A UK security company has revealed the long-awaited details of a research study involving four cloud service providers (CSPs) that pinpointed serious cloud computing data security problems, including the ability for customers, in some cases, to access each others' stored data. Context Information Security initially brought the issues to light a year ago when it carried out research to test the security of four CSPs.
Today is a big day for Adobe. Not only is the company officially unveiling the next versions of virtually all of the applications in its Creative Suite, but Adobe is also launching its Creative Cloud online offerings.
A new investment fund is to pump £40 million into cloud and software-as-a-service companies in the UK. It will use a mix of government and private fundings to target high-growth SMEs with investments of up to £2 million each.
The fund is named 'Notion Capital Fund Two', after the cloud-focused investment company that will operate it, Notion Capital. It is hoped that it will repeat the success of its predecessor, which backed British technology SMEs including cloud services provider Star and e-invoicing service Tradeshift.
Google Drive could be available to Internet users as soon as next week, based on details that have leaked on Monday.
Although rumors have been circling for awhile, it was widely reported in March that Google would launch its own online storage and collaboration service, dubbed Google Drive, at some point in April.
Online payroll providers are being told to tighten up their login procedures, following the discovery of a new malware threat by Trusteer.
The security vendor has uncovered a Zeus that targets cloud-based payroll providers, and fears it could be used by cybercriminals to steal large sums of money from companies that use online services.
According to sources, Apple has recently begun internally seeding the next major release of the iTunes application for computers, iTunes 11. Work on iTunes 11 began prior to the release of iTunes 10.6, and the development of the new software product – that we are familiar with – is currently focused on under-the-hood changes, rather than cosmetic changes. However, Apple develops different portions of products in separate groups or at separate times, so the final product will likely include some new user-interface elements and more visible features.
Microsoft is testing a beta of an Azure-based online backup service for Windows Server 8.
The Online Backup Service is a Windows-Azure-based service that will enable Windows Server 8 users to back up and recover files and folders (but not system state). There’s a downloadable Online Backup Agent that is meant to transfer this data securely to the cloud, and which uses the Windows Server Backup Interface. The backup can be configured via Computer Management or PowerShell cmdlets, as Finn pointed out earlier this month.
Maybe you're a Dropbox devotee. Or perhaps you really like streaming Sherlock on Netflix. For that, you can thank the cloud.
In fact, it's safe to say that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become synonymous with cloud computing; it's the platform on which some of the Internet's most popular sites and services are built. But just as cloud computing is used as a simplistic catchall term for a variety of online services, the same can be said for AWS—there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than you might think.
While coverage ahead of Oracle’s fiscal third quarter results yesterday focused on it losing ground to younger cloud rivals Oracle has announced it's Oracle Secure Cloud, which will be available in the next few weeks.
“After a long period of testing … Oracle’s cloud applications will be generally available. We’ve named our cloud the Oracle Secure Cloud,” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said during yesterday’s analyst call about its Q3 results.
How many servers does Amazon use to keep its EC2 platform afloat? 445,000. That is, according to Huan Liu, a researcher with Accenture Technology Labs, who came up with this number after a little bit of digging and number crunching.
His analysis found that Amazon's main cluster of servers, 322,000 of them, are located in Northern Virginia. Outside of the US however, Amazon has a relatively small footprint. For example in Brazil, there are only 1600 EC2 servers.
