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The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to map the stars in our galaxy and might use Amazon's cloud computing service to crunch the data.
SAS chief: Hot on fraud detection, cool on cloud computing
At a recent media event, SAS CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight spoke with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how businesses did -- and didn't -- take advantage of BI during the downturn and how the economy has changed the playing field in the BI market.
Amazon Web Services to expand into Asia-Pacific
Amazon Web Services will expand its footprint to Asia-Pacific during the first half of 2010, the cloud-computing infrastructure vendor said Thursday.
For the enterprise, Google Apps fights uphill battle with Microsoft
While companies are starting to seriously look at the hosted applications from Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the latter's incumbent status gives it a leg up, according to some CIOs.
Google slashes price for online Picasa storage
Google announced today a big drop in its price for online storage for the Picasa photo editing application and other apps. The price is now a quarter of what it was for as much as twice the capacity.
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