Amazon cloud hosts nasty banking trojan
Amazon’s cloud storage service has been caught hosting services used to control the notorious SpyEye banking trojan, researchers said.
Data compiled by antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab over a 11-day period in July showed Amazon’s Simple Storage Service being used regularly to host SpyEye command and control channels. The botnet operators are most likely using victims’ pilfered financial data to set up fraudulent Amazon Web Services accounts, researcher Jorge Mieres wrote.
Citrix Continues to Lead the Market For Cloud-based Remote Support Services
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS – News), the world leader in cloud-based remote support services, today announced that it has again been ranked number one in the remote support services market with more than 31.5% share by top analyst firm IDC. With offerings for both IT management and customer support, Citrix grew its share of the market by 14.5 percent from 20091 by providing solutions that drastically reduce costs and increase productivity. The remote-support market, IDC reports, is showing significant growth as companies seek comprehensive support options that increase productivity while drastically reducing the costs associated with IT and customer support management….
CA Technologies Addresses Complexity Surrounding ‘Cloud Choice’
Business demand for rapid time-to-market and lower operational costs is driving cloud computing adoption and creating tremendous choice around cloud services available today. CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA – News) is helping simplify "cloud choice" with new and updated products and solutions for enterprises and service providers. The capabilities announced today advance the company’s strategy to enable cloud use and help both enterprise and service provider customers quickly deploy business services with the cost-efficiencies offered by cloud.
The term "cloud choice" describes the growing heterogeneity that includes traditional, cloud and hybrid application environments. Enterprises face a big decision today – if and when to move an application to the cloud. Once the decision is made to use cloud, enterprises must then select the right type of cloud – public, private, hybrid – based on the application and its current and future requirements….
Cloud Client Computing Leader Wyse Hosts California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom
Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.
Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, is today hosting California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unveiling of his plan to shift California’s economy into high gear, focusing on expanding exports, green industry, and new manufacturing.
The Lieutenant Governor’s unveiling at Wyse is a reflection of the success Wyse has had in remaking itself into a cloud client computing company, a transition that has resulted in major sales gains, and significant hiring, for the pre-IPO company…
HP Joins OpenStack Cloud Project
Hewlett-Packard is jumping on the OpenStack cloud computing bandwagon, a day after rival Dell unveiled a cloud computing solution based on the open-source software stack.
In a blog post July 27, Emil Sayegh, vice president of cloud services for HP, said the company had joined the OpenStack project, which was kicked off a year ago by Rackspace and NASA and now has almost 100 organizations on its membership list…
New Initiative Aims to Stamp Out Cloud Lock-In
Grazed from TECH NEWS WORLD. Author: Richard Adhikari.
Members of the cloud computing industry this week announced the Open Cloud Initiative, a non-profit organization to advocate open standards in cloud computing, at the OSCON 2011 open source convention in Portland, Ore….
Google’s Schmidt to Testify for Senate on ‘Power of Google’
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a set date with the Senate on Capitol Hill to discuss the search engine’s expansive Internet market power.
Schmidt, who served as CEO of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for a decade before co-founder Larry Page retook the reins in April, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Sept. 21 in Washington, D.C.
Open Cloud Initiative Launches to Drive Open Standards in Cloud Computing
Grazed from PRWEB. Author: Shanley Kane.
This week the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI), a non-profit organization established to advocate open standards in cloud computing, announced its official launch at the OSCON 2011 Open Source Convention. Its purpose is to provide a legal framework within which the greater cloud computing community of users and providers can reach consensus on a set of requirements for Open Cloud, as described in the Open Cloud Principles (OCP) document, and then apply those requirements to cloud computing products and services, again by way of community consensus…
Know your Cloud Types
You may know your nimbostratus (take an umbrella) from your cirrocumulus (you probably won’t need one) but what about the difference between Cloud backup and Cloud archiving? Or Cloud services and Cloud applications?