Category: News

Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: Stephen Withers.

Steve Durbin, vice president sales and marketing for the Information Security Forum thought the issues around cloud security would have been nailed down by now, "but I couldn’t have been more wrong," he told iTWire.

The ease of getting started with cloud services is a nightmare from a security perspective, he suggested. People on the business side of an organisation can simply sign up and put the usually modest charges on their credit cards, bypassing (though probably not maliciously) the normal security procedures…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author:  J. Nicholas Hoover.

Cloud computing can help the Central Intelligence Agency do its job better, faster, cheaper, and even more securely, CIA CTO Gus Hunt said in a keynote address Tuesday at InformationWeek Government‘s GovCloud event in Washington, D.C.

"Cloud computing has emerged to enable us to deliver capabilities we weren’t able to deliver before at a scale and price and agility level we were never able to do before," Hunt said. "I have a petascale problem and need a petascale solution."…

Grazed from TechJournal.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Is the cloud living up to CIO & CTO expectations? There has been a lot of speculation about what top computing experts think of the cloud and its advantages.

To clear things up, Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology solutions and services, analyzed more than 35,000 online forum and social media posts from CIOs and CTOs over the past 60 days, and found their comments to be overwhelmingly in favor of cloud computing. “Positive” and “very positive” comments outweighed “negative” and “very negative” comments by a dramatic 23:1…

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

Hewlett-Packard is planning to sell ARM-based servers and is working with Calxeda (née Smooth-Stone), the three-year-old Texas start-up partially owned by ARM, on the boxes, according to Bloomberg, which got it from "two people familiar with the matter." The Dow Jones is saying the same thing…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Bernard Golden.

I was interested in this week’s ZDNet piece, Cloud computing’s real creative destruction may be the IT workforce. The piece discusses a presentation at last week’s Gartner Symposium that posited cloud computing will be a net destructor of IT jobs…

Grazed from HostReview.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today at Citrix Synergy(TM), the conference where cloud computing, networking and virtualization meet, Citrix announced the next stage of its strategy for Citrix CloudGateway(TM), the industry’s first unified service broker that aggregates, controls and delivers Windows, web, SaaS and mobile apps to any user on any device. The CloudGateway product line empowers end users with self-service access to all of their business apps, and gives IT unmatched control over apps and data from public cloud environments, accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud and mobility…

Grazed from Gov Info Security.  Author: Eric Chabrow.