Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today, Citizens Against Government Waste published its second report on cloud computing, "Cloud Computing 201." The publication aims to provide agencies at all levels of government with a coherent approach to information technology (IT) procurement, which should both increase efficiency and save taxpayers money without compromising security or performance.

"Government agencies at all levels should procure IT while following rigorous policies and principles for all solutions, including the cloud, and always consider security, reliability, and total cost of ownership. Greater efficiency and cost savings can be achieved with the cloud, but the risks of transitioning to any new tool and method must be addressed proactively. Procurement officials should keep in mind that the cloud is one of many potential solutions, none of which should be mandated; and that the cloud is simply a computing tool, rather than the basis for an overall IT strategy," said CAGW President Tom Schatz…

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Aditi Technologies, a software product and application development services provider, has acquired Seattle-based cloud-computing start-up, Cumulux.

Cumulux, founded in 2008 by former Microsoft employees Paddy Srinivasan and Ranjith Ramakrishnan, provides cloud computing services to customers such as US automaker Ford Motor, power generation equipment maker General Electric and Unicef, the United Nations Children’s Fund. …

Grazed from MobileBloom.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The outages recently experienced by Apple’s Siri and RIM’s BlackBerry messaging services are now discouraging other companies in the industry from making the shift to cloud based computing, according to reports from several reliable sources, which suggests that there is still a lot of scope for improvement in online cloud based services. In the report released by the research firm called Saugtuck, BlackBerry and Siri are among the most prominent reasons why cloud computing is still not very acceptable for application in businesses and operations management…

Grazed from International Business Times.  Author: Queenie Pineda.

Cloud computing is said to be the newest trend in information technology that most companies such as Apple, Amazon and Google had been incorporating into their services.

Grazed from ZDNet.  Aurhor: Jack Clark.

"Cloud computing is not only the future of computing, it is the present and the entire past of computing… All it is is a computer attached to a network," Ellison said in a speech in 2009. "Our industry is so bizarre. They change a term and think they’ve invented a technology."

But as more businesses have adopted the cloud, Oracle has warmed to the approach. It has developed private cloud hardware systems — Exalogic and Exadata — based on Sun technology, and Ellison launched Oracle Cloud Services at Oracle OpenWorld in October, saying, "We need a cloud."…

Grazed from Wall Street Cheat Sheet.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud software momo stock Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) dropped over 10% after investors reviewed quarterly earnings. The news had a negative impact on the high flying cloud computing sector. Here are some key stocks investors sold:

Constant Contact, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTCT): CTCT shares recently traded at $21.45, down $1.43, or 6.25%. They have traded in a 52-week range of $14.46 to $36.33. About the company: Constant Contact, Inc. provides web-based e-mail marketing tools and services to businesses, associations, and organizations to help them connect with their customers and members…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Rick Whiting.

CA Technologies is overhauling its partner program as the company expands into cloud management software and targets prospective midmarket customers it has largely ignored until now.

Problem is, CA historically has had a less-than-stellar reputation as a channel-friendly company. But partners attending the CA World conference in Las Vegas this week seem impressed by what they have seen so far…

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

Birst figures it’s scored an industry first by making its cloud-based Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) SDK available for the Apple iPad.

The new iOS SDK lets developers embed highly interactive and visual Birst-powered business analytics in their native iPad apps. Taking advantage of the iPad’s gesture-based interface, they can build mobile applications that filter information of interest and drill into details on both charts and report tables.

The widgetry saves developers from having to concentrate on the plumbing, such as the data warehouse, data integration, data quality and core BI engine, and lets them focus on building business intelligence into their applications. By writing to Birst’s Mobile APIs, the company says they can bypass the complicated data integration, quality and consolidation issues that underpin BI implementations…

Grazed from IT World.  Author: Kevin Fogarty.

Build a cloud computing service based on hardware belonging to other people, but sell it just like any other commercial cloud service.

Use the same highly distributed approach SETI did in the ’90s and try not to notice the similarity between a legitimate cloud service based on borrowed CPU cycles from privately owned machines, and malware-driven botnets that do the same thing except that they deliver DDOS rather than financial results.

The good and evil in that model changed places a bit, according to Kaspersky Labs, which yesterday identified both the malware and the plan malware writers used to exploit a cool new idea in cloud computing for their own benefit. …