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July 2, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Jul 2, 2012

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

  • UMC licenses IBM tech for mobile chips
  • ZDNet Summary: Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corporation taps on Big Blue’s knowhow to accelerate development of chips for mobile computing and communication products, report states. (more)

  • Asians more dependent on BYOD
  • ZDNet Young employees in Asia are more dependent on mobile devices, already engaging in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) due to the strong infrastructure, working culture and increasing affluence in the region, but are also more likely to circumvent corporate … (more)

  • Bye bye, corporate phone
  • Computerworld Choosing to ride rather than duck the wave of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) adoption currently flooding corporate America, Egan last fall instituted a mandatory, 90-day window for employees at the virtualization software company to trade in their … (more)

  • Visage, Fixmo Partner on BYOD Solution
  • The VAR Guy … and enterprise mobility management company Visage Mobile are partnering to offer an integrated solution combining enterprise mobility intelligence, data security and risk management for businesses adopting bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives. (more)

  • Join Xignite and TABB Group for a Webinar on “How Mobile is Reshaping …
  • MarketWatch (press release) Press may register to attend for free (URL below). The program will address how the overwhelming popularity of mobile devices and the BYOD (bring your own device to work) phenomenon is transforming how investors consume financial information. Themes … (more)

  • Blowing Minds with Mobile Technology at the Inaugural UNTETHER.talks
  • Techvibes (blog) There is no such thing as mobile computing. It does not exist. Computing has simply gone mobile. Whurley grins at the audience and continues on with his presentation. It is an unusual one: whurley had started off by pointing out the flawed structure of … (more)

  • BYOD face-off: The case for, and against
  • TechRepublic (blog) Yet there seems to be confusion about what the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend means for the IT department. The death of the corporate laptop? Helpdesks supporting every conceivable computing device? Will implementing BYOD be a trivial matter, … (more)

  • Is Microsoft trying to kill BYOD?
  • BetaNews IT news comes in fast. Sometimes it takes us a while to process it all. In the blur of competing headlines, critical trends become obscured, and seemingly disconnected events — when viewed through the prism of a few days rest and a good cup of tea … (more)

  • Gartner BYOD Study: Enterprises Just Say Yes
  • CIO Insight The survey centered on the deployment status of, and plans for mobile device adoption; bring your own device (BYOD) policy; and investment in data centers and adopting technology drivers, including hosted virtual desktop (HVD) for enterprise mobility. (more)

  • Don’t count on BYOD cost savings, experts say
  • TechTarget At its core, the bring your own device (BYOD) trend is designed to make users more productive. But the mere act of connecting an iPhone, iPad or Android device to the corporate network won’t achieve that goal. Organizations need strategies, polices and … (more)

  • IBM Introduces Virtual Desktop Workplace Solutions
  • CIO Insight IBM announced a new set of virtual desktop flexible solutions, known as IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure solutions, which will help enterprises handle the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) to work craze. (more)

  • BYOD alternative options | Enterprise Mobility iPass Blog: Smarter …
  • By Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
    Computerworld article about various options taken by IT to manage Bring Your Own Device; including going to personal-liable completely. (more)

  • SF Giants CIO: Security, Cost Challenges in BYOD
  • PCWorld The organization is relatively small with 160 employees and an IT staff of only 11, and it is not feasible to support a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy with a well-defined approved list of devices and application-usage model. “We’re not an IT … (more)

  • Mobility certification program helps partners sell BYOD services
  • TechTarget Selling mobility services to customers can be daunting, but Aruba’s mobility certification program helps partners better understand everything from wireless LAN design and management to mobile device troubleshooting. (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Jul 2, 2012

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

Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 2, 2012

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

  • RevUp Render launches V-Ray cloud rendering service | CG Channel
  • By Jim Thacker
    The RevUp Render platform as a service (PAAS) for 3D software supporting distributed rendering on V-Ray 2.0 is a self-service platform, while the RevUp Render Revit rendering solution is a complete service with expert artists to convert Revit … (more)

  • Pano Logic Reinvents Cloud Computing for the Desktop
  • MarketWatch (press release) The platform centralizes all computing activities in the cloud; end users see a familiar browser interface and use software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions or web-based applications to do their work. Other web-based computing solutions still require … (more)

  • A Summer Storm’s Disruption Is Felt in the Technology Cloud
  • New York Times Amazon has built a thriving business in cloud computing, with a range of customers including Intercontinental Hotels, Fox Entertainment, Unilever, Spotify, as well as 187 government agencies and hundreds of small start-ups looking for the cheapest … (more)

  • Cloud Computing, Cloud Services Stocks Up 24% 1H 2012
  • TalkinCloud Cloud computing and cloud services stocks rose 24% in the first half of 2012, according to the Talkin’ Cloud Stock Index. Biggest YTD winners are SWI & EQIX. (more)

  • Who do you trust with your data?
  • Sydney Morning Herald While vendors claim cloud computing is more secure than on-premise data centres others suggest only user experience will eventually allay security fears to break down adoption barriers for wary enterprises. After all, who now keeps cash under a bed? (more)

  • Cloudy Commerce
  • GenomeWeb The presence of cloud computing in genomics has solidified over the last few years to the point that it is safe to say that it’s here to stay. Increasingly, entire sessions at conferences are being dedicated to best practices for cloud computing and to … (more)

  • VMware vCloud vs. Google Compute Engine Cloud: Rivals?
  • TalkinCloud (blog) VMware is distancing vCloud away from Google Compute Engine and Amazon Web Services. Are there Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) differences in the cloud? (more)

  • Re CY12Q2 Community Analysis OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus …
  • From heut2008 20120702; CY12Q2 Community Analysis OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus vs CloudStack. From Qingye JiangJohn 20120702 … (more)

  • MarketsandMarkets: Global Healthcare Cloud Computing Market Worth
  • $5419.8 … MarketWatch (press release) The healthcare cloud market by service models is further classified into Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The market is dominated by SaaS providers such as Carestream Health, Inc. and … (more)

  • DataMotion Files Provisional Patent for Technology that Enables Easy and …
  • MarketWatch (press release) Like all DataMotion data-delivery services, this new capability will leverage the DataMotion Platform, a cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that makes it simple for organizations to reduce the cost and complexity of exchanging sensitive … (more)

  • Rutherford County Tennessee Goes-Live with Visual Fire On-Demand
  • MarketWatch (press release) The Visual Fire On-Demand solution is a Web-deployable / Software as a Service (SaaS) version of ETI’s Visual Fire software. Visual Fire On-Demand is a suite of modules that includes Fire Incident Reporting, Mobile Field Reporting, Equipment Inventory, … (more)

  • Extreme Networks Broadens Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Strategy and …
  • MarketWatch (press release) OpenStack offers an open, community-driven platform for centralized orchestration. Bringing network switches into the realm of orchestration is a logical next step for Extreme Networks in its continual evolution towards open technologies and cloud … (more)

  • SoftwareasaService provides server energy analytics Servhawk LLC
  • Software-as-a-Service provides server energy analytics. ., Servhawk LLC. (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Google-Backed CliQr Moves Legacy Apps to Cloud
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) CliQr Technologies, a cloud management start-up modestly seeded by Google Ventures and Foundation Capital and now part of Google’s new IaaS Compute Engine initiative, says it can put complicated legacy business apps in the cloud fast and painlessly. (more)

  • The Morning Download: In the Cloud, Nobody Can Hear You Scream
  • Wall Street Journal (blog) Service disruptions at Amazon.com and Salesforce.com, in themselves, won’t change the basic economics of cloud computing, which allow businesses to shift capital expenditures and labor costs to third-party vendors, and to reallocate their IT resources … (more)

  • Pano Logic Launches System for Cloud Platform
  • eWeek Zero client virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) specialist Pano Logic introduced Pano for Cloud, a cloud computing platform with a centralized architecture that provides a single management console to deploy, control, and secure both endpoints and … (more)

  • Why Dell fought (and won) Quest for $2.36 billion
  • GigaOM While Quest’s middleware offering may not be as sexy as a big data service or cloud computing software, Dell has actually been working in those areas over the past few years via acquisitions of companies such as Boomi, Wyse, Force10 and Compellent, and … (more)

  • Cloud Computing Forecast: Cloudy With A Chance of Fail
  • Forbes Amazon’s Cloud service is having a bad a couple weeks. For the second time in as many weeks Amazon’s East Coast cloud crashed during a severe storm that left 1.3 million in the Washington D.C. area without power. The outage brought down numerous … (more)

  • Cloud Provider Datapipe, Makes Solution Provider 500 List
  • MarketWatch (press release) JERSEY CITY, NJ, Jul 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Cloud provider Datapipe, a global provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing, today announced it has been recognized by UBM Channel as a part of … (more)

  • Managed IT Services: A Critical Backstop Against Cloud Computing Failure
  • MarketWatch (press release) AUSTIN, TX, Jul 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Cloud computing is clearly here to stay. Its advantages in ease of maintenance, flexibility and cost savings mean consumers — businesses in particular — are transferring more and more functions and … (more)

  • @Multitenant | EclipseLink 2.4.x Java Persistence API (JPA – Eclipse
  • Multitenancy can be specified at the entity or mapped superclass level. Annotation Elements. Table 2-34 describes this annotation’s elements. Table 2- 34 … (more)

  • VMware VMware vCloud Blog VMware’s First Cloud Certification
  • I am superexcited about the VCPIaaS and look forward to its public release One of the best ways for the some 100000+ VCPs out there to learn about vCloud … (more)

  • Google Compute Engine Draws Early Praise, and Some Skepticism
  • By Sam Dean
    It puts the company in direct competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and is a step squarely into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service space. Now third parties are popping up with services surrounding the platform, much as third parties … (more)

  • Streaming APIs Take Integration to a Higher Level | Blogs …
  • By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
    How Salesforce.com Masters the Cloud Companies continue to find successful methods for integrating with the Force.com platform. Given the increasing dependencie. … Salesforce is relying on this approach to better integrate software-as-a- service (SaaS) applications with mobile computing applications that can essentially now treat any portion of the SaaS application as though it were a continuous data feed. The summer 2012 release of Salesforce.com also has all kinds of other … (more)

  • Forecasting Public Cloud Adoption In The Enterprise | Business 2 …
  • By Louis Columbus
    In addition the NIST defines three models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Gartner’s definition of public cloud computing is comparable yet includes Business Process … (more)

  • A Love Letter to the Cable Guy, or How Really Fast Broadband …
  • By Fredric Paul
    If general browsing got a mild boost from the faster speeds, working with Software as a Service (SaaS) applications delivered over the Internet enjoyed a serious kick in the pants. Gmail and Google Docs suddenly seemed almost as fast as … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Piston & Gridcentric to Deliver OpenStack-Based VDI
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) Piston Enterprise OS software automates 99% of IT systems management tasks and eliminates the need for a separate storage solution, making it an easy way to deploy and manage an OpenStack private cloud environment behind the firewall. Gridcentric’s … (more)

  • Which Open Source Cloud Platform Should You Use?
  • Midsize Insider Lew Moorman, president of OpenStack co-founder Rackspace, made the point that open source platforms have to stand on their own. He suggested that the other two competitors were just creating APIs to serve the cloud platform of market leader Amazon. (more)

  • Cloudstack has proof Foundations is the way to create a FOSS …
  • It’s just amazing In just 3 months CloudStack has gone directly to the same level as OpenStack is This is much steeper community growth than I could have … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Dell Gets Quest for $2.36 Billion
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) Dell has won the bidding war for Quest Software agreeing to pay $28 a share, a 50 cent improvement on its last bid. That brings the price to $2.36 billion, which is what JPMorgan claimed the company was worth weeks ago. Insight Venture Partners, which … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Apple Pays $60 Million for Chinese iPad Trademark
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) Apple has agreed to pay $60 million to make the Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Company’s claims that it owns the iPad trademark in China go away. Apple bought Proview’s iPad trademarks in 10 countries through a UK lawyer and a specially organized … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: ITC to Review Finding Apple Infringes Motorola
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) The ITC’s six-member board of commissioners said last Monday that it’s going to review allegations that Apple’s iPhones and iPads tread on four Motorola Mobility patents. In April one of the agency’s administrative law judges found Apple infringes one … (more)

  • The VMware vCloud Solution – YouTube
  • Christopher Reed, Data Sector Manager for INX and Jim Harris, CIO of Convergys discuss … (more)

  • VMware Acquiring Cloud Automation Vendor DynamicOps
  • PCWorld VMware will still emphasize the use of its own software — namely VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud Director — for managing public and private clouds, but also wants to offer its customers tools for working with multiple cloud architectures, according … (more)

  • http – For how long can a local socket connection be held open …
  • By GRIGORE-TURBODISEL
    I’m implementing some IPC stuff. STDIN/STDOUT are already polluted with debug data and named pipes seem to complex. I want to rely on regular HTTP connections to do the job. So, background process listens on a port, launches a child … (more)

Daily Log News Feed – Jul 2, 2012

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

Daily ITIL News Feed – Jul 2, 2012

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