Gartner: Companies need shift in private cloud security
The security systems of businesses must "evolve" as they move from virtualised data centres towards private cloud infrastructures, according to analysts at Gartner.
Gartner predicts that by 2015, 40 percent of the security controls used within enterprise data centres will be virtualised, up from less than five percent in 2010.
NASA wants its data in open source cloud
NASA is backing open-source cloud computing with a single goal in mind: to stick to space exploration and stop running data centres.
Chris Kemp, NASA’s chief technology officer, said the agency’s long-term plan is to move internal IT resources to external clouds over the next 10 to 20 years.
Forrester: Sourcing departments fear loss of control with SaaS
Businesses’ traditional sourcing departments fear a loss of control of software-as-a-service systems, Forrester analysts have warned ahead of a major conference next week.
Vendor management needs to be transformed to cope with the vast changes brought about by SaaS, the analysts warned.
Liz Herbert, a principal analyst at the company who will speak on day one of Forrester’s Sourcing and Vendor Management Forum in London, said sourcing and vendor management teams were struggling to cope with user self-provisioned technology – including SaaS and Web 2.0.
Embrace of New Technologies Generates New Security Concerns
App Organizes the World Inside Your Smart Phone
Facebook encourages us to create a social network including everyone we know. But it only captures one slice of our social lives. Our social connections and conversations sprawl across many other forms of communication, including face-to-face chat, e-mail, phone calls, and text messages.
Much of these communications is increasingly channeled through one device: the smart phone. A new app from a startup called Aro exploits this fact by digesting everything that takes place on a phone—from e-mails to call logs—to learn about all of your connections and friendships, and to track relationships that span different forms of communication.
The Economics of Servers Could Soon Change
PiCloud, Python-Based Cloud Funded By Greylock, KPCB
PiCloud, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company that’s developing a python-based platform as a service (PaaS) has raised $1.4 million in its first round of funding. Investors in the company, co-founded by UC Berkeley graduates Ken Elkabany (CEO) and Aaron Staley, include Greylock Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Andreessen Horowitz.
Why cloud won’t kill IT outsourcing or consulting
Sethi stated that cloud computing will ultimately end traditional IT outsourcing. In Arjun’s opinion, the likes of Xerox, HP and Accenture, as well as Indian outsourcing vendors like Infosys and TCS, are potentially in peril.
At the same time, Arjun believes that Google and Amazon will eat away a significant share of the IT outsourcing market.
Fujitsu firms up its Microsoft cloud services
Fujitsu and Microsoft have firmed up their agreement on cloud computing services and are ready to roll out a new range of services by the middle of next year.
The companies reached a worldwide agreement last July for Fujitsu to build a range of services based on Microsoft’s Azure platform and the companies are set to offer these services for UK customers.