Grazed from CBSNews. Author: Erik Sherman.

Apple (AAPL) had a real hit with the iPhone 6 introduction — so much so that when it began taking orders on Friday, the flood of traffic crashed the Apple Store. It was restored but availability has been intermittent. The problem has a silver lining, as it likely means Apple’s financial results through the rest of the calendar year will be rosy, even if broad popularity for the Apple Watch is unclear.

But combined with the video streaming outage during Tuesday’s product introduction event, it’s a reminder that Apple has yet to completely master the highest demand situations in cloud computing — an area that is critical to the company’s strategy…

Grazed from Dr.Dobbs. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

Reverb Technologies has announced its Swagger 2.0 API interface and coordinated one of the "largest ever" open standards workgroups in the API space, combining contributions from nearly 500 companies. "Swagger effectively solves the age-old challenge of machine-to-machine communication, which has become increasingly complicated with cloud computing," claims the company.

With Swagger, developers can connect mobile devices to literally thousands of Swagger-enabled web services. The Swagger specification, first released in late 2010 by Wordnik (a property of Reverb) has been the most successful API interface effort to date. Historically, WSDL, WADL, and WADL 2.0 aimed to perform similar tasks but (says Reverb) were "plagued with complexity" — and had limited adoption across different programming languages and frameworks…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Raj Sabhlok.

Not long ago, powerful business software was a luxury only available to large companies with deep pockets and sophisticated information technology (IT) staffs. While a huge productivity driver, software for managing key business processes like manufacturing, sales, support, HR and finance was expensive and complex. But over the last few years, a lot has changed in the software industry. For one, business software that can positively change the fortunes of any size business is readily available, on the cheap.

Formerly, software that automated a business function was only available from software giants like SAP or Oracle ORCL -0.34% for millions of dollars. Today, a twenty-person company has access to the same functionality or more. The fact is, even the smallest of companies can access business productivity-enhancing software to handle customer relationship management (CRM), customer support, human resource management, and accounting. The cost?…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Kenneth Corbin.

For all the enthusiasm surrounding the government’s move to the cloud – and there’s no shortage – one prominent federal CIO is emphatic that cloud computing, for all its virtues, is no panacea for the government’s technology challenges. That would be David Bennett, CIO at the Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA.

At a government IT conference hosted by the tech consortium MeriTalk, Bennett acknowledged that "the cloud is a very viable scenario" for the feds, but he urges CIOs and other agency leaders to carefully consider which data sources and applications are suitable for a remotely hosted and managed environment…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Google (GOOG) is taking its Android device management software that enables remote management from Google Apps for Work to Apple iOS devices. The new iOS Sync for Google Apps for Work was unveiled as a solution that provides individuals and organizations with increased security to protect files, emails, documents and more content on iOS smartphones and tablets.

"iOS Sync is integrated right into the Gmail and Google Drive apps for iOS, so you don’t have to take any action to download an additional app. And iOS Sync will support iOS 7, 8 and, of course, the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus," wrote Clayton Jones, product manager for Google for Work, in a blog post…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-mobile-services/091214/google-unveils-ios-sync-google-apps-work

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Simon Mitchell.

There are always barriers to introducing any new technology. But they can be overcome.

Barrier One – NIH* Syndrome. * Not Invented Here

Organisations have legacy systems they have developed over many years in response to their particular needs. Staff who have developed it, operated it and worked late into the night fixing it feel an emotional attachment to it. A Cloud can feel nebulous and remote, almost like it belongs to someone else. You can’t own a Cloud but a good IT consultancy will work with your staff and break down this barrier to Cloud adoption by giving them ownership of your Cloud-based project…

Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Editorial Staff.

Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying cloud-computing software developer Eucalyptus Systems as Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman embarks on new acquisitions to bolster the computer maker’s businesses. Eucalyptus, founded in 2009, provides technology that lets companies store, process and deliver computing data via the Internet.

The Goleta, California-based company has raised $55.5 million in three financing rounds. Hewlett-Packard is paying less than $100 million, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The deal marks a return to mergers and acquisitions for Whitman after a dry spell following Hewlett-Packard’s $8.8 billion writedown of Autonomy Corp. in 2012, after buying the data software company for $10.3 billion a year earlier…

Grazed from ODCA.  Author: PR Announcement.

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), the global organization where members work together to advance the deployment of enterprise cloud solutions and services that are interoperable, secure and free of vendor lock-in, today announced the final agenda and speaker lineup for its third-annual Forecast 2014 conference. Being held September 22-24 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Forecast is the ODCA’s flagship event where IT executives convene to share best practices and discuss emerging challenges in enterprise cloud adoption.

The latest speakers to be announced include enterprise data center and cloud services executives, as well as leaders of cloud computing standards organizations and advocacy groups. Each brings a unique perspective on best practices for building enterprise-class cloud environments. Newly announced speakers are:…

Grazed from CloudComputing. Author: James Bourne.

Continuous delivery provider CloudBees has shifted its company focus, dropping the runtime platform as a service (PaaS) of its offering to focus exclusively on open source software Jenkins. CEO Sacha Labourey told CloudTech it was a ‘hard’ and ‘emotional’ decision to move for CloudBees, which was founded in 2010.

“We realised at the beginning of this year that Jenkins Enterprise was growing very fast, beyond our expectations, and we knew that something was going on, but it took us a bit of time to really make the conscious decision that what we had to do was strictly focus on Jenkins,” Labourey said…

Grazed from WebTechnologyGroup. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing changes the way we look at applications, data and technology. Having flexible information technology not only reduces the cost, it creates new opportunities for increasing the value you derive from it. Cloud prepares your organisation for the unknown.

Reimagining information technology

Imagine that all of your applications and data were built today based on cloud technology. Your data would be ubiquitous – accessible to everyone and every application, quickly and easily without the need to translation or migration. Your applications would be infinitely scalable and you’d be able to adapt and extend them as well as build completely new functionality…