Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 5, 2012

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

  • Lock-in, migration costs can blunt cloud projects
  • Computerworld To find out the true return on investment of cloud computing enterprises have to dig deeper, according to a white paper from industry organization Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Calculating the total cost of an IT service … (more)

  • VMware Communities: Max VM value set in vCloud Director
  • Max VM value set in vCloud Director. Hi! I need the maximum value for VM which is set in vCloud Director (vDC). Which API is usefull for that? Best Regards. (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Lexington Native Blogs About Life In England
  • LEX18 Lexington KY News Cloud Computing: Lexington Native Blogs About Life In England. Posted: Aug 5, 2012 12:39 AM Updated: Aug 5, 2012 12:40 AM. Bookmark and Share. Rating: 0.0 (0 votes). What happens when a Lexingtonian exchanges the sunny bluegrass for the rainy … (more)

  • Stacy Schuettler: How business can benefit from cloud computing
  • Knoxville News Sentinel All you care about is whether whatever you plugged into the wall works. Cloud computing works in much the same way. Through an Internet connection you can access whatever files, data or applications you’ve chosen to store in the cloud anytime, anywhere … (more)

  • Java EE PaaS and Application Server Interoperability | Cloud …
  • Analyst research shows that the change, cost, and complexity associated with cloud migrations continue to be key challenges for cloud computing adoption. In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Adiascar Cisneros is Director of … (more)

  • CloudStack Blog
  • Apache CloudStack 4.0 Release Plan. Tweet. A lot has been happening since CloudStack was proposed as an project for Apache and accepted as an … (more)

  • Gizmodo Hacking Illustrates Cloud Computing Security Concerns
  • RedOrbit They also gained access to Honan’s email account, and were able to remotely access and wipe his iPhone, iPad, and MacBook computer, after cracking the password he used for his Apple cloud-computing service account, Forbes contributor Adrian … (more)

  • Steve Wozniak predicts ‘horrible problems’ with cloud computing
  • Herald Sun Mr Wozniak, 61, was the star turn at the penultimate performance in Washington of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” monologist Mike Daisey’s controversial two-hour expose of Apple’s labour conditions in China. In a post-performance dialogue … (more)

  • Netmagic and Sanovi Partner to Bring Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service for …
  • Melodika.net (press release) Netmagic Solutions, India’s largest pure-play managed IT hosting services firm and a leader in the Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) market, today, became India’s first managed IT hosting services provider to offer true Disaster Recovery (DR)-as-a-Service to … (more)

  • Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud
  • Phys.Org But the engineering wizard behind the progenitor of today’s personal computer, the Apple II, was most outspoken on the shift away from hard disks towards uploading data into remote servers, known as cloud computing. “I really worry about everything … (more)

  • How NASA battle-tested its Mars rover live stream
  • GigaOM SOASTA tests the traffic load applications can handle by generating cloud-computing-based resources that mimic the traffic generated by potentially millions of simultaneous real-world users. The company also recently tested London2012.com, the official … (more)

  • Cloud computing to drive memory IC market
  • EE Times India The memory IC market was damaged by the global economic crisis, but the growing demand for memory dependent devices by data centres and the advent of cloud computing will drive the market, according to GBI Research. According to the company’s … (more)

  • Looking for Mutual Enemies in the Cloud
  • New York Times (blog) Rackspace is announcing Tuesday that its entire public cloud, thousands of Internet-connected computers available for rent, is now running entirely on open source software. The idea is that by using the software, called OpenStack , the company can come … (more)

  • Move to cloud requires new, different thinking
  • Federal Times The race to bring cloud computing to the federal government has officially begun. In June, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) reached its initial operating capabilities to certify businesses that meet federal cloud services … (more)

  • Insider Threat Blog Insider Threats Related to Cloud Computing …
  • Insider Threats Related to Cloud ComputingInstallment 1 Introduction. By Insider Threat Team on July 31 2012 715 AM | Permalink … (more)