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Red Hat To Certify Linux Apps For Amazon's EC2
Move will guarantee that Enterprise Linux packaged with third-party apps are ready to run in Amazon's EC2 cloud.
Benioff Offers Cloud Riposte: It's Not Just Fashion
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, finally got a little revenge. He wasn't in the least spiteful. Rather, he was only guilty of repeating something his former boss, Larry Ellison, said about software-as-a-service and cloud computing. An audience of cloud cognoscenti at Structure 09 loved the performance.
Real-World Cloud Computing Applications
Anyone trying to understand the cloud computing phenomenon need only look at how cloud services are being used to get a better picture. The following examples demonstrate the cloud being used for everything from marketing campaigns to space exploration and scientific research.
Beyond Google Docs: 7 Web-Based Collaboration Apps
Along with the search-engine giant's popular collaboration tools, we look at Zoho Writer, Pastebin, Dabbleboard, Dimdim, Yugma, and Bubbl.us.
Bucking the Cloud Computing Hype
If you push back on cloud computing, even for good reasons, then you're considered a backward thinker. If you go along with the trends and the hype, and your systems hit a cloud computing-enabled wall, then you're considered incompetent. I'm not sure which path is better.
10 Essentials Of IBM's Cloud Computing Strategy
IBM recently made its most significant cloud computing announcement to date, which one executive compares to the launch of Big Blue's venerable System/360 mainframe 40 years ago. Following is my list of the top 10 things you need to know about IBM's emerging cloud strategy.
IBM Talks Up Cloud Computing
"Cloud computing is a new way of consuming IT," says Willy Chiu, vice president of IBM Cloud Labs.
Cloud Computing Advocates Detail Its Future
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Sun Microsystems CTO Greg Papadopolous, and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com speculate on cloud computing's future.
Quake Meets Fallout As Bethesda Buys Id
Bethesda parent ZeniMax says it's bought out Doom and Quake creator Id Software.
Oracle Moves A 'Little Bit' Into Cloud Computing
Following his outburst against cloud computing last year, it appears that Larry Ellison has warmed up to the cloud computing model, if not the buzz phrase itself. Oracle's CEO yesterday said it's a goal to become the software industry's "number one on-demand application company."
Ellison: Oracle Plans To Be No. 1 In On-Demand Software
It may take 10 years, the CEO acknowledges, noting that Oracle is currently only "a little bit" involved in cloud computing.
The Cloud's Next Big Thing: Software Testing
IBM and Hewlett-Packard have jumped into the market for software testing in the cloud, a space where a handful of startups already offer alternatives to on-premises testing. It's an area of cloud computing where the barriers to entry are relatively low for developers and IT departments.
Sony PSP To Host GTA Chinatown Wars
Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which has only been available on the Nintendo DS, is coming to Sony's PlayStation Portable.
IBM 'Clouds' Look Like Conventional IT
The issue here is that cloud computing is really about, well, cloud computing. Existing hardware and software vendors, including Microsoft, Cisco, HP, and, of course, IBM seem to find that thought a bit scary and continue to toss traditional hardware and software at the problem...
Activision CEO Calls For Sony PS3 Price Cut
Cutting PS3 prices would be difficult for Sony as the company last month reported its first annual loss in 14 years.
Of Cloud 9 and The Importance of Parachutes
Back when I did a lot of security work, we used to joke around that single sign on should be called "single vulnerability". Maybe single provider cloud models should be called "single point of failure".
Cloud Standards Will Emerge From Current Haze
What standards do you follow if you're interested in getting started in cloud computing? The short answer is, there are few clearly defined standards in what remains a loosely defined area. Nevertheless, the main outline is clear. Follow the leaders and follow the Web.
Startup Online Game Publisher Playdom Hires EA COO
John Pleasants is joining the startup at a time when online gaming is growing, while the video-game industry is in a slump.
HP, Skytap Testing Cloud Applications
Through its partnership, HP's LoadRunner testing tool can now be used to build test scenarios that will tax an application's limits.
Apple MobileMe Debuts Find My iPhone, Data-Wipe Services
The new capabilities are available on iPhones that have been upgraded to the latest 3.0 software.
Another Hot Market For SaaS: Business Intelligence
Popular applications for software-as-a-service include CRM, expense management, human resources, and Web analytics. But now we're seeing a sudden burst of activity around business intelligence SaaS. Makes sense, since BI software is popular right now, and shares characteristics with the aforementioned apps that make it right for cloud computing.
Dell Expands Virtualization, Server, Storage Portfolio
The company also added more flexible support services and turnkey virtualization configurations for small and medium-sized businesses.
Cloud Computing: 10 Questions For Federal CIO Vivek Kundra
Kundra discuss his thoughts about cloud computing in government, and what it would take to make cloud technologies easier to adopt in the federal space.
Exec Leaves Sega For iPhone Game Maker
The move is another sign that Apple's iPhone is becoming a strong player in the mobile gaming space.
Is That A Cloud On Healthcare's Horizon?
Cloud models are starting to provide an attractive option for large and influential regional medical centers to get lots of small, local, laggard doctor offices trading in their paper patient files for electronic medical records. Are there clouds in your forecast?
Another Reason to Put Data in the Cloud
Google Labs recently announced Google Fusion Tables, an "experimental system" for fusing data management and collaboration... The use cases here are numerous, but the core idea is that users will upload data, and then analyze and visualize the data on Google Maps or mashed up with other APIs, such as the Google Visualization API...
Salesforce Enticing Customers With Force.com Free Edition
The initiative lets customers build Web applications and, if they wish, their own branded Web site to be operated on the Salesforce.com infrastructure.
Why Storage Is Such A Challenge For SMBs
SMB storage needs keep growing, but factors from virtualization to proprietary terminology keep storage way more complicated than it has to be.
Cloud Computing Vs. $100 Million Data Center
Citizens of Holyoke, Mass., had reason to celebrate this week as the governor of Massachusetts and other dignitaries--including Cisco CEO John Chambers, EMC CEO Joe Tucci, and the presidents of Boston University, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts--announced plans to build a $100 million data center in their town. It's an ambitious proposal, but is it necessary?
Video Game Industry Sales Hit Two-Year Lows
The biggest decline was in hardware sales, which fell 30% from a year ago, an NPD report finds.
General Services Administration's CIO Looks To The Cloud
Casey Coleman reveals the GSA's role in driving a government-wide cloud computing initiative and other IT priorities.
SuccessFactors' CEO On SAP's SaaS Strategy
After I wrote about SAP's new SaaS strategy Wednesday, several SAP competitors sent emails slamming the strategy. Not an unusual response from competitors, right? But I did accept the offer to talk to Lars Dalgaard, CEO of SuccessFactors, which just landed a massive deal for 420,000 seats of its talent-management SaaS with
Interest In Prepaid Wireless Booming
Web site visits and search referral activity for the six leading prepaid providers grew 37% year over year, according to ComScore.
HP Unveils Scale-Out Computing Hardware For Data Centers
The ProLiant SL server line is a lightweight, power-efficient modular computing system for companies with large data centers that support cloud computing environments.
Eye-Fi Rolls Out Pro Wireless Memory Cards
The new memory card supports RAW file types, geotagging, and peer-to-peer connections between a camera and a computer.
EA's Sims 3 Defies Recession
More than 1.4 million units of Sims 3 have been sold since Electronic Arts released the latest version of the video game June 2.
Paglo Monitors Amazon EC2
SaaS startup Paglo has added monitoring for Amazon's cloud to its IT search and management service.
Apple iPhone 3G S Dilemma: To Upgrade Or Not?
The iPhone 3G S has some sweet new features (faster processor, video, more memory) leaving existing iPhone customers with a tough decision: Upgrade now, or stand pat?
Google App Sync Guns For Microsoft Exchange
The software allows Outlook users to connect to Google Apps for e-mail, contacts, and calendar data, as well as helping Google nibble away at Microsoft's enterprise contracts.
GSA Backs Away From Federal Cloud CTO Appointment
Cloud computing is still a major initiative of federal CIO Vivek Kundra, and its importance was even outlined in an addendum to the president's 2010 budget last month.
Cloud Computing Goes Global
Three far-flung research organizations have joined the cloud computing test bed run by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo. The locations of these new converts--in Russia, South Korea, and Malaysia--provide more evidence that cloud computing is quickly becoming a global phenomenon.
SAP Tops Oracle And IBM, But Siemens Picks SaaS
While SAP today had to enjoy announcing a rip-and-replace deal over Oracle and IBM for a utility client, it also had to sit by and watch as longtime SAP global strategic partner Siemens not only overlooked SAP for a whopping 420,000-seat workforce-management license but also selected a SaaS vendor to boot. This is surely not a business for the faint of heart.
U.K. CIOs Foggy About Cloud Computing
Most are adopting online software and service delivery with secure hosted environments but are hesitating to adopt the cloud computing concept, a new report finds.
Cisco Adds Rack-Mount Servers To Unified Computing Family
Improvements over the B-Series blades include a low-latency, lossless 10 Gbps Ethernet foundation that enables a wire-once deployment model.
Research Identifies Misconceptions About Cloud Computing
There's an assumption that it's mostly small and midmarket companies that are interested in cloud computing, since they don't already have huge IT infrastructures, while large companies want to keep everything inside their own firewalled data centers. But new research from Forrester indicates that conventional wisdom is wrong.
Eli Lilly, NASA Build Eucalyptus Clouds
Eucalyptus Systems, the startup behind the open source cloud computing software, has identified its first two customers: NASA and Eli Lilly. That's an impressive start for a company that's barely three months old.
VMware, Terracotta To Scale Apps In The Cloud
The joint effort may one day be offered in public clouds as well being available to establish private cloud computing, executives with the companies say.
Verizon Business Unveils 'Computing As A Service'
The company's CaaS users will be able to access a real-time self-service portal to manage physical and virtual servers, network devices, storage, and backup services.
AMD Demos Microsoft DirectX 11 Graphics Chip
The technology enables games developers to create smoother, less blocky, and more organic looking objects.
Sony Hopes To Revitalize Lagging Sales With PSP Go
The PSP Go, smaller and lighter than its predecessor, will play games downloaded from Sony's PlayStation Store through the device's Wi-Fi connection.
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