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Encryption comes to the cloud…
Trend Micro is blazing a new trail with a service called SecureCloud intended to give enterprises a way to encrypt data in cloud-computing environments. SecureCloud allows you to maintain control over the encryption key used to secure data stored in the Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus or VMware vCloud...
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Microsoft delivers on-premises private-cloud building functionality
When it comes to building private clouds, Microsoft is planning to offer customers two ways to go: One using its Windows Azure cloud operating system on forthcoming pre-configured Windows Azure Appliances; and one assembled of various on-premises components atop Windows Server. On August 15, Micr...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Can Cloud Computing help improve security
Cloud computing adds security challenges, but also provides opportunities to improve security posture, according to Steve Lipner, senior director of security engineering strategy at Microsoft. In addition to traditional threats such as cross-site scripting, code injection and denial of service, c...
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Five cloud computing startups to watch out for
The May BizSpark event in Paris, Microsoft and technology venture capitalists had the chance to assess the upcoming wares from Europe’s brightest young hopefuls in the software development world. With cloud computing dominating the IT news headlines, surveys and analysts’ attentions, the bulk...
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BMC Software releases Cloud-Building Tool Kit
Data center management software provider BMC Software, an original partner of Cisco Systems in the Unified Computing System initiative launched in 2009, has come out with its own cloud computing management package for large enterprises. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, introduced on May 25, is des...
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Google prepares the Government Cloud
Google has submitted final materials to get its cloud computing services certified for use by federal agencies, and is nearing release of its government-specific cloud, a top Google executive said Wednesday. While Google Enterprise president Dave Girouard admitted in an interview after his keynot...
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Makes perfect sense – WordPress and Windows Azure integration
A free and open source plugin developed by Microsoft is the latest example of PHP and Windows Azure interoperability to come from the company, after various other offerings, including a PHP software development kit for the Cloud platform. By leveraging the plugin, customers running WordPress will...
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What is a private cloud?
Despite popular belief, so-called "cloud computing" does not always involve putting your systems out on the open Internet for the world to see. In fact, the "private cloud" is gaining more and more traction as cloud computing matures. What is a private cloud? First, let's talk about cloud computi...
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Calculating the cost of cloud computing
Figuring out the real cost of IT and the projected return on those investments has never been very easy. And with the rise of cloud computing services where pricing can change on a daily basis, it's only going to get more difficult. To help address this issue, Digital Fuel, a provider of applicat...
