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Stormy Weather: 7 Gotchas in Cloud Computing

Nov 03, 2008 | Computerworld | Users hit turbulence on the trip to cloud computing.
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Today's Forecast: Cloudy

Nov 03, 2008 | Newsweek | People are going to be putting their information not into some device but into some service that lives in the sky.
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Cloud Computing Prompts New IT Planning

Nov 03, 2008 | Redmond Developer News | Microsoft's recent cloud computing announcement added new energy to the debate over the technology.
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Intel-Backed Start-Up Tries to Connect Enterprise IT to the 'Cloud'

Oct 31, 2008 | Network World | Enomaly's "Virtual Private Cloud" addresses hypervisor lock-in.
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Forrester's Advice to CFOs: Embrace Cloud Computing to Cut Costs

Oct 31, 2008 | eWEEK | Cloud computing could offer noticable payoffs during the current economic downturn.
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Singapore to Offer Commercial Grid Computing

Oct 30, 2008 | ZDNet Asia | The new grid-computing platform, named Alatum, will offer businesses pay-as-you-go computing and storage.
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Cloud Computing, Part 1: Some Breaks in the Fog

Oct 30, 2008 | TechNewsWorld | When it comes to "cloud computing," pretty much everything goes.
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Securing a Virtualized Data Center

Oct 30, 2008 | The Data Center Journal | There is no doubt that the rapid adoption of virtualization in the data center has many advantages, but this does not mean that there are no risks.
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Cloud Computing Is Subject of Fierce Debate

Oct 29, 2008 | MarketWatch | The debate continues over the pros and cons of cloud computing.
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Is the Enterprise Ready for Cloud Computing?

Oct 29, 2008 | CBR Online | Is cloud computing a 'real' concept or more of the same old marketing spiel?
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The Challenge of Managing Mixed Virtualized Linux, Windows Networks

Oct 28, 2008 | Network World | Windows and virtualization are driving need for new management standards, tools.
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Are Oracle's SaaS and Cloud Computing Efforts All Over the Sky?

Oct 28, 2008 | TechTarget | Oracle's SaaS and cloud computing efforts seem to lack focus.
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Hardware Makers Eye Cloud Computing Building Boom

Oct 28, 2008 | CNNMoney.com | The growing popularity of cloud computing is creating opportunities for companies that make the hardware used by cloud's large, scale-out datacenters.
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Citrix: Cloud to Carry Xen Against VMware

Oct 27, 2008 | CNET News | Vice president for special products at Citrix, Ian Pratt discusses how the company hopes to make headway in the virtualization market.
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Is Amazon Ready For The Enterprise?

Oct 27, 2008 | The New York Times | If Amazon wants to capture entire IT departments, it needs to prove it's as good or better than in-house infrastructure.
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Time To Think About Cloud Computing

Oct 27, 2008 | InformationWeek | The shift to delivering IT through a utility model is poised to change the business computing landscape as we know it.
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Datacenter Managers Face Mountains of Technology Shifts

Oct 24, 2008 | SearchDataCenter.com | Datacenter operators now face some of the most dramatic changes they have experienced in a decade.
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1 Midsize Organization Busts 5 Cloud Computing Myths

Oct 24, 2008 | bMighty | Anthony Hill, CIO of Golden Gate University, debunks the conventional wisdom on cloud computing security, capital expenses, risk management, switching vendors, and service level agreements.
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Reaching for The Clouds

Oct 24, 2008 | Dealing with Technology | Financial institutions adopting cloud computing might be willing to pay a premium for extra security.
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Cloud Computing Survey: IT Leaders See Big Promise, Have Big Security Questions

Oct 23, 2008 | CIO | CIO surveyed IT and business leaders to get first-hand feedback on what enterprises really think about cloud computing, and how, when and why they plan to deploy it in their enterprises.
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Computers Without Borders

Oct 23, 2008 | The Economist | The cloud may be the ultimate form of globalisation: vast virtualised computer systems and electronic services know no borders.
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Sun: Andy Has Not Left the Building

Oct 23, 2008 | The Register | Andy Bechtolsheim left Sun to become chairman and chief development officer at a startup called Arista Networks, but he expects to be back about once a week to help Sun out on a part-time basis.
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Data centre Rethink Needed, Warns Analyst

Oct 22, 2008 | Techworld | IT managers need to fundamentally rethink their data centres in order to ensure that they become much more dynamic and less rigid, according to analyst house Burton Group.
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Will Virtual Iron Stop the VMware Freight Train?

Oct 22, 2008 | Datamation | Although Virtual Iron launched a server virtualization product in 2006 -- and claims 2,000 clients -- its profile so far remains low.
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Bigger is Better in Newest Database Niche

Oct 22, 2008 | Enterprise Systems | Why are hardware and database behemoths focusing so much attention on a segment that -- just 18 months ago -- was a relatively sleepy niche?
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CERN, Google, and the Future of Global Science Initiatives

Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud

Frank Ding, engineering analysis & technical computing manager at Simpson Strong-Tie, discussed the advantages of utilizing the cloud for occasional scientific computing, identified the obstacles to doing so, and proposed workarounds to some of those obstacles.
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Overcoming the Cloud Security Barrier for Financial Services

The private industry least likely to adopt public cloud services for data storage are financial institutions. Holding the most sensitive and heavily-regulated of data types, personal financial information, banks and similar institutions are mostly moving towards private cloud services – and doing so at great cost.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud

May 16, 2013 | When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering

May 10, 2013 | Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

04/02/2012 | AMD | Developers today are just beginning to explore the potential of heterogeneous computing, but the potential for this new paradigm is huge. This brief article reviews how the technology might impact a range of application development areas, including client experiences and cloud-based data management. As platforms like OpenCL continue to evolve, the benefits of heterogeneous computing will become even more accessible. Use this quick article to jump-start your own thinking on heterogeneous computing.

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