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July 20, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Jul 20, 2012

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

Daily Big Data Feed – Jul 20, 2012

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

  • Nodeable’s StreamReduce Gives Hadoop a Real-Time Shot in the Arm
  • eWeek Apache Hadoop is all the rage in enterprises that are installing new big-data workload analytics deployments, and it is proving to be a huge asset for many IT and line-of-business decision-makers. But the popular batch-processing engine does have its … (more)

  • Big Data and Hadoop: Information You Can Use to Start Your Deployment
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) Carahsoft is hosting a webinar that will include an introduction and context by me on the topic of Big Data and Hadoop and then dive into some fantastic context from Omer Trajman, VP of Technology Solutions at Cloudera. Omer will provided an update on … (more)

  • Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data
  • Mashable Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have devised a framework for running large-scale computations for tasks such as social network or web search analysis efficiently on a single personal computer. The software could help developers … (more)

  • Big Data and Social Startup 33Across Secures More Funding …
  • By Josette Rigsby
    33Across logo 33Across, a startup at the intersection of social and big data launched in 2008, has raised an additional $13.1 million in venture capital its third round of funding. The latest cash infusion brings 33Across’ total funding to slightly … (more)

  • Big Data and Hadoop: a Webinar to Help You Start Your Deployment
  • By BobGourley
    Carahsoft is hosting a webinar that will include an introduction and context by me on the topic of Big Data and Hadoop and then dive into some fantastic context from Omer Trajman, VP of Technology Solutions at Cloudera. (more)

  • Big Data-Fueled Social Startup 33Across Raises $13 Million
  • Enterprise Apps Today 33Across, a New York City-based startup at the intersection of two of the biggest trends in tech — Big Data and social marketing — just closed a round of financing led by Pelion Venture Partners. The transaction is valued at $13.1 million. 33Across … (more)

  • InnoCentive and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino Announce Winners in …
  • MarketWatch (press release) InnoCentive and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino Announce Winners in Challenge to Convert Big Data into Pothole Relief. Solution Will Facilitate More Efficient Repair Services, Reduce Carbon Emissions and Increase Citizen Engagement in Solving … (more)

  • A Look Back at News Hack Day SF
  • PBS MediaShift Idea Lab This is a guest column by ScraperWiki’s Thomas Levine, an awesome data scientist who spends his time roaming the globe finding interesting data and doing stuff with it. Blogging about News Hack Day SF, which brought together journalists, developers and … (more)

  • Science, data and the public
  • The Guardian (blog) Earlier this week the European Commission released a package of documents related to their nascent policies on access to scientific information. What will these mean for science and for public engagement with science? New open access policies have … (more)

  • Sergey Lukyanchikov’s Page Data Science Central
  • Sergey Lukyanchikov’s Page on Data Science Central. (more)

  • How To Manage Big Data With Pivot Tables
  • Search Engine Land Big data is all the rage right now. If you search Google News for the term, there are 53,5oo thousand results. And that’s just the news. big data Most of us in Internet marketing aren’t truly working with big data, in the truest sense of the word … (more)

  • The perfect pop song? It’s the algorithm, not the rhythm, that counts
  • The Independent The 125 modellers, recruited from Data Science London, a non-profit collective, will be given research about the consumers’ geographical location, whether they buy music or illegally download it as well as their passion for particular genres. A cash … (more)

Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 20, 2012

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

  • OpenStack cloud fluffer growing faster than Linux
  • Register Analysis The OpenStack cloud controller, launched two years ago to the day by techies at NASA Ames Research Center and Rackspace Hosting, has come a long way in its infancy. With Hewlett-Packard and Rackspace ramping up clouds based on the … (more)

  • Dell confirms Linux laptop and expands OpenStack cloud solutions
  • V3.co.uk Along with the latest “Essex” build of the OpenStack platform, Dell is now offering select 12th generation PowerEdge servers including the R720 and R720XD models, plus PowerConnect or Force10 switches, and services from Dell, Canonical or Mirantis. (more)

  • Cloud Solutions CA Technologies
  • CA Technologies is a software solution provider uniquely positioned to help you … and Sustainability Service Simulation and IT Management as a Service … (more)

  • Cloud computing needs better contracts: EC
  • Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission wants cloud computing firms to improve contracts they offer customers in a drive aimed at averting costly legal disputes, allaying privacy concerns and boosting an industry which can offer huge savings to … (more)

  • Cloud Security Alliance Selects Singapore as Site for Corporate
  • Headquarters … MarketWatch (press release) The CSA will undertake a three-year strategic private-public partnership with support from the Singapore government to further the security of cloud computing. As part of the agreement, the CSA will establish a Global Research Centre, Global Standards … (more)

  • Fastest-Growing Category of Cloud Computing: Business Intelligence and …
  • Forbes Fastest-Growing Category of Cloud Computing: Business Intelligence and Analytics. 0 comments, 0 called-out. + Comment now. + Comment now. Will the cloud push business intelligence and analytics to a whole new level? Since cloud-based services can … (more)

  • VMware Denies Spin-Off Plan, But Experts Say Idea Has Merit
  • CRN VMware is telling its employees that the rumored spin-off of its Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service and EMC Greenplum big data assets isn’t happening. “The speculation about EMC and VMware’s commitment to Cloud Foundry and Greenplum businesses … (more)

  • This Week in Cloud, July 19, 2012: Cloud Economics, US DoD’s cloud plans …
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) The US Department of Defense has released a four-step plan to expand its use of cloud computing, according to this Federal Times article. The DoD will incentivize the use of cloud computing and train new professionals on how to procure cloud services, … (more)

  • Testing Platform-as-a- Service | Publications | Capgemini Worldwide
  • How you can improve your application quality without involving major investment with Capgemini’s Testing Platform as a Service. (more)

  • We offer a software as a service online. Recently we added …
  • Question – We offer a software as a service online. Recently we added. Find the answer to this and other Legal questions on JustAnswer. (more)

  • part two: scientific software as a service sprawl – jcuff.net!
  • part two: scientific software as a service sprawl. Seppo asked a great … http://blog .jcuff.net/2012/07/scientific-software-as-service-sprawl.html. So I pulled out … (more)

  • OaaS (Office-as-a-Service)
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) It isn’t as ubiquitous as DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service), IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). While we know all the aforementioned as-a-Service terms are highly necessary for understanding the Cloud, we also have a keen … (more)

  • NT OBJECTives Releases New NTOSpider On-Demand
  • Virtual-Strategy Magazine NT OBJECTives, a leading provider of comprehensive and accurate web application security software, services and SaaS, today announced the general availability of a new Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, NTOSpider On-Demand. The new cloud-based … (more)

  • OpenStack Brings the Open Source Cloud to ARM
  • InternetNews.com “OpenStack was designed from the beginning to be agnostic to different technologies,” Mark Collier, VP of Marketing and Business Development for OpenStack at Rackspace, told InternetNews. The ARM version of OpenStack will be powered by servers from … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Microsoft Trots Out Cloud-ified Office for Windows 8
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) Microsoft wheeled out a customer preview of its new Johnny-come-lately, touch-sensitive, cloud-oriented, browser-based version of Office at a last-minute press conference in San Francisco Monday. The stuff is meant for Windows 8, which is supposed to … (more)

  • High capacity Amazon cloud computing update targets app bottlenecks
  • Network World Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at BButler@nww.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW. Read more about cloud computing in Network World’s Cloud Computing section. (more)

  • Shocker: Government agency drafts sensible cloud computing strategy
  • InfoWorld The Department of Defense has released a cloud computing strategy that will move the organization’s current applications from a “duplicative, cumbersome, and costly set of application silos to an end state designed to create a more agile, secure, and … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Dell to Fund Storage Start-Ups
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) Dell has set up a $60 million Fluid Data Storage Fund to back early-stage storage start-ups, a combination of build and buy. Jim Lussier, managing director of Dell’s venture capital business, says it is looking for mid-level widgetry hoping to find the … (more)

  • Rackspace: OpenStack could be the Linux of the cloud
  • ZDNet (blog) OpenStack, which lets anyone create a private or public cloud service, is backed by an open-source codebase drawing from over a hundred of the technology industry’s most important companies. It is already doing better in terms of contributions than … (more)

  • Cloudstack Cloud Infrastructure – Business-Software.com
  • Cloudstack is an IaaS provider that offers solutions for network storage and web application management or deployment. (more)

  • Where’s Azure, and 4 other takeaways from Microsoft’s earnings
  • GigaOM For all of Microsoft’s huge investment in the Azure cloud computing platform, there was scarcely mention of the multi-billion-effort on Thursday’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2012 earnings call. Here are the top five takeaways from the call. 1 … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Intel Feels the Global Pinch
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) Intel is feeling the pinch of the global slowdown, the depression in PC sales and the rise of widgets that don’t use its chips. CEO Paul Otellini said in a statement Tuesday that “As we enter the third quarter, our growth will be slower than we … (more)

  • Ovum: Cloud Integration Is Hard, Expensive Despite iPaaS …
  • By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
    In fact, integration work will still cost about $8 for every $1 of SaaS subscriptions or software licenses, the research firm estimates. Integration platform-as-a-service solutions (iPaaS) just aren’t mature enough to solve a wide range of complex … (more)

  • Citrix Systems to Outperform – Zacks.com
  • By Zacks Equity Research
    Citrix completed the acquisition of Cloud.com Inc., a leading developer of software infrastructure platform for cloud computing service providers.The CloudStack product suite of Cloud.com offers an open-source platform-as-a-service … (more)

  • VMware Denies Cloud Spin-Off Rumors – Keeps Focus on Platform-as-a-Service
  • ReadWriteWeb The virtualization and operating system layers are also included. The Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider actually owns and maintains the physical hardware, but the client has to provide additional tools, such as middleware software to manage their … (more)

  • Palo Alto Networks Up 31% Post-IPO
  • Wall Street Journal Palo Alto said such an approach works well for basic email and Internet browsing, but newer applications that allow users to collaborate on the Internet–such as social media and software as a service–are more unpredictable and challenging to older … (more)

  • CloudStack Blog
  • CloudStack Founder Sheng Liang talks CloudStack Past, Present and Future. Tweet. Find out … (more)

  • Initial ARM technology-powered cloud debuts on OpenStack
  • CTR Several OpenStack community members have announced their collaboration to build the first ARM technology-powered OpenStack cloud as a zone in TryStack, the free sandbox for exploring and testing OpenStack. Solutions based on the ARM architecture … (more)

  • First ARM-Powered OpenStack Cloud Launches via TryStack
  • CMSWire OpenStack is opening up opportunities for a whole new array of cloud platforms. This week, several OpenStack community members have announced the launch of the first ARM-powered cloud platform, which is currently being tested through the TryStack … (more)

  • VMware VMware vCloud Blog vCloud Ecosystem Monitoring with vCenter …
  • At the beginning of this year a team within VMware looked at how we could utilise vCenter Operations and vFabric Hyperic to create a vCloud Monitoring … (more)

  • Java Developer Cloudbased Software as a Service Company Job in …
  • Java Developer – Cloud-based Software as a Service Company job in North Atlanta, Georgia, US. Read the Java Developer – Cloud-based Software as a Service … (more)

  • vCloud director 5.1 beta opportunity for power users
  • DABCC.com John Coley from Stratogen is seeking a power users capable to test the upcoming vCloud Director 5.1 which is in beta right now. So if you’re an advanced user of vCloud Director and you want to push this new platform to the limits, then you might want … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Apple Told to Deny Samsung Copied iPad
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) Oh, the ignominy of it. A UK judge has told Apple it must take out ads in the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, Guardian Mobile magazine and T3 and say on its UK home page for six months that Samsung didn’t copy the iPad’s design. On July 9 the court … (more)

  • Cloud Computing Strategies to Fast Track Revenue Generation
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) Today’s information technology era is driven by software providers of all shapes and sizes. On the one hand we have big or very big providers who have established themselves through very sophisticated business models and ecosystem channels they have … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Novell Refuses to Let WordPerfect Antitrust Suit Die
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) The federal judge who’s been minding Novell’s billion-dollar WordPerfect antitrust suit threw out its remaining claims Monday theoretically bringing the generation-old dispute dating to Windows 95 and the reign of Bill Gates to an end. Novell however … (more)

  • Telehealth, Data Integration, & Cloud Computing Focus Of 2012 OPEN MINDS …
  • MarketWatch (press release) GETTYSBURG, Pa., Jul 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — OPEN MINDS announced the keynote presentations and plenary sessions for The 8th Annual Technology and Informatics Institute to be held on October 17-18, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. Leading off … (more)

  • Gaining Visibility into the Cloud
  • IT Business Edge (blog) One of the reasons that a lot of IT organizations are not all that comfortable with cloud computing is because they don’t have a lot of visibility into the true costs of cloud computing. The biggest fear, of course, is paying for cloud resources that … (more)

Daily Log News Feed – Jul 20, 2012

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

Daily ITIL News Feed – Jul 20, 2012

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