Mobile

Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.

Australian Teacher Magazine THE shift in overall educational budgets and the way schools disperse their funds is creating a new dilemma for schools in terms of trying to determine their new technological direction. Should our school use a BYOD solution and, if so, which device … (more)

Lifehacker Australia Setting bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies and working out app development priorities is a challenge for any organisation, but the issues are magnified in the highly-scrutinised environment of major government entities. Here are the lessons that the … (more)

The Verge Motorola is getting into the system-on-a-chip game. At Verizon’s event in New York City today, the Illinois-based manufacturer announced the Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System, which the company is calling an “8-core” chip. It has a dual-core … (more)

TechSpot The Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System features a total of eight tightly integrated cores dediciated to specific functions — there’s a contextual computing core, another for natural language processing, a dual-core Qualcomm Krait CPU, and a quad-core … (more)

How can a phone that’s able to do so much, still squeeze so much life out of the battery? With a proprietary Motorola system architecture and eight processor … (more)

The actual name is Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System, and the dry facts are a 1.7 GHz dual-core application processor, 400 MHz quad-core GPU, a natural … (more)

Mobile computing and its collaborative solutions are among the clear leading services that are moving to the cloud, like Google Apps, Microsoft Office 365 and … (more)

CNET The new graphics chip technology, dubbed Project Logan, is based on the company’s Kepler architecture and proposes to bring workstation-class graphics to mobile computing. “It brings a huge jump in performance [and] offers extraordinary power … (more)

Big Data

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

Appia, Inc. – Data Scientist – Appia – Durham – ased on solid commercial momentum in the mobile ap – AnalyticTalent.com. (more)

The value of data science skills, and resulting demand for skilled practitioners, is a well-known challenge within the emerging big data analytics industry. (more)

The most intriguing data scientist in the universe just endorsed this kickstarter project which is a complete, practical, hands-on course which comprises of … (more)

Workshop on data science using R. 6 September 2013 9001730. Venue. The Genome Seminar Room The Genome Analysis CentreTGAC Norwich Research Park … (more)

TechTarget A concise, contemporary definition of big data from Gartner defines it as “high-volume, -velocity and -variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making”. So, big … (more)

B-EYE-Network The examples above are consumer-focused examples of big data generating devices, but for decades we’ve had commercial applications like SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) industrial control systems generating large streams of data from … (more)

ZDNet Until now, security wasn’t a term that would normally be associated with Hadoop. Hadoop was originally conceived for a trusted environment, where the user base was confined to a small elite set of advanced programmers or statisticians and the data was … (more)

Ventures … VC Circle Screen Shot 2013-07-24 at 3.09.59 PM Minetta Brook Inc., a Big Data intelligence startup, has come out of stealth mode and announced it has raised $2 million (Rs 11.8 crore) in seed funding from TiE Angel Group Seattle or TAGS, an angel investment … (more)

MediaPost Communications Considering the vast resources devoted to discussing Big Data, certainly as it relates to marketing, the PRISM controversy got me thinking about the intelligent ways marketers could use customer data to boost engagement and ROI while still addressing … (more)

ZDNet (blog) Cloudera, which runs a data analytics management service powered by the open source framework, is unveiling Sentry, touted as an Apache-licensed open source security module that provides fine-grained authorization for Hadoop deployments. (more)

Cloud

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

You will be able purchase capacity from VMware’s new vCloud Hybrid ServicevCHS in two ways when it becomes available to the public around VMworld 2013 I … (more)

Talkin’ Cloud SwiftStack announced the general availability of its OpenStack Swift-based private cloud storage offering. The company, which first made itself known earlier this year when it completed Series A funding, launched SwiftStack, a private cloud storage … (more)

Want to learn what VMware vCloud Hybrid Service has to offer? Read on to find out more about vCHS Dedicated Cloud and vCHS Private Cloud. (more)

This vCO package allows to customize vCloud Automation Center to call vCenter Orchestrator workflows as part of the vCAC provisioning process or by creating … (more)

TechCrunch IBM is getting into the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market by standardizing on Cloud Foundry, originally developed by VMware and now part of Pivotal, the EMC spin-off. The move is significant for IBM, one of the most traditional of enterprise software … (more)

ComputerWeekly.com (blog) Say what you like about the firm’s heritage, polished upper management spokespeople and its almost unnerving devotion and attachment to the terms “Agile” and “enterprise collaboration” — but IBM isn’t in fact old school, it merely has a long track record. (more)

WhaTech ‘Slowly, surely, stealthily but siloed’ is the current state of cloud computing according to Logicalis Australia from a recent mid-level poll of IT professionals around current and planned cloud uptake. The survey suggested an alarming trend: a … (more)

Dubai Chronicle With it, the technology giant takes cloud computing one step further by allowing offline access to files and by greatly decreasing the size of SkyDrive files stored on physical devices. Actually, the latest Windows 8.1 update includes three main … (more)

When applied to the right environments, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and DevOps methods make IT and business environments more agile. Combined, they … (more)

CloudApps Sustainability Cloud has been approved as a supplier under the Government’s Software as a Service G-Cloud III Framework Agreement. (more)

UCStrategies In UC, we talk a lot about virtualization and private cloud, but OpenStack doesn’t get a lot of direct attention. OpenStack is an emerging open private cloud alternative, and it’s sure to impact UC significantly. OpenStack just celebrated its third … (more)

InfoWorld (blog) IBM today announced it’s throwing its enterprise heft behind Cloud Foundry, the VMWare-spawned open source PaaS unveiled in 2011. Judging by the success that IaaS OpenStack has enjoyed since securing IBM’s support a year ago, Big Blue’s embrace of … (more)

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Logs

Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

I would like to understand how I can access the source database of Arcsight in order to receive this info. (and any other detailed documentation of how to … (more)

Join SolarWinds Sales Engineer Rob Johnson on July 25th at 1pm for an exclusive presentation for LEM Customers on LEM’s new W… | solarwinds. (more)

Telecompaper European operator has selected global provider of OSS/BSS Elitecore Technologies’ Crestel IP Log Management Solution (CGNAT logging) to enhance its lawful … (more)

Tealium’s solution expands Splunk Enterprise, allowing users to gather visitor interaction data directly from websites, mobile web and native mobile applications … (more)

SAN DIEGO, CA—(Marketwired – Jul 23, 2013) – Tealium, the leader in enterprise tag management, today announced Tealium’s digital data solution and tag … (more)

Description: Macy Cronkrite – SIEM with SPLUNK A Brief Overview OF Event based logging. For More Information please visit :– http://www.bsidesboston.com/. (more)

PR Newswire UK Elitecore Technologies, the global provider of OSS/BSS solutions announces that it has deployed its Crestel IP Log Management Solution (CGNAT logging) with … (more)

MarketWatch … has deployed its Crestel IP Log Management Solution (CGNAT logging) with a leading European operator to enhance its lawful interception in data traffic. (more)

ITIL

Daily identity-related news feed from @trustpath, TrustPath.

Smart Data Collective The people from Information is Beautiful have built a stunning visualization of the world’s biggest data breaches in the past decade, and it is rather scary to see. We have heard it quite often in the past years, large companies that have been hacked … (more)

PR Web (press release) PHS Recordsmanagement believe that the new interactive visualisation of the world’s biggest data breaches, put together by the team at Information is Beautiful, shows businesses the importance of storing media securely. Despite the fact that they … (more)

Want to get a true sense of how much personal data has been lost in the past decade? Check out this wonderful interactive visualization of the world’s largest … (more)

HealthITSecurity.com Not only have the threats increased for healthcare organizations, but so have the government fines as well. One-time violations stay under $50,000, but repeat violations within the same year can carry a fine of $1.5 million across all HIPAA violation … (more)

Mobile

Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.

IEEE Spectrum The smartphone revolution opened the floodgates to the BYOD (bring your own device) trend among workers. Carrying two devices is cumbersome, and many people simply preferred to use their new devices over corporate-issued phones or laptops. (more)

MarketWatch (press release) OREM, Utah, July 23, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — In response to the growing concerns relating to BYOD and mobile computing, Condition Zebra (“CONZebra”), a global IT Risk management solutions provider announced today that it is launching a … (more)

TabTimes The following are tips to keep in mind as you consider mobile computing solutions for your emergency response organization. 1. Choose a communication strategy with the best coverage. Unlike a repair person who may be able to get away with carrying a … (more)

NetworkComputing.com Companies are adopting cloud services, BYOD, and videoconferencing at a rapid clip, but while these newer technologies bring business benefits they also make network monitoring more difficult. A survey released Tuesday by network monitoring company … (more)

Data Center Knowledge Creating a BYOD plan is a truly encompassing process. There are numerous different variables to consider in creating the right type of policy. In HP’s white paper, you are able to see how to more easily deliver data to any device. Specifically, there … (more)

Sacramento Bee “We are the first to bring a credential to the market that focuses specifically on BYOD and mobile computing implementation,” said Condition Zebra General Manager and Executive Vice President Rick Homer. “For many years the CONZebra team has focused … (more)

ChannelBuzz.ca BYOD devices Faced with changing realities thrust upon them by users bringing their own devices and demanding to use them in the workplace environment, a majority of IT departments are responding by doing very little if anything at all. According to a … (more)

androidandme.com As we previously detailed, Motorola’s X8 Mobile Computing System will utilize 8 different cores to split up computing tasks, making for better battery life without suffering in performance. According to Motorola, by using their X8 Mobile Computing … (more)

ModernHealthcare.com (blog) Tags: Tags: Primary careMobile HealthInformation TechnologyPatient SafetyQualityPhysiciansPatient Care. Mobile computing devices are becoming almost as much of an essential tool in U.S. physician practices as the exam table, according to a new survey. (more)

Taylor Wimberly posted the specs for Motorola’s X8 system on a chip The Mobile Computing System will power Verizon Wireless new Droid Ultra Droid Maxx and … (more)

TechTarget Despite knowing that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is becoming more common, only 43% of security executives surveyed by Pricewaterhouse Coopers said they have secure remote access to their corporate networks. Worse than that, only 42% even have … (more)

Internet Evolution Despite all its promises of increased productivity and morale, BYOD programs carry inherent risks. The challenge for IT and business leaders are to come up with a program that satisfies employee desires for flexibility with corporate needs for security. (more)

language … Android Authority During the Verizon media event in which the new Droid models were introduced, Motorola officials mentioned for the first time ever the company’s own system-on-chip architecture, the eight-core X8 Mobile Computing System that will be found inside all … (more)

Business Spectator Mobile computing’s Asian future. After five years of explosive growth sales of high-end smartphones have hit a plateau and everyone, including Apple, needs to buckle up as growth shifts to Asia. (more)

Big Data

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

CafeMom is looking for a Chief Data Scientist to lead our efforts to aggregate the highest quality data on moms across the web and create the strategic gateway … (more)

I am often asked what Pivotal adds over existing commercial solutions for network security. A quick answer is in the use of data science that provides the new … (more)

University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily We’ve repeatedly called on the University to be more transparent. Its disclosure of students’ social security numbers was not what we had in mind. The 18,700 or so students who recently received Aetna Health Insurance mailers with their social security … (more)

Occupational Health and Safety “BD2K aims to enable a quantum leap in the ability of the biomedical research enterprise to maximize the value of the growing volume and complexity of biomedical data,” said Dr. Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., NIH’s acting associate director for data science … (more)

InformationWeek (blog) Much like the definition of big data, the job description for data scientist is definitely a work in progress. What skills are required? Well, in addition to possessing a strong math and computer science background, including the ability to devise … (more)

GenomeWeb The centers will have a strong interdisciplinary component, and will seek to bring in investigators who have experience with data science to work with biomedical researchers. “The goal is to help researchers translate data into knowledge that will … (more)

Thanks to Edward Snowdon’s revelations about the NSA’s industrialscale electronic snooping activities socalledbig data has gone from being a buzzword in IT … (more)

Technorati In a delightful comment, GigaOm, a data science and social web site, says reviews do indeed matter more and more because we are in an age of “Data Darwinism,” where “those who get the best reviews thrive.” So what did Airbnb discover? Blog post author … (more)

iHealthBeat Applicants are expected to identify a specific topic and propose research in data science. The resulting products will be widely distributed in the research community. NIH will host a webinar for prospective applicants on Sept. 12, and applications are … (more)

Cloud

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

In this mini-documentary to commemorate OpenStack’s Third Anniversary, we hear from some of the project’s founders and early contributors as they look back … (more)

DigitalJournal.com Virtualization relies more on Infrastructure as a Service, while cloud computing users are trending toward Platform as a Service. Platform as a Service allows for more … Keeping software and hardware up to date can also help. Some people believe that … (more)

TechTarget When it comes to Desktop as a Service, the biggest hindrance has not been virtual desktop technology but rather Microsoft’s licensing for Windows. Before you dive into cloud-hosted desktops, make sure you understand the complex licensing rules that … (more)

and … MarketWatch DUBLIN & BOSTON, Jul 22, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Fleetmatics Group PLC (NYSE:FLTX) , a leading global provider of fleet management solutions for commercial fleet vehicles delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS), today announced its vehicles … (more)

MENAFN.COM ™, announced today that it has upgraded its award-winning website platform used by independent automotive tire and wheel dealers. “This release further demonstrates our commitment to providing … ARI Network Services, Inc. (“ARI”) creates award … (more)

EurActiv Europe’s data protection rules lie at the heart of the cloud computing proposition. The path European policymakers take will determine the extent to which Europe’s citizens and industries can take advantage of the global economic potential of the cloud. (more)

Charging … MENAFN.COM Available on-premises,cloud-based and as a Software-as-a-Service offering, Redknee providesa complete monetization and subscriber management solution to morethan 200 service providers, including some of the largest Tier 1operators in the world. (more)

Register Symantec has bought enterprise-focused authentication software start-up PasswordBank in a move aimed at beefing up its enterprise security software roster. PasswordBank provides identity-as-a-service through enterprise and cloud-based single sign on … (more)

MENAFN.COM Jul 23, 2013 (Menafn – M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) —ASITE, a global cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider, is pleased to announce availability of its Summer Release, Adoddle 16. Can this summer get any hotter? Hot off the presses, ASITE, … (more)

IT Business Edge (blog) The first is driven by the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application model with which most organizations are familiar. The second is an emerging world of application programming interfaces (APIs) in the cloud through which organizations will … (more)

Cloud Pro At least one commentator has predicted that OpenStack has got a grim future ahead as it tries to compete with AWS. Respected cloud pundit Simon Wardley is blunt has described OpenStack as a dead duck, He also pointed out OpenStack’s strategy was to … (more)

Linux.com (blog) This might seem nick-picky, but it is important to distinguish where Linux and OpenStack are today and how they got here. It may not seem fair to compare the more mature Linux to the younger OpenStack, and pooh-pooh any similarities. But this is not … (more)

TechWeekEurope UK SUSE Cloud 2.0 builds on OpenStack to deliver advanced cloud technology and the broadest solution choice to ensure smooth deployment of a private cloud into an enterprise data centre. The SUSE Cloud Administration Server has been augmented for … (more)

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—SwiftStack today announced the general availability of its private cloud storage offering. The SwiftStack solution, powered by the OpenStack Swift object storage system, was developed to provide the integration and … (more)

Apache CloudStack’s success as both an enterprise and service provider solution for cloud computing lies in its completeness as a Infrastructure-as-a- Service … (more)

Software as a service is a cloud-based solution for delivering applications. (more)

InfoWorld (blog) The open source cloud computing software project OpenStack turned three years old last week, and there are plenty of reasons to celebrate. OpenStack has come a long way since its launch, with contributions from Rackspace, NASA, Intel, and other groups. (more)

Data … Fort Mills Times To better enable customers to implement OpenStack in IT environments, the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution is now available with new options. Specifically, the latest update of the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution offers OpenStack Grizzly … (more)

MarketWatch (press release) The College of Education team was using Ubuntu Linux as their operating system of choice, and chose OpenStack for their private cloud platform. The team met with some daunting challenges when trying to implement a proprietary “scale-out” disk array … (more)

Midsize Insider One reason midsize firms turn to cloud computing is to save money through increased productivity. A new study shows that the cloud is also leading to energy savings. The business apps that most companies run on a daily basis can move to the cloud to … (more)

Bloomberg July 23 (Bloomberg) — Bob Rice, general managing partner with Tangent Capital Partners LLC, explains “Software as a Service.” (Source: Bloomberg). Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. We’re focused on software as a … (more)

Intelligent Enterprise (blog) Launched last year as an invitation-only service, Compute Engine began admitting Google Cloud Platform Gold Support customers in April. Google in May also made its platform-as-a-service offering, App Engine, more appealing by adding support for the … (more)

tools ITworld.com That’s why companies like Mirantis and eNovance that help businesses build OpenStack deployments are getting millions in investments. It’s why most of the marquee enterprise OpenStack deployments you hear of are at huge organizations that have the … (more)

Geekzone Building on its portfolio of open, flexible solutions, Dell today announced the expansion of key open source software and cloud initiatives including packaged commercial offerings around the OpenStack open source cloud project, the Hadoop open source … (more)

Sacramento Bee Based on OpenStack Grizzly core technology (the latest evolution of the OpenStack project), SUSE Cloud 2.0 features enhanced installation and management, more hypervisor support options, and hardened technology from OpenStack projects for … (more)

I was recently reviewing some sales and marketing materials regarding building out Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Part of these materials included… (more)

I’d like to be able to create a ‘top-hat’ navigation menu that is common across all tenants in a multi-tenant site. For this purpose, I will create a custom menu … (more)

Logs

Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

Virtual-Strategy Magazine The various bundles, which all contain intrusion detection, alerting (SIEM- security information event management) and system log archiving (Log Management) … (more)

Cisco WLC SNMP Historical User Statistics Monitoring (w/ Syslog or Splunk) Purpose: This document aims to outline a way to extract client association data f. (more)

Wall Street Journal (press release) Tealium’s solution expands Splunk Enterprise to allow users to gather visitor interaction data directly from websites, mobile web and native mobile applications beyond server-side data. Combining this with existing machine data sources being collected, … (more)

CMSWire Combined with Tealium’s DataCloud, Splunk Enterprise users can add another layer to the stream of server side and machine data sources being collected. This extra layer should be able to give organizations an even deeper level of understanding of their … (more)

Emergency Management One of the participants was Geeks Without Bounds, a nonprofit humanitarian project accelerator, which partnered with Splunk’s charity arm, Splunk4Good, to apply the social media analysis. Team members working on the project looked at hashtags and … (more)

ITIL

Daily identity-related news feed from @trustpath, TrustPath.

iClarified Many of the world’s largest data breaches involve millions of user accounts, passwords and emails stolen and accessed. The folks over at Information is Beautiful put together a nice interactive info graphic conceptualizing all the different breaches … (more)

San Jose Mercury News Still, he said he had not seen any indications that suggest other attacks on Apple could soon follow. “I don’t think this indicates any system problems in their security,” he said. Data breaches are relatively common because hackers are constantly … (more)

Smart Data Collective The report showed 131 data breaches affected 2.5 million Californians, as well as listing recommendations of how to avoid loss or theft of data. Among their recommendations were employing data encryption; reviewing and tightening security controls on … (more)

A new interactive visualization from Information Is Beautiful puts the history of massive data breaches in perspective, going back nearly 10 years and comparing … (more)

In looking at the healthcare data breach landscape, it’s important to understand security holes, what they mean to organizations and how to prevent breaches. (more)

with … Sacramento Bee Deep Security provides mid-market companies with enterprise-grade technology to guard against data breaches and business disruptions for physical, virtual and cloud servers. “Mid-market companies present a tremendous business opportunity for our … (more)