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…

Grazed from ChannelPartners.  Author: Lorna Garey.

As back-to-school shopping levels off, your retailer customers’ thoughts inevitably turn to the holiday season. If your base includes local chains or specialty shops, check out this article by Evan Schuman on the best way for bricks-and-mortar stores to take on Amazon. TL;DR version: Exploit its two weak spots, delivery and live customer experience.

Security is also on consumers’ minds, and retail is one of the verticals we’re discussing in our Cloud Partners session titled “The Cloud Specialists Are In."  Verizon’s chief security evangelist, Mark Rasch, will join a panel of your peers, moderated by me, to discuss the challenges around PCI and much more…

Grazed from Yibada.  Author: Editorial Staff.

To create a quantum computer that processes data at tremendous speeds–trillions of times quicker than the world’s fastest computer, China’s supercomputer Tianhe-2–is the target of a prospective game-changing scheme introduced by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

If the venture becomes successful, the effect of having a China-based lightning-speed computer could make all modern technological developments worldwide during the past 50 years look like baby steps.  Researchers at tech firms, such as Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp. and Google Inc., as well as governments around the globe, have invested on quantum computer technology in recent years…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Daniel Robinson.

The topics of debate at the OpenStack Silicon Valley conference at the end of August were not restricted to new features and capabilities under development for the cloud computing framework, but extended to discussions about what direction the project should take in the future, often with diametrically opposing views.

Does this mean that the cracks are starting to show in the OpenStack community? Or is this all simply a sign that OpenStack has now become such a key technology to many companies that its future direction is a matter of great import?  OpenStack may have started as a collaborative project between Nasa and Rackspace to emulate Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, but as an open platform for building cloud infrastructure. However, it has since mushroomed into a kind of overarching umbrella project for all kinds of open source solutions covering software-defined storage, big data analytics, software-defined networking and more…

Grazed from SysCon. Author: Jason Bloomberg.

The word quantum often portends New Age mumbo-jumbo, in spite of the fact that quantum mechanics underlies many of today’s most important technologies, including lasers and the semiconductors found in every computer chip. Nevertheless, today quantum computing is becoming a reality.

And while it may look to the layperson like mere mumbo-jumbo, in reality of the technology has largely moved out of the theoretical stage, as recent news indicates. In fact, two important announcements over the last few weeks underscore the progress quantum computing is making. First, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada-based D-Wave Systems announced the general availability of the latest generation of their D-Wave 2X quantum computer…

Read more from the source @ http://news.sys-con.com/node/3442987

Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Bruce Kamich.

The cloud has been a hot topic in the media and some of the cloud-related plays have also been hot in the financial markets. Has anything changed in the past month? Let’s check the meteorological charts just to be sure. Starting with the First Trust ISE Cloud Computing Index Fund (SKYY), we can see a five-month double top formation in the chart below. With the selloff from $31 to $26 last month, volume began to increase on the decline. Notice how the On-Volume-Line (OBV) has inched lower. Increased volume on down days suggests that investors are liquidating longs.

NetSuite (N – Get Report) has been in a "low pressure" funk all year with prices working irregularly lower, as seen in the chart below. Prices could decline further to next support around $80, and a deeper decline to the 2014 low at $70 cannot be ruled out…

Read more from the source @ http://www.thestreet.com/story/13278578/1/whats-up-with-the-cloud-stocks.html

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

Moving to essentially provide a higher level of abstraction through which it can deliver cloud computing services, CenturyLink this week announced that the distribution of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service environment from Pivotal, a unit of EMC, is now available in the CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace. That offering is the second PaaS environment that CenturyLink offers after acquiring AppFog, another provider of a PaaS based on Cloud Foundry, in 2013.

Dave Shacochis, vice president of cloud platform for CenturyLink, said the cloud service provider is embracing Pivotal CF as a mechanism for making its underlying infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform more accessible to the developer community. Rather than just presenting developers with an IaaS, Shacochis said Cloud Foundry PaaS environments provide developers with a framework to both build their applications and manage the underlying IaaS environment…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/paas/centurylink-embraces-cloud-foundry-paas