Category: News

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Enterprise API management and SOA governance products provider SOA Software recently announced SOA Software OAuth Server, an enterprise authentication and authorization product, enabling users to use their enterprise credentials to log in and control access to their data from partner and cloud applications.

SOA Software’s OAuth Server uses a security token server that integrates with enterprise identity and access management systems, enabling businesses to publish and interact with secure data and users to share private data between different applications and approve applications to act on their behalf without sharing passwords…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Juniper Networks is aiming to take a new approach to dealing with security threats with the announcement of a cloud-based global attacker intelligence service. Dubbed Junos Spotlight Secure, the new cloud service was designed to provide customers with "definitive intelligence about threats, attackers and individual devices across a wide number of networks and Juniper security products."

Spotlight Secure is meant to be the next evolution in dealing with attackers, moving beyond the traditional security method of tracking reputation feeds of IP addresses. According to Juniper, that’s the old way of doing things, and Spotlight Secure will be identifying individual attackers at the device level and then tracking them through a global database…

Grazed from Fort Mills Times. Author: Editorial Staff.

Heirloom Computing Inc. today announced a first-of-its-kind scheduler to run batch jobs on ELPaaS, Heirloom’s Platform-as-a-Service for moving mission-critical enterprise applications to the cloud. The Heirloom Job Scheduler works with Heirloom’s Job Entry Subsystem (JES) to make it easier and much less expensive for IT managers to manage their legacy applications in the cloud. Heirloom offers full support for legacy batch job languages such as IBM Job Control Language (JCL) as well as common scripting dialects, including UNIX shell and Python.

“We’ve been hearing from IT managers that they would really like the ability to schedule jobs to run in the cloud. Heirloom’s new scheduler solves that problem,” said Gary Crook, CEO of Heirloom Computing. Watch this short video to learn more about the Heirloom Job Scheduler: http://youtu.be/mANO2BULOu4 …

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Louis Columbus.

In 2013, expect to see the pace of mergers and acquisitions for cloud computing, mobile and analytics technologies accelerate as software vendors look to fill gaps in their product and service strategies. This and other key insights of how cloud computing is reshaping the merger and acquisition landscape can be found in the latest Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) report published today.

The US Technology M&A insights: Analysis and Trends in US Technology M&A Activity 2013 provides an excellent overview of merger, acquisitions, private equity, divestures, cross-border transactions across the five key industry sectors. The report, free for download, covers the Internet, IT Services, hardware and networking, software, and semiconductor sectors…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Juan Carlos Perez.

Box is rolling out several new security features aimed at making its 150,000 business customers feel more confident in its cloud storage and file sharing service. The new capabilities address end-users, devices, and content.

"Our high-level goal is to meet existing and anticipate future requirements of enterprise customers in using our secure environment," said Whitney Bouck, enterprise general manager at Box. "These are things we know our customers will want to take advantage of."…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Pete Knight.

Cloud computing is gaining an increase in recognition as “the next big thing” in the digital world which in turn affects the world and society as a whole. Cloud Computing is a relatively new concept with many still trying to get their heads around, but in all due time. Yet the industry has already developed a rich and fascinating history.

Over the next few days, we will be investigating this history in our Heroes of the Cloud series. It would be interesting and informing to focus the series on the people who are driving cloud growth, as a rule these pioneers are all young geniuses whose biggest contribution likely lies in the future. Instead, we will concentrate on the companies that these pioneers currently have on the ground. Along the way, we are bound to point out more than a few “geniuses worth watching”…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

AppDynamics, the next-generation Application Performance Management solution that simplifies the management of complex apps, today announced it has been selected by Forbes Magazine as the number one cloud computing company to work for in a comparison of top cloud computing companies. Forbes determined the rankings based off of scores from Glassdoor.com, factoring in the percentage of employees who approve of their CEO and the percentage of employees would recommend their company to a friend.

"Our mission at AppDynamics is to disrupt the $20 billion/year IT Operations Management market and build the next great software company with more than $1 billion/year of revenue. To accomplish that, it’s essential to build a strong culture that attracts world-class talent and enables that talent to perform at their best," said Jyoti Bansal, Founder & CEO of AppDynamics. "Being recognized as the best company to work for in a list that contains great legendary companies like Amazon, VMware, Salesforce.com is a great achievement and I am honored and humbled by it…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

The data boom is a very real mark on the industry landscape, with the potential and hype surrounding big data expected to increase dramatically. But what can this data practically do? Speakers at a Mobile World Congress conference session on Monday gave various insights into the discussion, with the conclusion being that, in both developed and developing markets, big data has the potential to be a lifesaver.

One of the big players in this sphere is IBM, with CTO Paul Bloom examining what its supercomputer, Watson, is now doing after it won a million dollars – which IBM gave to charity – beating two former Jeopardy! multi-champions in 2011. The concept Bloom pushed was ‘cognitive computing’ – a ‘cross between super-computing, manual technology and neuroscience’. During its brief game show career, Bloom insisted Watson wasn’t connected to the Internet, yet had access to over 200 million pages of structured and unstructured data…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Chris Kanaracus.

Salesforce.com is planning to add a series of mobile applications to its Service Cloud line of customer service software, in a response to the rampant rise of mobile devices both in the consumer and business worlds.

Dubbed Service Cloud Mobile, the new offerings include a "co-browsing" capability, which allows end users to share a screen with a call center agent from their mobile device. For example, a customer interested in purchasing custom-fitted clothing could walk through an online catalog and find the correct sizing together with the agent, with both parties able to click on buttons and links, said Alex Bard, Service Cloud senior vice president and general manager, in an interview and demonstration prior to Tuesday’s announcement…