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  • SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps

    Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio.

  • IDC: Cloud, mobility exposing limitations of existing networks

    The combination of highly virtualised environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations of existing networks.

  • London Gatwick Airport takes out 200 servers, moves to cloud, BYOD

    Cloud computing and a "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy aren't technology approaches typically associated with running an airport's information-technology operations. But London Gatwick, the U.K.'s second largest airport, is pushing heavily into both.

  • BMC set to go private in $6.9 billion deal

    BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about US$6.9 billion.

  • How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

    Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

  • G-Cloud director label?s EU cloud plans as ?old world thinking?

    The director of the government?s G-Cloud, Denise McDonagh, has questioned the European Commission?s Cloud Computing Strategy, labelling the approach as ?old world thinking?.

  • Cloud SLAs 'fall short,' says user advocacy group

    Service level agreements in the cloud computing market are skewed in the favor of providers, can be difficult for customers to decipher and in some cases are rigid and non-negotiable. Those are some of the findings from the Cloud Standards Customer Council, a user advocacy group that recently reviewed SLAs from some of the industry?s largest providers.

  • Four in five technologies fail to cross the 'Valley of Death'

    More than four out of five technologies developed globally never make it to the commercial world, due to their inability to cross the ?Valley of Death? ? the virtual chasm that separates applied research from technology demonstration ? according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.

  • VMware sells WaveMaker assets to Pramati

    A little more than two years after purchasing Java tool vendor WaveMaker, VMware has sold the assets of the company to the Pramati software engineering firm.

  • EFF: Trust Twitter - but not Apple or Verizon - to protect your privacy

    Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.

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  • Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance

    Before turning to the world of cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble. This was perhaps most true at the car dealer, where the quality of new cars was so random that buyers began to demand to know the day a car rolled off the assembly line.

  • Novell CEO plots company's return

    Two decades ago, Novell's network operating system software was almost ubiquitous in the enterprise. Now, its current president wants to restore Novell to a similar level of prominence.

  • OpenStack cloud backers hope 2013 is the year of user adoption

    In the cloud computing market, there are a handful of major vendors. Most agree Amazon Web Services is a market leader on the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) side, but Microsoft, Google and younger companies like Joyent are looking to dethrone AWS. And then there's OpenStack, which is for almost everyone else.

  • Red Hat: Most companies are still not cloud-ready

    Most companies are still not very cloud-ready, and need to work on virtualising and automating their processes before pursuing a cloud strategy in earnest.

  • OpenStack - Why democracy beats dictatorship in the cloud

    It is two and a half years since Rackspace and NASA launched the OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing project, and since then the community has grown from 20 developers and 15,000 lines of software to 600 developers and 600,000 lines of software.

  • The clouds that can modernise business processes

    Cloud computing is destined to deliver hefty benefits to businesses, but it?s not always clear what the term means. In the years since it was coined, its usage has come to encompass a number of differing models; all of them can deliver improvements to business processes.

  • Don't let Foggers cloud user opportunities

    History is full of beautiful lessons and although we are involved in forging a new world driven home by pin sharp technology and data, our national past has case studies we should ponder upon. Consumer technology and bring your own device (BYOD) policies are at the sharp end of CIO debate at present. At the heart of the BYOD debate is whether organisations will benefit from being released from procuring and possibly supporting a hardware estate.

  • Where is mobility and consumerisation of IT heading in 2013?

    Analysts predict that cloud computing will play a larger role in mobility and consumerisation of IT, Windows Phone and Android tablet sales will grow and there will more hot-desking in large organisations in 2013.

  • Scale Computing CTO: Big Data demands scale-out storage

    The only reason that scale-up storage is still so predominant in the enterprise is because most business applications were built to run on scale-up architecture, but as demand grows for big data applications, enterprises will increasingly be looking to adopt a scale-out model.

  • Power efficiency a growing concern in the data centre and for end users

    If a September report in the New York Times is to be believed, worldwide data centres use up 30 billion watts of electricity - or the same as 30 nuclear power stations - in "an incongruously wasteful manner".

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