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The world’s top domain name and web hosting company GoDaddy revealed in a latest regulatory filing that its CTO and its cloud computing group vice president Elissa Murphy has resigned with effect from May 17. She is going to join Google.  The CEO Blake Irving of GoDaddy has said in a statement:

Grazed from AlbaWaba.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Ericsson was awarded the “Best Cloud Computing Solution” at the Cloud MENA Awards 2016, held at The Conrad Dubai on April 11, 2016.  Rafiah Ibrahim, Head of Ericsson Region Middle East and Africa, says: “Ericsson sees cloud, along with broadband and mobility, as a key enabler of the Networked Society. With our cloud capabilities, we are supporting our customers in transforming their operational environments which will result in a more lasting business value, speed and improved governance. We are proud to have received this award recognizing our innovation and highlighting our role as a true partner to our customers in the ICT industry.”

Ericsson Cloud Manager enables operators and enterprises to automatically change the makeup of the mobile network to conform to the more dynamic lifecycle and transient nature of newer services. It extends the virtual infrastructure of the cloud beyond the typical compute, storage and application resources to include network resources….

Grazed from Economist.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The Economist Group is using Rackspace’s managed cloud services and its Fanatical Support to satisfy its mission-critical requirements — almost 100% uptime and to address their PCI compliance requirements for the hosted infrastructure.  This means that The Economist Group’s customers can always access the group’s sites, and safely.

ATTN: VMware administrators.  Do you have plans this afternoon?  What about this weekend? 

"Patch now!" is the word coming down from the VMware mothership after the company revealed a new security flaw (VMSA-2016-0004) this week in the VMware Client Integration Plug-in that if exploited by an attacker could lead to a man-in-the-middle attack.

Rackspace has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Competency within the AWS Partner Competency Program, which recognizes members of the AWS Partner Network who have completed a rigorous third-party audit demonstrating their expertise in DevOps practices, tools, and proven customer success. Customers can access this expertise and 24×7 operational support through Fanatical Support for AWS architects and engineers, who collectively hold over 270 AWS Professional and Associate certifications across the globe.

Registration, a speakers call for papers and sponsorship opportunities are now open for the event.

Grazed from BusinessCloudNews. Author: Jamie Davies.

Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit in federal court against the United States government arguing the right that customers should have the right to know when the state accesses their emails or records. Under current law, the government has the right to demand access to customer information, while also issuing orders to companies such as Microsoft to keep these types of legal demands secret.

Microsoft claim these orders are becoming too often common place; rather than common routine, these secrecy issues should be the exception not the rule. “We believe that with rare exceptions consumers and businesses have a right to know when the government accesses their emails or records,” said Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft on the company blog…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Tal Frankfurt.

The recent announcement of the BlueWolf acquisition by IBM surprised many people in the technology industry, in the same way the announcement of the Cloud Sherpas acquisition by Accenture shocked people back in September 2015. Personally, I don’t think these acquisitions should catch anyone in our industry off guard. Global technology giants are trying to have a greater appeal to their customer bases.

These customers are demanding skilled consulting firms who can provide value by implementing widely adopted cloud based applications such as Workday and Salesforce in a matter of months. Large scale implementations have, at times, taken years and this is no longer acceptable with the rapidly changing technology space…

Grazed from EnterpriseTech. Author: Doug Black.

Organizations are racing to the cloud at an accelerating pace – with growing anxiety. Concerns about cloud security is the core finding of a new study from Intel Security that reveals a variety of conflicting cloud adoption perceptions. Even as most IT managers point to compliance as the biggest concern with cloud adoption (some admit they don’t know if sensitive data is stored with a public cloud provider), an even larger number said they have more trust in the cloud than a year ago.

One of the more eye-opening findings of the survey (“Blue Skies Ahead? The State of Cloud Adoption”): in the next 16 months, 80 percent of respondent IT budgets will be dedicated to cloud computing. “Even if that outlook overestimates cloud spend it still shows a dramatic shift in mindset,” said Rolf Haas, enterprise technology specialist, Intel Security, in a blog post accompanying the survey, “ and it’s often the business, rather than the IT department, that is driving that shift. In today’s digital world the pull of the cloud and its benefits of flexibility, speed, innovation, cost, and scalability are now too great to be dismissed by the usual fears.”…

Read more from the source @ http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/04/14/cloud-perceptions-conflict-survey-finds-concerns-cloud-growing-along-trust/

Grazed from SysCon. Author: Sanjay Zalavadia.

In recent years, quality assurance teams have become accustomed to a variety of new technologies. It has been a big change for the many quality assurance analysts who came of age at a time when waterfall development methodologies and PC-centric applications were their front and center concerns.

Now they have to adjust to the realities of cloud computing and the ever-expanding mobile device ecosystem. A lot of infrastructures, development platforms and applications are being shifted off-premises to public and private clouds, while the device mix at many enterprises is becoming more diverse. Let’s consider some of the developments that are currently afoot:…