Category: News

Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Rebecca Borison.

For the first time in Golden Globes history, an online streaming service took home an award, sidestepping the old media giants. Amazon’s (AMZN) original show Transparent snagged the "Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical" award, with its star Jeffrey Tambor also taking home the "Best Actor in a TV Comedy" award.

Amazon has been producing original content out of Amazon Studios since 2010, but yesterday marked the first time that it actually emerged as a true contender in TV and film. After backing Studios with more than $100 million in the third quarter of this year, Amazon has been going at the original content space at full throttle, and yesterday’s win signals that we can only expect bigger and better things in the future…

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

Amazon has made available new C4 virtual machine instances on its Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud platform, designed to offer a higher level of processor performance for customers with demanding workloads. First announced last year, the new C4 instances are being delivered from infrastructure based on a custom version of Intel’s latest Xeon E5 v3 processors, created specifically to meet the requirements of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, according to AWS.

The new instances are available from today in seven AWS regions covering the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the firm said, with charges starting at $0.116 per hour for the smallest c4.large instance with two virtual processor cores (vCPUs) and 3.75GB of memory. This scales up to 36 vCPUs on the c4.8xlarge instance with 60GB memory, which is charged at $1.856 per hour…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

BrightLine CPAs & Associates, Inc., a leading provider of cloud computing compliance and attestation reporting services, will be a sponsor and exhibitor at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit. The event, scheduled for January 14-15, will take place at the Marriott Metro Center in Washington, D.C. BrightLine professionals will be on-hand to discuss compliance initiatives, including FedRAMP and FISMA as well as complementary assessment programs such as SSAE 16, SOC 2/3, ISO, PCI, and the Cloud Security Alliance STAR Certification and Attestation programs.

The Federal Cloud Computing Summit provides Federal Government and private sector technology subject matter experts an opportunity to discuss the latest tools, trends and strategies driving the adoption of mobile, cloud, virtualization and big data technologies throughout the government. The sessions provide collaboration and learning through panel discussions, round table discussions, breakout sessions and a showcase featuring demonstrations of cutting-edge technology and professional services.

Grazed from ABCNews. Author: Julie Pace.

President Barack Obama wants Congress to pass legislation requiring companies to inform customers within 30 days if their data has been hacked, a move that follows high-profile breaches at retailers including Target, Home Depot and Neiman Marcus. A White House official said Obama will announce the proposed legislation Monday, along with a measure aimed at preventing companies from selling student data to third parties and from using information collected in school to engage in targeted advertising.

Obama’s proposals are part of a White House effort to preview components of the president’s State of the Union address in the lead-up to the Jan. 20 speech. The official, who insisted on anonymity, was not authorized to discuss the proposed legislation by name ahead of Obama’s speech at the Federal Trade Commission…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

Over the weekend, Verizon’s cloud service, Verizon Cloud, was offline as it looked to add ‘seamless upgrade functionality as well as other customer-facing updates.’ The maintenance period was put in to improve the service and to ensure further updates went ahead without any hitches to customers.

The telco giant warned the fixes could take up to 48 hours, but was completed after 40, with Verizon taking the bizarre step of issuing a press release to announce the work had been done. “The seamless upgrade functionality allows Verizon to conduct major system upgrades without interrupting service or limiting infrastructure capacity,” the release states. “Traditionally, updates have been made via rolling maintenance and other methods…

Grazed from DevNetwork.  Author: Event Announcement.

DeveloperWeek 2015 is San Francisco’s largest one-week tech event series with over 60 week-long events including the DeveloperWeek 2015 Conference & Expo, Accelerate 2015 (1,000+ attendee hackathon) GirlDevWeek Events, Robotics Dev Summit, DevOps Summit, 1,000+ attendee tech hiring mixer, and 60+ city-wide workshops, open houses, drink-ups, across San Francisco!

DeveloperWeek puts the spotlight on new dev technologies. Event hosts and supporters of last year’s DeveloperWeek include Google, Facebook,Yelp,Rackspace, IBM, Cloudera, Red Hat, Optimizely, SendGrid, Blackberry, Microsoft, Neo Technology, Eventbrite, Klout, Built.io, Ripple, GNIP,Tagged,HackReactor, and 30+ more here!…

Grazed from BusinessSpectator. Author: Michael Swinson.

For a new technology to reach mainstream acceptance, two things are generally required. Firstly it must address and overcome concerns flagged by early critics (in the way that clever user interface design has effectively countered the criticism that smartphones are too small for business functions).

Secondly, it must receive some endorsement from the key incumbent players in the market (in the way that Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia ultimately confirmed the overriding power of the smartphone). On this basis, cloud computing (which has long been regarded as an “emerging” technology) now seems primed and ready for a mainstream breakthrough…

Grazed from BusinessStandard. Author: Manish Godha.

Shared computing services, whether applications or platforms available over internet, have granted small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) unprecedented access to technology sophistication. The potential inherent in information technology has been immense and the possible impacts are only getting more pronounced. Technology not only bolsters efficiencies but also influences fundamental changes in the business models themselves.

But getting technology to work for a particular business has traditionally been arduous, requiring significant expense, effort and skills. As such, access to ‘enterprise-class’ has been limited to large businesses that can invest in application and operational support. Cloud, however, allows access to technology without worrying about deploying, operating, maintaining and investing…

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Andrea Goldberg.

At the beginning of a new year it is customary to size up the past year and look forward to what awaits. In the technology space, a lot of the hype in 2014 was around cloud computing, Apple’s new offerings, and the Internet of Things. To those unfamiliar with the term, the Internet of Things is simply the name given when smart devices are built into ordinary objects, such as clothing, so that the embedded devices can provide data back and forth from the cloud.

This transfer of data enable insights and determines actions. While cars have had this type of technology for a while, this year gave us smart watches, connected toothbrushes, contact lenses, and tennis rackets. You no longer need to go to a tennis clinic to have your swing analyzed, just purchase a connected device and plug into the cloud…

Grazed from SysCon Media.  Author: Pat Romanski.

Cloud Foundry open Platform as a Service makes it easy to operate, scale and deploy application for your dedicated cloud environments. It enables developers and operators to be significantly more agile, writing great applications and deliver them in days instead of months.

Cloud Foundry takes care of all the infrastructure and network plumbing that you need to build, run and operate your applications and can do this while patching and updating systems and services without any downtime…