New attacks on cloud servcies call for due diligence by customers

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Read full story Related News: Mobile cloud subscribers to number 1 billion by 2014 The number of mobile cloud computing subscribers worldwide will grow rapidly over the next five years, rising from 42.8 million subscribers in 2008, (approximately 1.1% of all mobile subscribers) to just over 998 million in 2014 (nearly 19%). Can Indian firms deliver cloud services from offshore? Cloud and software-as-a-service delivery is best served by proximity and infrastructure reliability and that may bring some changes to the Indian offshore model. Red Hat promotes cloud projects, pans Microsoft and VMware Declaring that Microsoft and VMware will not drive cloud interoperability, Red Hat has detailed efforts of its own to proliferate use of clouds including one called Project Hail that focuses on applications. 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