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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 probably difficult to foresee the shift spawned by advancements in cloud computing. Many organizations have opted to emb...

• 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 customers can move around at will. The move will likely generate new competitors for the Rackspace Cloud. One small provider...

• 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 providers. The effort aims to overcome one of the largest obstacles to broad adoption of cloud computing—complex and expens...

• 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 potentially interested parties. Are they real or a myth? The public cloud is more and more a fact of life. Indeed, public c...

• 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. Cloud computing allows companies to use services, softwares and applications on a pay-per-use model without actually owning an...

• 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 legal battle comes as Microsoft strives to adapt to a trend toward programs being offered as services in the internet "cloud...

• 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 company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter a...

• 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 malware, as some of the commentary at the time seemed to imply. My quest at the time led to an interview during London’s I...

• 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 would like to guest blog for us, use our contact form and send us your submission*** By many accounts, cloud computing has...

• 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/GM of Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform. Cloud computing is expanding at rates and directions barely imaginable...

• 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 Microsoft's data centers, rather than in a company's server. Giving customers this sort of flexibility in IT and software ...

• 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 also get a higher 5 GB ceiling, starting June 28. The business edition will be billed at 10 GB increments, and the Web edition...

• 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 like to guest blog for us, use our contact form and send us your submission*** I think that, by this point, most of th...

• 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, we’re in for a bumpy ride. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project recently conducted the f...

• 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 announced its support for Google Cloud Print at an event in New York City, where the printer maker unveiled a suite of clo...

• 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 I’m more interested in some of the more subtle clues I’ve been picking up about the Softies’ future cloud strategies and...

• 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 companies on new designs for servers meant specifically for cloud computing, the growing trend towards decentralized, virtualized...

• 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. Deep-pocketed technology firms like IBM (IBM.N) or Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) might be looking to snag deals in this area to com...

• 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 the largest data center conference in Russia, and attracts a mix of internal data center facilities executives as well as ho...

• 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 begins consolidating data centers and creating compute clouds in select data centers. A memo announcing the moratorium was...

• 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 statement Tuesday. HP said it will invest $1 billion to create fully automated commercial data centers and expand its enterprise...

• 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 announced pricing plans for this functionality. The Azure CDN extends the storage piece of the Windows Azure cloud operating ...

• 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, president of Microsoft's Business Division. He considers cloud offerings a good extension of the desktop software that Mic...