Cloud Computing Offers Text Message Monitoring for Midsize Businesses
Grazed from MidSize Insider. Author: Jennifer Marsh.
As mobile phones and smartphones become prominent in business processes, text messaging is also a way for business employees to communicate. Just like monitoring email messages is necessary for company protection, businesses have also needed a way to monitor text messages in case of data theft or when employees sell company data to a competitor. For midsize businesses, keeping data secure from competitors is an important aspect when entrusting employees with data communications outside of the corporate network…
Cloud security accreditation program takes flight
Grazed from NextGov. Author: Katherine McIntire.
The federal government on Wednesday will begin accepting security certification applications from companies that provide software services and data storage through the cloud.
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the governmentwide cloud security assessment plan known as FedRAMP, aims to protect federal data as agencies increasingly turn to Web-based storage and computing…
Cloud Computing and the USA Patriot Act: Canadian Implications
A perennial issue in Canadian privacy law is what to do about the USA Patriot Act. Just when we think we have things reasonably sorted out, the issues pop up again in a new context. This time it is cloud computing.
What’s the USA Patriot Act?
The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (usually referred to as the “USA Patriot Act” or just the “Patriot Act”) is US legislation that was passed following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City. Among other things, the Patriot Act made it easier for US law enforcement officials to intercept electronic communications and business records. One of the controversial measures was that officials were granted the power to issue a National Security Letter to electronic communication service providers requiring them to hand over information without informing the affected parties (in some cases without any judicial oversight)…
Cloud Computing: Oracle to buy cloud firm Collective Intellect
Oracle Corp. ORCL +1.15% agreed to acquire text-mining and analytics software maker Collective Intellect as the business-software company continues its buying spree aimed at web-based software.
Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
Collective Intellect’s cloud-based software monitors, understands and responds to consumers’ conversations on social-media platforms such as Facebook Inc. (FB) and Twitter. The company’s customers include Hasbro Inc. (HAS), Nestle S.A.’s (NSRGY, NESN.VX) Nestle Purina PetCare Co., and PepsiCo Inc. (PEP)…
Chip giant vows to improve cloud computing security
Server chip juggernaut Intel Corp. vowed Tuesday to improve cloud computing security in collaboration with computer security firm McAfee Inc. over the next five years, with the aim of providing better cloud computing solutions.
Intel, a multinational chip maker, is aiming to make cloud security "equal to or better than traditional best-in-class enterprise security," said Boyd Davis, the company’s Architecture Group vice president.
Although more and more people have adopted cloud computing solutions based on agility and efficiency, some are still hesitant due to some challenges, he said in a keynote speech at a cloud computing forum at Computex Taipei, Asia’s largest computer trade show…
The right way to transform your business via the cloud
The No. 1 question I get: What’s the best approach to transform my enterprise to gain the benefits of cloud computing? The answer depends on so many factors that having one right answer is impossible. As much as we might wish otherwise, there is no one-size-fits-all approach.
However, I can clue you in on what to consider through self-assessments to get you closer to the right answer for your situation.
First, think about people. The core issue hindering the movement to cloud computing is the people in the organization. This means talent and attitude. The best way to test the cloud attitude in your organization is to go into a staff meeting and at some point say you want to talk about "cloud computing." You’ll quickly see the scale of your people problem:..
Cloud Pricing: Amazon, Microsoft Keep Cutting
During the first week of March, two tech giants dropped their cloud computing prices within two days of each other. First, Amazon Web Services, the market pioneer in infrastructure-as-a-service, dropped prices on its core EC2 service and slashed the hourly rate for long-term contracts. Two days later, Microsoft dropped prices on its Windows Azure compute and storage services, including a 50% cut for entry- level servers. AWS and Microsoft are up against new competitors as well as each other, a promising sign for would-be cloud buyers hoping to see prices fall further.
AWS is angling for more big customers. For example, it cut the price of a small on-demand Windows server by 4%, from $0.12 to $0.115 an hour. But it cut the price of Reserved Instances (requiring a one-year commitment) as much as 33%. Under the new deal, a Windows Server can be had for a year with an up-front payment of $2,400 and $0.264 per hour, compared with $0.92 per hour on demand. Amazon promises bigger volume discounts. If you intend to spend $5 million or more this year, "give us a call. …We look forward to speaking with you," wrote AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr in a blog post…
Document Delivery Service and Social Media, Infotrieve Releases New Thought Leadership Briefing
Today Infotrieve announced the release of the first in a new series of thought leadership briefings titled “Cloud-based computing and secure social media: Enhancing business value for enterprises reliant on content for innovation and collaboration.” The briefing is focused on utilizing cloud computing as a platform for document delivery service and secure content storage and management and the value of secure social networking collaboration for CIOs, IT leaders and users of e-content. Traditionally, corporate library users have used a delivery service to acquire scientific articles and other copyrighted materials required for their work in R&D or other professional areas of expertise. The software delivery platforms for these activities have evolved relatively slowly. Some older systems still require that the library user access multiple systems to search for, order and then obtain usage rights for copyrighted materials…
Adaptive Computing and NICE Software Deliver A Joint Solution For Visualization Workload Optimization
Adaptive Computing, managers of the world’s largest supercomputing systems and experts in HPC workload management and Cloud management solutions and NICE Software, a visualization software and services company, today announced their joint solution to deliver a Technical Visualization Private Cloud with Adaptive’s Moab HPC Suite and NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (NICE DCV) and EnginFrame products. This solution makes it possible to view and manipulate complex 3D simulations remotely on PCs and mobile devices by centralizing physical or virtual visualization workstations to the data center and transferring pixels instead of data allowing a reduction in capital and management costs, an improvement in data processing, security, workforce collaboration and productivity and a reduction in network congestion. This complete solution will be demonstrated at ISC ’12 in Hamburg, Germany, June 18-20, 2012 in booth # 147…
From ultrabooks to the cloud, NVIDIA takes Computex by storm
The computer market has gone through significant changes over the past decade and GPU market leader NVIDIA has been pursuing new opportunities in mobile processors for the smartphone and tablet markets, addressing the challenges of cloud computing while also providing innovative solutions in the high-performance computing (HPC) space. However, if you ask NVIDIA how it views itself, the company will tell you that computer graphics remain at the center of everything it does, with the focus now being on making graphics performance more efficient.