Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Clare Hopping.

Amazon’s Pop-up Loft programme has launched in London, targeting start-ups with training and web service support for using its own public cloud. The initiative will be stationed in Fore Street, close to the City of London, until the end of October and will allow developers, engineers and entrepreneurs collaborate on AWS solutions with Amazon’s experts and other cloud computing partners on hand to give advice and direction.

The aim for Amazon is to encourage entrepreneurs to use AWS for building systems for their start-up, while the training courses, boot camps, self-paced labs, seminars and networking events will help spread knowledge among the developer community. The programme comprises different paths for developers to take, covering different subject areas including Ask and Architect to give developers one-to-one advice about their existing architecture, features and saving costs, while the Technical Bootcamp strand will be one-day training sessions that will guide developers to create their own AWS live environments using the AWS Management Console…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/public-cloud/5343/aws-opens-london-cloud-space-to-target-start-ups

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Editorial Staff.

There has been a lot of speculation on whether cloud ERP would potentially replace aging core ERP systems that are out of support or running on an old technology platforms. According to Palladium Business Solutions managing director Stephen Corrigan, Cloud ERP is accelerating faster than analyst predictions.

Gartner also predicts that on-premises ERP systems will soon get the ‘legacy’ label. It says the highly customised ERP systems are looking a bit long in the tooth, to the point where by 2016 it will be common practice to refer to them as ‘legacy’ software. "As Cloud Computing adoption in the ERP arena increases, the technical edges early adopters achieved narrow a bit, while the disadvantages typical of new technology (down time, reliable infrastructure) also stabilise…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Jason Perlow.

The iPad Pro. There’s been a lot of fallout as to whether this machine is truly enterprise worthy, is or isn’t a laptop replacement, or if the device will resonate with prosumers and enterprises.  I maintain that despite the misleading "Pro" moniker, this device is not an enterprise-class device, nor is it well-suited for many kinds of existing vertical market applications, for a number of reasons. But I’m not going to re-hash that in this piece.

The success (or lack thereof) of this device is going to hinge upon whether or not an elite group of high-level business executives at large corporations are going to want to use one of these as their primary device instead of a Mac or Windows laptop or even a regular iPad, like they may use today…

Grazed from SysCon Media.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In a recent blog article, I discussed the difference between cloud backup and cloud disaster recovery (or “DR”). In a nutshell, with cloud backup, you basically pay a third-party service provider a monthly fee to have them back up your firm’s data and store it in the cloud, so it can be restored on-demand at a later date.

With cloud DR, you gain the option to restore your data/server images to an always-on offsite virtual cloud environment capable of running live production servers. Your recovery time dramatically shrinks with this option.  So, is the reduced recovery time with cloud disaster recovery achieved solely through superior technology, or does this recovery advantage also depend on human processes?…

Grazed from TVNewsRoom.  Author: Editorial Staff.

“This newest expansion of the IBM Watson Health Cloud makes it an even more robust and flexible platform for the life sciences and healthcare industries and explains its rapid adoption among leading organizations in these fields”, Rhodin added.  In January 2014, IBM launched the IBM Watson unit, a business dedicated to developing and commercializing cloud-delivered cognitive computing technologies.

IBM said it has expanded its portfolio with Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance and Watson Care Manager. “IBM Watson Health has been on fast growth trajectory and has a strong foundation that well positions us to continue to seize opportunities across the continuum of life sciences and healthcare”…

Grazed from CloudWards.net.  Author: Vladimir Covic.

The OpenStack Innovation Center will immediately be populated by some 200 Rackspace employees, all of which are a part of OpenStack team.  Intel’s vice president for the software and services group, and general manager of Intel Open Source Technology Center, Imad Sousou said:

“We are going to make this the launching pad to make OpenStack and the entire cloud available to everyone in the industry. And, yes, we’re hiring.”  Joining them in San Antonio, where the center will be located, will be Intel’s developers from:…

Grazed from CBROnline.  Author: James Nunns.

Cloud has a significant role to play in business; Nyberg doesn’t question this, but he believes that it has its shortcomings.  "What a lot of companies are finding is that once you get above a certain utilisation rate, it’s actually cheaper to own the machine yourself."

Believing that almost all of Cray’s large machines in industry, and to some degree in research and academia, could be described as private cloud resources, he says: "Once you reach a certain utilisation level, those things flip over and you’re starting to hear that more and as the cloud market matures a lot of organisations start moving over towards it and experimenting and discovering exactly that."…

Grazed from CTOVision. Author: Bob Gourley.

On 26 August 2015 the Department of Defense (DoD) published a new rule entitled the "Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Network Penetration Reporting and Contracting for Cloud Services (DFARS Case 2013-D018). You can read the details of this new rule here:

This rule represents a significant expansion of the mandate on defense contractors and their subcontractors to protect information and report on breaches. The rule is in immediate effect. It was promulgated with urgency and all contractors and subcontractors are expected to take this with the required amount of seriousness…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Editorial Staff.

ISC(2) recently surveyed the attitudes of infosecurity professionals to cloud computing in our Global Information Security Workforce Study and the implications were clear – despite growing cloud adoption, concern over cloud security remains very high. In a significant reversal in infosecurity professionals’ views on future cloud use, far more expect to see cloud use at their organisations increasing over the next two to three years than when we last polled the industry in 2013.

Yet this does not appear to signify a corresponding increase in confidence in cloud security. Cloud-based services are cited as the biggest security concern by 49 percent of professionals and are ranked above cyber-terrorism as a top 10 security threat. And concerns are high among infosecurity professionals across every major vertical; 68 percent of those in telecoms, 55 percent of those in banking, 50 percent of government, 40 percent in defence and 60 percent in utilities say cloud security remains a paramount concern…

Read more from the source @ http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/infosecurity-voice/cloud-industry-is-growing-but-so-is-wariness-over-security-3625327/

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Tom Nolle.

Application planners, architects and operations managers all know that deployment of applications today is complicated by application componentization, workflow steering and cloud adoption. Most use tools like DevOps to facilitate deployment, but hybrid clouds can defeat even those tools.

To understand hybrid cloud management, understand the challenges hybrid clouds pose for even modern management tools, think of application deployment and redeployment in layers, and recognize that full management automation is the final goal, so it’s critical to know whether your hybrid cloud management approach will lead there…