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Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Sourya Biswas.

The private cloud has become a popular option for enterprises who desire the numerous advantages of cloud computing but do not want to relinquish the control that public cloud adoption will force. However, private cloud implementations come with their own set of challenges.

Private cloud, as an approach to IT operations, calls for organizations to transform their data centers, including the network. Using strategic points of control to aggregate and dynamically provision IT resources can help organizations meet network-related challenges and move past the hype to successfully build, deploy, and secure private clouds…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

The International Association of Cloud & Managed Service Providers (MSPAlliance®), today announced it would be addressing the issues of data privacy and security related to public cloud computing at its MSPWorld Fall Conference, to be held October 6-8 in San Jose, California.

In response to recent government surveillance programs implicating public cloud computing vendors, and including reports that the cloud, hosting, and outsourcing providers could lose up to $180 billion in lost business as a result of these surveillance programs, MSPAlliance believes there are practical and effective strategies IT service providers can implement in order to safeguard against these unnecessary losses…

Grazed from InfoSecurity. Author: Editorial Staff.

The United States’ National Science Foundation (NSF) has pumped nearly $20 million into three cybersecurity initiatives, to support collaborative, multi-university research and education activities that will help protect the nation’s critical infrastructure.

"Cybersecurity is one of the most significant economic and national security challenges facing our nation today," said Farnam Jahanian, the NSF’s assistant director for computer and information science and engineering (CISE), in a statement. "NSF’s investments in foundational research will transform our capacity to secure personal privacy, financial assets, and national interests. These new Frontier awards will enable innovative approaches to cybersecurity, with potential benefits to all sectors of our economy."…

Iveda Solutions, the pioneer in cloud video hosting technology, today announced the launch of VEMO™, the Company’s new cloud-based, in-vehicle video surveillance system with Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation technology.

"There are many in-vehicle surveillance systems in the market today," commented David Ly, president and chief executive officer of Iveda Solutions, Inc. "The VEMO system is unique because it is fully integrated with cellular capability to stream live video to the cloud and enabled for use with IvedaOnBoard™, the Company’s mobile streaming video hosting service. Live and recorded video from law enforcement and other vehicles is hosted in the cloud and centrally managed. Videos may be viewed on a single ‘dashboard’ that includes a GPS map-based user interface for tracking the current location of vehicles using VEMO."

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane MaCallion.

HP CEO Meg Whitman claims cloud, big data and application modernisation are central to the firm’s turnaround strategy, despite its third quarter results suggesting its cloud business is underperforming. In a call with analysts, transcribed by Seeking Alpha, Whitman stepped back from earlier statements that the company could return to revenue growth in 2014 following the disclosure of its Q3 results.

The company’s software division was one of the few that demonstrated year-on-year revenue growth, and Whitman said she was “especially pleased with the continued performance in [HP’s] strategic areas of cloud, security and big data”…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Richard M. Walker.

After years of stumbling along in fits and starts, the Army’s migration to an enterprise-wide email system is nearly complete. Most Army users can now access their email securely from anywhere in the world at any time. Officials said Wednesday that more than 1.4 million Army users have migrated onto the unclassified NIPRNet and 115,000 users onto the classified SIPRNet, completing "the bulk" of the Army’s move to the system, called DOD Enterprise Email (DEE).

The Army’s adoption of the system is the first phase of a Defense Department-wide move to a private cloud hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Defense Enterprise Computing Centers. Under Department of Defense (DOD) goals, the system will eventually support 4.5 million users across the department…

Grazed from BaselineMag. Author: Samuel Greengard.

Over the last few years, IT and business executives have witnessed a profound shift in enterprise computing. While organizations continue to rely on internal data centers to manage an array of tasks, clouds have drifted into the mainstream of IT and business.

"Clouds are becoming the foundation for a new IT platform," says Mike Pearl, U.S. cloud computing leader for PwC consulting. "Organizations are combining IT assets in order to create far greater value. In many cases, they’re able to react to market dynamics faster and more effectively."…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Kristin Burnham.

For the first time since 2011, Yahoo ranks as the most-visited website in the U.S., according to the latest report from ComScore, which tracks unique visitors to U.S. properties across the Web. Yahoo received 196.6 million unique visitors in the month of July compared to Google’s 192.3 million. Microsoft, Facebook and AOL rounded out the top five.

According to the report, Yahoo saw 20% more unique visitors in July 2013 as compared to July 2012. Traffic to Tumblr, the blogging platform that Yahoo acquired in May for $1.1 billion, did not contribute to Yahoo’s overall traffic number, said Andrew Lipsman, ComScore’s VP of industry analysis. Tumblr ranked as the 28th most popular U.S. property in July, according to the report. The latest ComScore numbers also do not include mobile usage…