Grazed from CSOOnline. Author: Scott Montgomery.

The prices and services that cloud infrastructure providers offer change so often that you may be doing yourself a disservice by tying your hybrid cloud to one particular vendor. We’re even starting to see services emerge that shift workloads transparently between cloud providers to give customers the best deal.

Security should be a high priority in any scenario, however, and strategies for hybrid cloud environments must take into account the potential for frequent movement of data between public clouds as well as between public and private clouds. Here are six factors to consider to ensure that your security strategy is portable across all services and service providers…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Darryl K. Taft.

IBM is applying the strength of its cloud computing platform and its extensive research organization to help combat the Zika virus. Big Blue’s World Community Grid has launched an international study to identify drug candidates to cure Zika, a fast spreading virus that the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency.

Known as the OpenZika project, the new initiative will run on the World Community Grid to identify drug candidates to treat the Zika virus in people who have been infected. The project will target proteins that the Zika virus likely uses to survive and spread in the body, based on what is known from similar diseases, such as dengue virus and yellow fever…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

Sri Viswanath, CTO of Atlassian, will outline his vision for the company’s cloud platform plan and tech strategy on Tuesday and you can expect a heavy dose of scale and new use cases. Before coming to Atlassian, a collaboration software company, Viswanath spent three years at Groupon when he was CTO. Before Groupon, Viswanath was vice president of research and development for mobile computing at VMware. He also had stints at Ning, Glam and Sun Microsystems. We caught up with Viswanath to talk shop ahead of his appearance at AtlasCamp, Atlassian’s developer conference in Barcelona.

How does the Groupon experience apply to Atlassian? Viswanath said that the Groupon provided experience in managing a large number of people at scale. For instance, Groupon had 1,700 people spread across 10 areas across the globe. "That experience was good for learning how to run a large organization at scale," said Viswanath. "It takes a lot of focus and organization to get 1,700 people productive." Atlassian is similar in that its dispersed and global…

Read more from the source @ http://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-cto-viswanath-talks-cloud-computing-platforms-scale-innovation/

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In a step that may go some way toward reducing some of the red tape between the Defense Department and cloud computing vendors, the Department of the Navy (DoN) said last week that the Navy and Marine Corps can sign off on their own business cases for migrating to commercial cloud vendors without seeking higher-level approval.

The change shaves at least one level of bureaucracy from the process. Previously, any naval component that hoped to move its systems to the cloud had to first complete a standard template making their business case for doing so and then submit it to the DON chief information officer…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

It is a question which carries more resonance as technology matures: what is the major role of the CIO today? The usual responses range from improving business efficiency, to spearheading the organisation’s technological revolution. At the MIT Sloan CIO Conference earlier this month, the answer was simple.

“The perfect CIO is enabling the perfectly friction-less business,” argued Steve Rosenbush, the editor of CIO Journal. Yet there are many layers to uncover to get to the heart of this statement. Harvey Nash and KPMG have today released a report on ‘the creative CIO’. The authors, Harvey Nash chief executive Albert Ellis and KPMG International global CIO advisory service network lead Lisa Heneghan, conclude that despite an increasing examination of security, the CIOs with a creative mindset are winning out over those with an operational focus…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2016/may/23/what-does-role-cio-look-2016/

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Australian software company TechnologyOne will begin a three-year process to lay the groundwork for ambitious US expansion plans, as its ten year old UK operations approaches profitability for the first time. Speaking to The Australian Financial Review as the 29-year-old company – valued at $1.6 billion – released half-yearly results which reaffirmed guidance for 10-15 per cent full-year profit growth, founder and CEO Adrian Di Marco said the company would take a measured approach to entering the potentially lucrative US market.

This will involve opening up a US research and development centre in 12-18 months, to ensure its software works properly with US regulations, ahead of a launch within two or three years. "We have not fragmented our code line, it is one global codeline that we have built here in Australia, that is exactly the same code that runs in the UK, so we have actually already done the globalisation of the product from that regard," Mr Di Marco said…

Read more from the source @ http://www.afr.com/technology/cloud-computing/technologyone-plots-us-expansion-to-take-down-oracle-and-sap-in-the-cloud-20160519-goyqyo#ixzz49UX5fWPX

Grazed from NZBusiness. Author: Editorial Staff.

When it comes to cost-effectiveness, ‘the Cloud’ clearly rocks. The evidence is everywhere. You may remember a time when the word ‘cloud’ was only associated with the weather – those fluffy white, sometimes angry grey, things floating in the sky. But in 2016, thanks to a legacy started by a group of tech execs at Compaq Computer in Houston, Texas, 20 years ago, ‘cloud’ is a popular cliché that stands for the ‘online hosted’ model of delivering software services to businesses. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is another name preferred by techies. NZBusiness lined up a whole team of cloud services experts to contribute to this Guide.

A logical person to start with was LayerX Group CEO Bruce Trevarthen, because he has operated in this space since the very early days. His company registered the domain name ‘theCloud’ in 2008 and created a purpose-built cloud platform for delivering services to the SME market – “as a commodity and with zero-touch”…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Jessica Davis.

SAP rolled out a series of partnerships and advancements at its Sapphire Now event. Google unveiled a host of initiatives at Google I/0. HP Enterprise introduced an Internet of Things (IoT) platform. AtScale, a BI for Hadoop platform provider, raised a new round of funding. We’ve got it covered in our Big Data Roundup for the week ended May 22, 2016.

Let’s jump in with SAP. Expanded partnerships with big cloud providers Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) were among the announcements at Sapphire Now in Orlando, Fla. SAP said it will deliver broader support for SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure to enable big data apps to run while still being protected by enterprise-level security and compliance…

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Grazed from Forbes. Author: Editorial Staff.

Online retail giants Amazon and Alibaba have both seen massive growth in their cloud computing businesses over the past few years. Both Amazon Web Services and Alibaba’s cloud computing and infrastructure segments have outpaced the growth in total worldwide spending on cloud computing and infrastructure services.

Alibaba has grown at a faster pace than Amazon, primarily due to the fact that it is primarily present in China, which is a relatively nascent and fast-growing market. Correspondingly, Alibaba’s cloud computing revenues are significantly lower than Amazon’s AWS revenues. According to an estimate by Technology Business Research, the global cloud computing market is likely to continue to grow at a similar pace over the next few years…