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Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Jim Duffy.

Linux network operating system vendor Cumulus Networks this week named a new CEO while its current CEO and co-founder takes over as CTO. Josh Leslie, formerly Cumulus vice president of sales, takes over for founder JR Rivers. Rivers becomes CTO, and says transition was his idea with board approval.

Current CTO and co-founder Nolan Leake will still be involved in the company’s technical direction, working with Rivers, Rivers said. Leslie is an 18-year veteran of the technology industry. He was vice president of sales at Cumulus for less than a year but is credited by the company for doubling the Cumulus customer base and expanding its footprint within the Fortune 100…

Grazed from BiometricUpdate. Author: Rawlson King.

Cloud computing provides many benefits including ease of use, time savings, security, convenience, versatility, and scalability. For these reasons, cloud computing has become an emerging offering in the biometrics industry, and according to Frank Barret, Director of Cloud Services at MorphoTrak, LLC, it enables a new service paradigm known as “identification-as-a-service.”

MorphoTrak has developed its own identification-as-a-service solution entitled Morpho Cloud. Barret describes the service as a secure and flexible offering for the public security market that incorporates multi-biometric modalities such as friction ridge biometrics, facial biometrics, and iris recognition…

Grazed from GoCertify. Author: Tim Warner.

Information technology has never moved faster. With the widespread adoption of virtualization, cloud computing, and the DevOps methodology, it’s far too easy to let technical skills get old. If that happens, then you’re on your way to making yourself obsolete in today’s job market.

Today I’ll share with you five core skills that I feel any IT professional needs to have in his or her proverbial toolbelt. I’m using the term "IT professional” to embrace anyone whose full-time job role exists within the realm of information technology. Here are some representative titles:…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Natalie Gagliordi.

Small business domain host GoDaddy is entering the cloud business. On Monday, the Arizona-based company announced the launch of Cloud Servers and Cloud Applications — a suite of Amazon-style cloud computing services that enables small businesses to build, test and scale cloud solutions on GoDaddy’s infrastructure.

The service is aimed at smaller businesses making at least a partial move to the cloud. More specifically, this new toolset is geared toward the individual developers who work for small businesses as they look to spin up raw virtual machines to run software. "We’re looking to make it easy for developers to serve small businesses with the technology they want," said Jeff King, SVP and GM hosting and security at GoDaddy…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Dan Kobialka.

Experience plays an important role in a developer’s decision to create cloud applications, according to a study of more than 13,500 developers conducted by market analysis firm VisionMobile. The VisionMobile "Cloud and Desktop Developer Landscape" study, released last month, indicated experienced developers are more likely to create cloud apps than others, and almost half of cloud developers who are contracting earn more than $2,000 a month.

Other study results included:

• Lowering build times (64 percent) was the top reason that cloud developers said they used application programming interfaces (APIs).
• Over 95 percent of cloud developers said they use a developer program.
• 54 percent of developers are hosting their own cloud servers and prefer to control the development platform they are using.
• 49 percent of developers are utilizing both cloud and desktop apps.
• 31 percent of cloud developers using public clouds are leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) as their development platform…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-research/why-are-developers-considering-cloud

The stored XSS flaws in vRealize only affect some versions, but could lead to the compromise of user workstations

VMware has patched two cross-site scripting issues this week in several editions of the company’s vRealize software.  The flaws reportedly could be exploited in stored XSS attacks and lead to remote code execution and the compromise of business workstations.  

A VMware security advisory was posted on Tuesday, citing issues with Linux versions of VMware vRealize Automation 6.x prior to 6.2.4, and VMware vRealize Business Advanced and Enterprise 8.x prior to 8.2.5.

Linux users operating affected versions are urged to patch their environments as soon as possible to address the problem.  According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the vulnerability could allow "remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors."

“Selecting SoftNAS has enabled us to expand our storage to the cloud, giving us greater flexibility, agility and resiliency. We are shifting more of our processes to the cloud and are quickly able to provision and manage storage. In addition, we do not have to deal with storage limitations and downtime which has contributed to a hassle-free experience,” stated Keith Son, Director of Infrastructure, iNDEMAND.

Technology has developed at an astounding rate in the last decade, so it is no great surprise that businesses are beginning to recognize the benefits of cloud software. Software can be used to automate business processes and streamline HR management. However, choosing the right system is important.

Important Questions to Ask

There are many things a business needs to consider before investing in HR software, cloud based or otherwise. Functionality is important, especially if a wide range of different employees will be accessing the system. Budget will no doubt be a key consideration for businesses with a keen eye on the bottom line. You should also consider how long it will take to implement the software, and whether training is included as part of the package.

Grazed from MovieTechGeeks.  Author: Marius Maronilla.

Nothing lasts forever. Not even Microsoft Windows. Microsoft has been shoving Windows 10 up our behinds for a while now, but even they know that someday, they’ll have to go back to the drawing board and come up with something new. Wintel PC sales continue to slide among consumers. Cloud computing is on the rise for businesses and enterprise software that can run on browsers continue to increase enabling users to choose their platform.

Microsoft recently announced SQL Server for Linux. Microsoft Office has versions for Macs, iOS, and Android. Office versions can be run on Linux through Wine, and enterprise software can now be run through browsers or remote software across platforms. Plus, Microsoft saying that Windows 10 is the last version of Windows somehow paints an ominous picture for Windows fans…

Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.

If you don’t like the current cloud landscape (cloudscape?), wait a minute. It’ll change. Take this week as an example. First, news dropped that Dropbox, which had long used Amazon Web Services to store most of its digital stuff, acknowledged that it had moved most of that (90%) to its own infrastructure. The migration, which has taken more than two years, was previously reported but wasn’t confirmed by Amazon AMZN -1.46% nor Dropbox until now.

For those who don’t follow this space, a public cloud is a huge pool of shared servers, storage, and networking owned and managed by one provider—Amazon, Microsoft MSFT -1.50% , and Google GOOG -0.12% are the big three. Those providers, in turn, rent that capacity to customers ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies…

Read more from the source @ http://fortune.com/2016/03/18/cloud-computing-busy-week/