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US regulators scrutinise cloud privacy
News The US Federal Trade Commission is to discuss the impact of cloud computing on consumer privacy. The FTC stated in a letter sent to the FCC in December that strong cloud-computing consumer protections were needed.
[January 6, 2010, 16:01]
Dell signs cloud deal with Chinese company
News On Tuesday, Infobird said in a statement that the two companies would "jointly provide cloud-computing-based enterprise-level internet communication platform services to companies". In its statement, Infobird said the Qitongbao deal was the...
[January 6, 2010, 15:44]
Raining on the cloud
Blog Comment It's only a matter of time before we hear about a 'criminal gang' posing as a cloud computing solution and really causing damage. On the other hand this may be an era of 'survival of the self-responsible' It would indeed be madness to give up...
[January 6, 2010, 0:02]
Cloud Computing - What is its Potential Value for Your Company?
White Papers Cloud computing may be new, but one thing hasn't changed: management's insistence on justifying IT investments by return on investment and total cost of ownership. You still weigh a solution's advantages/disadvantages and benefits/costs.
[January 5, 2010, 12:44]
Cloud Computing— Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future?
White Papers Cloud computing frees up budgets hand-cuffed by IT expenses. This paper surveys cloud computing today: What are the benefits? Instead of purchasing software licenses and hardware for new employees and locations, businesses simply add accounts to...
[January 5, 2010, 12:44]
Universities to consider national shared services
News Cloud computing will also be investigated by Jisc, to explore the potential for institutions and individuals to access resources online, without the need to store them locally or purchase them outright.
[January 4, 2010, 8:50]
How security will look in 10 years
Comment Cloud computing makes sense from an economic point of view, but it will bring fresh security challenges for IT professionals. Ubiquitous cloud computing By the end of 2010, more companies will have moved their data into the cloud, and this process...
[December 29, 2009, 10:20]
Private clouds can make or break your network
Comment As with Web 2.0, cloud computing inherently increases the use of the network — from the increase in application packaging due to virtualisation to cloud computing's reliance on collaboration and integration across the entire infrastructure.
[December 24, 2009, 10:41]
Ten open-source tools worth trying
Comment Enomaly offers cloud computing for any size of environment. Nuxeo is also offered in a cloud-computing edition, which eliminates the need for storage, hardware infrastructure, or server availability. Eucalyptus is another open-source cloud...
[December 23, 2009, 11:37]
Beautiful Security
Downloads Beautiful Security explores this challenging subject with insightful essays and analysis on topics that include: * The underground economy for personal information: how it works, the relationships among criminals, and some of the new ways they...
[December 19, 2009, 21:38]
AWS Calc
Downloads Cloud Computing makes it easy to build applications that run reliably, even under heavy loads. But the larger the load, the higher your cost.AWS Calc allows you to estimate your monthly costs based on your current Amazon Web Services usage levels...
[December 19, 2009, 18:54]
A look inside Orange's Paris labs
News Orange Innovation Gardens, as the company calls its labs, houses work being carried out on machinery and applications in the fields of robotics, machine-to-machine technology and cloud computing. On Thursday, Orange invited ZDNet UK into its Paris...
[December 18, 2009, 15:53]
Orange steps into cloud services
News Orange Business Services is to make a major push into the cloud-computing services market over the next two years, the company announced on Friday. The network is the cloud, and our experience and expertise in network and communications services...
[December 18, 2009, 13:00]
Sun Shines On Cloud Security
Blog While it’s still early days for the billowing mists of cloud computing as they struggle to find some solid form and defined function, the vendors who strive to perform the requisite ‘cloudbusting’ techniques needed to corral this stream of...
[December 18, 2009, 11:55]
Shuttleworth quits CEO post at Ubuntu backer
News Shuttleworth will continue working at the company, focusing on the company's desktop Linux product, its cloud-computing efforts, and meetings with partners central to the company's business. Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical is changing top management...
[December 18, 2009, 9:00]
Next decade holds new twists for comms technology
News These wireless technologies will also have to become more reliable — cloud computing is not much use without persistent connectivity, even with the clever offline capabilities brought by Google Gears and HTML 5.
[December 17, 2009, 14:53]
Next decade holds new twists for comms technology
Articles These wireless technologies will also have to become more reliable — cloud computing is not much use without persistent connectivity, even with the clever offline capabilities brought by Google Gears and HTML 5.
[December 17, 2009, 14:53]
Akamai defends web apps in the cloud
News Sun's UK chief technology officer said earlier this year he was working with major British public and private organisations to set up a cross-sector forum specifically aimed at resolving cloud-computing security issues, including issues around...
[December 15, 2009, 16:20]
Amazon's virtual private cloud goes public
News Amazon is opening up its Virtual Private Cloud to all users of its EC2 cloud-computing services, in a public beta test launched on Monday. VPC is an enterprise-oriented feature that allows users to connect to Amazon's cloud-computing services via...
[December 15, 2009, 13:18]
Cloud will bring new threats, warns Trend Micro
News The increased reliance on cloud computing will bring with it new flavours of threats, according to Trend Micro. The security company, in its predictions report for 2010, released on 9 December, identified cloud computing as a trend that will...
[December 14, 2009, 7:59]
