New cloud-based service steals Wi-Fi passwords
For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says.
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IBM offers Tivoli Monitoring for Amazon cloud deployments
Companies running applications on Amazon Web Services can now monitor their environments using IBM’s Tivoli Monitoring software.
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WSO2 extending SOA into cloud computing
WSO2 will launch on Monday WSO2 Cloud Platform, for extending SOA into cloud computing.
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Cloud computing: Which IT projects are right for the cloud?
Cloud computing is poised to win the title of most popular, and populist, buzzword of 2009.
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Microsoft begins paving path for IT, cloud integration
Microsoft last week launched its first serious effort to build IT into its cloud plans by introducing technologies that help connect existing corporate networks and cloud services to make them look like a single infrastructure.
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EU security agency highlights cloud computing risks
Cloud computing users face problems including loss of control over data, difficulties proving compliance, and additional legal risks as data moves from one legal jurisdiction to another, according to a assessement of cloud computing risks from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
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Benioff trumpets Force.com platform's success
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Thursday attempted to cement an image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platform provider, not merely a purveyor of SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.
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Cloud won't do for critical applications, SAP says
SAP does not expect mission-critical applications to move to the cloud in the near future, the company's chief technology officer said on Wednesday.
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Microsoft ups cloud computing ante with Azure, 'Dallas'
Microsoft announced that its Azure cloud computing platform will be launched into production on January 1st of 2010. Chief software architect Ray Ozzie also unveiled details of a cloud computing project, codenamed 'Dallas'.
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Elastra offers a tool to build public-private clouds
Elastra has announced the availability of its Cloud Server platform, which lets enterprises build public-private computing clouds, it said on Tuesday.
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Amazon Web Services to expand into Asia-Pacific
Amazon Web Services will expand its footprint to Asia-Pacific during the first half of 2010, the cloud-computing infrastructure vendor said Thursday.
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Microsoft developer technologies take center stage at PDC
With a full schedule on tap, the 2009 Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference) next week will tout efforts ranging from the company's Windows Azure cloud platform to plans for programming languages
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MS Office battles Google in the cloud
When Microsoft releases the next version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, it will be into a very different competitive landscape than the one Office 2007 faced in late 2006.
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IBM announces cloud software-development betas
IBM on Thursday announced beta versions of new services aimed at developers who want to create and deploy applications on public and private clouds.
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HPC vendor pitches tools to build 'private cloud'
Much of the talk about cloud computing in data centers has been about enterprise workloads, but high-performance computing (HPC) customers are getting some options as well.
