Grazed from BankSecurity Info. Author: Tracy Kitten.

Last year, federal regulators issued FFIEC authentication guidance for online transactions. But, unfortunately, regulators apparently don’t plan to issue additional guidance on the security issues involved in mobile banking and cloud computing.

Larger institutions don’t really need guidance on these topics. Most are addressing risks out of necessity. Higher transaction volumes expose them to more fraud. Besides, they have the staff and budgets in place to help mitigate risks…

Grazed from RealWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, is partnering with worldwide IT solutions and services provider Unisys to help businesses to realise both immediate and long-term business value through with a simpler, more straightforward and more disciplined approach to cloud computing.

The initiative will combine Interoute’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capability, including its Virtual Data Centre (VDC), with Unisys cloud advisory, implementation and management services portfolio…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Clive Grayson.

The benefits of removing the capital investment and the day to day management of hardware and software to leverage an on-demand, metered computing service, charged on a consumption basis, are now widely accepted. The rise in cloud computing is indicative of our need to make the most efficient use of resources and minimise costs by accessing computing resources and infrastructure when, and as, it is needed.

This business model has drawn many comparisons between the cloud and what we think of as more traditional, public ‘utility services’ such as gas, electricity and water. Yet, to what extent are these comparisons valid? Are we at the stage where cloud services can be accessed and delivered in the same way as any other utility service; where we can activate the service quickly and easily, switch the service on and off, and easily move between different providers?…

Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

Technology vendors, including CloudBees, Cloudsoft Corporation, Huawei, Oracle, Rackspace, Red Hat, and Software AG, have announced Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) management Application Programming Interface (API) specification.

Designed for managing both public and private cloud applications, including packaging and deployment of the applications, CAMP will be submitted to Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for development of an industry standard, in an effort to help ensure interoperability for deploying and managing applications across cloud environments…

Grazed from Washington Post. Author: Editorial Staff.

Baidu Inc., which operates China’s most popular search engine, has released a mobile browser and says it will invest in a cloud computing center as growth in Internet use shifts to mobile phones.

Baidu dominates China’s Internet search market but has been slower than some competitors such as Tencent and UCWeb to expand in mobile Web access. China has the world’s most populous Internet market and the number of people who go online via mobile phones and tablet computers is growing twice as fast as the overall market…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Rick Blaisdell.

Europe has been at the forefront of global development, having led the colonization of a huge portion of the world. Economic and social empowerment has been on an upward scale, making it a developed country. Surprisingly, a huge proportion of the population is yet to venture into cloud computing. Considering that, there is only one Europe, and most of us would not expect such slow uptake of a game-changing innovation, let me state that again.

A study by BSA, 34% of Europeans were aware of cloud computing service and had actually consumed such. In the study, over 4000 individuals were interviewed from across Europe, with the aim of assessing their views regarding cloud computing. Reponses to questions regarding what cloud computing is ranged from ‘I have no idea what it is’ to ‘I have never heard of it’…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Alex Benick.

Mellanox, a maker of Infiniband interconnects and switches, has doubled its sales in the last two quarters. What is behind its recent success and what does that say about Mellanox, Infiniband and the current state of scale out data center networking?

A lot has been written lately about networking, including the software-defined variety, but one of the below-the-radar stories has been the rebirth of InfiniBand. Mention InfiniBand band amongst venture capitalists and you will likely get some dirty looks…

Grazed from Android Authority. Author: Chris Smith.

Earlier this year, among the plethora of pre-release Galaxy S3-related rumors we’ve seen was one that mentioned the next Samsung smartphone will come pre loaded with the company’s own cloud solution. Dubbed S Cloud, the Samsung cloud was seen as a direct response to Apple’s iCloud that became available to iOS, OS X and Windows users once iOS 5 was released back in October 2011.

Samsung never unveiled the S Cloud in May, or later, and we had to put a pin in the rumor. But it looks like Samsung’s cloud-computing solution has been spotted on the Galaxy Note 2 right at IFA 2012, as a S Cloud app can already be found on the phablet that was announced only last week…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: James Staten and Lauren E. Nelson.

In 2012, Forrester predicted that cloud computing would move out of the shadows and become a mainstream technology.

This means big changes in the test and development process, business intelligence and corporate governance areas. CIOs need to look beyond their IT department and go even further – beyond the four walls of their corporate headquarters – to make their cloud strategy a success.

Cloud technologies have matured nearly across the board, as have transparency, security and best practice use and adoption (see Figure 1). Cloud is no longer a toddler; it has entered the awkward teenage years. While many of us would prefer to spare our kids the angst of adolescence, the painful lessons of the teenage years make us who we are today…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

The Linux Foundation wrapped up its CloudOpen conference this weekend at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in San Diego.

Billed as "the only" conference providing a collaboration and education space dedicated to advancing the open cloud, but what kind of taste did it leave in our mouths?

Can we say unequivocally that ALL open source cloud computing is ALL good news? Some might argue that it is, but (and it’s a big but) with both OpenStack and CloudStack in existence, plus the rise of deviations and modifications upon both standards… and then corporate vendor-driven spin in between…