Business Analytics, Cloud Computing Top 'To Do' List For Midmarket CIOs: Survey

The survey also found a 50 percent increase in the number of midsize organizations that plan to invest in cloud computing, compared to a similar study IBM did in 2009, and a big jump in the number of companies investing in mobile IT. ...

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Microsoft's Muehlfeit Says Future Is in Cloud Computing

June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Jan Muehlfeit, European chairman of Microsoft Corp., talks about the outlook for computer and software manufacturers. He speaks from Vienna with Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg Television's "On The Move. ...

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Cloud computing could put hurt on piracy, says US tech official

Cloud computing is coming â€" and in a big way â€" but there's a worry that it'll do more harm than good. Just think of how easy it'll make piracy, for instance, when all of our data is already floating around on the Internet. ...

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Fourth time's a charm? Why Apple has trouble with cloud computing

iCloud is at least Apple's fourth attempt to create a viable cloud computing service. The previous incarnations included iTools in 2000, .Mac in 2002, and MobileMe in 2008. As Fortune wrote about MobileMe a few weeks ago, "MobileMe was a dud. ...

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Apple Gives New Meaning to Cloud Computing

Apple has given new meaning to Cloud computingâ€"a nebulous concept until now. Investors might want to take note of the fact that (according to Bloomberg) AAPL today is selling for a trailing PE of 16.1, and a forward PE of only 13.7. ...

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Cloud Computing and Hacking

Hacks such as that which took place against Gmail and the Sony Playstation gaming network are threatening to dampen the take off of Cloud Computing. Such set backs will slow the growth of the ever-expanding Cloud market which is expected to exceed $55 ...

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The Rise of Cloud Computing

By James O. Grundvig Created: Jun 5, 2011 Last Updated: Jun 5, 2011 Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer shares his vision about emerging technology and innovation, including the benefits of cloud computing at the C11 Cloud Summit in ...

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Disney won't be a part of Apple's cloud-computing launch on Monday

In an interview at the D9 digital conference last week in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Disney CEO Bob Iger said his company will not be part of Apple's cloud-computing launch. Apple's initiative is rumored to be a streaming music service that would ...

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Hacker attacks threaten to dampen cloud computing's prospects

Computer companies will need to collaborate to work on addressing security issues to boost confidence in cloud computing, where data and software is stored on servers and accessed via the Internet, especially in the corporate space where the potential ...

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Survey Finds Cloud Computing Has Matured, But It Can Be a Pain

By Samara Lynn A survey conducted by Avanade finds that cloud computing has reached its first milestone as a mature technology. Out of the 573 C-level executives, business unit leaders, and IT decision-makers surveyed, three key indicators of the ...

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Apple's iCloud to line up films, music: Can it deliver cloud computing basics?

By Larry Dignan | May 31, 2011, 11:37am PDT Apple CEO Steve Jobs will launch its iCloud service in a move to move to bring its iTunes juggernaut into the cloud computing era. The company will clearly have the content lined up, but the information ...

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Broadcom Leads the Way in Security for Tablet, PC, and Cloud Computing with ...

Technologies such as cloud computing may also require repeated authentication throughout the work day. Broadcom's secure SoCs ease the use of cloud computing applications by eliminating the need for repeated log in and authentication through ...

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S.Korea, Japan firms in cloud computing deal

SEOUL: South Korean telecom operator KT said Monday it would form a cloud computing venture with Japan's Softbank to help Japanese companies keep their data safe from natural disasters. South Korea's number two wireless operator will have a 51 per cent ...

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SB Authority Survey Reveals Lack of Small Business Owners' Cloud Computing ...

Based on a poll of approximately 1800 respondents, one of the key findings from May's survey was small business owners' apparent lack of Cloud Computing knowledge. Do you know or have you ever heard of Cloud Computing? If you know of or ever heard of ...

Read more at: http://smallbiztrends.com/2011/05/survey-cloud-computing.html

Small businesses still most likely to use cloud computing

By DOUGLAS CHAN It's often small businesses that are on the cutting edge of business development and it appears that when it comes to cloud computing SMBs are again leading the charge. That's the assessment of a new survey from Mountain View, ...

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Qihoo 360 Plans to Offer Cloud-Computing Services in China, CEO Says

By Bloomberg News - Fri May 27 02:26:43 GMT 2011 Qihoo 360 Technology Co., developer of China's most-popular computer security software, plans to offer new services including cloud computing to increase revenue, Chief Executive Officer Zhou Hongyi said ...

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Intel Capital Adds Investments In Cloud Computing, Mobile Tech

s (INTC) venture capital arm Monday said it has invested $24.5 million in four new companies, bringing its total investment since 1991 to $10 billion and expanding its reach into key focus areas such as cloud computing and mobile technology. ...

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Intel Capital Adds Investments In Cloud Computing, Mobile Tech

s (INTC) venture capital arm Monday said it has invested $24.5 million in four new companies, bringing its total investment since 1991 to $10 billion and expanding its reach into key focus areas such as cloud computing and mobile technology. ...

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Intel Capital Adds Investments In Cloud Computing, Mobile Tech

s (INTC) venture capital arm Monday said it has invested $24.5 million in four new companies, bringing its total investment since 1991 to $10 billion and expanding its reach into key focus areas such as cloud computing and mobile technology. ...

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BBH Solutions CEO: Leverage Cloud Computing to Reclaim Office Space in Today's ...

Bruce Hoernecke, CEO of BBH Solutions (www.bbhinc.com), says that cloud computing can free up valuable office space for more productive purposes. With commercial lease rates in New York City rising over the first quarter of 2011, hosting applications ...

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Cloud Computing and the 10X Effect

It also underlies the massive shift to cloud computing. The last major computing infrastructure paradigm shift happened in the '80s when “client/server” was introduced as the new way to design business applications. Those applications typically ran on ...

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Dubuque, Iowa and IBM Combine Analytics, Cloud Computing and Community ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa, May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Dubuque and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the IBM analytics and cloud computing technology deployed in 2010 by Dubuque as part of its Smarter Sustainable Dubuque research helped reduce ...

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Cloud computing after Amazon and Sony: ready for primetime?

By Tim Weber Business editor, BBC News website Cloud computing may be the hottest thing in corporate computing right now, but two IT disasters - at Amazon and Sony - beg the question: Is cloud computing ready for primetime business? ...

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SAP and Microsoft Join Efforts on Cloud Computing

The announcement states that SAP and Microsoft will work together on making application development and cloud management easier for developers and IT staff, helping customers harness the power of cloud computing. Additionally Microsoft was named the ...

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One size fits none: How to secure cloud computing in the enterprise

Far-sighted organizations are using cloud computing to propel innovation, get an edge over competitors and improve productivity. You can't afford to let security worries scare you away. Commentary - Cloud computing is the next phase in delivery of ...

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Kellermann Says Cloud-Computing Structure Not Yet Secure

May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Tom Kellermann, chief technology officer at AirPatrol Corp. and a member of US President Barack Obama's commission on cyber security, discusses the security of cloud-computing services following a data breach of Sony Corp. ...

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Google Chromebook laptops coming soon, solidifying cloud computing

Monthly subscriptions will start at $28/user for businesses and $20/user for schools.” Google's solidification of the Chromebook puts one more nail in the coffin of those doubting the shift toward cloud computing.

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Why DoD Wants Cloud Computing

Cloud computing uniquely addresses all of these important issues. Data silos evolved from a system-centric IT procurement policy and an almost reflexive reliance on relational database technology. In developing early data processing systems, ...

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IN THE CLOUDS: Can cloud computing help your household?

By Dan Rafter You may not understand what cloud computing is, but you should understand that it can save your family time and money. You might already use cloud services without knowing it. Do you have email through Hotmail or Gmail? ...

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Google Chromebooks Seek Enterprise Blessing

SAN FRANCISCO--Google officials made their most aggressive push for cloud computing yet here at Google I/O May 11, unveiling notebooks based on its lightweight Chrome operating system. The Chrome OS model urges consumers, businesses and schools to ...

Read more at: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Google-Chromebooks-Seek-Enterprise-Blessing-862096/

Symantec Forecast Tops Estimates, Helped by Cloud Computing

(SYMC), the world's largest security-software maker, forecast higher revenue than analysts predicted, bolstered by demand for data backup cloud-computing programs, and the effect of a weaker dollar on overseas sales. Revenue in the fiscal first quarter ...

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Cloud Computing: Lessons from Private Industry

In sequence, senior executives from Thomson Reuters, Xerox, State Street Bank, Invensys Controls, Pitney Bowes Wells Fargo, Sanmina-SCI and Marsh highlighted the business value of cloud computing. What set this conference apart was the fact that ...

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What kind of cloud computing environment do you get for $6M?

The US Air Force said today it would spend $6 million to set up a state-of-the-art cloud computing research center at the University of Illinois. The Air Force's Assured Cloud Computing (ACC) Center, will focus on developing technology to ensure ...

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Cisco and Xerox partner on cloud computing, print services

NEW YORK: Cisco and Xerox are partnering to provide cloud computing and print products in a bid to bolster the amount of services and hardware they can each offer to their corporate clients. Cisco, the networking equipment maker, will now offer Xerox's ...

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Analysis: Sony woes may cause some to rethink cloud computing

By Jim Finkle and Liana B. Baker BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Sony data breach that compromised the personal data of more than 100 million customers of the Japanese electronics conglomerate may claim yet another victim -- the cloud computing ...

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Analysis: Sony woes may cause some to rethink cloud computing

By Jim Finkle and Liana B. Baker BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Sony data breach that compromised the personal data of more than 100 million customers of the Japanese electronics conglomerate may claim yet another victim -- the cloud computing ...

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Panel: The Cloud Requires Fresh IT Skills

"The role of the IT person is changing," said Greg Bouncontri, chief information officer for Pitney Bowes, during one panel on cloud computing at Wired magazine's CIO Leadership Forum in New York. "There will be some skillset shifts within our ...

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SAP Says Amazon Crash Hampers Its Late Push Into the Cloud

By Ragnhild Kjetland - Thu May 05 09:11:38 GMT 2011 SAP AG (SAP), which last July introduced its first Web-based software after more than two years of delays, says a recent outage in Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)'s cloud computing services makes it harder for ...

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Red Hat Does Database for Cloud Computing Platforms

Data grids extend the type of scalability often associated with cloud computing resources to the data layer, and also speed access to data by storing it in a server's memory instead of in a away from the application in a traditional disk-based database ...

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Security, Outages Gray Areas For Cloud Computing

By DONNA HOWELL, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 05:20 PM ET The cloud computing trend had a strong start this year, with big firms like Netflix (NFLX) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) advancing their use of the cloud for flexibility and profit. ...

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Major players zero in on cloud computing market

By Marjorie Censer, As the cloud computing market grows, the battle for work is getting more fierce, particularly among some of the well-known industry players. Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services have made early inroads, but analysts say much of ...

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Despite major outage, forecast still sunny for cloud computing

"There are risks associated with cloud computing," he said. "Some of Amazon's customers lost some content." However, he noted that such outages are uncommon, and a failure on the size of Amazon's shutdown is rare. Seattle-based Amazon said Friday that ...

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Amazon.com explains recent cloud computing outage that took down Foursquare ...

By Larry Greenemeier | Apr 29, 2011 04:27 PM | 2 Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), the cloud computing arm of online marketplace Amazon.com, on Friday explained what happened during last week's service outage, which disrupted many of its customers' Web ...

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Telecoms Look to Cloud Computing

It's a play on the boom in so-called cloud computing â€" the practice of using the Internet to process, manage and store data on remote network servers. As more companies shift away from on-site computer servers, demand is rising for companies like ...

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The $2.5 Billion Cloud Computing Deal

By DEALBOOK CenturyLink, the nation's third largest telecommunications company, announced on Wednesday that it would buy the information technology firm Savvis for $2.5 billion, in a play on so-called cloud computing. Under the terms of the deal, ...

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Verizon Completes SAS 70 Type II Examination of Cloud Computing Data Centers

"Verizon understands that enterprises require a business-class cloud to truly harness the power of cloud computing," said Kerry Bailey, Verizon group president, cloud strategy and services. "Our successful completion of industry-recognized examinations ...

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Amazon betting on cloud computing, sacrificing some profit

It has invested heavily in areas such as "cloud computing" -- which allows companies to store data on its servers -- to take on its rivals Google Inc and Apple Inc. Amazon is also laying out money to open new distribution centers and cement its lead as ...

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Amazon's trouble raises cloud computing doubts

SAN FRANCISCO: The black out at Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) data centre has cast a shadow over cloud computing, which has been hailed as a sturdy, reliable and inexpensive storage and network solution, especially for small and medium ...

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Legal challenges could hold back 'cloud computing'

The dispute revolves around the notion of “cloud computing,” the idea that your digital material isn't trapped on a hard drive in your laptop or iPhone. Instead, you keep your data in online computer servers that are accessible anywhere you can get an ...

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Amazon's Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts

“This is a wake-up call for cloud computing,” said Matthew Eastwood, an analyst for the research firm IDC, using the term for accessing services and information in big data centers remotely over the Internet from anywhere, as if the services were in a ...

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Cloud computing market: $241 billion in 2020

By Larry Dignan | April 22, 2011, 2:08am PDT The global cloud computing market will grow from a $40.7 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020, according to Forrester Research. Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as ...

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Intel Benefits from Cloud Computing, Explosion in Mobile Devices

The shift to cloud computing is fueling strong growth in Intel's enterprise server business as the company gears up to play in the tablet and smartphone segment. Despite a challenging first quarter and weakening consumer demand, strong business ...

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Intel Benefits from Cloud Computing, Explosion in Mobile Devices

The shift to cloud computing is fueling strong growth in Intel's enterprise server business as the company gears up to play in the tablet and smartphone segment. Despite a challenging first quarter and weakening consumer demand, strong business ...

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Google Rains on Cloud Computing's Parade

Few companies have contributed more to the cloud computing movement than Google (Nasdaq: GOOG). But Google is not perfect, by any means, when it comes to cloud services. Last week, the Consumer Watchdog lobbying group asked the US House Oversight and ...

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CityTech Presenting at April Cloud Computing Seminar

As Cloud Computing becomes poised to transform how many IT departments operate, the demand for informed perspectives on this strategic technology grows. To help IT professionals learn more about the true value of Cloud Computing technologies, ...

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Apple hires former Microsoft cloud computing guru

open innovation and increased third-party collaboration means that CFOs must relinquish some controlmore .. Mining giant places growth on tech advantagemore .. Security, lock-in issues and privacy are still significant barriers to adoption for ITmore . ...

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Cloud Computing's Tipping Point

Half of federal agencies will be in the cloud within 12 months, according to our new cloud computing survey. By Michael Biddick InformationWeek Private clouds promise maximum control and strong security, while commercial cloud services are fast and ...

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Tilera's Chip for the Cloud Computing Age

The company is targeting the cloud computing market, where the ability to cram thousands of processors has become as important as the high-level data crunching and calculations needed to run, say, an Oracle (ORCL) database. For next-generation data ...

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CRM Cloud Computing Leader Salesforce.com Presents Strong 2011 Outlook

By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor Did you know that the concept of cloud computing actually arrived with the Internet? Of course, at that time it didn't have the cloud name and solutions weren't really available for users to take ...

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4 Critical Cloud Computing Considerations for Developers

Development teams must think hard about these four aspects of cloud computing before they start the development process. After you learn the basic concepts of the cloud, you need to assess the applicability of cloud computing for your application(s). ...

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Microsoft To Spend 90% Of Research Budget On Cloud Computing

Microsoft Corporation will be investing heavily in cloud computing this year, making it the tech giant's biggest focus area in information technology. The Redmond-based Microsoft Inc's President Jean-Philippe Courtois said it will spend 90 percent of ...

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Kundra: Cloud computing data sovereignty a matter for 'international law'

Cloud computing adoption at federal agencies is no longer a question of "if," said Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. Critics of the "cloud first" initiative should embrace change and address issues that still need work, charged Kundra ...

Read more at: http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/kundra-cloud-computing-data-sovereignty-matter-international-law/2011-04-10

Five Companies That Came To Win This Week

Cloud computing hype spiked this week as Dell and IBM both unveiled ambitious plans to increase their presence in the data center virtualization and cloud computing markets. Dell is planning to spend $1 billion in the next two years on 10 new data ...

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Blog Bytes: Cloud Computing's Billion-Dollar Week

And Dell capped off the cloud rush by announcing its plan to invest $1 billion in cloud computing, including the build-out of 22 new datacenters around the world. These moves come just a few weeks after Hewlett-Packard's own announcement of a public ...

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Cloud computing on the rise at IBM [The Herald-Sun, Durham, NC]

That practice, called cloud computing, has been targeted as a major growth area for IBM. The company is looking to bring in $7 billion from that sector by 2015, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing. On Thursday, the company ...

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IBM Seeks to Make Cloud Computing More Palatable to Businesses

(IBM), angling to reap more than 5 percent of its revenue from cloud computing by 2015, is introducing new ways for customers to run business software inside its data centers. IBM will begin selling the computing service, called “SmartCloud,” today to ...

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IEEE Targets Cloud Interoperability Standards

By Charles Babcock InformationWeek The venerable IEEE is wading into the chaotic and roiled realm of cloud computing, seeking to set standards through a cloud computing initiative launched Monday that will focus on cloud interoperability. ...

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IEEE aims to standardise cloud computing

By Stuart Corner The IEEE - which now bills itself as "the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity" - is taking steps to bring global standardisation to cloud computing with what it says is "the first broad-scope, ...

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Where to start with public cloud computing

By Beth Schultz Network World - The first step is to evaluate your workloads, says Mark White, CTO for Deloitte Consulting's technology practice. "That's step one, and the conversation is really about the services catalog," he says. ...

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Microsoft Adjusts Volume Licensing for Cloud Computing

According to a Microsoft spokesperson, the new licensing option "enhances business opportunities [for partners] by paving the way for qualified Microsoft customers to take advantage of cloud computing without having to bear the economic burden for ...

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More data centers use cloud computing

For those who think “cloud computing” is a buzzword that will fade quickly, think again. More than 70 percent of data center managers have gone “to the cloud” or are seriously considering it, according to a recent survey by data center association ...

Read more at: http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/blog/2011/04/more-data-centers-use-cloud-computing.html

DecisionOne to Participate on Cloud Computing Panel at iHT2 Health IT Summit ...

The panel will discuss the benefits and potential risks of cloud computing in healthcare. The panelists will share success stories, best practices, as well as challenges and obstacles to using a cloud system in your organization. ...

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New Brunswick social-media firm scooped up by cloud computing giant

Salesforce.com has been jostling with rivals such as IBM and Dell Inc to differentiate itself in the highly competitive cloud computing market, by picking up small companies with promising technologies, according to reports from Reuters. ...

Read more at: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Brunswick+social+media+firm+scooped+cloud+computing+giant/4529408/story.html

Cisco to buy newScale to expand cloud computing offering

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Computer networking equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced the intent to buy privately-held software company newScale Inc., in a move to complement and expand its offerings in cloud computing. ...

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Bullhorn Recognized Among Top 100 Leading SaaS and Cloud Computing Companies

Bullhorn®, the global leader in online recruiting and staffing agency software, today announced recognition among AlwaysOn's OnDemand Top 100 software companies. Bullhorn was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners from SAP, ...

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Sentrigo Recognized by CRN Magazine as a Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendor

Sentrigo, Inc., the innovator in database security and compliance solutions for on-premise and cloud deployments, today announced that it has been named one of the Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendors by Everything Channel's CRN Magazine. ...

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Oracle Rises as Forecast, Results Top Estimates on Cloud Computing Demand

A boom in demand for Oracle's databases used in cloud computing -- the delivery of software and storage over the Internet -- also contributed to a 29 percent gain in new license sales, a predictor of revenue. “The future looks bright,” said Patrick ...

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Oracle Rises as Forecast, Results Top Estimates on Cloud Computing Demand

A boom in demand for Oracle's databases used in cloud computing -- the delivery of software and storage over the Internet -- also contributed to a 29 percent gain in new license sales, a predictor of revenue. “The future looks bright,” said Patrick ...

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Oracle Rises as Forecast, Results Top Estimates on Cloud Computing Demand

A boom in demand for Oracle's databases used in cloud computing -- the delivery of software and storage over the Internet -- also contributed to a 29 percent gain in new license sales, an predictor of revenue. “The future looks bright,” said Patrick ...

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Top Cloud Computing Gaming Providers

If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on Cloud Computing. Cloud gaming, also called gaming on demand, is a type of online gaming that allows direct and on-demand streaming of games onto a computer through the use ...

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Microsoft Debuts Systems Management Update With Cloud Computing Pathway

By Rick Whiting, CRN Microsoft is pitching its new System Center 2012 system management suite as a way for business to begin transitioning their traditional IT systems to private and public cloud computing services. Microsoft unveiled System Center ...

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Microsoft Partners Move 1000 Customers to Cloud Computing

Microsoft's top US channel partners have moved more than 1000 customers to cloud computing and BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), MSPmentor has learned. The 1000-customer milestone arrives at a critical time for cloud computing and the ...

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Cloud computing's toughest obstacle

Modern life is becoming more and more inseparable from cloud computing, the most obvious example of this being the widespread acceptance of the social network. Needs have catalysed growth, and according to research data from 2010, the cloud market has ...

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Cloud computing: What it can do for you and your business

BY MARK W. SMITH But one term in particular has businesses small and large scratching their heads: What is cloud computing? Businesses know they're headed there, but where are they going? Many of them are already there, even if they don't realize it. ...

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HP to offer cloud computing platform

Hewlett-Packard is getting into the cloud-computing business and taking on competitors Amazon and Google. The technology giant announced plans Monday for a portfolio of cloud computing capabilities from infrastructure to platform services, ...

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Cloud computing: How to get your business ready

By Tim Weber Business editor, BBC News website Cloud computing is taking off on a massive scale, so what should companies look out for as they move their information technology into the cloud? Cloud computing is not just a buzzword anymore. ...

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Ahead of the Bell: Hewlett-Packard

Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. inched lower along with the broader market in premarket trading Tuesday after CEO Leo Apotheker outlined the technology company's plans to sell "cloud computing" services in the near future and said HP plans to raise its ...

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HP Reveals Its Cloud-Computing Plans, But Questions Remain

(HPQ) said it will roll out new cloud-computing services over the next couple of years, but questions remain about how the company will bring these services to market and how it will fit in the fast-growing trend. On Monday, HP Chief Executive Leo ...

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HP's Apotheker Accelerates Move Into Cloud Computing, Increases Dividend

The company is starting a cloud-computing service that will let developers create applications for consumers and businesses using HP tools and that run on HP servers, Apotheker said at an event yesterday in San Francisco. HP also plans to put its WebOS ...

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Cloud Convergence Council Explores Opportunities, Challenges of Cloud Computing

The panel focused predominantly on that seemingly ubiquitous and somewhat ambiguous concept of “cloud computing," which research giant Gartner has defined as “a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a ...

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Malcolm Berko - Don't get lost in fog of cloud computing

By Malcolm Berko Dear Mr. Berko: Please explain cloud computing. And what do you think of Cloud Computing stocks like Salesforce.com? I am thinking of buying 100 shares at its current $140 price because I heard it may be a takeover candidate and lots ...

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The Future of Corporate IT is Private Cloud Computing

By Steve Eveleigh, Product Marketing manager, Star Cloud computing has become a short hand for the complex process of virtualisation and application delivery. On the whole, most users of cloud computing use Public Cloud services such as Google Apps, ...

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Steve Ballmer pitches cloud computing to energy biz

By Steve Hargreaves, senior writerMarch 10, 2011: 1:37 PM ET HOUSTON (CNNMoney) -- Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer made an impassioned technology pitch to the energy industry Wednesday, arguing that game-like devices and cloud computing can ...

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Cloud cover: Israel's top eight cloud computing firms

The concept of cloud computing got a big push during the recent worldwide recession, as companies sought ways to save money, Israeli cloud consultant Eddie Resnick tells ISRAEL21c. "Companies buy for peak needs," he says, to ensure their capacity to ...

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Amazon CTO: Cloud Computing's Value In Its Ecosystem

By Charles Babcock , InformationWeek The cloud computing branch of Amazon.com may have started out as a supplier of simple compute cycles, but it is becoming a whole lot more as an ecosystem grows around it, said Werner Vogels, a leading proponent of ...

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IBM to Open $38M Cloud Computing Data Center in Singapore

By Justin Lee, March 07, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IBM (www.ibm.com) announced on Monday it has invested $38 million in a new IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Center in Singapore. The announcement comes a couple months after IBM revealed ...

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Industry leaders forming cloud computing commission

By Marjorie Censer As cloud computing picks up steam within the federal government, senior industry officials are seeking to put their stamp on its deployment, signing on to a panel that will make recommendations to the federal chief information ...

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Amazon Web Services Opens Tokyo Cloud Computing Centre

Amazon Web Services has opened its second cloud computing outlet in Asia in Tokyo, offering local data storage and faster data transfer rates to its Japanese customers. Jeff Barr, Amazon Web Services evangelist, wrote in a blog post that Japanese ...

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Gmail Outage Highlights Google's Restoration Response

Tough to believe in a time of robust cloud computing, but outages happen, analysts note. When Google revealed that some Gmail users were finding their messages, labels and other inbox content missing Feb. 27, the clock began ticking on the company's ...

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Memo From Cisco: MSPs Will Enjoy Early Cloud Computing Advantage

When it comes to cloud computing, successful managed services providers (MSPs) should have a leg up against traditional channel players. That's the consensus among Cisco Systems executives who have helped to build the networking giant's managed ...

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Pulse 2011: Cloud computing driven by innovation not cost

By Maggie Holland, 3 Mar 2011 at 03:31 Cloud computing adoption is being driven by the desire to innovate rather than save money. That was the message sent out during IBM's Pulse 2011 event this week in Las Vegas as the man in charge of the cloud for ...

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Are Cloud Computing Stocks Overvalued?

If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on Cloud Computing. “It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.” - Warren Buffett, legendary American investor and one of the richest men in ...

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Apple Should Be the Savior of Cloud Computing

That's a shame, because Apple could deliver a kick up the derriere that cloud computing really needs right now. To be fair, there is some cloud integration in Mac OS X. Apple's MobileMe service provides online storage and calendar and address book ...

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Mobile Devices And Cloud Computing Paradigm Shift Will Drive Selected ...

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At long last, there's a silver lining in the age of cloud computing

Time to carry your own web manager Cloud computing may be convenient, but potentially leaves users open to data exploitation. Photograph: John Eastcott & Yva Momatiuk/National Geographic/Getty Images "The novelties of one generation," said George ...

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Preparing Data Centers for Cloud Computing

Presenting Eaton's white paper on cloud computing, readers can examine some of the forces behind rising adoption of cloud-based solutions, explore how cloud architectures impact data centers and read discussions on a series of concrete best practices ...

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Box.net: The Facebook of Cloud Computing?

By Laura Stotler, TMCnet Contributing Editor There's a fresh face in Silicon Valley, and venture capitalists are making a bet his startup online storage company will do for cloud computing what Facebook (News - Alert) has done for social networking. ...

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Cisco Kills Cloud Computing Email

After just over a year of trying to make a market for its own Linux-powered hosted email service, Cisco is calling it quits. "The product has been well received, but we've since learned that customers have come to view their email as a mature and ...

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U.Va.'s Tech-Connect Offers Free Introduction to Cloud Computing

February 21, 2011 â€" The University of Virginia's Tech-Connect Community will offer a free presentation, "A Walk in the Clouds: Everyone's Introduction to Cloud Computing," on Thursday from noon to 1:30 pm in Clemons Library, room 201. ...

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Cloud Computing Is Just Outsourcing, Says Forum

By Anh Nguyen, computerworlduk.com Information security professionals should treat cloud computing as they would any other external supplier, according to an analyst at the Information Security Forum. "Cloud is just outsourcing. ...

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Go into the Light: Succomb to the Power of Cloud Computing

Something that social enterprise should began to embrace is cloud computing. Current projections show worldwide emissions from data centers will quadruple by 2020. Migrating desktop applications and Web based services to consolidated server farms has ...

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Kundra: 25 percent of IT spending should to go to the cloud

By Kathleen Hickey Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's recently released Federal Cloud Computing Strategy calls for about a quarter of federal IT spending to be committed to cloud systems. Additionally, under the Cloud First program, agencies will be required ...

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Cloud Computing Bubble Looks Like Dot-Com Bubble, Warns UBS

A new research note from UBS compares the current value of tech stocks with the dot-com era, and concluded that cloud computing may be driving another bubble. The analysis might be open to a different interpretation, however -- cloud computing is truly ...

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IT execs at RSA extol virtues of cloud computing, with familiar caveats

By Ellen Messmer, Network World SAN FRANCISCO -- Deciding to move enterprise data into cloud-computing environments is still a decision fraught with anxiety over security, as well as operational and legal issues, say IT managers, but the prospect of ...

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Interop 2011 Strategy Guide: Cloud Computing

Overview: Interop has compiled a strategic guide featuring delivering key insights, important strategies and best practices for cloud computing. The days of cloud computing services being used for seasonal capacity are gone. ...

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CORRECT(2/14): Cloud Computing Company Active Network Plans $150M IPO

("Cloud Computing Company Active Network Plans $150M IPO," published at 7:50 pm EST on Monday, misstated the company's revenue.) Cloud-computing applications company Active Network Inc. plans to sell up to an estimated $150 million of common stock, ...

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Cloud Computing Company Active Network Plans $150M IPO

Cloud-computing applications company Active Network Inc. planned to sell up to an estimated $150 million of common stock, raising money to repay debt. ...

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Symbio and Ethos Technologies to Partner to Accelerate Cloud Computing on ...

Together with Ethos Technologies, Symbio can offer over 500 mobile and cloud computing specialists worldwide who understand the latest technologies and how ...

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Internet Privacy Legislation Looms as Cloud Computing Grows

Six weeks into the new year, it's already time to check on a few of my fearless predictions for 2011. Number 1, for example, stated that Northern Africa ...

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Focus on Cloud Computing

By Daryl Plummer There's no escaping the relentless discussion on the move to cloud computing and how, by golly, it's going to save you money! ...

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Cisco Poised To Launch New Cloud Computing Channel Programs

Sherriff said partners will see a Cisco "deep dive around cloud" with new programs aimed at giving partners multiple cloud computing opportunities that ...

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Leaders In Hybrid Cloud

EMC is confident that cloud computing is the biggest game changing technology to drive the future. The company has put its weight behind this faith and has ...

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Making inroads with tactical cloud computing applications

CIOs' growing confidence -- some might say it's more a growing curiosity -- about cloud computing applications stems from a combination of constant industry ...

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What cloud computing means for the real world

By Keir Thomas, PCWorld There are more than a few critics of cloud computing, even at PCWorld; I'm probably one of them. But I've been turning over in my ...

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Can 'encrypted blobs' help with secure cloud computing?

And in cloud computing, it would be a way to store data so that there could be authorized processing of it without it having to be changed into cleartext ...

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What Cloud Computing Means For the Real World

By Keir Thomas, PCWorld There are more than a few critics of cloud computing, even at PCWorld; I'm probably one of them. But I've been turning over in my ...

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What Cloud Computing Means For the Real World

By Keir Thomas, PCWorld There are more than a few critics of cloud computing, even at PCWorld; I'm probably one of them. But I've been turning over in my ...

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Buyout Binge for Cloud Computing Companies?

The company had a great turnaround when it started selling some assets to pay off debt and tightened its focus on managed hosting and cloud computing. ...

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Advice for dealing with the top 10 risks in public cloud computing

By Laura Smith, Features Writer Public cloud computing risks are numerous enough to field a top 10 -- or even more. Professional organizations and CIOs are ...

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Why Cloud Computing is an Opportunity for UK Business and IT...

By stark contrast, those IT professionals that have been embracing Cloud Computing, however, seem to be having a very different experience that puts this ...

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Cloudy Infrastructure the Top CIO Priority in 2011

In a recent poll conducted this month of IT managers at 262 companies, 44 percent of those polled said that cloud computing was their top priority, ...

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In 2011, Cloud Computing Will Enable 'IT as Business'

But when it comes to realizing the benefits of cloud computing and truly running “IT as a business,” things are just beginning to heat up. ...

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Cloud Computing IBM's Edge

(IBM - Analyst Report) announced new partnerships with leading companies and institutions for providing cloud computing solutions. ...

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Verizon To Buy Terremark In $1.4 Billion Cloud Computing Blockbuster

By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Verizon Communications took its cloud computing momentum one step further on Thursday, agreeing to acquire cloud computing ...

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Repetitive announcements drive all the interest from cloud computing

Despite the efforts of half the computer industry to beat it to death with news-free press releases, cloud computing is still going strong and becoming even ...

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IBM to Build Asia's Largest Cloud Computing Center

By Michael Kan, IDG News IBM and the China-based Range Technology will build a cloud computing data center near Beijing that the companies claim will be ...

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Digital Back Office in Milford takes 'cloud computing' to earth

"Cloud computing'' is the technology "term du jour,'' said Dale Bruckhart, vice president of Digital Back Office. And as it has since 1991, when personal ...

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Cloud Computing: Is China a Friend or Foe?

For now, the issue at hand is, is China a friend or a foe of Cloud Computing? Specifically, is it a friend or foe of non-Chinese vendors-whether North ...

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The Telegraph Guide to cloud computing ; The guide is written by Matt Warman ...

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Cloud Computing In Midmarket, SMB Sectors Creates Big Opportunties

MarketBridge recently polled 1000 North American small and midsized businesses about their cloud computing plans and found that about 70 percent to 85 ...

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Spending for cloud computing to surpass $13B in 2014

“The professional services and healthcare verticals will see the largest growth in spending on cloud computing services, growing over 124 percent between ...

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Amazon's “Elastic Beanstalk”: Cloud Computing For The Masses

By ERIC SAVITZ Amazon.com (AMZN) this morning unveiled “Elastic Beanstalk,” a new free service to make it easier for application developers to use the ...

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Amazon.com's Beanstalk Service Aims to Simplify Cloud Computing

International Business Machines Corp., AT&T Inc. and Microsoft Corp. offer similar cloud-computing services. As their needs become more complex, ...

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IBM's cloud computing strategy: Flying blind?

“[IBM has] an opportunity to demonstrate a cohesive strategy for all your cloud computing needs,” Reeves said, “but instead [it is] saying, ...

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New EU Agency Report on Governmental Cloud Computing Security in EU

It highlights also security and resilience pros and cons of community, private and public cloud computing services for public bodies. ...

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Salesforce.com Acquires Dimdim

6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing (http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/) company, today announced it ...

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GE's $500M bet on data center consolidation and cloud computing

"The growth in high-bandwidth mobile Internet applications and cloud computing is accelerating that demand. A globally networked planet needs a lot of power ...

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Intel earnings soar with rise of "cloud" computing

"Intel is positioned to benefit from the growth of the data center and cloud computing." Intel projected revenue of $11.5 billion for the current quarter ...

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Is Bob Muglia Leaving Microsoft because of Cloud Computing?

The email put emphasis on Microsoft's shift into "the new era of cloud computing" and Al Hilwa of market intelligence firm IDC, suggests that the tension ...

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US Treasury Moves Public Websites to Amazon EC2 Cloud

Treasury.gov meets the administration's "mandates" for using cloud computing and Web 2.0 technologies, according to Robert Groat, Smartronix's CTO. ...

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Cloud Computing Used to Hack Wireless Passwords

German security researcher Thomas Roth has found an innovative use for cloud computing: cracking wireless networks that rely on pre-shared key passphrases, ...

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Top 5 Cloud Computing Predictions For 2011

By Charles Babcock , InformationWeek When it comes to cloud computing, a lot changed in 2010. If the cloud were like an NFL quarterback, its status went ...

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Cloud computing

Cloud computing is an umbrella term for applications and services offered and delivered through the Internet - from data centers all over the world. ...

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Google Wins Injunction In Microsoft, Interior Department Cloud Computing ...

By Andrew R Hickey, CRN A federal judge has issued a temporary court order to put the brakes on a nearly $60 million cloud computing contract that gave ...

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Amazon Expands Cloud Computing Support, Drops Prices

To provide more personalized service to companies using its infrastructure for production systems, Amazon Web Services has lowered pricing on two plans and ...

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Cloud Computing Baffles Midmarket

IT folks don't know what it is because Cloud computing was a made up martketing doilie that the IT industry was trying to sell as the next best thing back ...

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IT industry news: Companies 'are put off cloud computing'

Some enterprises in the UK don't fully understand certain developments in the IT industry like cloud computing and are put off by it, according to Clodagh ...

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Cloud computing and electronic health records: New trend?

Cloud computing developed through a natural evolution of virtualization, service-oriented architecture, and utility computing. ...

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NCKU Cloud Computing Service Initiates in January, 2011

“The inauguration of the Cloud Computing Service on the last day of the year 2010 symbolizes that E-service at National Cheng Kung University has escaped ...

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From diskettes to cloud computing, software company has seen it all

In its simplest form, cloud computing involves services and applications that are hosted on and accessed through the Internet. ...

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Cloud Computing: The Executive Summary

I'm starting here with cloud computing. The intention is to keep things simple, and I've deliberately avoided technical language. ...

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