Grazed from AMEInfo. Author: Editorial Staff.

Users worldwide are exposed to increasing amounts of unprotected data due, in part, to the explosion of connected devices, the internet, social media, cameras, sensors and user generated content. Industry experts predict that up to 90% of corporate data such as documents, webpages and email, is usually unstructured and potentially accessible.

Addressing cloud computing and security concerns during Gitex Technology Week, 14th to 18th October 2012, Intel and McAfee will focus on tackling four key areas that include; securing cloud data centers, securing the network connections, securing the devices that connect to cloud services and accelerating the development of unified standards for cloud security…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Christine Burns.

If you visit the popular tech-focused job site Dice.com and search for cloud computing related jobs, you’ll get more than 3,800 hits. According to Alice Hill, managing director of Dice.com, that’s up 72% over last year.

Basically, cloud is a segment of the jobs market that is going gangbusters. On the day Hill’s team culled the list as part of the research conducted for this article, the No. 1 position that employers were looking for was Cloud Architect. The rest of the top 10 are:

— Cloud Software Engineer

— Cloud Sales Executive

— Cloud Engineer

— Cloud Developer…

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StratoGen today announced the launch of a free migration service aimed at helping larger businesses migrate their on-site VMware estate into a hosted environment.

The move will significantly ease the transition to the cloud, whilst keeping costs low.

"I’m really delighted to be able to announce this service" said Karl Robinson, Vice President of Sales. "For larger organizations moving to the cloud can be a hugely expensive and complex process. Careful assessment and planning is needed to ensure business continuity, along with comprehensive testing to ensure security policies are in place and business applications function correctly. By offering this service free of charge we have taken away one of the last barriers for cloud adoption."

Grazed from Washington Technology. Author: Jim Sweeney.

A number of the game-changing trends highlighted in a recent Deltek report on the government market revolved around cloud computing; and how contractors need to think strategically to address agency challenges.

The market research firm’s Federal Information Technology Hardware Market, 2012-2017 report included the following as major challenges facing agencies:

• Managing data, not infrastructure
• Increasing efficiency
• Enhancing enterprise services
• Accelerating innovation
• Consolidating acquisition avenues…