US cyber chief says cloud computing can manage serious cyber threats
Grazed from Network World. Author: Michael Cooney.
The security of cloud computing is often debated but such debates seem to be over for the general tasked with running the United States military’s cyber command, who sees the technology not only as way to rein in IT costs but a way to more easily protect IT assets…
As Internet grows, an ’empowering influence’
The Internet accounted for 21 percent of gross domestic product growth in the world’s largest economies over the last five years, according to a new McKinsey report…
Cloud and SaaS tipped for top in 2012 technologies
Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS) and virtualisation are tipped for big things in 2012…
Amazon Looks to Increase Presence in Financial Services Cloud
Most big financial services companies have been eager to tout their own private clouds, but only a few have made a large move to public cloud offerings, citing security and compliance concerns. However, Amazon Web Services, the division of Amazon that runs its cloud computing offering, has been making inroads in the highly regulated financial services industry…
Cloud-computing firm enStratus raises $3.5M
Cloud-computing startup enStratus Networks Inc. has raised $3.5 million in venture capital in a round led by El Dorado Ventures
Minneapolis-based enStratus will use the funding for product development and to expand its sales and marketing teams…
Best Buy Acquires Cloud Provider mindSHIFT
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Rich Miller.
The Geek Squad has a new question: Want some cloud storage with that virus cleanup? Electronics retailer Best Buy has reached an agreement to acquire managed services provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million, the company said today. Best Buy says the deal will help extend its growth in the small and mid-sized business IT services, which is a focus of mindSHIFT’s business…
US Government Hits the Road with Cloud Details
With the UK government’s G-Cloud ambitions now public, there’s more activity across the pond where the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the first two volumes of a draft ‘roadmap’ for Cloud Computing…
Abiquo Announces Major New Version of its Leading Enterprise Cloud Solution
Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud software company, today announced a major release of its award-winning software solution, which allows customers to build and manage global, robust, fully automated and governed self-service clouds. Version 2.0 will be demonstrated live at Abiquo’s booth at the Ninth International Cloud Computing Expo, which opens today at the Santa Clara Convention Center…
Piston Cloud and Securisea Partner on Cloud Security
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced a technology partnership with Securisea, a leading Internet security consultancy specializing in cloud security and compliance. Focused on implementation and engineering for private cloud deployments, the partnership gives Piston Cloud customers access to Securisea’s consulting and implementation services for meeting complex information security challenges…
McAfee Takes Cloud Computing Security to the Next Level
McAfee, an industry leader in cloud computing security, today announced its latest enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform. As the industry’s only single content-aware platform it secures all primary channels of traffic — email, web and authentication — moving between an organization and the Cloud to help organizations safely and efficiently take advantage of Cloud-based services and solutions. The Platform can be deployed as an on-premise appliance, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or a hybrid combination…