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Grazed from StreetWiseTech.  Author: Thomas Larson.

The word ‘cloud’ refers to an informal expression used to describe a network of computers which are joined together in real time by a single computing network. This whole system of communication is called a cloud computing technology.  Cloud computing technology is used today by the help of the internet. The medium of the internet helps in maintaining a real time or live communication forum for cloud computing technology.

In this, large quantities of computers are connected via the internet. The term cloud computing technology does not indicate or represent the scientific term for such a network. In computer science studies, this term, cloud computing technology is used to simply describe the ability or capacity for people to be able to operate a single program over many connected computers all at the same time…

Grazed from TargetedNewsService.  Author: PR Announcement.

Numerous regional cyber leaders convened at Hanscom Air Force Base May 28 to discuss, and sometimes debate, the merits and challenges of secure cloud computing.

Organized by the Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) and hosted by leaders at Hanscom, the event fostered vigorous discussion about the most efficient and secure ways to store and protect critical data and systems. Participating companies and organizations included Akamai, Google, State Street Financial, Liberty Mutual, Biogen Idec, Manulife Financial, MITRE, the RAND Corp. and Boston University’sHariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering…

Grazed from GigaOm.  Author: Erik Pounds.

Few trends have gained as much mind share and momentum as the rush to move all our data and computing to the cloud. The fever for the cloud runs high — and it runs largely unchecked. Some, including AppZero CEO Greg O’Connor, believe that the move to the cloud is only going to accelerate. In this vision of the future, all information will be stored in centralized services and your computing devices (laptop, phone, tablet, etc.) will all access storage in the cloud.

In the more than 15 years I’ve spent in the data protection, storage and networking spaces, I’ve witnessed firsthand the benefits many companies — and users — have reaped from this trend. In the eyes of the consumer, the internet has morphed into a group of centralized services that many of us use on a daily basis…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Branden Blevins.

Enterprise information security teams may fear the worst as their organizations implement cloud services, but according to an expert panel, security professionals shouldn’t resist the change and should instead position themselves to manage cloud risk.

Speaking Thursday at the second-annual MassBay Community College Information Security Summit, panelist David Escalante, director of computer security and policy at Boston College (BC), shared a story highlighting the worst-case scenario of what can happen when security teams fail to position themselves as trusted advisors on cloud security management within their organizations…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

 Virtustream, the enterprise-class cloud software and services provider, today announced it has been included by Gartner, Inc. in the “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)” for the third consecutive year. The report evaluates cloud IaaS providers, listing the top 15 leading vendors worldwide.

According to Gartner, the IaaS market is the fastest growing area of public cloud computing that the firm tracks, with a projected compound annual growth rate of 41.3 percent through 2016. To rank in the highly competitive Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS report, vendors must offer high-quality service, with excellent availability, performance, security and customer support…

Grazed from SysConMedia.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The new wonder metal, graphene, is being looked at as a building block for communications and electronic devices on the level of what the transistor was sixty years ago.

Graphene is a one-atom thick, mesh-like (think hexagonal honeycomb or chicken wire), semi metal that will add more battery-life into a smartphone among other breakthrough ideas like bendable displays. It is also ten times stronger than diamonds so its resiliency is perfect for use in a smartphone or any other device that requires super-ruggedness…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Charles Babcock.

Applied Micro Circuits and Canonical planned to demonstrate an OpenStack cloud running on a rack of ARM servers at the Computex tradeshow Friday in Taiwan. Major server manufacturers, including Dell and HP, and original design manufacturers from around the world, such as Quanta, Avnet, and Hyve, were expected to view the demonstration.

ARM is the chip used in many smartphones and mobile devices, and it’s not usually associated with either enterprise data centers or cloud computing. But Applied Micro will show a rack of 14 servers based on its X-Gene server chip. They will be running Icehouse, the latest version of OpenStack, under Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Bill Claybrook.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of services that includes storage services such as Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and more. These IT infrastructure services are offered in the form of Web services that Amazon refers to as cloud computing. Amazon EC2 is the AWS computing service.

When users decide to share their IT responsibility with a public cloud provider and move some of their applications to a public cloud, AWS EC2 is frequently the choice. Prior to services such as EC2, users had to go through a lengthy process to complete the purchase of a server, including finding the money to pay for it. Then the server had to be installed, connected to the on-premises network and tested. EC2 offers computing capacity on demand, no upfront server costs, almost immediate availability and no commitment for length of use. The total commitment a user has to make to EC2 is one hour, the minimum billing period for an EC2 instance (virtual machine)…

Grazed from SAP.  Author: Lindsey LaManna.

Cloud computing has quickly become a driving force of unprecedented change across the IT and business landscape. Organizations are adopting the potential of the cloud to reap the benefits of business innovation and agility, and to enable new processes and insights that were previously impossible. Business and IT are transforming into “everything as a service.” Those companies that do not adopt the cloud will fall behind the pace of change. What can we do today to prepare for tomorrow?

 To find the answer to this question, I interviewed Sven Denecken, VP of Strategy for Cloud Solutions at SAP and speaker at The in Cloud 2020 Forum at SAPPHIRE NOW next week in Orlando, on a Google+ Hangout last week. Sven provided valuable insights on the impact of the cloud, what businesses can do prepare and what cloud will look like in 2020…

Grazed from SmartData Collective.  Author: Ryan Ward.

Working in the information security field, I obviously hear a lot about “the cloud” and its many security implications. There are definitely valid security concerns associated with cloud computing, but isn’t the entire industry of “information security” based on the concept of “securing information” no matter where it resides (including the cloud)? Security professionals need to accept the cloud as simply another platform that must be secured in order to protect information. Rather than talk about security controls though, I thought I would step back and first focus on the journey many organizations take to cloud adoption since security fears and IT change still appear to be hurdles.

The differences between cloud adoptions from one organization to another are very interesting to me. Working with a variety of businesses, I have learned that each takes its own approach to embracing cloud solutions without a 100% direct correlation between specific industries or size…