Grazed from SiliconAngle.  Author: Suzzane Kattau.

In 2015, more companies will migrate their compliant data to the cloud, there will be more cloud-targeted attacks by hackers or countries, and more U.S. cloud computing companies will deal with increasing European privacy regulations. This is all according to Ariel Dan, Executive VP and co-founder of Porticor Ltd., a cloud encryption and cloud security solutions provider for enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

Dan’s predictions about enterprise cloud are all part of our second annual Technology Predictions series in which industry experts share their predictions with us about the hot tech trends that they think will take center stage in 2015. We’ll be sharing all of their predictions with you over the next couple of days. Read on for more from Dan…

Grazed from SCMagazine.  Author: Tony Morbin.

Last year’s slew of criminal data breaches made it clear that the perimeter has fallen and the privacy of our data is at risk – whether that be passwords and credit cards or celebrity pictures and corporate secrets, while government agencies from China, Russia and the west continue to demonstrate vast intelligence surveillance capabilities.

One of the most effective responses for corporations, governments or individuals is to take a data- centric approach using encryption, potentially making data useless to intruders, or at least, raising the cost of access.  Late last year SC Magazine UK editor in chief Tony Morbin interviewed Alan Kessler, president and CEO, Vormetric, to get an industry view on issues in the commercial encryption market…

Grazed from TechCrunch.  Author: Deven Parkh.

The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr once observed that “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” Particularly in the ever-changing world of technology, today’s bold prediction is liable to prove tomorrow’s historical artifact. But thinking ahead about wide-ranging technology and market trends is a useful exercise for those of us engaged in the business of partnering with entrepreneurs and executives that are building the next great company.

Moreover, let’s face it: gazing into the crystal ball is a time-honored, end-of-year parlor game. And it’s fun.  So in the spirit of the season, I have identified five big data themes to watch in 2015. As a marketing term or industry description, big data is so omnipresent these days that it doesn’t mean much. But it is pretty clear that we are at a tipping point…

Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: Ofer Hendler.

High-profile security breaches have dominated the headlines in 2014. Two notable examples over the last few months, the Apple iCloud and Dropbox breaches, have revealed a juicy target for attackers: user credentials.

Rather than try to hack into the application itself like iCloud, Dropbox, Salesforce, or Amazon Web Services (AWS), an easier and much more feasible approach to gaining access to sensitive data, celebrity photos, or whatever else an attacker is after, is through stolen user credentials…

Grazed from VentureBeat.   Author: Jordan Novet.

Amazon Web Services, the leader in the market for public cloud infrastructure, is getting ready to release its latest server slices to developers the world over.

The C4 instances, first announced in November, will launch in seven regions, according to a blog post that went out in an RSS feed but is now unavailable online.  The C4 instances run on Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell) chips customized exclusively for Amazon, according to the blog post, written by Amazon Web Services chief evangelist Jeff Barr…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Trey Hedden.

The cloud — the most ambiguous, overhyped and overused term in the IT industry. It’s like a modern day Wild West where it is so hard to discern the difference between the tiny firms based in a foreign country and the reputable, reliable and trustworthy ones we would want to entrust our reputation to.

It is nearly impossible for most of us to determine the firms you can trust, what products actually work and what providers are properly capitalized to the point where we can trust them with our clients. We simply don’t have the staff of accounting, legal and technology experts to do a detailed analysis of firms and offerings — and then keep up with the market to ensure the best solution now remains the best going forward…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bri Pennington.

From Google abandoning MapReduce to Facebook switching off its data center, here’s a look back at the 10 most popular articles on Data Center Knowledge during 2014. Enjoy!

Google Dumps MapReduce in Favor of New Hyper-Scale Analytics System – Google has abandoned MapReduce, the system for running data analytics jobs spread across many servers the company developed and later open sourced, in favor of a new cloud analytics system it has built called Cloud Dataflow…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Krzysztof Polak.

Users of SAP applications in Poland, central and eastern Europe could be forgiven for feeling dizzy because of the changes that have occurred in recent years, not only in the provider’s image and offer, but also in its approach to customers. The new SAP tools for knowledge management are arousing both interest and doubts.

For many years, SAP has been the leader of enterprise management applications – enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), supply chain management (SCM) – in the Polish market at least. However, for two years now, rapid changes have taken place in SAP’s communication in the market. Traditional messages about popular systems for business management have disappeared. Why?…

Grazed from KoreaHerald.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Samsung Electronics said Thursday that it would unveil a lineup of smart televisions running on the Tizen operating system at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.

The company said Tizen would offer a simple user-friendly interface, allowing consumers to rapidly find popular content via Samsung’s Smart Hub function, which will also recommend shows to viewers based on their viewing histories…

Grazed from TechCocktail.  Author: Christopher Beck.

Over the past few decades much of how we communicate, work, and even play has evolved as advancements have been made in technology. With each new invention or advancement, actions that used to require two or more people to be in the same room are fading and even the farthest reaches of the globe are seemingly at our collaborative fingertips.

A recent infographic created by cloud-based digital asset management company, WebDAM, visualizes “How Creative Collaboration Has Evolved Over Time,” and gives audiences a snapshot of just how far technology has come with a fun design that plays off of each decade stylistically…