cloud security
Adobe unveils Acrobat XI with cloud services
Adobe unveiled Adobe Acrobat XI software with cloud services, a new solution that features newly integrated cloud services, including Web contracting with Adobe EchoSign and …
Cloud Security Alliance releases new IAM guidance
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced that its Security as a Service (SecaaS) Working Group has completed its peer review process and has published implementation …
OpenStack Folsom adds network automation and Hyper-V support
OpenStack Folsom, the sixth release of the open source cloud computing platform, saw a 65 percent increase in contributors, as well as the addition of Networking and Block …
New cloud data protection guidelines
The Information Commissioner’s Office published guidelines that underline organisations’ sole responsibility for the protection of data, even if it has been …
Top 10 issues eroding cloud confidence
Findings from a joint Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA survey show that government regulations, exit strategies and international data privacy dominate the Top 10 areas …
EU-funded research to make the cloud greener
A special 3D microchip, being designed by an EU-funded research project, looks set to drastically cut the electricity and the installation costs of servers in cloud computing …
Open source self-service cloud portal
ScaleXtreme released free open source software for companies to build internal cloud dashboards and self-service portals for developers and other end-users. The technology …
Solutions for application and network performance management
AppNeta launched its unified solutions for End User Experience Monitoring including full-stack application performance tracing and network performance insight. As business …
Moving federal mission-critical applications to the cloud
As federal agencies are making cloud progress, the early-adopters that are moving their mission-critical applications to the cloud are realizing cost savings and improved …
Cloud services market to surpass $109 billion in 2012
The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 19.6 percent in 2012 to total $109 billion worldwide, according to Gartner. Business process services (also known as …
RSA unifies identity and access management
RSA announced new solutions within its Identity and Access Management (IAM) suite designed to address security challenges that require new ways to manage and protect the …
Five things that the private cloud is not
Ongoing hype around private cloud computing is creating misperceptions about private cloud, according to Gartner, Inc. To help reduce the hype and identify the real value of …