Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

RapidScale, a leader in cloud computing solutions, is focused on providing industry-specific compliance capability for requirements such as PCI, HIPPA, SOX, FINRA, ISO, FDA, FAA, and more. There is a continuous need to meet and exceed the demand for process improvement, procedures, security and information in the cloud environment. Because of this need, RapidScale has joined together with software company, Ivis to launch an innovative compliance and auditing solution, CloudCompliance.

Our innovative CloudCompliance solution gives clients an easy and affordable way to prove they are in compliance with the standards and regulations of their industry. “By setting up activities consisting of workflow-enabled tasks, CloudCompliance tracks completion of pass or fail with audit trails. RapidScale’s clients can then provide auditors with timely reports generated from within the solution,” says Rick Irvine, head of CloudCompliance at RapidScale. “This will eliminate the numerous man hours typically required for audit preparation,” says Mr. Irvine, who is also personally HIPPA certified…

Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Matt Asay.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) clearly leads the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market and by some distance. But whether developers should follow AWS largely depends on where they want to go, according to new research from Forrester. Not only does this require a choice between Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings and IaaS, but there’s also real IaaS competition brewing for AWS from Microsoft and Google. The easy choice of "AWS or more AWS?" may be about to disappear.

Why Amazon Wins In Cloud

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. For now, AWS offers five times the utilized compute capacity of each of its other 14 top competitors—combined. That’s a big lead, and stems from AWS’ quasi-religious focus on its customers’ needs, as Gartner’s Lydia Leong offers. Couple this with a "willing[ness] to invest massively in engineering" and "iterate at shocking speed," and you get a sense both for why Amazon has been so successful, and why it’s so hard to catch up…

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Web app providers and enterprises looking to build AWS-compatible hybrid clouds with OpenStack are invited to register for Cloudscaling’s Fall 2013 webinar series titled, “Your Journey to a Hybrid Cloud.” Experts from leading cloud products and services organizations will provide insight and recommendations on how to design, build, deploy and leverage AWS-compatible hybrid clouds with OpenStack and Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS).

Across industries, companies want to emulate AWS functionality in order to bring that productivity into the enterprise more securely, reliably and cost-effectively. The webinar series will show participants how to extend the AWS value proposition to a hybrid cloud strategy that drives innovation and new efficiencies. Cloudscaling has been an open and vocal advocate for embracing the architectural lessons of AWS and Google, including providing for a low-level API in OpenStack supporting them…

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Hostway, a leading provider of cloud, managed and hybrid hosting services, today announced the Application Packaging Standard (APS) integration of its FlexCloud Servers (Infrastructure-as-a-Service, or IaaS), public-cloud hosting suite, in partnership with Parallels, a global leader in hosting and cloud services enablement and cross-platform solutions. The announcement comes as Hostway will exhibit its solutions for the evolving cloud marketplace at Booth #325 at the Cloud Partners event held September 11-13 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Collaborative service delivery models are an emerging trend in the cloud marketplace as the technology community seeks efficient, cost-effective methods to provide best-in-class services to end-users. Hostway’s partnership with Parallels creates an ideal option for service providers seeking to increase cloud-based revenues by bundling with existing product and service portfolios to create an end-to-end solution. Parallels Automation partners can now leverage Hostway’s FlexCloud Servers APS integration to offer an affordable, turnkey, enterprise-class IaaS public cloud service to customers and resellers…

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CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced a record-setting first half of 2013 with growth in revenue, customers and partnerships. In the first half of 2013, CloudBees’ revenue increased by 148 percent compared to the first half of 2012. That success, along with an expanded global presence, continues to lay the foundation for further growth for the rest of 2013.

The demand for the CloudBees PaaS continues to grow as organizations realize they can use it to significantly accelerate the delivery of web and mobile applications. In the first half of 2013, the number of new CloudBees accounts more than doubled over the same time period of 2012. The growth demonstrates the increasing adoption of PaaS technology, overall, and the CloudBees PaaS, specifically. CloudBees also increased the size of its total customer base by 135 percent during the same timeframe…

Grazed from The Next Web. Author: Rich Quick.

In the first of a series of articles on enterprise cloud computing, TNW takes a look at why many corporates still fear the cloud and what it will take to fix this. Cloud computing has been a hot topic for several years, but while startups have been quick to adopt cloud computing, many corporates have been more cautious to make the switch.

According to a recent survey, 49% of executive-level managers think cloud computing will transform their business, yet many business have been slow to adopt the cloud because of a range of concerns. But why are enterprises fearful of the cloud? Here are 5 of the top reasons large corporates are worried about making the move:…

Grazed from Business Cloud News. Author: Jonathan Brandon.

A recent breakthrough in multi-party computation (MPC) cryptography may result in a “sea change” in computing security according to Peter Scholl, a researcher in the Cryptography and Information Security group at the University of Bristol. The essential idea behind MPC, a subset of cryptography, is that it should enable two or more people to compute any function choosing secret inputs, without actually revealing the contents of those inputs to either party.

Scholl is among a team of researchers from the Department of Computer Science at University of Bristol and Aarhus University in Denmark who are jointly developing a practical implementation protocol for MPC called SPDZ (pronounced “speeds”)…

Grazed from Wired. Author: Klint Finley.

Cloud computing isn’t just a new way of hosting and running applications. It’s also a new way to think about how applications are designed in the first place, how they store and retrieve data. Joe Arnold was the chief technology officer at Engine Yard, a San Francisco company that offers a cloud service where developers can house their applications, and over the last half decade, he witnessed firsthand the shift towards a new way of building software that runs across tens, hundreds, or even thousands of servers. “We were watching people build more mobile and web applications,” he says. “And how they used storage was a lot different from how it started when we first started doing infrastructure.”

That was because Engine Yard plugged into a cloud storage service from Amazon known as Simple Storage System, or S3. By stripping away many characteristics of traditional storage systems — such as the hierarchical “file folder” style of organization — S3 and systems like it can provide more speed and scalability while remaining extremely reliable. It’s an approach called “object storage,” and thanks to Amazon, it has become a popular way for websites and web applications to serve static content, such as images, videos, and other media…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

The cloud is an amorphous technological construct with varying degrees of performance and availability, depending on the location and the network of the end user. That’s where the Cedexis Radar cloud app performance and benchmarking service comes into play, providing users with visibility into cloud availability and performance metrics.

Marty Kagan, co-founder and CEO of Cedexis, explained to eWEEK that his company is now expanding the scope of its monitoring business to provide a more comprehensive view into cloud services delivery. The Cedexis Radar service is now being enhanced with improved data visualizations and alerts that enable users to compare multiple aspects of cloud availability and performance, including page load times…

Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is often credited with inventing cloud computing or at least the form of it known as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where an app is delivered over the Internet.
Other people say that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison invented SaaS cloud computing, as he was the inspiration and the financial backer for both Salesforce.com and NetSuite.

Benioff was working at Oracle, in a meeting with Larry Ellison, when he thought of Salesforce.com, the story goes. But on Tuesday at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Benioff talked about his other mentor: Steve Jobs and his role in shaping Salesforce.com…