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August 28, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Aug 28, 2012

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

  • Study: BYOD Creates Difficult Balance Between Security, Privacy

    • Integration Developers This ‘bring your own device’ survey is among the first to explore the balance between security and privacy for personal mobile devices used at work. It was sponsored by MokaFive and conducted by an independent survey, included 335 respondents. Overall … (more)

  • Is Bring Your Own Device a Bring Your Own Disaster in the making?

    • PCR-online.biz A survey from Kensington Computer Products conducted among office workers in the UK, France and Germany showed that 67 per cent of organisations allowed BYOD, and that employees were then connecting their own notebooks, tablets, iPads and … (more)

  • ‘Bring Your Own Device’ is most radical shift in enterprise computing

    • since … Economic Times Well, the rise of bring your own device (BYOD) programs is the single most radical shift in the economics of client computing for business since PCs invaded the workplace, according to research firm Gartner. Every business needs a clearly articulated … (more)

  • Fujitsu Ultrabooks U772 and UH572 launched

    • Tech2 As per an official statement, the new Ultrabooks combine access to the latest mobile computing technology with the power and connectivity to support all-day mobile working. Fujitsu claims to be the first vendor to ship a new-generation Ultrabook with … (more)

  • BYOD security app added to Apple App Store

    • Equities.com SaaSID was founded to address the growing security and compliance issues associated with web-based application use; the consumerisation of IT and the enablement of bring-your-own-device strategies in enterprises. By treating the browser as the endpoint … (more)

  • BYOD from the employee’s POV

    • ITworld.com There’s been lots of chatter lately about the pros and cons of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), but most of the analysis is done from the employer’s perspective. But let’s not forget that it takes two to tango (so I’m told; I don’t dance). Employees are … (more)

  • Are Schools Prepared to Let Students BYOD (bring your own – JESNA

    • By jaisenberg@jesna.org (Jennifer Aisenberg)
    From Education Week: As our students get older, they become more responsible…we hope. A laptop or tablet has replaced the notebook and pen over the… (more)

  • How to play it: What Apple’s victory means for mobile investors

    • MSN Money The ruling will likely usher in another wave of intellectual property lawsuits in Silicon Valley as Apple and other smartphone makers look for any edge in the hugely profitable and growing mobile computing business, analysts noted. Apple asked a … (more)

  • VMware sees multi-device future on Horizon

    • Register VMworld 2012 VMware has inched its vision of mobile computing forward, releasing an Alpha of a new product called the Horizon Suite that it hopes will make it easier to share apps and data among many devices. Horizon Suite includes ThinApp, Horizon … (more)

  • How Did SAP’s CIO Spend His Summer Vacation?

    • ZDNet 1) Introducing a new model for tech support. Since the beginning of the summer, SAP has opened up a slew of Mobile Solutions Centers. Its spin on the Apple Genius Bar, think of SAP’s MSC as a corporate IT helpdesk revamped for the BYOD/mobile era. (more)

  • The Surround Computing era is just around the corner

    • VentureBeat In a talk at the Hot Chips semiconductor design conference in Cupertino, Calif., Papermaster said that the enormous growth of sensors and mobile computing devices will produce a huge explosion of data that will overwhelm traditional data centers. We’ll … (more)

  • BYOD was initially an “irritant” for Intel

    • ZDNet Intel, the world’s biggest chip vendor, first saw the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) as an “irritant” and IT staff were keen to see its demise, according to Liam Keating, Intel’s IT country manager for China. Intel has 91,500 employees across the world … (more)

  • Dell-VMware try to ride VDI wave driven by Win8, BYOD issues

    • ZDNet “VDI is beginning to take off, not for cost reasons, but because of the need to have tight control over the desktop, the need tomove to Windows 7 or Windows 8, the BYOD explosion and protection of corporate assets,” Cottingham said in a recent interview. (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 28, 2012

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

Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 28, 2012

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

  • Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing

    • New York Times Cloud computing has been around for years, but it is now powering all kinds of new businesses around the globe, quickly and with less capital. Instagram, a 12-person photo-sharing company that was sold to Facebook for an estimated $1 billion just 19 … (more)

  • VMworld: vCloud Suite updated for public and private clouds

    • V3.co.uk The company said that the vCloud 5.1 update would bring a complete package of virtualisation and management tools covering the compute, storage, networking and security spaces. Headlining the release will be vSphere 5.1. The updated virtualisation … (more)

  • Cloud Storage: Tame Your Fears

    • Windows IT Pro You might have heard of three other hosted-services models in the business world: Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Those are all examples of cloud computing, and they’re becoming more … (more)

  • Sony to Boost Research Spending on Cloud Computing, Displays

    • Bloomberg Sony Corp. (6758), Japan’s biggest exporter of consumer electronics, plans to boost research-and-development spending on cloud computing and display panels as it tries to rebound from four straight losses spurred by slumping TV sales. The company’s … (more)

  • IBM buys Kenexa for $US1.3b

    • The Age Oracle and SAP have both recently been buying “cloud computing” companies. Such technology allows businesses to run software remotely rather than installing software in-house. Computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard have also been busy … (more)

  • Eucalyptus Announces Strategic Partnership With Ingram Micro to Accelerate

    • On … Broadcast Newsroom SANTA BARBARA, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/27/12 — Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the world’s most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced a strategic distribution partnership with Ingram Micro, a Fortune 100 company and … (more)

  • How to Select the Right Software-as-a-Service Provider

    • SaaS can be a wonderful solution for your business, but there are factors to consider before jumping on board with the first SaaS provider you see. (more)

  • IBM Unveils zEnterprise EC12, a Highly Secure System for Cloud Computing …

    • The Herald | HeraldOnline.com Services and Financing for zEC12 One of the hallmark benefits behind IBM System z is its powerful business continuity features, especially important today in light of the industry’s ongoing appetite for resilient cloud computing environments. To help … (more)

  • VMware vCloud Networking & Security SoftwareDefined Network

    • Abstract and pool network and security resources across physical boundaries to create logical scalable networks and provide adaptive security with VMware … (more)

  • SOFTBANK TELECOM And VCE Team On Japan Cloud Strategy

    • Embedded.com 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — SOFTBANK TELECOM and VCE today announced a strategic alliance designed to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing by companies of all sizes in Japan. SOFTBANK TELECOM will work with VCE as a service provider and … (more)

  • VMware To Join OpenStack Foundation – Slashdot

    • hypnosec writes “OpenStack Foundation, backed by virtualization players like Rackspace, Red Hat and IBM, is going to get a unexpected new member … (more)

  • VMworld: Maritz Hands Off VMware CEO Reins, Company Drops vRam …

    • ADT Magazine He also unveiled the company’s vCloud Suite 5.1, which includes a set of products that “apply the virtualization principles of abstraction, pooling, and automation to the domains of storage, networking, security and availability in a bundled package … (more)

  • Attunity Announces New Data Replication SaaS Solution for Amazon Web …

    • The Herald | HeraldOnline.com … availability software solutions, announced today that Attunity CloudBeam, its recently introduced high-performance SaaS platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), has expanded its services to provide a new data replication-as-a-service solution for … (more)

  • VMware to penetrate OpenStack cloud

    • Register NASA and Rackspace spun up OpenStack as an open-source alternative to VMware for spinning up clouds two years ago. Now VMWare has applied to become a full OpenStack member with a decision to be taken at the OpenStack group’s first full board of … (more)

  • VMware applies to join OpenStack

    • iT News The board of directors of the OpenStack Foundation will vote today on whether or not to approve virtualisation company VMWare as a gold member, according to an agenda published on the web. OpenStack is an open source cloud operating system, founded … (more)

  • VMware’s vCloud Suite 5.1 Released at VMworld 2012

    • StorageReview.com Among the first product announcements of the conference is VMware’s vCloud Suite 5.1, which adds a variety of new functionality to the vSphere platform. VMware vSphere 5.1 now supports VMs with up to 64 virtual CPUs and offers an enhanced vMotion to … (more)

  • Wipro joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program as a service partner

    • Computer Business Review Expecting that every product or IT service will be either available in cloud or cloud attached, the company seeks to leverage Google’s Cloud Platform for company’s IT and R&D customers worldwide. Wipro Global IT Business chief technology officer and … (more)

  • Gartner SaaS Report: Sensitive Data Requires Policy Coordination

    • CIO Insight Organizations that use a software as a service (SaaS) platform for data are more likely to use it for sensitive data than for mission-critical data, according to a new report from IT research firm Gartner. The study, based on a survey of 425 … (more)

  • VMware Focuses On Private Cloud, Dumps Unpopular Pricing

    • InformationWeek VMware is pushing deeper into private cloud computing, the company made clear as it kicked off its VMworld conference in San Francisco Monday. The cornerstone of VMware’s approach is a package of its core data center virtualization products integrated … (more)

  • Bharti Airtel, Microsoft partner to provide cloud computing services to SMBs

    • Economic Times Microsoft India Chairman Bhaskar Pramanik said: “We are pleased that Bharti Airtel will offer our world-class cloud productivity solution to SMBs in India. The agreement will enable SMBs to take advantage of a secure cloud computing environment at an … (more)

  • Joe public gets cloud while techs miss the point

    • ZDNet (blog) A survey commissioned by Citrix purports to show that the American public don’t understand cloud computing. The more interesting takeaway from the survey is that their inability to identify the correct definition of the cloud doesn’t stop them from … (more)

  • What VMware’s bid to join OpenStack really means

    • InfoWorld The news at VMworld that VMware was applying to join the OpenStack Foundation sounded a little like Microsoft asking to join the Linux Foundation. Really? VMware is embracing a stack of open source bits that does much of what VMware’s expensive, … (more)

  • Rackspace snaps up Mailgun for its email smarts

    • GigaOM Rackspace fresh on the heels of delivering its OpenStack private cloud, is buying Mailgun, a San Francisco startup that makes it easier for developers to build email services into their applications. Terms were not disclosed. Mailgun APIs let users … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: The Cloud’s Roller Coaster Ride of Hype to Productivity

    • Formtek Blog (blog) In this year’s snapshot of the current state of hype around cloud computing, Gartner positions different components of cloud technology at various stages on the graph. Things like ‘Cloud-based MDM solutions’, ‘Hybrid IT’, and the ‘Personal Cloud’ are … (more)

  • New OMB Reporting Guidance Hopes to Clarify Agency Cloud Investments

    • govWin (blog) New guidance from OMB will affect how agencies report cloud computing investments in their FY14 Exhibit 53 and Exhibit 300 reports. Come next February we should have a much better idea of both the status of cloud adoption across the federal government … (more)

  • VMworld: VARs Endorse VMware Move To Join OpenStack

    • CRN VMware has asked to join the OpenStack Foundation, a move that expands the virtualization giant’s footprint in the cloud ecosystem and will help solution providers migrate their business clients to the cloud, channel partners said Monday. Coming at the … (more)

  • New IBM Mainframe Supports Cloud Computing

    • CMSWire IBM is releasing the latest version of its zEnterprise mainframe, the zEC12 enterprise system, with an eye toward cloud users. The new mainframe includes large-scale cloud capabilities, as well as enhanced security and support for robust analytics. (more)

  • Cloud computing market may grow 70% this year: IDC

    • Hindu Business Line Tweet. Bangalore, Aug. 28: Research firm IDC expects the Indian cloud computing market to grow at 70 per cent this year. In a research report titled ‘India Cloud Market Overview, 2011-2016′, IDC has looked into cloud adoption in India and its future … (more)

  • Missing Trends, HP and Dell Need a Reboot

    • NewsFactor Network Scrambling to catch up in the arenas of cloud computing, touch-based computing and “Big Data,” PC makers like Hewlett-Packard and Dell are in desperate need of a reboot. The latest reminder of HP’s ineptitude came amid its report of an $8.9B quarterly … (more)

  • Rackspace Acquires Email Application Integrator Mailgun

    • eWeek Cloud computing specialist Rackspace announced it has acquired Mailgun, a provider of Web services for integrating email inboxes into applications, enhance Rackspace’s product portfolio, making it possible to integrate cloud-based email services into … (more)

  • The Birth of the Cloud Computing Era: HP Expands with vCloud …

    • By Amber Harris
    HP’s Converged Cloud has expanded with VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and was unveiled at VMworld 2012 on Monday. The software intertwines VMware’s virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into one SKU, which … (more)

  • HP expands Converged Cloud portfolio to work with VMware’s new vCloud

    • Suite … ZDNet Summary: HP today announced at the VMworld 2012 conference in San Francisco that it’s expanding its HP Converged Cloud portfolio with new solutions for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1. Dana Gardner. By Dana Gardner for BriefingsDirect | August 28, 2012 … (more)

  • vCloud vs. vSphere: VMware explains security changes

    • IDG News Service In unveiling its VCloud suite at its annual conference this week, VMware took pains to explain how the security model for it differs significantly from that of its existing vSphere cloud computing virtualization operating system both in terms of … (more)

  • CloudStack

    • I’ve been working on getting CloudStack’s legal documentation in order for the project’s first official Apache release, and I have to say that it’s been fantastic to … (more)

  • VMware Unveils Industry’s Most Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure …

    • Introducing the VMware vCloud Suite The first solution for the … The foundation of the VMware vCloud Suite is an updated version of the world’s most … (more)

  • Companies Still Struggling With Cloud Security: Reported Higher Incidence

    • Of … Dark Reading But as cloud service providers offer more of the underlying platforms and applications, such as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS), they take on more of the responsibility for security. Not only is security an inhibitor to … (more)

  • VMware Prepping Cloud Foundry PaaS For Business Customers

    • CRN VMware’s commercial Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service, currently in beta, will go into production in the fourth quarter, new VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said Monday at VMworld 2012. VMware also is planning to launch a private cloud version of Cloud … (more)

  • Learn why success greets NYSE Euronext’s Community Platform for Capital …

    • ZDNet The series explores the latest in cloud computing and software-defined datacenter infrastructure developments. Our guest is Feargal … Clients can now access, as a service, both infrastructure and platform capabilities in both of those facilities … (more)

  • VMworld: vCloud Suite 5.1 for Software-defined Datacenters

    • The VAR Guy At VMworld 2012, VMware (NYSE: VMW) unveiled vCloud Suite 5.1, which is designed to help channel partners master software-defined datacenters. VMware Chief Marketing Officer Rick Jackson said the suite integrates the company’s virtualization, cloud … (more)

  • Cloud Computing Confusing to Many: Survey

    • eWeek For example, 51 percent of respondents, including a majority of Millennials, believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing. Nearly one-third see the cloud as a thing of the future, yet 97 percent are actually using cloud services today via … (more)

  • The Role APIs Play in Determining the Winners of the Cloud Computing Wars

    • ProgrammableWeb (blog) This is clearly the case with Amazon, which is now the leading provider of cloud computing services in the industry, so much so that it’s the shadow being cast by Amazon from Seattle, rather than Microsoft, that is being felt most this week at the … (more)

  • Cloud computing removing duplication, fostering collaboration and taking …

    • Edmonton Journal Cloud computing changes this equation by allowing organizations to reallocate scarce resources and develop new efficiencies in the way we work. With an uncertain economy affecting many sectors, these gains can be an important driver of increased … (more)

  • Rackspace Acquires Mailgun For OpenStack Integration …

    • By Mike Wheatley
    Hot on the heels of a number of advances for the OpenStack community, including the news that VMware is all set to join up with the foundation and the release of Piston Cloud’s new, simplified version of the open source platform, Rackspace … (more)

  • VMware Wants In on OpenStack | Cloud Computing Journal

    • VMware, which – Cloud Foundry aside – doesn’t exactly have open source in its DNA, has asked to join the OpenStack Foundation – the consortium that wants nothing more than to take over VMware’s market share. And it’s willing to pay for the … (more)

  • VMware vCloud Suite for Cloud Computing & Cloud Management

    • Simplify the monitoring, management and security of your datacenter with VMware vCloud Suite, an integrated cloud infrastructure solution. (more)

  • Cloud computing introduces new IT opportunities, obstacles | Simply …

    • By Simply Security
    Cloud computing has evolved during the past few years into a technology that is having and will continue to have a significant impact on the world of IT. (more)

  • Cloud computing removing duplication, fostering collaboration and …

    • By postmedianews1
    Cloud computing changes this equation by allowing organizations to reallocate scarce resources and develop new efficiencies in the way we work. With an uncertain economy affecting many sectors, these gains can be an important driver of … (more)

  • Ways Cloud Computing Will Change by 2020 | Cloud Computing …

    • According to author Michael Hettinger, “Cloud computing is transformational, and the government has put the building blocks in place to effectively transform its IT infrastructure, but some core issues must be addressed for federal IT reform to … (more)

  • What is the cloud computing scenario for 2012? | memeburn

    • By Stuart Thomas: Senior reporter
    Cloud isn’t a buzzword any more. In fact it’s become so entrenched that it has its own myths. And they’re already being exploded. Take the idea that emerging markets aren’t suited to the cloud for instance. That’s bullshit. Emerging market … (more)

  • Should Cloud Computing Be Open-Source? | CloudTweaks.com …

    • By Rick
    Should Cloud Computing Be Open-Source? Open source software has been on the rise during the economic downturn, because of its agility, flexibility and. (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Size Matters

    • CTR If you take a moment to read the laundry list of benefits that cloud services claim to provide, it seems like a no-brainer. Cloud computing can reduce IT infrastructure costs and alleviate internal resource pressures. It’s also agile, easy to deploy … (more)

Daily Log News Feed – Aug 28, 2012

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

Daily ITIL News Feed – Aug 28, 2012

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