The Myth of Cloud Computing

Dec 01, 2008 | CSO | Companies hungry for IT efficiency and cost savings absolutely love virtualization. The idea of reducing racks of servers into smaller and cheaper machine farms is simply irresistible in just about every enterprise.
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Exclusive Q&A with Rob Weltman, Director of Grid Services, Yahoo!

Dec 01, 2008 | SYS-CON | Cloud-based tools, including large-scale data-intensive computing as offered by Hadoop, are key to the rise and rise of cloud computing.
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Apps That Live Where the Air Is Rarified, Part 2

Nov 26, 2008 | LinuxInsider | Part 1 of this two-part series on Web applications -- that is, software hosted in the so-called cloud -- takes a look at the breadth of this new space and identifies some of the category niches developing within it. Part 2 continues the discussion with consideration of the Web 2.0 effect.
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IT Trends for 2009

Nov 26, 2008 | Baseline | The following technologies trends in areas like SaaS, virtualization and project portfolio management, among others, are likely to shape IT and business in the coming year, and they can give your company the advantage it needs to do business in this challenging economic environment.
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Disaster-Proofing The Cloud

Nov 25, 2008 | Forbes | The massive barrier that remains in front of a wholesale migration of IT to cloud computing is the problem of facing the worst case: How will an IT department deal with a major outage in the cloud or in the network that connects to the cloud?
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Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode

Nov 25, 2008 | Wired | It is about time that one of the most significant figures in the personal computer age, the writer of Symphony and creator of Lotus Notes, emerges from the shadows. Time to reveal what he has been working on. And, most important, time to explain how the world's mightiest software company is going to remain relevant.
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SAP Demonstrates Middleware Flexibility

Nov 25, 2008 | ComputerWeekly | Unlike companies such as Sun, Microsoft and IBM, SAP came from a relatively narrow business category before it got into middleware. A few years ago, it bolstered that infrastructural element to turn itself into a more open company.
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Data Center Automation: Coming Sooner Than You Think

Nov 24, 2008 | Enterprise Storage Forum | But how attainable is a completely automated data center? The ultimate goal for most companies is an environment where applications are the focus of attention, and changes to an application result in automatic configuration changes to servers, storage and other infrastructure.
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How IT Could Prevent a Disappointing Black Friday

Nov 24, 2008 | ITWorld Canada | This is, in fact, when a number of other enterprise information systems should be used to gain competitive advantage among frugal buyers. Provisioning tools should ensure that only the necessarily server power is being used, and save energy and equipment costs everywhere else. There’s no point in acting like it’s Black Friday when the activity level is stalled at grey.
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How I'm Moving My Data Center into the Cloud

Nov 24, 2008 | CIO | Preferred Hotel Group signed up earlier this year for The Enterprise Cloud, a hosted server-and-software service from Terremark Worldwide.
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Looking Ahead -- Business Intelligence for the Future

Nov 21, 2008 | ITWeb | Business intelligence, once simply a buzz-word bandied about by large corporates, has become more than just an ethereal dream. It has even moved beyond the status of luxury and into the realm of necessity. Increasingly, the landscape has seen BI become more and more commoditised, a trend that will only continue into the future.
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How Supercomputers Still Influence Programming

Nov 21, 2008 | ZDNet Asia | Want to know what programmers may be doing 20 years from now? You should take a look at what supercomputers are doing today.
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The Top 3 Reasons to Buy VMware Today

Nov 21, 2008 | The Motley Fool | Virtual machines are sweeping through data centers the world over, simplifying hardware setups and bringing down power consumption and management costs in their wake. VMware started this sea change years ago, and remains virtually unchallenged at the top of the fledgling industry's heap.
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Is Virtualization the Future of Supercomputing?

Nov 20, 2008 | ServerWatch | Many of the vendors making names for themselves in the virtualization space had announcements to make at SC08 this week.
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The Cloud vs the Platform: What's Best for the Enterprise?

Nov 20, 2008 | CIO Today | With cloud computing, you do not have to worry about the hardware, software, bandwidth, wires, security, and the other myriad issues that come with a typical software purchase.
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In The Cloud

Nov 20, 2008 | Processor | Despite the promised convenience, versatility, and economies of scale of virtual computing power plants, many question whether enterprises are ready to adopt such a radical departure from traditional IT practices.
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What PaaS Means For Growing Companies

Nov 19, 2008 | bMighty | By making it easier to create programs, PaaS promises more choices and higher-quality business applications for all kinds of companies.
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Coalition: Cloud Computing Raises Privacy Issues

Nov 19, 2008 | FCW | Government cloud computing privacy standards need to be reassessed and modified to reduce their risk of harm.
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Are Relational Database Systems Keeping Up with the Information Processing Needs of Companies?

Nov 19, 2008 | BeyeNetwork | To satisfy increasing information volumes, a variety of new database techniques are appearing on the market. Does this mean that after over a quarter century of development, relational database systems are reaching the end of their useful lives?
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Achieving the Promise of the Next-Generation Data Center

Nov 18, 2008 | Virtual Strategy Magazine | Most organizations have achieve the goal of "always on" computing, but still fall short when it comes to "always responsive."
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'Telcos Must Join Google's Cloud, Not Fight It'

Nov 18, 2008 | Silicon.com | Gartner suggests that telcos looking to offer cloud services should look to Google first.
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Should Yahoo Join Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com in The Cloud?

Nov 18, 2008 | eWEEK | Could search engine and Web services giant Yahoo begin offering SAAS or PAAS in the cloud a la Google, Amazon.com or Salesforce.com?
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EMC Unveils Cloud-Computing Division

Nov 17, 2008 | TheStreet.com | The company's new Dech unit will deliver "cloud" services -- sharing and storing information over the Web. Decho combines two separate EMC businesses; online backup specialist Mozy, and Pi, which stores personal data such as emails and files.
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Adobe to Walk Line Between Desktop and Cloud Computing

Nov 17, 2008 | DailyTech | Adobe feels that the best bet is to embrace both desktop and cloud computing and is shifting development of its software to favor both environments.
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Real-Time Business Intelligence Comes via CI

Nov 17, 2008 | Computerworld | Coral8 sells what is traditionally called CEP (complex event processing) technology, but would like to see that technology called "continuous intelligence", or CI, instead.
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