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August 1, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Aug 1, 2012

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

  • Big data as a BYOD security blanket

    • ITWorld Canada There is an increasing trend to use analytics for security purposes as it can provide an over-the-horizon look at threats that may not be immediately apparent. As the article points out, universities have very complex IT environments due to their … (more)

  • Collaboration: Mobile Computing Still Can’t Match the Office Experience

    • Formtek Blog (blog) It wasn’t that long ago when remote computing was limited to phone calls using ‘dumbphones’. Well, mobile/remote computing has improved considerably over a short period of time. But while laptops and smartphones have made mobile collaboration … (more)

  • Mobile Computing Increasingly Does the Heavy Lifting

    • IT Business Edge (blog) Intuitively, it would seem that extra-powerful mobile computing gear should be a growing sector. The rise of mobility in general is decentralizing work. Folks are more ably performing their appointed tasks from home and the road. In some cases, people … (more)

  • MOBILE COMPUTING

    • Today’s Trucking News Shaw Tracking’s MCP50. Shaw Tracking is about to launch the new Mobile Computing Platform 50 (MCP50), allowing fleets of all sizes increased accessibility to fleet-management sophistication. Priced at around C$900, users will be able to manage hours of … (more)

  • It’s Apple vs. Samsung in a Fight for Mobile (Nasdaq: AAPL)

    • Money Morning The multi-front war between mobile computing rivals Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. (PINK: SSNLF) moved into a California courtroom this week. Brewing for months, the patent trial officially began on Monday with jury selection. (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 1, 2012

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

  • Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is …

    • By Cathy O’Neil, mathbabe
    Crossposted on Naked Capitalism Cosma Shalizi I recently was hugely flattered by my friend Cosma Shalizi’s articulate argument against my position that data science distinguishes itself from statistics in various ways. Cosma is a well-read … (more)

  • Hadoop-MapReduce Market Grows Exponentially

    • MarketWatch (press release) The Hadoop-MapReduce market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 58% reaching $2.2 billion in 2018. Hadoop-MapReduce becomes de-facto industry standard for the Gig Data management and business intelligence (BI). (more)

  • 5 Ways To Benefit From Big Data

    • InformationWeek And how can businesses monetize big data? “This vast amount of data often leaves marketing organizations paralyzed over how to appropriately analyze the information and attain action-oriented customer insights,” writes Gartner marketing analyst Kim … (more)

  • Dell’s ‘Big Data Retention’ Provides Simple Data Retrieval and Analysis

    • ChannelPro-SMB Dell is introducing a new Big Data Retention solution that leverages RainStor software in order to significantly reduce the costs of retaining big data while helping SMBs improve management for easy retrieval and analysis. Dell’s ‘Big Data Retention … (more)

  • Digging Out from Big Data

    • CFO.com Magazine Carter Malone, vice president of compliance at investment bank Crews & Associates, never leaves his desk, not even for lunch. Malone’s job is to review the content and ensure the proper storage of all electronic communications that come in and out of … (more)

  • Strata: Analytics overhyped? Data science, and big data meets big …

    • In the true RedMonk spirit, you heard it here last. I attended O’Reilly’s Strata conference earlier this spring and have finally gotten around to summing it up. (more)

  • Big Data Job of the Day: Technical Program Manager, Data Science …

    • by Angela Guess LinkedIn is searching for a Technical Program Manager of Data Science in Mountain View, CA. According to the post, “The role of Tec… (more)

  • Linux lessons for Hadoop doubters

    • Register Open … and Shut While Hadoop is all the rage in the technology media today, it has barely scratched the surface of enterprise adoption. In fact, if anything, we are still only on the first few steps of the Big Data marathon, a race that Hadoop seems … (more)

  • Actian Vectorwise Enables Real-time Hadoop Analysis

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) SAN DIEGO, July 31, 2012 – Actian Corporation today announced the upcoming release of its bi-directional Hadoop Data Connector at the TDWI World Conference in San Diego, which will enable businesses and enterprises to dramatically drive down the … (more)

  • Cloudera and HP Unleash the Power of Hadoop

    • Cloudera, a leading provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop software and services , and HP today announced an agreement that will enable clients to deploy, … (more)

  • Data Scientist needed at UK startup at Skimlinks Linux Stack …

    • Skimlinks is looking for a data scientist to help us back up important business decisions with data. This role will involve the following: Design, … (more)

  • Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is

    • too … Business Insider One thing that will be helpful in this direction is Rachel Schutt’s Data Science class at Columbia next semester, which is going to be a much-needed bullshit free zone. Note there’s been a time change that hasn’t been reflected on the announcement yet, … (more)

  • Hackathon Aims to Clear the Air

    • Government Technology The Data Science Hackathon was created and hosted by DSL and Data Science Global in collaboration with Kaggle, a platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions. The activities were part of Big Data Week, a series of community led events … (more)

  • 5 sites that use data science to help you predict the president

    • GigaOM Big data and data science have already proven their worth in the worlds of online advertising and marketing, and now they’re being turned to elections. Here are five sites to follow if you want to impress your peers with data-driven insights on who’ll … (more)

Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 1, 2012

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

  • The Rise of Data Virtualization in the Cloud

    • By Michael Vizard
    One of the bigger challenges with anything having to do with software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is how quickly they can sprawl out of control. Before most organizations realize it they wind up with multiple silos of SaaS applications that … (more)

  • What 3 WordPress Plugins Would You Wish For?

    • By sethc
    The SaaS (Software as a Service) industry hit the $12 billion mark this year for annual sales and it’s predicted to grow to over $20 billion by the year 2015. Can you guess what the most popular SaaS product is right now? CRM. Companies … (more)

  • Sprint to begin offering Microsoft Office 365 for enterprise clientele …

    • By Joseph Volpe
    The move, which gives power users access to MS’ web-based apps, video conferencing and shared calendars from anywhere, is part of the Hesse-led company’s Software-as-a-Service portfolio that culls together a suite of remote solutions … (more)

  • Magid: Hotmail heads to the trash bin as Outlook.com comes online

    • San Jose Mercury News At its recent Office 2013 product introduction, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer repeatedly referred the upcoming version of Microsoft Office as a “service” as much as a software application. Outlook.com will compete head-on with Google’s Gmail and also … (more)

  • ProviDyn’s Expands Its Hardware as a Service (HaaS) Offering to SMBs

    • Virtual-Strategy Magazine July 31, 2012 — ProviDyn, a provider of IT support, strategy and services, announces the expansion of their Hardware as a Service (HaaS) offering designed to provide capital equipment advantages to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) for a … (more)

  • Cloud Computing and Software as a Service | Harvard Extension …

    • Cloud Computing and Software as a Service is a continuing education course at Harvard Extension School. (more)

  • Rackspace CEO: ‘We’re playing a different game’ than Amazon

    • GigaOM As of Wednesday, all new customer workloads will deploy on the company’s open source cloud computing platform, leaving the company’s legacy platform for existing customers that want to take their time transitioning to the new cloud. Now, the … (more)

  • Zerto revamps its disaster recovery application

    • Computer Business Review Release 2.0 is built upon hypervisor-based replication technology and is integrated with VMware vCloud Director to enable centralised management, automated failover and testing in the vCloud. It will work in private, public and hybrid cloud environments. (more)

  • Rackspace launches OpenStack portfolio | ZDNet

    • Summary: The company’s OpenStack era launches with a portfolio of cloud services. Current customers can migrate over time. (more)

  • OpenStack lands on Rackspace’s cloud as the open-source fightback begins

    • ZDNet The availability of OpenStack-backed Cloud Databases, Cloud Servers and a Control Panel for US customers (a UK launch is slated for the 15 August), gives developers access to a range of rentable infrastructure based on the open-source OpenStack system … (more)

  • AppFog, Rackspace Collaborate to Support OpenStack

    • eWeek AppFog, maker of a polyglot programming platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for cloud-based application deployment and management, announced a new collaboration with Rackspace to enable its customers to deploy applications to the open Rackspace Cloud … (more)

  • CollabNet On 5 Challenges Facing GitHub In The Enterprise

    • TechCrunch We were discussing the general availability of CloudForge, the platform as a service (PaaS) CollabNet has launched when GitHub was called out as a competitor. GittHub? The collaborative platform for developers that earlier this month raised $100 … (more)

  • UBS selects Oracle Fusion softwareasaservice in HR migration 01 …

    • UBS selects Oracle Fusion softwareasaservice in HR migration … the longterm use of Oracle’s PeopleSoft as our core HCM platform we were looking for a next … (more)

  • HighJump TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Now Offers Web-Based EDI Integration …

    • MarketWatch (press release) EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — HighJump Software, a global provider of supply chain management software, announced that its TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Group now offers a web-based (Software-as-a-Service) version of its … (more)

  • ExactTarget Expands Global Enterprise Marketing Platform; Launches

    • German … MarketWatch (press release) Delivered on ExactTarget’s FUEL software as a service platform, ExactTarget’s new multilingual interface enables marketers around the globe to access ExactTarget’s Interactive Marketing Hub and its suite of applications in their native language or … (more)

  • 5 Hidden Costs of Cloud Migration: ISACA White Paper

    • MarketWatch (press release) ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Aug 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Cloud computing promises low cost of entry and fast return on investment, but that ROI can fall short of expectations if hidden costs are left out of the equation. A new white paper from global IT … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: NetApp and Fusion-io Team Up

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) NetApp and flash storage start-up Fusion-io are going to create software-defined “solutions using server-side flash and caching software products when used in conjunction with the NetApp Virtual Storage Tier.” They are “collaborating on low-latency, … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Apple Loses Chip Designer to AMD

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) AMD has poached the director of Apple’s mobile-focused Platform Architecture Group Jim Keller, credited with architecting several generations of the ARM-based chips found in the iPad, iPhone, iPod and Apple TV. It will be Keller’s second go-round at AMD. (more)

  • Dachis Group Launches Campaign Performance Monitor

    • MarketWatch (press release) AUSTIN, TX, Aug 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Dachis Group, the world’s leading social software and solutions firm, today announced the launch of Campaign Performance Monitor, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that measures the … (more)

  • VMware VMware vCloud Blog VMware Provider Guide Help Customers …

    • In Part 1 of this series we walked through accessing the vCloud Connector user interface via the vSphere client In Part 2 well break down how to access the … (more)

  • SUSE Cloud Provider Program Picks Up Steam

    • OStatic (blog) While much is written about the convergence of open source and cloud computing these days, including coverage of the trend here on OStatic, the usual players–OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus Systems, Red Hat–tend to dominate the headlines. Did you … (more)

  • Compushare Releases New White Paper: “The FFIEC Takes on Cloud Computing”

    • MarketWatch (press release) SANTA ANA, CA, Aug 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Compushare, the nation’s leading Technology Management Provider for the financial industry and pioneer of Compushare Cloud Computing (C3), the only fully hosted cloud computing solution … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Windows 8 RTMs

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) Windows 8 was released to manufacturing Wednesday morning, a hallelujah moment for Microsoft that nowadays means OEMs and manufacturing partners are getting the final code on which Microsoft’s future depends. The new “re-imagined” operating … (more)

  • Rackspace Debuts OpenStack Cloud Servers

    • PCWorld Begun two years ago by NASA and Rackspace, the OpenStack project is an effort to create developa stack of open source software that can be used to provide IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) cloud services, either to customers or for internal use. The … (more)

  • What Is Software as a Service (SaaS) in Cloud Computing? – For …

    • Companies have discovered that some organizational and economic benefits can be realized by using Software as a Service (SaaS) applications in cloud … (more)

  • Silver Spring embraces cloud, software-as-a-service for smart grid

    • GigaOM Smart grid company Silver Spring Networks launched a new service on Wednesday that uses the cloud and software-as-a-service to give utility workers access to real time data, for monitoring grid systems and receiving alerts. You might think utility … (more)

  • Workday Wins More Customers For Cloud Apps

    • InformationWeek Workday Inc., the software-as-a-service provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human capital management (HCM) applications, announced on Tuesday a series of customer wins in the higher education market along with application upgrades … (more)

  • Sitoa Global Announces Engagement of IRG as Financial Advisor

    • MarketWatch (press release) “Given the recent public company offerings in Social Media and specialized Software as a Service (SaaS), we believe that now is an appropriate time to explore potential strategic options that could accelerate the growth of the Company. We have engaged … (more)

  • Cloud’s Cohesion: When Virtual Worlds (Must) Collide

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) The software application developer is about to become the cloud software-as-a-service application developer. At least this is the … First vendor among many web searches on this subject is long-time HP enterprise data warehouse platform partner … (more)

  • Rackspace debuts OpenStack cloud servers | Cloud Computing InfoWorld

    • After months of testing, Rackspace puts the first large scale OpenStack hosted deployment into operation. (more)

  • VMTurbo Joins OpenStack — Virtualization Review

    • The intelligent workload management company believes it’s the right thing to do to back the open source cloud initiative. (more)

Daily Log News Feed – Aug 1, 2012

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

Daily ITIL News Feed – Aug 1, 2012

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