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August 6, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Aug 6, 2012

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

  • Mobile Computing and Social Networks Essays Sibwilliams

    • Read this essay and over 650000 others like it now. Don’t miss your chance to earn better grades and be a better writer! (more)

  • Channel face-off: BYOD

    • CRN Australia The tech industry and its customers therefore appear to have resigned themselves to the fact that BYOD is here to stay. Now they’re looking for solutions to not only smooth the transition but also garner the maximum benefit from the trend. But what … (more)

  • Wordle mobile computing

    • mobile computing. Anonymous. Aug 6 2012. (more)

  • Apple iCloud ‘not secure’: Cloud rains on BYOD parade

    • Computerworld (blog) TAGS:AAPL, Apple, backup, byod, Cloud, cloud based storage, cloud computing, cloud security, iCloud, Mat Honan, security; TOPICS:Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Consumerization of IT, Security. Older Post: Facebook … (more)

  • BYOD: Is it increasing costs as well as virus concerns?

    • PCR-online.biz Could the BYOD (bring your own device) phenomenon be adding to business woes? That’s what Liberman Software is saying in a new report published today. While some of the industry noise around BYOD has suggested that it can increase employee … (more)

  • Citrix Tackles BYOD with Newest CloudGateway

    • Sci-Tech Today If you’re in IT and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is the bane of your existence, Citrix believes it has the answer. This week, the company released version 2 of its CloudGateway with MDX mobile experience technology and integration with ShareFile. (more)

  • IT Security & Network Security News & Reviews: BYOD Security: 8 Steps …

    • eWeek Enterprises, after some initial resistance, are embracing the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend. According to a survey released in May by Cisco Systems, 95 percent of respondents said their organizations allow employee-owned devices in the workplace, … (more)

  • Choose your own device – the more manageable BYOD

    • ComputerworldUK By Rebecca Merrett | CIO Australia | Published 16:27, 06 August 12. Bring
    your own device (BYOD) certainly involves all kinds of challenges in managing the security, infrastructure and support costs, which can be a burden for CIOs and IT departments. (more)

  • WatchGuard: Secure VPNs for Apple iPad, iPhone, Android Devices

    • The VAR Guy In an effort to tap into the rising number of organizations offering bring your own device (BYOD) programs, the appliances also provide the ability to create highly secure virtual private network (VPN) tunnels for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and other iOS … (more)

  • Transition From BlackBerry To Multiple OSes Requires Planning

    • InformationWeek When companies first began implementing BYOD policies, they were mainly focused on opening up access to corporate email, but now, with employees bringing iPads to work and expecting to be able to download documents on them, the parameters are … (more)

  • MOBILE COMPUTING | Products | Today’s Trucking

    • Shaw introduces the MCP50 platform, affordable compliance for small fleets. (more)

  • The Dictatorship of BYOD

    • Virtualization Review (blog) But now the pressure is ratcheting up even higher as they find themselves relentlessly challenged by the consumeration of IT and the proliferation of BYOD environments. According to a new study of 150 North American enterprise CIOs done by Mezeo … (more)

  • VMware Touts Virtual Workspace Security In ‘Project Octopus’ Demo

    • CRN VMware is tackling the IT challenges associated with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend with what it is billing as a next generation virtual workspace for knowledge workers. Bogomil Balkansky, VMware’s senior vice president of cloud infrastructure … (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 6, 2012

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

  • Caserta Concepts Joins Cloudera Connect Partner Program

    • Virtual-Strategy Magazine Caserta Concepts, the industry leader in data warehousing analytics, today announced it has teamed with Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software, services and training, as a member of its Cloudera Connect … (more)

  • Columbia Receives Energy Discounts for New Science Institute

    • MetroFocus (blog) On Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Columbia University is creating a new Institute for Data Science and Engineering with the city’s financial support, which makes it the fourth educational partnership with the Bloomberg Administration’s … (more)

  • symmetry August 2012 Particle physics tames big data

    • As science produces an evergrowing flood of information researchers in many fields struggle with how to collect store manage and distributebig data Perhaps … (more)

  • New Survey Reveals Big Data is Helping Companies Capture Sales Growth

    • MarketWatch (press release) “Big data needs to be a big deal for sales,” said Jim Dickie, managing partner, CSO Insights. “The amount of prospect information out there today is a blessing and a curse for sales reps. Our research shows that there is a need for new tools to help … (more)

  • Turning Big Data Into Action Key to Monetate’s Growth in Q2 2012

    • MarketWatch (press release) “Companies are excited about the opportunity big data presents, but many are still unable to act on the data to deliver the online experience customers now demand,” said Monetate founder and CEO David Brussin. “Monetate helps marketers tap into the … (more)

  • SHARE Attacks Big Data and Enterprise Mobility at SHARE in Anaheim

    • MarketWatch (press release) A two-day spotlight on Big Data issues was developed based on a focus group SHARE hosted at its spring meeting in Atlanta. “We interviewed our members to understand specific areas of concern and interest so we could develop a program that would truly … (more)

  • How To Find Strategic Advantage From Big Data

    • InformationWeek Whether they’re prepared to deal with it or not, even mid-size companies have to face big data, not for the benefits it could offer, but because nearly all corporate data has become “big,” according to reports from Ventana Research, Forrester, and … (more)

  • Urban Science Solves Big Data Challenges with Progress Corticon Business …

    • MarketWatch (press release) BEDFORD, Mass., Aug 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ:PRGS) today announced that global automotive retail consulting firm Urban Science has selected the Progress(R) Corticon(R) business rules management … (more)

  • Webinar — How the Travel Industry Uses Big Data to Drive Relevance Online

    • MarketWatch (press release) The BloomReach team, comprised of leaders in machine learning, large scale systems science, big data and search from companies like Google, Cisco and Facebook; is dedicated to delivering relevant results to customers across channels in a myriad of … (more)

  • San Francisco, Boston Among Top Cities for Big Data Jobs

    • eWeek Data scientists, IT specialists who conduct high-level data analyses and apply it to business projections and modeling, are in high demand in cities across the North America, as organizations grappled with an ever-increasing amount of information … (more)

  • Exploring Big Data and Procurement Leveraging McKinsey’s Foundational …

    • Spend Matters One of McKinsey’s more astute observations on the power of Big Data is the ability to leverage it in “segmenting populations to customize actions.” In this regard, McKinsey suggests, “Big data allows organizations to create highly specific … (more)

  • Forget Big Data; Small Data Rules!

    • iMedia Connection (blog) Byte for byte, Small Data packs more punch than Big Data. Small Data doesn’t make exciting headlines, but the actionable information in most databases has a declining marginal contribution as the data volume grows. So what’s all the Big Data hype about? (more)

  • Data Centers: Where Big Data Will Be Exploited

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) On any given day, it’s not uncommon for a company to generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, pushing the amount of data that must be processed and managed to unimaginable levels. Because of the requirements for power and low-latency connections that … (more)

  • Which IT infrastructure for Big Data Data Science Central

    • A Big Data decision support system requires particular capabilities in terms of volume, variety of data and processing speed. Today companies to improve … (more)

Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 6, 2012

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

  • iCloud breach highlights some hard truths about the consumer cloud

    • GigaOM Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for GigaOM since 2009. He has written the words “cloud” and “Hadoop” possibly more than any other person on the planet. (more)

  • Kiwi cloud computing code

    • Stuff.co.nz New Zealand could help set the standard for cloud computing services in Australia and beyond. The Institute of Information Technology Professionals, previously the Computer Society, finalised a voluntary code in May that set out the information cloud … (more)

  • Zillow and Other Sites Broaden Their Mission to Include Businesses

    • New York Times Jordan Rohan, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, said he thought Groupon was trying to position itself as a software-as-a-service company, because the stocks of such companies have performed much better than those of most consumer Internet companies. (more)

  • The Rise Of The Enterprise Startup: Consumerization And Clouds Open The …

    • TechCrunch Alastair Mitchell, CEO and co-founder of enterprise collaboration platform Huddle, puts this change squarely at the feet of consumerization, trends among employees to bring their own devices into work and the rise of apps. Employees are experimenting … (more)

  • OpenStack Foundation prepares for board elections

    • Australian Techworld … OpenStack Foundation members( Canonical, IBM, Nebula, Red Hat, AT&T, HP, Rackspace and Suse). On 19 July the OpenStack Foundation opened up individual membership of the organisation, with members allowed to participate in the board elections. (more)

  • Cloud is beneficial, but wait, it has clauses as well

    • CIOL “Cloud computing makes it easy to offer the same self-service that people love when they turn on their lights or air-conditioning–it’s on-demand and pay as you go,” says Marc Vael, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, international vice president of ISACA. “In … (more)

  • What’s the point of a cloud storage gateway?

    • Register In the case of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and 100 per cent Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), all hardware moves to the cloud, but the company retains responsibility for more (IaaS) or less (PaaS) of the software. This includes full responsibility … (more)

  • A business guide to Cloud computing

    • Gadget Cloud computing involves the delivery of computing and storage as a service to a community, essentially entrusting services with a user’s data, software and computation over a network. The most common examples that the public would interact with … (more)

  • cloudstack bug

    • Does anyone experience cloudstack problem as below? And any advice on this? I can’t get the support from hostbill team directly: 1. After creating a vps we … (more)

  • Reviews on CloudStack – Web Hosting Talk

    • Reviews on CloudStack Cloud Hosting. … Have you implemented CloudStack for rental business? how is the performance? what our the pros and cons? (more)

  • Exclusive: eBay puts OpenStack to work

    • InfoWorld OpenStack, the open source “cloud operating system,” has stirred community excitement and attracted a vendor following, including Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, and Red Hat. But until now one thing has been lacking: A high-profile corporate customer willing to … (more)

  • Cloud computing: Five ways it will change IT | TechRepublic

    • By Nick Heath
    Autonomy founder Mike Lynch on the myths about cloud computing and what it means for the IT department. (more)

  • Steve Wozniak: Cloud Computing Will Cause ‘Horrible Problems In …

    • By Seth Fiegerman
    The Apple cofounder slammed cloud computing during a Q&A after a recent performance of The Agony And The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, the controversial play by Mike Daisy. “I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” Wozniak told the … (more)

  • The Woz thinks the cloud computing trend will be “horrendous …

    • By John Callaham
    Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak doesn’t care too much for the current trend in cloud computing, telling an audience this week, “I think it’s going to be horrendous.” (more)

  • Trust In The Face Of The Cloud | CloudTweaks.com – Cloud …

    • By cloudtweaks
    Trust In The Face Of The Cloud Large scale industrialization of data centers are just but a minor indicator of the extent to which cloud computing has become. (more)

  • Red Hat: Open cloud requires open APIs and stacks

    • ZDNet (blog) Summary: Red Hat announced the release of its Deltacloud 1.0 API last week and insisted that a truly open cloud requires open APIs as well as open source cloud platforms such as OpenStack. Like its sibling CloudForms platform, Red Hat’s homegrown … (more)

  • Rackspace debuts OpenStack cloud servers

    • ITworld.com That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two years after its launch, “is a great proof point for the maturity of the project,” said Jim Curry, head of OpenStack at Rackspace. Rackspace currently has over 180000 customers of its hosted … (more)

  • IBM cloud facility to deliver Confianz services

    • Hindu Business Line G. Dharanibalan, executive, offerings management and development, global technology services, IBM, India/South Asia, said that enterprises are adopting cloud computing to not only change the economics of IT, but to help drive transformative business … (more)

  • Rackspace Q2 EPS Seen Rising 38%, Revenue Up 28.5%

    • Investor’s Business Daily Rackspace has aimed to set itself apart with its OpenStack software initiative, which freely licenses open-source programming code for software that runs servers in data centers. On Wednesday , Rackspace moved its own servers and cloud computing … (more)

  • VMware vCloud Director Essentials Newlinks

    • VMware vCloud Director Essentials Newlinks http://i.imgur.com/mUpyl.jpg VMware vCloud Director Essentials English | AVI/TechSmith, 1725 kb/s, 1284×649, … (more)

  • Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Thinks Cloud Computing Will Be ‘Horrendous’

    • Huffington Post That’s why in a recent Q&A session held after Mike Daisey’s play, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Wozniak warned the audience of the dangers in cloud computing. “I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” he said, per Agence … (more)

  • Cloud Game Still In The First Inning

    • Seeking Alpha August 6, 2012 by: Dana Blankenhorn | includes: DELL, HPQ, MSFT, ORCL, RAX, RHT, VMW. Two reports today, from Gartner Group and Open Forum Europe, offer more proof that, when it comes to enterprises and cloud computing, the game has just begun. (more)

  • Many managers don’t know their agencies’ cloud computing budget or goals

    • Nextgov Federal information technology officers view cloud computing as an important part of their agencies’ futures, but specific implementation plans are not yet well known within agency management, an industry report has found. IDC Government Insights found … (more)

  • Research with Potential Application to Cloud Computing Data to be

    • Presented … MarketWatch (press release) Research with Potential Application to Cloud Computing Data to be Presented by Dr. McCaffrey of Volt at IEEE Conference. LAS VEGAS, Aug 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Volt Technical Resources, a staffing business of Volt Information Sciences, Inc. today … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Public Cloud Reportedly Coming from VMware

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) VMware is going to go up against Amazon, Microsoft, Google and presumably Rackspace with its own public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service developed as Project Zephyr according to CRN, which thinks it could create some channel conflict for vCloud … (more)

  • BroadSoft Acquires Adaption Technologies

    • MarketWatch (press release) The acquisition will enable BroadSoft(R) to enhance its BroadCloud(TM) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery platform to include BroadWorks(R)’ award-winning features and functionality. With the addition of Adaption Technologies’ infrastructure and … (more)

  • SaaS Spreads to India and Beyond

    • Xconomy Software as a service is a thriving and still growing industry with dozens of multi-million dollar companies making their mark around the world. According to Gartner, global spending on the Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) market is projected to grow 17 … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Cloud Storage as a Service

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) It’s a distributed object storer that enables enterprise IT and service providers to offer their own storage as a service offerings,” noted Brian Olson, Cloud Business Development Manager at EMC, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference … (more)

  • Dell Cloud Channel Partner Program Launches

    • TalkinCloud (blog) Dell is looking to the channel to continue growing its vCloud offering. The company officially announced on its blog the formation of the Dell Cloud Channel Partner Program, which gives partners in the Dell PartnerDirect program the ability to resell … (more)

Daily Log News Feed – Aug 6, 2012

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

Daily ITIL News Feed – Aug 6, 2012

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