Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud Data Corporation, a  wholly owned subsidiary of Microelectronics Technology Corporation is pleased to announce Sproq.com,  next generation cloud application hosting.

Microelectronics Technology Corporation President Brett Everett is pleased to provide the following re-post of a previously published news article which gives an indication of the direction the Cloud Computing market sector is heading for the near future.

It appears that companies not established in the cloud sector are buying their way in an effort gain immediate market share…

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

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have struck a strategic deal that will end their patent litigation and put the substantial Barnes & Noble e-book library including college textbooks on Windows 8.  Microsoft is investing $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that is called Newco for the moment and is valued at $1.7 billion.

Microsoft will have 17.6% of the unit, which may or may not be spun off.

Barnes & Noble will pay Microsoft an unsung royalty for a patent-settling license that covers its Nook e-readers, which are based on a forked version of Android…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced a new community open source project to allow the Cloud Foundry(TM) platform-as-a-service to run on OpenStack. With cooperation from VMware(R), Piston Cloud is developing the Cloud Provider Interface that integrates OpenStack cloud infrastructure with Cloud Foundry. The company will distribute and support this new integrated capability in a future release of Piston Enterprise OS. This new project will be submitted to the OpenStack satellite ecosystem for future consideration as an OpenStack incubation project…

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services for businesses, today announced it has added VMWare’s vCloud Director to its hosting platform, giving IT managers more “self-service” options when needing to quickly reconfigure networking resources, move data between different clouds, or change virtual applications.

Integrated with Infinitely Virtual’s upgrade to VMWare’s vSphere5, VMware vCloud Director saves IT managers time and money by giving them more autonomy and control over important aspects of their virtual infrastructure…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Opponents of CISPA [1] such as the ACLU have focused almost exclusively on the bill’s potential impact on individual user’s privacy, and understandably so.  But a close read of CISPA’s broad language [2] reveals that Joe Internet’s privacy isn’t all that would be in jeopardy if the bill makes it through the Senate and past President Obama’s veto pen. CISPA poses a threat to the privacy of entire organizations, from nonprofits and small business on up to the enterprise — and even to the very future of cloud computing.

Drawing from the bill’s exact language, CISPA would permit "certified entities" and "cyber security providers"  to "voluntarily" share any customer data with other certified entities, so long as the data constitutes "cyber threat intelligence" for "cyber security purposes" — as well as for the sake of "national security."…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Executive-level security officers at some of the largest global companies have identified four main concerns for 2012: mobile device security, identity management for cloud computing, threat management and profiling, and increasing regulatory pressures. These insights were revealed on April 23 at an executive advisory meeting for Stonesoft, an innovative provider of integrated network security, next generation firewalls, and business continuity solutions based in Helsinki.

"Our board members represent the thought leaders in security strategy for a number of global companies," said Richard Benigno, senior vice president of Stonesoft, U.S. "While they have identified a broad range of security challenges such as fraud monitoring and privacy control, they all agreed on these four major focus areas."…

Grazed from PRWeb.   Author: PR Announcement.

Find out how the Windows Azure cloud computing platform can be used to build apps for nonprofits that increase member involvement and donations in a May 9 webinar. Let Linxter, Inc. CEO Jason Milgram show you how to increase efficiency and decrease costs.

Learn how to make your app-building operations more efficient with the Windows Azure cloud platform in a free webinar May 9 at 4pm EST. Linxter, Inc. CEO Jason Milgram will discuss how he used Azure to build allAware, a free mobile app to help nonprofits increase member involvement and donations.

“With Azure, you can write an app and deploy it, and you don’t have to worry about much else,” Milgram said. “The cloud takes care of infrastructure needs, decreasing the necessity for organizations to rely on their own equipment and personnel to maintain 24×7 operations.”…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Zenith Infotech, a leading Indian IT product company in the US, today announced the launch of its new product TigerCloud which is primarily aimed at mid-size organisations. TigerCloud is a high performance private cloud product that combines server, storage and network virtualization technology and allows customers to build and have their own sophisticated private clouds at costs lower than public clouds. Based on Intel® Xeon® E3 processor family, TigerCloud is a three-in-one product, combining private cloud, business continuity & backup as well as scale out iSCSI storage.

As per IDC*, though cost continues to be an important variable constraining technology adoption, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are also exhibiting a perceptible desire for customized solutions and products that cater to their unique requirements. IT spending in SMB will reach record levels in 2012 and as such this market presents huge opportunities. The growing role of "social, mobile, and virtual" will drive major SMB investments in Cloud…

Grazed from Cisco Newsroom.  Author: Melissa Jun Rowley.

Tech entrepreneurs can see clearly now; the rain is gone, thanks to the cloud. Cloud computing is making it easier and more affordable for people all over the world to be entrepreneurs, and individuals and businesses are acting accordingly.

According to Forester Research, the cloud computing market is expected to grow to $241 billion in 2020. And, an IDC white paper  shows the cloud computing industry is expected to generate 14 million jobs in the next three years. With the sizeable growth in cloud-based entrepreneurship taking shape, new opportunities for investors are surfacing, and cloud investments are increasingly funding new business strategies…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Sean Hull.

For many MySQL database admins, Amazon Web Services represents the brave new world of cloud computing — one fraught with disappearing servers, disk I/O variability, and other shared resource challenges, not to mention questions regarding the security of data.

But for those seeking to tap the powerful flexibility that cloud computing affords MySQL database deployments, AWS should be viewed simply as the next natural step in data center evolution — one in which virtualization and commodity hardware are a given, and scalability, performance, and high availability are readily attained…