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Grazed from Server Watch.  Author: Sean M. Kerner.

Middleware servers used to be locked down to on-premise deployments, but that has now changed in the modern world of the cloud and Platform-as-a-Service.

Middleware vendor WS02 is advancing its PaaS offering this week with the release of Stratos 1.5. Statros is an open source project that is also available as service from WSO2 with Stratos Live, which is hosted on Amazon’s EC2…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Fahmida Y. Rashid.

Cloud technology can be harnessed to make it less profitable—or at least less lucrative—to develop and distribute run-of-the-mill malware, Eugene Kaspersky, the CEO of Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, told eWEEK.  If developers are forced to add sophisticated features to develop malware that can’t be easily thwarted, it also raises the bar on who can enter the malware business.

Of the more than 20 million pieces of malware detected by Kaspersky Lab every year, a significant portion of them are considered "typical." They are often created using readily available tool kits or just re-skinned versions of existing malware.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Brian T. Horowitz.

Grazed from Cloud Computing Best Practices.  Author: Neil McEvoy.

The Community Cloud is one of the NIST Deployment Models, and is critical to the adoption of Cloud Computing, as it finds the balance between addressing customers data privacy concerns and leveraging Cloud-enabled economies of scale.

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Google (NSDQ:GOOG) App Engine, the search giant’s cloud development platform, suffered a massive performance hiccup on Thursday when availability dropped and knocked some user Web sites off line.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jessica Davis.

Take a look at the companies that have made major progress in the technology industry in the past few years and you’ll notice a pattern. Apple and Google both emphasize simplicity and a go-to-market strategy that emphasizes consumer markets. In an age when the consumerization of IT is the reality and the Consumer Electronics Show is the biggest technology trade show around (not the now defunct COMDEX), it’s pretty clear that consumer markets are a clear pathway into the enterprise.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Lucy Sherriff.

Those in the know say that cloud computing will fundamentally change the way we office creatures work.

“I am slightly too young to remember the workplace before the arrival of the PC,” says Jacqui Thomas, director of Comms at the UK and Ireland chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance. “But cloud is the same kind of game changer.”

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: James Staten.

Grazed from BusinessCloud9.  Author:  Mark Heraghty.

A decade ago businesses in the UK looked very different to how they do today – just look at the BBC’s ‘The Office’, which first aired in July 2001. Many of us had big, bulky desktop PCs, an agonisingly slow internet connection and a desk phone that looked like something out of the 80s.