cloud computing
Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud
News Speaking on stage at Dreamforce, CA CEO John Swainson described cloud computing as "the most profound change I've seen in 33 years". The IT service desk software maker is planning to bring its Service... [20 Nov 2009]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News RMG is also embracing cloud computing, switching to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite to provide hosted email, calendar, collaboration and meeting services. How does a business pay less for... [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo Both, according to Gilbert: "If you start to think about cloud computing, you marry that with an app store in a large form factor you've actually got a great utility device, as well as a great consumer... [20 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Could some of the big names in outsourcing be among the victims of the much-hyped shift to cloud computing? However Carr said following the shift to cloud computing -... [19 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment His involvement with open source continues too: he's a board member at Mozilla Messaging as well as cloud computing management company and open source supporter RightScale. So this is a way for me to... [19 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
Salesforce.com is a high-profile proponent of the idea of web-based services, broadly called cloud computing. Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter... [19 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment With the advent and popularity of cloud computing, software as a service such as Salesforce.com applications, managed datacentres and other services with ongoing costs, the impact to the expense side of... [19 Nov 2009]
Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News Microsoft's cloud-based computing platform Azure has been given an official launch date. Azure will be made commercially available from 1 January, Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie,... [18 Nov 2009]
Cloud Computing: Save Time, Money, and Resources
White Paper This IBM® Redbook® explains how a private test cloud can help you organize and streamline your test environment, allowing for a quick turnaround of resource requestslowering overall costs. Testing your applications... [16 Nov 2009]
Webinar: Securing the Cloud Dec 10th, 2pm ET / 11am PT
White Paper Cloud computing promises to provide vast computing power, reliable off-site data storage, wide availability, all at lower maintenance and investment costs. But recent... [16 Nov 2009]
Clear Skies Ahead: Cloud Computing and In-the-Cloud Security
White Paper The difference between cloud computing and in-the-cloud security should be clear. It will be a couple of years before cloud computing really takes off... [13 Nov 2009]
Protecting Dynamic Data Centers From Latest Threats
White Paper Third Brigade Deep Security is comprehensive server and application protection software that unifies security across virtual, cloud computing and traditional datacenter environments. It helps... [13 Nov 2009]
Cloud Computing Challenges and Related Security Issues
White Paper The field of cloud computing is still in its infancy as far as implementation and usage, partly because it is heavily promoted by technology advancement and is so high resource dependent that researches... [12 Nov 2009]
Cloud Computing Security: Making Virtual Machines Cloud-Ready
White Paper This paper identifies security concerns arising in cloud computing environments and outlines methods to maintain compliance integrity and preserve security protection as virtual resources move from... [12 Nov 2009]
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration for Cloud Computing
White Paper This paper studies the SLA process, with focus on the Cloud computing as the basis to explain the concepts. The paper will also look into a case study from Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud... [12 Nov 2009]