Grazed from ITProPortal.  Author: Brian Brinker.

In a big move earlier this week, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) inked a deal worth more than a hundred million dollars with Computer Sciences Corporation to provide cloud computing services.  The deal generated quite a bit of news coverage earlier this week, but we want to take a moment to explain why this is such a big development and what it could mean for the cloud computing industry.

Over the past few years the Federal government has emerged as one of the most aggressive proponents of cloud technologies, and numerous federal agencies have begun to move data and services into the cloud.  It should come as no surprise then that the Federal Aviation Authority has a big interest in cloud computing…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Maribel Lopez

Mobile, cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) have changed the IT infrastructure landscape. These trends are equally disruptive and transformative for business processes such as CRM, logistics management and hiring. Recently, I spoke with David Hale, the CEO of Gigwalk, on how mobility is reinventing work.

Today, a massive amount of  temporary positions aren’t filled because companies can’t quickly match open opportunities to available talent. This issue is particularly acute when a company needs to hire temporary talent for short intervals, such as a day or a week. In the past a company had to call prospective workers to know if someone was available at a certain time and location and to confirm the person had the right skills. This manual process is cumbersome and many jobs went unfilled because it was too difficult to find a temporary worker…

Grazed from CloudComputing.net.  Author: Louis Columbus.

Big data is providing supplier networks with greater data accuracy, clarity, and insights, leading to more contextual intelligence shared across supply chains.  Forward-thinking manufacturers are orchestrating 80% or more of their supplier network activity outside their four walls, using big data and cloud-based technologies to get beyond the constraints of legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) systems.

For manufacturers whose business models are based on rapid product lifecycles and speed, legacy ERP systems are a bottleneck.  Designed for delivering order, shipment and transactional data, these systems aren’t capable of scaling to meet the challenges supply chains face today…

Grazed from Fortune.  Author: Barb Darrow.

As the enterprise software giant pumps up its cloud resume, it appears to be cutting back on Java evangelists. Not that it’s acknowledging that.  It looks like Oracle is paring back its Java team. There were reports last week on Twitter and Reddit, picked up by Infoworld, that top Java evangelists have left the database giant.

Cameron Purdy, a senior vice president for development and a noted Java evangelist, left Oracle  ORCL -1.71%  in August after more than 8 years at the company, according to his LinkedIn bio.  In a few tweets, he indicated that this was Oracle’s decision:…

Read more from the source @ http://fortune.com/2015/09/07/oracle-cuts-java-execs/

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Stephen Lawson.

The cloud is where the action is in enterprise storage.  Sales are way up for little-known manufacturers that sell directly to big cloud companies like Google and Facebook, while the market for traditional external storage systems is shrinking, according to research company IDC.

Internet giants and service providers typically don’t use specialized storage platforms in their sprawling data centers. Instead, they buy vast amounts of capacity in the form of generic hardware that’s controlled by software. As users flock to cloud-based services, that’s a growing business…

Grazed from WhaTech.  Author: Divya Bourse.

Cloud IBN, a leading provider of open source solutions, speaks about the next generation cloud based platform as a service. Budget, no. of employees or size of your service can not limit your enterprise growth when you are using a broadly deployed Platform as a Service (PaaS). Developers can build new services or applications in the cloud, which can run on any platform, and also can be made available to the end users through internet.

PaaS also provides some additional tools for hosting, testing, maintaining and collaborating applications. These key driving factors of PaaS market accelerates the application development process and offers scalability, easy deployment, agility, limited need for expertise, reduced cost and less development time…

Grazed from BusinessSolutions.  Author: Christine Kern.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has released a best practices guide designed to help Defense Department (DoD) “cloud mission owners” migrate to the cloud. The guide follows the release of three other documents in July regarding cloud computing security requirements.

The “Best Practices Guide for Department of Defense Cloud Mission Owners” is intended to smooth the way for cloud migration among the Department of Defense’s many layers, in response to changes last winter…

Grazed EEHerald.  Author: Editorial Staff.

ARM Cortex processor-based chips are leading in the market compared to other proprietary processor cores in the IOT applications space. There are lot of microcontroller vendors and also SOC chip vendors designing IOT specific Ics using ARM Cortex processor cores. ARM is helping IOT developers with a software/operating system platform called ‘mbed’.

While this is about the edge node, what is really required in a IOT environment is, a powerful cloud computing platform to process the data coming from multiple IOT nodes. Now ARM Cortex based product developers can have one of the best cloud systems from IBM.   IBM has expanded its Internet of Things (IoT) platform – called IBM IoT Foundation to provide out of the box connectivity with ARM mbed-enabled devices to analytics services…

Grazed from DavisVanguard.org.  Author: Anupam Chander.

My parents grew up in a pen and paper world, where most of their writings and records were kept at home, in their offices, or with close confidantes. I grew up in a world of computers, but even my writings were mostly kept at home on hard drives and floppy disks (for today’s students, many of whom have never seen a floppy disk, a history of the floppy disk). My first writings were kept, astonishingly, on a cassette recorder, which stored what I typed on my TRS-80, a computer made by Radio Shack. That computer had a total memory of 16K, roughly 16,000 characters (not even words) of text.

My children are growing up in the cloud, where their writings and their records are being stored in remote computers. Because those computers are managed by Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, and their peers, their writings are far more secure than I ever managed when I stored my files on a floppy or a hard drive, both of which failed with remarkable regularity and maximally devastating timing…

Grazed from Tech.Co.  Author: Rick Delgado.

ud computing has significantly transformed the way businesses operate. One only needs to see the explosion in the number of companies adopting Cloud solutions to see that many organizations understand its many benefits. As companies become more familiar with the Cloud, they also begin to come up with unique ideas for how to utilize it. However it happens, innovative ideas are set to be unleashed upon the public. These interesting Cloud business ideas proposed by businesses have plenty of potential. Here are just a few that have captured people’s attention.

1. GunDetect

Gun safety is on the minds of many people these days, so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that some companies are hoping to use technology to prevent gunshot injuries and fatalities. GunDetect is one such business idea that looks to use a Cloud-based device to detect when a gun enters the home. The idea is that the camera used on the device will take an image, encrypt it, send it to the cloud, and determine if it is a gun or not…