Cloud servers are not as secure as users thing they are, reports Vice. 

Cloud computing is often touted for its security benefits: it’s assumed that a company that hosts hundreds of servers for customers has superior skills and resources to secure data on those servers than the individual owners of that data

According to Data Center Knowledge, Oracle is behind in the cloud market but it is trying to catch up. 

If there’s a path for Oracle to catch up in the cloud market, the company is taking the right steps – mostly – but the path won’t be short.

To harness the huge amounts of data that is now available research institutes are banding together to use the cloud to share computing resources, reports Physics World.

The vast quantity of data generated by global monitoring initiatives and large-scale research facilities present both new opportunities and challenges for scientists. Results that can be captured in minutes may take years to fully understand.