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December 4, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Dec 4, 2012

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

  • Three major impacts when moving to a BYOD policy
  • Help Net Security Seventy percent of respondents in a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. said that they have or are planning to have BYOD policies within the next 12 months to allow employees to use personal mobile devices to connect to enterprise applications. Thirty-three … (more)

  • Five commandments for safe BYOD adoption
  • CIOL BYOD empowers the employees to choose their own computing device such as laptops, tablets, or smartphones, to get their work done. Simultaneously, it benefits the organizations by increasing productivity with a workforce which is accessible all the … (more)

  • Futures Community College adopts BYOD – leverages Ericom Software
  • solution … PR Newswire UK (press release) DROITWICH, England, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Ericom Software, a global leader in application access and desktop virtualization solutions, today announced that Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect has enabled Futures Community College to improve … (more)

  • Research In Motion Brings Balance To The BYOD Trend
  • Seeking Alpha The BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend played a large role in eroding RIM’s (RIMM) market share.The way in which RIM has addressed the BYOD trend with BB10 OS is exactly how they will win back market share. Let’s assume for a moment that RIM has … (more)

  • New Aruba Controllers Take On BYOD Challenges
  • CRN Aruba Networks is coming to market with a wireless LAN platform it says is optimized for the challenges of mobile application delivery and BYOD thanks to integrated application intelligence and better control. The Aruba 7200 Series controllers … (more)

  • Three security implications to consider with BYOD
  • Computer Business Review (blog) Gartner has outlined what it considers to be the three biggest security hurdles that businesses must overcome when implementing a bring your own device (BYOD) policy. The benefits of letting employees use their own devices for work purposes are clear … (more)

  • In defense of BYOD – Consumerization – ConsumerizeIT.com – The …
  • By Colin Steele
    Reports of BYOD’s death are greatly exaggerated. As the end of the year approaches, every analyst and pundit feels the need to make predictions for 2013. A hot take in IT is that 2013 will be the year when the bring your own device (BYOD) … (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Dec 4, 2012

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

Daily Cloud Feed – Dec 4, 2012

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

  • OpenKM multitenancy
  • OpenKM is a web base document management application that uses standards and Open Source technologies . OpenKM integrates all essential document … (more)

  • Salesforce shuns virtualisation for multitenancy Networking …
  • Weve basically built our platform for multitenancy from the ground up From … Were big believers in multitenancy but it is nice that if something … (more)

  • CloudStack jclouds Jenkins and CloudCat
  • CloudStack and jclouds Andrew Bayer @abayerSaturday, December 1, 2012. (more)

  • NSW Govt prepares SaaS panel contract
  • iT News NSW Department of Finance and Services’ principal solicitor Larry Noble told industry today that it had begun writing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) module for the Procure IT framework. State government organisations are currently required to comply … (more)

  • VMware Cloud Applications Marketplace: VARs Meet ISVs
  • The VAR Guy The marketplace is part of VMware’s broader vCloud Suite initiative, which allows … Both releases are part of VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, which integrates … (more)

  • Ninemsn to save millions by using cloud computing services
  • The Australian THE country’s largest news website, Ninemsn, has become the second company in recent weeks after the Commonwealth Bank to reveal how it will save millions of dollars from its IT budget by using cloud computing services. The news comes as Ninemsn, … (more)

  • Will Cloud Computing Be To Labor What The Internet Was To Capital?
  • CloudTweaks News But is it possible that cloud computing could reverse the trend? Answering that requires a clear understanding of capital’s current advantage over labor: Investors can fling their investment dollars around the world to find the best opportunities at … (more)

  • ServiceSource Recognized by Top Analyst Firm as a Leading SaaS Company
  • Marketwire (press release) Advancing its technology platform, ServiceSource recently launched Renew OnDemand, the first cloud application purpose-built to maximize recurring revenue. Renew OnDemand includes all of the tools, insights … Montclair Advisors provides customized … (more)

  • GE’s Grid IQ Solutions as a Service (SaaS)
  • AOL Energy In addition, there are deployment risks with integrating the disparate software applications associated with delivering the desired level of grid automation. Many small- and mid-market utilities that deliver electric utility services or additional … (more)

  • Successful cloud adoption: It’s the fit, stupid
  • InfoWorld (blog) Indeed, cloud computing providers tend to push their technology as the solution to any and all business problems. Unfortunately, there is not a universal fit for cloud computing technology, so you have to be careful to match the business problem you’re … (more)

  • What Happens When Cloud Computing Embraces Evolving Antivirus Brands As …
  • CloudTweaks News Three areas of cloud computing are the crisis points of security breaches. Were it not for Software as a Service (SaaS) programs, there would be no malware. Similarly, but for the openings in the server connections in a network or Infrastructure as a … (more)

  • See You In Health: Cloud Computing For The Healthcare Industry
  • CloudTweaks News The healthcare industry has been making its move toward technology, putting iPads and tablets into the hands of healthcare professionals and now, the latest big move has been adopting the concept of cloud computing to organize, share data and protect … (more)

  • Tech Stocks Forecast 2013 – Ride the Mobile Wave, Bet on Cloud Computing
  • The Market Oracle Michael A. Robinson writes: The best way to score tech stock gains in 2013 is simple: tap into the areas where there is “constant buzz.” But before we get to the three areas that are the most buzz-worthy, let’s start by clearing up one big myth. There … (more)

  • BitYota launches data Warehouse-as-a-Service
  • SDTimes.com BitYota, a new Silicon Valley-based start-up, today emerged from stealth mode by unveiling its data warehouse-as-a-service on Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the inaugural AWS re:Invent Conference. Hand selected by AWS to be spotlighted at the … (more)

  • Connection Cloud Hires Enterprise Software Veteran as CEO to Guide …
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) Elastic Intelligence, developer of The Connection Cloud, a revolutionary PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) technology enabling real-time access to SaaS data in the cloud, announced today that Ajay Singh has joined the company as CEO. A software industry … (more)

  • Desktone’s Platform for Delivering Virtual Desktops as a Cloud Service …
  • MarketWatch (press release) LEXINGTON, Mass., Dec 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Desktone, Inc. the pioneer of Desktops as a Service (DaaS), today announced that the Desktone Platform has been certified on VCE(TM) Vblock(TM) Systems as “VCE Vblock Ready.” Vblock systems … (more)

  • Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace vs. Microsoft vs. Google
  • ComputerworldUK It wouldn’t be a mischaracterisation to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west. There is such a variety of vendors gunning at one another and the industry is young enough that true winners and losers have not yet been determined … (more)

  • How Has Cloud Computing Evolved?
  • The Data Center Journal (blog) Cloud computing has become a fixture in the IT landscape over recent years. Some debate has even arisen over whether the development of cloud computing counts as evolution or a revolution. Leaving such questions to others (evolution and revolution both … (more)

  • Dell World: Public and Private Cloud Updates Coming
  • Talkin’ Cloud 11-13, Austin, Texas) will likely promote six cloud computing opportunities for customers and partners. They include how to: Build private and public cloud infrastructures with Dell servers, storage and networking. Surely, Compellent, EqualLogic and … (more)

  • TELUS powers the next generation of cloud computing by launching $65
  • million … PR Newswire (press release) RIMOUSKI, QC, Dec. 4, 2012 /CNW/ – TELUS today opened its new $65 million Intelligent Internet Data Centre in Rimouski, announcing that it will invest an additional $13 million in added IT infrastructure to bring world-class cloud-based solutions to … (more)

  • TheDayGroup.net Improves Their Clients’ Bottom Line With Software as a …
  • Marketwire (press release) Platform as a service adoption (PaaS) is clearly being indicated as a growing strategic importance for public cloud services for organizations that are willing to adopt the cloud infrastructure to grow and improve their business needs. With the growing … (more)

  • Salesforce: Every Developer A SaaS Vendor
  • InformationWeek Heroku, the Salesforce unit that sits atop the Amazon Web Services cloud, is taking a big step toward becoming a platform for software-as-a-service suppliers. But most of the budding SaaS suppliers that use Heroku will not be competing with Salesforce. (more)

  • IndependenceIT Powers Staples’ Cloud Workspace
  • Talkin’ Cloud When Thrive Networks, a Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS) company, announced a Cloud Workspace strategy, Talkin’ Cloud went poking around to see what cloud services platform Thrive was actually leveraging. The answer is independenceIT, according to … (more)

  • The State of Cloud Computing Around the World: Japan
  • CloudTimes The BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard basically looks at a country’s accumulated points based on several different aspects of cloud computing and then grades countries accordingly. The factors considered in the scoring consist of legislative … (more)

  • java – Distributed query with Hibernate multi-tenancy – Stack Overflow
  • I am using Hibernate’s multi-tenancy feature via JPA, with a database per tenant strategy. One of my … Hibernate Multitenancy with Discriminator approach … (more)

  • RE: multi-tenancy application with vaadin ? – Forum – vaadin.com
  • RE: multi-tenancy application with vaadin ? … I need to develop a web application that needs to be multi-tenancy. I would like to know if vaadin 7 has any feature … (more)

Daily Log News Feed – Dec 4, 2012

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

Daily Identity News Feed – Dec 4, 2012

Daily identity-related news feed from @trustpath, TrustPath.

Daily ITIL News Feed – Dec 4, 2012

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