Category: News

February 10, 2012 Off

Mad Cow Friday: Dilbert Cloud Humor

By David
Grazed from Dilbert.com.  Author: Scott Adams

On Friday, we like to step away from some of the news and headlines of the day, and instead hit the water coolers and have a bit of fun.

This one is an oldie, but a goodie.  Enjoy this Cloud Computing jab from Scott Adam’s Dilbert strip.

 
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February 10, 2012 Off

Looking Forward to a Cloudy Career

By David

Grazed from FINS Technology.  Author: Joseph Walker.

Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison built his $144 billion company by having customers install physical software onto their computers. It makes sense then that, as The Wall Street Journal reports, as recently as a few years ago he dismissed the term "cloud computing" — the name for accessing software through the Internet — as "gibberish."

These days, Ellison is eating his words. Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would pay $1.9 billion to acquire Taleo Corp., the cloud-based human resources software firm. The acquisition comes less than four months after Oracle paid $1.5 billion for cloud customer service company RightNow Technologies…

February 10, 2012 Off

ClevrU Introduces Intelligent Cloud Computing to Mobile Users

By David

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

ClevrU Corporation launched their intelligent mobile computing company at the Communitech HUB in Kitchener Ontario. ClevrU technology is an adaptive and intelligent solution that delivers user specific information from the cloud to any internet enabled desk top, notebook, tablet or smartphone.

Dana Fox, President and CEO of ClevrU Corporation said ,”Our mobile technology is designed to deliver relevant information to the user at the right time using an intelligence engine to make the best use of data found in cloud computing databases.” Fox went on to say that “ ClevrU is excited to start publically talking about the advance technologies it has integrated into its platform that is designed to deliver customized content over cellular networks by adapting and optimizing the format of content to fit the device and work with the available bandwidth every time.”…

February 10, 2012 Off

Getting Your Take on Cloud Security

By David
Grazed from Gov Info Security.  Author: Eric Chabrow.

Cloud computing gives the jitters to those charged with protecting their organization’s IT systems and data. After all, vital data flow through the Internet to servers that often are beyond the control of an enterprise’s IT security organization. And, to gauge that concern, Information Security Media Group, publisher of GovInfoSecurity, has just fielded Cloud Computing Security Survey 2012.

The survey will examine not only cloud security concerns, but how security leaders address these concerns through policy, technology and improved vendor management. Survey takers will be from all sectors and from around the globe and include IT, IT security and business managers and professionals involved in their organization’s cloud computing efforts…

February 10, 2012 Off

The State of Cloud Standards

By David
Grazed from Information Management.  Author: Justin Kern.

Those were prime expectations for the near-term of cloud computing from discussion topics during an update on cloud standards held Thursday between U.S. and European standards organizations. The virtual summit was led by the Open Data Center Alliance and held in conjunction with the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), standards consortium OMG, storage and networking standards group SNIA, and the European telecommunications and network standards group, ETSI. All of the organizations are doing their own work with end users and vendors to establish cloud standards, which are then discussed among the organizations in bi-weekly calls.

Although representatives from the five organizations stopped short of exact timelines and strict guidelines in the discussion, they each provided insight on the direction of standards in the coming year…

February 10, 2012 Off

Forget Public Cloud or Private Cloud, It’s All About Hyper-Hybrid

By David

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Thor Olavshrud.

Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, CIOs and their IT organizations need to focus on what it means to rethink their business as a collection of services.

IT organizations now have a bewildering array of options at their disposal—private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud and, of course, on-premise installations. In most organizations, according to Deloitte Consulting’s Mark White and Bill Briggs, adoption is no longer about cloud; it’s about clouds

February 10, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: iPad 3 Next Month

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Apple is going to launch the iPad 3, or whatever they call it, the first week of March at a special event in San Francisco according to AllThingsD, a prophecy the punters regarded as being as good as a statement from the company.

As a result Apple Thursday hit an all-time high, teasing the magic $500 number, with a closing price of $493.17, up from $315 last June, after seeing $496.75 during the day.  The blog figures street availability a week or so later.

The dingus, the same size as the iPad 2, will reportedly be built on a way faster chip with improved graphics and a 2048×1536 Retina Display – "or something close to it," the blog said…

February 10, 2012 Off

JANET recruits suppliers for new cloud infrastructure framework

By David
Grazed from TechWorld.  Author: Sophie Curtis.

JANET, the UK’s government-funded research and education network, has announced its first cloud infrastructure framework, incorporating technology from eight selected suppliers.

The framework is wide ranging, offering services from colocation through to cloud infrastructure, and aims to lighten the burden of procurement and compliance with EU regulations for institutions. In conjunction with the recently formed JANET Brokerage service, the organisation claims it will drive the use of cloud computing across the UK, as well as saving both time and money.

JANET said that the nature and provision of cloud services will change over time, and the scope of this framework enables suppliers to evolve their products to continually provide the latest technologies available…

February 10, 2012 Off

EMC to found Russian cloud computing, ‘Big Data’ hub

By David
Grazed from FierceBioTech IT.  Author:  Suzanne Elvidge.

Many companies, especially biopharma and bioinformatics companies, end up with a pool of unstructured and semistructured data, these days dubbed "Big Data." U.S.-based global IT company EMC is planning an R&D center in the Skolkovo Foundation’s Innovation Hub in Russia to create cloud infrastructure solutions and Big Data analytics technologies focusing on bioinformatics, as well as energy efficiency.

The innovation hub, which is also known as "Russian Silicon Valley," is still in the planning and construction stages but will be a high-tech business area to include the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovotech), research institutes, a business incubator, and R&D, technologies development and commercialization centers, as well as housing. EMC will also collaborate with Russian universities, government agencies, and local and multinational companies in the local area…

February 10, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Google Cultivates a Rep as Patent Gouger

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Apple quietly wrote a letter to ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, in November asking it to set basic rules for the licensing of standards-essential patents and to make its patent-wielding members commit to the principles.

Apple clearly had Google and its Android acolytes in mind in writing the letter. Motorola Mobility and Samsung are asking ludicrously high sums to license IP that’s supposed to be available on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND). They have also sued alleged infringers like Apple and Microsoft demanding product-stopping injunctions.

Apple wants all this to stop. It wants ETSI to insist on appropriate royalties, a common royalty base and no injunctions…