Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: David Perera.

A public sector cloud computing association says court filings made by Google in its defense against a lawsuit filed over email keyword-targeted advertising show the search engine giant mining educational users data for ad targeting purposes. Google offers "Apps for Education," for which it turns off ads by default, notes Jeff Gould, chief executive officer of San Francisco, Calif.-based Peerstone Research, in a blog post on SafeGov.org.

SafeGov describes itself as a forum for information technology providers and experts who are dedicated to promoting trusted and responsible cloud computing solutions for the public sector. But, declarations by a Google attorney (.pdf) and an employee (.pdf) in lawsuit filed in the U.S. Northern California district by some Gmail users who allege that Gmail machine email reading amounts to a violation of wiretapping law show that Google is in at least some cases scanning Apps for Education emails in order to target ads on other Google platforms, such as YouTube…

Grazed from CRMBuyer. Author: Richard Adhikari.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said last week that his main rivals were the new generation of cloud companies, and that IBM and SAP were no longer in his gun sights. Oracle is focusing on cloud infrastructure companies such as Amazon and SaaS providers such as former ally Salesforce.com, Ellison told attendees at CloudWorld in San Francisco.

"Oracle may have some big ambitions, but if it thinks it’s going to severely dent this IaaS/PaaS market share picture any time soon, it’s kidding itself," John Dinsdale, chief analyst at the Synergy Research Group, told CRM Buyer. "IBM, Microsoft and Google are all pushing very hard and aggressively growing their IaaS/PaaS revenues, but [Amazon Web Services] remains in a league of its own," he continued…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Del Lunn.

The term hybrid cloud is used to refer to a combination of public and private clouds that are tailored to suit an organisation’s specific business needs. As a minimum, a single private cloud and single public cloud are all that are required to create a hybrid cloud computing platform. However, organisations can always combine multiple private and public clouds to suit the business’ requirements.

A public cloud enables organisations to adopt enterprise class technologies for their environment at an affordable price point. However, security, availability, compliance, performance, portability and the cloud provider’s market longevity can often be of concern. A private cloud can answer these concerns but is more expensive to deploy and operate. A hybrid cloud offers both these benefits by integrating an organisations data and processing the data into the correct cloud. This prompts the following question: with regards to the hybrid cloud, which data goes where?…

Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Editorial Staff.

Among the several reasons for Red Hat to embrace CentOS, its erstwhile copycatting nemesis, one explanation has largely been overlooked: The cloud made them do it. More specifically, OpenStack made them do it. Red Hat had all but sewn up the market for Linux in the data center. But in the cloud, the market for Linux is both wide open—and perhaps nonexistent.

OpenStack Loves Freedom

OpenStack polls its user base every few months to see which technologies are popular on the open-source cloud platform. The most recent results from October show strong adoption for Ubuntu and CentOS, and very little for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL):…

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Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Dr. Owen Rogers.

IT vendors had a golden age before the invention of the cloud. It was essentially a risk-free implementation. Customers required a product, sales would propose a solution to which the customer would sign and commit, the customer would pay upfront, the vendor would start manufacturing, and eventually the solution would be delivered to the customer. Once delivered, it was unlikely the customer would suddenly drop the technology, and move on to something else.

At every step of this journey the vendor took steps to prevent its risk. The contract was negotiated per customer, thereby ensuring the deal was profitable. The customer paid upfront so the vendor didn’t need to borrow money or risk the customer defaulting on a debt. The contract commitment was made beforehand, so the customer took the risk that the solution might not be used…

Grazed from GlobalNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

InterCloud Systems, Inc, a single-source provider of end-to end IT and next generation network solutions to the service provider and corporate enterprise markets through cloud platforms and professional services, announced today the impending acquisition of RentVM, Inc.. RentVM expands InterCloud’s cloud and managed services capabilities by providing InterCloud an SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) platform to offer enterprise-grade cloud computing solutions.

RentVM’s platform provides self-service portal that allows for auto, on demand provisioning of Cloud assets through a hierarchy system supported by enterprise level security and offering clients a streamlined process to virtualize existing infrastructure and integrate to cloud solutions. This Cloud orchestration system includes a software defined network (SDN) management tool that allows for quicker time to market for IT teams orchestrating growth in IT environments globally…

Grazed from Nuix. Author: PR Announcement.

Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, today announced it has developed the ability to apply massive eDiscovery processing power on demand by adapting the Nuix Engine for popular cloud computing infrastructures. Nuix continues to invest in innovation and product development, now enabling customers to meet court deadlines by conducting rapid, large-scale eDiscovery indexing, searching, case assessment and export in the cloud. Crucially, processing can take place within cloud environments such as Microsoft Office 365, without having to move it or download it behind the firewall.

“I have been saying for many years that as more organizations move their data to the cloud, it will become essential to conduct eDiscovery and investigative search in the cloud, alongside the data,” said attorney and forensic technologist Craig Ball. “Nuix remains ahead of the game in building the next-generation tools the legal industry needs now and will need in the future.”…

Grazed from GreatResponder. Author: Maria Dehn.

The Bloombase data security company has aggressively passed through the technology lane from physical security to virtual data centers and then, from big data to the cloud computing technology. The company announced on this weekend on Jan 31, 2014 that it is going to join the Technology Alliance Partner Program initiated by VMware Company. This program is designed to provide the innovative and cutting edge cloud computing and virtualization solutions to the customers in IT industry.

This announcement by Bloombase may augur well VMware’s ambitious program to lead the marketplace with the most innovative solutions in the industry. Bloombase has successfully proved its strength in the domain of data security in all big sectors of the information technology such as – big data, virtual data centers and cloud computing…

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Bonsai Cloud Solutions is your answer to online backup and online file storage. They provide an all round great service and product within the UK, providing unlimited file storage backup, dedicated online drives for remarkably easy-to-use syncing and sharing features. They are also approaching the Business market with a brilliant service that offers businesses, the ability to create internal collaboration projects. All this is available on Apple and Windows computers, plus Apple and Android mobile devices. Any other device can access all the great features through the beautiful web portal that each user gets.

Everyone wants the high level of importance and better support you get as a business customer, for the service you use at home, Bonsai Cloud Solutions does exactly that, every customer for them is their most important customer. As they provide business solutions along side home solutions, they are well aware of the quintessential factors that every user wants in a great service and product…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM scientists have developed a software toolkit, which enables storage systems to access and use third-party private and/or public clouds for data migration, backup or file sharing which is directly addressing cloud-adoption related concerns about security, reliability and vendor lock-in.

IBM inventors have developed new cloud storage software that provides a simple interface for clients to dynamically migrate data across multiple clouds, while keeping it confidential and secure.Today, clients across all industries, including banks, retailers and government, are embracing cloud computing to drive business innovation and growth, but underlying concerns about security, reliability and vendor lock-in have inhibited widespread cloud adoption…