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Lightning takes down Amazon cloud
News Online book seller and cloud-computing provider Amazon.com has blamed the latest outage to hit its Elastic Compute Cloud service on a lightning strike at one of its datacentres. A series of outages that have hit other online or cloud computing...
[June 11, 2009, 16:31]
Salesforce lets resellers package up its cloud
News Salesforce.com is opening its Force.com cloud platform to all third-party channel resellers, from the local one-man IT shop to big systems integrators. Salesforce executives said that many small-business owners are still leery of the cloud, but do...
[August 27, 2009, 15:45]
Security fears over London's blanket Wi-Fi
News The system will be constructed by The Cloud, and should give most of The City's workers always-on wireless access within six months. The Cloud hit back at McAfee's claims on Wednesday afternoon, insisting that its network would be as secure as...
[February 22, 2006, 13:15]
AT&T launches on-demand cloud storage
News Synaptic Storage will offer users the opportunity to have secure, dedicated optical or VPN connections to the cloud, said Roman Pacewicz, executive vice president for application services with AT&T. With cloud, it should be a case of just ringing...
[May 18, 2009, 16:54]
Microsoft promises Azure business plan in July
News The software maker unveiled the cloud-based operating system at a developer conference last year. However, Watson said the company is also looking at ways that partners can host cloud-based solutions.
[June 16, 2009, 8:36]
Government five-year IT plan points to cloud, Web 2.0
News A draft strategy paper from the Cabinet Office has pointed to Web 2.0, cloud computing and service-oriented architecture as areas for exploitation over the next five years. Web 2.0 will provide the basis to improve public sector interaction with...
[December 1, 2009, 7:41]
Microsoft's Ozzie touts cloud-computing potential
News Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie is a big believer in the cloud, but he knows that large businesses don't yet share his confidence. Enterprises will not really trust the cloud until they get some experience with it," Ozzie said...
[May 21, 2009, 11:35]
ParaScale builds storage clouds from Linux clusters
News ParaScale, a start-up in developing cloud storage solutions, announced on Monday the availability of its ParaScale Cloud Storage software. Business users can start with several terabytes and later scale the cloud capacity and performance by adding...
[March 30, 2009, 14:24]
HP's Hurd concerned about cloud security
News At the Gartner Symposium in Florida on Tuesday, HP chief executive Mark Hurd said cloud computing has promise but that he and customers he speaks to are leery of moving important applications to another company's infrastructure outside the company...
[October 21, 2009, 11:03]
'Open Cloud Manifesto' calls for co-operation
News The Open Cloud Manifesto, a list of principles for open cloud computing, was released on Monday with the backing of major technology providers, but with some notable omissions. The document talks about a couple of key concepts, including the...
[March 31, 2009, 7:56]
Digital Britain recommends 'G Cloud' for gov't IT
News The newly published Digital Britain report has advocated that more government IT applications be moved to cloud computing. In its chapter eight section on procurement, the report says that cloud computing — in which a third party takes...
[June 17, 2009, 8:37]
Juniper pieces together new network push
News The company's Cloud-Ready Data Center initiative includes five modules of guidelines aimed at securing traffic inside and outside the cloud-ready datacentre. Juniper Networks has launched a raft of new software, processors and cloud networking...
[October 29, 2009, 16:25]
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
Blog Cloud computing is big news -- for all the right and all the wrong reasons. Passing through a transition to Software as a Service, the web based software offerings from Citrix, Google and Salesforce.com now often get referred to as "cloud computing".
[August 20, 2008, 9:45]
Industry backs Ofcom call for Wi-Fi boost
News Wireless broadband provider The Cloud has backed a proposal from Ofcom to allow higher-powered Wi-Fi transmitters in the UK. Niall Murphy, co-founder of The Cloud, told ZDNet UK that the regulator's plan means rural areas would have a better chance...
[July 28, 2006, 11:40]
Bigger is better, biggest is bestest
Talkback I love the implicit assumption that this whole cloud idea is a good plan. How about the approach of pushing the storage and data serving functions out to the home and business, making the whole system more resilient and proof against failures in...
[July 10, 2009, 15:08]
Coulds gathering over Europe, but the outlook's gloomy
Talkback It should come as no surprise that Europe is not able to match the US in development of cloud services. There is plenty of innovation in cross border services for cloud computing from true European independents like Interoute and COLT, but the EU...
[July 10, 2009, 18:04]
Intel, HP, Yahoo create cloud-computing labs
News HP, Intel and Yahoo, in conjunction with academic and other institutions around the world, have announced the creation of a global, experimental environment for cloud computing. The Cloud Computing Test Bed will initially comprise of six 'Centers...
[July 29, 2008, 17:53]
Canary Wharf gets the Wi-Fi treatment
News The Cloud, which is rolling out public-access wireless networks across the UK, announced on Monday that it is deploying a Wi-Fi network across the estate which is home to companies such as HSBC, Citigroup and the Telegraph Group.
[August 22, 2005, 13:15]
Free Wi-Fi access for Nintendo users
News BT and The Cloud are offering free Wi-Fi access to people who use Nintendo's DS gaming device in a move that could benefit mobile workers too. Nintendo is launching its Wi-Fi Connection service on 25 November 2005, which will allow users of its DS...
[November 4, 2005, 10:50]
Software Jihad part 2
Blog Comment It's nice to thnk that MS would end up giving away the OS with the advent of cloud computing. Or do you think they would lock the free OS to the cloud, meaning no access to your c/drive until you pay for a license key.
[November 5, 2008, 19:27]
