Grazed from Boston Globe.  Author: Hiawatha Bray.

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: PR Annoucement.

Sep. 13–15, 2011.  Austin, TX

If you are a communications professional, cloud communications fundamentally changes how your business will run, who purchases your goods and services, and how they pay for it. This event will provide you with a good grounding in the latest technologies, players and business models, and offer excellent opportunities to meet your peers and potential partners…

Grazed from InfoTech.  Author:  Rajani Baburajan.

Android malware and cloud computing-related data breaches are growing at an alarming rate. Social networking scams have become more sophisticated, and cybercriminals continue to instigate malicious schemes, according to Trend Micro’s (News – Alert) 2Q 2011 Threat Roundup report…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author:  Narayan Bhat.

Telecom operators in Latin America should adopt cloud computing at the earliest to keep pace with their global competitors as well as to expand their service portfolio, suggests market analyst firm Pyramid Research…

Grazed from IDG.  Author:  Joab Jackson.

Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java Community Process) have started mulling over what features to include in the next version of the programming language, Java SE 8. On the agenda for this new release: engineering Java for the cloud.

"Java 8 is supposed to set the scene for the cloud, for a wider deployment arena," said Mark Little, senior director of engineering for Red Hat’s middleware business, as well as Red Hat’s primary liaison for the JCP. Oracle left out many of the advanced features planned for Java 7 in order not to further delay the release, he noted. Those releases may very well be included in Java 8…

Grazed from PRNews Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Shares of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) are trading higher in the after-hours following the release of the company’s Q2 earnings results. Currently, shares are higher by 0.16%, trading at $36.82; they ended the regular session lower by 7.05%, at $36.76…

Grazed from Business Times.  Author: Kamarul Yunus.

Hewlett Packard (HP) is investing some US$1 billion (RM2.97 billion) to set up at least six commercial data centres to offer cloud computing services in the Asia Pacific region this year.

HP Enterprise Services chief technology officer for Asia Pacific and Japan, Bradden Wondra said the company has identified six locations for the data centres, namely in Japan, China, India, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand…

Grazed from MountainXpress.  Author: Jeff Fobes.

The City of Asheville’s Information Technology Services Department is sponsoring "Asheville Cloud Computing Day 2011," a mini-conference scheduled for Aug. 10, from 9-11:30 a.m. in the Municipal Building (100 Court Plaza, 4th floor)…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: David Sims.

Do you ever wonder about any legal considerations with cloud computing? If you’re using cloud computing we imagine the subject has crossed your mind once or twice.

India’s industry journal Tech Circle recently featured an opinion piece by Anu Vaidyanathan, founder of PatNMarks, an intellectual property consulting firm and an academic.

Or put it another way: Just what do the Winklevi think they’re doing, suing Facebook (News – Alert) until it becomes ridiculous?…

Grazed from PCWorld.  Author:  Nancy Gohring.

Amazon Web Services will introduce new capabilities for enterprises on Thursday, including identity federation and support for private network connections to AWS.

Its new Direct Connect service allows enterprises to establish a direct connection to Amazon from their data center or colocation provider. They’ll be able to run a private line to one of several Direct Connect locations planned around the world, starting with one operated by Equinix in Virginia. AWS’ Virginia data center is connected to that facility…