Category: News

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Duo Security, the innovative leader in two-factor authentication, is expanding their security platform to help customers protect access to their sensitive data residing in cloud-based applications, including Salesforce, Google Apps, Microsoft Office 365, and Box.  According to industry analysts at Forrester, security persists as the chief inhibitor for organizations considering cloud adoption: 73% of IT hardware decision-makers remain concerned about public cloud security in 2013*.

"We certainly see the economic and management benefits of the cloud, but we’re only going to take advantage of them if we can do so securely," said Mark Maher, Director of Corporate Infrastructure & Technology at New World Systems. "The enforcement of strong authentication empowers companies like ours to preserve control by fortifying access to company assets, no matter where they’re hosted, on-premises or in the cloud. We use Duo Security to protect access to our VPN and Salesforce."…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

TeleSign, the Mobile Identity Company, is announcing their participation in a joint RSA Conference presentation titled, "What is the future of data privacy and security in mobile?" TeleSign’s chief security officer, Charles McColgan, will be joined by Tanya Forsheit, founding partner at InfoLawGroup LLP, to discuss the privacy challenges of mobile technology and the shifting legal landscape.

The speakers will also cover user rights, the role of mobile apps, how to handle data collected by mobile devices in compliance with applicable international privacy laws, and how to best address your user’s privacy concerns…

Grazed from CloudComputingNews. Author: Editorial Staff.

In the rush to monetize customer data, companies risk diminishing the trust people have in services and brands. Sustaining and growing people’s trust in services is not just about “doing the right thing,” but also makes commercial sense. Telcos and OTT players have worked to establish a satisfactory level of trust with their customers, but as Big Data creates new opportunities for monetizing customer data, even a little more aggression in its exploitation risks driving mistrust among users.

Customers who are aware of this exploitation will become more concerned with their privacy, and with the transparency and control of their data. To exploit customer data more comprehensively, businesses must develop a much greater level of trust with their customers. Ovum calls this approach “Big Trust,” and outlines it in detail in the report Personal Data and the Big Trust Opportunity. Big Trust creates new opportunities for telcos to strengthen their core services and develop new trust-based services with the potential to generate incremental revenues…

Grazed from GeekWire. Author: John Cook.

There’s a renaissance of sorts occurring in Seattle right now, from the chart-busting hits of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to the bone-crunching Super Bowl win of the Seattle Seahawks to a tech community that’s firing on all cylinders. Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain certainly likes what he sees in his adopted city, and he thinks more good things are to come, especially in the burgeoning tech community. So, what is the community lacking?

“I honestly think that some of it is confidence, to really believe in ourselves,” said McIlwain, speaking on this past weekend’s GeekWire podcast. “One of the things I loved about the Seahawks this season is they talked about this idea of: ‘Why Not Us?’ For a long time, forever as we know, we didn’t have a Super Bowl champion in Seattle…

Grazed from Bubblews. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing application comes into spotlight especially when thinking about the necessities of IT: Means of increasing the capacity or increase capabilities without even investing in the new infrastructure, licensing the new software or Software Training Programs for new personnel. Interest of the business-users in cloud-computing has is creating the surge of new opportunity to world of open-source developers. The open source software always has been at the mount at most businesses during extensive economic downturn, as well as an area, offering the companies cost savings and flexibility in the cloud computing applications.

Using cloud would save your money, free businesses as well as offer you flexible ways in order to combine the private and public applications. Cloud computing would expand open-source world as well as creates a totally new and innovative applications for the business-users. Major ways that the developers of the open-source application as well as the end-users are taking the advantage of the opportunities would include:…

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Nick Hardiman.

The rise of cloud computing has led to hyperscale providers–i.e., companies that provide more computing services than has ever been possible. The cloud giants are battling for control at every layer of the technology stack, and the winners will become the new cloud empires. Think about it: Did you become part of the Samsung empire when you bought your smartphone? When you moved your servers to Microsoft Windows Azure, did you become their citizen?

Hyperscale cloud providers are empires.

The biggest cloud providers are enormous. For instance, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine, HP Public Cloud, Rackspace, and Windows Azure are either huge in their own right (AWS turned over $3.8 billion in 2013) or are backed by huge companies (HP has approximately 331,800 employees). The hyperscale cloud providers spread across national borders and fight for market share. These providers have massive resources of money, employees, and equipment…

Grazed from VirtualQube. Author: Sid Herron.

Last July, Alistair Croll wrote an interesting post over at http://datagravity.org on the concept of “data gravity” – a term first coined by Dave McCrory. The concept goes like this: The speed with which information can get from where it is stored to where it is acted upon (e.g., from the hard disk in your PC to the processor) is the real limiting factor of computing speed. This is why microprocessors typically have built-in cache memory – to minimize the number of times you have to go back to the storage repository to access the data. What’s interesting is that this has practical implications for cloud computing.

Microsoft researcher Jim Gray, who spent a lot of his career looking at the economics of data, concluded that, compared to the cost of moving bytes around, everything else is effectively free! Getting information from your computer to the cloud (and vice-versa) is time-consuming and potentially expensive. The more data you’re trying to move, the bigger the problem is…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Ed Scannell.

While SoftLayer was known in the cloud computing world as an up-and-comer the last few years, making top 10 lists as a company to watch, it struggled to get a seat at the table of Fortune 500 companies. But with IBM’s acquisition of the company last July, things changed. Not only does Lance Crosby, CEO of IBM SoftLayer, now have access to the clients and resources of the world’s second largest high-tech company, he is at the heart of what will drive much of IBM’s cloud software strategies involving all of Big Blue’s software and hardware groups.

Crosby recently sat down with SearchCloudComputing to talk about some technologies that will be revealed during the company’s Pulse conference this month, its competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and what life is like working for a company with deep pockets. How will the recent $1.2 billion investment in your data centers move IBM’s SoftLayer-based strategies forward?…