What Would Happen If Your Digital Life Was Destroyed? If you’d been following Mat Honan’s harrowing story this weekend, you’ve learned that the Wired writer was completely hacked by a pair of 19-year-olds who targeted him because he had a cool Twitter handle.
Honan has updated his tale and posted it on Wired where he goes through the seemingly innocent processes used to eventually wipe out his laptop hard drive, erase his digital identity, and essentially break the trust we all place in the cloud. Like most hacks, the methodology was mundane. The hackers essentially reset his iCloud password, giving them access to other accounts including Gmail (which they erased), his idevices (which they locked), and his laptop (which they wiped remotely). It was a series of dick moves generated by two kids who had little understanding of what they did and clearly panicked.
Then they reached out to Honan to explain their actions. Adobe's Creative Cloud is a Game Changer! Not a month ago, Boris and I were discussing the absurd prices Adobe charges for its products.
Microsoft Inks Its Biggest Cloud Deal Yet: 7.5M Students And Teachers In India. Microsoft has announced that it has signed its largest-ever cloud services deal, an agreement with the All India Council for Technical Education to deploy Microsoft’s Live@edu service to some 10,000 technical colleges in the country, covering 7.5 million users.
The deal is significant not just for its size but also as a mark of how cloud services are developing in two big areas at the moment: education and emerging markets — and how Microsoft is staking out a claim to be a player in both. Under the terms of the deal, the AICTE, an association representing both technical colleges and institutions of technology, will use Live@edu, Microsoft’s hosting communication and collaboration service specially customized for the education sector, to offer collaboration services, email, web apps, IM and storage to 7 million students and half a million faculty members.
The Cloud Will Cure Cancer. Editor’s note: Mark Kaganovich is founder of SolveBio and a doctoral candidate in genetics at Stanford University.
Follow him on Twitter @markkaganovich. Much ink has been spilled on the huge leaps in communications, social networking, and commerce that have resulted from impressive gains in IT and processing power over the last 30 years. However, relatively little has been said about how computing power is about to impact our lives in the biggest way yet: Health.
Two things are happening in parallel: technology to collect biological data is taking off and computing is becoming massively scalable. The combination of the two is about to revolutionize health care. Understanding disease and how to treat it requires a deep knowledge of human biology and what goes wrong in diseased cells. New technology is changing research A major challenge thus far has been the difficulty in gaining access to clinical data. Correlation in the cloud Cancer research = Big Bio. Cloud to Deliver 14M New Jobs (Half in China, India) The cloud as job creator, per Microsoft's new report.
(Click image for full version.) Courtesy: Microsoft A new research report commission by Microsoft finds that 14 million jobs will be created by 2015 thanks to cloud computing, but about half of the new jobs will be in India and China. Why cloud storage is passé and collaboration is king — Cloud Computing News. 10 Ways Cloud Computing Will Disrupt our Businesses in 2012. Google, Apple and the war for the cloud. Apple and Google have been working hard to become the conduit through which you access all of your data.
This process has involved replacing the desktop machine with ‘the cloud’ as a repository for all of your information. In the process, these companies are waging a war for you. Not just for your patronage for their services, or as a customer for their devices. No, they want you to pledge your data loyalty to them exclusively. They are looking to do this by helping you to embed your life so thoroughly into their respective systems that you become locked in, unwilling or unable to leave without a great expenditure of time, effort and money. This war stands to get more intense as data lockin becomes a real metric by which observers and the companies themselves measure success. The Cloud The cloud is nothing new. The biggest reason for this is the shift from stationary to mobile computing. But a second, and overlapping, shift is underway. Enter the cloud. How Spanning built a backup based on clouds — Cloud Computing News.
10 disruptive cloud companies we’re excited about. There is so much happening right now in emerging cloud computing — the entire economy is being disrupted by the trend.
With publicly-traded giants like Amazon, Google, VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce lurching around with new and improved services that can help businesses with cost and efficiency gains, sometimes it’s easy to miss the hot players that are up-and-coming. We’ve assembled a list of ten private cloud companies that we think are particularly intriguing — they’re focused on massive opportunities and leading the disruption in the sector they’re targeting. Any venture capitalist would be psyched to have invested early into this portfolio of ten. Frankly, there are hundreds of exciting companies that could have made this list — we’ve seen and like a lot of them — but as editors, we’ve forced ourselves to winnow it down to ten.
Seven companies on the list improve the way things work in the enterprise. Here are the top ten cloud companies: Box.net Dropbox Evernote. Cloud 101: What the heck do IaaS, PaaS and SaaS companies do? How can big data and smart analytics tools ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. Infographic: What Your Admin Should Know About Cloud Management - ReadWriteCloud. Why computing isn’t going away, just hiding in the clouds — Cloud Computing News. Dropbox CEO: We’ll integrate with everything — Cloud Computing News. Apple iCloud Announcement Will Be Game Changer - Shawn Carolan - Voices. The forecast is certain.
Tomorrow, Apple will rain features from the Cloud, and it’s a very big deal. The iPhone 5 will be the first device that relies on the Internet and server farms to complete its functionality rather than a PC. Clouds: The Most Useful Metaphor of All Time? - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology. In plays, poems, songs, and novels, clouds stand in for everything from bad philosophy to the many incarnations of a soul Ah, the cloud.
It sounds dreamlike, ethereal. Why ADP Is the Biggest Cloud Company You've Never Heard Of - Arik Hesseldahl - Enterprise.