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Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Shadow IT is a great thing until it runs into the security of cloud computing. All too often line-of-business users are establishing applications and moving data into the cloud without understanding all the security implications. The Cloud Security Alliance has put together a list of the nine most prevalent and serious security threats in cloud computing. Many of them relate in one way or another to the weaknesses implicit in Shadow IT.

The alliance bills its list as the "Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Threats in 2013." The CSA itself was formed in 2008 on the heels of the Information Systems Security Association CISO Forum in Las Vegas. Jim Reavis, a well-known security researcher and author, issued a call for action to secure the cloud at the event, leading to the founding of the organization…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Today GridGain (www.gridgain.com) officially released its industry leading In-Memory Computing Platform through an Apache 2.0 open source license, offering the world access to its technology for a broad range of real-time data processing applications. GridGain’s open source software provides immediate, unhindered freedom to develop with the most mature, complete and tested in-memory computing platform on the market, enabling computation and transactions orders of magnitude faster than traditional technologies allow.

"The promised advances of big data combined with internet scale simply can’t happen without a transformative change in computing performance," said Abe Kleinfeld, CEO of GridGain. "In-memory computing is enabling this change by offering a major leap forward in computing power, opening doors to a new era of innovation."…

Grazed from TechRadar. Author: Editorial Staff.

Virtualisation and cloud computing technologies deliver services that perform exactly like a dedicated server; but are more reliable, flexible, scalable, offer more management features and simply cost less. As more web services and applications move over to cloud-based virtual servers, you have to wonder if this spells the end of the traditional dedicated server.

Flexibility and scalability

Dedicated servers do not scale the way a virtual machine on a good cloud platform can; they are designed to provide a set amount of resources and the only realistic way of scaling their computing power is to add additional servers and balance the load across multiple servers (which usually requires some changes to your application) or to increase the resources on the dedicated server (which will involve downtime while the physical components are changed). In contrast, scaling is what cloud hosting does best. Adding more CPU, RAM or storage can be done with zero downtime and through your own control panel. Similarly, adding additional virtual servers is also at the click of a button…

Grazed from EETimes. Author: Editorial Staff.

During a seminar held in conjunction with Mobile World Congress 2014, Huawei has announced its vision of an open, cloud-based communications network. The attendees gained knowledge on how to bring advancements in cloud technologies into communication networks to boost resource sharing and efficiency.

Highlighting the possibilities of this transformation, Huawei and Telefonica signed an MOU on advancing the UNICA infrastructure architecture, software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). This strategic cooperation will provide a foundation for Telefonica’s network transformation…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Chris Preimesberger.

NuoDB, Inc., a cloud-based database startup based in Cambridge, Mass., on Feb. 28 announced that it has secured a $14.2 million investment led by European-based 3D software maker Dassault Systemes.  Also participating in the round are NuoDB’s existing investors, which include Morgenthaler Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and Longworth Venture Partners.

NuoDB claims to provide scale-out performance, continuous availability and geo-distributed data management. This is a single, logical database that can be deployed via the cloud in multiple locations simultaneously…

Grazed from TechPageOne.  Author: Dennis Smith.

The cloud is fast and secure. It’s wildly flexible, and it offers true mobility without compromising on productivity. These are the reasons most companies make the shift to cloud computing. But sometimes, the cloud experience doesn’t come as advertised. Some businesses, to their dismay, find the cloud to be sluggish, moody or altogether absent. Some find it costlier than physical data centers.

Disaster constantly looms over organizations in cloudland, silent but ready to strike. The signs are usually there; seemingly insignificant but providing advance warning. Here are some tips to help businesses stop their cloud honeymoons from turning into nightmares…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: James Staten.

BYOE, or bring your own encryption, is a cloud computing security model that allows cloud services customers to use their own encryption software and manage their own encryption keys. It works by allowing customers to deploy a virtualized instance of their own encryption software alongside the business application they are hosting in the cloud. The business application is configured so that all its data is processed by the encryption application, which then writes the ciphertext version of the data to the cloud service provider’s physical data store. 

In this Ask the Expert, James Staten, an analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc., discusses with SearchCIO Senior Features Writer Karen Goulart why this model is important for enterprises today, the skills required to employ BYOE and when the trend will peak…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: David Davis.

Cloud Computing is all the rage right now and you likely are being barraged by every vendor under the sun about it. But, how can you tell if the cloud is really beneficial for you or if it’s just a bunch of marketing hype?

The most useful form of cloud computing marketed toward data center admins and infrastructure professionals is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). With IaaS, you are simply running your servers in the provider’s data center. This model gives you elasticity, pay as you go pricing and the ability to offload the work associated with running those servers. However, with a typical IaaS provider, your servers aren’t on your network…

Grazed from EnterpriseCIO.  Author: Rick Blaisdell.

When it comes to emerging technologies, cloud computing has drawn more controversy than any other tech out there. These two words have driven countless debates, caused numerous arguments in IT departments and, more often than we like to admit, have left many in the industry profoundly confused.

But interest has continued to increase and many companies have successfully moved part or their entire IT into the cloud. We are currently moving and living in the cloud era, and our thinking is being shaped by several key areas like the need for flexible IT infrastructure, the emergence of big data analytics and increased mobile usage…

Grazed from WashingtonPost.  Author:  Mohana Ravindranath.

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected Dell to build a private Internet cloud for the agency, the company announced Wednesday.  The NRC is responsible for regulating nuclear power and materials, as well as inspecting nuclear facilities and licensing.