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Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Editorial Staff.

The great cloud migration has begun in earnest. 2014 was a pivotal year when the clients of MSPs started pushing back and demanding cloud computing solutions over on-premise capital expenditures. It’s simply not enough to be an MSP or VAR and sell only servers, storage and hardware upgrades. These days, business owners know a great deal about the cloud offerings available. Additionally, the early fears of cloud security are being diminished by the countless success stories and case studies of big name companies moving to the cloud.

MSPs have a few options–more SaaS solutions or delaying the inevitable replacement of on-premise infrastructure with cloud infrastructure. Sure, email and CRM migrations to the cloud were painful, and many MSPs experienced margin loss. However, today, in 2015, most of those projects are viewed as a success…

Grazed from NYT. Author: Quentin Hardy.

Many in the tech community expressed dismay at a Supreme Court decision on Monday not to hear the appeal of a copyright decision against Google. But it could be years before lower courts provide clarity around an important component of big software systems, called Application Programming Interfaces.

Google had asked the Supreme Court to revisit a 2014 federal appeals court decision that A.P.I.s in the Java programming language owned by Oracle, used by Google to create the Android smartphone operating system, are entitled to copyright protection. In that ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth District reversed a 2012 decision by Federal District Court in San Francisco, which had concluded that the software in question was not subject to copyright…

Read more from the source @ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-appeal-in-google-oracle-copyright-fight/?_r=0

 Grazed from Bloomberg.   Author: Dina Bass.

Microsoft Corp. is getting out of Web display advertising, with AOL Inc. taking over the business and letting the software maker focus on mobile and cloud computing.  AOL will use Microsoft’s Bing Internet search engine instead of Google Inc. as part of the 10-year deal, the companies said in a statement Monday. Microsoft also said it’s expanding an ad partnership with AppNexus Inc., an online marketing company.

AOL will hire about 1,200 Microsoft workers in display ad sales, marketing and engineering, according to Gerasimos Manolatos, a spokesman for AOL. AppNexus will take other Microsoft employees. Some remaining employees will be offered other jobs at Microsoft, said a person with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because specific details of the deal haven’t been announced…

Grazed from TechRepublic.  Author: Brian Taylor.

Grazed from CDN.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author:  Mike Vizard.

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Arthur Cole.

The lifecycle of any given technological innovation follows a fairly standard path: proposal, development, deployment and then either success or failure based on cost, efficacy, execution or a number of other factors. With the cloud, however, we seem to be diverging from this pattern, or at the very least the process is being drawn out due to the radical and fundamental way it affects the entire data stack, and indeed the entire business model.

The private cloud in particular seems to be caught in a no-man’s land of doubt/certainty, confusion/clarity, and ongoing debate between those who support it to the nines and those who chalk it up to so much wishful thinking. On any given day, a web search of the terms “private cloud” can produce the following results:…

Read more from the source @ http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/infrastructure/shifting-the-cloud-debate-to-a-higher-plane.html

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Katherine Noyes.

Continuing its effort to catch up in the cloud, Oracle unveiled a new software-as-a-service product aimed at e-commerce providers. Oracle’s new Commerce Cloud is designed to help online businesses launch feature-rich storefronts across desktop and mobile devices in a matter of weeks.

Offered as part of the database giant’s Customer Experience (CX) applications portfolio, the tool includes pre-integrated commerce features such as search and navigation, recommendations, promotions, reporting, payments, design templates and SEO, the company said Monday. Catalog, content, design and merchandising management features can all be found in a unified console…

Grazed from ProgrammableWeb. Author: Michael Vizard.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) consortium today announced it has formed a working group spearheaded by CipherCloud, Deloitte, Infosys, Intel and SAP to define best practices and industry standards that ensure API interoperability across data protection and security services delivered via the cloud.

Still in the formative stages, the Cloud Security Open API Working Group will focus on defining a common set of APIs that will be used to create a set of cloud-independent description schema for phone numbers, names, email addresses, etc.; a set of classification schema to define data sensitivity levels; standard specifications of control actions for encryption, masking and data residency; and a specification of monitoring characteristics of cloud applications, says Chenxi Wang, vice president of cloud security and strategy at CipherCloud…

Grazed from TrendMicro. Author: Chris Taylor.

Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way we do business, for the better. The software-as-a-service industry alone has matured at an astonishing rate over the past few years to the point where it’s no longer only those risk-taking early adopters signing up – businesses of all shapes and sizes are jumping on board. But while the benefits of taking that cloud journey are familiar to us all, so are the risks.

And top of those risks, the number one barrier in the eyes of U.S. businesses, is security. That’s why, as of June 25, we’re delighted to announce the general availability of Trend Micro™ Cloud App Security – a comprehensive new security suite offering advanced threat protection and DLP for all your favorite Microsoft Office 365 applications…