Category: News

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

FrontRange, the Hybrid IT software company, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named the company’s HEAT Service Management platform as a 2014 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner for the 4th consecutive year. “This award validates FrontRange’s commitment to delivering the most comprehensive solution with world class availability, reliability and security.”

The Cloud Computing Excellence Award, presented by Cloud Computing Magazine, recognizes companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market. “Being recognized for the 4th consecutive year as a leader in cloud computing is a great honor,” said Kevin J Smith, VP and GM of the Cloud Business Unit at FrontRange. “This award validates FrontRange’s commitment to delivering the most comprehensive solution with world class availability, reliability and security.”…

Grazed from ReCode. Author: Arik Hesseldahl.

Taking a page from the book of supercomputing, IBM will today announce the addition of a super-fast networking technology called InfiniBand to its SoftLayer cloud computing service. As an industrial strength connection technology intended to create a super-fast connection between computers running in a data center, InfiniBand has the ability to move at speeds as fast as 56 gigabits per second.

That’s fast enough to transfer the contents of a library of 30,000 Blu-ray discs in 24 hours. The technology is widely used in high-performance computing environments and has been used in 222 of the systems on the latest Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers…

Grazed from IJCEA. Author: K.Vijay Kumar, Dr. N. Chandra Sekhar Reddy, B.Srinivas Reddy.

Cloud Computing provides data computing to store and retrieve the user data and it is the use of activity of using Computer hardware and software. The primary usage of cloud computing is data storage and capacity of storage for cloud users. Ensuring an IT Services that are provided to a user over a network and Providing a services infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), or software as a service (SaaS).

Nowadays the Cloud security implementation is the important factor by using various cryptographic algorithms, DES, AES, RSA and ECC. Cloud computing are facing problems like data privacy and other data protection issues. Cryptography is tool for data and computer security i.e. by encryption of data. This paper proposes about the different security techniques, cryptographic algorithm to address the data security and privacy issue in cloud storage in order to protect the data stored in the cloud system…

To read the article, visit http://www.ijcea.com/preserving-data-privacy-security-models-cryptographic-algorithms-cloud-computing/

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Although it’s a European Union change, the service level agreement (SLA) standardization issued last month by the European Commission’s Cloud Select Industry Group – Subgroup on Service Level Agreement (C-SIG-SLA … ’cause that’s a catchy name) could become a global standard. Even if it doesn’t, American cloud providers (among others) will very soon feel its effects, according to an article written by Kenneth N. Rashbaum Esq. and Jason M. Tenenbaum of Barton LLP.

The two lawyers indicated in their article that with the Edward Snowden disclosures of last year, there has been an increasing focus around the world on government and technology company transparency. Those pushing ahead the quickest are in Europe, as the Union has been amongst the strongest advocates for change. And the new SLA standardization for cloud services providers it released on June 6 are its first big step in creating that transparency…

Grazed from BankInfoSecurity. Author: Eric Chabrow.

A big challenge examiners face in conducting forensic investigations in the cloud is that they don’t have access to the servers. That’s just one problem the National Institute of Standards and Technology is addressing. "Many of the traditional approaches are going to be more difficult to apply, and in some cases they won’t work in the cloud," says Martin Herman, senior adviser for forensics and IT at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Herman co-chairs NIST’s cloud computing forensic science working group, which has identified scores of challenges forensic experts face in applying their craft in the cloud. NIST has taken 65 of the challenges and published a draft report, NIST Interagency Report 8006: NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges. The report aggregates, categorizes and discusses the forensics challenges faced by experts when responding to incidents that have occurred in a cloud-computing ecosystem…

Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Enterprise adoption of OpenStack is taking off, and value-added security solutions for the open source cloud computing operating system are close behind. This week, Catbird announced version 6.0 of its cloud security platform, which it describes as the channel’s first "security policy automation for private and hybrid cloud environments."

The chief advantage of policy-based security for OpenStack and other cloud environments, according to Catbird, is its ability to work in real time. That means administrators can implement security policies across the lifecycle of virtual machines within the cloud. Catbird hopes that type of security will attract enterprises that run OpenStack clouds and require compliance with major standards, such as such as PCI DSS and HIPAA, COBIT and FISMA Rev4…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Datapipe, a global provider of managed hosting and cloud services, today announced that the Datapipe Cloud Analytics for Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform has been recognized with a 2014 Cloud Computing Excellence Award. The award honors companies who have effectively leveraged cloud computing capabilities while bringing forth new, innovative offerings to market. An advanced managed service offering, Datapipe Cloud Analytics for AWS utilizes data-mining and intelligence tools to track AWS patterns, providing in-depth analysis of areas such as usage, spending, security and governance.

Designed to assist global customers using AWS for both hybrid and public cloud deployments, Datapipe Cloud Analytics offers a cost-effective management approach from a single solution. The platform analyzes 100 percent of AWS usage to provide analysis of patterns and trends based on a single employee, company department(s) and/or overall organization…

Grazed from MidsizeInsider. Author: Shawn Drew.

IT insiders have been touting the potential benefits of public, private and hybrid clouds for years, but since the sector is often prone to exaggeration, IT managers would be wise to read up on the subject before investing resources into cutting-edge tech. Now, however, yet another survey of IT professionals shows that the purported cloud computing benefits are, in fact, quite real — and midsize business that strive for a competitive edge must learn how best to embrace this new commonplace technology.

Benefits Shine in New Survey

The new survey, from the Harvard Business Review (HBR) and covered by Forbes, asked 527 HBR readers with positions in large and midsize businesses around the world to answer questions regarding their business — and what benefits, if any, they have found or expect to find in the cloud…

Grazed from MapCite. Author: Editorial Staff.

To understand where you’re going, it always helps to look where you’ve come from. Cloud computing has come a long way since its inception, when Amazon was still only known for selling books and movies, Myspace was considered "cloud," and experts argued on the true definition of cloud computing — though the latter can still be true.

By delving into this cloud computing history and timeline, IT pros can learn from past ups and downs and have a clearer idea of where the cloud market is heading — though, of course, there are always unforeseen hiccups that can alter its course, such as the PRISM scandal. This cloud retrospective aims to give a high-level view of cloud’s history and question what that means beyond 2014…

To see infographic and read more from the source, visit http://www.mapcite.com/posts/2014/july/cloud-computing-timeline-illustrates-clouds-past,-predicts-its-future.aspx

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Jim Duffy.

Big Switch Networks this week is unveiling an SDN controller designed to bring Google-like hyperscale networking to enterprises. The software, called Cloud Fabric, runs on bare metal switches and allows users to build cloud “pods” where racks of servers, switches and applications can be grouped logically to serve a specific function, such as an OpenStack private cloud (http://www.networkworld.com/article/2172063/cloud-computing/gartner-analyst-slams-openstack–again.html), Hadoop big data cluster, or a virtual desktop infrastructure.

This is in contrast to operating, provisioning and monitoring each individual business application, such as SAP or Oracle or Microsoft Office, as its own silo. Cloud Fabric works with Big Switch’s SwitchLight operating system on spine switches, and SwitchLight OS on leafs. Optional components are an OpenStack plugin and SwitchLight virtual switches on leafs…