Category: News

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

The security of the data and applications is one of the major concerns for enterprises. With many enterprises adopting virtualized computing infrastructure and hosting their data and applications over the cloud infrastructure, there is a need for security features to be incorporated as a part of the enterprise infrastructure.

The VDI solution providers are providing better security features as a part of the solutions, which is leading to higher adoption of these solutions by enterprises and end-users. The communication networks are being enabled with data encoding, which enables secure transmission of data from one point to another. Security features are being provided independent of the underlying hardware configuration, which is another positive factor leading to higher adoption…

Grazed from The VarGuy.  Author: Christopher Tozzi.

What were the biggest developments in desktop Linux in 2013? As much as I’d like to jump on the end-of-year-list bandwagon and write about all the new open source applications and innovations of the last 12 months, this year not much happened in the world of the Linux desktop. The real Linux headlines were in the cloud, Android and embedded devices.

I’ve enjoyed recapping desktop Linux highlights in years past. It gives me something to do on New Year’s Eve while waiting for the pigs-in-a-blanket to bake. (I joke. I am an aspiring vegetarian these days.) But this time around, the list of major developments in desktop Linux during the past year is pretty short…

Grazed from BusinessInsider.  Author: Julie Bort.

Microsoft is creating a brand new computer programming language and it could be using that language to create an operating system that has nothing to do with Windows.  The new language was revealed on Friday by a Microsoft researcher named Jim Duffy in a blog post. Its relationship to the new operating system was discussed on Reddit by someone claiming to be an ex-Microsoft employee.

This operating system is code-named Midori, reports ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley.  Midori has been in the works since at least 2008 as a pure research project, Foley reports. Midori was initially an experiment to write an operating system from scratch that was small and fast and didn’t need to be compatible with the huge numbers of Windows apps already out on the market…

Grazed from Fiscal Times.  Author: Jeff Morganteen.

Malware will go more mobile next year as digital currencies fuel malicious ransomware attacks worldwide, according to computer security firm McAfee Labs.  After the data breach at Target this month exposed a growing threat from hackers, companies and individuals alike should be careful not to keep all their data in the same cloud service, McAfee Chief Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy said Monday on CNBC’s "Squawk on the Street."

Some cloud networks remain more private than others, she said. "What I would suggest to you as an individual is to be quite wary of cloud computing, and limit and separate the type of information that you share on various cloud platforms," Dennedy said…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Daniel P. Kent.

Over the last year, we’ve seen another technology phenomenon added to the long list of IT hype: software-defined networking (SDN). You might ask: "Haven’t networks been defined by software since the days of the ATM or the introduction of VLANs?" The answer is yes, there have been efforts to manage and manipulate physical network components through software, but most of these efforts have focused on easing network management tasks.

What makes SDN different is its intent to allow programmability of the network based on real-time information and data traffic flows. This allows for a closed-loop system where the network can be reconfigured to optimize applications or protect against threats dynamically, based on the current environment…

Grazed from The VarGuy. Author: DH Kass.

Microsoft (MSFT) has plunked down $11 million to buy 200 acres of industrial land in rural Port of Quincy, WA to build a second data center there. Is this another huge bet on Windows Azure, Office 365, Xbox Live and other cloud services? Perhaps. The new facility will triple the size of Microsoft’s current 470,000 square foot server plant.

The vendor has some history in Quincy–first setting up a data center there in 2007 on 75 acres of agricultural land, attracted by cheap electrical power fed by hydroelectric generators drawing water from the nearby Columbia River–and three years later signaling its intention to expand its facilities in the area…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has now opened access to Amazon DynamoDB in the AWS GovCloud (US) Management Console. The announcement was made in a AWS blog post this morning. The access enables developers to leverage DynamoDB, a "fully" managed NoSQL database service.

According to AWS, the service "makes it simple and cost-effective to store and retrieve any amount of data, and serve any level of request traffic." All data items are stored on solid state drives (SSDs) and are replicated across three of Amazon’s availability zones, the company said. Amazon has offered several other AWS updates recently. Recent noteworthy AWS updates include the following:…

Grazed from TheServerSide. Author: Jason Tee.

Over the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that DevOps represents a significant cultural shift for the programming and production sides of IT. Today, the tooling that supports this new, more enmeshed way of developing, deploying and maintaining apps is just coming into its own. However, the fact that both Dev and Ops are transitioning to the cloud adds another interesting wrinkle. What steps might help when blending DevOps with the Cloud?

#1: Use cloud-friendly tools

According to Simon Maple, the technical evangelist for ZeroTurnaround, clients have to take command—literally. The key to managing DevOps in the cloud is a command center hosted by the client to which each managed server connects directly. "For a new instance to become accessible to the command center, all it would need is an agent running on that local server…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Ofir Nachmani.

2013 has been incredibly eventful for the cloud industry, mostly for making itself an eminent presence in the mainstream IT market. Businesses of all sizes have made their ways to the cloud, confirming my 2013 predictions. Government agencies worldwide take the cloud seriously, as demonstrated by the CIA’s contract switch over to Amazon from IBM. AWS has proven its rapid pace of innovation and has introduced great leaders who have completely replaced the concept of sluggish IT servers with instances. While the market is still relatively small, I believe it will take over the IT market sooner than some of us think. I am not alone in my forecast… another analyst predicted that AWS will become a $50B business in 2015, which means it will multiply 12 times its size from last year. So, have a look at my 2013 predictions and read on to see what 2014 has in store for the world of cloud computing.

1 – Google Cloud Already Pulled the Trigger on AWS

Last year, the GCP (Google Compute Platform) team managed to clearly identify their direct competition, the AWS cloud. Consequently, they realized that they also need to invest in their IaaS offering. With a great deal of research, they quickly focused their attention on cloud lock-in. They presented out-of-the-box tools that import large chunks of data and "surprisingly" do actually ease the one-way data transfer process from Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage. Moreover, the Google cloud team learned that granularity of cloud resources is a key in the cloud and presented the ‘charge per minute’ of the their compute which is definitely a game changer…

Grazed from SDTimes. Author: Rob Marvin.

The cloud got a lot more crowded in 2013. Cloud providers, users and enterprises have begun to realize the capacity for what’s possible up there, and it’s a lot more than just storage. Cloud computing platforms, PaaSes and IaaSes, mobile and enterprise app migration, virtualization, public versus private clouds, hybrid cloud architectures, cloud security: These are but some of the issues driving competition and expansion as companies big and small vie for cloud supremacy.

In the cloud computing space, Amazon Web Services and EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Team Foundation Server continued to expand their application, testing, and deployment tools and services while increasing scalability and elasticity…