Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Michael Vizard.

Between the advent of Hadoop and the rise of the cloud, there not only is more data than ever to manage, but that data is more distributed than ever. But as Hadoop deployments begin to shift into the cloud, it is starting to look as though there soon might be a lot more Big Data deployments on public cloud computing platforms.

With that issue in mind Dataguise, a provider of data governance software optimized for Big Data environments, today announced it is extending its DgSecure platform to support deployments of Hadoop in the cloud. As part of the effort, Dataguise is also announcing that Altiscale and Qubole, two providers of Big Data platforms in the cloud, have joined the Dataguise Big Data Protection Partner Program, which already include Clouder, Hortonworks, MapR and Amazon Web Services…

Grazed from MidSizeInsider. Author: Jason Hannula.

The movement of data and software services to the cloud has left some businesses feeling less secure. Skyhigh Networks brought together academic experts for the first industry-focused cryptography advisory board to provide insights on using encryption schemes as part of cloud computing security, Becca Lipman reports on Wall Street & Technology.

Secure Cloud Data Through Encryption

The use of encryption means control of business files and data remains with the firm, while the cloud services provider independently handles software and infrastructure. Encryption is applied at the data source, and decryption occurs only when an accessing application or user has been authenticated. The cloud service handles the encrypted data without having access to the contents…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Rob Wright.

Following a series of unexpected reboots at several high-profile cloud computing service providers, cloud security experts warn that enterprises should prepare now to mitigate the effects of more security-related service disruptions in the future. Two weeks ago, Amazon Web Services Inc. notified its customers of an EC2 "maintenance update" that required a reboot of about 10% of its hosts globally.

The reboot applied a security update that corrected a flaw in the open source Xen hypervisor, which Amazon uses in its cloud architecture; the host servers required a system restart that rendered them unavailable "for a few minutes" while the patches were being applied, according to a blog post from Jeff Barr, chief evangelist for AWS…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Bluewolf, a leading global business consulting firm, today announced it has achieved Salesforce FullForce Master Program Certification for both Sales Cloud and Service Cloud. This elite recognition is granted to salesforce.com partners who have proven expertise in delivering industry and cloud-specific services and solutions to sales and customer service teams, thus providing clients unprecedented success.

Bluewolf earned its Salesforce FullForce Master Program Certifications based on overwhelming success in implementing Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, sales and customer service expertise, and ability to offer differentiated solutions that optimize customer moments and drive business results…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: David H. Deans.

Here’s the challenge. Your CEO won’t accept anything less than a world-class IT infrastructure that meets the expectations of his most informed Line-of-Business leaders. If you’re the CIO and you don’t want to rely upon public cloud service providers, then are you ready to deliver the caliber of IT services that they can provision? Take a moment. Consider the implications. Ponder the impact of your actions.

All the leading public cloud services providers routinely design and assemble their own data center infrastructure components, due to their extreme needs for scale and cost control. Regardless of the cloud services company, a common element among all these devices is a requirement to run an open-source operating system, such as Linux, and various other purpose-built open-source software components. Gartner, Inc. refers to this trend as the Web-scale IT phenomena…

Grazed from InsideCounsel. Author: Linda L. Rhodes.

The economics of cloud commuting are compelling, and cloud solutions offer customers the flexibility to rapidly provision and release computing elements. As a result, use of cloud services is clearly growing. However, buying cloud services is different from buying traditional outsourced services. Cloud providers are able to offer low cost, flexible solutions because they standardize their offerings for multiple customers.

Accordingly, cloud providers are less likely than traditional outsource providers to adapt their solutions to the customer’s needs or negotiate contract terms to meet the customer’s requirements. The key to successful cloud computing is to find the right fit between the cloud solution and your business needs…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced that Altera, Chelsio Communications, DataCentred, Imagination Technologies and Travelping are joining the organization.
These companies illustrate that Linux continues to rapidly grow its footprint globally across a wide range of industries and applications.

Data centers with massive operations are increasingly common. From cloud and embedded computing to analytics and hardware customization, enterprises are struggling with how to efficiently and cost-effectively handle new types and amounts of data. Today’s new members understand the pull Linux has in the data center and support the collaborative work underway to solve today’s scalable server, network and storage challenges…

Grazed from CBROnline. Author: Editorial Staff.

Nearly half of UK organisations are ready to adopt software defined networking (SDN) even though they don’t understand it. A survey of 200 IT decision makers found that 40% of businesses are planning to deploy SDN, which promises to make the network more flexible, easier to manage and more secure, within the next five years.

Another 34% said they are planning to adopt Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) during the same period, with 27% keen to do so before 2018. However, 37% of decision makers admitted that they did not fully understand the concept of SDN, while 45% said the same about NFV…

Grazed from BizJournals. Author: Patrick Hoge.

Salesforce.com, a pioneer in cloud computing, has usually been an early adopter of new computing and related services trends, launching an app store for integrated applications, embedding social networking in its products and transforming its technical base for smartphones.

Now the trend du jour is wearable computing, and Salesforce has jumped on the bandwagon in a big way, as shown by recent investments in wearable startups and an initiative to get developers to build applications that connect devices worn on the face, wrist and body with Salesforce’s technology…

Grazed from Business-Technology. Author: Joanne Frearson.

It’s an unusual comparison, admittedly. But “cheap” and “chic” are two terms Beighton feels are appropriate when it comes to describing the cloud – it is cost effective, and it has the capacity to serve millions or billions of people very quickly, then change equally quickly. Beighton certainly knows a lot about the cloud, and has a varied background when it comes to technology, becoming part of the government’s programme to switch off analogue television and move over to digital after a spell as CTO of lastminute.com.

One area where he believes cloud computing is chic is in the internet of things (IoT). In order for the IoT to work, he says, devices need to be able to talk to each other. Classifications have to be agreed upon as to how to define these devices, which in turn needs to be put into context as to how they are being used…