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RSS computingSalesforce.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". BMC Software and CA have both teamed up with Salesforce.com to produce applications... [20 Nov 2009]
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Trinity Mirror, publisher of The Daily Mirror and The Daily Record, has been using virtualisation for nearly two years as part of a process to consolidate computing infrastructure from multiple server rooms across its... [20 Nov 2009]
Google sheds light on netbook plans for Chrome OS
News The OS is aimed at netbook users and is designed for fast, lightweight computing. Google has taken the wraps off its Chrome OS for the first time. At an event held at its Mountain View HQ on Thursday, Google vice... [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 its IT services... [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 device," he said. [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 - which he believes is as inevitable... [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 renew my... [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 for its customers'... [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 IT is increasing... [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, announced yesterday at... [18 Nov 2009]
Cloud Computing: Save Time, Money, and Resources
White Paper Testing your applications before they launch is essential, but so is the right environment. This IBM® Redbook® explains how a private test cloud can help you organize and streamline your test environment, allowing for a quick... [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 cloud computing... [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 as companies will have to get used to the idea of... [13 Nov 2009]
Increasing Security and Productivity in Server-Based Computing With Desktop Authority
White Paper Many IT organizations choose to utilize either Microsoft Terminal Services or Citrix Presentation Server to increase the availability of applications throughout an enterprise. Deploying applications through Microsoft Terminal Services or... [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 organizations to prevent... [13 Nov 2009]
