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Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

InfinityQS International, Inc., the global authority on real-time quality and Manufacturing Intelligence , today announces the release of its eBook, "Cloud Mythbusters: Dispelling the Myths of Manufacturing in the Cloud." In this eBook, InfinityQS experts combat cloud computing fiction with fact, and encourage quality and IT professionals to consider cloud-based tools as a solution for enabling supply chain-wide quality, efficiency and productivity. To download the eBook, visit: http://www.infinityqs.com/cloud-mythbusters-pr .

Throughout "Cloud Mythbusters," InfinityQS reveals truths to common misconceptions of using cloud-based technology in manufacturing, citing real-life examples along the way. Readers will learn:

• The cloud is not only for consumers , it can also help manufacturers standardize processes and automate data collection across an enterprise, while reducing the burden on IT.
• Cloud deployment is cost-effective and eliminates many of the expenses associated with on-premise solutions such as installation, recurring maintenance and infrastructure costs.
• Storing data on the cloud is more secure than on-site computing…

Grazed from Cloud Computing Today. Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon’s announcement of details of its Amazon Fire Phone on June 18 promises to disrupt not only the economics of the smartphone industry, but also the use of cloud computing for backup and archival purposes more generally. In Wednesday’s unveiling of Amazon’s first phone, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos noted that the Amazon Fire Phone will offer unlimited, cloud-based photo storage for pictures taken from the phone’s 13 MP camera.

As noted by MG Siegler, the Amazon Fire Phone’s offer of unlimited photo storage outstrips its contemporaries because Apple’s iPhone cloud storage limits are capped in conjunction with a customer’s limits on iCloud. Whereas Android offers unlimited photo uploads to Google+, it does so at lower resolutions than that of the original image…

Grazed from InfoSec Island. Author: Michael Higashi.

Now that the cloud is sweeping the enterprise, it’s time to reevaluate your security strategy. A secure cloud deployment depends in large part on data security, which demands a different set of skills and solutions than traditional, on-premises infrastructure security. Here are two signs you should invest in cloud computing data security.

1. You’re using, or planning to use, the public cloud

When it comes to addressing cloud security concerns and implementing a secure cloud deployment, there are those within the tech industry who advocate private clouds for the enterprise. Private clouds allow organizations to enjoy many of the benefits of the cloud, such as anytime, anywhere data and application accessibility, without incurring the security risks associated with the public cloud. A private cloud is a secure cloud…

Grazed from NewYork Times. Author: Editorial Staff.

Oracle’s $5.3 billion deal for Micros Systems provides an uncertain forecast for shareholders in the database giant. Even if it’s the start of a new deal binge by Oracle’s chief, Lawrence J. Ellison, it’s not at a crazy valuation. But Mircos, a longtime partner, is more of an add-on than a way to supercharge Oracle’s effort in cloud computing.

Oracle is paying $68 a share in cash for the Micros, a maker of hotel and restaurant business technology systems. At a 24 percent premium to the undisturbed share price, it’s at about half the premium Priceline recently agreed to pay for the restaurant reservations site OpenTable, as one example…

Grazed from DBTA. Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM is accelerating the adoption of open technologies for cloud computing, with the goal of assisting enterprises in integrating existing infrastructures into the cloud space. To this end, IBM said it is working on an open integration model with Docker, an open source platform for developers and systems administrators to build, ship, and run distributed applications, and the open source Docker project community.

“The IT industry continues to rally behind a cloud built on open and community-driven technologies,” said IBM vice president of Open Technologies and Cloud Performance Angel Diaz. “IBM continues to firmly believe that the best means to truly drive wide-spread adoption and innovation of cloud computing is to ensure open technologies are at its core.”…

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Grazed from Information-Management. Author: Bob Violino.

In a new study looking at the future of cloud, nearly half (49 percent) of the 1,358 organizations surveyed are using cloud services to fuel revenue generation or new product creation. The fourth annual "Future of Cloud Computing" study by venture capital firm North Bridge Venture Partners in conjunction with research firm Gigaom Research and 72 collaborating organizations analyzes the inhibitors and drivers behind cloud adoption.

Other key findings of the survey include that 45 percent of businesses say they already, or plan to, run their company from the cloud. Software-as-a-service adoption has more than quintupled since 2011, rising from 13 percent adoption to 74 percent in this year’s survey…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Doug Bonderud.

In 1957, prolific science fiction writer Issac Asimov penned "The Feeling of Power." In it, Asimov describes a futuristic world in which humans no longer have the knowledge to perform even basic mathematical functions, leaving the task to computers instead. When math is reintroduced under the name "graphitics," there is speculation about its authenticity, let alone the ability of any human to comprehend its myriad rules. Midsize IT professionals may be witnessing the start of a similar progression with the rise of intelligent cloud services ? are they too smart for their own good?

Going… Going… Gone!

While there is little chance the average IT admin will forget how to add, subtract or multiply any time soon, a June 18 Ars Technica article makes a good point: Software and applications are disappearing. Consider legacy customer relationship management (CRM) software, for example. Painstakingly designed in-house from the ground up, many legacy deployments are now being replaced with cloud alternatives. It is a logical move, since cloud-based solutions are faster, operate in real time and give frontline employees access to everything they need at a single glance. But what happens to the legacy? In many cases, it vanishes forever…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

Whether it’s human genome data or restaurant recommendations, the world is inundated with data, and huge swaths of that information have entered the public cloud through AWS big data customers. Business intelligence and data analytics are among the most popular uses for cloud computing, according to a survey conducted by TechTarget last fall. Out of 456 total respondents, 36.2% said they use the cloud for these workloads.

Big companies choose to put big data into Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) cloud because massive machine resources from compute to networking and storage are instantly available, and its many data centers worldwide offer a place for collaborators — from researchers to programmers and data scientists — to meet…

Grazed from MSPToday. Author: Gary Kim.

Major changes in computing architecture do not occur overnight, but every change in computing architecture has implications for wide area network data traffic. According to Ericsson, for example, in 2013 data traffic across global networks was eight times as heavy as voice traffic. That is a direct consequence of a shift to cloud-based or distributed computing, widely used by consumers. That is a shift from past eras, where data traffic on wide area networks was driven by business computing centers.

Most of today’s growth is driven by use of the Internet by consumers. In the past, wide area network data traffic was driven by enterprise computing centers. Recent Gigaom Research surveys suggest that another big round of cloud-technology adoption is coming. Though one might argue the first wave of cloud-based computing was driven by startups, the next wave will be driven more by companies re-inventing their own businesses, Gigaom suggests…

Grazed from NIST.gov. Author: Evelyn Brown.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cloud Computing Program (NCCP) is forming three public working groups to provide solutions to cloud computing challenges. A teleconference on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at 11 a.m. Eastern will kick off the effort. Program leaders will discuss group goals, member roles and responsibilities, meeting schedules and deadlines. The NCCP provides leadership and guidance to catalyze and facilitate the use of cloud computing within industry and government.\

NIST’s cloud computing public working groups bring together industry, government and academic experts from across the world to address requirements laid out in the NIST U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Release 1.0 (Draft).* The combined efforts of several public working groups drew up the roadmap and others are working on security, standards and accessibility…