May 1, 2012

Universities adopt Avaya Collaborative Cloud
Enterprise equipment maker Avaya has seen a growing number of colleges and universities adopting Avaya Collaborative Cloud services.
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Oracle shares cloud computing vision featuring SaaS and PaaS 
During a series of analyst briefings this week, Oracle has provided additional details of how it plans to play in the cloud computing arena.
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 AGIMO's 'first to be second' aim for the cloud
The Federal Government will largely leave cloud computing to the current wave of early adopters, jumping in once the second wave of adoption hits, according to Australian Government Information Management...
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Cloud alliance tackles big data: The Open Data Centre Alliance
The Open Data Centre Alliance (ODCA) – formed of major end user organisations with a combined annual IT spend of $100 billion plus – which is focussed on the creation of standards...
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PCI Compliance News: Mobile Security and Identity Management in the Cloud 
Executive-level security officers at some of the largest global companies have identified four main concerns for 2012: mobile device security, identity management for cloud... 
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April 30, 2012   

Cloud storage: a pricing and feature guide for consumers
Cloud storage services are cropping up left and right, all enticing their customers with a few gigabytes of storage that sync seemingly anywhere, with any device. 
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Huawei: Touch-free smartphones and infinite cloud storage are on the way
Huawei Technologies is aiming to bring touch-free smartphones and more inexpensive cloud storage to users, as the company boosts its research and development spending...
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Granny army teaches in the cloud
Jackie Barrow isn't a granny yet but as a retired teacher she felt she might qualify for an advert in The Guardian newspaper calling for volunteers to help teach children in India.
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Cloud's security and insecurity go on show together 
This week's Infosec security trade show in London saw the release of a swath of threat reports and risk studies.
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Adobe announces CS6, $50/month cloud-based service
Adobe has unveiled the Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Adobe Creative Cloud. 
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Cloud Computing and its Effects on the CAD Industry
Over the years it has been observed that every new technology is first looked at with skepticism. Not all the technologies that are newly brought into the market affect the market and their functioning dynamics.
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April 27, 2012  

ePlus Technology Achieves Cisco Cloud Builder Designation
ePlus inc. (Nasdaq:PLUS - News) announced today that its subsidiary, ePlus Technology, inc., has achieved the Cisco Cloud Builder designation within the Cisco Cloud Partner Program...
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Linux Foundation Backs 'Open Cloud' With CloudOpen
As the heavyweights of the IT industry swarm on the OpenStack cloud OS and the OpenFlow networking protocol, there’s a renewed push to avoid vendor lock-in and to also keep the cloud innovative, and the giants of open...
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Cloud storage: a pricing and feature guide for consumers 
Cloud storage services are cropping up left and right, all enticing their customers with a few gigabytes of storage that sync seemingly anywhere, with any device. 
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Cloud Storage: Five Alternatives Compared 
It's cloud storage week apparently, with Dropbox rolling out an update that improves how its users can share things, Microsoft's SkyDrive getting dedicated desktop apps and a revamped feature...
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Voice+Data is proud to support the region's largest cloud conference series! 
Having visited nine major hubs across Asia since November last year, the Asia Cloud Conference series will come to Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland in May.
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Google Drive Launch Delivers 10 Good Reasons to Try It Out
Google Drive is all the rage in today’s hotly contested cloud-storage space. The offering, which was first announced on Apr. 24, is widely believed to be the next big answer to services like Dropbox and Box...
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April 26, 2012  

Google says it won't own user data in cloud
Soon after Google Inc. unveiled its new online storage service Tuesday, some technology bloggers and companies raised concerns over what kind of access... 
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Infor partners with Amazon to deliver ERP in the cloud
Infor, a provider of industry specific enterprise applications, has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in order to deliver its Infor10 Business Cloud as a service to companies worldwide.
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Infonetics: Cloud and CPE Managed Security Services Forecast to Hit $18 Billion by 2016 
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its recent Cloud and CPE Managed Security Services report, which analyzes and forecasts the market for cloud-based and CPE-based... 
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Google puts 5GB free Drive storage in the cloud
Google is providing 5GB of free storage with its Google Drive cloud storage product, which aims to provide a shared online workspace for collaboration.
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Find out why Australian businesses are moving to the cloud 
Cloud computing has come out on top in a new report by Regus, with 43 percent of Australian businesses opting for the virtual world in an effort to save money as well as expand.
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Sony sends 15 million songs to cloud to close iTunes gap     
Sony Corp. will probably put songs by Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston online in Japan through its streaming music service. 
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April 20, 2012      

Amazon: Era Of Data Centers Ending 
The era in which most big companies operate their own data centers is coming to a close. Instead they'll turn, slowly but surely, to the cloud. 
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The five defining characteristics of cloud computing
For instance, there are myriad variations on the definition of the cloud — William Fellows and John Barr at the 451 Group define cloud computing as... 
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Cloud Host StratITsphere to Hold Business Hurricane Preparation Conference
Cloud hosting an data center provider StratITsphere announced on Thursday it will host “MargarITaville,” a business hurricane preparation conference....
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$4,829 per hour 50,000 core super cluster built on Amazon Web Services for cancer research 
Cancer research is one of the last areas of human endeavor in which anyone would want to "cut corners." Yet, that’s exactly what scientists must often do...
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Gemini Exhibits Cloudian Storage Software at Cloud Computing Expo
Gemini Mobile Technologies KK (Gemini) announced today that it will exhibit Cloudian® at the 3rd Cloud Computing Expo in Tokyo. 
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Oracle quietly plotting ambitious cloud computing plan 
During a series of analyst briefings this week, Oracle has provided additional details of how it plans to play in the cloud moving forward.
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April 19, 2012     

Amazon's Secretive Cloud Carries 1 Percent of the Internet
Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure is growing so fast that it’s silently becoming a core piece of the internet.
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Apple Gets Poor Grades From Greenpeace on Its Cloud Cleanliness
Apple Inc. (AAPL) received low marks from Greenpeace International for the energy use of its iCloud online service, which the environmental organization says doesn’t rely enough on clean sources of electricity.
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Manila hospital implements cloud-based EHR
OffSiteCare Resources (OSCR) recently implemented HarmoniMD, its cloud-based EHR, in Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines.
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Is it too late for OpenStack?
There’s been a lot of news about OpenStack recently — notably a conference dedicated to the open-source cloud-computing platform this week and IBM and Red Hat  signing on to the effort.
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Levie said Box plans to continue innovating to stay ahead
Levie said Box plans to continue innovating to stay ahead of the suddenly crowded field of cloud-based document management competitors that includes DropBox.... 
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How Safe Is Cloud Computing?
“There are many motivations for why an individual or a company would want to engage in cloud computing,” said Thomas Parenty, managing director... 
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April 18, 2012    

Google to launch cloud storage service next week
Google Drive, which was expected to arrive in early April, will be launched as early as next week, . The Next Web has reported.
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Virtustream Offers 'True Consumption-Based' Cloud Platform
Fresh off of a new round of venture funding, Virtustream is looking to expand its foothold in the enterprise-oriented cloud computing market as the startup continues...
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Greenpeace says cleaner clouds needed
Fostered by a convergence with social and mobile cloud solutions, Enterprise IT continues to advance with lightening pace and drive new levels of innovation. 
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Amazon, Microsoft introduce search as a cloud service 
Search moves to the forefront as a key component of cloud development, and the main competitors turn out to be Amazon and Microsoft rather than Google...
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Cloud Provider ViaWest Named 2012 Top Workplace in Denver by the Denver Post
Cloud computing and web hosting provider ViaWest announced on Tuesday that it has been named a top workplace by the Denver Post. 
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Fan fave iFixit taps Amazon cloud for new division
If you’ve ever wanted to see the innards of an iPad or needed help fixing your toilet, you probably know iFixit, the DIY repair site, its popular teardown feature and its Q&A.
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April 17, 2012   

Malaysia Information Technology Report Q2 2012 
Malaysian IT spending is expected to reach US$5.2bn in 2012, up 4.9%, consolidating a recovery from the impact of the global economic crisis.
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Make Connections in the Cloud at SuccessFactors' Annual Customer Event 
SuccessFactors, an SAP company, today officially announcedSuccessConnect 2012, its annual customer networking and learning event. 
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What’s the big deal about Cloud anyway?
You may have heard of cloud-computing, or ‘the cloud’. In case you haven’t, cloud simply means software-as-a-service delivered over the internet, like Google Apps.
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Cloud play a plus in Primus buy
Primus chief executive Tom Mazerski has revealed plans to unveil cloud services, including software and infrastructure offerings, on the back of its sale this week to M2.
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5 Tips For Negotiating Cloud Software SLAs
While negotiating special contract terms is not standard operating procedure in the world of software-as-a-service (SaaS), experts say companies have a much better...
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Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud Selected by Data#3 for Its Cloud Services 
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today that Data#3 Ltd, one of Australia's leading information and communications technology... 
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April 16, 2012   

Small Business Advocate: Use power of 'cloud' to improve your firm
One of the greatest products of human society is the marketplace. Webster defines it as a place where goods and services are offered for sale.
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VMware Cloud Foundry Plays Disruptive Role 
VMware celebrated the first anniversary of its Cloud Foundry development platform Wednesday, and during the festivities on Hillview Ave. 
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SpiderOak launches secure storage cloud for businesses
Cloud storage service provider SpiderOak is taking on Dropbox, Box and other more established services with what it calls...
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How to avoid the perils of virtualisation and cloud stall 
Technologies like virtualisation and cloud computing promise enormous leaps in efficiency and flexibility, but they can lead organizations into a quagmire...
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VMware Official Fires Back at Open Source Cloud Vendors
In a blogpost on the company’s website, VMware reminds customers of the company’s market-leading position in private cloud deployments...
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SOA - yesterdays news or unjustly ridiculed?
The principles behind Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) were established long before the Internet became a force, and certainly before the appearance.... 
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April 13, 2012     

Aurix Releases New Version of Cloud Based Analyst
Aurix, an Avaya company, has rolled out Cloud Based Analyst 1.5, a customer contact software solution that delivers access to unique, speech-based business intelligence via new dashboards.
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Fetchnotes Launches A Simple, Cloud-Based Note-Taking Service
Fetchnotes is a promising, lightweight note-taking app for list makers and idea-havers which looks deceptively simple.
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Cognizant selects Savvis cloud data centre services
US IT services group Cognizant has selected IT infrastructure services specialist Savvis cloud and data centre services to further expand its capacities to deliver cloud-based services.
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AICTE is Microsoft's biggest cloud computing client
Microsoft(MSFT.O) announced its biggest-ever customer for cloud computing - software that it hosts on behalf of clients and delivers over the Internet - after winning a contract to provide...
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Accenture Sees High Tech Firms Moving To Multiple Business Models
The cloud changes much more than we have been prepared to admit. The possibilities are just too disruptive and jarring. Resistance may be futile but it’s powerfully busy, nevertheless.
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VMware wants to be the "Linux of the cloud" 
VMware said today that it wants to be the "Linux of the cloud." The Linux-ization of cloud software, according to VMware, isn't just about releasing code as open source...
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April 12, 2012       

http://CX.com offers cloud storage, group collaboration
"The cloud" may seem like an abstract term, but it's really quite simple, and the options available in the cloud are many, as CX.com proves in their ever-expanding offering.
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MySQL, Twitter and the Data Cloud
MySQL is receiving mainstream media attention this week with Twitter publicly deciding to open source work on its MySQL database. Of course, the problems we see every day...
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Flinders floats Cloud options
Professor Richard Constantine Pro Vice-Chancellor (Information Services) and Chief Information Officer joined Flinders University late last year after 12 years at Swinburne University where he was CIO.
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Trading Tech Stocks; Cloud Computing Stocks, Social Networking 
News and stock alerts on tech stocks from Investorideas.com - cloud computing stocks, Smart TV, cybersecurity stocks, mobile search,social networking...
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Hosted Application Management and Cloud Services Company, OneNeck, to Provide Oracle E-Business Suite
OneNeck IT Services, a hosted application management and cloud services company for Oracle offerings, announced today it has entered into a five-year outsourcing...
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Why an iPhone developer yanked an Amazon cloud-music app 
An iPhone developer agreed to pull back an app that allowed users to listen to songs stored in Amazon's cloud--but it wasn't pulled at the request...
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April 11, 2012       

Save Energy: Move IT To The Cloud
The running of computer applications off remote servers, usually the Internet, is considered the next big thing when it comes to improving business efficiency. 
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SaaS, PaaS and IaaS: three cloud models; three very different risks
Many see cloud computing as one huge monolithic wave sweeping through the business world. However, there are many different types of clouds, and the risks...
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7 Ways IBM Will Make $7 Billion In Cloud
IBM in the near future will unveil a comprehensive initiative that better ties together its multi-pronged efforts to offer cloud computing services...
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HP kicks off 'converged cloud' 
HP Cloud Services will begin delivering its first offering, HP Public Infrastructure as a Service, as a public beta from next month...
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Red Hat has launched Storage 2.0
Red Hat has launched Storage 2.0, a new beta version of the Gluster cloud storage system which it bought in October.
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SYNNEX Adds Scalable Cloud Infrastructure to CLOUDSolv Platform
SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a leading distributor of IT products and services, announced today that SoftLayer’s suite of infrastructure services are available for reseller...
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April 10, 2012      

iPad news: OnLive Cloud Desktop
OnLive's not just about games: in 2012, it announced a streaming cloud service that delivers a Windows virtual desktop to tablets (like the Apple iPad) and other thin client devices.
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Avidian Technologies Takes Cross-Organizational, Outlook-Based CRM to the Cloud 
Avidian Technologies today announced the addition of Prophet Ultimate OnDemand Edition to the company’s line of industry-leading Microsoft Outlook-based... 
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Twitter open sources its MySQL secret sauce
Twitter has shared numerous aspects of its infrastructure over the past few years, and its decision to open source its work on MySQL might be the social...
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3 Truths About Cloud Software SLAs
Complex service level agreements (SLAs) have long been the norm for upholding performance and uptime guarantees for traditional on-premises...
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Data 2.0 Summit Explores the Next Generation of Cloud Data 
Over 500 executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and thought leaders across business and technology attended the Data 2.0 Summit this week in San Francisco...
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SaaS Cloud helping SaaS grow steadily 
After more than a decade, the adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) continues to grow and evolve regionally within the enterprise application markets, said industry researcher Gartner.
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April 9, 2012     

Global Enterprise Mobile Cloud Computing Market 2011-2015
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue...
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Office on iPad: OnLive Cloud vs Microsoft Dispute Resolved?
Has a licensing disagreement between Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and OnLive, a cloud services provider (CSP), ended? That’s what some sources are speculating.
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Virtela Wins Cloud Computing Excellence Award
Virtela, the world's largest independent managed network, security and cloud services company, today announced that its Cloud-based Mobile Device Management...
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Cloud Provider Deploys VPN Server Cluster at Data Foundry
Data Foundry, a leading provider of wholesale and retaildata center services, was recently selected by Golden Frog, a global...
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VMware, EMC Biggest Gainers In Cloud Gear In 2011
Cloud computing equipment revenue rose 15% in 2011 to $39.4 billion, with Hewlett-Packard, (HPQ) IBM (IBM) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) the leaders...
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BALINK: Unlocking the Business Value of Your Salesforce Cloud
BALINK Mobile Catalog Management Application for Salesforce. This new application provides sales reps with the ability to easily browse...
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April 4, 2012    

Can the cloud revive manufacturing?
Cloud computing could help usher in the next wave of technological innovation and, with it, provide a new engine for economic...
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Dropbox-Like Client With Google Docs Integration
Dropbox is the most popular file-syncing app for the desktop while most remote workers prefer to work with Googe Docs for their online office suite. 
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Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative
As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, virtualization, unified networking...
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Encrypt Your Dropbox Files With BoxCryptor
Dropbox is a great service, but its security track record is nothing to be proud of.  We’ve previously written about encrypted alternatives to Dropbox, but let’s be honest... 
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Cloud computing trending upward 
With cloud computing trending upward over the past year, a new report from Gartner said there will be some changes in the industry that could very well affect a business' cloud... 
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Why Use Dropbox, When You Can Own Your Cloud?
ownCloud has launched commercial offerings based on Version 3 of the community edition, bringing business-class flexibility and security to the file sync and share market.
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April 3, 2012   

Taiwan firm to build cloud-based tech center
A Taiwanese firm considered the world's largest contract electronics maker is planning to set up a cloud-based technology center to enter the software development market.
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Cloud may cost more in the short term but has long-term advantages
A new survey from IDG Enterprise shows that while cloud computing can be a big investment in the short term, companies realize that they will be getting a lot back in the long run.
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Dell Buys Wyse Technology To Expand Cloud Strategy
Dell has agreed to acquire privately held Wyse Technology to extend its own desktop virtualization  offerings. 
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Personal search app Found scans cloud and local data
"There's a lot of cynicism about search," Stephen Brady told me when we first met in August last year. He was working on a new personal search utility...
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Global Enterprise Mobile Cloud Computing Market 2011-2015 
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue...
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Gartner to IT: Get a grip on cloud services, or else
A new list of cloud computing trends shows just how nervous the growing use of cloud services makes IT departments.
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April 2, 2012  

Red Hat: Beware of cloud 'open-washing'
Open source software company Red Hat believes that companies like VMware and Microsoft are skewing the definition of open cloud by claiming that their virtualisation products...
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TIM gets to the cloud with IaaS services for corporate segment
Brazilian mobile carrier TIM is launching cloud computing services for the corporate segment based on the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model, innovation...
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Tax Law Changes For Cloud Storage
A major obstacle to overseas cloud computing could be removed as the Inland Revenue Department is working towards developing guidelines for offshore cloud service users.
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Microsoft sheds more light on cloud backup service for Windows Server 8 
Microsoft is testing a beta of an Azure-based online backup service for Windows Server 8. Here are a few more tidbits about it.
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Dell Adds Adobe EchoSign to Cloud Business Applications Portfolio
Dell is expanding its cloud applications portfolio, Dell Cloud Business Applications (DCBA), with the addition of eSignature services from Adobe EchoSign and AppExtremes' Conga...
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March 30, 2012 

CloudComm news: The Cloud Will Cure Cancer
Much ink has been spilled on the huge leaps in communications, social networking, and commerce that have resulted from impressive gains in IT and processing power...
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Cloud Industry Veterans Join Evolve IP to Support Company Growth
Today Evolve IP announced that five industry veterans have joined the company to support its rapid growth in the areas of cloud...
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Stock Analyst Says Jury's Out on Cornerstone Cloud 
Today’s announcement out of Santa Monica that Cornerstone OnDemand is launching a “recruiting cloud” may end up being a successful one due to...
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Canon U.S.A. Announces Google Cloud Print(TM) Support for Select PIXMA Printers
Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced that the PIXMA MG8220 and MG6220 Wireless¹Photo All-In-One (AIO) inkjet photo printers now support...
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Cracking the Cloud: An Amazon Web Services Primer
Maybe you’re a Dropbox devotee. Or perhaps you really like streaming Sherlock on Netflix. For that, you can thank the cloud.
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March 28, 2012        

Dell adds eSignature and eDocument offerings to Dell Cloud Business
Dell announced Tuesday that it is expanding its cloud applications portfolio for growing businesses, Dell Cloud Business Applications (DCBA), with new offerings that extend...
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The Battle for the Future of Cloud Computing Heats Up 
Cloud computing looks to be one of the key growth markets in technology over the next decade. With billions of dollars up for grabs, the companies competing...
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Home News Dell, Ubuntu Partner on Linux Cloud Platform - CIO Insight
Dell made a strategic international software development community move March 22 when it announced a partnership with Ubuntu Linux provider...
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Microsoft announces cloud building with TFS, Feature Packs for Visual Studio
At Visual Studio Live today, Microsoft announced a new cloud-based building service for its forthcoming version control and application lifecycle management-in-the-cloud...
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Google Drive: Finally coming this April 
Google’s online storage service, rumored to be called GDrive is like the wolf in the fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. 
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March 27, 2012       

Hypothermic Cloud Infrastructure
A particular sore spot since the beginning of the rise of cloud infrastructures, even the advent of utility computing is this: how do you forecast and pay for resources and justify costs for problems you don’t have yet? 
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HTC buys stake in SyncTV cloud-based mobile video service
HTC and Intertrust today announced a strategic partnership that gives HTC a 20 percent interest in Intertrust's SyncTV subsidiary.
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Glowpoint Expands Cloud B2B Exchange Services 
 Glowpoint, Inc. (NYSE Amex: GLOW) a leading global provider of cloud managed video services, today announced expanded business-to-business (B2B) video exchange services... 
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Cetrom Brings Custom Cloud Computing Solutions for Law Firms
Cetrom Information Technology, Inc. (Cetrom), a leader in providing comprehensive Cloud Computing solutions, announces it will bring its custom Cloud...
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Cloud computing 'can offer more flexibility' 
Cloud computing can offer companies and organisations an IT system that has greater flexibility and at the same time is far less expensive than conventional systems.
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March 26, 2012      


Research and Markets: Analysis of Cloud Services, Companies, and Applications 
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/62f39c/analysis_of_cloud) has announced the addition of the "Analysis of Cloud Services, Companies, and Applications" report to their offering.
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Wyse Technology Reviews PR Support As Cloud Computing Demand Surges
Cloud computing player Wyse Technology is seeking a broad level of public relations support to accompany increasing demand for the company’s products.
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EMC Expands Cloud Services to Accelerate the Transformation of IT Environments
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC - News) today announced an expanded portfolio of cloud servicesto help customers accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimization, and...
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Amazon comes out on top in cloud data transfer speed test
If your enterprise finds itself needing to transfer a lot of data in the cloud, beware: depending on where the data's being moved to, it can take a long time.
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March 20, 2012     

Are you paying too much for cloud services?
Knowing exactly how much and what type of cloud service a company needs is one of the more challenging aspects of deploying a cloud strategy, and most enterprises... 
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AssureSign Selects Windows Azure to Provide Cloud-based Electronic Signature 
AssureSign LLC, a leading provider of electronic signature software, today announced that it has selected and has begun porting its flagship application, AssureSign Electronic Signature Software...
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Research and Markets: Global Cloud Computing Market Is Strengthened by Telco Competition 
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/08a012/global_cloud_compu) has announced the addition of the "Global Cloud Computing Market Is Strengthened by Telco Competition...
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Online Tech Hosts Webinar on Cloud Computing in EHR/RCM Systems  
Online Tech is hosting an educational webinar on cloud computing vs. traditional server-based EHR(electronic health records) and RCM...
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Microsoft expands its cloud ERP roadmap 
Microsoft outlined its vision for the future of ERP today, and it includes multiple applications delivered in multiple flavors of the cloud with a little...
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Are vendors closing OpenFlow?
The idea of software defined networking enabled by the open-source OpenFlow protocol is under threat from corporations intent on using the OpenFlow name...
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March 19, 2012     

Private SharePoint Cloud Beats Other Cloud Hosting Options for Enterprises on Price, Practicality
AIS Network is deploying SharePoint Server 2010 in a single private cloud for less than competitors charge for a public or hybrid cloud implementation. 
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KloudData Extends Their BI Portfolio With Ready To Use Dashboards for SAP
KloudData, Inc., a leading cloud-enabled enterprise, analytics and mobility solutions provider, partners with FusionOps, named a ‘cool business intelligence... 
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80% of BPO projects are under delivering. Cloud and analytics hold key
Cloud computing and business analytics are set to inject new life into the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector through reduced upfront costs and better use of the data.
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Do you know if your cloud service and hosted exchange providers are business-ready?
Without question, “the cloud” is today’s big thing in business IT and communications. Whether its email, applications like CRM and accounting, backup, file....
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Cloud computing is entering its teen years
The cloud has entered the “awkward teenage” phase, as James Staten at Forrester Research recently noted. Luckily, it’s not overrun with rowdy adolescents the way other technology paradigms have been... 
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Big data, cloud computing drive IT - Viet Nam News 
Despite the choppy economy this year, real growth in information technology spending, cloud computing and big data were leading the era of IT transformation....
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March 16, 2012     

SAP-commissioned study estimates cloud computing to create hundreds of thousands of jobs
Cloud computing is a powerful catalyst for job creation and has greater potential for employment growth than the Internet did in its early years...
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Dell plans over 20 data centers in Asia
Dell plans to set up over 20 data centers in Asia to meet growing demand from customers for a mix of private and public clouds, the head of the company's Asia Pacific...
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Experts from Cisco and AOL join Ping Identity at Cloud Identity Summit 2012 
Ping Identity^®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced that Cisco Principal Engineer Morteza Ansari and AOL Chief Architect for Identity Services George Fletcher will be among an elite...
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The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2012
In a few short years the cloud has gone from an IT buzzword to a legitimate way to cut costs, boost agility, ease operational headaches and future-proof the business.
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Hedge Funds Buying Into the Cloud
Top hedge funds were hot on the cloud at the end of 2011, investing in companies like Amazon ,Salesforce and Rackspace that let computers access information from remote servers.
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New estimate pegs Amazon's cloud at nearly half a million servers
It's no secret that Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cluster is big. It powers massive services such as Netflix, Instagram, and Reddit. But just how big is anyone's guess....
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March 15, 2012    

HP reshuffles Always On Support for cloud computing
HP has overhauled its Always On support platform to better handle cloud computing and virtualisation.
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Cloud Computing Platform Made Easier For VARs And MSPs 
Hexagrid, a developer of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing solutions, has announced a collaborative partnership with FailProof Technology, a full-service provider of cloud solutions to VARs...
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Workforce from the digital cloud
By means of cloud computing, enterprises can access scalable computing power and storage capacity. A people cloud, by contrast, supplies a scalable number of workers via the internet.
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Why 2012 Is THE Year For PaaS, Cloud Security
News Bytes recently published its key predictions for 2012, highlighting platform as a service and cloud security as major themes.
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CloudStrategies Makes Cloud Computing a Reality for Businesses 
While the concept of cloud computing has been garnering headlines for some time, businesses are now starting to see the benefits of moving their information technology infrastructure...
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Online Tech Hosts Webinar on Cloud Computing in EHR/RCM Systems
Online Tech is hosting an educational webinar on cloud computing vs. traditional server-based EHR(electronic health records) and RCM (revenue cycle management) systems on...
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March 14, 2012    

Cloud computing titans drop prices to attract more businesses 
Cloud computing price cuts by Google, Amazon and now Microsoft may indicate that businesses are discovering that moving to the cloud doesn't always save costs.
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Web-to-Mobile - ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces For Sale a Cloud-Based Two-Way SMS
ICAP Patent Brokerage, a division of ICAP plc and the world's largest intellectual property brokerage firm and organizer of ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions, is offering for sale a patented technology...
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Options In Focus: More Grounded in the Cloud
With less than 45 minutes remaining Tuesday, virtualization-based and cloud computing outfit VMware (VMW) is staging a nice weekly chart breakout from a handle...
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Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum set for revival 
Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum founder Reuven Cohen is working to revive the organisation, which fizzled out in 2010.
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Cloud computing 'not always cost-effective' 
A cloud computing expert has described the idea that using the technology will always be cost-effective for companies as "a myth".
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'Personal Cloud' to Replace PC by 2014, Says Gartner 
There’s no doubting the cloud invasion. But the research firm Gartner believes the personal cloud will replace the PC as the center of our digital lives sooner than you might think: 2014.
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March 13, 2012    

In the news, accountants take to the cloud
The accounting profession has never really been considered adaptive or quick to change. However, cloud computing is bringing...
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Virtustream banks $15M to beef-up the enterprise cloud
Cloud solution provider Virtustream announced Friday that it raised $15 million. This Series-B funding came from Intel Capital, Columbia Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners...
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Bitdefender enters cloud storage market
Antivirus software vendor Bitdefender has launched its own entry into the cloud storage market, offering users 2GB of data for free...
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PC deathwatch: Cloud to replace personal computers by 2014, says study
Cloud computing evangelists have been pronouncing the death of the PC for years; now Gartner, the world’s leading IT research firm, has weighed in on the issue...
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Cloud group inspires Future Leaders to achieve more
Cloud based group Fairsail has announced that educational talent specialist Future Leaders has adopted its cloud offering to continue to development...
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The US is expected to get 1.2 million new jobs by 2014 from the cloud too! 
Implementation of cloud services will create 14 million jobs internationally by 2014, with the greatest increases occurring in emerging markets...
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March 12, 2012   

Cloud Virtualization Software Market in North America 2011-2014 Report Available Now
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f4d05b/cloud_virtualizati) has announced the addition of the "Cloud Virtualization Software Market in North America 2011-2014" report to their offering.
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IIJ and China Telecom Announce Strategic Partnership to Jointly Provide Cloud
Internet Initiative Japan Inc. ("IIJ") IIJI -3.99% (tse1:3774) and China Telecom Corporation Limited (China Telecom) today announced that they have forged a strategic partnership to jointly...
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ISACA sets six key principles for cloud rollouts
Global information security managers' association ISACA has announced the six key considerations it feels are necessary when rolling out enterprise cloud computing strategies.
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Cloud computing 'made in Germany' stirs debate at CeBIT
When it comes to cars or machines, "made in Germany" is seen worldwide as a sign of quality, but some firms are now extending it to "cloud computing", the buzzword...
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HP plans to launch business-themed cloud server service 
HP has plans to offer its own cloud server service that will be directed mainly for the business market. The New York Times reports that the service should be ready...
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Bitdefender launches Safebox one-click cloud storage for PCs and Android 
Bitdefender®, the award-winning provider of innovative antivirus solutions, has released Safebox, the state-of-the-art storage solution that allows PC...
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March 9, 2012     

Cloud computing explained by Cloudstrong
Rarely a week goes by without news of new jobs being created within the cloud computing industry.
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IT/Business Service Delivery Software offers unified control
CA Private Cloud Accelerator for Vblock(TM) Platforms drives Business Service Innovation by enabling IT to provide accelerated, predictable, and secure provisioning and delivery of cloud infrastructure...
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New Cisco servers have Intel Xeon E5 inside - IDG NEWS
Cisco this week expanded its data center portfolio with servers and networking gear to better support virtualization, cloud computing and Big Data.
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Cloud Computing Stocks: The Sky is the Limit  
There are different opinions about how cloud computing should be defined, but we can stick to a simple concept and state that cloud computing simply means...
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Going Mobile? New Cloud Service May Help
As part of the launch, Capgemini and Sogeti are developing a dedicated Mobile Applications Service Centre of Excellence in India, where 250 experts...
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Cloud computing trends, cloud strategy begins to emerge
Cloud computing means many things to many people. Business folks see it as a way to save costs and enable strategic objectives. Technology mavens see it as another cool toy to play with. 
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March 7, 2012    

Dell Study Finds Small Business Cloud Apps on the Rise
Today, Dell released a new study analyzing the SMB cloud computing market. The results indicate that small and mid-sized companies are flocking...
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Sophos joins National Standing Committee on Cloud Computing
IT security and data protection company Sophos has announced that it has joined the National Standing Committee on Cloud...
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What we mean by 'e-discovery in the cloud'
Your company is embroiled in a lawsuit, and your general counsel has come to IT for help in conducting e-discovery on a batch of data.
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IBM Study: Cloud Computing to Rewrite Corporate Business Models 
The number of enterprises turning to cloud computing to revamp existing business models will more than double in the next three...
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PR Newswire & Marketing Cloud Host a Free Webinar
PR Newswire & Marketing Cloud invite you to join an exciting webinar, Winning Content Marketing Strategies that will examine how organizations must rebalance culture, resources...
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Cloud-streamed games let you click and play
Services like Spotify and YouTube make sharing music or videos as simple as sending someone a link, but telling your friends to play your new favourite...
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March 6, 2012   

“Cloud storage served from an array would cost $2 a gigabyte”
New Australian cloud storage operator Haylix says building a cloud on storage arrays would mean prices of $2 a gigabyte, rather than the 12 cents...
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Axioma Puts 99.9% Of Its Computing In the Cloud
Those who still fear cloud computing (and if you do, you're not alone, many bankers suffer from cloud anxiety) should consider the example set by risk analytics firm Axioma.
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Opentext Tempo & New Tempo Express Edition Deliver Private, Secure Hybrid Cloud 

IBM calls for calm to cloud hype
IBM has called for calm over cloud computing “hype and marketing” in the lead up to the launch of its new service management product, SmartCloud Control Desk.
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XChange 2012: Cloud Computing Service Providers Posting Big Sales Gains
Ira Bell, the COO of Nimbo, a New York City company built from the ground up to tackle the cloud computing services market opportunity, said his company's sales have skyrocketed from zero...
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Cloud computing to create 2 mn jobs in India by 2015
With an increasing number of companies adopting cloud computing, over two million jobs are expected to be created in India by 2015, a study commissioned by software giant...
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March 5, 2012  

Cloud-based crop protection guide drops pay wall
An online service allowing Canada's farmers to quickly look up treatment data for any treatable crop pest problem has brought...
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Microsoft Revives Popular Partner Subsidy Promotion
Microsoft Sunday revealed plans to launch the next generation of one of its most popular partner incentive promotions in a move...
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Xbox 360 Mass Effect 3 does not support Cloud saves, BioWare offers help
BioWare's Mass Effect 3 is set to launch in less than two days now, offering players hours of intense, alien-space action.
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Cloud-Based Pricing Solution Targets Gap in Insurance Industry Software 
UK software development company Kaleida has announced the release of RightCalc , a new cloud-hosted price calculation and price optimisation software. 
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Brightcove App Cloud Brings Closed-Loop Marketing to Mobile Apps
Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV - News), a leading global provider of cloud content services, today unveiled a new release of the Brightcove App Cloud content app platform. 
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Dropbox and Box reach for the cloud
They are polar opposites, but two of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups share similar names, market, adversaries and ambitions — perhaps with wishful eyes on going public next year.
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March 2, 2012 

Microsoft blames Azure cloud computing outage on leap year
Service outage affected countless customers including government's G-Cloud service.
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Small businesses take on cloud computing
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have access to greater computing power than ever before thanks to cloud computing.
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Cloud may disrupt businesses in a good way 
Cloud computing can be a game-changer for businesses, and many in enterprises and in government agencies are looking for the cloud to be a game changer....
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Self-healing cloud being developed by researchers
MIT researches have been granted funding to develop a "self-healing cloud"; an infrastructure which could potentially recognise and eliminate a cyber attack all by itself.
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Most IT Professionals Believe Mobile Devices Bring Security Risks
Mobile devices have become essential in organizations' quest to improve efficiency, increase productivity and reduce operating costs, but most IT professionals believe laptops...
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March 1, 2012

Cloud computing industry 'increasingly aware of importance of security' 
Cloud computing executives have pinpointed the rise of security solutions as a key factor in the future of the industry.
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Cloud Service Provider Gets Caught In LulzSec Crossfire
CloudFlare, a provider of content delivery and security services, was thrust into the spotlight last June after the shadowy hacktivist group Lulz Security signed up for its service....
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Sage launches CRM 7.1 as a cloud computing service
Sage has fleshed out its cloud computing services offerings and revealed a software-as-a-service customer relationship management (CRM) suite, hosted by Rackspace and running...
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Venyu to Host Webinars on Cloud Virtualization
 Venyu will lead an educational webinar series aimed at examining the return on investment (ROI) in virtualization and cloud computing.
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Security pros need to get in front of cloud computing trend, RSA panel says 
Cloud computing is an inevitable shift in IT that security teams can’t stop, but innovative security pros can figure out ways to ensure it’s adopted safely.
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6 Principles for Effective Cloud Computing
Only through proper governance and management can cloud computing achieve its potential for organisations, according to representatives of ISACA--the global...
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February 29, 2012    

WikiLeaks Publishes Stolen Stratfor Emails
With many companies managing more data than ever before and cyberthreats on the rise, it's vital for organizations containing sensitive information...
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Corporate Boards, Executives Not Focused on IT Security 
With large portions of enterprise data now managed across email, social media, cloud and other channels, protecting confidential information... 
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BeckITSystems Announces Executive's Guide to Cloud Computing  
BeckITSystems, Inc., Northern Virginia’s preimere provider of managed technology services and "Your Cloud Pilots" Cloud Computing solutions, today announced...
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Can Organizations Keep Sensitive Data Secure While Embracing The Cloud?
TITUS, a leading provider of enterprise information security and compliance solutions, today introduced their enterprise cloud data security solutions at RSA Conference 2012...
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Ericsson joins OpenStack for cloud operators
LM Ericsson has joined OpenStack as part of its plan to serve operators that want to become cloud computing providers, the company said on Tuesday.
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Harris kills hosted cloud service program  
In what could be a sign of hesitation by some IT executives to store sensitive data in the cloud, Harris Corp. has pulled out of its off-premise remote hosting business because of lack of adoption from customers.
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February 24, 2012       

Funambol Introduces First Personal Cloud Mobile Timeline App
Funambol, the leading provider of white-label personal cloud solutions for mobile phones and devices, today announced a major upgrade.... 
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Google Apps chief says cloud apps are poised for major success 
The Chrome Web Store, open to developers since mid-2010 and to end users since late 2010, is still at a nascent stage, but has the potential to succeed in a major way...
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Host Virtual Expands Investment in Its London Cloud
Host Virtual is pleased to announce that it is expanding its Cloud Service in London.
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Box Offers 50GB Free Cloud Storage to All Android Phone Users 
Box, the company that offers cloud storage to both desktop and mobile users, has just announced it will offer 50GB of free cloud storage to all Android phone users.
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Mobile Cloud Computing Industry Outlook Report: 2011-2016 
Mobile Cloud Computing Industry Outlook Report: 2011-2016
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NSW Government takes to the cloud
A NSW Government department will be the anchor tenant for a new cloud based service that Sydney based ac3 is now offering.
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February 23, 2012      

Government reveals G-Cloud suppliers - Big players are all there
The Cabinet Office has launched its CloudStore service with the aim of bringing flexible, on demand IT procurement to government departments.
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Italian Telecommunications Operator Builds Cloud with Red Hat Enterprise
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that CDLAN, an Italian telecommunications operator and provider...
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SAP unveils SuccessFactors cloud computing roadmap as it squares up to Oracle
SAP has unveiled the roadmap for its human capital management (HCM) services that will integrate with the cloud-based tools it acquired with its$3.4bn purchase of SuccessFactors late last year.
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KPMG seeks clarity over cloud tax rules 
With the use of cloud services continuing to expand there are concerns that both taxpayers and tax authorities are not responding to the sea-change....
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Clare Computer Solutions to Hold Seminar Series on Cloud Computing for Business 
Clare Computer Solutions, a San Francisco Bay Area IT service provider, headquartered in San Ramon, California is announcing a series of seminars for businesses....
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2X Software Wins the TMCnet Cloud Computing Excellence Award
2X Software, global leader in virtual desktop and application delivery solutions, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company...
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Cloud Council of 7, Non-profit Organization of Cloud Computing and IT Leaders
The Cloud Council of 7 (CCO7), a non-profit association of business users, policy makers, technology and service providers...
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Is Cloud Computing A Global Market Yet?
Some European and fast-growing developing countries such as Brazil and China fear the U.S. will run away with the emerging cloud computing market.
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TASER's new tools: Body cameras and the Cloud
Sgt. Brandon Davis vividly recalled the moment before he killed Eric Wayne Berry, but it was not the way it really happened.
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February 22, 2012     

Why Telcos Are Naturally Poised To Disrupt Amazon's Enterprise Cloud
"The cloud is not the cloud without the network." Those were the words of NTT America CTO Doug Junkins during his keynote presentation at Monday's day-long...
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Adobe reveals more on CS6 and Creative Cloud launch plans 
Adobe has revealed that it will launch its Creative Cloud software-and-services bundle alongside Creative Suite 6 (CS6) in the first half of this year...
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Microsoft ties SkyDrive tightly to Windows 8 
Microsoft isn’t taking the cloud storage challenge lying down. The company plans to build in tight links from its upcoming Windows 8 client to its SkyDrive cloud storage...
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Move all enterprise software to cloud over weekend
TechnologyOne clients will soon be able to move all their legacy enterprise software from the company into the cloud within the space of a few days, according to...
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Cloud vendors adopt Jesuit approach
The Jesuits famously claimed that if they were able to school a child early, they were guaranteed of his future character and loyalty.
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The Cloud Is Running Out of Room: Here's How It Affects Spotify, Pandora 
It's true what they say: Our digital lives are moving to the cloud. Whenever we fire up Facebook instead of a local email client, we're taking part in...
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Connecting new cloud computing infrastructure
New cloud innovations will lead to major changes in the the computing world, which will require updated regulations, policies and protocols. 
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Teradata taps Hortonworks to improve Hadoop story
Data warehouse veteran Teradata has tightened its embrace of the Hadoop big data platform via a partnership with Hortonworks.
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Smart mobile devices a major part of TechOne cloud strategy
Smartphones and tablet devices from both Apple and Android manufacturers are a major focus of the new cloud strategy announced today by enterprise applications vendor Technology One.
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Contracting 101: Deploying Cloud Services
Rather than a new technology in itself, cloud computing is a new business model wrapped around new technologies -such as server virtualization...
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February 21, 2012    

Down to earth guides for cloud computing
The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has produced a series of Better Practice Guides for Australian Public Service Agencies looking to use...
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A convergence of cloud computing trends will create new business models in 2012
A convergence of cloud computing trends will create new business models for Australian businesses in 2012, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.
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Cloud Computing: More Secure And More Expensive
The upside of cloud computing is usually said to be reduced costs and administrative hassle; the downside is a perception of increased risk and lack of control.
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Wyse Technology to Reveal Mobile Cloud App Breakthroughs
Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced that its President & CEO, Tarkan Maner...
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Cloud Connect 2012: WAN issues still unresolved, but Telcos get serious about cloud! 
The critical problems associated with the WAN for cloud service delivery was explored at UMB/Tech Web’s Cloud Connect 2012 conference last week in Santa Clara, CA.
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Cloud Music Sniper brings your Google Music library to any music player
There is absolutely no doubt that Google Music is a fantastic service to have, if slightly limiting at times. The music stored in your cloud locker... 
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February 20, 2012    

Fedgov move to cloud computing will be hastened by a "perfect storm'
Amid mounting budget pressures and a maturing set of technologies, the federal government is poised for the rapid adoption of cloud...
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VMware to expand cloud operations in Gujarat
Having opened its office in Ahmedabad recently, VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, is now looking to tap the growing demand for virtualisation.... 
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Iceland's steam creates cleaner future for cloud computing
ICELAND has turned to the internet and to its own extraordinary natural resources in its efforts to refocus an economy still bearing...
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One year later, IBM Watson goes to work
What started out as a research project at IBM has become not only an unbeatable "Jeopardy" champion but also a new line of business for Big Blue.
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The emerging trend - users buying IT as a Service
Cloud computing and virtualization are evolving to be about not only creating a dynamic IT environment, but also bolstering user empowerment...
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UK Government launches CloudStore and names G-Cloud suppliers
The government has launched its CloudStore, a catalogue of 1,700 cloud-based, pre-approved IT services now available for the public sector to purchase.
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February 17, 2012   

Global SMB adoption of cloud computing predicted to hit $68 billion by 2014 
Cloud computing adoption has seen a large rise over the past two years, and according to information from the Parallels Summit in Orlando, Florida, small...
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IT pros will take a harder look at cloud computing in 2012
While interest continues to grow in cloud technologies among IT organizations, actual cloud implementations likely will continue to slowly progress...
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Cloud Services Adoption Rises for Small Businesses: Parallels Report
Parallels, a hosting and cloud services enablement provider, released the latest updates of Parallels SMB Cloud Insights...
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UnitedHealth Group Launches Cloud Platform for Health App Development 
UnitedHealth Group's Optum health services business has launched an open cloud platform to allow developers to create and host health care applications.
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Cloud Computing and Data Integration: 10 Trends to Watch
Increasingly, large organizations are discovering and using enterprise information with the objective of growing or transforming their business as they seek more holistic approaches to their data...
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TechAmerica Releases Best-Practices Report for Government Cloud Adoption
Government agencies at the federal and state levels talk a good game about wanting to refresh legacy data center systems by moving as many of them to cloud services as possible.
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February 15, 2012  

Cloud computing could help drive innovation
Businesses have been adopting cloud computing a lot over the past year, but IBM said in a recent report that some companies could get much more...
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Multiple cloud formats means new security approaches needed 
With multiple varieties of cloud computing, including private, public, hybrid and other clouds, Chris Preimesberger writes on eWeek that there may be new security...
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February 14, 2012      

HP expands its cloud partner programmes
Under the expanded initiatives, HP has expanded its umbrella channel programme HP PartnerONE with a cloud specialisation and collaboration programmes.
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Rackspace's Shares Rise as Cloud Computing Fuels Profit Growth
Rackspace Hosting Inc., the biggest competitor to Amazon.com Inc. in the market for Web-based data centers, rose as much as 6 percent in late trading.... 
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One year later, IBM Watson goes to work (and the cloud) 
I BM's Watson project proved a big hit when it appeared as a contestant on "Jeopardy" one year ago and proved that machines are indeed smarter...
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Cloud to the rescue: Entrepreneurs have always walked the thin line between aspiration and reality
Entrepreneurs have always walked the thin line between aspiration and reality. While there are so many ways to expand your start-up and grow as a business, a budget that reminds you of limited resources...
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Citrix simplifies cloud service management with CloudStack  
Citrix Systems Inc. is shipping a new version of its CloudStack cloud management software that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses... 
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Kleiner Perkins said to eye “cloud” fund
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February 13, 2012     

Kevin Fogarty says cloud doesn't exist, it's just really good virtualization
There's a dirty little secret about cloud computing – the hottest, most innovative, most status-quo-disrupting technology on the market today: There is no such thing.
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Four Things I'd Like To See At Cloud Connect
Cloud Connect is a leading conference that brings together much of the cognoscenti of cloud computing. Google's director of engineering, Peter Magnusson; Cloudscaling...
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Kleiner Perkins Considering New Fund for Cloud-Computing Services Startups
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture firm that backed Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) and Groupon Inc., is considering starting a new fund focused on startups selling cloud services to corporations.
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The Fear of Multitenancy
In the world of SaaS and cloud computing there is one single word that will send chills up the spines in IT: Multitenancy.
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Centrify Wins TMC Cloud Computing Excellence Award for Active Directory-Based Security
Centrify Corporation, the leading provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access...
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Federal IT managers still worry about cloud security and costs
Federal IT managers are working to adopt cloud computing technologies and comply with White House cloud computing initiatives, but aren't yet sold on cloud computing's cost...
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February 10, 2012    

Website launched to monitor cloud computing suppliers
A service has been launched to monitor the performance of specialist cloud computingsuppliers and compare them against the financial performances of more traditional IT providers.
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GSA Details Federal Cloud Security Program
The General Services Administration on Tuesday released extensive new details on FedRAMP, the federal government's new standardized... 
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Google said to be readying cloud-based storage service 
Google is reportedly getting ready to take on Dropbox with its own cloud-based storage service.
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Centrify Wins TMC Cloud Computing Excellence Award for Active Directory-Based Security
Centrify Corporation, the leading provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access... 
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FBI Warns Cloud Providers About Security Requirements
If you are a cloud service provider looking to contract with U.S. law enforcement agencies, of late, there has been a bit of a shift...
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Why Canada lags in cloud computing
Two years ago, Cadillac Fairview Corp. looked to the cloud and liked what it saw. In search of a cheaper way to manage...
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Did you hear the news? Oracle plans to acquire Taleo for $1.9 billion! 
Oracle announced plans to acquire human resources and talent management provider Taleo for $1.9 billion.
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Cloudscaling set to offer OpenStack private cloud platform
Cloudscaling plans to introduce on Monday an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds.
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"Mr. Georgens is predicting a much faster move to cloud computing than most of his peers"
NetApp, the second largest provider of data storage equipment, likes its customers. It just wants to have fewer of them.
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February 9, 2012    

Google: Digital Music Case Has Cloud Law Implications
In an effort to defend the legal basis of cloud computing, Google on Wednesday asked a New York court for permission to file an amicus curiae...
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Schoolwires deploys Dell Cloud Business Applications
Schoolwires, a provider of Web content management platform used by school districts, has chosen Dell Cloud Business Applications' integrated CRM... 
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Salesforce's Latest Cloud Offering
Salesforce.com (CRM) recently unveiled its latest offering Desk.com, leveraging Heroku’s cloud-platform. 
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Cloud Computing, Mobile Technologies Key to Small Business Success
Small businesses have the power to revive the nation’s economy; they just need the opportunity, technology and the right government policies...
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CloudHosting: Cloud News: VMware, Hostway, HP - Data Center Knowledge
The Data Center JournalCloud News: VMware, Hostway, HPData Center KnowledgeIt will also include web-based portals to streamline and automate service plan, customer lifecycle and reseller... 
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Cloud Computing Set To Revolutionise African IT Industry
Abby Wakama, Publisher and Executive Editor for ITNewsAfrica.com, was discussing cloud’s future on the continent in the build-up to presenting at the Cloud Computing... 
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In the Cloud We Trust: Cloud Computing Is Tech Shift
The success of cloud computing systems comes down to trust and security. Cloud service providers all claim enhanced security because data is replicated.... 
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GSA Details Federal Cloud Security Program
The General Services Administration on Tuesday released extensive new details on FedRAMP, the federal government's new standardized...
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Market News: For affordable compliance, companies take to the cloud
Email archiving for both a company's own use and foreDiscovery requirements is becoming difficult to maintain on businesses' own servers, sending CIOs to the cloud...
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Details Of Adobe Creative Cloud Revealed: $49.99 Per Month
Adobe today announced details of its new Creative Cloud service that will launch in a few months time alongside the Creative Suite 6 release.
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February 8, 2012    

Federal Standards Body Focuses On Big Data
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's IT Laboratory, which works on IT standards and metrics as well as federal cybersecurity... 
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Unbelievably Cheap Amazon Cloud Prices Get Even Cheaper 
When was the last time your utility  company told you they were reducing fees?
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Skin Scan wants to fight cancer using iPhones and big data
Skin Scan, a startup based in Bucharest, Romania, is selling an iPhone app that lets consumers take pictures of questionable moles...
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Cisco's Sherriff Talks Cloud, Competition
Cisco used its 2011 Partner Summit in New Orleans to articulate a strategy for how it wanted Cisco (NSDQ:CSCO) partners to think... 
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F-Secure 'launches' cloud storage service, but is it new?
F-Secure has announced a cloud based content storage and synchronisation service, Content Anywhere...
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Wyse CEO to Discuss Leading Trends in Mobility and Cloud 
Wyse Technology, the global leader incloud client computing, today announced that President and CEO Tarkan Maner... 
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Investing in Cloud Computing for Dummies - DailyFinance
If you ask 10 technology experts to define cloud computing, you might get 10 different answers. If you don't know what it is, how can...
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Amdocs enables service providers to enter connected home market
There's a lot to be said for picking an ISP or carrier, and then selecting other service providers that best fit your needs and budget.
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VMware Brings Partners Auto Provisioning Of Cloud Services
VMware on Wednesday unveiled its new VMware vCloud Integration Manager to help service providers add automation...
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New kind of malware steals, uploads docs to cloud 
A new breed of malware has taken data theft one step further - it now grabs document and spreadsheet files and uploads them to a cloud-based...
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February 7, 2012   

Finance News: Software tester moves to offshore cloud
Software testing firm TestPro is considering moving its email and knowledge management systems offshore after taking up IBM’s...
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ScienceLogic Wins 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award 
The ScienceLogic™ IT operations and cloud managementplatform has been named a 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner by... 
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Did Cloud Computing Win New York Giants the Super Bowl?
By now you know: the Giants dwarfed the pompous Patriots in what’s being deemed one of the oddest battles in Super Bowl history.
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Symantec Backup Exec 2012 Is All About The Cloud
Symantec (NSDQ:SYMC)'s forecast calls for clouds. The company today introduced Backup Exec 2012 with a complete interface.... 
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Australian Cloud and Kiwi Cloud Select independenceIT’s Total Freedom Workspace
independenceIT™ (iIT), provider of the complete cloud workspace, today announced at MSPWorld 2012...
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Mirantis Speaks Up at Cloud Connect 2012 About OpenStack Cloud
Executives of Mirantis, a leader in engineering services for OpenStack™ Cloud, will describe how its customers are deploying OpenStack technology...
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'We think private cloud shouldn't exist as a category': 
Private clouds are no longer needed and are being pushed by companies with legacy business models, the CEO of cloud hosting company Firehost has told CBR.
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Market News: Cloud finds support among UK and EU regulators
A modern technology and an ancient institution are coming together in the United Kingdom, as Parliament's House of Lords investigates adding new technology to its legislative arsenal.
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Startup takes on cloud overprovisioning 
Cloudyn, an Israeli startup, says its new SaaS service can help businesses stop buying more public cloud services than they need.
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SoftLayer: A New Kind Of Cloud Service
Up and coming hosted infrastructure as a service supplier SoftLayer has improvised a way to move workloads automatically between virtual...
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February 6, 2012  

Indiana University PhD Students Get $100K to Study Cloud Computing
Two doctoral candidates at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing will share equally...
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Another cloud computing client for AtlasIM
HOSTED desktop provider Atlas Infrastructure Management has added another client after encouraging environmental consultancy...
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Dome9 Security Wins TMC Cloud Computing Excellence Award 
Dome9 Security™, the leading provider of cloud security firewall management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated...
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Market News: Study: Cloud development leads to economic growth 
The widespread migration of data to cloud storageenvironments seen across several industries will have a wide-reaching and positive economic impact...
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Symantec Backup Exec 2012 Is All About The Cloud
Symantec's forecast calls for clouds. The company today introducedBackup Exec 2012 with a complete interface overhaul, along...
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Cloud And SaaS Benefits Bolster Business Intelligence Market
Nearly one-third of organisations either already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) function...
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Thai government launches new cloud service - FutureGov Magazine 
Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology launched the government’s new cloud computing service to drive...
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Business should dictate move to the cloud
Although cost savings and the use of new technology are great reasons for moving to a cloud computing solution, Robert Youngjohns, president of Microsoft... 
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How the law dictates data gravity in the cloud
I’ve spoken quite a bit to date about the application-centric nature of cloud computing, and how this changes the nature of operations...
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February 3, 2012 

Mobile Devices in a Cloud World
Someone recently said to me, “With everything moving to the cloud, mobile device security really isn’t going to matter anymore. 
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Google To Funnel More, Bigger Deals Through Channel
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) has made changes to its direct sales organization in a bid to push more deals through its Google Apps resellers, give partners a crack...
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Cisco Deploys New Appliance Line to Ramp up Network Speed 
Recently, the Cisco (News  - Alert) Cloud Index revealed that by 2014, over 50 percent of computing workloads in data centers will be cloud-based....
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UK datacentres swarm into cloud services
At Cloud Expo Europe in London this week, several companies launched high-end public and hybrid cloud services, and all sought to put their own spin...
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Dome9 Security Wins TMC Cloud Computing Excellence Award
Dome9 Security™, the leading provider of cloud security firewall management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated...
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Cloud Sherpas Named Google Partner Of The Year
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) has named cloud solution provider Cloud Sherpas its first enterprise partner of the year for 2011, a sign that Google is strongly...
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Ubuntu creator warns businesses to be wary of cloud lock-in
Cloud infrastructure was always meant to be based on open standards, and organisations that choose to buy capacity from public clouds that only support one standard...
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Can Cloud Computing Address Scientific Computing Requirements for DOE
After a two-year study of the feasibility of cloud computing systems for meeting the ever-increasing computational needs of scientists, Department of Energy researchers have issued a report... 
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Mobile Cloud Computing Industry Outlook Report: 2011-2016
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:...
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Wondering if Adobe's Creative Cloud is worth $600 a year?
The company offered some new details today to show people that the Creative Cloud plan gets people access to more than just the full Creative Suite (CS) Master Collection...
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February 2, 2012

TechCrunch: New Everpix iPhone App Automatically Uploads Your Photos To The Cloud 
Photo organization service (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist) Everpix just launched its first iPhone application. The app does two key things: it offers you a way to access...
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Linux Vendor Red Hat Slips into the OpenStack Cloud Community
 A really interesting Monday post by Joe Brockmeier on ReadWriteWeb points out that open source giant Red Hat...
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Update: Challenges to building a great cloud business
Cloud computing can make a business much more efficient and up-to-date, but there are challenges to building a great cloud-based business...
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Update: Demand for cloud increase in Taiwan 
While not many firms are currently using cloud computing in Taiwan, there seems to be an ever-growing demand for the new technology...
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Study: Predictive Security Market Expanding Rapidly 
Despite heightened awareness of security threats, many organizations fell victim to data breaches and malicious cyberattacks last year, forcing...
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Data Protection: Beware cloud computing’s trapdoors
The toll of cyber crime appears to be rising as criminals become more sophisticated and more focused on financial gain.
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Cloud And SaaS Benefits Bolster Business Intelligence Market
Nearly one-third of organisations either already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions....
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Cloud management software: what's in it for IT?
While the average enterprise IT shop remains firmly grounded in its virtualized data centers, cloud computing is the next phase of evolution.
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Which cloud services are right for you?
Cloud computing is no longer the future – it's here. Chances are you already use web-based email, store some or all of your music, photos or videos...
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Roundup of Cloud Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2012
The latest round of cloud computing forecasts released by Cisco, Deloitte, IDC, Forrester, Gartner, The 451 Group and others show how rapidly... 
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February 1, 2012

Cloud Computing Both More Agile and Less Expensive
In Silicon Valley, the saying "it's a dessert topping and a floor wax" is often used to puncture the pretensions of a product that promises...
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Vancouver Turns Up Cloud Computing Horsepower For Hollywood
Vancouver is revving up its computing horsepower to allow Hollywood studios to more speedily render data-intensive animation... 
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Business intelligence and cloud are on the mind of CIOs 
For CIOs trying to get more for less at their respective businesses, cloud computing and business intelligence are two of their primary technological...
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Light Reading and EANTC put Cisco CloudVerse to the test 
In December, Cisco introduced Cisco CloudVerse, a framework and set of solutions that combines the foundational elements needed to enable organizations...
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Cloud Security, Costs Concern Federal IT Pros
Federal IT managers are working to adopt cloud computing technologies and comply with White House cloud computing initiatives, but... 
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“The EC has announced its intention to make Europe one of the most cloud active regions in the world”
The European Commission (EC) has announced its intention to the make Europe one of the most "cloud-active" regions in the world...
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Mobile may be the main cloud driver via Mobile Surveys
In predictions for what will happen to cloud computing in 2012, IT industry veteran Udayan Banerjee wrote in a recent blog post that while the basic cloud premise...
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Bad news about cloud computing: it doesnt exist; Good news: New tech makes it easier

There's a dirty little secret about cloud computing – the hottest, most innovative, most status-quo-disrupting technology on the market today: There is no such thing.
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Megaupload case marks death of the cloud
This Thursday, gigabytes of personal data which was stored on the servers of Megaupload will be deleted.
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Amazon Cloud Storage Experiences Astronomical Growth
Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) has once again proven that it is a cloud colossus, as the number of objects stored in its Amazon Web... 
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January 31, 2012  

9 Good Reasons for Considering Cloud 
Cloud may not be for everyone, but it certainly can help ease IT headaches for many insurance companies. In a new book, "To the Cloud: ...
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Wave Launches Cloud-Based Encryption Service
Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX http://www.wave.com) has launched Wave Encryption Service (WES), a scalable, yet powerful...
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CA, VCE Private Cloud Package to Go Toe-to-Toe Against Exalogic, CloudBurst
The latest release by CA Technologies of a product called Private Cloud Accelerator is being described, by folks who only read...
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HotDocs Corporation Announces Ground-Breaking Cloud Technology for Lawyers
Industry leader in document automation introduces new Software-as-a-Service application, which promises to level the playing field for law firms of all sizes...
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Upload at your own risk: Most cloud storage services offer no data guarantee
It’s become increasingly clear that users who lost files due to the US government’s seizure of Megaupload will, most likely, never get their files back.
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News: Cloud procurement gets €10m investment from EC - The Guardian
The European Commission is to establish the European Cloud Partnership, which aims to bring together public sector organisations and the IT industry to work on commons...
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Innovation guidelines unveiled: In accordance with Russia's ten-year innovation strategy
In accordance with Russia’s ten-year innovation strategy, which was approved by the government last year, the period to 2020 should see a twofold increase...
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5 low-profile startups that could change the face of big data
Big data is hot, but infrastructure-level platforms such as Hadoop, which focus on storage and processing, still need help to take them into the mainstream.
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TechCrunch: Synacor Files For IPO, Acquires HTML5 Cloud OS Carbyn
Online content, portal and front-end technology solution Synacor filed its amended S-1 today for an IPO looking to raise $75 million. 
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The Open Group Releases Standards for SOA Architects, Cloud Service 
The Open Group recently published three standards that aid organizations that are building infrastructure-as-a-service offerings and service oriented architectures.
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January 30, 2012    

A third of companies taking BI capabilities into the cloud
Nearly one third of organizations either already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions...
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7 steps for business success with big data
No longer the new technology on the block, big data continues to generate significant buzz.  Technologies such as... 
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Accounting firm shifts to the cloud 
DJCA says there is "massive" opportunity for Christchurch accounting firms as the rebuild gets under way, and the firm has gone wireless to make sure its operations...
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In Depth: Which cloud services are right for you?
Cloud computing is no longer the future – it's here. Chances are you already use web-based email, store some or all of your music, photos or videos online, or even... 
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5 low-profile startups that could change the face of big data
Big data is hot, but infrastructure-level platforms such as Hadoop, which focus on storage and processing, still need help to take them into the mainstream.
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How a private cloud goes beyond virtualization management? 
There are two ways to think about these differences. The first is in terms of different mindsets and approaches to IT operations.
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AT&T launches cloud-based UC services
Maximizing its expertise in cloud computing, mobility, and voice and IP networking services, AT&T launched cloud-based unified communications (UC) services.
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Cleversafe Announces 10 Exabyte Storage System Configuration
The system is based on Cleversafe's Portable Datacenter (PD), which integrates 21 storage and network racks that include 189... 
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Europe stumps up £8 million for cloud computing strategy
One year after announcing her intention to develop a European Cloud Computing Strategy, Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes this week...
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Cloud Computing News by cloudHQ is out! 
The soon to be launched HTC Sense 4.0, which is likely to hit the highly rumoured HTC Ville first with be equipped with... 
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January 25, 2012    

Report: Chinese Hackers Exposed U.S. Commission's emails 
Several news sources reported in early January that U.S. officials were investigating the Indian government for allegedly hacking private emails of the... 
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HP Cloud Map makes cloud deployment simple
Technology company Hewlett-Packard announced that in order to simplify cloud deployments, it has introduced Cloud Map on its CloudSystem, HP's cloud architecture.
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Kansas Department of Aging Loses Senior Citizens' Private Data
Many senior citizens have several of health and retirement issues to worry about, but data protection is most likely not on many to-do lists.
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Many Small Businesses Are Outsourcing Security Tasks 
Protecting private customer and company data is imperative to the success of small and medium-sized businesses, as a data breach can... 
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Top news from Sage, OpenText, and NetApp
Business software vendor, Sage Business Solutions’ ERP X3 solution has been granted Oracle Database Ready status through the Oracle Partner Network (OPN).
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IBM Joins Google, Microsoft In Cloud Productivity War 
IBM (NYSE:IBM) is looking to flex its cloud muscle against rivals Google (NSDQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) with a cloud-based productivity...
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A CTO’s take on cloud
As Capgemini’s CTO for North America, Joe Coyle hears an awful lot about cloud computing.
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5 Cloud Considerations for the Small Business
In a recent post, my comrade Chris Chesley identified 5 things SMBs should consider before going virtual for their IT systems. So, taking a cue from him, here are the follow-up...
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 IBM and NEC team up to take on Cisco
Cisco can get into servers, but IBM isn’t going to let the networking giant step into IBM’s territory without a fight, and Big Blue knows how to fight.
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January 24, 2012   

A big cloud on the horizon proves to be good news in computer industry
Global data-storage suppliers are looking at China's small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market as demand surges on the back of...
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eDiscovery Strategies Should Include Cloud, Social media 
Cloud computing and social media continue to be among the top technology trends for businesses, but both innovations have yet to... 
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We Need YOU To Help Push Learning Innovation Forward | Edudemic
At Edudemic we try to think out of the box. If you do too, we need to talk.
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Adapt Or Die, The Enduring Rule Of Innovation
Apple was a game changer for the music business. Meanwhile, the U.S. Post Office has been dying a slow death since the advent of email. Cellular technology killed...
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TechNews: Server Virtualization Buying Guide -- Red Hat
VMware, Microsoft and Citrix are the big players in server virtualization, but if Red Hat has its way, the Big Three will soon be the Big Four.
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68% of Indian businesses are evaluating the use of cloud computing
As organizations realize the benefits of bringing their business into the cloud and with growing levels of confidence in the cloud business model, many companies... 
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Windows Azure Community News Roundup 
Welcome to the third edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.
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Mformation CTO and Founder to Speak At MSPAlliance MSPWorld on Enterprise 
Mformation® Technologies Inc., the leading independent provider of advanced mobile device management (MDM) solutions, today announced that Dr. Rakesh Kushwaha, Mformation...
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Social Media As genomics data approaches exascale, cloud could save the day
Life is about to get a lot easier for medical researchers, but a lot more difficult for companies trying to make a buck selling them tools...
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Cloud computing drives vendor lock-in: Dell
The move to cloud computing is undoing a lot of the good work that IT managers have done over the past decade to enable...
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January 23, 2012  

Cloud-Based Ebook Lending with 3M at ALA
3M’s Library System loves to show up at a packed conference and show off something new and innovative for the world...
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Polycom Announces Cloud Strategy to Enable Service Providers to Fast-Track Delivery of Video-as-a-Service
 Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM - News), the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), today detailed its strategy to enable service providers to offer cloud-delivered...
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Touch, Data, Cloud, Security Are Key Enterprise Words for 2012
Predictions are, by definition, iffy. But tech predictions in particular are iffy in this second decade of the fast-moving 21st century, because they often underestimate...
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Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service, Possibly Tomorrow
The genius of Amazon reminds me of the honeypot Winnie-the-Pooh gets stuck in. They give such enticing... 
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Free Online Storage | New Cloud Service HiDrive Free 
HiDrive Free , a cloud-based service from STRATO, one of Europe’s top web hosts, launched in the U.S. market today, offering users... 
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How a private cloud goes beyond virtualization management
There are two ways to think about these differences. The first is in terms of different mindsets and approaches to IT operations.
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Meraki Introduces Industry's First Cloud Managed Switches
Meraki, the recognized leader in Cloud Networking, today announced the introduction of the all-new MS series cloud managed switches. 
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System Center 2012: Private Cloud for the Masses? 
As the attention about cloud computing has shifted from a purely public cloud view towards a build-your-own private cloud model, IT pros run into a familiarity problem...
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Quantum computing could head to 'the cloud', study says 
Quantum computing will use the inherent uncertainties in quantum physics to carry out fast, complex computations.
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Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Departs With More Whimper Than Bang 
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang Jan. 17 resigned from the company's board of directors, severing his final tie with the Internet company he helped build when...
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Former NASA OpenStack researchers enter private cloud market with Piston 
Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to... 
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January 20, 2012  

PentOS "Just Add Water" Private Cloud Released
The creator of the Piston Enterprise Operating System, or PentOS, was lauded for his contributions in helping to create cloud computing itself, through the pioneering NASA...
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Strickler & Prieto, LLP Announces Cloud Based Accounting Services 
Many traditional small businesses are finding that cloud based accounting services not only help them stay focused on their business, but also save them money...
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Google Vs. Facebook: Cloud Computing Dangers For Small Business
However, having written previously about the inherent dangers of fragmented online software solutions for small businesses, echoing the sentiments of Apple...
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Intelligent, Auto-Scalable Cloud Platform 'eNlight' by Eukhost
eUKhost announces the launch of eNlight Cloud ComputingPlatform, a Platform that is equipped with an innovative web based GUI enabling Instant Deployment of VM's, High Performance...
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Foreign Cloud Privacy Issues Dismissed by U.S. Officials
A pair of senior Obama administration officials on Wednesday sought to tamp down recent stirrings of controversy over the privacy protections under U.S. law...
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Survey: Global Economy Hindering IT Budget Expansion 
An unstable global economy will limit IT budget growth this year, but CIOs and IT departments still have numerous technology priorities they expect to accomplish.
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Quantum computing could head to 'the cloud', study says
Quantum computing will use the inherent uncertainties in quantum physics to carry out fast, complex computations.
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Encryption that can stymie cloud computing systems
It sounds like something out of a spy novel — using the mysterious nature of quantum mechanics to create super-secret information that can’t... 
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Amazon Launches Big Data Service
Amazon Web Services on Wednesday added a beta service, DynamoDB, to its cloud service offerings as a way to bring a big-data, NoSQL system to its customers.
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Police Officer Exposes Security Information Regarding London Olympics 
Police officers are tasked with protecting the everyday safety of citizens, but one policeman in England recently failed to secure highly sensitive... 
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January 18, 2012  

UK's ElasticHosts opens cloud data centre in Toronto
A hosting company based out of the U.K. is hoping that a data centre located in Toronto will convince Canadian businesses fearful of the U.S. Patriot Act... 
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Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service, Possibly Tomorrow 
The genius of Amazon reminds me of the honeypot Winnie-the-Pooh gets stuck in. 
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Online Shoe Retailer Suffers Data Breach
The rising threat of identity theft makes securing customer and business data imperative for any retailer, but many companies are still struggling to defend against cyberthreats.
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Microsoft Takes on VMware With Almost-Canceled Cloud Program 
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s computer-network- management software, a product that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer once came close to scrapping, emerges today as the cornerstone...
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Cisco, IBM, Red Hat Join Open Cloud Portability Committee
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has launched a new open standards initiative that aims to enhance the portability...
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Symantec acquires cloud archive firm LiveOffice
Symantec has acquired LiveOffice, a provider of cloud-based data archiving and storage, for $115 million (£75 million), the companies announced.
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Google's mobility plans cloud strong Q4
 Google Inc's strong holiday-quarter results may take a backseat to growing concerns about long-term margins after it dives into a fiercely competitive smartphone...
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At last: standard for cloud Infrastructure as a Service launched
The Open Group just announced the availability of two new industry standards intended to enable businesses to more effectively integrate fundamental...
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Service-oriented cloud computing infrastructure guidelines released
A set of standards for cloud computing infrastructure was released on Tuesday by the Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that creates standards...
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January 17, 2012  

High School Students Building clouds in Computer Networking Class
Most technology experts predict enterprises will continue adopting cloud computing during the coming years, but increased cloud usage... 
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Wyse Cloud Client Computing Receives Readers' Choice Awards
Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced that theWyse Xenith zero client has been named a top technology product... 
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CloudFlare Builds ‘Stop Censorship’ App
Whatever position you may take on SOPA, or on whether or not sites should black out against SOPA (Yes it has come to this)....
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http://Salesforce.com hires former White House CIO as executive VP
Cloud computing outfit Salesforce.com has hired former chief information officer of the US Federal  government as its executive vice president of emerging markets.
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Seeking security in cloud SLAs
As organizations around the world continue to gain experience in public cloud environments, it is becoming increasingly clear that a strong relationship with the host...
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Aussie giants sign up to Oracle's cloud CRM
Technology giant Oracle announced yesterday that various top Australian public and private sector entities had implemented its CRM On Demand...
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Europe Won’t Let U.S. Dominate Cloud With Rules to Keep HP at Bay
European governments, determined not to lose another technology battle to the U.S., are giving domestic companies a leg-up in the cloud.
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Cloud database services reduce complexity
According to Steve McWhirter, senior vice president of enterprise sales for Asia-Pacific at Salesforce.com, traditional on-premise database systems have grown...
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Amazon Web Services now offers EC2 cloud customers a new freebie
But now the company has added a free version of Windows Server to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, too.
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January 16, 2012  

2012: A Cloudy Year for Big Data
Fujitsu : Launches Cloud Services as a Platform for Big Data
Fujitsu today announced the launch of Data Utilization Platform Services, which use cloud services as a platform leveraging big data().
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Connect to private and public clouds with Cisco
In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid clouds, Cisco in the coming months will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system...
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Cloud Computing Software features auto-scalable architecture
 Featuring web-based GUI powered by AJAX, eNlight Cloud Computing Platform helps customers with real-time deployment of new VMs as well as...
Cisco powers video in the cloud with new Videoscape products
Increasingly, service providers are looking to make video content available across mobile handsets, tablets, connected TVs, gaming consoles and streaming boxes. 
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Reviewing Bitcasa, the infinite cloud storage solution
Bitcasa is a start-up begun by former execs at Mastercard, VeriSign and Mozy and is the latest entrant to the cloud storage market. 
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Dallas Cowboys Add Venyu Cloud IT Disaster Recovery
Venyu today announced that the Dallas Cowboyshave implemented a new cloud-based, IT disaster recoverysolution for reliable backup of all business data as well as...
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A big cloud on the horizon proves to be good news in computer industry 
Global data-storage suppliers are looking at China's small and medium sized enterprise (SME) market as demand surges on the back of a rise...
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January 13, 2012  

Cisco powers video in the cloud with new Videoscape products
Increasingly, service providers are looking to make video content available across mobile handsets, tablets, connected TVs, gaming consoles and streaming boxes.
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Amazon's Cloud: A Supercomputer Anyone Can Rent
Amazon has one of the world's fastest supercomputers. There's something unusual about it, though -- it's not real. That is, it's not real in the way other supercomputers are, in a huge room...
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Cloud Computing Software features auto-scalable architecture
Featuring web-based GUI powered by AJAX, eNlight Cloud Computing Platform helps customers with real-time deployment of new VMs...
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How to Retool Your IT Skills for the Cloud
CIO — Keith Fafel entered the world of cloud computing during the summer of 2010, while he was working as a product manager with Rackspace...
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MuleSoft Wins 2012 Cloud Award
MuleSoft, provider of the #1 integration platform for the cloud and enterprise, today announced that it has been named a winner of the 2012 Cloud Awards. 
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FedRAMP cloud computing standards initiative spurs optimism, criticism
Industry experts and cloud service providers are hopeful about the prospects of a new federal program that sets cloud computing security standards...
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Netgear launches network cloud application platform
Global networking company Netgear has launched a new technology platform that enables consumers to purchase and download apps from the cloud for their home network.
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CES - Mobile phone on 1 Fav Source+25 others like WSJ
WSJ: What's News Technology — Manufacturers like GM and Ford are using the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to show off a set of services that operate online, or through the "cloud."
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Acision Cloud Services: On-demand, Secure, Scalable
Acision, the global leader in mobile messaging, today announced the launch of an international network of cloud based data centres, enabling it to offer on-demand messaging... 
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How P2P and big data could save the set-top box
Netflix dominates the business of streaming Hollywood movies and television into consumers’ homes, but a new business model developed by big data... 
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January 12, 2012  

BBC News - Google persuades Spanish bank BBVA to use the cloud 
The deal is the biggest that the search giant has signed with one company for its cloud-computing services, where software is offered as a service via the internet.
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Cloud Host Atlantic Metro Communications Joins Google Apps Reseller Program
 Infrastructure as a service cloud provider and web hosting operator Atlantic Metro Communications posted a press release to its blog...
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Cloud Storage Firm Nirvanix Deploys Hybrid Cloud
Managed cloud storage provider Nirvanix (www.nirvanix.com) announced on Thursday that colocation provider American Internet Services...
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Cloud solves IT innovation and maintenance imbalance
CIOs will have the opportunity to move away from the traditional scenario of spending 80% of their budget on maintenance and 20% on innovation if they harness cloud...
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Bizzers think cloud will work, eventually 
The challenge of moving film distribution to the cloud hasn't darkened Hollywood's sunny disposition toward the technology, according to some of the studios' leading... 
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Federal government releases new security standards for cloud
With the federal government starting to move more of its processes into cloud computing, the federal CIO Council has released new security controls for agency-wide programs...
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Indian Hackers Allegedly Breach United States-China Security Commission
The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission monitors security relations between the two nations, but the commission... 
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Expert: Healthcare Providers Should Adopt Cloud Services
Last year was a substandard period for data protection at heathcare organizations, as numerous healthcare providers experienced damaging and embarrassing data loss incidents. 
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SendGrid and Standing Cloud Team to Bring Improved Email Service to Cloud Customers
Standing Cloud, a leading provider of cloud-based application management solutions, has teamed with SendGrid, the leader...
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January 11, 2012 

IBM's Top 5 Predictions for Smarter Buildings for 2012
As the world population hit 7 billion this fall and a growing number of people flock to cities, creating smarter, more...
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Amazon Kindle Touch Receives Unlimited Cloud Storage
Amazon has had a very efficient business model since the release of their first Kindle  eReader over four years ago. 
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Acer will provide cross-device multimedia backup and retrieval
The Chinese computer maker Acer has announced details of its multimedia storage and cross device collaboration platform, the AcerCloud, which will be included...
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5 factors that swayed one company to choose Office365
Hendrick Automotive Group, an early adopter of Office 365, doesn't expect to cut costs in making the move to Microsoft's new software-as-a-service...
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Intricate cloud costs require in-depth discussions
Adopting cloud technology can include expensive up-front costs. A recent Computerworld article stated that simply moving large quantities of data into cloud...
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Houston Web Host Introducing Chinese Firms to Cloud Computing
Cloud and Web hosting specialist, The Aldridge Company just entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a Chinese organization to advance cloud...
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Cloud Computing News by cloudHQ is out!
The cloud computing benefit most often cited is IT’s reduced cost of ownership, because a company can convert... 
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CES 2012: OnLive Shifts To Cloud Computing via the iPad 
When looking back over some of the most exciting developments of the last two years, it would be hard to ignore the groundbreaking cloud gaming solution, OnLive.
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4 ways cloud computing will change dentistry for the better 
The cloud. Cloud computing. Every tech journal is talking about “the cloud” like it’s the greatest invention since the Internet. 
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Cloud Expo 2012 will be the center of notable Cloud M&A activity
At a cloud computing trade show in New York industry leaders share their views on the technology and where it's heading.
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January 10, 2012

CES: Acer, Lenovo Vie For Piece Of The Cloud
Acer and Lenovo are mounting full-on cloud computing assaults, and at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegasthis week the dueling...
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 Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Cloud Computing
Ray, let’s call it like it is. Cloud isn’t really disruptive – it’s already  disrupted – and we’ve made that transition over the past 10 years.  
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Hidden in plain sight – cloud computing security offers counterintuitive upsides
One of the standard complaints that cloud computing's critics level against the widespread uptake of the technology is a perceived lack of data security.
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Infonetics Research: Operators Embracing Cloud Services in Earnest
 A recent cloud services study published by market research firm Infonetics Researchdetails operator plans for cloud services, including their strategies... 
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Cloud Computing Report Card: Grading Our Predictions
A year ago I laid out my predictions for cloud computing in 2011. In the spirit of honesty and willingness to display my errors in public, I thought it would be useful...
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Mobile security threats continue to increase
Smartphones give users the ability complete shopping, banking, and work tasks from any location, leading to improved productivity and flexibility. 
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Skytap Claims Customers Create More Than 1M Virtual Machines in Cloud
In what may be a definitive sign that cloud services are here to stay, Cloud Services provider Skytap has announced that its... 
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AT&T Signs On With OpenStack Open-Source Cloud
AT&T (NYSE:T) on Monday officially signed on with the OpenStack cloud, the Rackspace- and NASA-created open-source cloudcomputing project.
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European enterprises discuss cloud computing at seminar
European companies are adopting cloud computing rapidly to store data, manage software applications and reduce IT costs. 
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OnLive Set to Launch FREE Virtual Windows Desktop App    
This week is the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the event today, OnLive announced some new features that their users have been...
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January 9, 2012    

Making the News Education Resource at My Resource Cloud 
We are currently developing a large number of resources based upon world wide events in history. 
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Four Screens Are Better than One with Lenovo's New “Personal Cloud”
Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) (PINK SHEETS: LNVGY), the world’s number two PC company, is flexing its innovation muscle at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show and beyond, to create a seamless digital experience...
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Acer to bridge Windows and Android with the cloud
Acer is making a long-term strategic bet on a new cloud service that aims to bridge the gap between Windows and Android devices...
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TechMan: Supercomputers in the cloud
You've probably heard a lot of talk about the cloud -- software and services that live on computers somewhere else but can be used by you over the Internet.
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Acer's cloud strategy too late, too copycat - CNET
Acer hopes to set its products apart through its proprietary AcerCloud service, which is designed to let customers sync files across multiple...
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SAP on the Cloud » Design Thinking and Co-Innovation
To fully appreciate the irony of illustrating user friendliness via  SAP Travel OnDemand, you have to go back to Hasso’s keynote...
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Cloud is complex—deal with it 
If you are looking to cloud computing to simplify your IT environment, I’m afraid I have bad news for you.
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6 Ways Cloud Computing Will Evolve In 2012
Cloud computing has become so broadly accepted that it won't rank as an exciting development for 2012. 
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January 6, 2012   

Survey shows lack of cloud computing understanding
Adopting virtual server and virtual desktoptechnologies carries many benefits, such as extra security for data being used by members of...
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5 Benefits Of Cloud Computing
The explosive growth of cloud computing is generally seen as a welcome extension to existing accounting processes.
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More cloud news - big cloud Internap eats little cloud Voxel
The appetite for cloudy infrastructure expertise continues apace in 2012. Managed-hosting and colocation services provider Internap...
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Microsoft Pushes Lync Voice Services Into Cloud with BT Pilot
In what may be a sign of the times, Microsoft is expanding the footprint of its Lync platform further into the cloud.
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Top 5 cloud storage trends of 2011
The top 5 cloud storage trends of 2011 reflect a young market searching for acceptance while the number of options...
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How Facebook built its Timeline feature
Facebook’s Timeline feature is beautiful, although some revile it. But love it or hate... 
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Rockchip sticks Android on the cloud
Chinese semiconductor manufacturer Rockchip has announced that it will be showing off a cloud based system which will use Android for home users...
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View @CloudExpo New York on CNN Breaking News! 
At a cloud computing trade show in New York industry leaders share their views on the technology and where it's heading.
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January 5, 2012  

Check Point Supports Cloud Security for Amazon Web
Check Point and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to enable Check Point Security Gateway functionality to boost cloud security for business assets.
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Eaton Mounts Cloud Computing Power Management Offensive
Herve Tardy, the vice president and general manager of the Distributed Power Quality Business Unit for $14 billion diversified power management...
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What is the Current Cloud Computing Policy at Your Facility? 
The term “cloud computing” is increasingly becoming part of the American vocabulary and the concept is seen as the next big thing in Internet computing. 
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Ray Ozzie starts to emerge from stealth mode
A Fluffy New Year: 6 Predictions For The Cloud For 2012
It’s that time of year again. With 2012 already upon us, many industry leaders, writers and analysts have already... 
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60 per cent of UK businesses still do not leverage any type of Cloud Computing
Fasthosts' 'Cloud Attitudes' study, conducted by IDC, has found that 60 per cent of UK businesses still do not leverage any type of cloud-computing service and so miss out...
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Cloud computing believed to boom in 2012
Vo Tan Long, General Director of IBM Vietnam, said that he can see obvious changes in the thought of Vietnamese people about the importance of cloud computing in their lives.
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Polkast - The Innovative New PC-to-PC Access Feature Removes the Need for an External Cloud Service
Polkast, a revolutionary new service that lets users securely connect to their PC directly from their mobile devices, announced today it is transforming... 
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January 4, 2012 

SaaS, PaaS Driving Cloud Adoption More Than Infrastructure Solutions 
Cloud computing adoption ascended to record levels during the previous 12 months, and several recent studies indicate sophisticated services like... 
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Expert: Data loss could cost U.S. economy $290 billion by 2018 
Government agencies and businesses of all sizes are increasingly aware of widespread data protection concerns, but some experts believe United States... 
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.NET News: CloudOn Brings Free Cloud-Hosted Microsoft Office Functionality to iPad 
Silicon Valley startup CloudOn now expelled a free iPad app [App Store] that aims to move a functionality of Microsoft Office to a iPad. The iPad app indeed serves...
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Economy Causing Some Businesses to Reduce Data Security Spending
Most companies attempted to improve data security policies in 2011, as threats became more sophisticated and potential damages increased, but... 
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Microsoft to enable OpenSource Linux on its Windows Azure cloud
Customers who want to run Windows or Linux “durably” (i.e., without losing state) in VMs on Microsoft’s Azure platform-as-a-service platform will be able to do so.
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Data Overload, Cloud Computing Benefit Backup Vendors 
Companies expect a continuing data deluge, yet no rainmaking for their IT budgets. So to cope and save, some are... 
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January 3, 2012

Microsoft to Enable Linux on its Windows Azure Cloud in 2012
The cloud computing platform will soon get persistent virtual machine capabilities.
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Maker to unveil world's largest OLED TV
Korean electronics company LG caused a worldwide stir when it announced its 55-inch OLED panel last week, and now the company has rolled out two more pictures...
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Congress Calls for Defense Department Plan for Cloud Computing 
 Congress ordered the Defense Department to develop a plan to use more cloud-computing services, a move that may lead to U.S. contracts...
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More Cloud, Web Companies Join SOPA Opposition
Additionally, DreamHost said that rights-holders could demand the immediate shutdown of entire domain names based on claims of... 
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New national defense bill may help cloud computing thrive 
With the passing of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, Jerry Bishop writes on Internet Evolution that he believes cloud computing may get a big boost.
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Cloud Computing & Healthcare Industry
As most of my regular readers know, I work as a technology strategy advisor for several different government agencies; in that role I get to spend...
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Amazon's Cloud: A Supercomputer Anyone Can Rent
Amazon has one of the world's fastest supercomputers. There's something unusual about it, though -- it's not real.
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CloudHosting: Amazon Expands Cloud Footprint with Brazil Operations
Decreased The Price of Web Web host By Using The Cloud Web host: By employing the web web hosting we can decrease the cost via... 
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January 2, 2012

Cloud activity to explode in 2012
In testing cloud computing services and observing the growth of cloud activities, we've noticed that there are distinct phases that organizations go through in adopting cloud.
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The Scalable, Available Cloud
With the evolution and proliferation of cloud computing, as more and more applications are being migrated to the cloud, many organizations are considering moving their database to the cloud as well.
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Cloud Computing Company Centuric Offers Reduced $3.99 Transfer Fees on Domain Registration
Centuric, a full service Cloud computingcompany offering business solutions for a wide range of companies—from small businesses to large enterprises—is now offering reduced transfer fees of $3.99 on domain registration...
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Service-Oriented Architectures - yesterday's news or best practice?
The principals behind Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) were established long before the Internet became a force, and certainly before the appearance... 
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10 cloud startups to watch in 2012
The past few years have been nothing if not a boon for entrepreneurs looking to cash in on venture capitalists’ lust for all things cloud. 
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Samsung Chairman Lee Urges Innovation as Global Economy Slows
Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Kun Hee said his business should embrace more openness and innovation to continue expanding amid slow growth in the... 
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New national defense bill may help cloud computing thrive 
With the passing of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, Jerry Bishop writes on Internet Evolution that he believes cloud computing may get a big boost.
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December 30th, 2011  

ING Bets Big on the Cloud
For Tony Kerrison, the day has long passed when it made sense to question whether cloud computing had a place in financial services companies' IT plans.
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IT pros will take a harder look at cloud computing in 2012 
Despite slow adoption by enterprise IT in the years since cloud computing emerged, 2012 may turn out to be the year when cloud technologies finally begin...
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CEO Of Cloud Firm Red Hat Expects To Boost Staff 24% 
For many companies, life in the cloud starts with Red Hat.
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Cloud computing offers several disaster recovery models for all businesses 
One of the key benefits of cloud computing solutions are their disaster recovery capabilities. 
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Healthcare Providers Adopting Mobile Technology
Many healthcare organizations struggled to secure customer data in 2011, but that isn't stopping the industry from forwarding its adoption...
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EE Times' top ten cloud stories in 2011
The most popular cloud computing stories of 2011 were about big vendors jumping into or kicking the tires on this emerging space...
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December 29th, 2011   

Cisco: By 2014, cloud traffic will surpass traditional data center traffic
The Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2010-2015 is chock full of data, projections and trends from the networking giant. Cisco describes the document as...
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Amazon takes supercomputing to the cloud
As reported by Wired, Amazon Web Services latest salvo into the computing on demand landscape is a platform known as the Elastic Cloud Computer, which at $1279 per hour, or $11 million... 
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Green Data Centers Help Enterprises Reduce IT, Energy Costs
Organizations of all sizes are constantly attempting to cut IT expenses and improve efficiency, and recent research shows that green data centers and... 
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5 Big Cloud Trends For 2012
Cloud computing is no longer the curiosity it was a few years ago. Today companies are increasingly looking to cloud computing as an integral component of their computing strategy.
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Congress Orders Defense Department to Adopt cloud Computing
The Obama administration has repeatedly voiced its desire to increase cloud computing adoption among government agencies...
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Korean Leader's Death Ignites Spam Attack
Deaths of extremely famous and globally important people often have long-lasting effects on society, but cybercriminals often...
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Top 10 Enterprise Cloud Apps and Services of 2011
It seems like just like summer, Bill Murray used to sing, and that's because it was. This year, for the first time, ReadWriteWeb...
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Cloud stocks jump on SAP bid for SuccessFactors
Stocks of several cloud-computing companies rose on Monday, after German software giant SAP offered to buy Web-based software maker SuccessFactors...
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Microsoft eyeing cloud backup service for its phones
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What is cloud computing and is it right for me?
The term “cloud computing” is everywhere these days. It’s not a new phenomenon, but rather it is continuing to evolve.
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December 28th, 2011  

Panda Releases New Beta Of Award-Winning Panda Cloud 
Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the beta release of Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, its cloud-based security service for protecting PCs, servers...
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Microsoft Kicks Off Cloud Fundamentals Video Series
Among them, there are those coming from Microsoft, which is focused on ensuring that its cloud products offer the features and capabilities that people are looking for. 
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"Cloud may have $1B impact on Ethernet" EE Times 
The Ethernet switch market is undergoing a technological transformation in the data center as virtualization changes where and how applications are connected to end users.  
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Sabre inks deal with Glowpoint 
Glowpoint, a leading global provider of cloud managed video services, and Sabre Travel Network, a global technology leader serving travel... 
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Cloud, Mobility, Social Media To Remain 'Big Deals' In 2012
If Vivek Ranadive doesn't have an extra spring in his step these days, he probably ought to.
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Google Apps Express: The Fast Way To Start Working in the Cloud
Google Apps brings the power of the Google platform to your company, school or organization. Throw out costly software licenses...
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2011: When cloud computing shook the data center
If I had to sum up in one word the most exciting thing that happened to cloud computing in 2011, I'd have to say it'sOpenStack.
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US-Thai linkages on cloud computing
The US and Taiwanese governments have agreed to stimulate adoption of rental cloud-based services among small and medium-sized enterprises for the Asia Pacific Economic... 
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OpenLogic Brings Open-Source PaaS to Rackspace
Open-source cloud services provider OpenLogic announced Dec. 27 it has joined the Cloud Tools program with Rackspace... 
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6 Ways Cloud Computing Will Evolve In 2012
Cloud computing has become so broadly accepted that it won't rank as an exciting development for 2012. 
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December 27th, 2011 

Cloud activity to explode in 2012
In testing cloud computing services and observing the growth of cloud activities, we've noticed that there are distinct phases that organizations go through in adopting cloud.
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European Firm Refuses To Go On the Microsoft Cloud Due to Patriot Act Concerns
Sometime back I had written about how Australian cloud computing company Ninefold was trying to drum up fear that data residing on Amazon’s servers in Australia were under the jurisdiction...
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Enhanced Security Technique developed for sensitive data in Cloud 
A major Cloud Information security breakthrough is ready to protect sensitive data without significantly affecting the system’s overall performance.
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Internet Technology and business in 2012
Just as there are 12 days of Christmas, 12 people from across the technology spectrum give their insights to what the next year will hold.
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5 Ways Google Could Dominate the Cloud Storage Market in 2012 
For more than five years now, people have speculated about a not-so-secret Google product called Google Drive, or GDrive for short.
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Ramco Systems addresses on Cloud for Government at 3rd International Conference 
Ramco Systems, an enterprise software company focused on consulting, products and managed services, participated in the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing organized jointly by Anna University...
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Gartner says, in 2012 IT will have to excel at relationships
IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerization and...
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Cloud computing is gaining more and more ground each and every day
Among them, there are those coming from Microsoft, which is focused on ensuring that its cloud products offer the features and capabilities that people are looking for. 
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Cloud computing changes everything
 The sheer number of cloud players - or companies that claim to be cloud players -- is staggering. By some estimates there are more than 2,000 software-as-a-service (SaaS)... 
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December 26th, 2011

Cloud Computing: The Lowdown
With the rise in popularity of laptops, smartphones and other mobile communication technology, the question of where do you store you data comes into mind?
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Realities of open source cloud computing, Part 1: Not all clouds are equal
Your CTO wants to know your cloud computing strategy — and wants to know it tomorrow. There are a lot of choices, with many differences and similarities.
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Stormy Weather Ahead For Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is like something out of a sci-fi movie. Like God, cloud computing is everywhere 24/7.
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2011: The year the cloud went mainstream
Thoran Rodrigues looks back over the year in cloud technology and makes a case for 2011 bringing the cloud out of the mists and into the IT mainstream.
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The History and Future of Cloud Computing
Though many people tout cloud computing as the next big thing, the idea is almost as old as the computer itself.
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10 Ways Cloud Computing Will Disrupt our Businesses in 2012
If anything, 2011 should be remembered as the “Year of the Cloud.”
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Host Server Quiet Time Highlights Risks For Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is often a method of applying scalable resources and services which can be found via the online world.
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Public clouds call IT's bluff
IT demands that cloud providers offer security, performance, and reliability features -- but the price may be costlier clouds
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Intel IT and Dell: Cloud Computing Basics
Where cloud computing began, where it is now, and what results it can bring
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aioTV OTT Cloud Video Platform Powers Yuzu TV in Mexico
aioTV announced today that Mexico Citys Maxcom has launched Yuzu, their next generation multi-channel OTT video service, using the aioTV platform.
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Congress Calls for Defense Department Plan for Cloud Computing
A move that may lead to U.S. contracts for suppliers including Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
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Tata Communications bets big on cloud technology
Tata Communications is betting big on cloud technology to help clients increase productivity and cut costs on the back of solutions such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-mail.
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December 23rd, 2011  

Akamai buys rival cloud service Cotendo for $268M
The enterprise cloud platform company Akamai Technologies announced Wednesday that it would buy Cotendo for $268 million in cash.
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Google expects cloud, social and mobility to dominate 2012
Google is closing out 2011 with a hefty focus on cloud, mobile and social technologies and how enterprises can leverage them to... 
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With WeVideo, you can edit video in the cloud, then share it
That is the vision of WeVideo, a new online video editing startup, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., that says it is the first company to offer a video editing... 
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Is there a cloud bubble? 
People like to talk about bubbles. And the cloud. And, more recently, a potential cloud bubble. But are we really heading in that direction?
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Tablets hurt, but cloud helps Intel
Intel in the third quarter accounted for 83.7 percent of global microprocessor revenue, up about 3 percentage points from the same quarter last year and widening...
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Nimbula Launches Cloud Migration Service
Nimbula, a private cloud software company, sees an opportunity. It thinks some companies are relying too much on the public cloud, and it's offering to help them move out of the public cloud...
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Latest Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition Makes Cloud Deployment Easier Than Ever
Canonical today announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition for download on Sunday, October 10 -- making it easier to configure...
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WatchGuard Enhances Security for Virtualized and Cloud Infrastructures
WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader in business security solutions, today announced the beta version of its leading next-generation security UTM product... 
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Fund set up to tap local cloud computing
THE Shanghai government and China Broadband Capital (CBC) will establish a 300 million-yuan (US$46.8 million) fund to tap specifically the local cloud computing industry which the city... 
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December 22nd, 2011 

Businesses 'see positive results from cloud computing'
Cloud computing has surpassed all other technologies currently on the market and has had by far the biggest impact on business practices in 2011, according to a new survey.
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How Green is Your Cloud?
Cloud computing, it is often claimed, is a good way for companies to reduce their carbon footprint. 
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Congress Calls for Defense Department Plan for Cloud Computing 
Congress ordered the Defense Department to develop a plan to use more cloud-computing services, a move that may lead to U.S. contracts...
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Year of the Talking Phone And a Cloud That Got Hot
While other industries struggled, consumer technology seemed to march ahead as always in 2011, with important new products and services continuing to roll out. 
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Could Apple Be Launching a Cloud-Based Music Service Called iCloud?
Another day, another hazy rumor. Apparently Apple may have purchased the domain name iCloud.
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Cloud Computing in Healthcare
Cloud computing has drawn a great deal of attention as a way to reduce IT costs in healthcare.
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IDC Predicts 2012 Will Be the Year of Mobile and Cloud Platform Wars
One year ago, International Data Corporation (IDC) predicted that the IT industry's next dominant platform, built on mobile computing, cloud services, social networking, and big data analytics technologies...
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Why cloud storage is passé and collaboration is king 
Ask Box.net CEO Aaron Levie about his company’s cloud storage business, and you’ll hear a long, excited answer that probably won’t include the word “storage” at all. 
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Businesses turning to security in 'cloud'
Business owners, beware. Security breaches in your technology systems are more likely to come from inside your organization than from outside attacks, even as cloud computing grows at a rapid pace.
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December 21st, 2011

CloudComm news: Cloud Host Atlantic Metro Communications Joins Google Apps Reseller Program
Infrastructure as a service cloud provider and web hosting operator Atlantic Metro Communications posted a press release to its blog... 
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Microsoft shrinking margins loom on cloud push
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s push into cloud computing will help the company compete with Google Inc. (GOOG), Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) It also will hurt profit margins.
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Top cloud computing news even the Mayans couldn’t predict 
This past year saw a lot of frenetic activity in the cloud computing market, a good chunk of which was caused by major players such as IBM and HP that...
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Congress Calls for Defense Department Plan for Cloud Computing
Congress ordered the Defense Department to develop a plan to use more cloud-computing services, a move that may lead to U.S. contracts for suppliers including Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
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New blog posting, RobotShop Launches MyRobots, Cloud Robotics for All
RobotShop.com, the worlds most visited e-commerce site specializing in service robotics, announces today the launch of a new cloud computing service... 
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Alberta First Nations health centres embrace the cloud technology 
First Nations communities in Alberta are using SaaS to access newly-digitized medical data and analyze it in record time.
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Cloud activity to explode in 2012 
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Blog: Five Enterprise Cloud Predictions for 2012
From Red Hat’s perspective, the upcoming year in 2012 looks to be more evolutionary than revolutionary when it comes to cloud computing.
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December 20th, 2011

Businesses 'see positive results from cloud computing'
Cloud computing has surpassed all other technologies currently on the market and has had by far the biggest impact on business practices in 2011, according to a new survey.
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Nissan aims to shift gear with Microsoft cloud computing deal
Nissan has signed a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) deal with Microsoft to support its dealers around the world.
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Cloud computing expected to get 'crazier' next year
With the advent of cloud computing among government agencies, David Roe writes on CMS Wire that he believes the industry will be crazier than ever in 2012.
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Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software
The move comes shortly after SAP's $3.4 billion purchase of SuccessFactors
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Cloud Computing Remains Top Investment Priority
Many businesses regard cloud computing as their top investment priority heading into the new year
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Telligent Buys Leverage Software To Boost Cloud Power
Acquisition strengthens Telligent's cloud computing and enterprise social networking products.
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Why Buffett’s Decision To Buy Into The Cloud Matters
The cloud is officially mainstream and its validation came from an unlikely person — Warren Buffett.
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How Intuit Liberated IT to Embrace Mobile, Social and the Cloud
Intuit CEO Brad Smith has deftly steered what was once only a shrink-wrap software company into the cloud and mobile worlds and has led a re-engineering of Intuit's IT organization into a customer-focused, driver of innovation and value.
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Mobile Devices, More Than Cost Savings, Drive Cloud Computing: Survey
The new CSC survey of 3,645 IT executives found that while cloud computing delivers cost savings, it only amounts to a few pennies (relatively speaking) out of corporate information technology budgets so far.
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Microsoft Shrinking Margins Loom as Cloud Push Lifts Costs
Microsoft Corp.’s push into cloud computing will help the company compete with Google Inc., Apple Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. It also will hurt profit margins.
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December 19th, 2011

Hong Kong's FunShare Offers 'Daily Deals' From Rackspace Cloud
Our core products include Managed Hosting( http://www.rackspace.com.hk/hosting-solution/dedicated-hosting.php ), Cloud Hosting...
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Cloud Computing enables Singapore CIOs to spend more time on Strategy and Innovation
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today released a new global report, ‘The Future Role of the CIO 2011’, which reveals the extent to which cloud computing has enabled Singapore CIOs to spend more time...
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Sony Ericsson Gives Xperia Users Free 50GB Cloud Storage
In order to promote the sharing of photos between multiple devices during the holiday season, Sony Ericsson is offering all Xperia users a free, lifetime membership to Box...
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ChinaCache to Host Cloud Computing Summit in Silicon Valley 
ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd., ("ChinaCache" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:CCIH - News), a leading provider of content delivery network services in China...
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Cloud computing expected to get 'crazier' next year
With the advent of cloud computing among government agencies, David Roe writes on CMS Wire that he believes the industry will be crazier than ever in 2012.
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Nissan aims to shift gear with Microsoft cloud computing deal
Nissan has signed a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) deal with Microsoft to support its dealers around the world.
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ScaleXtreme Named Finalist for 2012 Cloud Awards Program 
ScaleXtreme, a cloud-based server management company, has been recognized as a finalist in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards Program in the Best Cloud Infrastructure category.
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There are over 500,000 applications for the iPhone and iPad, 300,000+ on Android
There are over 500,000 applications for the iPhone and iPad, 300,000+ on Android and thousands more on other platforms. The average user has 65 apps installed on their phone...
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Hands-on with the new Pogoplug Series 4

 How the Cloud is Transforming Small business Intelligence
Business Intelligence has traditionally been delivered as being a set of instruments that needed a complex IT infrastructure of knowledge warehouse and affiliated...
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December 16th, 2011  

Words can be tricky.

My first post for GigaOM, where I introduce the foundation of everything I believe about cloud, elicited some excellent... 
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XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, announced that Daniel E. Retzer, Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, has attained the...
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UK consumers are not embracing cloud storage services, despite adopting new technology at a faster pace than many other countries...
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HPCC Adds Amazon Cloud Support

HPCC, the LexisNexis alternative to Hadoop for big data processing, has tuned its Thor Data Refinery Cluster to run on Amazon Web Services.

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Synopsys to buy Magma Design for $7.35/share

Chip-design software maker Synopsys Inc (SNPS.O) agreed to buy peer Magma Design Automation Inc (LAVA.O) for $7.35 a share in cash

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Micro Strategies Wins Microsoft Cloud Services Partner Award

Micro Strategies, a leading technology solution provider and a member of Ingram Micro's VentureTech Network™(VTN), today announces it received the VTN Microsoft Cloud Services Partner Award, 2011.

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Global NetWatch and CoSentry Announce Upgrade of Performance Monitoring Agreement

CoSentry, a leader in cloud computing and managed technical services, announced it has extended its strategic relationship with Global Netwatch, Inc.

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Oracle, SAP, Infor: Three's a crowd

Former Oracle president and US Marines captain Charles Phillips’ strategy for the firm in the era of cloud computing, and would he share his thoughts on Oracle's moves since he left

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COBOL@50: Cloud-Enabled and Mobile Friendly

COBOL one of the oldest business programming languages used today, it is also one of the most widely used and tested

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HCL Technologies receives an ITSMA Diamond Award for marketing excellence

HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services company, has been named a 2011 Diamond Award winner in the “Driving Business with Thought Leadership” category

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Salesforce.com Unveils New Radian6 Social Marketing Cloud

Salesforce.com has unveiled the Radian6 Social Marketing Cloud that extends the social enterprise to marketing with new features in social monitoring, insights, engagement, workflow and websites.

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Why Security Concerns Should Not Deter Journey to Cloud

Recent high-profile data breaches shine a spotlight on the issues of trust, risk and security in the cloud.

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Kaspersky Lab’s new endpoint protection solution readies enterprises for the next cyber threat

Kaspersky Lab announces the release of Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows and Kaspersky Security Center

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Eye on Earth Enables Cloud-Based Environmental Data Sharing

The European Environment Agency, Esri and Microsoft launch new online community and application development platform.

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Developers rate Cloud Foundry as top cloud platform

Cloud Foundry achieved the highest overall score, while IBM's cloud offerings ranked first among developers targeting private clouds, and Google ranked first with public cloud developers

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Altera introduces SoC FPGAs: integrating ARM processor system and FPGA into 28-nm single-chip solution

Altera Corporation unveiled its family of ARM-based SoC FPGAs, integrating 28-nm Cyclone V and Arria V FPGA fabric, a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor

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The pros and cons of SaaS

Cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) is being rapidly adopted by companies across the globe and David Chappell, an expert in cloud computing, discuss the pros and cons of SaaS implementation.

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Data centres to heat-up homes

Computers can be placed directly into buildings to provide low latency cloud computing for its offices or residents, and the heat that is generated can be used to heat the building

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Etisalat announces first certified LTE program with Huawei

Etisalat Academy has introduced the first certified Long Term Evolution (LTE) program in the Middle East region

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Cloud computing traffic to grow fast in coming years says Cisco

By 2015, cloud computing will account for nearly 34% of traffic at the world's data centers, the huge computing stations that now process and distribute most of the Internet's information.

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Microsoft Revamps SkyDrive, Pushing Consumer Cloud

Microsoft has revamped its SkyDrive service as just one part of its continuing foray into the consumer cloud.

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Fujitsu introduces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for SMBs

Fujitsu has introduced a new solution that makes the move to a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) easier for small and mid-size businesses.

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HP is currently the top dog among cloud infrastructure equipmentvendors, as that market is poised to hit $33 billion this year fueled... 

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This has happened over time, and no-one has really noticed. Time for a campaign, methinks.

It’s all to do with software end-user licence agreements (EULAs). 
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Two Swedish companies are taking advantage of the US Patriot Act to drum up some European business.
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Nov. 27
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Intel celebrates 40th anniversary of the first microprocessor

Intel is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 4004, the world’s first microprocessor. To mark the occasion, the IT giants have put together some interesting facts

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"Beyond Cloud, Contact the World" Huawei Launches eSpace Cloud Contact Center Solution

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today launched its eSpace Cloud Contact Center Solution

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Cloud 2.0: Kaspersky Lab addresses cloud security

Security implications for government organisations moving to the cloud are the same as a normal corporate, according to computer security company, Kaspersky Lab.

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Cloud, social and mobile will make architectures of last 20 years obsolete, says Gartner

Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner and global head of Research, shared some interesting statistics at the Gartner Symposium in Mumbai.

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A resilience perspective on data centers

Data center being the core of any information technology setup is always in a very dynamic state. Here’s a 12-pointer approach to make the data center last longer

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Small Businesses Turn to Clouds and Tablets

Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly using tablets, along with cloud computing and virtualization technology.

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IBM expands in India with three new offices

Technology giant IBM has opened three regional offices in India as part of its ongoing geographic expansion in the country.

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Intel says UK SMEs still use fax, don’t use cloud

Small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in the UK are “slow to adopt new technologies such as tablets and cloud computing because of a lack of financial and human resources

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IaaS solutions attracting interest from SMBs, says AMI

Small and medium businesses (SMBs, or companies with up to 999 employees) in India are gradually becoming more aware of and interested in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

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NIST goes into detail on cloud's future, areas for improvement

In a useful but long-winded set of documents aimed at furthering adoption of cloud computing, NIST has zeroed in on interoperability, security and portability as key areas for improvement.

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Implementing, serving, and using cloud storage

It’s important to recognise that cloud computing is not a new technology, but rather, a new business model that encompasses an existing set of technologies—such as server virtualization

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Hosting providers aim to challenge cloud leaders

UK hosting provider Memset believes there’s still all to play for in the cloud market. Can smaller players raise their game enough to challenge the leaders?

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Rackspace to offer private cloud with OpenStack

Rackspace has announced it will be offering businesses the chance to operate the hosting giant’s cloud services in individual data centres, as private clouds powered by OpenStack.

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SMBs adopting cloud quicker than many enterprises

SMBs are jumping in with both feet when it comes to leading the way to cloud. In fact, small and medium-sized businesses are out in front of enterprises

Oracle Solaris 11: Too Little, Too Late?
It's taken the better part of 14 months from preview to general availability, but Oracle is now shipping Solaris 11, which it is calling the first fully virtualized cloud operating system.
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Microsoft patches Windows vulnerabilities
Microsoft released four security bulletins as part of its November update last week, closing the same number of holes but leaving out a permanent fix for the flaw linked to the Duqu trojan.
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Amazon seeds the startup cloud
Five years after launching its so-called cloud computing service, the biggest internet retailer is reaping the benefits of what has become a unique window into the technology start-up world.
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CA, ViaWest Team Up on New Cloud Service Platform for ISVs

CA Technologies has announced its AppLogic turnkey cloud platform and CA Cloud Automation solution is at the heart of data center operator and managed service provider ViaWest’s new Xen-based KINECTed Cloud – Innovator offering.

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AMD to slash 1,400 jobs to cut costs

Advanced Micro Devices Inc  slashing 10% of its global workforce and streamlining internal business processes.

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HP set to ride on cloud storm in Asia Pacific 

Kodak Hero printers get Google Cloud Print support

Kodak has introduced a new line of Kodak Hero All-in-One printers that is able to print files pushed from any device connected to the internet.

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October 31, 2011