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Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Ryan Kroonenburg.

After speaking with hundreds of UK technology leaders about cloud adoption, it is clear that cloud technology is transforming business models and improving cost-efficiency in the enterprise. Despite the positive results, IT leaders have also shared serious concerns. They usually sound something like this:

“The cloud is great. The support is mediocre at best.”
“I am not sure my cloud provider understands my business.”
“I spend thousands of pounds a month for cloud support, but I do not know what they do.”…

Grazed from EconomicTimes. Author: Editorial Staff.

As in almost every area of daily life, governance too is going digital in a big way. With the emergence and increasing ubiquity of cloud computing, this is set to increase in reach and pace as governments across the globe harness the very latest in information and communication technology to deliver its services to citizens quickly, conveniently, remotely and economically.

At the national, regional and local level, all governments and government agencies provide multiple services to its citizens across numerous facets of their lives – from identity cards to driving licences, passports, pensions and subsidies irrespective of whether they dwell in rural, suburban or urban locales of the country…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Sam Pudwell.

Cloud security is a hot topic if ever there was one, so it certainly didn’t slip through the cracks at Intel’s Focus 15 conference, with a talk led by Raj Samani, Chief Technology Officer for EMEA at Intel Security, raising some particularly interesting points. Anyone with even a slight interest in the technology industry will be aware of the hype that has surrounded cloud computing for some time now, but are the security implications really being taken seriously by organisations and, more importantly perhaps, are they fully understood?

Right at the beginning of the talk, Raj made the statement that, although it has been hyped up more than anything else, “to me, cloud computing is not a remarkable technology.” Putting whether you agree with that or not to one side, what is hard to disagree with is that, so far, it has in general been used for fairly unremarkable means…

Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2015/10/29/are-we-reaching-the-end-of-cloud-utopia/#ixzz3pxbtKHYd

Grazed from Mashable. Author: Andrew Freedman.

At first glance, IBM’s purchase all the digital assets of The Weather Company, except the broadcast network, might seem an odd fit. Why would a company best known for its consulting business, "Smart Cities" Initiative and Watson computing division want to absorb a company filled with weather and climate geeks? Clearly, it’s for the data.

Specifically, the company’s computer models that analyze three billion weather forecast reference points, more than 40 million smartphones and 50,000 airplane flights per day. IBM is hoping that weather and climate data will enable the company to expand its suite of predictive tools marketed to sectors ranging from retailers, which need to decide what to stock on their shelves, to local governments that have to determine whether to evacuate citizens ahead of a hurricane…

Grazed from CNNMoney. Author: Editorial Staff.

At Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) OpenWorld 2015, Thomas Kurian, Oracle President of Product Development, discussed new cloud services that show Oracle’s deep innovation across cloud applications, platform, and infrastructure services. Kurian also demonstrated several services on stage, showing how easily people can tap Oracle’s cloud services.

"Any person, anyplace in the world, with just a browser, can access our cloud and get access to all these amazing new product innovations we’ve delivered," Kurian said during his keynote Tuesday in San Francisco. Oracle’s cloud innovations span infrastructure, analytics, management, integration, database, and more…

Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.

Oracle’s executive chairman, Larry Ellison, spent a good deal of time talking about his long-time competitor, IBM, during his keynote speeches at his company’s tech conference this week in San Francisco. That’s not unusual. Ellison loves a bit of trash-talking and usually throws an entertaining barb or two at his rivals.

But this time, he’s been almost nostalgic about IBM, while also depicting IBM as a nobody when it comes to cloud computing. This is mostly on the basis of how often Oracle salespeople compete against IBM’s for a customer contract. During his two keynote speeches this week, he offered this backhanded complement:…

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Linux remains the go-to choice for the cloud, with 75 percent of enterprises reporting they use Linux as their primary cloud platform. Existing solutions often require a manual process to execute or are complex and expensive, which means the availability of many of these Linux servers is at risk.

Ravello Systems, the world’s leading nested virtualization company, announced today that LightCyber, a leading provider of Active Breach Detection solutions, is the latest cyber security company to use Ravello’s security sandboxing in the cloud. Ravello enables enterprises to simulate attacks on life-like user environments, but inside a secure capsule in the cloud.

Companies like LightCyber, Symantec (Hacker Academy) and SimSpace are among those using Ravello to push simulated security attacks to new levels. Using Ravello, LightCyber is able to employ a scalable system for sophisticated hacking simulations, helping organizations stay on top of the latest enterprise security threats.

Ravello’s nested virtualization and software-defined networking technology makes it easy to recreate entire data centers with existing virtual appliances on leading public clouds such as AWS and Google, complete with data-center-like networking. One of the emerging use cases for this technology is security testing in a real-world setting in the cloud — at a fraction of the cost of dedicated hardware.

HyTrust Inc., the Cloud Security Automation Company, has just been recognized as “Most Innovative” in the cloud category at Intel Security Focus 2015 in Las Vegas, NV, as part of its “Partner of the Year” awards. This recognition comes on the heels of HyTrust winning the “Best of VMworld” award in September for Security, Compliance and Virtualization.

“HyTrust is honored to be recognized for our innovations enabling organizations to virtualize and adopt cloud while meeting their security and compliance requirements,” said President and Co-Founder, Eric Chiu. “We know as well as anyone the challenges associated with securing cloud and virtualized infrastructures, and our goal is to continue to build on the trust we’ve established with Intel, its partners, and most of all our customers.”

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