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Is there hope for unified comms?
Comment And, of course, with UC being so connectivity and community-centric, it is an inherently natural application to deploy via the cloud computing approach. Despite cloud-based delivery... [22 Jun 2009]
BT virtually moves to the cloud
News BT is about to formally launch a virtualised infrastructure service called BT Virtual Data Centre, which will form the basis of its cloud-computing strategy. VDC is the basis of our... [19 Jun 2009]
G-Cloud in the sky: The future home for gov't apps
News Communications minister Lord Carter has said that "substantial savings" can be made in public spending by building a government-wide cloud computing platform. In the government's Digital Britain report... [17 Jun 2009]
Testing times for the cloud: IBM gets involved
News IBM is ramping up its cloud computing activities with a push into services to help businesses develop and test their own clouds. David Mitchell, senior vice president of IT research at consulting firm... [17 Jun 2009]
Let's talk money: Microsoft ready to lift the lid on Azure
News The software maker unveiled the cloud-based operating system at a developer conference last year. However, Watson said the company is also looking at ways that partners can host cloud-based products. The... [16 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.06.09
Round-Up Word number 999,996 was 'cloud computing', if you were wondering. 'Web 2.0' has become the one millionth word to be 'accepted' into the English language. That's according to the Global Language Monitor,... [12 Jun 2009]
Ray Ozzie: 'Cloud won't make us as much dosh'
News Microsoft's chief software architect said on Thursday the profit margins on providing online services - broadly known as cloud computing - would likely yield a lower profit margin than the company's... [05 Jun 2009]
The netbook rivals on Freescale's drawing board
Photo Here's how Freescale sums up smartbooks: "Sporting larger screens than traditional smartphone devices, smartbooks are cloud-computing-centric and characterised by all-day battery life, instant-on... [03 Jun 2009]
Cheat sheet: Windows Azure
Cheat Sheet More a bluey-purple I'd say… oh, and a cloud-based computing platform Microsoft announced in October 2008. So what else is Microsoft doing with this Azure cloud... [02 Jun 2009]
Psst… Want to get your outsourcing project signed off?
News The report adds that ERP and cloud computing are among the IT outsourcing projects with relatively quick ROI. By 2018, Black Book believes that most medium-sized businesses and a few large enterprises... [29 May 2009]
Google Apps feels the Force.com
News Salesforce.com has introduced a new version of Force.com that improves the cloud-computing platform's integration with Google App Engine. The launch follows on from an initial version of Force.com for... [28 May 2009]
'IT is the central nervous system of the company'
Comment In that area we have been very aggressive with virtualisation capabilities - it's a cloud computing model that's quite sophisticated that supports the design community. I actually think that in time,... [26 May 2009]
'Biz in time will learn to trust the cloud'
News In the next year or two I believe that the biggest impact of cloud computing is going to be in things like Exchange and SharePoint for us or those comparable offerings from our competitors," Ozzie said. [21 May 2009]
Think you're not ready for the cloud?
Comment Your business may already be getting to grips with the fundamental practices needed to bring cloud computing to life, says Freeform Dynamics' Martin Atherton. Whatever your opinion of... [21 May 2009]
Amazon's cloud gives users more control
News Amazon's cloud-computing arm has added new features to its services, to help users monitor cloud resources, adjust capacity and balance traffic loads. For the past three years, AWS has... [18 May 2009]
