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Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Andrew Conry Murray.

Mobility and cloud computing are transforming application delivery and development. IT has to keep up with these transformations to ensure that end users and customers have a good experience regardless of where the application runs. At the same time, IT is responsible for security, governance, compliance and the reams and reams of data these applications consume and generate. Interop’s Applications track helps IT meet this tall order with a mix of real-world case studies and in-depth workshops and tech sessions. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find.

Transforming Data Into Information And Knowledge

This workshop delves into data analytics and how it can be applied to change the way work is planned, accomplished and improved. The workshop looks at industry examples, including healthcare, to show how raw data can be transformed into actionable information. It will also provide an overview of the different data analytics technologies available, and share tips on how to get a data analytics project off the ground…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Dan Kobialka.

Cloud security compliance (CSC) company Cloud Raxak today has launched Cloud Raxak Protect, a cloud-based service that enables users to "secure and ensure compliance of their compute infrastructures, starting with their environment provisioning process and through the lifecycle, for both public and private clouds."

Cloud Raxak Protect provides hybrid cloud service management for businesses, according to Cloud Raxak. It leverages the Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) Cloud Service Automation (CSA) solution, Cloud Raxak said, to help companies reduce their hybrid cloud service management costs and simplify audits…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-security/04202015/cloud-raxak-unveils-cloud-security-compliance-solution

Grazed from CIO. Author: Bob Violino.

Open-source cloud computing offers compelling potential—cost savings, innovation, low barriers to software deployment, avoiding vendor lock-in and a broad community of support, to name a few. Despite this, CIOs and IT executives still have misconceptions about the challenges surrounding open-source cloud technologies, such as a perceived lack of security or the potential inability to handle business-critical

We’re here to address these perceptions in a five-part series to show that these myths are just that: misconceptions about open-source cloud. First up, the lack of security. The idea here is that there’s inadequate security with cloud computing in general. For several years, concerns about security have kept a large number of organizations from moving data and workloads to the cloud, particularly public cloud services.applications…

Grazed from WindowsITPro. Author: Vic Nyman.

Enterprise computing now occupies a new space called the “Hybrid Datacenter.” As organizations work to achieve the promises of cloud computing while retaining the benefits of on-premises deployments, they are increasingly operating in a new, highly heterogeneous environment that creates new challenges, including application service delivery. Application service delivery in the Hybrid Datacenter is one of the biggest challenges that IT Operations teams will need to meet for their organizations to be successful.

I like to start with a basic premise: IT organizations exist to deliver application services. Every business and organization is now highly dependent on applications. Whether it’s consumer applications for banking, scheduling, buying airline tickets, or coordinating youth sports team schedules, or business applications for HR, ordering, or production management; organizations of all sizes today rely on applications to function…

Grazed from NYTimes. Author: Quentin Hardy.

About 10 years ago, Aaron Levie dropped out of college to start a Silicon Valley company called Box. Before long, he was one of those young technology wizards of whom great things were expected. Mr. Levie faced hurdles and some fitful progress but ultimately reached the point many entrepreneurs only dream of: Box conducted an initial public offering in January, but had already raised more than $500 million privately.

It employs 1,200 people and is considered on the cutting edge of a new generation of companies that provide services to big business customers over cloud-computing systems. Now comes the hard part — survival. Box today is worth $2.1 billion, but losses are continuing to add up while revenue is not growing enough to suit Wall Street’s tastes…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Bruce Upbin.

A group of Columbia University security researchers have uncovered a new and insidious way for a hacker to spy on a computer, Web app or virtual machine running in the cloud without being detected. Any computer running a late-model Intel microprocessor and a Web browser using HTML5 (i.e., 80% of all PCs in the world) is vulnerable to this attack.

The exploit, which the researchers are calling “the spy in the sandbox,” requires little in the way of cost or time on the part of the attacker; there’s nothing to install and no need to break into hardened systems. All a hacker has to do is lure a victim to an untrusted web page with content controlled by the attacker…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Leon Spencer.

Optus Business customers will have access to Microsoft Azure-enabled cloud services, with the Australian telco becoming a partner of Microsoft’s Cloud OS Network. The Singtel subsidiary claimed on Monday that the partnership would see it become the first Australian network service provider to partner locally with Microsoft for its Cloud OS Network, which claims Rackspace and Cisco among its global partners.

The software giant announced its Cloud OS Network in late 2013, when it formalised an initial 25 partnerships with cloud service providers globally, including Aruba, Fujitsu, Lenovo, and Optus Singapore-based parent company Singtel. "Through this partnership with Microsoft, Optus can now deliver solutions based on the Microsoft Cloud Platform designed to meet enterprise customers’ hybrid computing needs," said Microsoft Australia managing director Pip Marlow…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Doug Cameron.

Raytheon Co. is betting it can leverage the cybersecurity skills it honed for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies to sell to banks and retailers, investing almost $1.7 billion to establish a stand-alone business in an area where its defense peers have struggled to make money.

The company on Monday said it would buy control of Websense Inc. from private-equity firm Vista Partners LLC. Raytheon said Austin, Texas-based Websense, which has 21,000 data-security clients, half of them overseas, will form the core of a new cyber joint venture with forecast sales of $500 million this year and margins of around 20%…

Grazed from ITNews. Author: Juha Searinen.

Google will start charging for data transfers between regions and continents from July this year, bucking a recent trend that has seen cloud storage providers slash their pricing. Starting July 15, data transferred between buckets (the basic containers that hold all customer data) located on the same continent but in different regions will cost US$0.01 per gigabyte.

Buckets located in different continents will also be subject to data egress rates from July. Customers in Australian Google Cloud Storage regions will pay substantially higher egress rates compared to their American, Asian and European counterparts: a monthly volume of up to one terabyte costs US$0.19/GB (A$0.24) in Australia, but only US$0.12/GB elsewhere…

Grazed from SeaCoastOnline.  Author: MJ Shoer.

Moving business systems to the Cloud offers a lot of positives for most businesses. However, there are risks that need to be clearly understood so you don’t accidentally make your IT infrastructure more complicated to secure.As more businesses fall under some form of regulation, federal, state or local, you have to be aware of compliance requirements.

You also have to be prepared for audits, especially the unexpected kind. What I’m talking about here are not financial audits, but regulatory audits where officials come to your business and review your security policies and practices, specifically as they relate to how your team accesses your various systems and your ability to continue operations should those systems become unavailable. In the current climate, this is mostly focused on business with some form of consumer business as opposed to businesses that solely do business with other businesses, but expect that to change…