Cloud computing has flunked a security test, reports Tim Wilson at Dark Reading. That probably doesn’t surprise you. Conventional wisdom says clouds are inherently insecure.

But are they? Or are clouds actually more secure than conventional IT environments? A growing number of technologists are making that argument. And they’re not cloud vendors or marketers or startups who have placed their bet on the cloud. They’re some of the senior-most technology officials in government, including those from intelligence agencies and the military, which might be the last place you’d expect to hear such talk…

Adaptive Computing, managers of the world’s largest supercomputing systems as experts in HPC workload management and cloud management, and SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing, jointly announced today at Supercomputing ’11 in booth # 927 that Adaptive Computing and SGI have signed an agreement for SGI to distribute the full line of Moab HPC Suite and Moab Cloud Suite. This business agreement was formalized in response to SGI’s technical computing customers who require intelligent HPC workload management and cloud management to improve and better manage data center work flows. The patented Moab intelligence engine will support the SGI ICE family designed for today’s data intensive problems. This platform from SGI raises the efficiency bar, easily scaling to meet virtually any processing requirements without compromising ease of use, manageability or price/performance…

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Lokahi has implemented F5(R) BIG-IP(R) Application Delivery Controllers as a crucial component of its Comprehensive Cloud Solutions(TM), providing enterprise-class cloud computing services to help businesses and organizations reduce capital expenditure (CapEx) by contracting out their IT infrastructure…

AMD has officially unveiled its next-generation Opteron chips, featuring up to 16 processor cores to meet the requirements of cloud computing and enterprise customers with highly virtualised datacentre environments, according to the firm…

Moving to cloud computing used to mean abandoning the desktop, but with Syncdocs, it is now possible to get the best of both cloud and desktop worlds…

Real Time Data Services provides hosting solution for many business applications or software on cloud along with managed IT support services. Real Time Data Services is well known for offering cloud hosting solutions for various accounting software (QuickBooks, Peachtree), customer relationship management software (ACT! CRM), MS SQL Server, Windows Server, MS Project, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, ProSeries tax software, Drake tax software, Lacerte tax software, and many others. ATX Tax software hosting on cloud spruces up this tax software significantly…

Tarkan Maner, President and CEO of Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, will join the World Economic Forum (WEF), India Economic Summit’s distinguished panel, Building a Digital Economy, on Monday, November 14^th, 2011 at 10:45am…

IBM i shops should take a long, hard look at cloud computing and see if it makes sense for them, IBM‘s director of business development for the IBM i business, Ari Kugler, said in a webinar last week. During his presentation with IBM i cloud service provider Symmetry, Kugler said that the security and scalability of the IBM i platform, coupled with the price/performance of the Power7 servers, has opened new opportunities for cloud computing. "The time for cloud is now," he said…