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The cloud opens a world of possibilities for criminal computing. Unlike the zombie computers and malware that have been the mainstay of computer crime for the past decade, cloud computing makes available a well-managed, reliable, scalable global infrastructure that is, unfortunately, almost as well suited to illicit computing needs as it is to legitimate business.
The mass of information stored in the cloud—including, most likely, your credit card and Social Security numbers—makes it an attractive target for data thieves. Not only is more data centralized, but for the security experts and law enforcement agencies trying to make the cloud safe, the very nature of the cloud makes it difficult to catch wrongdoers. Imagine a virtual Grand Central Station, where it’s easy to mix in with the crowd or catch a ride to a far-away jurisdiction beyond the law’s reach…
Today MetaQuotes Software Corp.( http://www.metaquotes.net/en ) has officially launched its MQL5 Cloud Network( http://cloud.mql5.com/en ) service. With this new service, they hope to create their own cloud computing available to programmers and researches…
A recent Chadwick Martin Bailey (CMB) Tech Pulse study: Cloud Computing—Trends and Needs found more than 80% of companies, of all sizes, use some applications in the cloud. A full, company-wide commitment to cloud computing is still rare, however: most cloud deployments are happening on an ad hoc basis within company divisions. Fewer than 10% of companies have adopted a comprehensive company-wide plan for cloud adoption…
If cloud computing is going to be as ubiquitous as some of the analysts and commentators believe, then the future is going to be very different from previous projections.
Professor Peter Cochrane is a business angel, futurologist and former chief technology officer of BT. He sees cloud as becoming universal. "We are moving from a world of you and I online to everything online," he says. Machines already exchange a lot more information than human beings do on this planet and this will continue to increase, he adds. "We’re talking about all vehicles, all items you purchase, being part of the cloud."…
Earlier this month I explored the tsunami of change that’s been roiling businesses and their IT departments of late, challenging them like few generational disruptions before. Perhaps only the advent of PCs in the 1980s was the last similar wholesale transformation of the IT landscape. Consequently, there’s little recent precedent to guide business and technical leaders on how to reconcile their organizations with the technology dislocations that are having a growing impact on organizations around the world today…
Cloud computing is to many a modern-day enigma. Everyone interested in IT has heard of it; it alludes to great benefits for those that participate, and yet it often has an air of mystery and intangibility as people sift through the commentaries to determine how best to harness its capability…
Cloud computing
Cloud computing provides the IT infrastructure and environment to develop/host/run services and applications on demand, with pay-as-you-go pricing, as a resilient service. It also provides resources to store data. The services can in turn be scaled up and down to meet a customer’s variable operational needs, ensuring maximum cost efficiency…
One of the most successful business people of our time, Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs, was one of the first to recognise the benefits of the "cloud", which put simply is a term used to describe a model of computing which enables on-demand network access to a shared pool of resource. When Jobs rejoined Apple in 1996, one of his first acts was to move all of the company’s data – including fiercely protected information about the business’s future plans – to Apple’s servers, rather than entrusting that valuable information to individual computers…
Grazed from eWeel. Author: Darryl K. Taft.
IBM has announced new services converging social networking and cloud computing for the federal government.
At a recent FedTalks event in Washington, D.C., IBM introduced its new offering known as SmartCloud for Social Collaboration for Government. Initially previewed in July, this new offering is a cloud-based service that combines social collaboration tools and email to maximize productivity and interaction among workers and across agencies, and with citizens. IBM officials said the new solution is ideal for private cloud environments. It is hosted in the IBM Federal Data Center and is compliant with Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) guidelines, IBM said…
IBM wants 200 million users on its cloud widgetry by the end of next year. It has to get to them before Oracle, HP or Dell do. It projects $7 billion in revenue from cloud computing hardware, software and services by 2015.
To advance its ambition it’s unveiled a new "simplified" enterprise-grade public cloud PaaS it calls SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS) that will ride on its SmartCloud Enterprise and Enterprise+ IaaS, which won’t be deployed globally until the end of next year. Initially it’ll be US-only…