Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Fernanda Aspe.

IT experts and cloud consumers understand the need for cloud standards, but standardization seems like an elusive possibility when the objectives of those standards remain undefined. Typically, standards are created to drive a market; end users or consumers usually have little say in the process of standardization.

"We end up with standards created to service technology providers, not the consumers," said David S. Linthicum, CTO and founder of cloud computing experts company, Blue Mountain Labs…

Grazed from Mobile Magazine. Author: Andrew Grush.

When you think of desktop computing, Motorola is probably one of the last brands that come to mind. Motorola is one of the kings of the Android smartphone and tablet world, right? While that’s true, it’s not stopping Google and Motorola from bringing out a new Android-powered desktop solution.

The new CloudBB is specifically targeted at the Chinese market and is described as a “home entertainment terminal”. As you can probably guess, this is a cloud computing device design to replace a PC…

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.

The concept of cloud refers to the paperless computer hardware resources (cloud computing) and software (Software as a Service). This model tends technology strategically to win business. But it could reshape the IT landscape especially professional to lead to a new paradigm – thanks to the emergence of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As a result, the market for computing resources may be profoundly changed. Why? Because companies no longer need to invest in loss of hardware and software overused. They can now hire Amazon Web Services tailored to their needs. For the two major advantages of this model are its flexibility and measurability…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Roger Jennings.

Microsoft added another arrow to its cloud computing quiver last month with the announcement of the technical preview of Windows Azure Services for Windows Server. The move enables cloud hosting service providers to offer customers subscriptions to multi-tenant Windows Azure VMs and high-density websites with SQL Server or MySQL databases from a private cloud. Whether enterprise IT can pass down this or similar self-service provisioning features to end users is the question.

The Windows Azure Services for Windows Server (WAS4WS) technical preview (TP) for Hosting Service Providers (HSP) provides only Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) core services for a private cloud — stateful virtual machines (VMs) and websites with persistent storage and optional SQL Server or MySQL back ends…

Grazed from American Banker. Author: Editorial Staff.

Federal agencies are starting to catch up to the risks posed by cloud computing. This is sure to stimulate compliance IT projects at financial institutions. A premium will be placed on data that’s in flight, or traveling the vulnerable path between banks and third parties.

CipherCloud , whose clients include two of the five largest U.S. banks, late this week debuted a new product called CipherCloud Connect AnyApp. The product is designed to encrypt data in transit, in use or at rest for public and private cloud applications — including infrastructure-as-as-service (IaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS). IaaS refers to the outsourcing of equipment used to support operations, such as storage and servers. PaaS refers to the leasing of operating systems, storage and network capacity over the internet. SaaS is a software distribution method in which hosted applications are delivered to firms over the web. Each of these methods involves some form of data transfer to a host, which places it under FFIEC’s guidance…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Adam Greene.

In the world of enterprise IT, cloud computing is on everybody’s mind. Remote data hosting is helping many organizations streamline daily processes and lesson the burden of IT infrastructure maintenance. The cloud makes our information less expensive, more secure (usually), and more accessible. We hold these truths to be self-evident.

But can cloud computing solve all of our enterprise challenges? The answer, of course, is no. While the arrival of the cloud will help organizations remain competitive over the long term, there are several business challenges that, as much as we’d like to solve them, the cloud is unable to ameliorate on its own. Here are five of them:…

Demystifying the Virtual Black Hole: Effective Access, Management and Monitoring of the New Network

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Prince B Alo.

Despite the growing success of cloud computing and big data service, they are relatively new factors in the enterprise technology market and thus come with their share of unfolding concerns. For businesses, security and privacy-protection concerns could be as big as return on investments and other cost-related factors.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a nonprofit partnership of about 100 major tech companies (including Google, Adobe, AT&T, and Fujitsu) appears to be the most active organization working to address these concerns. CSA’s latest cloud focus comes with the launching of its Big Data Working Group (BDWG), led by communications and IT specialist firm Fujitsu Laboratories of America…

Grazed from Computing. Author: Editorial Staff.

If cloud computing manages to evolve to where it should do, the end result for organisations is a mixed environment of internal and external IT platforms that stretch beyond their direct control into the value chain of suppliers and customers, and beyond to others providing services along a complex business-to-business (B2B) chain.

Historically, organisations have been able to exert a level of control through ownership of the IT stack from hardware through operating systems to applications, and have been able to ring-fence their systems through identifying where the responsibilities of their organisation ended, generally at a point defined by the use of a firewall…