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• The Benefits of Cloud-Based Anti-Spam Solutions

  The architects of the Internet envisioned it as a medium to disseminate information. Data was accessed and often stored on hard disk for later retrieval. At the time, it was ...

• Rackspace Announces new Open Source Cloud Platform

  Rackspace is sponsoring an open source cloud computing project, OpenStack, and contributing its own code to it in order to generate more uniform cloud environments in which cust...

• Big Blue will work with governments and academia on “fundamentally new notion” of an interoperation hub.

  IBM said it plans to collaborate with European researchers to develop a computing architecture that will allow businesses to more easily blend cloud services from multiple provi...

• What’s a Hybrid Cloud

  Hybrid clouds are the Big Foot of cloud computing: tantalizing but difficult to conceive of and frustratingly elusive to the point of arousing deep skepticism on the part of pot...

• Deloitte says Security an area of concern in cloud computing

  Even as an increasing number of Indian firms look at embracing cloud computing, data security continues to remain a primary concern for them, said research firm Deloitte. Clo...

• Microsoft vs. Salesforce the court case

  Packaged software king Microsoft and cloud computing prince Salesforce.com are duelling in US courts, with each accusing the other of violating its patented technology. The l...

• Salesforce’s Chatter for the enterprise

  Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The co...

• malware in the cloud

  Having been one of the many victims of McAfee.com’s ‘false-positive’ problem back in April, I’ve been wondering whether there’s a better way of protecting against malw...

• Guest Post: Measuring the Adoption of Cloud Computing

  ***This is a guest blog post by David Kelleher on behalf of GFI Software. The views in this post do not necessarily reflect the opinions of CloudComputingZone.com. If you are wo...

• How Cloud Computing Is Challenging CIOs

  CIOs must adapt quickly to cloud technologies that lead toward collaboration, say keynote speakers J. P. Rangaswami, CIO and chief scientist at BT Design, and Murali Sitaram, VP...

• Why Microsoft Windows Azure is a threat to Google

  By Charlotte Dunlap Microsoft's new features announced last week to its cloud computing platform, Azure, gives developers the option to build applications in the cloud via Mi...

• Microsoft adjusts SQL Azure pricing

  From Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is raising the storage ceiling for SQL Azure to 50 GB (for the Business Edition of its SQL Azure service), as of June 28. The Web edition als...

• Guest Blog: The Cloud Understands Geography

  ***This is a guest blog post from Patrick Jobin of Storagepipe.com. The views in this post do not necessarily reflect the opinions of CloudComputingZone.com. If you are would li...

• Smartphones are the Cloud’s Secret Ingredient

  A new survey reveals that many experts feel that cloud computing and smartphones go together like vodka and Red Bull. What does that mean for IT managers? Fasten your seat belts...

• Google testing cloud printing internally

  Google is testing its Google Cloud Print service internally and hopes to make it available in the coming months after testing it with printer makers, the company said June 7. HP...

• Microsoft: Enterprise customer growth accelerates private cloud strategy

  From Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is making a number of announcements around tools and database tweaks for its Azure cloud platform at this week’s TechEd conference. But Iâ€...

• Microsoft Cloud Computing Center opens in Taiwan

  Microsoft opened a joint cloud computing center with Taiwan's economics ministry on Thursday at the Computex electronics show, and announced a plan to work with two local compan...

• cloud computing firms in M&A spotlight

  Cloud computing, or software as a service, allows businesses to cut back on hardware and space by having their software hosted in remote datacenters they access over the Web. ...

• Cloud Computing in Moscow

  I had the privilege of keynoting a data center conference in Moscow this week, speaking on the topic of what cloud computing means to the data center of the future. This is t...

• Army Outlines Cloud Computing Strategy

  The CIO of the Army has imposed a moratorium on server purchases across Army operations. The move is aimed at stopping the proliferation of single-purpose servers as the Army be...

• HP to invest $1 billion in cloud computing and cut 9,000 jobs

  The world's biggest PC manufacturer Hewlett-Packard will cut 9,000 jobs and invest $1 billion to develop the next generation of cloud computing services, according to a statemen...

• Microsoft reveals CDN pricing for Azure

  In November 2009, Microsoft announced its intentions to add a content-delivery network (CDN) capability to its Windows Azure cloud offering. At the end of May, the company annou...

• Cloud vs OpenXML: Microsoft has a preference

  Microsoft will base support for the final OpenXML standard on customer demand. The market leader at this point prefers to move its clients to cloud computing, said Stephen Elop,...