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Grazed from ScienceAlert. Author: Editorial Staff.

The cloud has a wealth of sensitive information floating through it – both from individuals and corporations. One critically important, and lucrative, field of work is making sure all that information is kept safe and secure. That’s why we’ve teamed up with StackCommerce to bring you the Cloud Technology Security Knowledge (CCSK) Certification Prep course.

With 12 modules and 9.5 hours of content, you’ll start with the basics of cloud computing, before diving into cloud security. Learn governance and risk management, cloud architectural framework and disaster recovery. The course also gets you prepped for the Cloud Security Alliance CCSK certification exam. Right now, the course is only US$27, and best of all, you can take the whole course from your couch…

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Grazed from Cloudwards. Author: Lavanya Rathnam.

Cloud computing is everywhere today. A majority of businesses, from startups to large corporations, use it in some capacity or another for streamlining their existing processes, data storage, application deployment, hosting, backup and anything else you can think of.  But what exactly is the cloud? Why is it such an integral part of business operations today? The U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology explains that cloud is a model that provides an on-demand access to a shared pool of computing resources. These resources are configurable and can be set up and used with minimal effort.

Benefits of Moving to the Cloud

Put it simply, cloud represents an evolution in IT that guarantees measurable benefits to users and this is why it’s becoming a central aspect in today’s business world. For an idea of its applications as well as those measurable benefits, check out our 30 app ideas for small business article or keep reading…

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Grazed from 1RedDrop. Author: Shudeep Chandraskehar.

The cloud computing wars and the race to add the next client have become so intense that it has reached a stage where tech leaders are taking potshots at each other. Oracle and Amazon have always been at each other’s throats, touting their own excellence and highlighting the other’s failures, and Google’s Diane Greene also took a thinly veiled dig at other cloud service providers at the company’s Cloud Next conference two months ago.

But if you cut through the sound bites and look at what is actually happening, then it will become clear to you that the intensity of the competition is possibly starting to strain a few nerves; more importantly, however, there is a subtle but recognizable shift in the focus areas of the top cloud service providers…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

The cloud is a central pillar of Cisco’s overall business efforts and one of the leading voices for Cloud at Cisco is Lew Tucker, Vice President and CTO of Cloud Computing. Tucker also serves as the Vice-Chairman of the OpenStack Foundation, helping to guide the open-source cloud platform forward.

In a video interview with eWEEK at the OpenStack Summit here, Tucker provides insight into where the cloud fits into Cisco’s overall business and why OpenStack matters. Tucker said that Cisco’s model around cloud is about how to increasingly move services into the cloud. Tucker specifically is focussed on the cloud platform piece of the business which involves OpenStack as well as container usage…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Editorial Staff.

Michael Dell said his company is seeing some customers return to buying equipment after discovering that working with the giant cloud-computing providers is more complicated and costlier than they thought. Hardware from Dell Technologies Inc. is getting a second look from companies finding that outsourcing their computing needs to the public cloud—big providers such as Amazon.com Inc., and Microsoft Corp.—can be twice as expensive or more as running it themselves, Dell said Monday.

While he didn’t provide specifics, Dell added "it’s not small numbers; it’s large numbers." "We’re not saying public cloud is not going to happen or it’s not going to grow—it is. It’s just not perfect for all workloads. And everything is not going to go to the public cloud," said Dell, who had earlier referred to the phenomenon as sort of a "boomerang" effect…

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Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing is no longer just a means for upstarts to disrupt incumbents while avoiding the complexities and costs of operating traditional IT infrastructures. If anything, the concepts of cloud computing – elasticity, pay-as-you-go consumption model and speed of deployment – have defined how IT should be run in any organization today.

In this e-guide, read about the market potential for public cloud services in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, Oracle’s plans to meet the cloud computing needs of APAC enterprises and how perennial concerns around cloud security are being addressed by the industry…

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Grazed from OpenStack. Author: Editorial Staff.

SUSE® today unveiled SUSE OpenStack Cloud Monitoring, an open source software solution that makes it simple to monitor and manage the health and performance of enterprise OpenStack cloud environments and workloads. Based on the OpenStack Monasca project, SUSE OpenStack Cloud Monitoring makes it easy for operators and users to monitor and analyze the health and performance of complex private clouds, delivers reliability, performance and high service levels for OpenStack clouds, and reduces costs by simplifying, automating and preconfiguring cloud monitoring and management.

“OpenStack deployments produce a lot of complex and useful monitoring and log data,” said Michael Miller, SUSE president of Strategy, Alliances and Marketing. “As customers move to large-scale production they need operational tools to maintain their private cloud. The Monasca open source project makes this data manageable and valuable for enterprise users…

Grazed from Blue Medora

Blue Medora today announced its True Visibility Suite is now one of the first third-party products available as part of the VMware vCloud Air Network Program. This program is a VMware Partner Network Program with a global ecosystem of more than 4,000 cloud providers offering validated services based on VMware technology in over 115 countries. 

The Blue Medora True Visibility Suite unifies VMware hybrid cloud environments by aggregating thousands of IT operations data points from across a heterogenous stack into VMware’s cloud management platforms. Once inside the platform the data can be accessed by machine learning and predictive analytics engines that enable IT operations teams to troubleshoot performance and availability issues up to 50% faster.