Grazed from IEEE.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing are emerging as a promising service platform for the next-generation Internet. By integrating heterogeneous service models and devices into a cohesive system, IoT exhibits tremendous potential to meet the information-processing demands of smart environments. Similarly, the pervasive nature of cloud computing promises to make low-profile “things” resource rich by enhancing their processing and storage capabilities.

IoT encompasses various technical areas, such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs), embedded systems, radio frequency identification (RFID), and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication systems. IoT will enable the development of smart and autonomous environments by allowing billions of “things” to communicate to provide services in fields such as business, healthcare, social networks, logistics, agriculture, and e-commerce…

Grazed from IBNLinve.  Author: Editorial Staff.

As Microsoft is celebrating its 40th anniversary today, we can’t help but admire at the way the software giant has been able to establish its empire on Windows operating system that runs on many of the world’s desktops, laptops, phones, and servers.

Having enjoyed such a position in the consumer and business market, will it ever open its palms and let others leverage its potential of being the most-used OS for free? One of the company’s top engineer says yes.  Mark Russinovich, one of Microsoft’s top engineers said during the ChefConf conference that the company could open source the code that underpins the OS…

Grazed from LegitNews.  Author: Nathan Kirsch.

In 2010 we first learned about the OnLive Game Service and how they were going to be one of the dominant companies in building the future of cloud computing. In late 2012 the company was acquired by Lauder Partners and a new company was formed called OnLive Inc.

Over the years the Onlive Cloud Gaming service has been used by millions of users in the US and Europe, but that appears to be coming to an end on April 30th.  It appears that Sony has stepped in and bought many of the assets that OnLive had in a deal that has not had the terms disclosed…

Grazed from GenomeWeb. Auhor: Editorial Staff.

The National Institutes of Health issued a position statement this week revising its existing polices on use of cloud computing services for storing and analyzing controlled access data stored in the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGAP). In response to repeated calls from the community, the NIH began reviewing its existing policies for accessing and using information contained in dbGAP to give biomedical researchers the option to use cloud infrastructure analyze data from the repository on.

Under the existing policy, dbGAP data could not be analyzed using cloud compute because of concerns about the security of the data and to avoid risking the privacy of research participants. Now, according to the newly issued position statement, the NIH will allow investigators to request permission to move dbGAP genomic and associated phenotype data from NIH repositories to public or private cloud systems for data storage and analysis…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Sander Van Vugt.

Every major IT vendor wants to convince data center administrators that their infrastructure isn’t up-to-date without cloud. But do you really need cloud to be considered modern? And what kind of cloud? Cloud computing offers a maximum amount of versatility on servers. Deploying a server in a cloud environment is easy because it is automated. System administrators are no longer needed for the install. Instead, the user can automatically deploy one within minutes.

OpenStack is an open source cloud infrastructure. It has origins in the Linux kernel for operating systems, but doesn’t just fit Linux apps. An OpenStack infrastructure is open enough for integration with other platforms, such as Windows. Integration happens at two levels. At the lower level there are the compute nodes, which are the servers that host VMs — known as instances…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

In its effort to appeal to a broader swath of large enterprise IT environments, Amazon Web Services is making moves to extend the reach of its public cloud into existing on-premises data centers. The latest example: AWS CodeDeploy now allows customers to launch code they store in AWS’s cloud on servers behind a company’s firewall. Previously, CodeDeploy would only run code on AWS servers.

CodeDeploy is a new service AWS announced at its re:Invent conference last year that allows application developers to centrally control and track code for new apps that they’ve built and control where it runs. It’s built on the same system that AWS uses internally to build new services…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Sharon Gaudin.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking to focus less on IT and more on rocket science so it’s launching a private cloud to store sensitive information, create a common infrastructure and enable scientists to work together more easily. "We wanted to encourage the use of a common platform across the agency," said Filippo Angelucci, head of the IT department and ESA’s CIO.

"Today, through the cloud, you could have engineers and scientists set up their computing environment in a few minutes, instead of weeks and months, as they did in the past when they had to go through a big process of buying servers and getting them set up." The ESA, an international organization with 20 member states focused on space research, has been using public cloud services from different vendors like AWS to store public data from different satellites and from the Gaia mission to map the galaxy…

Read more from the source @ http://www.computerworld.com/article/2905421/space-agency-turns-to-private-cloud-for-rocket-science.html

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Don’t look now, but the U.S. cloud service broker (CSB) market will grow from $225.4 million in 2013 to $2 billion by 2018, growing 55.3 percent per year. The global CSB market will grow from $1.6 billion in 2013 to $10.5 billion by 2018, growing 46.2 percent per year, according to MarketsandMarkets.

I deal with CSBs more and more as an increasing number of enterprises move to multicloud approaches. Another factor is that IT increasingly takes on the role of providing cloud services to the rest of the enterprise, and it needs automated ways to manage those services…

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

OpenStack specialist Mirantis has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation in a move being slated as furthering open standards in the maturing cloud industry, as Mirantis looks to support customers topping off their cloud computing stack with a developer layer for building out applications and services.

Mirantis styles itself as the "pure-play" OpenStack company, offering a straight build of the open source cloud computing framework that is not integrated with proprietary technology. Other vendors offer an OpenStack build that is designed to operate with their existing products, such as VMware, which runs OpenStack atop vSphere…

Grazed from Lexology. Author: Neasa Ni ghrada.

On 1 August 2014, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published the first privacy-specific international standard for the cloud: ISO/IEC 27018 "Code of practice for protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds acting as PII processors". Early adopters Microsoft announced on 16 February 2015 that it was the first company to receive certification for the standard.

ISO/IEC 27018 builds on existing ISO standards such as ISO 27001 (the existing best practice for information security management) and is aimed at increasing confidence in data security and cloud computing. Adoption of the standard would complement one of the exceptions to the prohibition on transferring personal data outside of the EEA such as model contracts, Binding Corporate Rules and Safe Harbour…