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…

Grazed from OneStopClick. Author: Editorial Staff.

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…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

ScienceLogic, a leading provider of IT operations and cloud management software, today announced PagerDuty, the SaaS-based provider of IT alerting and incident management software, has joined the ScienceLogic Partner Ecosystem. The new partnership and intelligent product integration offers robust notification capabilities for the broad spectrum of IT management available through the ScienceLogic platform.

The new integration provides seamless incident sync along with unique, in-depth reporting features giving users insight into key metrics out-of-the-box that they otherwise wouldn’t have. Examples of these metrics include incident resolution for trending and monitoring availability for SLA support…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Looking to meet several government requirements, Dell (DELL) has released a new solution called Dell Cloud for U.S. Government to provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). The solutions add 275 security controls to keep data and services secured and isolated. Here are the details.

Dell said Dell Cloud for U.S. Government was designed to meet the requirements of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) approval process and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 criteria. It was also developed to meet cloud commitments outlined by the U.S. Chief CIO…

Grazed from Network World. Author: Ellen Messmer.

Security monitoring — the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) — can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you’re using public cloud services, it’s time to think about doing it.

Security monitoring of assets that the enterprise has placed in cloud is still not a common practice, but it really should be, said Gartner analyst Anton Chuvakin during his presentation this week at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit. There is always a “loss of control” when turning corporate data assets over to the cloud, Chuvakin says, but “you can compensate by increasing the visibility that comes with collection of logs and network traffic.”…

Grazed from Network World. Author: Jon Gold.

Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS. The centerpiece of the company’s press conference — held today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston — were Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, both of which are essentially prepackaged combinations of the company’s existing products.

RHEL OpenStack Platform bundles RHEL Server with Red Hat OpenStack under a single subscription model. President of Products and Technologies Paul Cormier said that the idea is to provide a reliable user experience across all parts of a hybrid cloud environment…