A recent piece of cloud news:

Abiquo Launches A New Generation of its open source cloud management software. The abiCloud version 1.5, which is being announced at the company’s US launch today, supports Microsoft’s Hyper-V and allows users to convert a running VMware hypervisor to Microsoft’s Hyper-V via drag and drop.

CEO Peter Malcolm says, “The platform represents the next generation of virtual management. It shares some of the same capabilities of VMware’s Virtual Center but additionally offers vendor neutrality, workload management and resource management of physical servers, storage management and the ability to scale applications.”

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The Cloud Security Alliance has revealed its list of top cloud security threats to all those people that are planning on switching into the cloud hosting world.  For people wanting to enter into the world of cloud computing and breaking the barrier into the unknown world.  The Cloud Security Alliance polled 29 information security experts from all areas in the cloud space  to get their opinions on current security threats within this cloud environment.

Here are the first three threats to Cloud Security:

1. Abuse and nefarious use

2. Insecure Application Programming Interfaces

3. Malicious insider risks

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