Grazed from Network Computer.  Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

Key pieces of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud-computing infrastructure have achieved certification with the federal standard for IT security solutions, making the services a more viable option for adoption among federal agencies…

Grazed from Wired.  Author: Jon Stokes.

The big cloud presentation at Tuesday’s IDF was a post-lunch session called, “Driving towards cloud 2015: a technology vision to meet the demands of cloud computing tomorrow” by Intel Senior Fellow Stephen S. Pawlowski. Pawlowski’s job at Intel is “pathfinding”—he’s one of the guys who looks at long-term trends and tries to help steer the company in the right direction. As a big-picture guy, Pawlowski’s presentation was necessarily pretty general, since he had a ton of ground to cover in laying out the trends and issues that Intel sees as shaping cloud computing between now and 2015…

Grazed from FormTek.  Author: Dick Weisinger.

The good news is that there seems to be near universal agreement, excluding perhaps from public cloud-leader Amazon (although Amazon might be considered the de facto standard), that standards are important for the future success of cloud computing.  The problem at this stage of cloud development technology lifecycle is that  the landscape can be confusing for organizations trying to make decisions about how they should use the cloud.  But the fact that so many bodies are springing up to create what they see should be the standard for the industry is likely a good thing — it sets the stage for a sort of Darwinian selection from among the standards, with hopefully the best ideas ultimately winning out in the end…

Grazed from ServerWatch.  Author: Roger Jennings.

The shroud of secrecy has been lifted surrounding Windows Server 8 and Azure. What lies behind it is greater symmetry between the cloud computing and virtualized HA infrastructures, improved storage and an Azure toolkit that promises to help enterprises easily develop an Azure service and deploy it to end users. ..
 

Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT.  Author: David Perera.

When it comes to gaps in technology standards for cloud computing, security and privacy stands out as the area with the most holes, according to a National Institute of Standards and Technology cloud computing standards roadmap released Sept. 13…

Grazed from Tech Broiler.  Author:  Jason Perlow.

Since last Thursday, I was ordered under strict nondisclosure to keep my mouth shut. And that was really hard for me to do because I could barely contain my enthusiasm for what is probably the most significant server operating system release that Microsoft has ever planned to roll out.

Nothing from Microsoft, and I mean literally nothing has ever been this ambitious or has tried to achieve so much in a single server product release since Windows 2000, when Active Directory was first introduced…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

Those moving to the cloud are weighing numerous factors, including the type of cloud and cloud brand to use, as well as the best path for migration. However, most IT organizations aren’t considering performance, and they’re making huge performance mistakes as systems on clouds move into production…

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

Google has bought what appears to be another 1,023 patents from IBM, a transfer recorded by the US Patent and Trademark Office Wednesday and noticed by Bloomberg, which said Google bought them on August 17…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author:  PR Announcement.

SilkRoad technology, inc., a leading provider of cloud-based talent management solutions, announced today that Roland Berthelot has been appointed Senior Vice President of Global Services. With more than 10 years of experience in cloud computing, consulting and sales, Mr. Berthelot joins SilkRoad with proven expertise in transforming business operations through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model for major Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Berthelot will report directly to Brian Platz, COO of SilkRoad…

Grazed from 4-Traders.  Author: PR Announcement.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced its new 450,000 square foot Center of Excellence (COE) in Durham, North Carolina, which will deliver on and demonstrate the promise of cloud computing and IT as a Service (ITaaS) for EMC and its customers.  In addition to housing a highly-virtualized cloud data center that supports EMC’s more than 50,000 employees around the globe, the COE includes 130,000 square feet of global research and development labs and will be a technology showcase to help EMC customers accelerate their own cloud computing and IT transformations…