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Grazed from Ebedded Computing.  Author: Jennifer Hesse.

Created from the ground up to address multicore and parallel computing, the Scala programming language smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling developers to be more productive while retaining full interoperability with Java. Mark explains how Scala-based middleware technology can maximize modern multicore hardware and cloud computing software by raising the abstraction level for building multithreaded applications.

ECD: What are the advantages of using general-purpose programming languages like Java and Scala for embedded development?.

BREWER: Scala is a general-purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. Scala smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling developers to be more productive while retaining full interoperability with Java and taking advantage of modern multicore hardware…

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Rene Millman.

Cloud computing and mobile apps will become more intertwined with each other over the next few years, according to Forrester Research. The analyst firm said that mobile apps that don’t call out through the internet to back-end services will diminish in value. Infrastructure and operations analysts James Staten said in a blog post that these back end services will not "live" in a data centre unless "you plan to poke a big hole in your firewall to accommodate an unpredictable flood of traffic".

"More often than not, we are finding mobile applications connected to cloud-based back-end services (increasingly to commercial mobile-back-ends-as-a-service) that can elastically respond to mobile client engagements and shield your data centre from this traffic," he added. Nearly every Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application has a mobile client now, "which is proof of the model as well," he said…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Abdul Salam.

Cloud computing’s inherent property of accessibility is one of the key motivators for its adoption by the general public and smaller businesses alike. Businesses and organizations often have offices for all of their employees. But employees are sometimes not able to come to the office to work due to a family emergency, sickness, transport strike, or an extreme weather event.

Thanks to cloud computing accessibility and services like Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and application hosting, employees can do their work remotely when they are unable to go to the office. All they need is a computer or mobile device that can connect to the Internet. This is what it referred to as work shifting and business continuity. The concept of the physical office itself is becoming obsolete. No one really needs to go to the office unless they need physical files or resources…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.

Meaningful cloud computing standards are crucial to improve the maturity of cloud-based services and bring increased flexibility, security and interoperability, but too many competing standards could wreak damage, warned the Cloud Industry Forum’s independent certification partner, the APM Group. As cloud uptake gathers pace among users, industry bodies and consumers have expressed anguish over the lack of relevant cloud standards and interoperability hindering cloud adoption.

Cloud standards and interoperability would allow IT to move applications and workloads between private and public clouds and from one public cloud to another. It would enable enterprises to select a combination of cloud technologies and avoid vendor lock-in…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Security may not quite be the hot topic it was a couple of years ago, but it’s still top of mind for CIOs and other IT decisionmakers. On Amazon EC2, nCircle is hoping to alleviate some of those concerns with a new free security service designed for its nCircle PureCloud customers.

The new service provides customers with automated cloud security scanning for Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) networks within nCircle PureCloud. The vendor’s PureCloud service is a vulnerability management solution that enables customers to evaluate the security of their cloud deployments on Amazon without the need to do manual identification of each machine instance…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Chris Poelker.

The acceptance of server and storage virtualization has enabled a paradigm shift in how data center infrastructure is purchased and deployed. End user companies are migrating from purchasing separate physical servers connected to storage area networks (SANs) to more modular “reference architectures” which include every component required to run their applications.

Servers and storage were typically sold as separate IT infrastructure elements in the past, usually to different groups within the IT department, and usually under different parts of the IT budget. The move to the cloud has changed all of that. For example, one recent move by a major server and storage vendor enables its storage to directly connect to its blade servers, which may make a storage network unnecessary. You simply purchase the servers, storage and network together as a data center “building block” which converges everything together to make rolling infrastructure a one stop shopping experience…

Grazed from Backup-Technology. Author: Editorial Staff.

A recent Backup Technology blog briefly touched upon the legal concerns that many businesses have when considering a move to the cloud. This post looks to explore those concerns further. Many of the concerns relate to the lack of regulation in cloud computing, which often makes some larger corporations fearful in case something goes wrong with the service. Although cloud computing is picking up momentum, it is yet to be taken up on a large scale by big corporations, who still prefer to use hardware. Two of the reasons that many big corporations give for not moving more of their IT to the cloud is the concerns over responsibility for the service provided and data security. Understandably, lawyers of big corporations are concerned that when things do go belly up, they will not be able to hold the cloud provider responsible, and even more worryingly they may in fact be liable themselves. This is a major stumbling block for many large corporations who would otherwise be quite keen to make a push to the cloud.

There are many calling for tighter regulation of the cloud computing industry, as well as a change to legislation that is better suited to the cloud. As things stand, US law does not empower prosecutors to hold cloud providers accountable for criminal activity facilitated by the cloud. This is not to say that the cloud provider itself did anything illegal, but simply allowed crime to occur by hosting a service for the criminal organisation…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Luchi Gabriel Manescu.

The best thing about open source software systems has always been the fact that it is freely available and any programmer or company can use it to develop its own version of that software. For the longest time they have been the best solution for people willing to go outside the box in order to get the best results in their respective IT departments. Of course these systems have never been without profit and it came from two sources that are now getting to be absolute because of the emergence of cloud computing and the level of affordability most of its components come from.

The way open source software systems have worked so far has been through selling license agreements. Any company could take a software system like MySQL incorporate it in their own product and then they would either have the choice of getting an open source license or buy a commercial license from MySQL, in this case. However because of the cloud is not actually selling software systems but only time on those systems companies like Amazon, who has developed their Amazon RDS based on MySQL do not have to pay them any licensee fee. The end users get exactly what they needed and are willing to pay for it and cloud service providers like Amazon do not need to pay any fee in licensing…