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Who owns the cloud business inside Microsoft?
To understand Microsoft's cloud software strategy, look not just to what the software maker plans to deliver, but how.
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Telstra revamps Windows Mobile, eyes cloud UC
Telstra and Microsoft have announced a partnership to bring hosted mobile application and unified communication services to small businesses, including its own souped-up version of Windows Mobile developed locally.
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Ozzie points to slimmer future for Windows client
Microsoft is putting the Windows client OS on a diet as a way to bring the PC OS into the age of cloud computing.
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ParaScale pushes private storage clouds
Cloud storage startup ParaScale is targeting enterprises, as well as service providers, with new software that it claims can turn a group of heterogeneous servers and storage arrays into a redundant and self-healing private cloud of storage.
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IDC: Economic crisis to bolster cloud computing
The current economic crisis in the U.S. may have a silver lining for IT companies that invest in cloud computing, as it will contribute to significant growth in that sector over the next five years, according to research firm IDC.
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eBay may offer BI-as-a-service to companies
eBay, which runs a gigantic data warehouse for internal business intelligence (BI) analytics, is considering taking it outside its firewall and offering it as a Web service to interested companies.
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Cloud vendors forecast rapid adoption
Remotely accessible cloud storage isn't appropriate for all data types, but it's poised to attract a large amount of IT spending over the next few years.
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Cloud computing pondered at eBay event
Officials from companies such as HP and Joyent debated the merits and even the definition of cloud computing Monday during an event at eBay headquarters, emphasizing efforts underway and noting limitations to cloud computing on the software side.
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Cloud computing hype spurs confusion
Competing definitions of the much-hyped concept of cloud computing are creating confusion in the IT industry, the analyst firm Gartner said in advance of its annual Symposium/ITxpo next month.
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IBM launches four new cloud computing centers
IBM opened up cloud computing centers in four countries on Wednesday to let enterprises, universities and governments test Web-based services and applications.
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Citrix looks for virtual channel evolution
Citrix will look to overhaul its local channel program early next year as part of ongoing efforts to take its virtualisation infrastructure to the market.
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Oracle puts its 11g database in Amazon's cloud
Oracle is now offering its 11g database, Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Manager products through Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the vendor announced Monday at the start of its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
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Security challenges cloud virtualization payoff
Virtualization and cloud computing will help companies accomplish more by breaking the physical bonds of an IT infrastructure and its users, executives from Cisco and Novell proclaimed this week during their keynote addresses at Interop New York. But caveats such as heightened security threats must be overcome in order to fully benefit from this new computing paradigm, they warned.
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Cloud computing may draw government action
Cloud computing will soon become an area of hot debate in Washington, D.C., with policy makers debating issues such as the privacy and security of data in the cloud, a panel of tech experts said Friday.
