Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Callidus Software Inc., the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced its acquisition today of a premier executive career community and job board, 6FigureJobs. The acquisition extends CallidusCloud’s Hiring Cloud suite.

"For high end careers the one dimensional resume has gone the way of the Dodo. Social and mobile technologies have changed the jobs market and the nature of recruiting as well as job hunting. There is a $3 billion market opportunity globally for job boards and recruitment technologies that use video, mobile and social technologies to match candidates with employers," said Leslie Stretch, President and CEO, CallidusCloud. "The combination of 6FigureJobs with our Sales Selector solution brings a comprehensive sourcing option to the table for executive and sales jobs over $100,000. 6FigureJobs’s database of applicants and their existing customers are important additions to the CallidusCloud(TM) Hiring Cloud solutions which include video interviewing, video job posts and pre-selection suitability tests. Pre-hire testing, video resumes, social networking and mobile connectivity are decisive game changers in the way employers with high potential candidates make their match today."…

Grazed from Patch.com.  Author: Crystal Tai.

Grazed from Emergency Management.  Author: Valerie Lucus-McEwen.

As technology continues to redefine emergency management practices, the process of incorporating new concepts into daily practice and planning can be confusing. This is especially true if the concept sounds mysterious and cryptic — cloud computing often sounds complex
and bewildering.

The truth isn’t nearly that exciting. Cloud computing is more like regressing to the early days of network design. The “cloud” in cloud computing was the symbol network engineers used to illustrate unknown domains and large networks of servers located elsewhere. Using the power of other computers somewhere on the Internet — that’s what cloud computing is all about…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

After days of deliberating, a San Francisco jury Monday found that Google and its Android operating system infringed the Java copyrights now held by Oracle.

However, the jury remained as deadlocked as it was last Friday over the issue of whether Google made so-called "fair use" of the IP. It couldn’t come to a unanimous decision on that question.

Google denied all the allegations and claimed it developed Android from scratch and that the parts of Java it did use aren’t covered by copyright.  After the verdict was read Google moved for a mistrial – which would mean a whole new trial and possibly new evidence – while the judge accepted the partial verdict and forged ahead…

Grazed from OfficialWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

The truth is that most everyone is confused about cloud computing, including users and vendors alike! Understanding cloud computing is really quite simple once you know the basics.  More importantly, once you comprehend the basics, you will be able to design and implement a cloud strategy well suited for your business, while addressing efficiency, scalability, reliability and budget.

Tarrytech Computer Consultants are cloud experts, and have implemented a wide array of cloud solutions for our clients.  While working with our clients to design the perfect cloud solution for their business, the first items we review with them are the cloud model options: Public, Private, and Hybrid…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Dana Gardner.

It now falls to CIOs to not only rapidly adapt to cloud computing, but to find the ways to protect their employees and customers as they adopt cloud models – even as security threats grow.  This is a serious — but not insurmountable challenge.

Cloud computing has clearly sparked the imagination of business leaders, who see it as a powerful new way to be innovative and gain first-mover advantages — with or without traditional IT’s consent.

This simply now means that the center of gravity for IT services is shifting toward the enterprise’s boundaries – moving increasingly outside their firewalls. And so how can companies have it both ways — exploit cloud’s promise but also provide enough security to make the risks acceptable? How can organizations retain rigor and control while pursuing cloud benefits?…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Allan Hackney.

My friends in the IT field seem to be moving toward jobs at cloud computing firms. I’m in IT operations at a traditional company. Am I missing the boat? There are two sides to the cloud computing coin: the buy and the sell. I surmise from your question that your friends are moving to sell-side consultancy and delivery firms. This is a fast-growing industry, and as a result, there’s a willingness [among employers] to make attractive offers to find talent. But don’t lose sight of the fact that in due course the buy side will be a much larger employer of cloud talent by orders of magnitude. If you’re at a traditional company, now is your moment to step up and lead the charge. You can really distinguish yourself as the cloud expert in your company (as opposed to being one of many at a cloud vendor or consultancy)…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, will exhibit, demo and lead discussions on cloud client computing at Citrix Synergy(TM) 2012 in San Francisco, May 9th – 11th. Wyse, a Platinum Sponsor, will demonstrate its complete line of solutions, including the Wyse Xenith — the award-winning zero client for Citrix XenDesktop(R) and Citrix HDX(TM) technology, as well as reveal its next game changing solution — in Booth #206 at Moscone Center…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloudscaling has joined the more than 300 member companies of the Open Data Center Alliance. The Alliance works to speed the migration to cloud computing by enabling the solution and service systems to address IT requirements with the highest level of interoperability and standards.

Cloudscaling joined the Alliance as a Contributor member and will participate with the Alliance’s Infrastructure Technical Workgroup to further the development of usage models developed by the Alliance. Contributor members are selected and approved by the organization’s Steering Committee.

Participation in the ODCA contributes to Cloudscaling’s development of hardware blueprints. The blueprints comprise a layer of the recently announced Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS) that defines production-grade server and networking combinations that deliver predictable technical and economic performance to meet specific design requirements. Blueprints show how to implement cloud resource block designs in physical hardware to meet design requirements for security, availability and subscription rates…