Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

SSAE 16 Professionals has unveiled a specialty service line focusing on SSAE 16 (SOC 1) and SOC 2 reports for cloud computing companies. Cloud computing can be thought of as web-based tools or applications that users can access and use through a web browser as if the programs were installed locally on their own computers. Companies are increasingly seeking cloud service providers to reduce costs in their own business. By running applications through the cloud, a company can eliminate the costs associated with buying, maintaining, and securing the hardware to run the applications while maximizing the application’s potential to store data on remote servers. Cloud computing is also scalable, which is beneficial to fast growing companies who may need to ramp up staff quickly over the next several years. With so much emphasis and reliance on controls at the cloud computing provider, having a SSAE 16 or SOC 2 is not only recommended, but it is almost mandatory in today’s competitive marketplace…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

As businesses embrace the transformative power of cloud computing to gain a significant advantage, IBM today unveiled advancements to its SmartCloud Services and announced new customers and partners that demonstrate IBM SmartCloud is a leading enterprise cloud platform for business.

 

IBM has seen rapid adoption of its SmartCloud portfolio as customers and partners move to the cloud. IBM manages massive amounts of data and client transactions in its cloud environments, including:

1 million enterprise application users working on the IBM Cloud

More than $100 billion in commerce transactions a year in the cloud

4.5 million daily client transactions conducted through the IBM Cloud…

Grazed from Technology Spectator.  AuthorL  Courtney Dodds.

What is the hottest cloud-computing market in the Asia-Pacific region? This is the question on the top of the minds of many CIO, CFO, CTO and cloud vendors. It is often accompanied by the follow-up question: where is the most revenue being generated? Seemingly, the answer to the second question will satisfy the first.

At first glance, this assumption seems harmless and an acceptable method to determine where APAC’s cloud-computing market is taking off with the greatest confidence. However, this type of ‘revenue first’ analysis can be detrimental for anyone making decisions based on the experiences of the countries that lead our region’s cloud computing. This is because it largely ignores the critical activity within each country that will ultimately determine the cloud winners and losers…

Grazed from New York Times.  Author: Mickey Meece.

One day, you’ll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put information, photos and music on a floppy disk, a memory card or a USB fob to carry it from one device to another. You’ll tell them how it was called sneakernet because you had to physically move the data.

They will look at you funny, pat your hand and continue to take personal cloud storage for granted.

Now, however, you can be forgiven for thinking it is a bit of a marvel. A number of companies store your data free and make it accessible to whatever device you are using, wherever you are, as long as you have Internet connection…

Grazed from InfoStor.  Author: Kenneth Corbin.

With enterprises steadily expanding their cloud computing deployments, traditional Fibre Channel storage architectures are falling out of step with the elastic, scalable requirements that cloud and big data applications demand, according to Coraid, a startup specializing in alternative storage arrays.

Coraid’s pitch is to pair commodity hardware and Ethernet with its own software to create an Ethernet SAN storage array it calls EtherDrive, for which it touts significant price savings and performance improvements over legacy storage.

"As enterprises adopt private cloud architectures, storage design is a critical consideration for cost, performance and manageability," said Coraid CEO Kevin Brown…

Grazed from Talkin Cloud.  Author: Joe Panettieri.

Combined cloud services revenues hit $2.3 billion for the world’s Top 100 Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) in 2011, up 45.6 percent from 2010, according to the second annual Talkin’ Cloud 100 survey results, released today.

To drive those cloud services revenues, CSPs are partnering up with some key cloud computing and virtualization companies. Among our survey participants, the most frequently mentioned cloud computing, cloud services and virtualization partners included:…

Grazed Financial Post.   Author:  Mitchell Osak.

Over the past 18 months, I have spent a great deal of time talking with CIOs about their Cloud Computing plans.  Despite the potential value, many firms have taken a cautious approach to deploying applications in the cloud.  And, it’s not for lack of interest or intent.  The current economic and regulatory climate has squeezed IT budgets and heightened sensitivity around business and brand risks.  Furthermore, Cloud Computing continues to evolve, driven as much by hype and technology as it is by user needs and perceptions. Companies will suCloud Computingessfully leverage Cloud Computing if they can align their IT strategies to their corporate priorities, understand and adopt relevant Cloud Computing best practices and overcome organizational barriers…

Grazed from Mortgage Professional.  Author: Editorial Staff.

LenderMobile, a provider of mobile mortgage loan applications for iPads, has added two new features to its LenderMobile+ flagship app in response to users’ requests. The new imaging feature lets loan originators and borrowers take photos of documents with the iPad camera and add the images to loan files through cloud computing technology. Plus, the new loan notes feature lets users add notes to a loan file directly from their iPad.

On the iPad screen, loan originators can click the new photo button of the LenderMobile+ app to take pictures of documents for a loan file, such as W-2 forms, tax returns, paystubs and drivers licenses, and do so from anywhere, from a borrower’s home to the local coffee house. Or users can choose from the iPad app’s library of photos to add to a loan file. This feature gives users the option of cancelling photos, so they can re-take photos of documents if not satisfied with the original ones…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

CloudPassage, the leading provider of public and private cloud server security, expanded its team today with the appointment of Andrew Hay as Chief Evangelist. Hay, a noted expert on information security strategies and technologies, joins CloudPassage from 451 Research where he served as a senior security analyst with the firm’s Enterprise Security Practice. He will play a critical role in multiple aspects of CloudPassage’s communications and industry relations, including engaging with DevOps, security, cloud computing and other IT communities. Hay will focus on delivering much-needed education and insight on cloud computing security and compliance.

Hay is a veteran information security strategist with more than a decade of experience working with network and security management technologies across various market sectors. As a senior security analyst at 451 Research, he conducted research and offered advisory services in areas such as security information and event management, vulnerability management, intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, threat intelligence and governance, risk and compliance. Hay also advised security software vendors on product roadmap, positioning, marketing and integration…