July 2011

This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.

• The Coming Crisis of IT Management

Forbes (blog)Consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service,mobility are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT byorders of magnitude. The vast majority of CIOs are not ready to handlechallenge of managing today’s IT …(more)

• National Democratic Institute: vCloud Director and Bluelock …

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• Issue 634 – jclouds – unhook vcloud and vcloud-express – multi …

Right now, we have the following vCloud-related modules org.jclouds.common/vcloud-common org.jclouds.common/trmk-common org.jclouds.api/vcloudexpress…(more)

• New SMX3 ‘platform as a service’ delivers fast, easy cloud …

We have, in effect, evolved SMX to become a ‘platform as a service’. We’veleveraged the open architecture of the SMX platform to maximise our abilityto …(more)

• Issue 634 – jclouds – unhook vcloud and vcloud-express – multi …

Issue 634: unhook vcloud and vcloud-express. 2 people starred this issueand may be notified of … Right now, we have the following vCloud-relatedmodules …(more)

• HP, IBM, and now Compuware, top SaaS rankings

iTWireBy Peter Dinham Compuware has joined HP and IBM at the top of the
leaderboard as the third largest global system management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor. With HP and IBM ranked first and secondrespectively, Compuware had the highest growth …(more)

• Lumesse Adds ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Certification to its

SaaS …BenzingaAs a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integrated talent acquisitionand talent management solutions for 1700 of the world’s leading companies,security of data relating to job applicants and employees is anincreasingly important priority for …(more)

• Beware: Cloud computing’s green claims aren’t always true

InfoWorldBy David Linthicum Cloud computing must be green. After all, those who
provide cloud computing technology say so, most cloud advocates say so, andeven those who check up on such things say so. Take the Carbon DiscloserProject, for example. …(more)

• Mobile Business Apps Bring Cloud Computing Closer to SMBs: AMI Report

eWeekBusinesses are looking to service providers of smart phones and tablets tooffer solutions with mobile devices, AMI said. The use of smart phones andtablet PCs by US small to medium-size businesses (SMBs), businesses withfewer than 1000 employees, …(more)

• Amazon Unveils New Auto-Scaling Features

Data Center KnowledgeThe Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit has been making headlines inrecent days, unveiling new auto scaling features last night, whilesecurities analysts speculate how much revenue the AWS business isgenerating. Meanwhile, the New York Times …(more)

• Bob Muglia quits Microsoft for Juniper in cloud coup

Computerworld (blog)Muglia, the ex-president of the Software And Tools Business (STB) is off tohelp Juniper with its cloud computing strategy. In IT Blogwatch, bloggersfollow the money. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits foryour entertainment. …(more)

• Software Service Provider OnFast Launches Social Coupon Generator for

Business …BenzingaHeadquartered in Naples, Florida, OnFast was founded in 2010 by serialinternet and travel technology entrepreneur Aaron Shepherd. The company isa cloud-based software as a service provider for the online coupon andsocial network marketing space with …(more)

• Northcore Announces New Strategic Partnership

MarketWatch (press release)”Northcore has a toolset that presents an excellent fit with our enterpriseplatform,” said Van Potter, CEO of Manuweb Software Inc. “We stronglybelieve that there are significant opportunities for both companies tocross sell our respective solutions …(more)

• ADI Time Announces Trade-Up Program on New adiPad and adiTouch Data

Collection …PR Newswire (press release)ADI Time offers a wide variety of on-site software-as-a-service (SaaS)solutions designed to fit each customer’s application or needs. Through itsopen API, ADI Time and its partners offer a seamless solution to customerswhile greatly simplifying …(more)

• Dell Goes Open With OpenStack-Based Cloud Infrastructure

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Dell is pushing its allegiance to the Rackspace-led
OpenStack open source cloud project to the next level with the launch of anInfrastructure-as-a-Service play based on the OpenStack cloud operatingsystem. …(more)

• No need for cloud-specific legislation, SIIA industry group says

Washington Post (blog)By Hayley Tsukayama Software industry group SIIA said policymakers should
not specifically legislate cloud computing. Above, Apple CEO Steve Jobstalks about the music component of iCloud at the Worldwide DevelopersConference in San Francisco, Monday, …(more)

• Amazon identifies surge in cloud computing uptake in Europe

One Stop ClickA senior figure at Amazon has asserted that cloud computing is becoming anincreasingly popular IT solution for companies within Europe and that thistrend will continue over the next few years. Adam Selipsky, vice-presidentat Amazon Web Services, …(more)

• Dell wants to make OpenStack as easy as 1-2-3

GigaOmMore and more, the Rackspace-led project looks like the Linux of cloudcomputing software. For its part, Dell’s reference architecture is basedupon its PowerEdge C servers designed for cloud computing, and leverages aDell-developed software tool …(more)

• Cloud Computing: RIM Fires 2000 People

SYS-CON Media (press release)RIM Monday morning described itself as swollen and said it would lay off2000 people, 11% of its staff. The company said a few weeks ago that itwould make cuts in an attempt to compete with the Apple and Android tabletsand phones that are killing it. …(more)

• Dell Unveils Industry’s First OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud

SolutionMarketWatch (press release)ROUND ROCK, Texas, Jul 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — To further advance theadoption of open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Dell todayannounced the first available cloud solution offering based on theOpenStack platform–the Dell OpenStack …(more)

• Mycroft Inc. and SailPoint Deliver Identity Management-as-a-Service to

EnterprisesBusiness Wire (press release)Mycroft Inc. is the innovation leader in delivering cloud-based IT identityand security solutions as a service. Focused on the configuration, deliveryand management of its offerings, the company seamlessly integrates softwareand professional …(more)

• Retalix Acquires MTXEPS, a Leading Provider of SaaS and On-Premise

Electronic …MarketWatch (press release)By leveraging a multitude of deployment options, including
Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), Retalix serves a large customer base ofapproximately 60000 stores across more than 50 countries worldwide. TheCompany’s headquarters are located in Ra’anana, …(more)

• Identropy Becomes an Elite Partner for the Quest One Identity Solution

MarketWatch (press release)This combines Quest’s leading identity management solution with Identropy’sbest-in-class advisory, implementation and Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS)offerings to provide organizations with an unprecedented level offlexibility, management and control …(more)

• Avnet Technology Solutions Introduces New Consultative Services to

Accelerate …MarketWatch (press release)Avnet’s partners can build on these engagements to provide their end-usercustomers with the quantitative and qualitative analysis they need to makeinformed decisions on how to incorporate cloud computing into their datacenters. …(more)

• Cloud Computing: The Opportunities And Risks

Risk WatchDogCloud computing has been a hot topic in the IT world for some time. Theidea of abandoning on-site servers and moving all data and applicationsinto ‘the cloud’ brings many benefits for companies and organisationslooking to cut costs. …(more)

• On-Premise vs. Cloud: The Impact of Cloud Computing on Web Content

ManagementAdvanced TradingAlthough cloud computing adoption started in small and medium sizedcompanies, cloud services are rapidly gaining market share in theenterprise. Despite these statistics, there are still misunderstandings onthe definition of cloud computing and even …(more)

• Microsoft paper proposes using ‘cloud’ servers to heat homes

PhysOrg.com(PhysOrg.com) — Microsoft has published a research paper that proposesinstalling servers used for cloud computing into homes and businesses,instead of in vast data centers. The idea being, that because such serversgenerate so much heat, …(more)

• Dex One Corporation to Deploy Salesforce CRM Cloud Computing Software

TMC NetBy Nathesh, TMCnet Contributor Dex One Corporation, a marketing solutions
provider, announced that it will be making use of Salesforce CRM as part ofits new effort to leverage new technologies to simplify selling process andat the same time aid other …(more)

• CCH Acquires SpeedTax: Move Positions CCH As Only Provider of SaaS

Solutions …PR Newswire (press release)RIVERWOODS, Ill., July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CCH, a Wolters Kluwerbusiness today announced it has acquired SpeedTax, a provider of innovativeSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales and use tax solutions. The acquisitioncontinues CCH’s expansion in the …(more)

• Social Business SaaS Applications

Enterprise IrregularsBy Evangelos Simoudis on July 26, 2011 A couple of years ago while
analyzing the ways SaaS business applications could evolve we startedthinking about the social web’s impact on business processes. At the time,Facebook’s success was accelerating …(more)

• Virtualization Management Software Startup Joins OpenStack

GlobeNewsWire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Convirture, maker ofvirtualization management software, announced today that it has joined theOpenStack initiative to contribute its resources and expertise to help movethe project along and make it a …(more)

• CCH Acquires SpeedTax: Move Positions CCH As Only Provider of SaaS …

RIVERWOODS, Ill., July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CCH, a Wolters Kluwerbusiness today announced it has acquired SpeedTax, a provider of innovativeSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales and use tax solutions. The acquisitioncontinues CCH’s …(more)

• VCE Helps Government Agencies Embrace the Cloud

MarketWatch (press release)”Cloud computing is transforming the IT landscape,” said Michael Capellas,Chairman and CEO of VCE and Co-Chair of the Commission. “I am proud to saythat the Commission really took this mission seriously. In the end, weclearly identified barriers to …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Dell’s OpenStack Chickens Ready to Roost

SYS-CON Media (press release)Dell Tuesday picked up OpenStack – which it’s been fiddling with since theopen source initiative kicked off a year ago – and started running with it,morphing it into the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution and positioning it as analternative to existing …(more)

• Sorenson Media Execs Add Expertise to Cloud Computing Commission as Sole

Video …SYS-CON Media (press release)Sorenson Media today announced that company CEO Peter Csathy and VicePresident of Video Solutions David Dudas participated in the TechAmericaFoundation CLOUD 2 Commission, which today unveiled its highly anticipatedcloud computing roadmap to the …(more)

• IDC Ranks Compuware among Leading System Management

Software-as-a-Service …TMC Net”This ranking reaffirms our strength and leadership in the systemmanagement SaaS market and shows that our aggressive growth strategy isworking,” said Bruce Reading, senior vice president and general manager ofCompuware’s APM (News – Alert) business …(more)

• Dell wants to make OpenStack as easy as 1-2-3

ReutersBy Derrick Harris at GigaOm On Tuesday Dell announced a reference
architecture, open-source software and services offering designed to makedeploying an OpenStack-based cloud as easy as following directions. Calledthe Dell OpenStack Cloud solution, …(more)

• Vasco 2Q Profit Surges 88% But Shares Slide As Margins Narrow

Wall Street JournalHunt said the addition of Google Inc.’s (GOOG) Google Apps to its platform”was a significant addition” and the company continues to work onintegrating other important software-as-a-service applications into itsplatform. …(more)

• Group: US Govt’ Can Help Encourage Cloud Adoption

PCWorldBy Grant Gross, IDG News The US government can help grow the nation’s cloud
computing market by assisting private companies in the development of cloudsecurity standards and by encouraging cloud providers to allow dataportability among them, …(more)

• Sorenson Media Execs Add Expertise to Cloud Computing Commission as Sole

Video …Newsday (subscription)Click here Sorenson Media Execs Add Expertise to Cloud Computing Commissionas Sole Video Workflow Solutions Provider Making Recommendations toPresident Obama Published: July 26, 2011 1:45 PM By The Associated Press–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. …(more)

• CLOUD2 Study Shows How the Feds Can Migrate to Cloud Computing

ReadWriteWebBy David Strom / July 26, 2011 3:00 PM / 0 Comments This post is part of
our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualizationand cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read thewhite paper about how Intel …(more)

• Cloud computing is a lot of hot air (and it can heat your house)

MicroScope (blog)By Billy MacInnes on July 26, 2011 9:06 PM | No Comments There’s an
intriguing paper published by Microsoft in which the authors argue that itcould be possible to send servers used in cloud computing data centres tohouses and office buildings and use …(more)

• Silico Delivers SaaS-Based Quality Framework

Managing Automation MagazineThrough a new partnership, the startup’s business process managementWeb-based templates are now available via the cloud, giving users a way toconfigure quality management into enterprise applications. by StephanieNeil Silico Corp., a purveyor of …(more)

• ‘Cloud’ computers could heat homes

UPI.comREDMOND, Wash., July 26 (UPI) — Microsoft says installing cloud computingservers into homes and businesses could heat them instead of wasting energyby cooling the air in server data centers. A research paper published byMicrosoft in conjunction …(more)

• Amazon eyeing success in cloud computing

TechSpotBig names like Microsoft and Google have already established successfulcloud computing platforms while others like Apple and their iCloud serviceare just around the corner. Reuters is reporting that Washington-basedonline retailer Amazon suspects …(more)

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• IBM Redbooks | Cloud Computing and the value of zEnterprise

Objectives: The emergence of cloud computing delivery models for ITservices has many C-levels executives believing they can reduce costs andimprove …(more)

• 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia and Cdn World Forum Asia Announced

SBWire (press release)The Cloud Computing World Series will make its final stop of 2011, when itarrives in Hong Kong for the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia, takingplace on the 30th and 1st December at the Mira Hotel. The event follows onfrom the success last year’s …(more)

• Fujitsu Launches SaaS-based Document Management Service : Fujitsu …

Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Chugoku Systems Limited today announced theavailability in Japan of a SaaS-based version of the company’s documentmanagement …(more)

• UniWA consolidates to private cloud

iT NewsThe company used a platform-as-a-service offering from local Dimension Datasubsidiary BlueFire to provide the private cloud hosting arrangement, withsupport for RedHat and Windows operating systems as well as both VMware andCitrix hypervisors. …(more)

• Amcom Telecommunications in $9m UWA cloud computing deal

Perth NowAMCOM Telecommunications has signed a $9 million contract to supply cloudcomputing services to the University of WA. Under the deal, Amcom hasagreed to host dedicated cloud services for the university, with 400terabytes of storage. …(more)

• Why ERP Is Cool Again

InformationWeekIT’s in a position to push beyond the initial vision–”let’s deliver thisreport to a smartphone”–by helping to build a software platform that spursmore innovation. These kinds of high-profile projects let IT set a new toneand get out, …(more)

• Sr Solution Specialist vCloud Central Europe at VMware in Germany …

VMware is hiring! View and apply for the Sr Solution Specialist, vCloud,Central Europe Job at VMware in Germany bases.(more)

• 4 reasons why cloud computing is efficient

GigaOmEconomies of scale: It’s cheaper for bigger cloud computing folks to makeefficiency improvements because they can spread the costs over a largerserver base and can afford to have more dedicated folks focused onefficiency improvements. …(more)

• Just how healthy is your PC?

ComputerActive.co.uk From time to time, Microsoft will fix a long list of Windows bugs andsecurity problems in one go, and release the lot as a Service Pack. Thesesave people from having to download hundreds of different updates afterre-installing Windows, …(more)

• A3 Solutions and BRIGHTRIZE Announce Budgeting and Forecasting Solution

for …BenzingaMore flexible, with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than competingproducts, A3 Modeling 2011 is available as software-as-a-service (SaaS) andon-premise offerings that tightly integrate with leading enterprise OLAPand relational database …(more)

• OpenVault Launches Policy Solution to Maximize Revenues and Optimize the

Cable …PR Web (press release)OpenVault provides solutions which help broadband providers managebandwidth utilization on their networks and optimize the network’s revenuepotential via a unique Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. Networkproviders can purchase a host of …(more)

• PeakColo Selects Zayo for High-Capacity Network Service

BenzingaPeakColo is a provider of cloud-based solutions and services includingInfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) that is used for cloud-based solutiondeployments and as the foundation for Software-as-a-Service andPlatform-as-a-Service. …(more)

• UptimeCloud helps companies track and predict Amazon cloud costs

InfoWorld (blog)To help address this challenge, Uptime Software has created a newsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud management subscription service calledUptimeCloud, an online cost and capacity management service that helpsmeasure, monitor, and manage the cost and …(more)

• Cloud Computing: How does it change our lives & costs

Global Surf NewsSurfersvillage Global Surf News, 25 July, 2011 : – - If you hear peopletalking about the cloud, they probably don’t mean the sky. The cloud ismassive data centers spread out around the globe, rows of servers thatstore huge amounts of data. …(more)

• Strengthening of Cloud Computing Practice Center at e-Zest

India PRwire (press release)e-Zest has upgraded and strengthened cloud computing practice centreconsidering increased demand for cloud computing. Pune, Maharashtra, July24, 2011 /India PRwire/ — e-Zest, a global software product engineeringand enterprise application …(more)

• Google Apps vs Office 365: your choice

ZDNet (blog)By Phil Wainewright | July 25, 2011, 2:59am PDT Since 1998, Phil
Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger,analyst and consultant. He founded pioneering website ASPnews.com, andlater Loosely Coupled, which covered …(more)

• A3 Solutions and BRIGHTRIZE Announce Budgeting and Forecasting Solution

for …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)”BRIGHTRIZE’ unique combination of domain expertise, integrated IT, HR, andFinancial services offering, and SaaS hosting environment has opened up amarket for CPM that A3 Solutions could not otherwise address.” “Partneringwith A3is an obvious choice …(more)

• Ohanarama Recognized as AlwaysOn Global 250 “15 to Watch in the Upcoming

Year”Benzinga… and 15 to Watch represent the top private, emerging companies in theGlobal Silicon Valley that are demonstrating significant market tractionand pursuing game-changing technologies in digital media, mobile, socialmedia, cloud, and SaaS computing. …(more)

• Amazon’s Cloud Business Is Growing Like Crazy

Business InsiderRight now Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing unit, is small enoughthat Amazon doesn’t report its revenue, but according to estimates, itgenerated $500 million in revenue last year and will do $750 million thisyear–a 50% growth rate, …(more)

• 6 Reasons SaaS May Mean A Return To Silos

InformationWeekAdd in the inherent design restrictions of software as a service–thinkislands, not exactly designed to exchange data–and things get eventrickier. Fortunately, there are some products and best practices that canmake your apps work together. …(more)

• MicroStrategy BI Cloud Platform Connects Facebook with Enterprises

Enterprise Apps TodayBusiness intelligence (BI) software provider MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR)has introduced its cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and announced anew Facebook Connect Gateway for enterprise customers. Called”MicroStrategy Cloud,” the company says …(more)

• Linux based Openstack will challenge VMware

InquirerBy Inquirer staff A CONSORTIUM of hardware and software vendors is starting
its second year of developing the Linux based Openstack cloud operatingsystem to take on the proprietary alternatives such as VMware. Also VMwareis not based on Red Hat, …(more)

• OpenStack wants to be your data center OS

InfoWorld (blog)By Eric Knorr Why do you need a private cloud? What could possibly induce
you to go to the time and expense of transforming a big chunk of your datacenter into an environment resembling that of a cloud service provider?Well, for one thing, …(more)

• BestVendor Survey of 550+ Startups Demonstrates Rising Popularity of

Google …Marketwire (press release)They also show preeminence of relatively new, software-as-a-service toolsamong startups and small businesses, a rising trend across all businesses.The findings also show the distribution of market share within specificcategories of products and …(more)

• Cover Story: VMware’s Maritz Aims To Run The Table In Cloud

CRNIf that weren’t enough, Maritz has been busy gobbling up some of theindustry’s best and brightest IT talent, recruiting two of Google’s topengineers to help build Cloud Foundry, a Platform-as-a-Service for the nextgeneration of cloud applications. …(more)

• DotNetNuke(R) 6 Web Content Management Platform Delivers Simplified User …

Marketwire (press release)DotNetNuke 6 is compatible with Windows Azure Cloud Hosting (Platform as aService) and also provides two folder provider options (Amazon S3 and AzureFile Storage) that can be used to store files in the cloud (Storage as aService). …(more)

• 151 Ventures Joins Forces with Channel Consulting Firm Wireless Rain

PR Newswire (press release)151 Ventures will rebrand the Wireless Rain CHANNELOCK program, a completechannel sales partner strategy and deployment platform, as a service to itsclients. CHANNELOCK encompasses a full range of services for channeldevelopment including: industry …(more)

• Cloud Computing: It’s Not Just About Access From Anywhere

TechnoratiCloud computing has definitely moved into the mainstream. You now seecommercials from Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and others every evening on primetime Cable TV. CNBC has created a Cloud Computing Special Report forinvestors to learn more about it. …(more)

• Acer jumps on cloud computing bandwagon

Channel News AsiaAnd it’s jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon, hoping that the movewill help the firm regain ground that it had lost to tablet computers.iGware is a little-known cloud computing firm based in the US. Itssingle-page website reveals nothing about …(more)

• Security Improvements Help Cloud Computing Move from Fad to Trend

TMC NetBy Mae Kowalke Is cloud computing a trend or a fad? That depends on whom
you ask. For early adopters and those who are enamored with the cost andefficiency benefits of the technology, cloud computing is clearly a trend.For IT managers concerned about …(more)

• Assessing the risks of cloud computing

Security ParkThe US is adopting cloud computing faster than the UK. The drivers forcloud computing hang on cost efficiency, scalability and ease of use. Butdoes all this outweigh the risks? To many, the notion of putting more dataand more applications on the …(more)

• Breakthrough TransLattice Application Platform for Distributed Computing

is …PR Newswire (press release)… redundant networks and auto-recovery processes can all help, but theyseem to ignore the fundamental problems created by centralizedapplications,” said Paul Burns, president of Neovise, an analyst firmfocused on cloud computing. …(more)

• VCloud Director 1.5 | Technology, Computer and Gadget Information

Along with this, VMware has also announced the VMware product line vShield5, vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5, vCloud Director 1.5. The combination ofthree …(more)

• Security considerations for Platform as a Service (PaaS) – Blogs

What are the main security issues when deploying a Platform as a Service(PaaS) model of cloud computing such as Windows Azure? …(more)

• Introducing Force.com

informITThe suffix “as a Service” (aaS) means that the platform exists “in thecloud,” accessible to customers via the Internet. Many variations exist onthis acronym, including SaaS (Software as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructureas a Service), and so forth. …(more)

• Marc Benioff, CEO, makes philanthropy a priority

San Francisco ChronicleThe vision that Benioff has articulated for more than a decade – thatincreasingly software and services will be delivered online, via paidsubscription, in what we now call the cloud – has arrived. “Software as aservice,” a technology category that …(more)

• Compuware Ranked Among the World’s Leading System Management SaaS Vendors

MarketWatch (press release)According to IDC’s market analysis report titled: “Worldwide SystemManagement Software-as-a-Service 2011-2015 Forecast and 2010 VendorShares,” Compuware’s Application Performance Management (APM) business unitranked third, with SaaS revenue …(more)

• Radiant Sage Enhances Features and Functionality of Core-Lab-in-a-Box(TM)

Middle East North Africa Financial NetworkSpecifically designed for imaging clinical trials, thisSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) image management solution enables rapid trialstarts and increases overall efficiency of the collection, distribution andprocessing of images. …(more)

• OpenStack’s extended family continues to innovate

Cloud IT ProTwo of the core developers of OpenStack, the open-source cloud-computingplatform that was launched last year by Rackspace and NASA, are seizing theopportunity they helped forge to create more cloud solutions forenterprises and find more success in …(more)

• Translattice Shakes Up Distributed Computing

All Things DigitalOne of the basic assumptions about cloud computing is that services outagesare bad. An application that goes down for one reason or another is anexpensive problem when it happens. But it’s also an expensive problem forwhich to plan ahead, …(more)

• Amazon AWS Cloud Computing Unit Drives Analysts Crazy

Seeking AlphaGet out your crystal balls: join several analysts in today’s guessing game,giving Amazon’s (AMZN) AWS cloud computing unit a revenue run rate. AmazonWeb Services (AWS) provide companies with an infrastructure web servicesplatform in the cloud. …(more)

• Report: Cloud Computing Means Export Laws Need Updating

National JournalThat’s one of many questions raised by the increase in cloud computing,according to a Brookings report released on Monday. Regulators need toprovide clear guidance to users of the cloud, said John Villasenor, seniorfellow in governance studies and …(more)

• Cloud Services: Carriers Want Cloud Control

CRN From jaw-dropping acquisitions to mountainous investments, traditionalcarriers are putting their money where their mouths are and aggressivelyshouldering their way into the cloud computing space. For telcos, it justmakes sense. …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Judge Tells Oracle to Move Decimal Point on Java Claims

SYS-CON Media (press release)Google last week lost its shot at getting the Android trial delayed whilethe Patent and Trademark Office re-examines Oracle’s Java patents.Presiding judge William Alsup said the trial is still on for Halloween.Google did get its Daubert hearing. …(more)

• The 5 biggest IT security mistakes

Network WorldBut to get the job done in the era of virtualization, smartphones and cloudcomputing, you’ve got to avoid technical and political mistakes. Inparticular, here are five security mistakes to avoid: 1. Thinking that thebusiness mindset of the …(more)

• Red Hat moves to RHEL 5.7 as Oracle nabs Ksplice

eWeekIn other enterprise Linux news, Oracle acquired Ksplice and its Linux-basedhot-patching technology, and an eWEEK review says the Ubuntu-based StackopsLinux distro speeds the process of configuring and deploying OpenStackclouds. …(more)

• ISACA releases cloud computing governance guide

SearchSecurityChannel.comISACA released a new guide designed to help organizations understand how toimplement effective cloud computing governance. The guide, IT ControlObjectives for Cloud Computing, aims to help readers understand cloudcomputing and how to build the …(more)