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SAP lays out cloud strategy since acquiring SuccessFactors

SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) on Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.
Yahoo launches big data analytics tool Genome for online advertisers

Yahoo's Genome announcement comes just a few weeks after Google touted BigQuery, a service that lets enterprises upload and analyse massive amounts of data on Google's cloud infrastructure.
SAP certifies Business All-in-One for AWS

SAP has certified its Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the companies announced Friday.
Virtualise the rest of the data centre, VMware recommends at Interop

VMware have recommended organisations follow up server virutalisation and virtualise the rest of the data centre and - including the network.
HP launches second beta of IaaS cloud tools

HP launched a second beta of the cloud computing services it plans to offer commercially as the company prepares to enter the market for IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service).
HP CEO Meg Whitman pledges dramatic boost in R&D

HP?s CEO and president Meg Whitman has announced a commitment to boosting investment in research and development (R&D), declaring that innovation at the company was ?alive and well?. Whitman said that HP would be focusing on three areas ? what she referred to as ?three corporate bets? ? namely, cloud computing, security and information optimisation.
Arista partners with VMware, Big Switch, Nebula for SDNs

Data center switch vendor Arista Networks next week will demonstrate how to build a software-defined cloud network using its switches, and controllers from partners VMware, Big Switch and Nebula.
Microsoft Casablanca ties C++ to the cloud

Microsoft is making accommodations for C++ developers who want to take advantage of cloud computing with its "Casablanca" project.
Facebook open source data centre project gains strength

Facebook's year-old project to develop open source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum on yesterday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.
Software-defined networking to star at Interop

The potential game-changing technology that surrounds software-defined networking (SDN) will be center stage at Interop next week with high-profile product introductions, technology demos and information sessions all set to roll.

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From packet inspectors to WAN optimisers, network add-ons are all the rage

These days, it seems like a dozen new network "extras" - including traffic monitors, packet inspection technologies and management products, to name just a few - are launched every week, all advertising large-scale gains in performance, security and ease of use.
Cloud APIs ? Extending SOA and Web 2.0 architectures

Cloud APIs are emerging as a successful means of making cloud-based data centre resources and applications available to an array of web-connected devices in a flexible and cost-effective way.
SSDs driving IT improvements in storage, mobility and the cloud

If IT leaders listened every time a vendor claimed it started a revolution in business technology, their heads would never stop spinning. Nonetheless, steady improvements in some technologies should provoke a re-examination of the current state of affairs.
Can you rescue your data back from the cloud?

Outsourcing contracts typically include termination and transition assistance provisions that outline the IT service provider's responsibilities regarding returning data. IT buyers are surprised to find out that their cloud computing contracts contain no such provisions.
Understanding the risks of multi tenancy

Offering user companies, or tenants, access to shared databases, applications or operating systems, can optimise the use of these resources and minimise unnecessary capacity. But herein lies the problem. Offering multiple tenants access to the same database or application raises the possibility of them seeing, and using, each other?s data, either through accident or malice.
Securing your business in the cloud

Any IT professional who has heard ?send it to my Gmail? echo across the office will know how impossible it is to keep employees from using outside applications for work when those provided don?t quite meet their needs.
Network virtualisation and next generation network architecture

As IT leaders try to get the best performance and efficiency out of their virtualised environments, they're realising the need for virtual networking, and often a whole new networking architecture that's designed for virtualisation from the ground up.
Next-generation server virtualisation

Virtualisation has swept the enterprise and its success has driven new innovation in hardware, software and security practices, as IT organisations demand greater performance, manageability and security from their virtualised infrastructure.
OpenStack may be gaining support from IBM but Iaas is still making slow headway

When it comes to Infrastructure as a Service - renting on-demand compute, storage and network resources that live in a multi-tenant virtualised public cloud - midsized businesses are jumping in with both feet. But large enterprises with their own well-established data centres are still dipping their toes in the water.
The 10 most powerful IaaS companies in the world

We assembled this list with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC and Neovise who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. The services in this list include Amazon Web Services, Bluelock, CSC, GoGrid, IBM, OpenStack, Backspace, Savvis, Terremark and VMWare.

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