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HP: Cloud Computing Will Cut 'dull' IT Jobs
News HP claims IT departments should be prepared for some churn and upheaval in coming years as companies begin to embrace the idea of "cloud computing", which could result in many low-level IT jobs being cut.
[April 7, 2008, 17:15]
Cloud Computing Moves Out Of The Shadows
News CNET News.com's Charles Cooper and Dan Farber analyse the catalysts behind a recent rush of cloud-computing announcements. All of a sudden, it seems, every IT company worth its salt is heading to the Cloud.
[August 7, 2008, 15:47]
Hackers, Bulldozers, And Other Potential Joys Of Cloud Computing
Blog I have, over the not so recent months, slowly become aware of the talk surrounding cloud computing. I believe that we should think very carefully before putting all our CPU eggs into the cloud computing basket, and keep our rigs broad, powerful...
[June 27, 2008, 21:28]
Gartner: IT Bosses Must Prepare For Cloud Computing
News While "cloud computing" is some way from being an enterprise reality, IT managers need to start planning now if they want to avoid being ordered by their bosses to implement technology from Google and close down their own datacentres, a Gartner...
[May 9, 2008, 10:08]
Dell Expected To Lose 'cloud Computing' Trademark Bid
News The US Patent and Trademark Office has backtracked on an earlier move to grant Dell trademark rights to the term 'cloud computing'. Dell's attempt to trademark the term has caused rancour among others involved in cloud computing, including Jon...
[August 11, 2008, 9:18]
IBM Splashes Out On Cloud-computing Centre
News IBM has announced that it will spend $360m (£182m) on a new cloud datacentre facility in North Carolina, providing another indication that major vendors see cloud computing as the future for mainstream systems.
[August 1, 2008, 17:41]
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]
Accenture: Time Is Ripe To Test Cloud Computing
News "Cloud computing" is now mature enough for chief information officers to "experiment" with, according to Accenture's chief scientist. Cloud computing allows you to quickly scale up a project without risk, and, if the project fails, gracefully...
[May 22, 2008, 11:54]
Amazon S3 Outage Rains On Cloud-computing Parade
Comment Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, or S3, struck a pothole on the road to the glorious cloud-computing future on Sunday when an outage took the storage system offline for several hours. The outage may not come as a surprise, as the computing...
[July 23, 2008, 11:59]
Dell Loses 'cloud Computing' Patent Bid
News Following discussions with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Dell last week lost the right to hold the patent for the term 'cloud computing'. In other words, as cloud-computing consultant Sam Johnston said in his blog on Friday, Dell failed in...
[August 18, 2008, 15:38]
Hey! You! Get Off Of My Cloud - Computing Structure
Blog Comment Yeah buddy. Sounds like the BS being shoveled out now about "virtualisation".
[August 17, 2008, 18:35]
Hey! You! Get Off Of My Cloud - Computing Structure
Blog Comment I forgot to draw parallels with, or even use the term, "clustered computing" in that blog. Oops and yikes! Virtualisation.you're right mate - that reminds me. Very naughty of me. Can you imagine that the IT industry would re-purpose (their term...
[August 17, 2008, 19:17]
Hey! You! Get Off Of My Cloud - Computing Structure
Blog Comment How does this "cloud" concept compare with AT&T/Bell Labs "Plan 9" concept from the'80s? Cynical? Certainly not! Realist? I hope so, that is what I, and many other I suspect, have come to depend on you for.
[August 18, 2008, 8:17]
Hey! You! Get Off Of My Cloud - Computing Structure
Blog Comment Kind words JW - thank ye kindly sir, Plan 9, hmm, makes you wonder if all the hype will always exist until we finally build Deep Thought and find that it really is all down to the number 42. Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space was in 1959, so Plan 9...
[August 18, 2008, 14:42]
'cloud Computing' Trademark
Talkback Reminds me of the time Microsoft tried to register windows as a trademark, which failed of course, as windows has many meanings, and all the others work as they are supposed to.
[August 12, 2008, 4:23]
Making The Cultural Leap To Cloud Computing
News At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, technology executives discuss perceptions of risk and control with software as a service, and how those feelings are changing in countries that have different software legacies.
[July 30, 2008, 11:48]
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, 9:38]
The Ins And Outs Of Microsoft Live Mesh
Articles 'Cloud computing' is the latest buzz phrase, but what does it mean? The internet is represented in technical diagrams as a cloud, and cloud computing usually refers to a network of servers running 'in the cloud' (on the internet), by which users...
[August 13, 2008, 11:45]
Google Sets Its Sights On The Enterprise Cloud
News Google sees all enterprise trends pointing toward cloud computing, and it wants a piece of the action. Microsoft has discussed some of its cloud computing plans under the Live Mesh umbrella. This is the vision of cloud computing and why we think...
[June 11, 2008, 8:49]
Google Wants Businesses To Have Faith In The Cloud
News The glitch illustrated not just the trouble with cloud computing, but also the gradual progress so far in making the concept palatable. Cloud computing, in which software runs not on PCs or company servers but on computers on the internet, requires...
[July 14, 2008, 17:43]
