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July 3, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Jul 3, 2012

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

  • Slashdot: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,’ Says Google Glass Team

    • NewsFactor Network An anonymous reader writes “In an interview with Wired, Google’s Steve Lee and Babak Parviz spoke about how they’ve come to use Project Glass in their lives, and where they expect the mobile computing industry to go in the near future. ‘We’ve long … (more)

  • Google Nexus 7 vs iPad 3 vs Kindle Fire vs Microsoft Surface | News …

    • Hands on: Toshiba NB100 netbook review. First look at Toshiba’s ultra-portable computer. Hands on: Toshiba NB100 netbook review Mobile computing … (more)

  • Educational Origami – Digital Citizenship & BYOD

    • My Colleague Lee Crockett made a comment the other day about BYOD, Bring your own device and Digital Citizenship. He said that the heart of any BYOD … (more)

  • Why BYOD scares me

    • InfoWorld (blog) BYOD is an epic battle in the ongoing war of usability against security — and usability is winning out. (more)

  • Tablets to overtake notebooks in 2016 researchers predict

    • SlashGear Tablet shipments will eclipse those of notebooks in just four years time, according to new research, as Apple’s iPad leads a slate storm that will overshadow traditional mobile computing. While the mobile market as a whole is expected to more than … (more)

  • BYOD: A challenge

    • By Kyle Elliott
    surprised me is that eighty-two percent of the companies that were part of this survey already have a bring your own device (BYOD) policy or are preparing to implement one in the near future. The companies that were surveyed also admitted … (more)

  • Mobile learning fails to compute

    • The Australian A study by a Colorado-based information technology think tank has found universities and colleges are playing “wait and see” on mobile computing, even though most students rely on them academically. The Educause report found mobile computing in … (more)

  • IEEE paper 2012 for mobile computing

    • IEEE paper 2012 for cloud computing and mobile computing. (more)

  • ‘India is biggest mobile market’

    • Daily Pioneer We have launched a masters degree course on mobile computing applications which aims at helping students develop their understanding and skills of mobile application architectures, and development frameworks and technologies. This understanding will … (more)

  • Google Mobile App Analytics Goes Beta

    • Daily Deal Media But with the mobile computing world becoming larger and more diverse its no surprise that Google is taking their analytical tools mobile. Google is launching a Mobile App Analytics service that is currently available in beta to whitelisted users … (more)

  • Averting IT Civil War Over ‘Bring Your Own Device’

    • Forbes But things are not so simple in the age of Bring Your Own Device and the iPad, and those at the top of the chain need to be on the lookout for signs of a cage match brewing in the IT department. In many … Support the person implementing the BYOD program. (more)

  • Microsoft Surface Increases Urgency for Updating BYOD Policies

    • Midsize Insider This diversity brings significant opportunity for midsize business but also increased security threats that should cause those same businesses to review their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy. A significant part of this equation is also how … (more)

  • To authorize BYOD or not, that is the question

    • Mass High Tech The days of having a personal mobile and a work device are fast disappearing as the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend continues to grow. A recent SkyDox survey found that 77 percent of information workers use their personal smartphones or tablets for … (more)

  • Ernst & Young: Bad attitudes to BYOD put off prospective employees

    • IT PRO Companies that fail to adopt formal Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) schemes could be viewed as less attractive places to work by prospective employees, advisory firm Ernst & Young claims. Speaking to IT Pro, Simon Placks, director of Ernst & Young’s fraud … (more)

  • Tablets Will Outship Notebooks by 2016, Research Firm Says

    • PCWorld “Consumer preference for mobile computing devices is shifting from notebook to tablet PCs,” NPD DisplaySearch senior analyst Richard Shim said in a press release on Tuesday. The firm expects notebook sales to increase from 208 million units this year … (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Jul 3, 2012

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

Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 3, 2012

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

  • Friday’s storms raise questions about safety of cloud computing

    • Washington Post Power outages from Friday’s storms have prompted some questions in Congress about the pace of moving to cloud computing. (more)

  • Cloud computing blasts off

    • Sydney Morning Herald June 2012 may well go down as the month the tech world entered a new era. On June 11, Apple showed its next operating system for iPhones and iPads. It offered maps and speech recognition, plus music and movies on iTunes, all tied via the internet to … (more)

  • VMware buys multi-cloud manager DynamicOps

    • GigaOM VMware has acquired DynamicOps, a Burlington, Mass.-based cloud computing startup that spun out of banking giant Credit Suisse’s IT department in 2008. VMware is touting DynamicOps ability to manage resources running on Hyper-V- and Xen-based … (more)

  • Google Announces Cloud-computing Service Compute Engine

    • HispanicBusiness.com Google on Thursday announced Compute Engine, a cloud-computing service that allows businesses to run their applications on servers in the tech giant’s data center. (more)

  • Cloud Late-Comer Oracle May Gain Fast

    • Investor’s Business Daily Cloud computing lets companies store data and apps on the Internet “cloud” and access it quickly and easily. The applications run the gamut of customer relationship management software to social networking sites for employees, partners and customers. (more)

  • OpenStack Cinder Set to Debut in Folsom Release

    • InternetNews.com It’s shaping up to be a busy summer for the OpenStack project. (more)

  • VMware Adds To Cloud Management Arsenal With DynamicOps Buy

    • CRN VMware partners say acquisition of DynamicOps will complement vCloud Director in managing heterogeneous cloud infrastructure, while also accounting for mobile devices and SaaS apps. (more)

  • New Relic: Fast-growing startup thrives in cloud

    • San Francisco Chronicle That simplicity is winning sales in the software-as-a-service market, which researcher Gartner Inc. predicts will surge by 80 percent to $22.1 billion by 2015 from $14.5 billion last year. For Chief Executive Officer Lewis Cirne, who founded New Relic … (more)

  • Cloud service brokers must differentiate as cloud market matures

    • TechTarget Some brokers specialize in public cloud IaaS options, while others offer unified provisioning, billing, and contract management with multiple Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, as well as the integration of services between the different SaaS … (more)

  • Lawmakers voice concern over cloud-computing outages from storm

    • The Seattle Times Lawmakers voice concern over cloud-computing outages from storm. Storm-related outages at an Amazon.com data center in Virginia prompted questions Monday whether the federal government is moving too swiftly to put important data on private-sector … (more)

  • Cloud computing blasts off

    • Sydney Morning Herald The “cloud” is essentially computer servers sitting in data centres around the world, holding and processing all the data from these devices on demand. The term cloud computing refers to computer resources that can be turned on or off and scaled up or … (more)

  • Why Enterprises Will Have at Least 2 Private PaaS’ – Apprenda

    • By Sinclair Schuller
    Open Platform as a Service (PaaS) for . … are looking to private cloud as a transformation engine in their quest to become quasi software vendors (many companies this size are adding software solutions to flank their product offerings and revenues, causing them to behave like software vendors) … In large organizations, the Windows platform teams do not talk to the *nix teams, nor is the knowledge of building, managing and tuning those environments portable across OS variants. (more)

  • VMware: The Console Blog: VMware Helps Accelerate Customers …

    • For instance, with DynamicOps IT can deliver higher-level services such as Platform-as-a-Service, Database-as-a-Service, and Storage-as-a-Service in the same uniform way as delivering core compute services on demand. DynamicOps is … (more)

  • Latest ActiveReports Server Release by GrapeCity Enhances Embedded Ad …

    • San Francisco Chronicle Multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) applications can now use tenant-specific User Context values as stored procedure parameter input values. When business users select a report, the description displays in the Information panel. ActiveReports … (more)

  • Airtel launches Cloud Enablement Platform

    • Express Computer Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its Cloud Enablement Platform (CLEP) based on the HP Aggregation Platform for Software-as-a-Service (AP4SaaS). The telco will offer hosted SaaS and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) applications to both small … (more)

  • mvc – .net mvc3 fesourcefile and Multi tenancy – Stack Overflow

    • Browse other questions tagged mvc localization multitenancy or ask your own question … What is the difference between multi-tenancy and multi-user solutions ? (more)

  • kvm host not added to cloudstack

    • Hi, I dont get my kvm host added to the CS infrastructure. What am I missing? My management-server.log file: http://pastebin.com/YC7YRN5L Both servers (the … (more)

  • High cpu load on CloudStack management servers after leap second

    • After the leap second insert last night, my CloudStack 3.0 servers (or its Java processes actually) started to use a lot of CPU. Here’s how to fix it (sets the date): … (more)

  • Amazon Power Outage Exposes Risks Of Cloud Computing

    • By The Huffington Post News Editors
    For a few hours over the weekend, thousands of vintage-looking photos went unshared, online movies went unstreamed, and digital scrapbooks went unpinned. An electrical storm that swept across the East Coast late Friday knocked out … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Dell Gets Quest for $2.36 Billion | Cloud …

    • Maureen O’Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous “Billygrams” and the editor-in-chief of “Client/Server … (more)

  • Amazon Explains Cloud Computing Snafu

    • Wall Street Journal (blog) Amazon.com on Saturday restored service to its cloud computing operations after electrical storms cut service to some customers. But Amazon waited until Monday to tell the world that those operations were fully back up. (more)

  • Bharti Airtel launches cloud computing service

    • Economic Times Bharti Airtel today launched cloud computing services using HP’s technology to provide software and related infrastructure to business organisations on pay-per-use model. (more)

  • New Open Cloud Computing Forum on Linux.com | The Linux …

    • Linux.com has started a new forum for community members to discuss cloud computing and the open cloud. Just like the Linux Foundation’s upcoming … (more)

  • VMware Buys DynamicOps, Accelerates Software-Defined Data Center

    • InformationWeek According to VMware’s Sayar, not only will that agreement remain in place, but VMware will gain early integration of DynamicOps with its own product line because DynamicOps and VMware’s vCloud Director have already been integrated to work together on … (more)

  • EmpireCLS Converts Competition Into New Business With the Microsoft

    • Private … MarketWatch (press release) More than 13000 ground transportation companies around the world could benefit from EmpireCLS’ dispatching service. Bourassa believes the software as a service (SaaS) model offered through a public cloud could grow to represent and support 40 percent … (more)

  • HP Public Cloud Aims to Boost OpenStack Customer Base | Linuxcom

    • Hewlett-Packard has based its entire cloud strategy on OpenStack. And the stakes are hight to prove to enterprise customers that the open source alternative … (more)

  • SaaS Reduces Complexity, Cost, and IT Resource Challenges – AT&T

    • Let’s face it, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application services make it much easier for small businesses to manage their IT administration and improve IT … (more)

Daily Log News Feed – Jul 3, 2012

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

Daily ITIL News Feed – Jul 3, 2012

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