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Case Study

How iStream Took the Infrastructure Risk out of the Equation with the Cloud

iStream's co-founder and CTO, Chellappa Dhanukodi took on the challenge of getting iStream off to a great start by opting for Amazon’s cloud service. The Indian company is now confident of providing users with seamless and highly available video streaming capabilities.

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Feature

Squeezing Savings From the Cloud

Calculating the real ROI of cloud apps requires the analysis of a lot of factors, and cutting corners on that process means you might not save money.

The Public Cloud Arrives in the Indian Enterprise

IT and the public cloud never got along. But this year, the public cloud is building new credibility and forcing IT to love it back.

Legal Concerns Curb Corporate Cloud Adoption

Inside the enterprise, the biggest obstacle to cloud computing is often the company's own corporate counsel. Here's how IT is getting to yes with legal.

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How-To

Free Amazon Web Services -and How to Make the Most of Them

If you avoid some gotchas and keep a close eye on resource usage, you can have a handy server in the Amazon cloud for free.

Choosing An IaaS Provider

Move over, Amazon: Google, HP, and Microsoft, and others want a seat at the table. How do you choose among all those IaaS providers? Start with this quick primer.

How IT Leaders Can Negotiate a SaaS Partner Contract

All companies great and small will eventually work with a SaaS provider. In most cases, the standard contract should suffice, but CIOs will never know what they can add (or subtract) if they don't ask.

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Interview

Data Security is Still Paramount to Everybody: CIO of Drakes Supermarkets

Keeping IT one step ahead of expansion plans at independent grocery chain Drakes Supermarkets is CIO Rod Koza's remit for 2013.

Mobility, BYOD, and Collaboration will Drive SaaS Adoption in India: Zoho

Raju Vegesna, chief evangelist for Zoho, speaks about the SaaS market in India, the factors contributing to the increase in SaaS adoption, and how mobility and BYOD are changing the game.

IT Outsourcing: Will CIOs Reclaim Their Power?

Independent cloud-based IT service management tools could enable CIOs to wrestle back control of IT once and for all, argues A.T. Kearney's Arjun Sethi.

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Video

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 : CEO Larry Ellison Talks about Oracle's Private Cloud

Ellison explains why Oracle will begin offering infrastructure as a service and also a private version of the same thing that Oracle can run for companies.

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News

Will VMware New Cloud Strategy Shake Up the Cloud Market This Week

This week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public cloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid cloud strategy.

Dell Dumps OpenStack and VMware for Public Cloud, Focuses on Private Clouds

Dell has cancelled it's plans to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and will focus on selling OpenStack-powered private clouds that run on Dell hardware and software.

Know Who is the Noisy Neighbors in Your Cloud

As data-transfer shifts increasingly to the cloud, the servers stacked in datacenters handling the data become increasingly crowded. Virtualization means multiple users can share a single server.

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Opinion

In the Year of the Cloud

Over the past few years, cloud computing has matured from being an ‘emerging’ trend to a necessary technology. Be it increasing efficiency or saving costs or improving productivity, the cloud can help different organizations in different ways. Here are some best practices organizations need to follow in order to get the best out of the technology.