Dear Cloud Computing Community, Here are the headlines that dominated the cloud computing industry last week: The U.S. General Services Administration Gives Agencies Cloud Security Marching Directions: The General Services Administration released its step-by-step instruction guide on following FedRAMP procedures Tuesday. Products including infrastructure-as-a-service tools will be the first to go through the FedRAMP process. http://www.hostingtecnews.com/gsa-gives-agencies-cloud-security-marching-directions FedRAMP Calls for Big Department of Homeland Security Role: A concept of operations for the FedRAMP governmentwide assessment and authorization of low- and moderate-impact cloud services released Feb. 7 by the program office shows that the Homeland Security Department will have an active role in continuous monitoring and incident response. http://www.hostingtecnews.com/fedramp-calls-big-department-homeland-security-role European Comission Looks to Cloud-based Services to Combat Online Piracy: The creative industries should use cloud computing, rather than ill-thought-out legislation, to beat online piracy according to the vice-president for the Digital Agenda in the European Commission. http://www.hostingtecnews.com/forum-europe-host-european-cloud-computing-conference-brussels REMINDER: Forum Europe to Host the European Cloud Computing Conference in Brussels: Forum Europe will host the European Cloud Computing Conference in Brussels. It will be the first opportunity to hear from EU policymakers and other stakeholders for a debate on the current state and the future of Cloud Computing in Europe. http://www.cloud-conference.eu Best regards, Hostingtecnews Editorial Staff -- If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, http://hostingtecnews.de/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=d7628ce6f346a18993a3619d0bfc644c To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit http://hostingtecnews.de/lists/?p=preferences&uid=d7628ce6f346a18993a3619d0bfc644c Forward a Message to Someone http://hostingtecnews.de/lists/?p=forward&uid=d7628ce6f346a18993a3619d0bfc644c&mid=50 ------------ HOSTINGTECNEWS | Cloud Computing, Storage, Virtualization, High Scalability and Datacenter Technologies | Lütticher Str. 51, 50674 Cologne Germany Tel. +49 (0) 221 789 418 06 | Fax. +49 (0) 221 299 951 31 www.hostingtecnews.com -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
