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Grazed from Guardian. Author: Pravin Kothari.

In the last five years, organisations have increasingly embraced cloud applications to help them innovate and transform their business. Applications that automate sales processes, HR management, collaboration, email and file sharing are growing fast and enabling organisations to meet their needs in a shorter timeframe than ever before.

Cloud applications are ubiquitously employed across all industries. However, there are increased concerns about security and compliance of sensitive information, particularly in banking, insurance and in the public sector. A wide range of regulations and privacy laws make organisations directly responsible for protecting regulated information, but when this data is stored in the cloud, they have less direct control over leaks, theft or forced legal disclosure…

Grazed from OneStopClick. Author: Editorial Staff.

Legacy systems requiring manual management of IT structure have fallen to the wayside, one by one, as automated cloud computing systems have usurped the place of typical IT professionals and infrastructure managers. Unrest has shaken the industry since at least 2010, and the same advice has been issued over and over again, in varying tones. Forbes contributor Reuven Cohen put it bluntly: "You can adapt or die.”

Today, IT professionals must expect greater collaboration with other business units. According to IT World , business analysts and project managers will be in high demand concerning IT, as "user requirements must still be collected, cloud-based vendors must still be selected, and applications must still be integrated into business processes.” Technologists, security specialists, and infrastructure specialists will all be in high demand…

Grazed from Polygon. Author: Samit Sarkar.

Forza Motorsport 5’s developers at Turn 10 Studios are bringing the power of cloud computing to bear in an attempt to deliver a personalized racing title that tailors your experience to the way you play and carries it forth even when you’re not playing.

The cornerstone of Forza 5’s cloud functionality is a feature called Drivatar (pronounced DRIVE-uh-tar), which the studio showed off during Microsoft’s E3 press briefing yesterday. Drivatar actually debuted in the original Forza Motorsport in 2005, but according to Bill Giese, design director of Forza 5, Turn 10 didn’t have the technology to realize its vision for the feature until the Xbox One…

Grazed from DefenseSystems. Author: John Edwards.

As DOD begins sending its most sensitive information into the cloud, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a new generation of resilient cloud services that are designed to maintain and support military objectives during a cyber attack.

According to DARPA, a traditional perimeter defense focus can’t sufficiently secure existing network enclaves. The approach is even less likely to provide reliable security in cloud environments, where a massive concentration of homogeneous hosts on high-speed networks lack internal checks and rely on implicit trust among hosts within limited perimeter defenses…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

ScienceLogic, a leading provider of IT operations and cloud management software, today announced PagerDuty, the SaaS-based provider of IT alerting and incident management software, has joined the ScienceLogic Partner Ecosystem. The new partnership and intelligent product integration offers robust notification capabilities for the broad spectrum of IT management available through the ScienceLogic platform.

The new integration provides seamless incident sync along with unique, in-depth reporting features giving users insight into key metrics out-of-the-box that they otherwise wouldn’t have. Examples of these metrics include incident resolution for trending and monitoring availability for SLA support…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Looking to meet several government requirements, Dell (DELL) has released a new solution called Dell Cloud for U.S. Government to provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). The solutions add 275 security controls to keep data and services secured and isolated. Here are the details.

Dell said Dell Cloud for U.S. Government was designed to meet the requirements of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) approval process and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 criteria. It was also developed to meet cloud commitments outlined by the U.S. Chief CIO…

Grazed from Network World. Author: Ellen Messmer.

Security monitoring — the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) — can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you’re using public cloud services, it’s time to think about doing it.

Security monitoring of assets that the enterprise has placed in cloud is still not a common practice, but it really should be, said Gartner analyst Anton Chuvakin during his presentation this week at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit. There is always a “loss of control” when turning corporate data assets over to the cloud, Chuvakin says, but “you can compensate by increasing the visibility that comes with collection of logs and network traffic.”…

Grazed from Network World. Author: Jon Gold.

Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS. The centerpiece of the company’s press conference — held today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston — were Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, both of which are essentially prepackaged combinations of the company’s existing products.

RHEL OpenStack Platform bundles RHEL Server with Red Hat OpenStack under a single subscription model. President of Products and Technologies Paul Cormier said that the idea is to provide a reliable user experience across all parts of a hybrid cloud environment…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

After twelve months of preparation, AwesomeCloud Services is proud to announce its launch as a 100% White Label Cloud Services Provider, enabling Channel Partners and Cloud Resellers to offer to their clients white label cloud computing services that can be easily rebranded and resold. AwesomeCloud offers Cloud Infrastructure, Business Continuity, and Microsoft SPLA licensing.

As part of the Applied Innovations family, the AwesomeCloud team has been serving the online computing space since 1999 and was the first company to deliver a managed Hyper-V cloud on top of Windows Server 2012, as well as one of the first of two companies to deliver a Hyper-V cloud…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Ed Scanell.

Betting on its belief that the future of cloud computing is both hybrid and open, Hewlett Packard debuted a collection of software and services it hopes will both encourage IT to implement their first private clouds and bolster its public cloud. The company rolled out software and a number of services under the OpenStack-based Cloud OS umbrella at its annual HP Discover conference here this week, which it believes better enables workload portability across hybrid clouds.

With the new Cloud OS, users can create compositional definitions for service provisioning, "sort of like a template where they can declare what they want in an infrastructure once and then provision it multiple times," according to Wendy Cartee, vice president of Converged Cloud with HP…