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Grazed from The Financial Express. Author: Sudhir Chowdhary.

In just a few years, cloud computing has reshaped the Indian IT market and the way that enterprises acquire and use IT products and services, feels Neeraj Dotel, country head, Compuware India, the Indian subsidiary of Detroit-based Compuware, a technology performance company. According to him, India is on a high growth trajectory, promising lots of opportunities for technology companies. In a conversation with Sudhir Chowdhary, he talks about the company’s growth strategy and plans for India. Excerpts:

Tech majors seem to be smitten by two new buzzwords these days: cloud computing and mobility. What have you done till now to establish yourself in this space?

According to a recent report by IDC, investments on emerging technologies such as social media, cloud, mobility and big data are on the rise. The total IT market is expected to grow to $43.57 billion in 2012, up from $37.46 billion in 2011. The business world has reached an inflection point, presenting the Indian enterprise with unprecedented challenges. As users become more mobile and applications more diverse, customers want a better understanding of how performance relates to business results…

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Grazed from FCW. Author: Matthew Weigelt.

The General Services Administration had so much response to its request for information on a possible cloud brokerage services that it has extended the deadline for responses.

Officials initially planned to close the window for responses on Aug. 17. The new deadline is Sept. 7.

GSA had more than 160 industry participants at the Cloud Brokerage Industry Day Aug. 2, and the wait list was large enough that officials could not accommodate everyone who wanted to take part, said Stan Kaczmarczyk, director of cloud computing service at the Federal Acquisition Services’ Information Technology Services Office…

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Michael Vizard.

Application testing has never received the level of attention it should have. But with the advent of mobile computing application development, it quickly becomes apparent who put in the quality control time in and who didn’t.

As a result of the wave of mobile applications being built today that face external customers, IT organizations are under more pressure than ever to make sure those applications are fully vetted. Realistically, however, most IT organizations don’t have the infrastructure in place that is needed to test mobile applications at scale. As a result, the spike in application testing taking place in the cloud using services such as SOASTA is mainly driven by the need make sure mobile applications meet end-user expectations in terms of both performance and quality…

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Kevin Fogarty.

The past couple of years have been tough for those defending the security of cloud computing and those trying to establish secure cloud infrastructures for themselves. For the most part, there have been DDOS attacks or defacements designed to embarrass or punish site owners.

However, even considering only websites or services from which hackers actually took over accounts, stole data or money or planted malware to help steal data or money from others, the list of security failures is long and distinguished: Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Hotmail, Global Payments (credit-card clearinghouse for Visa, MasterCard and others), Federal Express, Zappos, a host of local bank and police agencies and the China Software Developer Network (which, all by itself, lost personal information on 6 million users to a single hacker named Zeng)…

Grazed from CBS News. Author: Chenda Ngak.

Cloud computing has been in the news a lot in recent weeks – starting from the launch of Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion, which heavily integrates with iCloud, to the alleged hacking of a technology journalist’s online accounts. Most people use a form of cloud computing everyday, but the term has yet to become engrained in the mainstream lexicon.

So what the heck is cloud computing?

Think of the cloud as a disk drive that is owned by a company like Google or Apple, which stores all of your files in a remote location – typically at a server farm. The cloud makes it possible to access photos, videos or documents from any computer with an Internet connection…