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

CLOUD NEWS Digest:

Top Tech News
Google Buys Cloud-Based Visual Effects Firm Zync
Top Tech News
Google beefed up its cloud · Relevant Products/Services -computing platform [by] acquiring Zync Inc., a Boston-based firm that specializes in visual ...


Techly
White House revamps tech management, Hillary's not a cloud expert, and more bank hacks ...
ZDNet
"I'm not an expert on software-defined storage or the intricacies of cloud computing," Clinton quipped. FBI investigates hack of JPMorgan, other US ...


BDlive
Our wildest dreams are coming true
BDlive
The human-computer interface will change fundamentally. ... both the internet of everything and cloud computing and refers to giving software systems ...

Private Cloud Services Market Grows at a 22% CAGR by 2018 - Global Analysis and Forecasts
SYS-CON Media (press release)
DALLAS, Aug. 31, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Private cloud is model of cloud computing, which involves a secure and distinct cloud environment.

ASG Software Solutions Seeks Buyer
Wall Street Journal
ASG provides so-called cloud solutions and software. The cloud broadly refers to the use of remote computingnetworks. According to its website, ASG ...


Hot Hardware
Consumer Apps and Services: Microsoft's Often-Overlooked Crown Jewels
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
It is here, I think, that Microsoft's "mobile first, cloud first" mantra is most ... Another part of the reason is that as our computing habits have changed, and ...

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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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