Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 28, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- How Cloud Computing is Changing Healthcare
- OpenStack Folsom Release Accelerates Open Source Cloud Stack
- High Performance Computing and CloudStack | Cloud Zone
- IBM Launches Global Initiatives to Help Managed Service Providers
- 3 ways to improve cloud performance
- TransCentra Enhances Payments Processing with SaaS Delivery of RDC
- Cloud Computing Hurt by Lack of Innovation, Data Privacy Concerns
- How Cisco moved along to PaaS
- Europe’s New Cloud Computing Strategy
- Cloud computing removes the digital divide
- Three questions that can make any open source cloud vendor squirm
- Platform to sell software as a service ? – Game Programming …
- SAP NetWeaver Cloud platform as a service looks close to general …
- EU strategy to promote economic growth through cloud computing
- Insider Threats Related to Cloud Computing–Installment 9
- Tigerpaw Boosts PSA Platform With Mobile, Cloud Elements
- Qualys IPO Climbs After Slow Start for ‘Cloud’ Firm
- Change.org: 20M users but not a single server
- OpenStack Foundation Launches Folsom | TalkinCloud
- Cloud platform options: making the right choice
- Planning key to cloud success, agency CIOs say
- IBM’s MSP Strategy Takes Cloud Ecosystem to Mid-Market
- Equinix, Rackspace Riding Cloud Computing Wave EQIX RAX SWI WWWW
Business 2 Community The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services projects that healthcare expenses will reach 19.5% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product by 2017. It’s not surprising then that cloud computing is finding its way into the healthcare industry in a big way … (more)
Datamation The OpenStack Folsom release is now available, providing users of the open source cloud stack platform with new compute, storage and networking innovations. (more)
Curator’s note: This post was originally authored by Sebastien Goasguen. I was asked the other day what was the connection between High Performance… (more)
Capture … R & D Magazine As more clients embrace cloud computing, they are looking to local technology providers known as Managed Service Providers (MSP) to help them quickly develop cloud based services in a more simplistic, secure and economical way. Managed service … (more)
InfoWorld (blog) Performance issues hold back some cloud computing efforts. This happens because many of those who stand up cloud-based applications did not account for the latency systemic to many cloud-based systems. For the most part, these performance issues are … (more)
PYMNTS.com TransCentra, a leading provider of billing and payment software and services, announced at the 2012 RDC Summit that its Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) product is now available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model, which seamlessly … (more)
eWeek Nearly all respondents said they felt cloud computing was far from reaching maturity, with only software as a service (SaaS) cautiously placed at the earliest state of growth level. Infrastructure and platform services were still considered in their … (more)
Network World But PaaS hasn’t quite seen the market adoption that the IaaS and software as a service (SaaS) layers have. Gartner … Microsoft Azure, Heroku and AppFog provide such services, a literal platform for developers to build and launch applications in the … (more)
Huffington Post (blog) Europe’s Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, has released a long-awaited Communication entitled, “Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe.” The paper outlines a series of actions designed to drive European businesses and … (more)
Global Telecoms Business Cloud computing removes the digital divide. 28 September 2012. ZTE has developed a number of innovative cloud computing applications for small and medium enterprises. The company’s chief architect, Luo Shengmei, looks at how the company helps the … (more)
TechTarget So, at which church do you pray — the church of OpenStack, the church of CloudStack, the church of Eucalyptus or do you attend services at the house of … (more)
Platform to sell software as a service \? – posted in Game Programming: I’m building a game engine and i’m looking for this kind of software platform service: … (more)
SAP could be close to announcing the general availability of its foray into the PaaS (platform-as-a-service) market, NetWeaver Cloud, which will go up against … (more)
Lifting barriers and uncertainties will encourage uptake and save businesses money. (more)
Insider Threats Related to Cloud Computing–Installment 9: Two More Proposed Directions for Future Research. By Insider Threat Team on September 24, 2012 … (more)
CRN … (PSA) platform: a mobile version of the software that allows users to do tasks such as expense logging and ticket creation from their mobile devices, and a cloud-based version that provides the functionality of Tigerpaw’s desktop client delivered … (more)
Wall Street Journal Other recent IPOs in the cloud-computing space have been winners. For example, Palo Alto Networks Inc. (PANW), which provides computer-security firewalls designed to let users collaborate on the Internet, has climbed more than 50% since its July debut. (more)
GigaOM Amazon / Cloud Computing / Elastic Map Reduce / Rackspace. loading external resource {“source”:”http:\/\/gigaom.com\/wijax\/75982f82f1ed418a13906100e8e05074″,”v arname”:”wijax_0a833001d169ae5763367a0e3aca301e”,”title_element”:”h2″ … (more)
By Chris Talbot
The first version of OpenStack released under the recently launched OpenStack Foundation, Folsom, is now available and represents a significant step forward. (more)
Cloud Pro The most obvious difference between the major platforms is that two of the three are open source;OpenStack and CloudStack (which is owned by Citrix). (more)
FederalNewsRadio.com Just a few short years ago, cloud computing in the federal government was a new, largely untested technology. Since then, a number of agencies have made high-profile migrations to cloud platforms and the Obama administration has issued sweeping … (more)
CIO Today and economical way as they embrace cloud computing. MSPs deliver a defined set of technology solutions or services to clients with a pay-as-you-go model. Customers that want to take advantage of cloud technologies but lack the internal IT skills … (more)
Investor’s Business Daily Cloud computing is a trend consolidating Internet computing power in vast armories referred to as server farms. Another trend, Big Data, describes the tech world’s effort not just to manage, but to make useful the rising waves of information gathering … (more)