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Grazed from Fortune.  Author: Barb Darrow.

As the enterprise software giant pumps up its cloud resume, it appears to be cutting back on Java evangelists. Not that it’s acknowledging that.  It looks like Oracle is paring back its Java team. There were reports last week on Twitter and Reddit, picked up by Infoworld, that top Java evangelists have left the database giant.

Cameron Purdy, a senior vice president for development and a noted Java evangelist, left Oracle  ORCL -1.71%  in August after more than 8 years at the company, according to his LinkedIn bio.  In a few tweets, he indicated that this was Oracle’s decision:…

Read more from the source @ http://fortune.com/2015/09/07/oracle-cuts-java-execs/

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Stephen Lawson.

The cloud is where the action is in enterprise storage.  Sales are way up for little-known manufacturers that sell directly to big cloud companies like Google and Facebook, while the market for traditional external storage systems is shrinking, according to research company IDC.

Internet giants and service providers typically don’t use specialized storage platforms in their sprawling data centers. Instead, they buy vast amounts of capacity in the form of generic hardware that’s controlled by software. As users flock to cloud-based services, that’s a growing business…

Grazed from WhaTech.  Author: Divya Bourse.

Cloud IBN, a leading provider of open source solutions, speaks about the next generation cloud based platform as a service. Budget, no. of employees or size of your service can not limit your enterprise growth when you are using a broadly deployed Platform as a Service (PaaS). Developers can build new services or applications in the cloud, which can run on any platform, and also can be made available to the end users through internet.

PaaS also provides some additional tools for hosting, testing, maintaining and collaborating applications. These key driving factors of PaaS market accelerates the application development process and offers scalability, easy deployment, agility, limited need for expertise, reduced cost and less development time…

Grazed from BusinessSolutions.  Author: Christine Kern.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has released a best practices guide designed to help Defense Department (DoD) “cloud mission owners” migrate to the cloud. The guide follows the release of three other documents in July regarding cloud computing security requirements.

The “Best Practices Guide for Department of Defense Cloud Mission Owners” is intended to smooth the way for cloud migration among the Department of Defense’s many layers, in response to changes last winter…

Grazed EEHerald.  Author: Editorial Staff.

ARM Cortex processor-based chips are leading in the market compared to other proprietary processor cores in the IOT applications space. There are lot of microcontroller vendors and also SOC chip vendors designing IOT specific Ics using ARM Cortex processor cores. ARM is helping IOT developers with a software/operating system platform called ‘mbed’.

While this is about the edge node, what is really required in a IOT environment is, a powerful cloud computing platform to process the data coming from multiple IOT nodes. Now ARM Cortex based product developers can have one of the best cloud systems from IBM.   IBM has expanded its Internet of Things (IoT) platform – called IBM IoT Foundation to provide out of the box connectivity with ARM mbed-enabled devices to analytics services…

Grazed from DavisVanguard.org.  Author: Anupam Chander.

My parents grew up in a pen and paper world, where most of their writings and records were kept at home, in their offices, or with close confidantes. I grew up in a world of computers, but even my writings were mostly kept at home on hard drives and floppy disks (for today’s students, many of whom have never seen a floppy disk, a history of the floppy disk). My first writings were kept, astonishingly, on a cassette recorder, which stored what I typed on my TRS-80, a computer made by Radio Shack. That computer had a total memory of 16K, roughly 16,000 characters (not even words) of text.

My children are growing up in the cloud, where their writings and their records are being stored in remote computers. Because those computers are managed by Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, and their peers, their writings are far more secure than I ever managed when I stored my files on a floppy or a hard drive, both of which failed with remarkable regularity and maximally devastating timing…

Grazed from Tech.Co.  Author: Rick Delgado.

ud computing has significantly transformed the way businesses operate. One only needs to see the explosion in the number of companies adopting Cloud solutions to see that many organizations understand its many benefits. As companies become more familiar with the Cloud, they also begin to come up with unique ideas for how to utilize it. However it happens, innovative ideas are set to be unleashed upon the public. These interesting Cloud business ideas proposed by businesses have plenty of potential. Here are just a few that have captured people’s attention.

1. GunDetect

Gun safety is on the minds of many people these days, so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that some companies are hoping to use technology to prevent gunshot injuries and fatalities. GunDetect is one such business idea that looks to use a Cloud-based device to detect when a gun enters the home. The idea is that the camera used on the device will take an image, encrypt it, send it to the cloud, and determine if it is a gun or not…

Grazed from ChannelPartners.  Author: Lorna Garey.

As back-to-school shopping levels off, your retailer customers’ thoughts inevitably turn to the holiday season. If your base includes local chains or specialty shops, check out this article by Evan Schuman on the best way for bricks-and-mortar stores to take on Amazon. TL;DR version: Exploit its two weak spots, delivery and live customer experience.

Security is also on consumers’ minds, and retail is one of the verticals we’re discussing in our Cloud Partners session titled “The Cloud Specialists Are In."  Verizon’s chief security evangelist, Mark Rasch, will join a panel of your peers, moderated by me, to discuss the challenges around PCI and much more…

Grazed from Yibada.  Author: Editorial Staff.

To create a quantum computer that processes data at tremendous speeds–trillions of times quicker than the world’s fastest computer, China’s supercomputer Tianhe-2–is the target of a prospective game-changing scheme introduced by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

If the venture becomes successful, the effect of having a China-based lightning-speed computer could make all modern technological developments worldwide during the past 50 years look like baby steps.  Researchers at tech firms, such as Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp. and Google Inc., as well as governments around the globe, have invested on quantum computer technology in recent years…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Daniel Robinson.

The topics of debate at the OpenStack Silicon Valley conference at the end of August were not restricted to new features and capabilities under development for the cloud computing framework, but extended to discussions about what direction the project should take in the future, often with diametrically opposing views.

Does this mean that the cracks are starting to show in the OpenStack community? Or is this all simply a sign that OpenStack has now become such a key technology to many companies that its future direction is a matter of great import?  OpenStack may have started as a collaborative project between Nasa and Rackspace to emulate Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, but as an open platform for building cloud infrastructure. However, it has since mushroomed into a kind of overarching umbrella project for all kinds of open source solutions covering software-defined storage, big data analytics, software-defined networking and more…