Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 14, 2012

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

  • USN-1565-1: OpenStack Horizon vulnerability | Ubuntu

    • Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1565-1. 13th September, 2012. horizon vulnerability. A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Summary. OpenStack Horizon could help expose sensitive information. (more)

  • Cloud Computing in China | Cloud Computing Journal

    • Driven by large-scale government initiatives as well as private investment, cloud computing has become a hot growth area in China. Named a ‘Strategic Emerging Industry’ in the government’s 12th Five Year Plan (2011 – 2015), cloud … (more)

  • Software can spot, then stop, brewing storms in cloud computing …

    • By admin
    Cloud computing can improve efficiency by tapping the power of multiple virtual machines. But what if one of those machines encounters a problem that then cascades through the entire system? Researchers at North Carolina State University … (more)

  • San Diego Cloud Computing Startup Names Former AT&T CTO as …

    • LonoCloud, a San Diego-based startup that has developed a supra-platform for cloud computing, has named Hossein Eslambolchi, a former chief technology officer at AT&T, as CEO. Eslambolchi, who was consulting with the founders, holds … (more)

  • Amazon Launches Marketplace for Cloud Capacity

    • Data Center Knowledge When Amazon Web Services introduced Spot Instances in late 2009, it sparked discussion of cloud computing exchanges in which customers could buy and sell capacity. This week Amazon has launched the Reserved Instance Marketplace, creating a … (more)

  • Video: VMware Looks To Virtualize ‘Entire Data Center’ With vCloud

    • CRN VMware is looking to extend its virtualization powers beyond the server with its new vCloud 5.1 suite. While much of the buzz at VMworld last month centered on the death of vRAM licensing and new CEO Pat Gelsinger, the software company’s vCloud suite, … (more)

  • Quest Sees Rise in Adoption of Cloud-Based Desktop-as-a-Service Apps

    • Integration Developers Quest can also deploy personalized virtual desktops as a service from a virtualization platform built to deliver the entire desktop, including the operating system, applications and data, thus enabling desktop administrators to increase control, while … (more)

  • Oracle unveils Enterprise Manager 12c Release 2

    • IT PRO … for deploying and managing business applications in an enterprise private cloud, such as Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), enhanced business application management, and integrated hardware-software management for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. (more)

  • Canonical Ubuntu management tool gets hefty upgrade

    • Computerworld The bare-metal provisioning allows an administrator to install a copy of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, along with associated software, on a server devoid of any software. Ubuntu’s Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS) technology uses Intel’s PXE (Preboot … (more)

  • Don’t tax the cloud!

    • InfoWorld There are lots of opinions about whether the government has the authority to tax cloud computing. But there are no hard-and-fast laws, regulations, or court precedents to provide definitive answers as to whether cloud services can be taxed and, if so … (more)

  • Platform-as-a-Service Is the Next Cloud Frontier – Internet Evolution

    • Enterprises look to PaaS as a way to speedily deploy apps without having to worry about server configuration. (more)

  • Microsoft Private Cloud Computing

    • Written by a team of expert authors who are MVPs and leaders in their respective fields, Microsoft Private Cloud Computing is an essential resource for IT … (more)

  • OpenStack Foundation Aiming to Advance the Open Cloud

    • Server Watch The nearly year-long wait for the official launch of the OpenStack Foundation is finally coming to an end. The board of the new foundation that will have oversight over the OpenStack cloud platform project, which made its debut in late 2011, had its … (more)

  • json – How to parse the data in android received from cloud? – Stack …

    • By user1611948
    you can convert response entity to string: StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); InputStream inputStream response.getEntity().getContent(); BufferedReader buffer = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(inputStream, … (more)

  • Spending Spree Keeps IBM Ahead Of Competition In Software Services

    • Seeking Alpha In a time when nearly every large cam technology company is wrapped up in producing smartphones and tablets for the general consumer, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has been quietly offering the business world software-as-a service, … (more)

  • Prevalent Networks Signs Distribution Agreement With SYNNEX Corporation

    • Sacramento Bee 13, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Prevalent, a leader in compliance automation software and cloud services, today announced signing a distribution agreement for Prevalent software and Prevalent Compliance as a Service (PCaaS) cloud compliance services with … (more)

  • Navman Wireless Adds Android Support to Mobile Fleet Tracking App

    • Sacramento Bee The back-end OnlineAVL2 application is delivered under the Software-as-a-Service model with no major in-house software installation or maintenance required. The platform also includes Qube on-road and Qtanium off-road GPS tracking devices; and … (more)

  • Cost Benefit of WCM Software as a Service pTools

    • The new paper on the cost and other benefits of WCM Software as a Service can now be downloaded here. It’s very much a working document and it touches on … (more)

  • Cloud computing standards debate heats up with CAMP formation

    • TechTarget “We end up with standards created to service technology providers, not the consumers,” said David S. Linthicum, CTO and founder of cloud computing experts company, Blue Mountain Labs. Cloud computing standards proponents, however, disagree. (more)

  • Cloud Computing Drives Revenue, but Many Midsize Business Are Left Curbside

    • Midsize Insider It’s easy to talk about cloud computing, but often more difficult to realize this technology’s long-term benefits. Despite aggressive marketing by both tech giants and start-up companies, a recent market study found that small and midsize enterprises … (more)

  • Hype around cloud making it cloudy: Gartner

    • Times of India Ongoing hype around private cloud computing is creating misperceptions about private cloud, according to Gartner. To help reduce the hype and identify the real value of private cloud computing for IT leaders, Gartner explains five common misconceptions … (more)

  • Sponsor post: A three-part strategy to accelerate cloud computing

    • GigaOM That was the case when Diane Bryant, VP and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group (DCSG) for Intel Corporation, talked about cloud computing at an IDF session. Diane explained that Intel’s cloud strategy has three parts: 1. (more)

  • Zenith Infotech Announces “Accelerate: Take the Fast Track to the Cloud!”

    • Sacramento Bee Zenith has developed an amazing presentation incorporating the most salient points from CompTIA’s Cloud Quick Start Session as well as material on its new cloud computing solution, TigerCloud. Managers and owners of information technology solution … (more)

  • For the sixth year Amazon courts startups with $100000 challenge

    • GigaOM As important as this opportunity is for the startups, keeping young companies coming back for cloud computing infrastructure is critical to Amazon as well especially as Microsoft(s msft), Google and other well-funded tech giants ramp up their … (more)

  • Find out what’s new on OpenStack and High Availability – at the next …

    • It’s an incredibly busy time for our us at the moment and we really appreciate all the positive feedback that we have gotten so far on the subject of OpenStack and … (more)

  • You can help put Large Enterprise Cloud on the OpenStack Agenda

    • Voting is underway for the sessions to be presented in the OpenStack summit. It’s time to make a difference and cast a ballot for some really terrific sess. (more)

  • VMware Floats in vCloud Suite 5.1

    • Channelnomics VMware Inc. continues its flow of virtualization updates with the official launch of vCloud Suite 5.1. Indeed, this is the very same vCloud Suite 5.1 that dropped the vRAM licensing fees. VMware’s is officially touting vCloud Suite 5.1 as purpose-built … (more)

  • Cars as a Service? Mercedes-Benz latest to use cloud to flog vehicles

    • Network World “You’re buying into a platform that can, and probably will, get better,” he says. “Cloud is a sort of ubiquitous, nebulous term that kind of resonates with people, representing that.” Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and … (more)

  • NeonRoots and Heroku Join Forces for Groundbreaking Ventures in App …

    • Equities.com NeonRoots, the Los Angeles-based custom web and interactive development team, has announced their partnership with Heroku, a leading cloud platform as a service (PaaS) and a salesforce.com company. This strategic alliance marks an intrinsic … (more)

  • Can Cloud Computing Save Money?

    • Business 2 Community In fact, one of the beautiful things about cloud computing is that it provides flexibility for small businesses and allows access to capabilities that were once only accessible for a large company with a large budget. For large businesses, it provides … (more)

  • Cloud Computing in the Supply Chain

    • Supply Chain Digital Often people interchange the term cloud computing with SaaS, however these terms mean different things. If you use a SaaS-based application, you don’t have to worry about building an infrastructure for the software. Instead, the software is available … (more)

  • Microsoft Azure’s China Cloud Raises Troubling Questions

    • The Epoch Times Microsoft’s move to offer cloud computing services in China may have made a big splash in the media last week, but it also raises a troubling set of questions about corporate responsibility when dealing with a tyrannical regime. Last week Reuters … (more)

  • Memo to MSPs: Can You Manage OpenStack Clouds?

    • MSPmentor Meanwhile, OpenStack is emerging as an open source platform for public clouds and private clouds. Some pundits think OpenStack will become the Linux of cloud computing, providing a free or low-cost foundation upon which to deploy applications. (more)

  • Study finds top companies innovate technology to remain efficient …

    • By CopperEgg
    The study found that 85 percent of companies that made the top innovators list are now using Software-as-a-Service, compared to only 79 percent of organizations in last year’s report. Approximately 68 percent of decision-makers said they are using cloud storage or some other hosted service, compared to only 59 percent in 2011, while another 27 percent are using Platform-as-a-Service in 2012, as opposed to only 19 percent last year, InformationWeek reported. This overall adoption … (more)

  • Virtual-Blog.com – vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) 3.0 released …

    • The VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit provides technical and operational guidance for cloud success. It includes the tools and guidance to build, operate, and … (more)

  • Upgrading From vCloud Director 1.5 to 5.1 | blog.shiplett.org

    • vCloud Director 5.1 was recently announced at VMworld 2012, and on September 10, vCloud Director 5.1 was officially released. Since many of you have … (more)

  • “One Throat to Grab”: the PeopleNet Strategy

    • Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog) A column in August discussed the new strategy of XRS Corp., which produces software to optimize truck fleet operations. The news was the shift away from any sort of XRS hardware, as XRS sought to become a software-as-a-service provider that ran its … (more)

  • United States : Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 2 Now Available …

    • Equities.com The release introduces unique capabilities for deploying and managing business applications in an enterprise private cloud, such as Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), enhanced business application management, and integrated hardware-software … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Terrible or Terribly Misunderstood?

    • GovExec.com For all the talk we hear about cloud computing, only 24 percent of the 548 respondents felt cloud computing was of high quality, and even fewer, just 15 percent, said they used it on a regular basis. On the flip side, nearly 80 percent of federal … (more)

  • Report: Acer Nukes Smartphone Launch Due to Google Threat

    • Tom’s Hardware Guide According to Reuters, the phone was a joint venture between Acer and Alibaba Cloud Computing, deemed as the first to use the latter company’s new mobile operating system, Aliyun. Acer and Alibaba originally planned to launch the device in Shanghai on … (more)