Australian companies uneasy in the cloud
Australian companies and their channel partners are resisting a move to cloud services because of confusion and uncertainty in the market.
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Rackspace API gives developers greater access to cloud platform
Rackspace Tuesday released an API allowing developers greater access to the company's cloud computing platform, and said that customers will be able to move workloads back and forth between the Amazon and Rackspace clouds.
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Cloud computing, security to drive US gov't IT spending
U.S. government IT spending is projected to grow to US$90 billion in 2014, up from $76 billion in 2009, with cloud computing and cybersecurity being high-growth areas, according to Input, an analysis and consulting firm focused on government contracting.
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Mobile app stores under threat from cloud
Apple's iPhone App Store is a huge success, with over 50,000 mobile applications available and more than a billion downloads.
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RSA's Coviello: Cloud computing not secure enough
Cloud-based services are being rolled out without enough attention being paid to securing these services and the information they handle. That was the finding of a recent study commissioned by RSA Security.
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Virtualization, cloud computing pose new challenges, opportunities
Three years ago, Carnegie Mellon University opened the Data Center Observatory – an answer to the ever-rising operational costs in IT. Administrative expenses were spiraling out of control because individual research groups within the university were running their own IT infrastructure, characterized by short periods of heavy use followed by many hours sitting idle and wasting energy.
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Cloud is Internet's next generation, HP executive says
"Cloud" has proliferated as the term for Internet-based computing resources because "everyone can draw one," according to Russ Daniels, the cloud services CTO at Hewlett-Packard, who just added CTO responsibilities at the company's Electronic Data Systems division.
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IBM embraces private cloud model within its own firewall
IBM’s aggressive push in the emerging private cloud market isn’t just for IBM customers – Big Blue is building several private cloud services within its own firewall, CIO Mark Hennessy says.
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Salesforce.com offering no-charge access to Force.com
Salesforce.com is hoping to drive more interest from corporate developers and ISVs in its Force.com development platform by offering limited, no-cost access, the on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor announced Monday.
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IBM goes beyond just slapping 'cloud' label on old products
After some fits and starts, IBM has re-tooled its cloud strategy and come up with a set of offerings that should make both the public and private cloud models more appealing to enterprises, analysts say.
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Watch out, Oracle: Google tests cloud-based database
Google has released an early version of a new type of database whose approach to data management will be revolutionary, according to an analyst who has studied the technology behind it.
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SMBs more interested in cloud than big businesses? Just a myth, Forrester says
Enterprises with at least 1,000 employees are more interested in cloud-based virtual servers than companies with fewer employees, Forrester Research says in a new report.
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HP targets the cloud with new hardware
HP has designed a new portfolio of hardware, software, and services, aimed at reducing costs and saving resource, particularly for businesses involved in Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing.
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Yahoo seeks Hadoop boost with release of internal version
To advance the adoption of the Hadoop technology for processing massive data sets, Yahoo will release a version of the software it has perfected to power many of its key sites and services.
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Greenplum spins 'Enterprise Data Cloud' vision
Data warehousing vendor Greenplum on Monday rolled out its "Enterprise Data Cloud" initiative, a long-term product and methodology strategy meant to further the idea of "self-service" data warehousing.
