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Google, IBM named top cloud tech providers
Survey of developers also finds concern over backward compatibility and government restrictions in cloud deployments.
Read more..Cloud computing: Two kinds of agility
The problem with delivering compute resources to engineers more quickly is it is a local optimization - it makes a portion of internal IT processes more agile, but doesn't necessarily shorten the overall application supply chain, which stretches from initial prototype to production rollout.
Read more..Top Cloud Computing security risk: One company gets burned
Virtualization and cloud computing haven't eroded the online security of most companies, analysts say. But they may be contributing to situations in which IT-service customers leave themselves vulnerable to attack because they assume their cloud provider is taking care of security.
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Amazon and IBM are the 'cloud champions,' report says
Amazon and IBM are the "cloud champions" according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field.
Read more..Metastorm brings Azure based workflow modeling to the cloud
The service can be used to model a variety of different enterprise concerns, such as goals, systems, workflows, rules and projects. The service provides 23 modeling objects from which models can be built.
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Amazon introduces cluster computing for HPC apps
Amazon Web Services says its latest cluster computing service, which it announced Tuesday, can provide the same results as custom-built infrastructures for high-performance applications at organizations that don't want to build their own.
Read more..Amazon cloud perfect for building start-ups, says John Brown, Deloitte
Brown said he's puzzled by start-ups that take in large sums of money from angel investors, in the process giving away a large portion of their future value, and then spend that initial cash on an IT infrastructure that will be obsolete in five years.
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IDC: SaaS momentum skyrocketing
Revenues will grow from $13.1 billion in 2009 to more than $40 billion in 2014.
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IT Budgets Pointing to the Cloud Expansion
IT shops are in search of variable infrastructure pricing, which will take them to the cloud.
Read more..Businesses not sold on using public cloud for capacity
Most IT executives are still unconvinced about tapping into a public cloud when they surpass their own infrastructure's capacity, a survey has found.
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Cloud security strategies: Where does IDS fit in?
IDS is an old security technology, but does it still have a place in cloud security strategies? Here are four perspectives
Read more..Verizon creates medical information exchange cloud
Verizon announced on Wednesday a new cloud-based service offering for healthcare providers that will handle the sharing of patient information electronically between disparate platforms.
Read more..Build a private Azure cloud with new Microsoft appliance
Microsoft is bringing its Azure cloud to the local data center with the introduction of the Windows Azure Platform appliance.
Read more..Compliance under a Cloud
There's no doubt that cloud computing is dominating today's IT conversation among C-level security executives. Whether they're lured by its compelling cost savings or its perceived advantages, security leaders are probing the capabilities and restrictions of the cloud.
Read more..ISPs could cut spam easily, says expert
Two simple techniques could be used to strangle botnets, a security expert has claimed. First, block email port 25 by default. Second, tell users when they are spewing spam from compromised PCs.
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IT Departments Move Low-Risk Services to the Cloud
IT departments continue to proceed with caution when it comes to cloud computing, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by TPI.
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Five cloud storage services compared
Cloud-based syncing services usually use a virtual drive that exists on your desktop in some manner, and it is linked directly to your online storage space. The contents of this virtual hard drive remain in sync across all of the desktops, notebooks and mobile devices on which you have installed the client software.
Read more..Disaster recovery in the cloud yields ROI
The promise of cost savings derived from cloud computing is attractive, but concrete financial returns are not always quickly achieved. Except, perhaps, when it comes to disaster recovery.
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Will security worries propel DNS into the cloud?
Security on the Internet's Domain Name System will be tightened today, with the addition of digital signatures and public-key encryption to the root zone. But will the deployment of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) prompt more enterprises to outsource their DNS operations?
Read more..Cloud Computing will cause three IT revolutions
Every revolution results in winners and losers -- after the dust settles. This is true in technology as in every other domain. When it comes to cloud computing, we should expect to see the same dynamic play out. Over the next two to five years, expect to see enormous conflict about the technical pros and cons of cloud computing and whether cloud computing represents a benefit to be embraced or a threat to be resisted.
Read more..Big guns for hire: Supercomputing-in-the-cloud
Some companies are slashing costs and improving production by using on-demand high-performance computing services.
Read more..Microsoft releases Azure cloud platform appliance
With the help of hardware partners, Microsoft has released a version of its Windows Azure cloud platform as an appliance, the company said during the kickoff of its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) being held this week in Washington D.C.
Read more..Cloud Computing: Today's four favorite flavors, explained
Cloud computing is famous for being a metaphor instead of a technology, but that metaphor is increasingly hard for non-techies to understand. Many variations of cloud have emerged that have little to do with the initial vision that sparked interest-- a public cloud with burst-up capability on demand.
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The Data You Don't Even Know You Have
Let's assume for a moment that Google's collection of Wi-Fi "payload" data really was unintentional. And that Google never used the data, didn't even know it was there and stored it securely. Is it actually a privacy leak if no one has looked at the private data?
Chief General Manager - IT, Sales and Dispatch Division, Maruti SuzukiBenefits of the extended enterprise
By its very nature, business especially the auto industry cannot work in isolation. Rajesh Uppal shows the benefits of bringing suppliers and dealers on the same page as one's organization.
CIO and Head-Delivery Global Transformation Practice, WNS Global ServicesERP: Recipe for Success
It took one ERP implementation and a series of crises for Sanjay Jain to realize the secrets of project success.
CIO and Chief of Corporate Strategy, Asian PaintsOf Data Classification and Integrity
You can get data classification right, but still end up with wrong information or data that’s not in the form your business users want. And then you would not have done a great job.
Divisional VP-IS, UB GroupWork - Life Balance. Finding Equilibrium
Work-life balance doesn’t have to be a tightrope walk, as the CIO of the world’s third-largest spirit’s company tells you. Work with a merged calendar, he says. "It helps me ensure that no clashes — like birthdays — take place".