Friday Cloud News Roundup
Ultraviolet Represents Hollywood Cloud
Hollywood executives remain optimistic about the cloud and how it will help the industry in boosting their video sales by enabling consumers to build a remotely stored library of videos and movies.
This is done through Ultraviolet, which represents Hollywood’s first step into the cloud, and Neustar’s system, which provides the whole cloud-based movie library. The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) believes that this technology will address industry and consumer concerns around compatibility and piracy. This holds true at this point as some 750,000 households in the US and Britain have already set-up their ultraviolet accounts.
Find out which studios are already offering movies in the cloud and which ones we can anticipate. Visit the CNN Money blog and read the full article.
Legal News on the Cloud
The Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility has released a 20-page formal opinion on Ethical Obligations for Attorneys Using Cloud Computing/ Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property.
Here is a sneak peek of what is inside the opinion:
- Defines cloud computing in layman’s terms
- Identifies forms of cloud computing
- Discussion on benefits and threats of using off-site data storage and web-based email services
- List of specific precautions and questions in the development of an office’s data storage
Access the full opinion and read how the state of the law is examined on the use of cloud computing. Visit Legal Ethics Professional Blog now.
The Year of SaaS
An article in Seeking Alpha shows the 19% increase of Netsuite stocks for the year. This article talks about why the golden age of Software as a Service (SaaS) is at hand, and here are some reasons why:
- Smaller number of hypervisors are domination the market
- Proliferation of a small number of cloud architectures
- More companies are turning server farms into cloud installation
According to the article, this is good news for the entire software space, find out the other reasons why by reading the full article, visit Seeking Alpha now.
UCertify Courses are Now CompTIA Approved
A recent release in PR.com has announced the CompTIA-approved cloud computing courses by UCertify. An aspiring cloud professional needs to take and pass the CL0-001 exam in order to be certified.
UCertify is one of few software providers to have the seal of CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC) for cloud essentials and storage courses. This means that they have met a particular set of rigid standards of quality.
The comprehensive study guide includes:
- Over 259 test questions
- More than 137 study notes for each exam
To get a copy of the guide or to know further details, visit the site now.
Utility Cloud Computing Talk
An article in Daily Finance takes notice of the steadily increasing cloud startups and companies that want to expand their presence.
The author lists down which companies offer their cloud services utility-style and identifies which aspects they are particularly strong in. For instance:
- Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud is seen as cloud infrastructure gold standard
- Rackspace Hosting has a major presence in infrastructure computing
- VMWare has taken a leadership role in private cloud infrastructure.
The article also provided a table of popular utility cloud providers and showed their revenue growth in three years. This included Amazon with an astounding 122.5% increase, Rackspace’s 82% increase, and IBM’s 35.8% increase.
Read the rest of the article and see which companies are quite popular when it comes to utility cloud. Visit Daily Finance.
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