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New Approach Needed to Cloud Security
By Alf Pilgrim
rlebherz wrote: Alf, Interesting article. I think the Cloud services and cloud infrastructure lines are a bit blurred, but I agree with most of what you are saying. Dont underestimate the SLA's role in accountability. For companies that have dynamic requirements and no down time can be afforded, make sure you have very tight SLAs. For example, OpSource provides a 100% SLA in the cloud and 100%SLA around production application environments. Now 100% is ideally perfect, it comes down to accountability, yo...
Nov. 20, 2009 03:42 PM EST
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Google Apps Gets Power Panel, Single Sign-On
By Maureen O'Gara
LTech, a little friend of Google’s, has spun up the first Power Panel for Google Apps to give enterprises moving to the cloud central administrative functionality. It’s also announced Single Sign-On for Google Apps now that Google Apps are pushing deeper into the enterprise. The Power ...
Nov. 20, 2009 03:30 PM EST  Reads: 318
Infobright & Talend Combine on Free Virtual Data Warehouse
By Maureen O'Gara
They say nobody else can hand you everything you need in minutes. There’s nothing comparable. Still they’re expecting only the usual single-digit percentage upgrades to their paid software. Infobright’s self-managing software is supposed to reduce administrative effort by up to 90%, le...
Nov. 20, 2009 03:15 PM EST  Reads: 328
Berlin Is The Place To Be in February - at iStrategy 2010
By New Media News Desk
With ever-changing media consumption patterns and the rapid growth of mobile web, social networking, behavioral targeting, vodcasting, email marketing, and viral marketing it can be tough for any company to stay ahead of the competition. Which is why the organizers of iStrategy 2010, t...
Nov. 20, 2009 09:00 AM EST  Reads: 466
Move Over BI, Here Comes PI - Performance Intelligence
By Cloud News Desk
"As companies such as MySpace continue to expand the richness of their site, the big thing is trying to seek a higher level of customer experience by replicating "beyond capacity" in a test environment, so that a company can see what it is exactly that they will need when traffic surge...
Nov. 20, 2009 01:00 AM EST  Reads: 596
Instant Professionalism Online Despite Yourself...with Ulitzer
By Kevin Benedict
I read an article by an author on Ulitzer.com and was amazed at the professional image it provided him. I immediately researched Ulitzer to see if there was yet hope for me. I am a technology blogger on the subject of mobile computing strategies. As I was doing research I came across ...
Nov. 19, 2009 01:45 AM EST  Reads: 1,093
Android and Symbian Platform Technology Development Strategies
By Pat Romanski
Google is strongly pushing its open Android platform. With its market share declining, Symbian has also joined the open OS sector in order to protect its market. Android announced the Android 1.6 - codenamed Donut Alpha - in July 2009, followed by the Android 2.0 version - codenamed Ec...
Nov. 18, 2009 01:00 PM EST  Reads: 397
Google Books Settlement 2.0?
By David Weinberger
Google has announced a revised settlement [redlined pdf faq pdf] that it hopes will address the concerns raised by the Department of Justice and many other groups. Here's a summary of the summary Google provides [pdf], although IANAL and I encourage you to read the summary, which ...
Nov. 16, 2009 08:30 AM EST  Reads: 454
Stanford’s eCorner: Leveling the Intellectual Playing Field
By John Savageau
What? Leveling the intellectual playing field with Stanford? The home of elite, wealthy and over-privileged? Suddenly I am inside an auditorium at Stanford University, listening to guest lecturers speaking to a class at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
Nov. 15, 2009 11:00 AM EST  Reads: 342
Zend Teams with Varien
By Maureen O'Gara
Zend has gotten Varien, apparently a hot e-commerce platform, to ship the free Community Edition of Zend Server, the PHP web application server with the free Community Edition of its open source Magento e-commerce software. Varien, in turn, will contribute a number of native e-commerce...
Nov. 13, 2009 03:30 PM EST  Reads: 641
Oracle Upgrades its Open Source Database
By Maureen O'Gara
Berkeley DB Java Edition is a transactional storage engine for key-value pairs written entirely in Java that can be deployed as an embedded or so-called edge database, so developers can build applications that don’t need any manual administration. It now includes new replication featur...
Nov. 13, 2009 02:15 PM EST  Reads: 742
SecuCloud Chooses OpSource to Help Secure Enterprise Data
By Liz McMillan
OpSource announced that SecuCloud has successfully deployed OpSource On-Demand to bring its business-critical database security and compliance solution to the enterprise. SecuCloud offers a comprehensive and automated database security and compliance solution that is designed from the ...
Nov. 11, 2009 12:45 PM EST  Reads: 325
Unix Co-Creator Writes New Open Source Programming Language for Google
By Maureen O'Gara
Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, a couple of the revered old soldiers who wrote Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno at Bell Labs – and programming languages like B, without which C probably wouldn’t exist, and Limbo – have come up with an experimental new programming language called Go that Google, the...
Nov. 11, 2009 10:30 AM EST  Reads: 1,214
Google Open Sources its JavaScript Tools
By Maureen O'Gara
Google Thursday open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools – a compiler, a cross-browser, server-agnostic library and a bunch of precompiled templates – in the name of making web apps easier to build. Recall that Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps are JavaScript-intensive applications. ...
Nov. 10, 2009 05:00 PM EST  Reads: 1,414
EC-Oracle Standoff Degenerates to Name Calling
By Maureen O'Gara
The European Commission Tuesday responded in kind to Oracle’s contention that its decision to potentially block Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun because of MySQL – whose revenues are barely a rounding error in Oracle’s books – shows “a profound misunderstanding of both database...
Nov. 10, 2009 04:00 PM EST  Reads: 592
Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server Code
By Maureen O'Gara
It says Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing of an entire cloud computing stack. It’s supposed to offer fast, reliable and scalable access to cached online content and speed responses to requests for stored ...
Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST  Reads: 922
Economy Beginning To Accelerate: Cisco CEO
By Maureen O'Gara
Cisco CEO John Chambers, who has turned into something of an economic oracle probably because he is more in command of his catbird seat than most big-time CEOs, said Wednesday when Cisco reported its quarterly results that the economy hit a “clear tipping point” before mid-summer and i...
Nov. 6, 2009 03:45 PM EST  Reads: 690
Likewise Simplifies Upgrade Path for Open Source Authentication Software
By Glenn Rossman
Likewise announced that it is offering three starter packs that combine its Likewise Enterprise software with support and training services. The starter packs are designed to help customers move from its open source software to Likewise Enterprise. Likewise Enterprise makes it easy fo...
Nov. 5, 2009 05:00 PM EST  Reads: 521
IBM Betas Test & Dev Cloud
By Maureen O'Gara
It’s called plainly enough IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud and will provide compute and storage as a service with Rational Software Delivery Services, WebSphere middleware and Information Management database thrown in.
Nov. 5, 2009 03:30 PM EST  Reads: 703
4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Starts Today
By Cloud News Desk
A round-up of the wide range of important issues and timely topics due to be discussed by over 130 industry experts at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, opening today at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 2-4, 2009. From Building Scalable and Exten...
Nov. 2, 2009 08:10 AM EST  Reads: 10,208
LA to Go with Google Apps on Condition . . .
By Maureen O'Gara
The city of Los Angeles has okayed a $7.2 million deal with CSC to rip out a lot of its existing Novell GroupWise e-mail systems and whatnot and replace it with Google Apps provided CSC agrees to pay a pre-set penalty if there’s a security breach. They still need to dicker about that a...
Oct. 31, 2009 11:45 PM EDT  Reads: 892  Replies: 1
Zeus to Manage the Cloud
By Maureen O'Gara
Zeus Technology, the Anglo-American concern whose web server ran 3% of the world’s web sites back before the dot.com bubble burst, third in the race behind Apache and Microsoft, was asking around among CIOs, IT director and senior IT managers at large organizations and came to find out...
Oct. 31, 2009 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 702
Chrome Sued for Patent Infringement
By Maureen O'Gara
An Israeli company called Red Bend has sued Google’s Chrome browser for patent infringement in the district court in Massachusetts. It says Chrome’s Courgette differential compression algorithm treads on its widgetry. Courgette, which launched in July, sends just partial application up...
Oct. 30, 2009 01:45 PM EDT  Reads: 740
Oracle+MySQL Opponents Take to the Barricades
By Maureen O'Gara
Monty Widenius, the creator of the MySQL open source database – which is apparently all that stands between Oracle and its acquisition of Sun – thinks that Oracle shouldn’t have his baby and that the European Commission – whose investigation into MySQL has put the Oracle-Sun merger in ...
Oct. 29, 2009 05:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,845
LA Council Insists On Added Security Breach Penalty As It Oks Move to Google’s ‘Cloud’
By Carmen Gonzalez
The Los Angeles City Council voted today to move the city's 30,000 email users to a system provided by Google, but only after a provision that the city be compensated if there is security breach in the data held on Google's servers. Consumer Watchdog had said that the security provisio...
Oct. 27, 2009 07:00 PM EDT  Reads: 534
Google Apps: Not as Cheap as They Look
By Maureen O'Gara
The city of Los Angeles can’t make up its mind whether to trash its clunky Novell system and go with Google Apps for e-mail and office applications, citing costs and necessity. It was supposed to be a showcase account for Google. The decision will now move from LA’s budget and finance ...
Oct. 25, 2009 06:00 AM EDT  Reads: 965
SproutCore Release Candidate 1 Hits the Streets
By Charles Jolley

Last night I merged the final set of changes for the first release candidate of SproutCore 1.0.  I also published a new gem (build 1.0.1008) so you can get the official release quite easily.  Just open your terminal [on Mac or Linux] and type:

sudo gem install sproutcore

Th...

Oct. 25, 2009 03:00 AM EDT  Reads: 672
Carl Icahn Resigns From the Board of Yahoo!
By Liz McMillan
Carl Icahn announced today that he had informed the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. that he was resigning as a director of Yahoo!. Mr. Icahn told the Board that in his view there was not a need at this time for an activist director at Yahoo! Mr. Icahn indicated that there are a numbe...
Oct. 23, 2009 07:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,082
Sun To Cut 3,000 Jobs, Blames EC
By Maureen O'Gara
Sun said late Tuesday that it will be forced to cut 3,000 jobs worldwide over the next 12 months because of “the delay in the closing of the acquisition of the company,” laying the blame squarely at the doorstep of the European Commission and its prolonged investigation into whether Or...
Oct. 21, 2009 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,097
Google's Data Liberation Front
By Reuven Cohen
In what can be seen as a major win for users of Google's various cloud services, the company has announced a new website called "The Data Liberation Front" dedicated to be the central location for information on how to move your data in ...
Oct. 20, 2009 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 715
Google Goes on Offense against Office
By Maureen O'Gara
Google is doing something very un-Google. It's stooping to advertise. What started a few months ago with "Go Google" billboards on 101 in Silicon Valley, the West Side Highway in New York, the Mass Pike in Boston and the Ike in Chicago touting Google Apps went international Monday in F...
Oct. 19, 2009 04:30 PM EDT  Reads: 839
Ryan Greives Launches The Social Media Guide on Ulitzer
By Jeremy Geelan
Ryan Greives, Media Relations Specialist for Indianapolis-based BLASTmedia, has launched The Social Media Guide on Ulitzer. His industry knowledge and experience covers everything from consumer Internet companies and gadgets to highly complex enterprise software and hardware technologi...
Oct. 16, 2009 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,050
Google Voice and Parlay-X
By Mark O'Neill
Google Voice has a useful feature whereby it will call your phone and another number, then link the calls. This is free within the US, and very cheap for international calls (certainly cheaper than dialing out directly from my mobile phone).
Oct. 16, 2009 07:10 AM EDT  Reads: 767
Google Apps Lands its Biggest Fish Yet
By Maureen O'Gara
Rentokil Initial, an odd combination of a modern-day charwoman who in her off-hours is a courier service, exterminator, insurance adjuster, heating and air conditioning installer and water and electrical tester, has gone with Google Apps, expecting to be the largest deployment of its p...
Oct. 14, 2009 05:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,097
Software Should Be Creative
By Treff LaPlante
We spend a lot of time talking to business managers about how their operations run. The perspective that we commonly face is one of "this is how we do it; we are looking for software to do it better." But from a business perspective, that is the wrong approach.
Oct. 12, 2009 06:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,638
Eric Schmidt: Born to Pay Retail
By Maureen O'Gara
Google CEO Eric Schmidt hails from a culture born to pay retail. Remember Sun paid $2 billion for Cobalt Networks and might as well have lit cigars with the money, a billion for MySQL and $4.1 billion for StorageTek. So it’s no surprise to read on CNET that he thinks he paid a billion ...
Oct. 9, 2009 05:00 PM EDT  Reads: 777  Replies: 1
And for Its Next Trick, IBM Targets Amazon’s S3, Others
By Maureen O'Gara
Having just gone into competition with Google’s Gmail Monday, IBM said Tuesday that it’s going to take on Amazon’s S3 storage cloud and anybody else in the storage cloud business by launching its own Smart Business Storage Cloud along with a so-called Information Archive. As with its d...
Oct. 6, 2009 07:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,374
IBM Goes After Gmail
By Maureen O'Gara
In a fit of Google-envy, IBM Monday went into competition with Gmail, pitching businesses big and small on LotusLive iNotes, a new cloud-based hybrid e-mail service that starts at three buck a head a month. It claims its cloud-mail is secure and reliable – Gmail has had some problems l...
Oct. 5, 2009 07:45 PM EDT  Reads: 3,156
Google Wave Hits Wider Beta
By Maureen O'Gara
Google Wave, the amorphous open source widgetry that Google has trouble explaining but contends – silly Google – will replace e-mail, the most viral application ever, started moving into a wider test group of some 100,000 users Wednesday ahead of a still wider release in December. It’s...
Oct. 4, 2009 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 2,301
Cloud Computing Expo: Exclusive Q&A with Yahoo! SVP Cloud Computing
By Jeremy Geelan
"Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model," says Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Comp...
Oct. 3, 2009 07:00 PM EDT  Reads: 4,586
Microsoft Open Source Chief Goes to the Cloud
By Maureen O'Gara
Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s open source defector, whose imminent departure from the company became widely known when Microsoft set up its own CodePlex open source foundation a few weeks ago, has turned up at five-year-old cloud start-up Sonoa Systems, where he will head product strategy and...
Oct. 1, 2009 09:30 PM EDT  Reads: 1,524

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