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Grazed from TheVar Guy. Author: Editorial Staff.

OpenStack Havana, the latest version of the open source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform for cloud computing, is out. And it’s now easier than ever to deploy on Red Hat (RHT) Linux-based operating systems, as a result of official support that the company unveiled shortly after OpenStack Havana made its debut Oct. 17.

The support comes in the form of official RPM packages that will simplify the installation and deployment of the new OpenStack release on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Linux distributions based on Red Hat’s software—including Fedora and CentOS, two other popular open source operating systems for servers and the cloud…

Grazed from RedHat. Author: PR Announcement.

Today, Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat® JBoss® Portal. With Version 6.1, you can now deliver self-service to your customers through mobile-ready applications integrate with popular social media websites. For high-impact, self-service applications, JBoss Portal provides proven performance at scale, plus flexible integration with existing infrastructure and other JBoss investments.

What’s new?

• Integrate with Facebook, Google +, and Twitter.
• Easily redirect users to mobile websites based on their device.
• Customize menus with developer access to public navigation APIs.
• Improve developer productivity with support for Context and Dependency Injection…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

One of the big enhancement areas of the new OpenStack Havana open source cloud computing platform is security. The OpenStack Foundation launched the eighth release of OpenStack last week, and according to IBM (IBM), one of the many vendors supporting OpenStack, the organization has increased the security elements of the cloud platform.

With more and more businesses and government organizations looking to OpenStack to fulfill their cloud needs, security is becoming more important to the overall design of the cloud computing platform. According to IBM, security has up to now been the biggest inhibitor to cloud adoption, but Havana will play a significant role in differentiating cloud vendors when it comes to security…

Grazed from BusinessTechnology. Author: Joanne Frearson.

IT leaders in emerging nations are more upbeat about the cloud than the developed market and are focusing on its transformational and innovative potential, according to a Cisco/Intel study about the impact of the cloud on IT consumption models.

Emerging market respondents of the study believe that the greater use of cloud services would not necessarily marginalise IT departments and that the full-time IT headcount would increase. In addition, emerging market respondents say that the role and responsibilities of IT would increase relative to third parties in areas such as systems integrators or cloud service providers…

Grazed from CNN. Author: Dr. Chris Brauer.

With great power comes great responsibility. There is some confusion over whether this quote should be attributed to Voltaire or Spiderman. Either way, the message is the same and one that should be resonating with the inventors, companies, brands, media, policy makers and industries hitching a ride on the innovation bullet train of wearable technologies.

Our original Human Cloud research project at Goldsmiths, University of London in partnership with cloud computing provider Rackspace focused on the socio-economic impact of wearable technology moving from novelty and entertainment to health and lifestyle…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

We’re accustomed to thinking of Microsoft as a lumbering giant encumbered by its PC legacy. But think about it: What other company in the world has such a massive collection of software and services to offer through the cloud, not to mention the cloud infrastructure to deliver it? Microsoft has the resources to crush it. The question, as usual, is how well it can execute.

Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of the Cloud and Enterprise division at Microsoft, helps oversee a big chunk of the private and public cloud portfolio: Windows Server, System Center, SQL Server, Windows Azure, and Visual Studio. InfoWorld Executive Editor Doug Dineley and I spoke with him for over an hour last week. In particular, our conversation focused on the connection between Windows Server and Azure, although we began by addressing the commitment Microsoft has made to its public cloud…

Grazed from CloudComputingPath. Author: Pravin Anchan.

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Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Alex Williams.

IBM reported its third quarter financials this past week that showed a company struggling with its legacy hardware business and the problems that come with a confused cloud services strategy. Revenues were down $1 billion with hardware sales declining 17 percent. Overall revenues for the nine-month period totaled $72.1 billion, a decrease of 4 percent, compared with $75.2 billion for the nine months of 2012. The software division is not having tremendous success, either. This last quarter software sales were up just one percent.

IBM has troubles — its stock is at a two-year low and the company has made some big promises for the years ahead. It has stated it would make $7 billion in annual cloud revenues by 2015 and in the same year will give shareholders a return of $20 earnings per share. In the meantime, the SEC is investigating how IBM is counting its revenues for how it recognizes cloud computing…

Grazed from AP. Author: Editorial Staff.

Business management software company SAP AG says net profit rose 23 percent in the third quarter as its cloud computing business grew rapidly and the company kept down costs by holding down hiring of new employees. The company, based in Walldorf, Germany, said Monday that net profit rose to 762 million euros ($1.036 billion). Revenues grew 2 percent to 4.045 billion euros.

Cloud computing revenues more than tripled to 191 million euros from 63 million euros. In cloud computing, companies access software on SAP’s computers over the Internet rather than having it installed and maintained on-site — saving them money…

Grazed from SSRN. Author: Oliver R. Goodenough.

As cloud computing becomes ubiquitous, the need to fashion better and more finely targeted rules for the cloud takes on increasing urgency. Governance at its best is not an abstraction; rather, it is a set of institutional structures that help people to achieve better outcomes than would occur in a world of unconstrained, self-interested decision making.

The rules in contracts, through associations, and by governments can each play a role in creating beneficial governance, provided they are crafted to effectively meet the challenges and characteristics of the activity in question. This paper – still a work in process – explores a number of factors that rule makers should take into account in crafting such a suite of laws and customs. These factors include the structure and history of cloud computing, the ways in which it creates, captures and allocates values, the fundamental challenges of trust for the industry, and the toolkit of private and public rule making that can create structures to help cloud computing reach is potential for providing and distributing benefits…