Author: David

November 8, 2011 Off

Best Cloud Computing Security & Best Computer Forensics Tool

By David
Grazed from SC Magazine.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Best Cloud Computing Security

These technologies are deployed to protect data and/or applications deployed in a cloud environment. They may also protect the cloud computing infrastructure itself. Cloud computing security concerns are numer­ous for both providers and their customers, and include security and privacy worries, compliance issues and legal/contractual problems. Solutions or services in this category can provide for the protection of data or applications in the cloud, protection for traffic flowing between companies and their cloud service providers, policy management and encryption capabilities, privi­leged user access and controls or more…

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Palisade Systems Unveils Data Security Integration for Mobile and Cloud Computing Markets

By David

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Palisade Systems, an industry leader in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) market, announced today that cloud service providers and mobile device vendors can now integrate Palisade System’s enterprise DLP functionality into their products and solutions using Palisade’s PacketSure DLP solutions or by leveraging the Palisade SDK (Software Development Kit) also announced today (see link to SDK PR)…

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Bright Computing bursts HPC to EC2 clouds

By David

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Timothy Prickett Morgan.

If you want to do cloud bursting in an HPC environment, the last thing you want to do is try to manage the movement of running workloads from your own cluster out to a compute cloud like Amazon’s EC2 compute cloud. Bright Computing, the maker of the Bright Cluster Manager, would go so far as to say that its HPC cluster control freak is the only thing that should be trusted to do such work…

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CompTIA and ITpreneurs Collaborate on New Cloud Computing Credential

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CompTIA, the leading provider of vendor-neutral skills certifications for the global information technology (IT) workforce, and ITpreneurs, the leading provider of competence development solutions for IT best practices, announced today they are collaborating on a new cloud computing skills credential…

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Soaring migration to the cloud drives Rackspace growth

By David
Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Siddharth Cavale.

Web hosting company Rackspace Hosting Inc (RAX.N) reported double digit third-quarter revenue growth for the fifth consecutive time as enterprise customers boosted demand for its cheaper cloud services in an uncertain global economy…

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Telstra goes live with cloud portal and pricing

By David
Grazed from ITNews.  Author:  Brett Winterford.

Telstra has launched a cloud computing portal to open up the purchase and provisioning of virtual servers to the small and medium business market.

The telco, which has been trialling cloud computing services with early adopter customers under the ‘Network Computing Services’ brand for over 12 months, has launched a self-provisioning engine for virtual servers at http://cloud.telstra.com…

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Survey says Interest in deploying open-source clouds is rising

By David

Grazed from CNET.  Author: Dave Rosenberg.

As interest in open-source cloud computing continues to grow, a new–albeit self-interested–survey shows that users are looking to move from experiments to production deployments.

Today, systems management software provider Zenoss released the results of what they’ve titled the "OpenStack Adoption Survey". (OpenStack is an open-source cloud operating system.) The data was culled from 772 surveys filled out at the recent OpenStack Conference in Boston and the Zenoss open source management community…

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Cloud Blurs The Definition Of A Partner

By David
Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

The cloud has blurred the lines between IT and business and it has also spawned a host of different definitions highlighting exactly what is the cloud and who sells into it.

In a keynote presentation Monday at the Cloud Channel Summit in Mountain View, Calif., Amy Anderson, IBM (NYSE:IBM) Cloud Computing Partner Program manager, took the cloud definition-bending one step further and noted that the cloud is also single-handedly creating new camps of solution providers with different disciplines and specializations…

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How Does Cloud Computing Work?

By David
Grazed from Elite Telecom.com.   Author: Editorial Staff.

Despite an enormous amount of coverage on the internet, television and no doubt in the workplace, for some unknown reason ‘cloud computing’ and, by association, ‘cloud telecommunications’, are terms that remain some of the most enigmatic of modern technological parlance…

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Hybrid Hosting Adds to Cloud Options

By David
Grazed from Internet Evolution.  Author: Mary Jander.

Question: What do you get when you cross old-fashioned off-site hosting with virtualized servers and cloud computing?

Answer: Hybrid hosting.

Oh, and hybrid hosting can be part of your hybrid cloud. Got that?…