Grazed from Inquirer.net.  Author: Vanessa B. Hidalgo.

More businesses are migrating to cloud services to streamline their business processes.  The shift is attributed to more businesses—large, small and medium entrepreneurs—taking a step back from the conventional means of managing their day-to-day operations into more sophisticated and accessible platforms.

“The Internet via the cloud offers a unique view. A more organized system to manage an entire business from just one platform. We deliver solutions via the cloud. It is cost-effective and quick to deploy,” says Jan Alvin Pabellon, NetSuite’s principal product manager for the Asia-Pacific and Japan…

Grazed from TheBostonHerald.  Author: Jordan Graham.

Aereo’s landmark Internet broadcast Supreme Court case is casting a pall over venture funding for the cloud computing industry, experts are warning.  “The mere existence of this will make it much harder to raise funding, because the risks have gone up,” said Michael Davies, chairman and founder of Endeavor Partners, a Cambridge consulting firm for technology companies.

Last week, the Supreme Court heard the case in which Aereo defends its right to grab television broadcast signals and stream TV through the cloud to users for a small fee of about $8 a month — and without paying retransmission fees. Aereo, run by founder and CEO Chet Kanojia, contends its antennas are no different than old-fashioned rabbit ears and its service constitutes what is legally known as a “private performance.” Broadcasters contend the business is offering a “public performance” and the company is violating copyright…

Grazed from DaytonaNetworks.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Some say putting your business data in the cloud is no riskier than putting your money in a bank.  At first sight, there are similarities, but a closer look reveals significant differences. You are not  particularly concerned that your money will be lost if the bank is robbed or destroyed by fire  because the bank and the government guarantee your money.

It doesn’t matter if the very same cash you lodged in the bank yesterday is stolen today since one dollar bill is much the same as another. Your cloud data is not like money for two important reasons: First, most of the data is unique and irreplaceable – one piece of data is not the same as another; second, much of your data is confidential – customer records, financial information, new product development plans, etc. – and its value depends on it being kept strictly private…

Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

CloudeAssurance, Inc. an eFortresses company is proud to announce that it’s founder Taiye Lambo will be presenting one of its most valuable research efforts entitled "Cloud Security Benchmark: Top 10 Cloud Service Providers Q1 2014" at the First Open Government Data Forum 2014.

The Emirates Identity Authority, the United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) are jointly conducting this first Open Government Data Forum 2014 from 28-29 April 2014 at Ritz Carlton Hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).This unique event coincides with CloudeAssurance launching a new online course for the recently released NIST Cybersecurity Framework Version 1.0 mandated by President Barack Obama…

Grazed from LinkedIn.  Author: Reza Rahimi.

mobile computing is expanding beyond the traditional approach on voice and data delivery to encompass new classes of rich mobile applications and technologies such as location based services, mobile social networks, crowd computing, sensory based applications and wearable technologies to name a few.

These classes of mobile applications and technologies have quantitative and qualitative criteria of growing importance like efficiency and performance, scalability, privacy and reliability. Due to the resource limitation of mobile devices, cloud computing could be a good potential candidate to solve these problems…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Eric Lundquist.

I attended the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit this week, which was the same week that Apple, VMware, Microsoft and Amazon issued robust quarterly financial reports. You might not think the conference and earnings reports are linked, but the trends discussed at the conference are already showing up in the vendor’s numbers.

So what were the trends? Certainly, cloud computing was a big topic. But cloud computing is not new and the question is now what happens after the cloud frenzy?   The characteristics of cloud computing:  capacity on demand and Internet standards as the basis for communicating were evident in the financial sphere and the conference floor…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge.  Author: Rich Miller.

Apple has provided the first look inside its data centers in a series of media interviews designed to promote its use of green energy. In interviews with Wired and The Today Show, Apple Vice President of Environmental Initiative Lisa Jackson has shown off the massive solar power arrays that power the company’s data centers in Reno, Nevada and Maiden, North Carolina.

The NBC video includes a brief look inside the Maiden data center, where correspondent Anne Thompson walks through the hot aisle of a row of servers. The aisle is contained, with end doors and clear ceiling panels, and Jackson says the temperature is about 103 degrees…

Grazed from ReadWrite.  Author: Matt Asay.

Shadow IT is widely considered to be a significant problem for enterprise IT, yet nobody knows how to fix it, or even measure it. After all, how do you control something that, by its very definition, is designed to evade control?

Shadow IT, which is defined as those systems that are bought or built without enterprise IT’s approval, has been accelerating as business executives demand the flexibility to get things done—and may now dwarf the amount of approved enterprise expenditures on cloud services.  Is it time for the CIO to give up the fight against shadow IT, and simply learn to accept it?…

Grazed from Fool.  Author: Tim Beyers.

Microsoft Azure is challenging the notion that all cloud computing platforms are created equal. Fool contributor Tim Beyers explains Mr. Softy’s plan, and its implications, in the following video.  There are two primary elements. First, CEO Satya Nadella has rechristened Mr. Softy’s Embedded business as the Internet of Things business unit on the premise that embedded software can’t hide from the World Wide Web any longer.

Second, the company is packaging a new product entitled Microsoft Azure Intelligent Systems Service for capturing and managing machine-generated data. Think of it as a warehouse for sorting through the data flowing your own network’s Internet of Things. Mix in associated tools HD Insight for Hadoop access and Power BI for analysis and you’ve the makings of a Big Data processing machine, available entirely in the cloud…

Grazed from NextGov.  Author: William Matthews.

Two House members are proposing legislation they say would ease the way for cloud computing vendors to sell services to the Defense Department.   The Defense Cloud Security Act would require department officials to set clearer security requirements for cloud storage and other cloud services “and give vendors an opportunity to meet those standards,” said an aide to Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-Mass. Tsongas and Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., are expected to introduce the legislation April 28.

Although the Defense Department already buys cloud services from a number of private vendors, Tsongas and Kilmer say that more companies could be providing more cloud services if the military had clearer security requirements…