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This Week in Cloud, October 4, 2012: Cloud Computing Act of 2012, Cloud leads to advances in healthcare, GoDaddy shuts down Cloud Servers. And more…

Watch CloudViews Unplugged! Watch the October episode of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News A new bill that focuses on the enforcement of criminal and civil law with regards to cloud computing was recently introduced by Senator Amy Klobuchar. The Cloud Computing Act of 2012’s primary purpose is to provide extra protection for cloud services as part of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In this Forbes blog, Eric Goldman details what he considers the major problems with the bill and regulating the Internet in general. Morgridge Institute, a non-profit that conducts biomedical research, is using cloud computing to index human stem cells, which will allow researchers to determine how to build various types of cell structures for research and experimentation, according to this GigaOM article. The Morgridge Institute ... (more)

The Global Smart Meter Market 2012-2022

NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: The Global Smart Meter Market 2012-2022 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0933147/The-Global-Smart-Meter-Market-2012-2022.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm;_medium=pr&utm;_campaign=Electrical_Equipment Report Details Smarter metering that delivers a greater awareness and opportunity for decision-making over energy and utility usage is being implemented now, globally. But who is going to pay? Government direction and investment? Large-scale utility roll out? The c... (more)

C&D Technologies Names Christian Rheault as President & CEO

BLUE BELL, Pa., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- C&D; Technologies Inc., a global manufacturer of energy storage solutions, announced today that it has named Christian Rheault as President and Chief Executive Officer.  "Christian brings to C&D; a proven ability to drive industry leading technology and quality in an intensely cost competitive global market.  With Christian's leadership, we will rebuild our leadership position in the industrial battery industry," stated David L. Treadwell, Chairman of C&D.;   Mr. Treadwell served as interim CEO since May of 2012. Mr. Rheault previously se... (more)

In-memory Database – Oracle’s Exadata X3 vs. SAP’s HANA

This week at the Oracle Open World conference, Larry Ellison announced the new Exadata X3 processor that has 4TB of DRAM plus 22TB of Flash or SSD memory. Therefore, he said that you could have 26TB of in-memory data for fast processing at very fast write-speed (1m writes per second). Clearly this is aimed at SAP’s in-memory database project HANA that has been shipping for last 6 months. Larry, in his typical style, derided HANA as one with 0.5TB of DRAM and therefore not worth comparing to the X3. Subsequent to this announcement, Vishal Sikka, SAP’s CTO and head of HANA develop... (more)

IBM Arms ‘Sparta’ for Big Data & the Cloud

IBM will be adding another one of its Oracle Exa-like converged PureSystems in a webcast from Boston on October 9. AllThingsD broke the news in a piece that has mysteriously disappeared from the Wall Street Journal's site. It said the thing - which IBM is advertising as an integrated solution for Big Data and the cloud - was developed under the codename Project Sparta, which makes some sense since the first PureSystems - PureFlex and PureApplications - announced in April, were reportedly codenamed Project Troy. Sparta is supposed to "make capturing value from data faster, simpl... (more)

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