Grazed from CIOToday. Author: Jef Cozza.

The world’s largest open-source software Relevant Products/Services provider just brought a new operating system on the market. On Thursday, Red Hat, known for its enterprise Relevant Products/Services distributions of the Linux operating system, launched its Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host OS. The new OS is specifically designed to run the latest generation of applications as Linux containers.

Linux containers are virtualization Relevant Products/Services environments that allow organizations to run multiple isolated Linux systems on a single Linux control host. Containers introduce autonomy for applications by packaging apps with the libraries and other binaries on which they depend…

Grazed from TechWorm. Author: Editorial Staff.

A group of researchers only needed $104 and 8 hours of Amazon’s cloud computing power and of course, FREAK to hack the NSA’s website. The researchers used NSA’s anti-encryption policies, which were the main reason for the newly disclosed internet flaw called FREAK, to make NSA’s own website a guinea pig.

The bug which was disclosed by Akamai and subsequently reported by Techworm on Monday allows any potential hacker to intercept a supposedly secure connection between people using Android or Apple devices and PC’s using Mac OS X and Safari browser. The websites vulnerable to this flaw may be in thousands including NSA.gov, FBI.gov and Whitehouse.gov…

Grazed from FinancialPost. Author: Lynn Greiner.

Privacy is top-of-mind for many industries, especially when it comes to the cloud. Since the U.S. government began demanding access to cloud-based data from Microsoft’s Irish data centre, customers realized that they may not be safe from privacy violations even if their information is not resident in the U.S. Microsoft and other industry players have been fighting the demands, since they’re all placed in the awkward situation of breaking someone’s laws no matter what they do.

If they capitulate, the EU won’t be happy (nor will customers), and if they don’t, the U.S. government will be miffed. With lawyers. But Microsoft firmly believes that customers, not the cloud provider with whom they store it, own their data. To that end, it says it has become the first major cloud provider to adopt ISO/IEC 27018, the first global standard for cloud privacy, and Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics CRM Online have been evaluated for compliance by the British Standards Institute. Additionally, Microsoft InTune has been verified by Bureau Veritas…

Read more from the source @ http://business.financialpost.com/2015/03/04/microsoft-corp-achieves-iso-cloud-privacy-certification/?__lsa=ecc6-e6ca

Grazed from TheHostingNews. Author: Editorial Staff.

EasyStreet Inc. has brought to market a new type of cloud computing solution engineered for unrivaled speed and scalability. The EasyStreet Extreme Performance Cloud Computing solution is ideal for situations where access to data has to be quick such as supporting website visitors and data-driven applications.

Working with leading products from SanDisk Corporation and Dell Inc., EasyStreet now deploys private clouds with a storage system capable of ten times the performance of a traditional disk system and three times the performance of an all-flash system using the same computing resources…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

The single hottest topic these days in or out of the cloud is Docker containers. As an alternative form of virtualization containers have been around on Linux platform for years. But with the advent of Docker containers it’s becoming simpler to invoke "micro-services" to create distributed computing applications that can span almost any combination of hybrid cloud computing scenarios.

As with any emerging technology, there are a host of security and management issues that still need to be addressed before Docker containers will make it into production environments. One way to address those issues is to nest Docker container images inside existing Linux containers…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jaikumar Vijayan.

Google has released a beta version of a message-oriented middleware tool for connecting disparate applications and services running on its Google Cloud Platform or on customers’ premises. Dubbed Google Pub/Sub, the middleware is designed to let distributed applications and services communicate with each other via real-time messaging.

The middleware eliminates the need for developers to hardwire service dependencies and lets them accommodate changes in data inputs, data formats and data security polices, Google said in an official description of the technology. "Publish-and-subscribe messaging helps connect apps and devices that send data into processing pipelines, and back out to other apps, devices, and Google Cloud Platform services for further storage and analysis," it said…

See more at: http://www.eweek.com/cloud/google-bolsters-cloud-portfolio-with-message-oriented-middleware.html#sthash.nFLyXTow.dpuf

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Matthew Finnie.

The current model for public cloud computing is an optimisation of the traditional construct of internet-facing data centres: maximise the scale of the facility to serve as broad a market as possible, using the Internet as the means of distribution. This model is wedded to a separation of the compute from the ‘dumb network’, or to use the original terminology of some 40 years ago, we are still in a world where we separate processing (computing) from inter-process communication (network).

The convenience of this separated relationship has bought us the Internet economy: an autonomous network that can deliver anything anywhere. The rise of cloud computing ‘as a service’ exploits this Internet delivery model, removing the need to buy and build your own data centres…

Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Paul Carsten.

China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] and Intel Corp are expanding an existing alliance to provide cloud computing to global telecoms carriers, as U.S. tech firms vie for Chinese tie-ups to retain access to a tough mainland market. The partnership, announced by Huawei in a statement, comes as U.S and other Western tech firms’ scramble to burnish their bona fides with China, which has become increasingly wary of foreign technology.

Joining hands with Chinese companies, including technology transfers and adopting Chinese partners’ branding, can make these products more palatable to local buyers and authorities in the world’s second-largest economy. "How do you stay in this market and do the least damage to your core business – that’s the puzzle everybody is focusing on now," said James McGregor, chairman for advisory firm APCO China…

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-huawei-intel-expand-tie-up-amid-chinas-rising-scrutiny-of-us-tech-firms-2015-3#ixzz3TWnuq7Gz

Grazed from CloudPatterns.org. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud denial of service (DoS) attacks are multifaceted and prevent consumers of cloud services from accessing their cloud resources. A cloud DoS protection service is incorporated into the security architecture to shield the cloud provider from DoS attacks. A network DoS protection service updates the domain name service (DNS) to route all cloud provider traffic through the protection service, which filters attack traffic and routes only legitimate traffic to the cloud provider. Alternately, the cloud provider can route traffic to a DoS protection service when experiencing an attack, or create their own DoS protection service.

There are three categories of DoS attacks: volume-based attacks, protocol attacks, and application layer attacks. A volume-based attack is when a DoS forces a cloud victim to use overwhelming amounts of network bandwidth. This causes unsupportable network usage, leaving the cloud services without network resources and causing non-responsiveness…

Grazed from MidsizeInsider. Author: Doug Bonderud.

It has been dubbed "the race to zero": Cloud storage providers are working to outpace one another with price cuts and increased storage volumes. But will cloud storage costs ever bottom out? If they do, what kind of market will be left for midsize companies? Will the companies that emerge from the rubble be dubbed cloud computing heroes or zeroes?

Prices in Free Fall

According to a recent article from Cloud Tweaks, storage prices are dropping as big-name providers fight it out in the public sector. While there is little chance that the price-per-gigabyte will ever reach zero, it is not outside the realm of possibility that only a few providers will emerge profitably, offering storage solutions for a pittance. It is worth noting for midsize companies that when the playing field is sufficiently narrow, prices will start to trend upward again — without the benefit of healthy competition…