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Grazed from BetaWired. Author: Editorial Staff.

New leadership at Microsoft talks about cloud computing, the upcoming Windows 10 operating system and the push for more diversity in the company. This emerged at the company’s shareholders meeting Wednesday. Chief Executive Satya Nadella and Chairman John Thompson oversaw a largely scripted affair touting the company’s progress in cloud computing, hopes for the Windows 10 operating system, and efforts to create a more inclusive company.

The company’s shares hit a 14-year peak last month. Nadella on Wednesday reiterated his view that Microsoft should follow consumers beyond the company’s Windows flagship, emphasizing mobile devices and cloud-computing. Microsoft during Nadella’s nearly 10-month tenure has taken steps some observers said were unlikely to have occurred Ballmer’s leadership, including allowing free versions of its Office suite on devices made by competitors and permitting developers to have access to portions of the code behind a key software development platform…

Read more from the source @ http://www.betawired.com/microsoft-talks-about-cloud-computing/1420236/

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Patrick Gioko.

Is the role of the CIO (chief information officer) still intact after the introduction and rapid advancement of cloud computing? According to a report by Advanced 365, cloud computing is one of the 12 disruptive technologies that are changing the nature of business. The CIO was initially called the data processing manager and then the title evolved to management information system director. Their main objective is to innovate in line to the IT vision of their company.

The role of the CIO has been evolving over time and today, three types of CIOs have emerged, fitting into different roles within a company. First, there is the CIO as an entrepreneur, who finds ways to innovate with the goal of commercial viability in mind. Then there is the CIO as a manager, who has his focus on the commercial success of a business and may not be much of an ideas person…

Read more from the source @ http://www.itproportal.com/2014/12/03/cloud-computing-cio-whats-best-business/#ixzz3KwK548HM

Grazed from TheHostingNews. Author: Editorial Staff.

Jelastic, Inc., the first company that combined unlimited PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) into one solution, has announced integration with Docker using Parallels Cloud Server. The collaboration will allow service providers to enable continuous application delivery, fully elastic scalability and integrated orchestration and management for hosting applications in the cloud.

This is the first industry solution that combines Docker´s application delivery approach and Parallels containers, fully managed via Jelastic PaaS. Docker, Jelastic and Parallels Cloud Server are complementary to each other. Docker addresses application assembly, delivery and portability; Jelastic provides orchestration and management for hosting applications in the cloud and Parallels Cloud Server offers container and storage infrastructure performance and availability…

Read more from the source @ http://www.thehostingnews.com/jelastic-announces-docker-integration-to-provide-the-most-advanced-orchestrated-application-delivery-33167.html

Grazed from OReilly. Author: Benjamin Hindman.

Developers today are building a new class of applications. These applications no longer fit on a single server, but instead run across a fleet of servers in a data center. Examples include analytics frameworks like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, message brokers like Apache Kafka, key-value stores like Apache Cassandra, as well as customer-facing applications such as those run by Twitter and Netflix.

These new applications are more than applications, they are distributed systems. Just as it became commonplace for developers to build multithreaded applications for single machines, it’s now becoming commonplace for developers to build distributed systems for data centers…

Grazed from GlobalNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Canopy, the Atos cloud powered by EMC and VMware, announced today that it has achieved the Cisco® Master Service Provider Certification for cloud and managed services. This certification recognizes Canopy as having the capabilities to sell and deliver cloud and managed services to help accelerate time to market and time to revenue. Additionally, the certification rewards partners for their expertise and investments for creating, selling and delivering cloud and managed services with financial incentives and go-to-market benefits in all countries of legal presence.

"Achieving the Cisco Master Service Provider certification is an important step for our customers as it provides an external guarantee of the robustness of our Enterprise cloud solutions," said Jacques Pommeraud, Canopy CEO. "As the European leader in cloud computing we have built our reputation on trust, security, and enterprise-grade designs. Taking this step further in our partnership with Cisco means bringing more innovation, vision and value to our customers around the globe."…

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Madeline Bennett.

V3 has launched its Cloud Computing Definitive Guide, covering everything your business needs to get the most out of the cloud revolution. Cloud computing has seen a radical uptake within businesses in recent years, with the smallest and the largest of firms now relying on cloud services and applications.

However, there are still obstacles to the widespread rollout of cloud services. The view remains among many that hosting data off-site is inherently less secure than having it safe within the company walls, while cloud outages have also become a regular occurrence, affecting vendors from Microsoft to Netflix…

Grazed from FederalTimes. Author: Aaron Boyd.

The Department of Defense’s new cloud procurement policy — orignally promised for mid-November — is now slated to be released in December, according to a spokesperson from the DoD Office of the Chief Information Officer. In an effort to speed the department’s move to cloud computing, the new policy will divest authority from the Defense Information System Agency to the contracting officers at each branch and agency within DoD.

Before issuing the policy, a memo has been circulating among the component agencies for review, a process that is still ongoing. Despite minor delays, the policy should be signed and released in early December, sooner than later, according to the DoD representative…

Read more from the source @ http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20141202/FEDIT01/312020017/New-DoD-cloud-policy-delayed

Grazed from NYTimes. Author: nicole Perlroth.

What if it isn’t too late to start from scratch? It was only about 40 years ago that Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn holed up in the conference room of a Hyatt hotel in Palo Alto, Calif., and sketched out the sets of rules and protocols that laid the foundation of the modern Internet."

Despite big advances in speed, performance, memory and machines, their decisions continue to form the basis for modern digital communications — much to the detriment of security, some experts argue. But the United States government is teaming up with computer scientists to do something about it…

Read more from the source @ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/reinventing-the-internet-to-make-it-safer/?_r=0

Grazed from Nasdaq. Author: Editorial Staff.

Technology company International Business Machines Corp. on Tuesday entered into a new seven-year cloud-computing services contract with British advertising giant WPP Plc (WPP.L, WPPGY) for IBM to transform and manage WPP’s global technology platform. The deal will enable WPP to accelerate its digital transformation and global leadership.

"This announcement is a significant milestone in the deployment of enterprise cloud and extends IBM’s position as the premier global cloud platform. Our secure, open enterprise cloud platform will enable WPP to quickly deliver new innovations to their customers," said Erich Clementi, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Technology Services…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

The pool of online data analysis services available for corporate users is about to grow larger, with Hewlett-Packard set to offer two of its own products as hosted cloud services by early next year. The company’s high-performance columnar database, Vertica, will be available as a hosted offering starting early in 2015, as HP Vertica OnDemand.

The company will also offer selected functions of its IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer) text processing software as discrete services that can be embedded into mobile and desktop computing applications, in a package called IDOL OnDemand, already available to selected developers…