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January 15, 2010 By Arthur Cole (ITBusinessEdge)
It goes without saying that while the cloud is coming on strong as the next major advance in IT infrastructure, not everyone will embrace wholesale conversion any time soon. Particularly among large organizations, the need to leverage legacy infrastructure will run strong for a few more years at least.
Cloud Computing January 15, 2010 By Matt Assay (CNET Blogs)
If there was ever a doubt as to whether open-source software could be big business, Google has eradicated it. The Silicon Valley giant shovels open-source software out the door like Santa Claus, all the while monetizing it with cloud-based services.
Google Open Source January 14, 2010 By Alistair Croll (InformationWeek)
There's a massive difference between clouds as a business model--outsourced, third-party computing on demand--and clouds as a set of technologies (virtualization, automation, and so on). Vendors who blur the distinction between the two in order to jump on a bandwagon make me mad.
Cloud Computing January 14, 2010 By Dave Rosenberg (CNET)
IBM is expected to announce on Thursday the largest enterprise cloud computing deployment to date as Panasonic begins a migration off Microsoft Exchange to IBM's LotusLive cloud service. More than 100,000 employees will participate in the initial migration effort expanding to a total of more than 300,000 employees and external partners globally.
Cloud Computing IBM January 14, 2010 By Paula Rooney (ZDNet)
VMware is expanding its product lineup to ensure that its portfolio matches that of virtualization rivals Microsoft, Red Hat and Citrix — and cloud providers. But is it a wise move?
VMware January 14, 2010 By Rafael Laguna (Ostatic)
In the Internet/SaaS age, vertical integration gets rid of the hardware and operating system components because nobody cares anymore. What hardware runs Google? What OS is behind Amazon? It doesn't matter. With the devices that we use we probably care about the design or the browser we use, but not so much about the OS.
January 13, 2010 By Richard (Peking Duck)
If this is accurate, it is quite a story. A sophisticated, large-scale cyber-attack from within China is causing Google to overhaul its Chinese operations and possibly stop censoring the search results on google.cn. The story has everything - human rights, censorship, America’s leading brand, cybercrime, intrigue and an unprecedentedly open statement from Google.
Google Government Security January 13, 2010 By ExecutiveBrief (CIO.com)
Today, there is a continuing demand for businesses to be transparent about internal processes, finances, and performance metrics.
January 12, 2010 By Larry Walsh (ChannelInsider)
Cloud computing is ubiquitous in name, but how significant is it in actual execution? In the data center, many businesses are placing their bets on conventional initiatives. In fact, the three major forms of cloud computing are at the bottom of the priority list.
Cloud Computing January 12, 2010 By Dr Danny Sabbah (CIO.com)
We are witnessing the rise of a new frontier in competitive differentiation, with software-based innovation fast becoming a norm. Software assets have evolved from their utilitarian, back-office roots to emerge as a powerful weapon for delivering competitive advantage.
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