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 ...

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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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