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manek

SMBs adopt the cloud without security

Security has take another knock as a prime barrier to the adoption of cloud computing. A...

14 May, 2012 by manek
Jack Clark

Amazon broadens on-premise storage features

Amazon has given datacentre administrators greater control over its on-premise AWS Storage...

10 May, 2012 by Jack Clark
Tom Espiner

CERN Openlab to tackle cloud challenges

Openlab, a collaboration between CERN and five companies to develop technology to underpin the...

9 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Jack Clark

Google: Inertia blocks enterprise cloud adoption

The greatest issue that stops businesses from adopting cloud services is inertia, according to...

9 May, 2012 by Jack Clark
Tom Espiner

Dell plans Ubuntu laptop for developers

Dell is working on plans, known as 'Sputnik', to sell laptops running the Ubuntu open source...

8 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

IT security? You're doing it wrong!

Sometimes change is abrupt, sometimes it just sneaks up on you. For quite some time I've been...

5 May, 2012 by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
First Take

SkyDrive for Windows

Just before Google finally released Google Drive cloud storage and sync (see our First Take...

29 April, 2012 by First Take
First Take

Google Drive

Sync is the new black. Everyone and their dog now has a sync service as part of their platform:...

29 April, 2012 by First Take
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

What does Creative Cloud mean for desktop apps?

Adobe Creative Cloud is a way to pay for Photoshop and the rest of the Creative Suite in monthly...

24 April, 2012 by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
Rupert Goodwins

Google Drive launches with multiformat search

Google unveiled on Tuesday Google Drive, its online storage system. Allowing users to store any...

24 April, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins
Jack Clark

AWS: Enterprises slow to reap big data benefits

Small start-ups have taken a lead on enterprises in their adoption of big data, by embedding...

24 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Jack Clark

Ubuntu straddles clouds with AWSOME

Canonical has added a feature to the upcoming long-term support release of Ubuntu 12.04 that...

16 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
David Meyer

Microsoft updates IT pro certifications for the cloud

Microsoft has revamped its IT professional certification scheme to make it more fitting for the...

12 April, 2012 by David Meyer
David Meyer

Cisco and NetApp reveal entry-level FlexPod bundle

Cisco and NetApp are to bring out an entry-level version of their FlexPod datacentre platform,...

11 April, 2012 by David Meyer
manek

New backup platform mixes local and cloud

When you think of Quantum, you usually think of tape drives. But the company's been morphing into...

5 April, 2012 by manek

Latest in Cloud

EMC courts service providers with Atmos update

News The storage company has updated its private cloud storage software with extra administration features and has made it easier for developers to create applications on a variety of platforms Read more

21 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

Government rolls out CloudStore mark 2

News The second iteration of the government's cloud-based app store has gone live, bringing better functionality in the form of improved search and payment options Read more

21 May, 2012 by Staff

Google and Microsoft reportedly in race to launch IaaS

News Microsoft's push to get out an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud product looks likely to beat Google's, as both head to go up against Amazon's EC2, according to a report Read more

18 May, 2012 by Dara Kerr
How big data in the cloud can drive IT ops

How big data in the cloud can drive IT ops

Comment Exploiting big data is not just a resource for business users. It can also transform IT, says Lori MacVittie Read more

12 May, 2012 by Lori MacVittie

Citrix to deliver Windows desktops from the cloud

News Citrix's Project Avalon initiative will allow companies to deliver Windows apps and desktops from the cloud, as it made a slew of announcements around virtual desktops and cloud management at its customer conference in San Francisco Read more

10 May, 2012 by Steve Ranger

ElasticHosts unveils simple cloud web hosting for SMEs

News The London-based hosting company has introduced two services to its cloud for small businesses that want to provision servers or host simple websites, going up against Amazon with bundled support Read more

3 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

Red Hat makes OpenShift cloud platform open source

News By publishing the platform-as-a-service code as open source, Red Hat hopes to encourage community development of the young cloud platform, and has outlined ways the PaaS could be bolted on top of OpenStack to help this Read more

1 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

European cloud project plots OpenStack move

News The Optimis project has detailed the first version of its cloud software, and is now deciding whether to contribute its code to OpenStack or develop its own 'European' cloud software platform Read more

30 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Fujitsu: Cheap servers can't fit all cloud roles

Fujitsu: Cheap servers can't fit all cloud roles

Q&A Fujitsu chief technology officer Joseph Reger explains why we still need high-end hardware despite schemes such as Facebook's Open Compute Project pushing commodity servers in cloud datacentres. Read more

28 April, 2012 by Jack Clark 1 comment

Oracle: Enterprise cloud adoption could take 30 years

News It could be 30 years before major enterprises move the majority of their IT operations to the public cloud, thanks to a 'generational' mistrust of cloud security, according to a senior Oracle executive Read more

25 April, 2012 by Jack Clark 1 comment

AWS makes itself a home for penetration testing

News Penetration-testing companies can base their operations on the Amazon Web Services cloud, but they need to go through a verification process to get around its automated security measures, according to the cloud provider Read more

25 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Amazon adds '1-Click' software setup to its cloud

News The AWS Marketplace lets companies buy and provision software to EC2 servers with a single click, and also provides an app store-style place for software makers to sell their products to AWS customers Read more

20 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Joyent infrastructure cloud touches down in Europe

News The Joyent cloud is an infrastructure-as-a-service technology that competes with Amazon Web Services, hoping to get an edge by offering higher availability and the possibility to run its cloud inside private datacentres Read more

19 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Greenpeace slams Amazon over green datacentre efforts

News AWS and Apple have come bottom on Greenpeace's green datacentre scorecard over their meagre use of renewable energy, while Google, Yahoo and Facebook come in for praise Read more

18 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Rackspace wires OpenStack into its cloud

Rackspace wires OpenStack into its cloud

News The Next Generation Public Cloud products are based on the OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service, which has benefited from major code contributions from Rackspace Read more

16 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

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