Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Sourya Biswas.

The US military has always been at the forefront of technology. From transportation to materials science, from detection to communication, US military technology has always led its commercial counterparts. The Internet, GPS, jet aircraft, even the non-stick material Teflon – all these were developed for military purposes before finding civilian applications. By anecdotal accounts, US military technology leads civilian technology by at least a decade, if not more. However, it seems to have dropped the ball as regards to one of possibly the most influential technologies of the future – cloud computing…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

A New York Times article does a great job defining the issues around cloud adoption within the U.S. government — or, I should say, the glaring lack thereof. As the Times reports, "Such high praise for new Internet technologies may be common in Silicon Valley, but it is rare in the federal government."

Convenient excuses for skirting cloud computing are easy to find these days; for example, attacks on internal government systems from abroad this spring and summer are easy to recall. In July, the Pentagon said it suffered its largest breach when hackers obtained 24,000 confidential files...

Grazed from OpenPR.  Author: PR Announcement.

Microsoft ISV Gold Partner Layer2 today has announced V2.0 of its Cloud Connector replication service to integrate corporate on-premise data – e.g. files, SQL databases, ERP/CRM, SAP etc. – with the Office 365 cloud.

Hamburg / GERMANY, 2011-08-25 – Microsoft’s new cloud computing offer Office 365 currently is going to attract a lot of new customers. It allows companies of all sizes to leverage the combined power of market-leading productivity tools such as Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Office by simply subscribing to an online service to provide their employees with an enterprise grade solution for an affordable monthly subscription rate…
 

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Lori MacVittie.

That’s Cloud “Network of Women” and it’s a new opportunity to collaborate on cloud and emerging technologies.

Many, many years Fritz Nelson (then Vice President, Group Publisher for the Network Computing Enterprise Architecture) answered a question during an interview on the intersection of women and technology – particularly the lack of the former in the latter – essentially saying it was incumbent upon those women who were active and had a voice to use it in ways that encouraged other women to join, participate, and take up the reins of leadership when possible within the world of technology…

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author: David Strom.

We all know that there is a lot of wasted space in most VM storage repositories due to duplicate data. (Or we should.) But what isn’t as well known is the way the disk storage is configured can introduce a lot of delays in its throughput. This is because most storage arrays aren’t aware of the peculiarities of how VMs have to store their data on the specific blocks of their arrays, and the array can waste time seeking and retrieving information from its VMs…
 

Grazed from Dark Reading.  Author: Kelly Jackson Higgins.

Salesforce.com has quietly snapped up an Israeli cloud security encryption firm and is expected to announce the acquisition at its Dreamforce conference next week in San Francisco, Dark Reading has learned. The move by Salesforce to add encryption to its portfolio goes to the heart of reservations about trusting cloud providers to protect their customers’ data.

"The number one reason organizations don’t adopt cloud computing more broadly is the lack of ability to protect information in the cloud," says Bob West, CEO of EchelonOne. "Salesforce itself doesn’t encrypt information, but it does a pretty good job at protecting data [in general]."…

 

Grazed from AFP.  Author: PR Announcement.

Brightcove, a US tech company which provides a cloud computing-based platform for online video, filed on Wednesday for an initial public offering (IPO) that aims to raise up to $50 million.

Brightcove plans to list on the Nasdaq electronic stock exchange under the ticker symbol "BCOV", the company said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission…

Grazed from CTO Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

It seems like with the introduction of any new set of technologies we see a sudden rise in the interest of high availability. The concept of high availability has been around since the dawn of the mainframe, but when there are new technologies and delivery models in play, such as virtualization and cloud computing, it almost seems like IT organizations get a lot more concerned about availability…
 

Grazed from Barrons.  Author: Tiernan Ray.

Barclays Capital’s Ben Reitzes today writes that server sales based on Intel’s (INTC) “x86″ chip architecture will be “more subdued” this latter half of the year as a consequence weakening demand in the financial services and public sectors, but that the fallout won’t be bad for Intel because it can still ride the wave of “cloud computing.”…