Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Abdul Salam.

Ethics and morality have always been dictated by culture and the times. It takes on different forms and their forms from different places and time periods often contradict each other, and what is considered ethical or moral in one era may not be in another. The World Wide Web, and now more recently the move to Cloud Computing and the social revolution is changing the norms of our world’s cultures and ethics and morality along with it.

Just a decade ago it was very unethical to read someone else’s letter, it still is, but the medium of transportation and consumption has changed so much that it has become a little hard to define. Before, it was only between you and the mailman, and he was bound by law to never touch the contents of what he delivers. But in today’s Cloud environments there are no such laws and standards so companies are free to make their own…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: Chris Talbot.

Application performance monitoring has only becoming increasingly more important as more and more applications are migrated to the cloud. Plenty of vendors are talking about the importance of monitoring cloud services. Now Boundary is looking to help customers of Google Compute Engine monitor and receive visualizations of the apps they run on the Google (GOOG) cloud service.

A new member of the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program, Boundary has based its business on what it calls "the first central intelligence service for modern IT operations management." The cloud service analyzes and correlates per-second application traffic "chatter" with input from third-party management tools. The goal is to provide IT administration teams with an early warning system so they’re aware when cloud services and applications are facing a failure…

Grazed from Channelnomics.  Author: Larry Walsh.

Vendors love cloud computing, at least in theory. The cloud computing model offers something many IT companies — vendors and solution providers alike — have never seen: recurring, predicable and accruing revenue. And, because cloud can be delivered at scale with fewer resources, such services are inherently more profitable.

Cloud economics aren’t lost on businesses. Rather than building and maintaining their own IT systems and applications, cloud computing promises to lower costs by making applications and resources more affordable through fractional recurring fees.  Here’s the problem: Businesses are worried about getting trapped in a service provider’s cloud…

Grazed from ZeeNews.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Invention of a new technology in the hardware is going to make data encryption more secure on the Internet, a new study has revealed.   According to the study conducted by MIT researchers found that cloud computing, a process of outsourcing computational tasks over the Internet, could give home-computer users unprecedented processing power and let small companies launch sophisticated Web services without building massive server farms. However, it also raises privacy concerns.

A bank of cloud servers could be running applications for 1,000 customers at once; unbeknownst to the hosting service, one of those applications might have no purpose other than spying on the other 999.   Encryption could make cloud servers more secure. Only when the data is actually being processed would it be decrypted; the results of any computations would be re-encrypted before they’re sent off-chip…

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Brandon Butler.

The public cloud computing market is becoming increasingly competitive with new entrants focusing on hybrid offerings that combine public and private clouds. That’s leaving some asking the market-leading public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services, where its private cloud offering is.

The question was posed to Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels at GigaOm Structure last month and Vogels didn’t give any indication of plans to offer customers a way to run Amazon-style clouds on their premises behind their own firewalls. Instead, he says the company offers a variety of ways for customers to build private-like cloud on Amazon’s infrastructure. Also, acknowledging that customers will not abandon their own resources, Amazon has built ways to connect existing on-premises systems with its public cloud. “We’ve been doing quite a bit for people looking for that model,” Vogels said.For example, the company has tools like:..

Grazed from HCAMag.  Author: Cameron Edmond.

Cloud computing and the opportunities that come with it have quickly swept through the business world, and most organisations wouldn’t be blamed if they weren’t quite sure where the path leads.

Although the concept of offshore data storage is anything but new, its recent proliferation has meant that an understanding of the laws and regulations involved may be further behind than anyone wants to admit…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: CJ Arlotta.

Technology distributor Avant Communications Inc. has tapped private cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Unitas Global to provide private cloud services for its partners and customers.

Avant said the partnership will customer companies with a single source solution for designed, deployed and managed complex IT environments. Avant Executive Vice President Jennifer Gallego said in her prepared remarks that Unitas bridges the gaps in various technologies for Avant customers and partners…

Grazed from ITWire.  Author: Peter Dinham.

With global spend on cloud-based integration platforms expected to reach US$3.7 billion by the end of 2018, Ovum says vendors must effectively communicate and demonstrate cost benefits and return on investment (ROI) models associated with a shift to iPaaS, or they are “risking their slice of a market forecast to grow 31% over the next five years.”…

Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: James Bourne.

As cloud computing continues to materialise and mature in the fabric of today’s IT, one of the primary barriers to widespread adoption is the high proportion of legacy ICT in many companies.  That’s according to the latest survey, this time from NTT Europe polling 300 CIOs and IT decision makers on current trends, barriers and solutions.

56% of those surveyed cited the complexity of their IT layout as the biggest barrier to large scale cloud adoption, with the figure rising to 70% in the public sector.  In some cases, the reason for being so attached to older IT software is financial. 28% of respondents said their legacy systems were too expensive – or valuable – to completely trash…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that VMworld(R) 2013 U.S. makes its return to San Francisco Aug. 25-29 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, celebrating the 10th annual event in the United States. VMworld 2013 Europe will be held Oct. 14-17 at Fira Barcelona Gran Via in Barcelona. With more than 28,000 attendees expected worldwide, VMworld 2013 will spotlight VMware and the industry’s commitment to the era of innovation and mobility through a new world of computing.

This year’s VMworld theme, "Defy Convention" focuses on how attendees will gain tools to transform conventional remedies into seamless, agile solutions that dramatically simplify operations, provide unmatched business advantages, and extend the benefits of virtualization to all areas of the data center…