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Grazed from Engadget. Author: Steve Dent.

NEC has launched a $880 per month service in Japan that lets merchants profile customers using just a PC and video camera. The system uses facial recognition powered by the company’s cloud computing service to estimate the gender and age of clients, along with the frequency of their shopping expeditions across multiple locations.

The firm developed the "NeoFace" tracking software in-house, claiming it was the highest ranked facial recognition system in NIST and that it plans to use it for other services like "intruder surveillance" in the future. NEC added that face data is encrypted so it can’t be "inadvertently disclosed," and is strictly to help retailers fine-tune their marketing strategies. After watching the system pick off face after face in the video after the break, we just hope it doesn’t go rogue…

Read more and view video from source @ http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/12/nec-outs-880-facial-recognition-system/

Grazed from Acer. Author: PR Announcement.

Acer America today debuts its new Acer C7 Chromebook, its next-generation mobile computer that runs Google’s Chrome operating system and is priced at a low $199.
The new Acer C7 Chromebook is the ideal additional laptop for families, students and business people that need a fast, easy and secure way to get online to do their computing in the cloud, such as using Gmail, keeping up on social networks, shopping, and paying bills.

"Today’s computer users are doing more online heightening the need for enhanced security, quicker online access and an easy-to-use interface," Jim Wong, corporate president, Acer Inc. "The Acer C7 Chromebook provides all this at an affordable price, making it the right choice for families and students on a budget as well as anyone who wants a new or second mobile PC for web-based computing."…

Grazed from UKAuthority. Author: Dan Jellinek.

The online government "Cloudstore" allowing public bodies to buy cloud services may be tranformed into a generic "Govstore" for all kinds of IT products and services, a senior civil servant has revealed. The idea emerged in a panel debate on the second phase of the government’s cloud computing framework, G-Cloud ii, broadcast today on UKAuthority TV.

Panellist Denise McDonagh, G-Cloud programme director in the Cabinet Office’s Government Digital Service and ICT director at the Home Office, said: "What we want to do in the centre is do things well and do things once. So if have we have a mechanism for buying cloud services, why not use it for other services?"…

Grazed from Gov.Aol. Author: Wyatt Kash.

The power of big data – like cloud computing and mobility – has emerged as a transformational technology force, but one that poses a host of planning questions for senior government agency officials. Peter Mell, a senior computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, devoted many months assessing the potential and the pitfalls of big data for NIST. He recently shared what he learned and what executives need to understand about big data in an interview with AOL Government’s Wyatt Kash.

Mell outlined some of the misunderstandings and tradeoffs associated with large scale data sets agencies are likely to encounter as they move beyond classic relational databases. He also talked about the importance cloud computing plays in facilitating big data analytics…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: VTSS) and Avago Technologies (NASDAQ: AVGO) announced availability of the industry’s first CXP host joint reference design delivering 100G/120G connectivity for high-speed routers, Enterprise data centers and high-performance cloud computing applications. Based on Vitesse’s VSC7227 12-channel signal conditioner and Avago’s AFBR-83PDZ 100G CXP, this joint reference design enables customers to leverage Vitesse and Avago interoperability and expedite time-to-market with solutions for 100G/120G connectivity. It will be highlighted at SC12 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Sustained growth in cloud computing, mobile networking and video, remote storage and other bandwidth-intensive services drives demand for high density 100G/120G connectivity. Recent surveys show that network bandwidth demand is one of the most critical issues facing data centers, driven by increases in virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and convergence…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Shamus McGillicuddy.

With the Folsom release of OpenStack, networking pros now have OpenStack Quantum, an industry-standard, open application programming interface for cloud networking orchestration. Using the OpenStack Quantum API, software and hardware companies can create solutions to solve the problems of network operations in cloud computing and highly virtualized data centers. In this Q&A, Martin Casado, Nicira co-founder and influential OpenStack figure, discusses the impact Quantum will have on cloud networking and network orchestration.

What is the significance of Quantum in the Folsom release?

Martin Casado: Quantum is really just a vendor-neutral, industry-standard interface. The implications are significant, because if you build the cloud and you use Quantum, you’ve decoupled the operations and orchestration from the actual mechanics of the networking side…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Box will use six Equinix IBX data centers worldwide to serve the business users of its file-sharing and storage solution. Up till now, Box had no data center capacity outside the US although more than half of its customers were international. Box, which offers a cloud storage and file sharing to business customers, is getting more global, inking a deal to with Equinix to run on six of that company’s IBX data centers around the world.

Up until now, more than half of Box’s claimed 14 million customers were outside the U.S. but all of its data center capacity were there. Now, Box will also run in Equinix IBX data centers in Chicago, Ashburn, Virg., Amsterdam, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo, the company said. Using Equinix, Box said it can boost performance for those customers by 60 percent…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

LuxCloud recognized Southeast Asia as a rapidly growing market and are eager to develop strong partnerships in the region as part of their globalization plan. Jatis, a company founded in 1997, is headquartered in Jakarta with offices in Indonesia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Manila; they serve over 400 international corporate clients and are the leading provider of wealth management services in Indonesia. The partnership will maximize the best from both companies and substantially benefit all their customers by meeting new demands and offering innovative services.

Leading up to the partnership

LuxCloud, founded in 2010, is the global channel-centric market place for cloud services offering a SaaS delivery platform providing automation of billing and full provisioning of SaaS services; their portfolio includes the full range of Microsoft Hosted Services, as well as a growing range of commodity, proprietary and open source software applications. LuxCloud’s latest product, Hosted365, is a compilation of cloud services in a securely hosted desktop with web based versions of Microsoft Office programs; with the full support of Microsoft it currently offers Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Office Web Apps. Jatis customers were requesting subscription based cloud services, as opposed to the more traditional, one-off license models; initial discussions revealed mutual benefits for both organizations that resulted in the eventual partnership…

Grazed from ReadWriteCloud. Author: Brian Proffitt.

If you look at cloud computing, you might think, based on the hype, that enterprise-cloud management systems like OpenStack, OpenNebula or Eucalyptus have things wrapped up. But ignore CloudStack at your own peril, because this is a product that deserves a look by IT organizations ready to move into the cloud. All of these products belong to a class of software known as enterprise cloud management, and they are what large companies use to create a hybrid or private cloud environment. They are all – importantly – also open source. That matters because virtualization giant VMware wants to play in this space, too, with it’s own proprietary solutions. More on that later.

CloudStack’s readiness was demonstrated quite clearly earlier this week with the release of Apache CloudStack 4.0.0-incubating, a rather unfortunate name that undercuts the serious maturity of this cloud orchestration platform and its capability to be a big star on this increasingly crowded stage…

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Xath Cruz.

Cloud computing service providers are steadily increasing their reach as they continue to provide service outside of their home markets while using service delivery models that require the transmission of information across borders. In this article, we examine the hurdles that face cross-border cloud computing, particularly with regard to main policy challenges including data privacy, security, and the need to maintain free flow of information. We also delve into the challenges faced by developing countries as they try to participate in the cloud computing market.

Definition of Cloud Computing

Due to the fact that cloud computing has entered the lexicon and has been used to define an eclectic range of services offered over the internet, it can be difficult to differentiate the cloud from other related IT services. However, there are already kinds of cloud related services that are familiar to consumers, such as web based email, file storage, and financial management programs….