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Grazed from CBR. Author: Editorial Staff.

Huawei and Telefonica are collaborating on a global scale to promote migration to the cloud. The two companies will work together to help businesses to migrate their servers to the cloud, using Telefonica’s data centres for computing, storage and backup services. The services are being made available without infrastructure investment and on a pay-per-use basis.

Huawei’s role in the partnership will see it deploy Telefonica’s Open Cloud service, which is based on OpenStack, in eight of its partner’s data centres. Telefonica will tap into Huawei’s knowledge in the public cloud market in China. The collaborative services will be rolled out firstly in Brazil, Mexico and China during the first quarter of 2016, with five additional locations later in the year.

Grazed from Computing. Author: Peter Gothard.

The average company in Europe is running 987 cloud services, with the vast majority coming under the heading of shadow IT. So says director of EMEA marketing at Skyhigh Networks, Nigel Hawthorn, after presenting the results of a survey carried out by his company today. Speaking at Computing’s Enterprise Security and Risk Management 2015 conference, Hawthorn asserted that "the number[s] of sanctioned IT is enormously outweighed by shadow IT".

"For these, the first thing you need to do is ask ‘What’s going on?’," he said. Describing the survey, Hawthorn said: "It’s not asking people for their opinion, it’s finding out how much traffic is coming at [companies] from around Europe over six-month periods." Hawthorn said the cloud services being installed by end users are "not consumer – these are corporate", but many continue sending and receiving data over the weekend outside office hours. "How are you managing your risks 24/7?" he asked delegates…

Read more from the source @ http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2436738/your-company-is-running-987-cloud-services-and-you-dont-know-about-most-of-them

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Jennifer Klostermann.

Amazon has just launched its fourth renewable energy program, increasing its data centers’ use of green power thanks to a new wind farm to be built in rural Paulding County, Ohio. Starting in May 2017, this green plant will generate 320,000-megawatt hours of electricity yearly, specifically to provide power to Amazon’s cloud data centers. But investment in green technology isn’t the only way IT giants are promoting a greener world – the Cloud and Big Data are making their own meaningful impact.

Cloud as a Green Solution

1) Pay for Use: Cloud infrastructure is typically pay-as-you-go, encouraging users to consume only what they need and turn off resources not in operation. This encourages both energy and resource efficiency as users only consume what they need…

Grazed from EconoTimes. Author: Jungwoo Ryoo.

You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit asking if you’ve just made a purchase at a department store in your city. It wasn’t you who bought expensive electronics using your credit card – in fact, it’s been in your pocket all afternoon. So how did the bank know to flag this single purchase as most likely fraudulent?

Credit card companies have a vested interest in identifying financial transactions that are illegitimate and criminal in nature. The stakes are high. According to the Federal Reserve Payments Study, Americans used credit cards to pay for 26.2 billion purchases in 2012. The estimated loss due to unauthorized transactions that year was US$6.1 billion…

Grazed from CIO-Today. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

The next evolution of VCE’s Vblock System has emerged with a little help from Cisco. This version integrates the networking giant’s Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, or ACI, to help developers build secure, flexible data centers that can adapt more rapidly — and with less effort — to business and app requirements as they change.

That sounds like a tall order but it’s the potential fruit that the partnership between Cisco and VCE could deliver by tapping into software-defined innovations to drive operational efficiencies. The proposed endgame: to help customers be more successful in a competitive cloud era…

Grazed from CloudWards. Author: Ritika Tiwari.

According to a research done by CompTIA, more than 90 percent of businesses are now using cloud technology. Another research paper done by IBM reveals that by the end of 2015, half of the world’s video games will be played on the cloud. While most of the businesses are moving towards the cloud mainly to cut costs, there are certain companies which are trying to bring something new to the table with the help of cloud technology.

In fact, “The Power of Cloud,” an IBM Institute of Business Value, found in a survey that 16 percent of organizations are using cloud tech to innovate and come up with something new. Cloud technology has undoubtedly become a major part of the IT industry today and more and more companies are embracing it. Yes, there are concerns about:..

Read more from the source @ http://www.cloudwards.net/cloud-computing-services/

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Alan R. Earls.

Each year, a new crop of startups enters the ever-active cloud computing market. Given the tough competition, most won’t go far. But some of these cloud computing startups will thrive, prosper and maybe even go on to change the technology landscape. The odds seem good that in 2016 we’ll see some new cloud vendors begin to have a real impact — and perhaps enough market traction for IT decision makers to take a closer look. Here are five cloud computing startups that caught analysts’ attention this year, and are worth following in 2016.

Velostrata

Colm Keegan, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), an analyst firm in Milford, Mass., says his organization has been focusing on how traditional businesses are incorporating cloud and how those spending decisions will flow through the industry…

Read more from the source @ http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/tip/Five-cloud-computing-startups-to-watch-heading-into-2016

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

It’s that time of year again when we give thanks. We can be thankful for at least three aspects of cloud computing — and think about a few others.

1. Be thankful there have been no major cloud data breaches

Knock on wood, right? All the major hacks — including Sony Pictures, Home Depot, and Target — didn’t involve cloud computing. The ability to secure the cloud depends on how much effort goes into designing the right security and using the right technology. Fortunately, we can maintain high security levels in the cloud. By contrast, traditional systems — especially as they age — are easier targets…

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: David Roe.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the launch of a new security strategy for the entire Microsoft portfolio on Nov. 17. Except Nadella didn’t call it a strategy — he called it a "posture." In practical terms we’ll assume there isn’t much difference between the two. Nadella said that security will no longer be an afterthought in product design, but rather a core consideration.

Same As It Ever Was?

Security is top of mind for Microsoft as it develops business around cloud products like Azure and Office 365. But does this announcement herald a new era for Microsoft’s approach to security? According to Garrett A. Bekker III, senior analyst for Information Security with 451 Research, the objectives may be different, but the way Microsoft is going about it is not…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cmswire.com/information-management/whats-behind-microsofts-security-moves/

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, today announced that it has been named one of 15 cool cloud companies by CRN: http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300078842/15-cool-cloud-companies-and-their-even-cooler-products.htm. This is the eighth major accolade Platform9 has received since launching in 2014.

"There’s a wave of innovative companies launching products that are reshaping the way business customers interact with and take advantage of their public and private cloud environments," said Joseph Tsidulko, a senior editor at CRN. "They’re making clouds more manageable, agile, visible, affordable, insightful and secure — and easier to adopt."…