat. But the bigger question of whether Rackspace is better off alone won’t be settled here. The company is in the painful position of competing against a host of large, deep-pocketed tech stars like Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. that are driving down the price of cloud services...." (read more at link above)

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Amazon Cloud Drive API

Amazon Cloud Drive Gets Its Own API | TechCrunch: ".... Amazon says developers who use the Cloud Drive API won’t have to worry about things like various screen resolutions, metadata management, indexing, search or sync functionality; it will be included after the API’s integration. Cloud Drive is also available within other developer tools, including Filepicker and Temboo, which makes it easier on those working with a range of cloud services. At launch, a number of mobile applications have integrated Cloud Drive’s API, including: OfficeSuite, Perfectly Clear, FreePrints, Photo Gifts by MailPix, ScanCafe, FileThis, CloudHQ, File Commander, Jumptuit, Secrata, and Wappwolf. These are now featured in an online Cloud Drive App Gallery here..."

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Amazon Aurora, Cost-Effective, MySQL-Compatible Database Engine, for Amazon RDS

Amazon Aurora - New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS: .... Aurora, is a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. When you use Amazon RDS for Aurora, you'll spend less time managing and tuning your database, leaving you with more time to focus on building your application and your business. As your business grows, Amazon Aurora will scale with you. You won't need to take your application off line in order to add storage. Instead, Amazon Aurora will add storage in 10 GB increments on as as-needed basis, all the way up to 64 TB. Baseline storage performance is rapid, reliable and predictable—it scales linearly as you store more data, and allows you to burst to higher rates on occasion. You can scale the instance size in minutes and you can add replicas with a couple of clicks....

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The Cloud Is the New Normal, says Amazon Web Services Exec

New Normal = The Cloud

'The cloud is the new normal,' Amazon Web Services executive says | Computerworld: "... Increasingly, however, AWS is finding that organizations are moving entire data centers, as well as their entire IT operations, to the cloud, Jassy said. An organization may have a lease coming up on a data center or need to do an expensive hardware refresh, and the pending costs or long-term commitment to infrastructure "that is kind of frozen in time," may cause it to more heavily consider the cloud, Jassy said. This is a trend that is accelerating at a very fast rate," he said. AWS' win of a government contract to run the services of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 2013 caused a lot of other organizations to take notice, Jassy said. "A lot of customers would say if it's secure enough for the CIA, it is probably secure for us too," Jassy said...."

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Microsoft Cloud Apps, Enterprise Apps

PCWorld
Microsoft Cloud Apps vs. Best of Breed
Enterprise Apps Today
Microsoft offers cloud-based apps for business intelligence, CRM and ERP. You'll want to evaluate the "best-of-breed" approach to going with a single vendor like Microsoft for everything. When you think of Microsoft, you naturally think of operating systems ...

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Ken Goldberg: Robots in the Cloud

The Robot in the Cloud: A Conversation With Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg has been thinking hard about robots for almost three decades.
His work ranges from over 170 peer-reviewed papers on things like robot algorithms and social information filtering to art projects about the interaction of people and machines. A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he is establishing a research center to develop medical robots to assist in surgery. That is just the latest development in what he thinks will be one of the great technology breakthroughs of our age: the fusing of robotics and cloud computing. He talks about it in this edited and condensed conversation.
Q. What is cloud robotics?
A. Cloud robotics is a new way of thinking about robots. For a long time, we thought that robots were off by themselves, with their own processing power. When we connect them to the cloud, the learning from one robot can be processed remotely and mixed with information from other robots.
.... The term “cloud robotics” was coined in 2010 by James Kuffner, who was at Carnegie Mellon and then went to Google. I had been doing robot control over the Internet since the mid-90s, with a garden people could connect to, then plant seeds or water their plants. The cloud is different from my Internet “telegarden,” though. The cloud can have all the computation and memory stored remotely. That means all of the endpoints can be lightweight, and there is a huge collective benefit. These robots can address billions of behaviors and learn how to do important things quickly....(read more at link above)

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Cloud-based Workday Streamlines Mobile Apps, Unveils Big Data Plans

InformationWeek
Workday Streamlines Mobile Apps, Unveils Big Data Plans
InformationWeek
Workday, the fast-growing, cloud-based HR and financial ERP applications vendor announced a fresh take on mobile apps and a coming wave of big data-powered analytic applications. Unveiled at the company's annual Workday Rising event in ...

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Google Cloud, Container Engine, Kubernetes

Google Builds New ‘Freeways’ to Its Data Centers for Cloud Push - Digits - WSJ: ".... Google built one of the world’s most powerful networks of data centers, but fell behind Amazon and Microsoft in the business of renting this remote computing horsepower to other companies. Google executives said they’re now an option for companies considering running projects in the cloud, something they couldn’t have said 18 months ago. Executives said they are less interested in projects that shift existing applications from a company’s own data center to the cloud, and more interested in persuading companies to create new applications in the cloud. “Are we winning in yesterday’s workloads? Probably not. But that will be how the minority of workloads are managed in the cloud in the future,” said Brian Stevens, vice president of cloud platforms at Google. Google is hoping to leapfrog Amazon by pushing its own approach to cloud computing, known as containers. The technology is considered faster and more efficient than more standard cloud computing technology known as virtual machines, experts say. In June, Google released an open-source version of the technology, called Kubernetes, to encourage adoption.... the company unveiled Container Engine, a service that Google said will automate much of the work involved in running applications using this technology."


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Cloud Computing, Coming of Age

Coming of Age in Cloud Computing - NYTimes.com: "... Microsoft, which operates one of the biggest so-called “public clouds,” or large and flexible computing systems available for remote rental, announced several changes to its data storage and processing services that will make them more powerful. Microsoft also announced a partnership with Dell to sell a kind of “cloud in a box,” or hardware and software that created a mini-version of Microsoft’s cloud, called Azure, inside a company. The idea is that a company could work with its own version of Azure, then easily move up to the giant version Microsoft has to handle big workloads. Hewlett-Packard may be after something similar with its effort to create a private-public cloud business based on the HP cloud, which uses a kind of open source software. What all of this means is that cloud computing, which makes it easier to tie more things to computers and more easily manage software, is starting to appear in even more forms and types...." (read more at link above)

Other Cloud NEWS:

InformationWeek
Cloud Computing: IT's Driving Again
InformationWeek
For example, in 2013 it reported cloud storage was growing at a rate 2.5 ... Organizations adopting cloud services expect to spend "54% of their IT ...


Defense One
Clarifying DISA's Cloud Computing Role
Signal Magazine
“I don't think DISA is going to be moving away from our participation in the cloudbrokerage, cloud services,” said Alfred Rivera, the agency's acting ...

Cloud computing in 2020: Looking into that crystal ball
CloudTech
Recently, @thedodgeretort of Enterprise CIO Forum held a Twitter chat about what cloud computing in 2020 will look like. I decided to write up a quick ...


ITProPortal
Demystifying cloud computing jargon: A guide to understanding the future of IT infrastructure
ITProPortal
How many of you really understand the cloud? If you were tasked with explaining "thecloud" to a child could you manage it? A recent discussion with ...

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IBM Sending Cognos and SPSS to the Cloud

Wall Street Journal
IBM sends Cognos and SPSS to the cloud
Computerworld
Two of IBM's most popular analysis products, the Cognos Business Intelligence and the SPSS predictive analytics package, are headed for the cloud, the latest in an ongoing push by IBM to port its vast software portfolio to the cloud. Accessing such a software ...

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Microsoft, Data Centers, Cloud Computing

CLOUD NEWS:

Computerworld
Microsoft leans on data-center strength to get cloud edge
Computerworld
Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise group, shows how Microsoft differentiates Azure at a press conference earlier this month. Credit: James Niccolai/IDG News Service ...


The Globe and Mail
Memo to Microsoft skeptics: Don't look back, look forward
The Globe and Mail
Few companies, if any, have gone from startup to the Dow Jones in as little time as Microsoft Corp., yet the software giant doesn't get a lot of respect. That's part of what makes it an interesting investment. I think Microsoft is on the cusp of a period of ...

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Can IBM Compete In Cloud Computing

Doubtful--

IBM's Big Stumble - Businessweek: "... Rometty’s nearly impossible task of reinventing IBM for the era of cloud computing while handcuffed by the “Roadmap.” IBM is 103 years old and has survived upheavals in the technology industry before—selling mainframes, then personal computers, then getting into the consulting game. Rometty will tell anyone who listens that the changes demanded of IBM today are as great as they’ve ever been. One question is whether IBM has the technical chops to compete with Amazon and others: After losing a lucrative CIA cloud project to the upstart, IBM had to acquire a small competitor, SoftLayer, to competently provide the services its customers are now demanding. The arrival of cheap cloud computing means that corporations don’t need IBM’s big, expensive mainframes. And even if IBM does catch up, the cloud might be such a thin-margined industry that it can’t sustain the profit margins IBM had been telling investors to expect. Until today...."

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Microsoft, Azure, Enterprise Cloud Computing

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Seeks to ‘Harmonize’ With CIOs - The CIO Report - WSJ: "...The company plans to differentiate Azure by the level of enterprise support it delivers, the scale at which it can deliver services and its ability to help companies operate both in the cloud and on-premises in a hybrid environment,  said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of cloud and enterprise. By the end of 2014, the Azure footprint will extend to 19 regions around the world, more than that of Amazon Web Services and Google Inc., said Mr. Guthrie. Each region can hold up to 600,000 servers. “Going forward, we think all customers are going to need this hyperscale functionality to power their businesses,” said Mr. Guthrie. Microsoft projects that, aside from itself, only Amazon Web Services [AWS] and Google will be able to deliver this level of scale...."

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Microsoft vs Amazon in the Cloud (video)

Microsoft vs. Amazon: Who Will Win in the Cloud?: Video - Bloomberg:
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BCSG Managing Director John Davis discusses how his cloud services brokerage works, the battle for cloud computing space, the health of the U.K. tech sector with Bloomberg's Mark Barton and Manus Cranny on "Countdown." (Source: Bloomberg 10/24)

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HP WebOS Cloud Services, Cloud Storage, Cloud Revolution

Cloud NEWS digest:

HP to Shut Down WebOS Cloud Services in January
eWeek
The company has put a notice on its developer Website saying that it will end webOS cloud services support for devices running the operation and will ...


PhoneDog
Have you switched to cloud storage?
PhoneDog
You can either make do with the amount of internal storage given to you, or you can choose to start using cloud storage. Most of the time, when this ...


The Japan News
US firms battle for lead in cloud computing revolution
The Japan News
Amazon.com has announced plans to lower the cost of its cloud services, ... Microsoft Japan Co. released the cloud computing version of its Office ...

Personal cloud storage plans – October 2014
Geekzone
If you're looking for cloud storage there are plenty of options. Most cloud storage providers offer a basic service for free. You may get by using these ...

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Alibaba Adding Institutional Clients To Cloud Services Business

Alibaba Adds Institutional Clients To Cloud-Services Business
Bidness ETC
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) is seeking potential customers from the private and public sectors for its new cloud service, Aliyun. Alibaba shares ...

Hybrid cloud is the fastest-growing area: Cisco
CRN Australia
Some markets will move more to consuming pure cloud services, others will move more slowly. I have been on a call since early this morning with a ...

Premier Las Vegas Conference Draws Renowned Open Web & Cloud Computing Experts from ...
IT Business Net
Technology is constantly evolving, making it more important than ever for development professionals to stay on the forefront of their field while creating ...

SIGN POST: SA stakes place up there on the cloud
BDlive
But in the virtual world of cloud computing, local enterprises have been credited with reaching a level of maturity similar to those in the US and UK.

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Microsoft Azure Cloud, Internet of Things, IoT Services

Satya Nadella Pitches Microsoft ‘Difference’ to CIOs - The CIO Report - WSJ: "... Microsoft’s distinguishes its cloud strategy by offering applications, platforms and infrastructure software, while others only offer some of those capabilities, he said. Microsoft also has a valuable asset in supporting its Office 365 cloud productivity suite with the Azure infrastructure services, ensuring security and reliability. “Microsoft’s differentiation is the total package,” he said. A crucial extension of Microsoft’s strategy is the Internet of Things, in which everyday devices include sensors for remote control or automation. Mr. Nadella said that ThyssenKrupp Elevator uses sensors and IoT services, hosted in Microsoft’s Azure cloud, to monitor one million elevators worldwide to notify technicians when they require maintenance. IoT is strategic for Microsoft. “We are well into it,” he said...."

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Google Drive at 240m active users, Chromebooks 50% US EDU market

Google’s Sundar Pichai: Drive at 240m active users, Chromebooks approaching 50% US EDU market (Video) | 9to5Google: "During its Atmosphere Live event, Google’s Sundar Pichai announced that the company’s Drive cloud storage platform has over 240 million active users, up 190 from million since June. The Google executive also revealed that Chromebooks are largest selling EDU device in the US approaching a 50 percent share compared to 5 percent 18 months ago."

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Dreamforce, Salesforce, Cloud Computing (video)

Dreamforce Is the Super Bowl of Cloud Computing: Vojvodich: Video - Bloomberg:
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Salesforce.com Chief Marketing Officer Lynn Vojvodich discusses the company’s Dreamforce software conference. She speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg Oct 7)

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HP, Company Split, Cloud Computing

HP Company Splits as Engine of Growth Has Become Irrelevant: Video - Bloomberg:
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BlackRock chief investment strategist Jeffrey Rosenberg and Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Anand Srinivasan discuss what’s behind Hewlett-Packard’s decision to split into two companies and the challenges the business faces going forward. They speak on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Bloomberg 10/6)

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Machines, Automation, Risks (video)

Machines, Automation: What Are the Risks of Relying on Them?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Author Nicholas Carr discusses his book “The Glass Cage: Automation and Us” on “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg--Sept 29)

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Robots, Clouds, Humans

China Economic Net
Head in the clouds: 5 elements of cloud robotics
e27
Robots haven't yet lived up to their potential, but they're about to benefit enormously from the Cloud. In this talk I'll describe how a new generation of ...


CBS News
Researchers build collaborative system to teach robots human tasks
Daily Californian
Saxena described Robo Brain as a “search engine for robots,” with ... In addition to Robo Brain and Cloud Robotics and Automation, Goldberg said ...
Robo Brain Teaches a Robot to Fish - TechNewsWorld
Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm among sponsors of project Robo Brain - ChristianToday
'Robo Brain' to teach robots how to mimic humans - Economic Times


New York Times
Building a Robot With Human Touch
New York Times
In factories and warehouses, robots routinely outdo humans in strength and precision. .... “I'm very excited about the idea of cloud robotics,” he said.
We need more of the touchy, feely, technology - gulfnews.com


ABC News
Finding the 'Holy Grail' of Making Smarter Robots
ABC News
Robots anywhere in the world will be able to call up Robo Brain and find ... Robo Brain is based on cloud computing, or the use of shared resources ...

Paul Gilster: Why robot home helpers are likely years away
News & Observer
Robo Brain is an attempt by researchers in these four schools to build a cloud-based system that future robotscan use to access information. Robots ...

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Mark Hurd on Oracle Business Strategy, Cloud Technology (video)

Mark Hurd on Oracle Business Strategy, Cloud Technology: Video - Bloomberg:
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Mark Hurd, co-chief executive officer of Oracle Corp., talks about the company's business strategy and management, and the outlook for cloud computing. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg Oct 1)

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Rackspace, Amazon, Patch, Reboot Cloud Servers

Rackspace Joined Amazon in Patching, Rebooting Cloud Servers: "... The issue was further complicated by a tight deadline—the vulnerability was first discovered early last week, and a patch wasn't worked out with Xen engineers until late Sept. 26. At the same time, technical details of the vulnerability were scheduled to be released Oct. 1, giving Rackspace, Amazon Web Services (ASW) and any other cloud provider facing the same issues only a few days to patch the systems and reboot them. They also had to alert customers to the situation, but not give out too much information that hackers could use to compromise data on the servers before they were patched. - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/cloud/rackspace-joined-amazon-in-patching-rebooting-cloud-servers.html#sthash.Vhweg9M4.dpuf"

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Cloud Services, Foreign Espionage, Regulation, Protecting Data

While NSA 'maps' the Internet landscape, German tech companies want Cloud cover
Deutsche Welle
Microsoft Germany wants Cloud services to be regulated at home in a bid to protect data from foreign espionage. The announcement coincides with a ...  (read more at the link above)

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Google Cloud Platform, Credit for Startups

Gigaom
Why cloud security is something businesses must take into their own hands
Gigaom
Businesses that are dependent on the cloud need to understand the difference between front-door and back-door attacks and increase their own ...  (read more at the link above)

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Identity Management, the Cloud

Intelligent Identity Management in the Cloud – a use case
Most organisations fail to plan identity management in the Cloud. They adopt a variety of software-as-a-service solutions each requiring its own ...  (read more at the link above)

Identity Management in the Cloud

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Cloud Texting Services

Tech Cocktail
Cloud Texting Services for Z-Gen Businesses
Tech Cocktail
You can now get cloud texting services from reputable service providers to improve the communication channels that exist between your business and ...  (read more at the link above)

Cloud Texting Services

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The Cloud, Health Data, Hackers

Health care services clouds with your data-- 

Why Cloud Hackers Could Come for Your Health Data Next
Motley Fool
According to Internet cloud security provider Skyhigh Networks, 90% of health care services clouds are either at medium risk or high risk of being ...  (read more at the link above)

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Microsoft Azure, The Cloud for the Rest of Us

Be warned, while Amazon’s headline prices are a little lower than Azure, there’s a danger you’ll get nickel and dimed to the point where you could easily end up spending more money. There’s barely any free customer support, but Amazon will sell you a support plan and so on. Little handholding from Amazon (source infra)

Microsoft Azure: Cloud for the rest of us
Bill Bennett
Cloud computing is great. Yet anything beyond Dropbox, OneDrive or iCloud can be daunting for those of us who aren't IT professionals....(read more at the link above)

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Google Cloud Platform Credit for Startups

Tech Times
Google offers $100000 in Google Cloud Platform credit to startups to ditch rivals
Tech Times
Google is serious about luring Amazon's cloud customers away and puts up $100,000 incloud credits to qualified startups who want to host their ... (read more at the link above)

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Cloud Safety, Surveillance Cams

Fox News
Tech Q&A: Cloud safety, surveillance cams, selling old phones, and more
Fox News
Q. With the recent iCloud hack, I'm worried about putting my information in any cloudservice. Is it possible to keep my personal information safe online ...  (read more at the link above)

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VCs, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services

Forbes
Cloud, Mobile, Healthcare And Enterprise Software Lead Deloitte's 2014 Global Venture Capital ...
Forbes
Venture capitalists are most confident of the cloud computing/SaaS industry (4.11%), Mobile (4.02), Healthcare IT and Services (3.94) and Enterprise ...


VentureBeat
CenturyLink seeks to acquire Rackspace, expanding cloud services: Bloomberg
Reuters
N) in order to expand its cloud-computing services, according to a ... expand the Louisiana-based company's offerings of Internet and cloud services, ...

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Google for Work, Enterprise Cloud Services

Small Business Trends
Enterprise Cloud Services Retooled as Google for Work
Small Business Trends
Cloud computing, once a new idea, is abundantly available, and collaboration is possible across offices, cities, countries and continents. Ideas can go ...


EE Times India
Tablets/cloud units to drive growth amid drop in standard PCs
EE Times India
Total shipments of personal computing systems (desktops, notebooks, tablets and Internet/cloud units) are estimated to climb to 585 million units this ...

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Cloud Security, Hackers

Cloud NEWS:

Toledo Blade
Computer security in the cloud can get murky
Toledo Blade
NEW YORK — The theft of nude photographs from celebrities' online accounts has thrown a spotlight on the security of cloud computing, a system ...

Is PaaS as dangerous as it seems? Cloudbees bust some cloud computing myths
TechTarget
As JavaOne 2014 quickly approaches, TheServerSide is profiling both the people and the vendors who have continued to contribute both to the site, ...


SYS-CON Media (press release)
@CloudExpo | Why Does the #Cloud Attract Hackers?
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Why Security Breaches Happen in the Cloud Hackers aren't attacking the cloud; the cloud... Cloud computing is become a norm within enterprise IT.

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Cloud Robotics

Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds — Aspen Ideas — Medium: "....The Five Elements of Cloud Robotics are:

1. Big Data: indexing a global library of images, maps, and object data, 
2. Cloud Computing: grid computing on demand for statistical learning, and motion planning, 
3. Open-Source: humans sharing robot code, data, algorithms, and hardware designs, 
4. Collective Robot Learning: robots sharing trajectories, control policies, and outcomes that can be analyzed with statistical machine learning methods and 
5. Crowdsourcing and call centers: offline and on-demand human guidance for evaluation, learning, and error recovery. 

"Cloud Robotics will build on related effort including the “Internet of Things,” “IBM’s Smarter Planet,” General Electric’s vision of the “Industrial Internet,” and Siemens’ concept of “Industry 4.0.” These approaches have enormous potential but also open a Pandora’s Box of issues related to privacy and security. But when robots have their heads in the clouds, the sky’s the limit..." (read  more at the link above)

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Cloud, Robots, Automation

Cloud Robotics and Automation: "What if robots and automation systems were not limited by onboard computation, memory, or programming? This is now conceivable with wireless networking and rapidly expanding Internet resources. In 2010, James Kuffner at Google introduced the term "Cloud Robotics" to describe a new approach to robotics that takes advantage of the Internet as a resource for massively parallel computation and sharing of vast data resources. The Google autonomous driving project exemplifies this approach: the system indexes maps and images that are collected and updated by satellite, Streetview, and crowdsourcing to facilitate accurate localization. Another example is Kiva Systems new approach to warehouse automation and logistics using large numbers of mobile platforms to move pallets using a local network to coordinate planforms and update tracking data. These are just two new projects that build on resources from the Cloud..." (read more at  link above)
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Cloud News: Google, Zync, Cloud Services Market

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Google Buys Cloud-Based Visual Effects Firm Zync
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Competition in Cloud Media Usage

Apple Beats Competition in Cloud Media Usage | Statista:

Competition in Cloud Media Usage:
Apple iTunes Match/iCloud, Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive, Google Drive, Ultraviolet, Samsung Music Hub, OnLive, LG Cloud, Gaikai

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Google Cloud Platform, Mesosphere, Kubernetes, Containers

Google Partners With Mesosphere - Ramps Up Its Container Commitment: ".... it’s interesting to hear that the two companies are collaborating to bring together Mesosphere, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform in an effort to make it easier for users to run applications and containers at scale. What this means is that Mesosphere is delivering an application that enables customers to deploy Mesosphere clusters on the Google Cloud Platform rapidly. In addition they are incorporating Kubernetes into Mesos to manage the deployment of Docker workloads. Using the app, developers can spin up a Mesosphere cluster on GCP in a few clicks – the app installs and configures everything required to run the cluster. There is no charge for using the app, beyond the service fees for the Google Cloud Platform resources used. Customers can schedule Docker containers side by side on the same Mesosphere cluster as other Linux workloads such as data analytics tasks like Spark and Hadoop and more traditional tasks like shell scripts and jar files...."

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Apple iCloud Miss (video)

Apple’s Stock Price at All-Time High: Is It Deserved?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Elevation Partners Co-Founder Roger McNamee discusses Apple’s stock price, innovation and the company’s cloud product. He speaks on “Bloomberg West.” Aug. 20 (Bloomberg)

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NSA Revelations, Losses to US Cloud Industry Staggering

NSA Revelations Could Prove Costly to U.S. Cloud Industry | Statista:

The U.S. dominance in the cloud computing industry could soon be challenged by international competitors, as the revelations about the extent to which U.S. government agencies have obtained data from U.S. companies have damaged the trust in American cloud providers. Gartner recently valued the global cloud market at $131 billion with American companies taking the lion's share of that total. That was prior to the NSA leaks however. The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) put out a research paper ... quantifying the potential damages inflicted on the U.S. cloud industry between $22 and $35 billion in the next three years alone.(read more at link above)

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Money-Mining Botnet Hiding In Amazon Cloud

How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon’s Cloud | Threat Level | WIRED: "... At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas next month Ragan and Salazar plan to reveal how they built a botnet using only free trials and freemium accounts on online application-hosting services—the kind coders use for development and testing to avoid having to buy their own servers and storage. The hacker duo used an automated process to generate unique email addresses and sign up for those free accounts en masse, assembling a cloud-based botnet of around a thousand computers...." (read more at link above)

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Amazon WorkSpaces, cloud desktop security, multi-factor authentication

Amazon tightens WorkSpaces cloud desktop security with multi-factor authentication | ZDNet:"Your WorkSpaces users will now be able to authenticate themselves using the same mechanism that they already use for other forms of remote access to your organisation's resources," AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr said in a blog." (read more at links above)

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Digital Realty, Cloud Providers

Digital Realty Has A Powerful Moat Of Dividend Repeatability - Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) | Seeking Alpha: ".... Modern cloud providers cater to small and medium-sized businesses, but they all aspire to penetrate the enterprise marketplace. The enterprise segment is our bread-and-butter customer base. They already populate our data centers around the world. Our recent leasing activity has been heavily skewed to cloud service providers, in part because they want access to our enterprise customer base. Enterprise customers in turn are attracted by the ability to easily and securely connect to multiple areas of their hybrid cloud. Both sets of customers choose to grow on our platform, in part because of the presence of the other. The final catalyst connecting our incredible enterprise customer base to the cloud service providers they now need to grow is the deployment of our global network ecosystem. This mutual attraction and our interconnected global portfolio essentially act as a wide moat that is extremely difficult for competitors to replicate...." (read more at link above)

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Storm Clouds Over Amazon AWS?

Storm Clouds Over Amazon Business - WSJ: "Amazon.com Inc. has been fighting two big rivals in the world of cloud computing. But that battle shows signs of becoming a free-for-all that threatens its profitability goals for the business. Large telecom and small startups have been forging into or expanding services that let companies rent computing cycles rather than operate their own servers and data centers. The broader competition comes amid a continuing price war in the business among Amazon, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Those pressures were underscored... when the online retailer reported a wider loss for its second quarter. Part of the reason: its Amazon Web Services, or AWS, recently cut prices by between 28% and 51% for various services as gains at AWS and similar businesses slowed to 38% from 60% in its first quarter." (read more at link above)

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Amazon, Google, Cloud price war

Amazon’s cloud price war with Google is starting to hurt - Quartz: "... Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud-computing business, is now mature enough to affect Amazon’s overall numbers. Amazon made a big price cut in late March to counter aggressive pricing from Google, with service price declines up to 65%. Customers loved it, with usage increasing 90% year-over-year, Amazon said today on its earnings call. But revenue growth took a hit as a result. + Amazon doesn’t break out AWS revenue specifically, but it’s the largest part of Amazon’s “North America – Other” segment, where growth fell to 38% year-over-year after consistent percentage growth rates in the 50s and 60s over the past two years...."

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Amazon Cloud, Fast Growth Business

Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in History - Businessweek: "Five billion dollars. That’s how much Amazon.com will rake in from its cloud computing business this year, according to a new estimate from Pacific Crest Securities. If true, it’s an incredible figure. It would mean that Amazon’s cloud revenue shot up 58 percent in a single year, from $3.1 billion in 2013. In a research note, Pacific Crest says it expects the business to keep growing at a clip, with revenue hitting $6.7 billion in 2015. (Amazon does not break out its cloud revenue figures.) The growth of Amazon’s cloud business is unprecedented, at least when compared to other business software ventures. It’s grown faster after hitting the $1 billion revenue mark than Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce.com. You would need to turn to Google —which had the advantage of the vast consumer market—to find a business that grew faster....

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Why Big Companies Delay Using the Cloud

Why Big Companies Delay Using the Cloud for Some Applications - WSJ: "But many of those software vendors' biggest customers are in no rush to make the switch, particularly when it comes to the applications that manage key parts of their businesses. There is no doubt that cloud software is gaining ground among corporate users of all sizes. Revenue for Oracle's cloud businesses in the quarter ended May 31 totaled $450 million, up about 22% from a year earlier, although it remains a relatively small portion of the company's overall revenue. While many larger companies have turned to cloud software to manage systems like human-resources management, they are slower to adopt the cloud for applications that handle inventory management, billing and other processes they rely on to run their businesses on a daily basis." (read more at link above)

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US Court Ruling, US Cloud Providers, Privacy

Microsoft ordered to produce overseas customer email addresses by US judge | Technology | theguardian.com: "Microsoft Corp must turn over a customer’s emails stored in a data center in Ireland to the US government, a US judge ruled on Thursday in a case that has drawn concern from privacy groups and major technology companies. Microsoft and other US companies had challenged a criminal search warrant for the emails, arguing federal prosecutors cannot seize customer information held in foreign countries. But following a two-hour court hearing in New York, US District Judge Loretta Preska said the warrant lawfully required the company to hand over any data it controlled, regardless of where it was stored. “It is a question of control, not a question of the location of that information,” Preska said...."

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