Cloud computing News Archive |
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| 16 Nov 2009 |
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IBM launches private analytics cloud
(SearchDataManagement.com)
IBM has launched an internal analytics cloud, a service it is also offering to customers, which Big Blue says gives front-line employees access to more data and lightens IT's suppo... |
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SaaS and the future of cloud rosy, says Ariba marketing chief
Although a slumping economy may have boosted cloud adoption due to financial shortages, scalability and a business model shift keep it going, according to Ariba's chief marketing o... |
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AT&T squares up to Amazon EC2
With its new Synaptic Compute cloud offering, AT&T has sent a warning shot to Amazon's EC2 service. But is the telco serious about the cloud? |
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| 13 Nov 2009 |
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Can cloud computing sustain an economic upturn?
(SearchVirtualDataCentre.co.UK)
Cloud computing's recent popularity is due in part to the economic downturn and pressure to cut IT costs. But will the benefits of cloud computing and hosted service providers be e... |
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National Kidney Foundation cuts GroupWise storage with cloud storage email archiving
(SearchStorage.com)
The National Kidney Foundation looked at on-premise email archiving to manage GroupWise storage, but cloud storage email archiving from Sonian was more affordable. |
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Google cuts cloud storage costs; Amazon expands its horizons
This week: Google answers competitors by lowering prices; Amazon Web Services to hit Asian businesses in 2010. |
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| 11 Nov 2009 |
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EVault and LiveOffice look to add cloud storage to Microsoft DPM 2010 and Exchange 2010
(SearchStorage.com)
i365 partners with Microsoft to integrate DPM with its EVault cloud backup software; LiveOffice offers cloud email archiving for Exchange 2010 and other hosted email services. |
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Rackspace customer downplays cloud outage
Sachin Agarwal, co-founder of the blogging service Posterous, says that despite a recent Rackspace outage, his company is pleased it moved from Amazon Simple Storage Service to Rac... |
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| 10 Nov 2009 |
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Botnet masters turn to Google, social networks to avoid detection
(SearchSecurity.com)
Cybercriminals turn to cloud computing to feed commands to the throngs of zombie computers under their control and avoid detection. |
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New vendor risk assessment tools address cloud computing
(SearchFinancialSecurity.com)
Shared Assessments program unveils updated tools for assessing security of service providers, including cloud providers |
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| 09 Nov 2009 |
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Dexrex Gear offers cloud instant messaging and social media data archiving
(SearchStorage.co.UK)
Dexrex Gear is turning its consumer social media backup expertise into a cloud storage-based product for archiving instant messaging, social media, text, and other non-email data. |
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Fujitsu fields BPM on cloud computing platform
(SearchSOA.com)
Updated version of Interstage Business Process Management includes free Interstage Cloud BPM platform for 10-user groups. Dynamic tasking capabilities are also due. |
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Rackspace's Jungle Disk preps cloud data backup Server Edition
(SearchDataBackup.com)
Rackspace's Jungle Disk is ready to launch the Server Edition of its cloud backup software with the option of connecting to Amazon S3 or the Rackspace Cloud. |
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Mortgage software developers collaborate in the cloud with Skytap
Skytap's new technologies eased a director of quality assurance's ability to meet release deadlines by enabling his global employees to pick up projects during their workdays when ... |
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U.S. government explores limits of cloud and virtualization
The United States government is investing heavily in cloud computing and virtualization, testing the limits of these new architectures for scientific research. |
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| 06 Nov 2009 |
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Virtualization firm pushes high-performance computing towards the cloud
ScaleMP has made a business of turning standard servers into supercomputers. Will increased elasticity and on-demand functionality make high-performance computing cloud-capable? |
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Major players form cloud coalition, challenge traditional hardware vendors
This week: EMC, Cisco and VMware unite to push for transition to private cloud; IBM offers SOA test and dev for the cloud. |
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| 05 Nov 2009 |
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IBM launches test and development products for cloud computing
(SearchSOA.com)
IBM has released two new products providing infrastructure and management tools for testing and development on the cloud. |
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| 04 Nov 2009 |
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Storage industry looks cautiously at EMC, Cisco and VMware's alliance
(SearchStorage.com)
EMC, Cisco and VMware disclose alliance to provide private cloud bundles of storage, servers, software and infrastructure, but user are wary of lock-in and seven-figure prices. |
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Juniper to CIOs: Invest in internal cloud computing networks
(SearchNetworking.com)
Juniper's 'New Network' vision calls on companies to invest in an internal cloud computing network strategy to push applications and power out to users in an enterprise grid networ... |
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Mark Minasi discusses cloud computing, Windows 7 and IT trends
(SearchVirtualDesktop.com)
When it comes to desktop virtualization, Microsoft is taking a great idea and killing it with complicated licensing, says Windows expert Mark Minasi in a Q&A. |
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Where's the Juniper unified fabric strategy? Still waiting
(SearchNetworking.com)
A unified fabric strategy was notably missing from the Juniper's cloud computing architecture launch last week – and analysts wanted to know what happened to the Juniper Stra... |
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Financial services group and consumer health giant venture into cloud
Now that Web applications and test and development are proven uses for cloud computing, financial businesses and pharmaceutical research companies are set to be the next big adopte... |
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| 03 Nov 2009 |
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Cloud computing architecture: Relational memories are made of this?
(SearchSOA.com)
Will the world rewrite its mass of apps for the new cloud computing architecture? At one point, Google would have you believe they would. That is not so clear now, as Amazon moves ... |
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Cisco-VMware-EMC coalition leaves IT users cold
(SearchServerVirtualization.com)
The Virtual Computing Environment backed by Cisco, VMware and EMC promises easier virtualization and private clouds, but IT pros aren't sold. |
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RightScale users sound off on cloud pros and cons
Cloud users call out for more monitoring and alerting tools and warn new users to plan for outages; RightScale shares its roadmap. |
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L.A. bets on cloud computing with Google Apps despite financial woes
With this deal, Google wins a needed reference account, Novell loses a big GroupWise customer and the L.A. city council faces a lot of questions. |
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| 02 Nov 2009 |
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Microsoft's Azure and Eclipse combo wins partner praise
(SearchSystemsChannel.com)
Microsoft's attempt to bring non-Windows developers and VARs to its Azure cloud computing platform has garnered positive reviews -- even from Linux and Mac loyalists. |
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Secure cloud computing - a contradiction in terms?
(SearchSecurity.IN)
Cloud computing implementation is on the rise despite any worries that security professionals may raise about the technology. |
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