For his work on the foundations of a new way of encrypting data, Brent Waters from the University of Texas in Austin has been elected as one of this year’s Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows…
August 11, 2011
Encrypting Data in the Cloud Brings Win for Texas
Grazed from IDG News. Author: Nicolas Zeitler.
August 10, 2011
Learning to Control the Cloud
Grazed from Virtual Strategy Magazine. Author: Sundar Raghavan.
Cloud computing has quickly become one of the hottest catchphrases among IT and business executives alike. The users are attracted to the cloud based on its flexibility, availability and scalability, among other benefits. However, these advantages do not outweigh what many consider a potential pitfall in the adoption of cloud technologies: control. IT and business leaders remain concerned about how they’re able to keep business critical applications and data from being accessed by unauthorized users. This is not easily accomplished, as controlling the cloud requires businesses to exercise restraint and exert influence over cloud technologies – many of which are provided by external parties…
August 10, 2011
Abiquo and Hosting Provider Customers Share Insights Into New Cloud Computing Business Models
Grazed from Business Wire. Author: PR Announcement.
One of the most significant shifts in Cloud Computing for hosting providers this year has been the move from delivering cloud-enabling technology to the delivery of new applications and business models built atop that technology. Abiquo, a leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company is featuring a webinar interview on this emerging trend entitled, “The Changing Business Model of Service Providers.” Wendy Perilli, Abiquo’s VP of marketing is joined by Mike Carpenter, VP of business development for CARI.net, a global service provider offering on-demand cloud resources, and Kevin Brady the CEO of Solasus Web Solutions, a CARI.net customer that is aggressively pursuing this new model for technology delivery for its customers…
August 10, 2011
Control A Submarine From Cloud? DARPA’s On It
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
The Department of Defense (DOD) is seeking a way to use cloud computing to power embedded military applications that so far have not been able to take advantage of the technology.
The Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released a request for information on what it is calling "military critical clouds."…
August 10, 2011
Cloud computing startup Cedexis raises $6 million in venture backing
Grazed from OregonLive.com. Author: Mike Rogoway.
Cedexis, a cloud computing company with offices in France and Southeast Portland, has raised $6 million in venture backing.
The Series A money comes from Seattle investment firm Madrona Venture Group and from a Palo Alto firm, Advanced Technology Ventures…
August 10, 2011
Google Apps, App Engine Tighten Cloud Services Security With SSAE-16 Compliance
Grazed from CRN. Author: Andrew R. Hickey.
A host of Google (NSDQ:GOOG) cloud services have been deemed secure for enterprise use and have passed the SSAE-16 Type II audit, a security compliance check that examines whether offerings comply with legal requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley…
August 10, 2011
Cloud Computing Middleware Company Announces Secure Content Distribution Services
Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.
CloudPointe, LLC announced today enhancements to its CloudPointe Connect service for secure controlled delivery of documents and digital assets. The enhancements enable organizations to share sensitive documents and digital assets, including video, to any recipient with an assigned passwords, expiration date, and restrictions for saving, printing and redistribution…
August 10, 2011
SoftLayer Has Record-Setting Second Quarter
Grazed from Cloud Computing Journal. Author: Liz McMillan.
SoftLayer Technologies on Tuesday announced that the company experienced continued operational and financial growth in the second quarter of 2011, hitting all new records. Along with other achievements, the company earned $83 million in revenue for the period…
August 10, 2011
Adaptive Computing Delivers Dynamic Cloud With New Moab Advancements
Grazed from Business Wire. Author: PR Announcement.
Adaptive Computing, a thought-leader in cloud systems management and the leading provider of Optimized Dynamic Cloud solutions, today announced that IT management and their staff no longer need to accept static cloud environments. The latest release of Moab Adaptive Computing Suite 6.1, a cloud decision engine, features extended dynamic cloud capabilities, accelerates workload management processes, maps and manages service component relationships to improve reliability and consolidates cloud event reporting. Enhanced dynamic cloud management capabilities in Moab allow IT departments to deliver applications, expand resources and keep services running optimally, all at the speed of business…
August 10, 2011
How to Gain Network Visibility in the Cloud
Grazed from CTO Edge. Author: Mike Vizard.
As more IT organizations migrate towards cloud computing, they are finding that managing this environment is particularly challenging because they lack end-to-end visibility into the network. They can see everything happening in their own network, but once the cloud service they are trying to manage needs to be extended across a network managed by a third-party service provider, everything goes dark…