Reuse and Migration of legacy applications to Interoperable Cloud Services

App Internet and Mobile Devices to Drive Massive Technology Demands in 2012
PCWorld
That is the verdict of technology industry experts, who predicted fast-shifting pressures on technology from the rise in mobile application development, cloud computing and new security threats. According to Forrester analysts, having said that the web ...

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'Garbage in, garbage out' -- with a 2012 twist
ZDNet (blog)
Cloud-unfriendly architecture choices: “Cloud Computing lends itself to particular ways of architecting applications, and attempting to shoehorn the wrong architectural approach into the Cloud is about as effective as Cinderella's stepsisters' efforts ...

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Technorati
China's Bid for Dominance in the Cloud: Cloud Valley
Technorati
Cloud computing is our baby. American companies like Amazon and Google helped to initiate it and now it is burgeoning as more industries, even the snail's paced medical industry, are joining the cloud universe. However, like everything else, ...
Beijing hopes to dominate cloud computing with “Cloud Valley” - SmartPlanet.comSan Francisco Luxury News

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Rival on horizon for city cloud computing
Scotsman
By Peter Ranscombe EUROPEAN computing giant MTI is opening an office in Edinburgh as it goes head-to-head with Angus MacSween's Iomart Group in the “cloud computing” market. Cloud computing allows users to store and access information in remote ...

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Times of Oman
'Cloud computing in Oman to drive business growth'
Times of Oman
MUSCAT: Services of cloud computing will witness a remarkable development as it is expected that the basic devices (services) market will grow from $8.4 billion in 2010 to $12.6 billion by 2014, according to a study conducted by the International Data ...

3 Ways to Play Cloud Computing
Motley Fool
In today's edition, they discuss how investors can play the cloud computing trend. Dave offers up three broad strategies with a couple of stock ideas for each. Dave also mentions the ones he is considering for his real-money portfolio. ...

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Datapipe Outlines Key Cloud Computing Trends for 2012
Tophosts
15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Mainstream adoption has established cloud computing as a vital part of Enterprise IT strategic planning. As the model evolves, the ability to meet the developing governance and security requirements of global businesses will be ...
Software development is migrating to the cloudBCS

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SYS-CON Media (press release)
Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software
ComputerworldUK
By Chris Kanaracus | IDG News Service | Published 07:05, 16 December 11 Salesforce.com is set to acquire cloud computing-based performance management vendor Rypple in a bid to enter the human resources software market. The deal is expected to close ...
Cloud Computing: Salesforce Follows SAP into Cloud-ified HCMSYS-CON Media (press release)
Salesforce to Acquire RyppleInvestorIdeas.com (press release)
Salesforce.com Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Rypple - First Step ...PR Newswire (press release)
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ExtremeTech
Amazon Silk revisited: Is the “split” cloud browser any faster?
ExtremeTech
As a brief refresher, Amazon is looking to leverage the might of its huge computing cloud, known as EC2, to accelerate page loads on the Kindle Fire. When a user calls up a site, the query actually goes to Amazon's servers first, which then serve up ...
Cloud Computing: Amazon to Fix Some Kindle Fire ProblemsSYS-CON Media (press release)
Customers Purchasing Kindles at Rate of More Than 1 Million Per Week for Third ...MarketWatch (press release)
Amidst User Complaints, Amazon Plans Fix for Kindle FireFox News
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SYS-CON Media (press release)
Predicting Microsoft's Future by Examining the Past
Windows IT Pro
And today, we're making a similar transition to highly mobile devices and cloud computing services. Each time this type of sea change occurs, there's a chance that those who dominated the old way of doing things will be supplanted by clearer-thinking, ...
Cloud Computing: Jury Gets Novell Antitrust Case Against MicrosoftSYS-CON Media (press release)

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The book was launched at the XV Iberoamerican Conference of Legal Informatics which was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in September this year. The book deals with data protection issues and the general intellectual property framework in the European legislation as a spin-off our European funded project OPTIMIS where the authors are in charge of all the legal issues.

OPTIMIS presented the OPTIMIS' scenarios in a round table at the IEEE CloudCom 2011 Workshop: “Market Implementation of Cloud Interoperability and Portability Research in IaaS and PaaS” During the past Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 in Athens, Greece.

Links:  http://www.cloud4soa.eu/workshop2011 http://www.ds.unipi.gr/cloudcom2011/images/stories/CloudCom_program_2011.pdf Files:  Optimis Scenarios Presentation in the CloudCom

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Created on:  Mon, 11/14/2011 External Link:  SPRERS 2nd Training on Software Services

 

This month Cloud4SOA provided a demo during a SPRERS training session at the West University of Timisoara, Romania, giving the opportunity for young researchers to see the project’s Cloud application portability prototype in action.  Be sure to check out their site for more info and copies of several other EC project presentations, as well.

 

Next stop, Athens!  See you at our CloudCom2011 workshop next Wednesday, November 30th.

Created on:  Tue, 10/25/2011 External Link:  http://www.echallenges.org/e2011/

 

Cloud4SOA is participating in this week's eChallenges e-2011 Conference, 26-28 October 2011, in Florence, Italy!

 

The project's paper will introduce a new approach for the Semantic Application Service Governance and Service Level Agreement Management in the PaaS context.

 

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BBC News
Cloud computing visionary dies at 84
Cloud Pro
There's no such thing as the father of cloud computing but one guy who came pretty close was John McCarthy, whose death, on Sunday, has just been reported. The news was announced by Stanford University where McCarthy, who was 84, had been a long-term ...
Computing pioneer and AI specialist John McCarthy diesGamesIndustry.biz (registration)
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Oracle Continues Push Into Cloud Computing With RightNow Deal
Wall Street Journal
Oracle Corp. said it is buying customer-service software maker RightNow Technologies Inc. for $1.43 billion in cash, continuing a recent push into the fast-growing field of cloud computing. The deal marks the first time Oracle has bought ...
Oracle buys cloud computing firm RightNow for $1.5 blnProactive Investors USA & Canada
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Cloud Computing 101: Protect Yourself Online
KSEE
Cloud computing has certainly made life more convenient. The cloud allows you to back up photos and music in a Web vault, collaborate simultaneously on a document in Texas with a colleague in Tennessee, or buy something online with one click of the ...

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IT Jungle
Building Mission-Critical Support in the Cloud
IT Business Edge (blog)
The company intends to ease users onto this level of cloud computing with the SmartCloud Entry starter kits for deployment on private clouds running on System x and Power hardware. For those looking for a cleaner break between the cloud and underlying ...
Cloud Computing News: IBM Launches New SolutionsInfoboom

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Four key reasons to include cloud computing in your business strategy
ZDNet (blog)
This guest post comes from Mark Skilton, Global Director of Strategy and Global Infrastructure Services, Capgemini, and Co-Chair of the Cloud Computing Work Group, The Open Group. By Mark Skilton The issue of success or failure in moving your company ...
Companies need to ask important questions when looking at cloud computingCenterBeam

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Cloud computing: Gaps in the 'cloud'
EurekAlert (press release)
Amazon Webservices (AWS) offers its customers cloud computing services and hosts, among others, services like Twitter, Second Life and 4Square. Cloud computing could be the major computing paradigm of tomorrow. The idea of processing and storing ...

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