Category: News

Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Trevor Pott.

The implosion of source-code hosting biz Code Spaces should have rung plenty of alarm bells. A company with a loyal following and a bright-looking future suddenly disappeared, never to be seen again. What’s worse, for the past several years a significant chunk of the IT community has been warning about exactly the sorts of issues that ultimately resulted in Code Spaces’ failure. I feel sorry for the real human beings affected by this incident; jobs lost, years of work evaporated.

Unfortunately, that’s not all I feel. I also feel something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike schadenfreude. When I heard the news, the dark uncharitable part of my soul wanted to climb atop the tallest tower and bellow: "I told you so!" A release of years of pent up tension and frustration at watching company after company swallow cloud vendor marketing tripe hook, line and sinker. A lot of people told the world so. Nobody listened…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Henry Kenyon.

By moving its core operating functions to the cloud, the Securities and Exchange Commission has increased the speed and flexibility of its financial data services and saved money through increased efficiency, a top official claims. Responsible for regulating the securities industry, the SEC manages massive amounts of data for analysis and to provide the finance industry and individual investors with updated information. To do this, the commission’s website and data centers must be able to absorb massive spikes in use.

Over the last three years, the SEC has modernized its IT infrastructure, improved funding for its online component, and started to move its core functions to public and private clouds, said Thomas Bayer, the commission’s CIO, who spoke at a recent government cloud computing symposium held by the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association…

Grazed from RCPMag. Author: Jeffrey Schwartz.

Security is still the biggest showstopper when it comes to cloud computing and, given the events of the past year — from the Edward Snowden revelations to a number of high-profile breaches — many customers expect cloud providers and their partners to double down. The counter-argument is despite the proliferation of data theft, cloud providers are better positioned to safeguard data than customers running datacenters on-premises.

The truth is, whether customers store their data on-premises or use a cloud services provider, information is as secure as the safeguards put in place. Snowden never could’ve leaked the troves of classified data if the National Security Agency (NSA) hadn’t given him unfettered access. Even worse, the NSA didn’t appear to have the proper auditing controls to discover what he had done, even after the fact…

Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.

During Google I/O, the company’s annual developers conference, the company announced a bunch of new features for its cloud computing services. Google has been in a three-way price-and-feature war with Amazon and Microsoft over the cloud. Every time one of them adds features and lowers prices, the others follow suit.

Google always mentions its flagship cloud customer, Snapchat, and this time was no exception. But this time around, Google’s top cloud guy, Urs Hozle, also name-dropped several other big names that chose Google over Amazon, including hot anonymous app Secret; the company that does instant voting for The Rising Star TV show, Screens; and online tech school Khan Academy…

Grazed from TechZone360. Author: Gary Kim.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Aereo violates copyright law. Some say the ruling effectively kills Aereo and similar business models. Others might argue that what the ruling effectively kills is any business model that does not involve paying licensing fees to local broadcasters for the right to retransmit local broadcast signals, as routinely is done by cable TV, satellite TV and telco TV providers.

In essence, any future “retransmission” service similar to Aereo, but paying licensing fees to local broadcasters, would resemble the earliest cable TV systems, which simply retransmitted distant market TV signals to rural areas that could not receive the signals over the air. The business problem, for any future Aereo-style off-air signal retransmission service, is that such features already are provided by linear video distributors. So there is no unmet market need…

Read more from the source @ http://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2014/06/25/382279-does-aereo-decision-have-cloud-computing-implications.htm

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

IEEE Computer Society’s newest publication, IEEE Cloud Computing, is now available for subscription, and as a special introductory offer, the premiere issue is available for free. IEEE Cloud Computingmagazine is committed to the timely publication of peer-reviewed articles that provide innovative research ideas, applications results, and case studies in all areas of cloud computing.

"Cloud computing, or simply the cloud, is changing how we run and deploy IT," said Editor in Chief Mazin Yousif. "This inaugural issue of IEEE Cloud Computing magazine serves as a forum for the constantly shifting cloud landscape, bringing you original research, best practices, in-depth analysis, and timely columns from the luminaries in the field."…

Grazed from DigitalJournal. Author: PR Announcement.

Market Research Reports, Inc. has announced the addition of “Business Process Management (BPM) Cloud, Mobile, And Patterns: Market Shares, Strategies, And Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 To 2020” research report to their website http://www.marketresearchreports.com

As people move to cloud computing and use their smart phones and tablets to access apps, exception management of business process becomes a significant aspect of doing business. Patterns are being used to control automated process better and interact with it in a more flexible manner, utilizing templates to control the repeatability of model creation…

CloudCow Contributed Article.  Author: Louie Hollmeyer – Director of Marketing, Advanced Technology Consulting.

According to IDC’s recent MarketScape* assessment, 69.7 percent of midsized organizations use the Cloud or have plans to implement within the next 12 months. And, 34 percent of small organizations (<100 employees) are also doing so or plan to do the same.

Cloud technologies are providing significant benefits, including cost efficiency and scalability, to companies of all sizes—not just enterprises. The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud model aligns quite well with today’s on demand, pay-as-you-go mindset.

No longer do businesses have to buy excess capacity. Buy what you need now and add more later when you need it…

Grazed from Paranet. Author: David Boone.

If you’ve ever tried logging on to your corporate network when visiting a branch office, you’ve probably discovered that there are big, big differences – and inefficiencies – built into the way branch offices, franchise locations, and other remote work locations operate. For decades now, companies either have paid little or no attention to such differences; chalking them up as necessary – and minor – encumbrances tied to the modern requirement of having operations in multiple locations.

But with today’s cloud technology, it really need not be that way. Historically, as companies expanded and built branch offices, production facilities, and distribution operations, and as more workers began telecommuting to their jobs at least some of the time, there have been two approaches:..

Read more from the source @ http://www.paranet.com/blog/bid/183583/Cloud-Computing-Can-Erase-Your-Multiple-Branch-IT-Problems

Grazed from Variety. Author: David S. Cohen.

Seeking to ramp up cloud-computing services for entertainment production, Shotgun Software has agreed to be acquired by software giant Autodesk. Shotgun makes popular production-management software that helps production, post and visual effects coordinate their efforts. By using cloud computing, Shotgun empowers far-flung facilities and locations to work closely together. Companies using Shotgun include DreamWorks Animation, Framestore, Illumination Mac Guff, Blizzard, Microsoft, Walt Disney Animation, Double Negative and Ubisoft.

Autodesk publishes some of the most important software apps for entertainment content creation, including Maya, SoftImage and MotionBuilder. Shotgun will remain an independent brand within Autodesk’s Media and Entertainment division and keep keep its HQ in Venice, Calif., though it will relocate from its current address to Autodesk’s nearby offices…