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Cloud Security Corporation, a Nevada corporation specializing in security technology for cloud computing, today announced it filed for U.S. Patent protection (U.S. Serial Number 61/832,534) on June 7th for system and methods for one-time password generation on a mobile computing device. This process reduces several risk factors related to current one-time password technology.

Current one-time password technology on mobile computing devices has several points of vulnerability. These vulnerabilities are present during device theft, remote hacking and related in part to the time based nature of most algorithms for one-time passwords. This can lead to a device being compromised and the one-time password technology falling under control of the perpetrator…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

OpenStack is a good foundation for a private cloud, but some say it’s hard to master all the skills you need to get the different components to work together. Maybe Python isn’t your thing. Still, you want your cloud operations to be on your hardware in your data center. OpenStack is one way to do it.

Metacloud says it will do that for you — build an OpenStack cloud on your hardware at your premises — then operate it for you remotely. "It’s a new paradigm," said Metacloud CEO Sean Lynch, a former senior VP of technical operations at Ticketmaster. Metacloud has released its Metacloud Carbon|OS version of OpenStack to serve as the foundation for private clouds…

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Accumedic Computer Systems, Inc., provider of intelligent EHR solutions, announced the launch of AccuMed™ Cloud. It’s the latest evolution of their comprehensive agency management solutions for behavioral health. Now AccuMed™ EHR, the ONC certified software that seamlessly integrates every aspect of clinical documentation and revenue cycles, can be delivered as a service (SaaS) via the AccuMed secure cloud data center.

The AccuMed cloud solution provides increased accessibility, greater workflow efficiency, and improved security over traditional client-server systems. Users can enjoy the complete functionality of any AccuMed system and access all of their clinical data wherever there is an Internet connection. There is no software to install or IT infrastructure to maintain. All that is required to leverage the power of the AccuMed Cloud is a Windows tablet, laptop or PC. The AccuMed Cloud provides HIPAA compliant security with top-level data encryption. All data is housed in SSAE 16 compliant data centers at multiple locations with bank-level security ensuring data safety and security in the event of a disaster…

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Piracle, a Utah-based company, launched the first and only SaaS application that is completely integrated into NetSuite, making accounts payable and payroll processes more efficient. Piracle Pay Service for NetSuite (PPS) allows NetSuite users to print MICR encoded checks and generate electronic ACH payments. NetSuite, a widely used Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, has effectively incorporated their cloud-based services into large and small businesses. Following suit, Piracle launched their cloud-based PPS application.

Piracle’s President and CEO John Bechard said Piracle’s move into the cloud was influenced heavily by NetSuite. John said the Piracle team, who has been using NetSuite for seven years, wanted to take a step into a new type of technology along with one of their partners, ultimately benefiting customers with complete integration of the two products…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Gabe Knuth.

Bromium announced the latest release of its micro-virtualization desktop security tool, vSentry 2.0, with improvements around mobile connections, document sharing and Intel support. Bromium vSentry is a unique approach to desktop security that uses micro-virtualization to isolate application threads to protect the host from malware. The product treats everything as untrusted while allowing only certain functions on the host to interact with the thread. In this manner, it can allow malware to execute fully without ever actually compromising a system — and still gives users full access to the sites and files they need.

Building on the 1.0 release, Bromium has reduced the size of its code base by developing the entire tool around Xen. Prior to this, there were other components that were needed to provide a certain level of functionality, but Xen has progressed to the point where it can now be used for everything vSentry needs to do. With Xen, vSentry can take advantage of processors that support Intel’s VT-d solution, which enables the isolation and management of device access to virtual machines (VMs)…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Amazon (AMZN) Web Services is once again putting pricing pressure on its customers. The cloud computing company announced it has reduced the pricing on both on-demand and reserved instance pricing for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

According to a blog entry on the AWS blog, Amazon has reduced on-demand prices by as much as 18 percent for MySQL and Oracle BYOL (bring your own license), and by 28 percent for SQL Server BYOL. The rates officially went into effect at the beginning of June…

Grazed from Guardian. Author: Pravin Kothari.

In the last five years, organisations have increasingly embraced cloud applications to help them innovate and transform their business. Applications that automate sales processes, HR management, collaboration, email and file sharing are growing fast and enabling organisations to meet their needs in a shorter timeframe than ever before.

Cloud applications are ubiquitously employed across all industries. However, there are increased concerns about security and compliance of sensitive information, particularly in banking, insurance and in the public sector. A wide range of regulations and privacy laws make organisations directly responsible for protecting regulated information, but when this data is stored in the cloud, they have less direct control over leaks, theft or forced legal disclosure…

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Legacy systems requiring manual management of IT structure have fallen to the wayside, one by one, as automated cloud computing systems have usurped the place of typical IT professionals and infrastructure managers. Unrest has shaken the industry since at least 2010, and the same advice has been issued over and over again, in varying tones. Forbes contributor Reuven Cohen put it bluntly: "You can adapt or die.”

Today, IT professionals must expect greater collaboration with other business units. According to IT World , business analysts and project managers will be in high demand concerning IT, as "user requirements must still be collected, cloud-based vendors must still be selected, and applications must still be integrated into business processes.” Technologists, security specialists, and infrastructure specialists will all be in high demand…

Grazed from Polygon. Author: Samit Sarkar.

Forza Motorsport 5’s developers at Turn 10 Studios are bringing the power of cloud computing to bear in an attempt to deliver a personalized racing title that tailors your experience to the way you play and carries it forth even when you’re not playing.

The cornerstone of Forza 5’s cloud functionality is a feature called Drivatar (pronounced DRIVE-uh-tar), which the studio showed off during Microsoft’s E3 press briefing yesterday. Drivatar actually debuted in the original Forza Motorsport in 2005, but according to Bill Giese, design director of Forza 5, Turn 10 didn’t have the technology to realize its vision for the feature until the Xbox One…

Grazed from DefenseSystems. Author: John Edwards.

As DOD begins sending its most sensitive information into the cloud, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a new generation of resilient cloud services that are designed to maintain and support military objectives during a cyber attack.

According to DARPA, a traditional perimeter defense focus can’t sufficiently secure existing network enclaves. The approach is even less likely to provide reliable security in cloud environments, where a massive concentration of homogeneous hosts on high-speed networks lack internal checks and rely on implicit trust among hosts within limited perimeter defenses…