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By CloudCommons 2012  Can Google Apps unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? This CIO article shares insight from the CIO of New England Biolabs, which recently conducted proof-of-concept testing with Google Apps for Business. While New England Biolabs decided to stick with its Outlook/Exchange Server set-up... May. 10, 2012 07:58 AM EDT Reads: 942 | By CloudCommons 2012  A recent study revealed that the government is saving around $5.5 billion a year since the shift to cloud, according to this CRN article. The study was created from interviews with 108 federal IT managers and CIOs and was published by MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange. The study also f... May. 4, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,221 | By CloudCommons 2012  Venture capitalists devoted $6.9 billion in 2011 to cloud startups, which is an increase of 68% over 2010, according to this InformationWeek article. Author Patrick Houston recommends that enterprises develop a rigorous process for vetting IT cloud tools and vendors now to prepare your... Apr. 27, 2012 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,494 | By CloudCommons 2012 
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Rackspace will offer a... Apr. 20, 2012 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,056 | By CloudCommons 2012  HP announced its HP Converged Cloud based on a ‘hardened’ version of OpenStack software, targeting hybrid enterprise deployments and pushing for a common architecture across private and public clouds as well as traditional data centers. To learn more about the components of the offerin... Apr. 12, 2012 06:46 AM EDT Reads: 1,242 | By CloudCommons 2012
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In a bid to make i... Mar. 31, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,384 | By CloudCommons 2012  HP is planning to launch a mega cloud service to rival Amazon Web Services offerings. The new offerings will combine PaaS, IaaS and SaaS and will provide a full array of platforms, infrastructure and applications along with professional services, according to this Channelnomics article... Mar. 15, 2012 05:18 AM EDT Reads: 1,335 | By CloudCommons 2012  NIST has released a major revision to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). The public draft of the Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations provides a set of security standards that are meant to help protect government agencies... Mar. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,846 | By CloudCommons 2012  Is the US Patriot Act a red herring? Some European countries, as well as Brazil and China, have been using the U.S. Patriot Act as an excuse to set up barriers for the transfer of data into the U.S., but according to Business Software Alliance CEO Robert Holleyman, those countries have... Mar. 6, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,230 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Google is reported... Feb. 16, 2012 06:21 AM EST Reads: 1,538 | By CloudCommons 2012
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OpenStack will be ... Feb. 9, 2012 06:33 AM EST Reads: 1,469 | By CloudCommons 2012
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BMC is acquiring N... Feb. 2, 2012 06:56 AM EST Reads: 833 | By CloudCommons 2012  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a finalized set of guidelines on cloud security. Read more in this InformationWeek article or read the guidelines at NIST.gov.
Cloud computing provider Joyent recently raised $85 million in funding, according to this T... Jan. 26, 2012 07:22 AM EST Reads: 619 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Fujitsu is launchi... Jan. 19, 2012 06:25 AM EST Reads: 703 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Talent research f... Jan. 12, 2012 07:23 AM EST Reads: 498 | By CloudCommons 2012
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IBM is purchasing... Jan. 5, 2012 08:17 AM EST Reads: 739 | By CloudCommons 2012  The US Congress has instructed the Defense Department to adopt a strategy that involves use of cloud computing services. In an effort to reduce expenditures, the bill requires the Pentagon to migrate data to the cloud. These moves are likely to generate US contracts for suppliers like ... Dec. 22, 2011 09:38 AM EST Reads: 599 | By CloudCommons 2012
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US CIO Steven VanRoekel unveiled the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which establishes a set of baseline security and privacy standards that all cloud service providers will need to... Dec. 15, 2011 02:20 PM EST Reads: 254 | By CloudCommons 2012
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CA Technologies recently launched its Cloud Commons Marketplace, an open marketplace and community for cloud developers, software vendors, enterprise businesses and service providers. The marketplace is built o... Dec. 8, 2011 12:29 PM EST Reads: 306 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Research published by Cisco predicts that cloud traffic will grow 12-fold by 2015... Dec. 1, 2011 03:26 PM EST Reads: 337 | By CloudCommons 2012
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CA Technologies announced new cloud solutions to help businesses be more agile and to accelerate the adoption of cloud services. CA Cloud 360 helps companies validate and select which applications and business ... Nov. 17, 2011 03:09 PM EST Reads: 293 | By CloudCommons 2012
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NIST released a ‘Bible of cloud implementation’ this week. Read about it in this GCN article and access drafts of the first two volumes at the NIST site. Meanwhile, Jon Stokes writes in this Wired article his t... Nov. 10, 2011 01:17 PM EST Reads: 269 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Dropbox, the cloud storage startup which now boasts 46 million users, announced a package for SMBs. The new offering, called Dropbox for Teams includes centralized billing and administrative tools. Read this Wa... Nov. 3, 2011 01:12 PM EDT Reads: 325 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Oracle purchased cloud CRM provider RightNow for $1.5 billon. This eWeek article speculates that the primary reason for the purchase was because of RightNow’s multichannel customer service and support capabili... Oct. 27, 2011 02:07 PM EDT Reads: 278 | By CloudCommons 2012
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When it comes to cloud contract negotiations and SLAs, cer... Oct. 20, 2011 03:47 PM EDT Reads: 397 | By CloudCommons 2012
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As part of its commitment to the White House’s “Cloud First” policy, the Department of Homeland Security has committed to 12 cloud services (9 private and 3 public), according to this Information Week article. ... Oct. 13, 2011 04:13 PM EDT Reads: 342 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Oracle held its annual user conference, Oracle OpenWorld, this week. GigaOm’s Barb Darrow reviews Oracle’s launch of Big Data Appliance and poses 5 questions she’d like Oracle to answer in this article. The big... Oct. 6, 2011 03:05 PM EDT Reads: 384 | By CloudCommons 2012
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NIST released a NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap cloud computing roadmap and reference architecture to help federal agencies understand cloud deployment standards and the categories of cloud services that... Sep. 23, 2011 03:01 PM EDT Reads: 386 | By CloudCommons 2012
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HP announced new cloud and mobile security offerings that leverage technology from its ArcSight, TippingPoint and Fortify acquisitions. HP’s enterprise security portfolio would help IT departments establish a u... Sep. 15, 2011 11:58 AM EDT Reads: 379 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Salesforce.com added social and mobile capabilities to its major cloud platforms, Force.com, Database.com and Heroku. This CRN article has the details. Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff talked about how cloud i... Sep. 8, 2011 01:32 PM EDT Reads: 344 | By CloudCommons 2012  VMware made several cloud-related announcements this week at VMworld, its annual user conference, including partnerships with global cloud service providers, a Web site that aggregates information on cloud service providers, simplified transfer of virtual machines from one data center ... Sep. 1, 2011 11:03 AM EDT Reads: 2,996 | By CloudCommons 2012
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After announcing a 38% rise in year-over-year quarterly revenues last week, Salesforce.com raised its revenue predictions for the rest of the year. The company expects to be the first enterprise cloud computing... Aug. 26, 2011 10:07 AM EDT Reads: 235 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Microsoft will be issuing credits to customers who were affected by the recent power outages in Dublin that took down Microsoft's BPOS cloud service. The outage was caused by a transformer failure that also imp... Aug. 18, 2011 12:25 PM EDT Reads: 284 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its virtual private cloud service globally and introduced dedicated networking and identity management solutions for enterprise customers, according to this eWeek article.... Aug. 11, 2011 03:36 PM EDT Reads: 484 | By CloudCommons 2012
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NASA’s former CTO has launched a startup called Nebula, which has raised seed money from Google’s first three investors. Its first product is slated to be available in the Fall. It will be a hardware appliance ... Aug. 4, 2011 01:16 PM EDT Reads: 291 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Energy savings & cloud: The Carbon Disclosure Project released a report that found that cloud computing may save large companies $12.3 billion a year in energy costs by 2020, also avoiding 85.7 million metr... Jul. 28, 2011 03:29 PM EDT Reads: 321 | By CloudCommons 2012
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OpenStack, the open-source cloud software project funded by Rackspace and NASA, turned 1 this year. This GigaOm article that ran in the New York Times describes the milestones of the past year and speculates on... Jul. 21, 2011 03:10 PM EDT Reads: 314 | By CloudCommons 2012
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VMware launched the latest version of its vSphere virtualization management software and introduced the Cloud Infrastructure Suite, which is a collection of previously disparate VMware products now designed to ... Jul. 14, 2011 10:17 AM EDT Reads: 432 | By CloudCommons 2012
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Microsoft released Office 365, the cloud-based extension to its Office franchise, further intensifying its competition with Google. In this eWeek article, several analysts weigh in on the uphill battle Microso... Jun. 30, 2011 12:07 PM EDT Reads: 385 |
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