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Week of 06 Feb 2012 Cloud infrastructure providers remain hot commodities (09 Feb 2012)
Cloud infrastructure providers attracted the attention of acquisitive suitors last year. Profitable cloud vendors this year will catch the eye of telecoms.
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Week of 23 Jan 2012 Amazon attempts to win over enterprises with cloud storage gateway (29 Jan 2012)
Facing reluctance from enterprises to adopt public cloud services, Amazon tries to entice them by bridging private and public data storage models.
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Week of 16 Jan 2012 AWS' DynamoDB improves on SimpleDB, but does it threaten SQL Azure? (20 Jan 2012)
Frustrated by Amazon's SimpleDB? DynamoDB offers an improved non-relational database that stores terabytes at a lower cost. Will it catch on?
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Week of 26 Dec 2011 IT pros will take a harder look at cloud computing in 2012 (29 Dec 2011)
IT pros always talk the talk when it comes to investing in cloud. Our annual survey suggests they're still not be ready to walk the walk in 2012.
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Week of 19 Dec 2011 Google Gmail doesn't meet LAPD security needs (21 Dec 2011)
Worried about email security, the Los Angeles city government kills plans to move the LAPD to Gmail.
Top cloud computing news even the Mayans couldn't predict (20 Dec 2011)
Cloud computing vendors have heard their share of cheers and jeers in 2011. Our team reports on the top cloud newsmakers of the year.
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Week of 05 Dec 2011 IT shops scrutinize Office 365 while clutching on-premises apps (08 Dec 2011)
Microsoft adds communication and collaboration muscle to Office 365, but IT shops are still concerned about interoperability and costs.
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Week of 14 Nov 2011 SMBs adopting cloud quicker than many enterprises (17 Nov 2011)
Small companies may feel they have less to lose when putting business assets in the cloud than risk-averse enterprises.
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Week of 31 Oct 2011 CFOs braving risks of cloud see results (03 Nov 2011)
Finance chiefs willing to use cloud-based financial planning tools are seeing improved business results, according to a Dimensional Research survey.
Health care giant builds public cloud on Oracle Enterprise Manager (SearchOracle.com | 03 Nov 2011)
Cerner has built a public cloud allowing clients to use a cloud-based version of Oracle Enterprise Manager to handle health care applications on Oracle Database in the clients’ own data centers.
NIST goes into detail on cloud's future, areas for improvement (04 Nov 2011)
In its 200-page behemoth of a report on cloud adoption, NIST lists interoperability, security and portability as areas needing improvement.
Survey: IT and compliance pros differ on IaaS security (SearchCloudSecurity.com | 01 Nov 2011)
Compliance practitioners are more confident in cloud security than IT pros, study finds.
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Week of 24 Oct 2011 Azure updates may leave Windows shops wanting more (28 Oct 2011)
Analyst firm highlights key developments in Windows Azure and points out where the service still has holes.