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[Euclid Managers Insurance Web Log] Perhaps the biggest threats from cloud computing, or any circumstance where the insured’s IT infrastructure is outsourced, are the increased privacy and security exposures.

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[Latest News from Weblogic Journal] 1st Annual Government IT Expo: Call for Papers Deadline July 15 ...: Sessions may be recorded and made available via the Internet to a wider audience (at the discretion of SYS-CON Events). Cloud Computing News Desk brings the latest industry news related to the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered as a service using Internet technologies.

[Black Hat Announcements] Black Hat ® Technical Security Conference: USA 2009 // Home: To respond to growing concerns with SSN over-exposure and counter the rise of identity theft, policy makers have encouraged individuals to keep their SSNs safe and confidential, and, more recently, enacted legislation to reduce their ....

[Spam Collection RSS feed] PhysOrg Newsletter Monday, Jul 13 #124033: Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacterial pathogen that causes sepsis and meningitis in newborn infants, is able to shut down immune cell function in order to promote its own survival, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Their study, published online July 13 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, offers insight into GBS infection - information that may lead to new medical therapies for invasive infectious diseases that affect nearly 3,500 newborns in the United States each year.

[PR Hub] Integra Taps Vertica to Deliver World's Fastest Log Data Warehouse: The Vertica Analytic Database is available as software only, as a hardware based appliance, as a virtual appliance on VMware or online as a cloud computing solution. The technology’s unmatched speed, scalability, flexibility and ease of use helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast, Level(3) Communications and Vonage capitalize on business opportunities in real time.

[Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog] Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Shooting at clouds: But the technology of utility computing, unlike the hype about the cloud, will continue on its appointed course, and, no doubt, Larry Ellison will be there at the appropriate time to ensure that Oracle milks the utility model for whatever profits it can churn out. Oracle is the giant cockroach of the IT business - it thrives under any conditions.

[Sulgrave Resources & Research Blog] Is Your Head in the Clouds Yet? Cut IT Costs.: The Internet pipeline of cloud computing raises risks even further in form of attack, exposure and unintended consequences. Dealing with a major provider with a long history of satisfying the technological, legal, financial and .

[Hosting Wiki] Hosting Infrastructure Firm, Foundry Networks, Unveils Enhanced ...: Web Hosting Utilities Firm, 3Tera, Demonstrates Cloud Computing, at Web 2.0 Expo Utility and grid computing solutions firm, 3Tera, Inc., recently demonstrated at the Web 2.0 Expo, for the first time, the foundations for its Cloudware .

[SANS Press Room] SANS Institute - SANS Top-20: Cloud Computing - (Also called distributed processing, grid computing, mesh networks) where hundreds or thousands of computers are deployed to provide a virtual computing environment to accomplish a given task by distributing processing load and data. Cloud computing brings servers on-line as needed, and the end user does not know where the data resides or executes at any point.

[CNET News.com] FTC questions cloud-computing security | Politics and Law - CNET News: While the FTC did not comment directly on any regulatory actions or changes in policy, international regulators said they plan to examine the implications of cloud computing on data security and privacy. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development should broach the subject of cloud computing at a meeting in Paris in October, said Michael Donohue, the privacy and information security administrator for the OECD.

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] What I've been working on lately - at least some of it - ocean ...: Also in 2001, the Florida Bureau of Environmental Epidemiology11 reviewed claims that there are striking increases in cancer rates in southeastern Florida counties caused by increased radiation exposures from nuclear power plants. However, using the same data to reconstruct the calculations on which the claims were based, Florida officials were not able to identify unusually high rates of cancers in these counties compared with the rest of the state of Florida and the nation.

[Crave: The gadget blog] Sony SLR sensor ranks below Nikon, above Canon | Underexposed ...: Sony does the fabrication on the current Niko nD-SLRs , but everything else, from the micro-lens array and anti-aliasing filters in front of the CMOS to the specs of the fabricated sensor to the processing engines that turn the electrical signals coming from the sensor into the "raw" image file ge (as well as doign the full processing of in camera produced JPEG or TIFF files) is done by Nikon designed (and possibly built) processor chips. ( my source for all of the above are my contacts at Nikon) That is why camera image quality isn't just about the name on the factory where the CMOS is fabricated.

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