Cloud Computing

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Users are demanding better performance from online applications, but how will companies meet expectations? Here’s a look at the challenges and opportunities for performance monitoring in the cloud.

In an IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, IDC covers how cloud computing is one of the prevailing IT trends today and how HP is helping organizations address this trend. By providing greater levels of provisioning and automation, cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and efficiently allocate their compute resources.

Google Docs has unveiled a new research tool meant to help writers streamline their browser-based research, making it easier for them to find and cite the information they need while composing text.

In 2008 ICANN announced it would add between dozens or millions of top-level domains to expand the virtual space available online.This week it again delayed the application deadline, again. OTOH, alternative registrar OpenNIC register as a .pirate (or anything else) for free.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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If you administer cloud servers or services, such as those from Amazon Web Services or Rackspace, you might be relieved to learn that you don't need access to a notebook or desktop PC to perform routine administrative tasks.

Empowering users, threatening IT, making technology purchases a no-brainer? Why couldn't it have gotten here sooner? (Or why did it have to come at all, if you're among the naysayers in IT.)

The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) will provide email and collaboration applications to about 600,000 students via Microsoft's Live@EDU cloud suite, a project for which it also considered Google Apps for Education.

One of the significant benefits of cloud computing and one of its greatest drawbacks is the astonishing variety of configurations available. To name a few, there's SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS, not to mention the cloud CIOs fear most - IT as a service (ITaaS). Not bad for a technology that's been around a relatively short while, but has already upended every major product segment in the computer industry, and cut corporate IT departments loose from a 50-year tradition of responsibility for, and control over information, and the technology that manipulates it.