The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the creation of a Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group in the EU chaired by the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), to seek solutions to improve the security, development of cloud systems that respond to the challenges of cloud development in Hong Kong. The possibilities…
The GigaOm Structure 2012 conference kicked off on 20 to 21 June in the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. CloudTimes was proud to be an official media sponsor of the show – just as last year. We reported live on Twitter – see also some photos from the event here. The fifth edition…
Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the Rutgers University have recently proposed building a programming framework that can effectively manage a datacenter’s workload in a solar powered system. Dubbed the “Green Hadoop”, the system will also be using the grid, but only as a backup source of power. The Green Hadoop will mostly…
X.commerce, a new business at eBay Inc. that connects developers and merchants, today announced it has joined the OpenStack™ community and will leverage the open source cloud operating system to deliver its powerful commerce ecosystem to the combined developer communities of eBay, PayPal and Magento. By choosing to standardize on OpenStack, X.commerce offers its development community the…
Microsoft Corp (MSFT) will announce the acquisition of Skype, the online telephony and video communications giant, on Tuesday morning. This will be Microsoft’s most aggressive acquisition in the digital space, an $8.5 billion deal, counting in the Luxembourg-based company’s debt. Buying Skype — a service that connects millions of users around the world via Internet-based…