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Pogoplug Series 4 brings cloud into the home

Pogoplug Series 4 brings cloud into the home

...The new Pogoplug Series 4 looks to take the best of cloud computing and home network-attached storage and combine the two into a... Read more

16 December, 2011 by Scott Stein
Apple vs Google: Cloud concepts that clash

Apple vs Google: Cloud concepts that clash

...Google and Apple are taking fundamentally different approaches to cloud computing. But the question is whether they can both be right, says... Read more

19 June, 2011 by Jason Hiner
How big data in the cloud can drive IT ops

How big data in the cloud can drive IT ops

...a huge disadvantage when it's not. Many organisations are turning to cloud computing to process, analyse, and ultimately store big data, serving up its... Read more

12 May, 2012 by Lori MacVittie

Cloud computing: 2011 could be a breakthrough year

...at analyst house Quocirca, said: "At the infrastructure-as-a-service level, cloud computing provides a cheaper and more pragmatic way to buy infrastructure." There... Read more

27 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

Cloud computing: What it means to the CIO - and the IT team

...to overcoming it." What do CIOs look for from cloud providers? While cloud computing emphasises the virtue of delivering computing as a service, which means... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Steve Ranger

Cloud-computing adoption tops datacentre agenda

...Cloud-computing adoption among datacentre managers has snowballed in the last year, according... Read more

31 March, 2011 by Larry Dignan
Net neutrality: Will tiered access hit cloud?

Net neutrality: Will tiered access hit cloud?

...what exactly the impact of a tiered-access structure might mean for cloud computing, the application owners who take advantage of cloud, and the consumers... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Lori MacVittie

Lenovo sets sights on cloud computing

...targeting enterprise customers in its domestic market, with plans to move into cloud computing. Koh Kong Meng, Lenovo Asean's executive director of key account... Read more

21 September, 2010 by Liau Yun Qing
What if <endeca_term>cloud computing</endeca_term> never matures

What if cloud computing never matures

...There is a widespread assumption that cloud computing will one day reach maturity. But that belief overlooks the possibility... Read more

29 July, 2010 by Lori MacVittie
How Microsoft's Azure and cloud services are shaping up

How Microsoft's Azure and cloud services are shaping up

...you are actually leaving on the table all the cost-benefits of cloud computing. Obviously the great thing about the cloud is that stuff is... Read more

11 June, 2010 by Toby Wolpe
Can cloud unravel the data-sharing puzzle?

Can cloud unravel the data-sharing puzzle?

...There is an incorrect assumption that the hardware and infrastructure agnosticism of cloud computing translates equally well to that of data and applications. Cloud cannot... Read more

22 January, 2012 by Lori MacVittie

Symantec buys LiveOffice for cloud archiving tools

...has acquired LiveOffice, an archiving company, in a bid to bolster its cloud-computing offerings. In a statement on Monday, Symantec said that it will... Read more

18 January, 2012 by Larry Dignan

Inside the G-Cloud: How cloud-first strategy will remake government IT as we know it

...orthodoxy to fulfil the vision of the G-Cloud. The shift to cloud computing was identified as a priority in the government's recent implementation... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath
How Amazon is raising mega-proxy spectre

How Amazon is raising mega-proxy spectre

...end-user experience by exploiting a vast network of resources in their cloud-computing datacentres, essentially turning considerable compute power into a giant internet cache... Read more

19 November, 2011 by Lori MacVittie

...Think cloud computing will save you money? Forget it

...Lloyd Thompson CIO Ian Cohen on cloud, BYO computing and social media... Cloud computing is often sold as a way for companies to cut their... Read more

30 September, 2011 by Nick Heath

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