Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Editorial Staff.

AccelOps Cloud Security Survey Report surveyed some 176 IT security personnel and they ranked BYOD as the top source for fear of incurring data loss and having the need for heightened data control. This is the traditional topic or cloud worriers and opponents of cloud computing which only helps in propagating the myth that cloud computing in not secure. ISC2’s January research shows that explicitly linked cloud computing to the creation of personal device policies.

But the take away from the research is that companies who support BYOD have happier employees while also needing to increase their cloud security knowledge and skills. The same research survey shows that 78% of the participants consider BYOD as a “somewhat or very significant risk”. Read More…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

The HIPAA and HITECH compliancy regulations are increasingly having an effect on cloud and hosted services. As cloud computing catches on in all vertical markets, health care professionals are seeing the advantages of having their data and apps in the cloud, but if the average business has concerns over security, those concerns are multiplied tenfold in the health care sector. With that in mind, 8×8 is now supporting HIPAA and HITECH in its Virtual Office VoIP phone service.

With the scrutiny health care providers are put under when it comes to securing patient and customer data, it only makes sense for such organizations to look to providers that aim to work to provide regulation-compliant cloud solutions. 8×8 is just one vendor working to help its vertical customers comply with strict privacy legislations, and the company has been building out its cloud communications services to comply with FISMA, PCI-DSS and CPNI requirements…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.

Google has added a new notification to its Cloud Storage service, allowing applications to automatically take action when new content is uploaded by users. Normally, applications would have to poll for changes, which can be a resource waste or cause the application to react slowly. Also, writing and deploying custom scripts to trigger an application is cumbersome for developers, Google said in a blog post. But the object change notification will change that and seemingly make life a little easier for developers.

The notification is used to monitor Google Cloud Storage buckets for new, modified or deleted objects. For example, when a users adds a new picture to a bucket, an application could be notified to automatically create a thumbnail. The application and the bucket communicate using a so-called notification channel. A website detailing the feature shows how to add one…

Grazed from GetApp. Author: PR Announcement.

GetApp is now the largest independent small business marketplace for cloud applications in the world, the company announced today. More than 5,000 top-tier business app developers have signed on to GetApp to offer affordable and easy-to-use applications to millions of businesses. Software as a Service (SaaS) – or cloud-based business apps – have become the fastest growing segment of the cloud computing industry, according to Forrester. Likewise, Gartner predicts that the cloud computing industry will reach $148 billion by 2014.

“We believe that the cloud is a game changer for all businesses and that the 5000-plus SaaS solutions we offer have put small and medium sized businesses on a more level IT playing field with larger companies,” says Christophe Primault, CEO of GetApp…

Grazed from ProfitBricks. Author: PR Announcement.

ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, today released a case study detailing how its cloud computing 2.0 solution can help SaaS companies achieve their business goals.

SchoolBrains, a global provider of sophisticated data management, analytical and assessment solutions for PreK-12 school districts, implemented ProfitBricks’ IaaS solution across multiple school districts. In doing so, SchoolBrains demonstrated how cloud computing 2.0 infrastructure can help SaaS companies operate more effectively and efficiently while enhancing application performance…

Grazed from Smart Data Collective. Author: Gadi Yedwab.

Data stored in SaaS applications is often inaccessible to BI tools. This is a major headache to early adopters of SaaS applications. With on-premise applications, IT departments can bypass the application and access data directly from the underlying database. With multi-tenant SaaS applications, such direct database access is not available because the database is shared with other customers.

Understanding the Problem
Ideally, all data access should go through the application. There are some very compelling reasons to go through the application:…

Grazed from InforTrend. Author: PR Announcement.

Infortrend Corporation today announced the new EonStor DS G7i Series’ dedication to mission-critical Tier III data centers. The G7i SAN storage solution delivers high-availability RAID storage to SMBs and enterprises whose business operations heavily depend on the reliability of their IT environments, such as companies who generate their revenue through online business models. Providers of cloud services and software as a service (SaaS) place heavy emphasis on the security and dependability of their storage, which is why their IT departments rely on the 99.982% availability of Tier III data centers, as opposed to Tier I and Tier II options, which have numerous points of failure and require shutdowns for maintenance.

The EonStor DS G7i Series is designed specifically to match the needs of aggressive and complex applications housed in Tier III data centers. VMware VAAI-Ready and boasting high-availability product design features such as RAID controllers, CacheSafe technology, and hot-swappable components ensure that stored data is safe in the event of an untimely power outage or drive failure. The "scale as you grow" flexibility of the G7i series allows companies to scale up to 240 disk drives through high-density expansion enclosures, including Infortrend’s 4U/48-bay JBOD…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Where are the majority of software publishers focusing their efforts in the next year? They may just be following Adobe’s (NASDAQ:ABDE) lead this week as it pulled the plug on the packaged software version of its creative suite. A recent study by SafeNet, Inc. and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) revealed that 75 percent of software publishers plan to offer at least some of their product portfolios as a service by the end of 2013. What’s the common driver for software publishers to offer cloud-based services? We’ll reveal the answer, along with other key findings from the report.

Even though more than one-third of software publishers have yet to offer cloud-based services, those 75 percent who do have plans to offer part of their portfolios as a service within the next year say they are hoping to reduce operational costs associated with product delivery, activation and support. The study revealed that 65 percent of software publishers are offering all or a portion of their portfolios as a cloud service. Cloud services, on average, comprise 24 percent of a company’s software portfolio…

Grazed from Channel Partners. Author: Khali Henderson.

Dell Software announced Tuesday a new release of Dell Boomi AtomSphere, its cloud integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) solution, which now includes API management capabilities, and support for Integration Packs and process libraries. Dell Boomi AtomSphere enables customer to connect any combination of cloud and on-remises applications without software, appliances or coding.

"We’ve inverted the classic integration approach," said Chris McNabb, general manager for Dell Boomi, explaining that traditionally integration centralizes messaging in a data center by connecting all the enterprise assets via middleware on a hardware stack. "We’ve done the exact opposite. What we have centralized is where configure and how you configure your processes and build them out and define them, … and, how you managed and administer them. We put that in a central cloud location."…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Wiqar Chaudry.

New breakthroughs in cloud-based data management empower databases with the necessary elasticity they need to be truly responsive to the ebbs and tides of supply and demand. Cloud computing allows all capital assets – computing power, memory and storage for example – to be exchanged at the best price, giving everyone the best value for their money. Like any free market, it will only deliver its full benefits to buyers and sellers if the right conditions are available. There can be no barriers to entry, and assets in the cloud must be capable of free movement.

Unfortunately, the unsuitability of traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS) has created such a blockage. Their lack of elasticity or liquidity demobilizes computing resources. However, new developments in cloud database technology (like database bursting and hibernating functions) show how the database component can have the necessary fluidity to bring cloud-computing closer to ‘perfect market’ conditions and begin to deliver its full benefits…