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Grazed from ConsumerAffairs. Author: Mark Huffman.

Hackers and identity thieves are increasingly focused on mobile computing. With so many smartphones and tablets now in use, mobile is increasingly becoming how consumers use the web. Criminals also like the fact that many mobile devices have little or no security protection – not on the device itself and not on the data that is stored in the cloud.

Mobile data can be stored both places and security experts say both need strong protection. Chris Rancourt, an editor at NextAdvisor.com, says consumers who use an online backup service to store and share their data in the cloud need to be especially careful…

Grazed from Epoch Times. Author: Kannan Sankaran.

We live in a time where nearly everyone is participating in creating a very large amount of data everyday—from engaging with social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, to watching videos in multimedia sites like YouTube and Vimeo, to performing searches using Google and Bing. What happens to this data? Where does it get stored? How does it all become relevant? Understanding big data gives us the answer. To understand big data, it is essential to first know about the three main Vs of data – Volume, Variety, and Velocity, as outlined by Doug Laney of Gartner Inc. in a report in February 2001:

1) Volume – It refers to the volume of data that is being stored everyday by companies, in data centers. According to StatisticBrain.com, a staggering 58 million tweets are sent out each day that is stored by Twitter.

2) Variety – This refers to the collection of data in various structured and unstructured formats like GPS sensors, images, videos, and blog posts. My personal Samsung Galaxy Note 2 phone has numerous sensors that are also contributing to this data…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

IBM today announced it will work with the United States Department of the Interior (US DOI) as the Department embarks on a decade long transformation of their information technology (IT) systems to a cloud computing model. As part of an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, valued for IBM up to $1 billion, the Department may use IBM cloud computing technologies, services and hosting as the foundation of their next generation infrastructure.

IBM’s solution for the DOI is based on the company’s secure and high availability Federal Data Center capabilities using open computing and process standards. The US DOI will leverage IBM expertise in data storage, secure file transfer, virtual machines, database, web hosting, development testing and SAP Application Hosting. The Department will also be able to tap IBM’s Smart Cloud for Government hosted at the IBM Federal Data Center, the Smart Cloud for Enterprise (SCE) commercial offerings and the very cost competitive IBM AIX Cloud…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

6WIND, the gold standard for data plane processing in software-defined networks, today announced that it is a founding member of the CloudNFV™ initiative. CloudNFV is a group of vendors dedicated to creating a technical framework and demonstration platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) based on cloud computing and Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies in a multi-vendor environment. Tom Nolle, CIMI Corporation President, is the architect and facilitator of CloudNFV and, in addition to 6WIND, the other founding members include Dell, EnterpriseWeb, Overture and Qosmos. These six companies each bring unique technologies and expertise to complete the framework needed to demonstrate the multi-vendor CloudNFV vision.

NFV has emerged as a key approach to maximize network resource utilization by virtualizing functions traditionally implemented in dedicated hardware, thereby minimizing both CAPEX and OPEX. Service providers are increasingly exploring SDN-based network architectures in order to improve network manageability and accelerate the deployment of new services…

Grazed from ChannelNomics. Author: Chris Gonsalves.

Global investors are feeling more confident about the U.S. economy and are poised to start shoveling money into select technology investments, according to new research from Deloitte LLP and the National Venture Capital Association.

The 9th annual Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey, released today, indicates global investors are increasingly enthusiastic about technology investments in mobile, cloud, enterprise software and health care IT, all areas of significant focus for technology channel partners…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Today, Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider (http://www.us.logicalis.com) – and a company named “Best Cloud Consultant” at the Cloudcor UP 2012 Cloud Computing Conference – announced a new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud resource, the Logicalis On-Demand Cloud.

The Logicalis On-Demand Cloud is a self-managed, multi-tenant public cloud infrastructure that provides the flexible compute resources, memory and storage necessary to complete projects such as test and development, proof of concept, training, bursting or other short-term needs. This new service is a pay-as-you-go offering with the benefit of not requiring customers to invest in building and managing their own on-premises infrastructure…

Grazed from ServInt. Author: PR Announcement.

ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed cloud hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced the availability of version 1.9.2 of its auto-scaling Jelastic cloud service. Jelastic is the only zero-code-change cloud hosting platform for Java and PHP applications. The new version 1.9.2 includes many new features, advancements and visible changes.

“Jelastic has been a core component of the ServInt product catalog since 2011 because it is one of the most powerful, innovative and easy-to-use PaaS products on the market,” said ServInt CTO Matt Loschert. “Now, with 1.9.2, it’s even better. The list of new features that users will be getting is simply extraordinary.”…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Xactly® founder, president and CEO Christopher W. Cabrera will share strategies for leveraging big data and the cloud to drive business results at the Oppenheimer 16th Annual Technology, Internet & Communications Conference. Cabrera’s panel, “Leveraging Big Data and the Cloud to Drive Business Results,” will take place on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 1:05 p.m. ET at the Four Seasons Hotel, Boston and via live webcast.

• What: Leveraging Big Data and the Cloud to Drive Business Results
• When: Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 1:05 p.m. ET
• Where: Four Seasons Hotel, Boston and via streaming webcast: http://ow.ly/nTZy4

Grazed from Datamation. Author: Jeff Vance.

The cloud may not have quite reached maturity yet, but it’s getting there. Plenty of businesses rely on the cloud for mission-critical applications, and cloud adoption is steady enough in the U.S. that offshore public cloud providers fear they’ll never catch up to Amazon, Google, Rackspace and other cloud providers in the U.S.

From outsourcing to automation

"The initial resistance to public cloud has begun to subside and customers are beginning to realize its efficiencies as the solutions mature," said Ian Marriott, research vice president at Gartner. According to Gartner, spending on public cloud services is expected to grow 18 percent in 2013 to $131 billion. By 2015, Gartner believes the public cloud services market will exceed $180 billion…