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. ...

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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 ...

Read more at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-25/oracle-rises-as-forecast-results-top-estimates-on-cloud-demand.html

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 ...

Read more at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-25/oracle-rises-as-forecast-results-top-estimates-on-cloud-demand.html

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 ...

Read more at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-15/hp-s-apotheker-swells-move-into-cloud-computing-lifts-dividend.html

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 ...

Read more at: http://www.itproportal.com/2011/03/04/amazon-web-services-opens-tokyo-cloud-computing-centre/

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 ...

Read more at: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Gmail-Outage-Highlights-Googles-Restoration-Response-838387/

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 ...

Read more at: http://www.mspmentor.net/2011/03/03/memo-from-cisco-msps-will-enjoy-early-cloud-computing-advantage/

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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