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 ...

*Centre for Business and Economics Research To find out about cloud computing, visit www.telegraph.co.uk/ readerguides in association with FUJITSU Please ...

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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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