Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick for Cloud Server Management Software
Rackspace will acquire Cloudkick, developer of a cloud-server management portal, to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio, Rackspace confirmed on Dec. 16.
With cloud computing, organizations can quickly and efficiently launch new servers, but in the automated cloud environment organizations can end up using server resources inefficiently and can "even lose track of some," said Lew Moorman, chief strategy officer of Rackspace. "Cloudkick brings order to that chaos and sprawl" and makes cloud computing "more powerful with less expense," he said.
Cloud computing security ‘should follow best practices’
Businesses that have started to use cloud computing and want to improve their security levels should be able to do so by following the right procedures.
This is the view of Alexandria Hubbard, assistant editor of the Search Cloud Computing website, who explained while there are still lingering concerns about the safety of data stored by a third-party provider, there are steps that can be taken to address this issue.
"There are a lot of best practices and features that will work to protect your data in a real world environment and meet compliance requirements," she said.
Oracle takes office suite to the cloud
In its announcement on Wednesday, the business software specialist also launched OpenOffice 3.3, the most recent iteration of the desktop office software picked up in its acquisition of Sun. Both releases fall under the umbrella of Oracle Office and are built on the Open Document Format (ODF) open standard.
EMC expands Atmos for cloud service providers
The EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform (ACDP), announced Tuesday, adds a host of modules that will allow Atmos customers to turn the storage product into a storage-as-a-service platform without having to write their own metering, management, utilization and billing modules.
ooVoo Takes Multi-user Mobile Video Chat Into the Cloud
Developer Says FBI Fiddled With OpenBSD
A former contributor to the code in the OpenBSD operating system that handles encryption of data has alleged that the FBI paid developers working on the code to write in backdoor mechanisms to circumvent authentication and give law enforcement unfettered access to data.
Deduplication solutions ‘help to enable cloud storage’
The use of deduplication solutions could be effective for companies looking to migrate some or all of their data to the cloud, it has been suggested.
Speaking to the InfoStor website, Dennis Rolland, director of advanced technology at data protection company Sepaton, explained that the technology can act as an "enabler" for the introduction of cloud storage.
"It makes it practical to deploy cloud storage because you’re sending, say, ten times less data over the wide area network," he said.
HP ePrint news goes local
HP was smart enough to realise that once you’ve designed printers with network interfaces and enough processing power to run a touchscreen control panel, it doesn’t take all that much to add network based services.
For example, the ePrint models can print documents sent to them by email, and download and print daily news summaries and other content. The problem was that the initial news source was American.
HP has now added Australian news and headlines through Yahoo!7 Daily Brief.
Leaving Facebook
Not the Diaspora—I didn’t convert to Judaism or emigrate anywhere. Instead, I accepted a coveted (by geeks) invitation to sign up for Diaspora, a decentralized, privacy-focused social network created by four New York University undergrads in response to what has been seen as Facebook’s focus on profits at the expense of users’ privacy.