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Verizon's next cloud services emphasize performance, granular billing

Posted October 3, 2013 - 12:22 pm

Verizon is extending its suite of cloud services to offer a new IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) option, called Verizon Cloud Compute, as well as a new storage-as-a-service, Verizon Cloud Storage, that the company says offer finer granularity in pricing and stricter quality of service metrics than its competitors.
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Start-up Netskope keeps watch on enterprise cloud usage

Posted October 3, 2013 - 12:11 pm

Start-up Netskope comes out of stealth mode today in unveiling its security service intended to help enterprises monitor how employees are using cloud-based applications, such as Salesforce.com, while also giving IT managers the ability to block data transfers or receive alerts.
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New Red Hat Enterprise Linux licensing plan designed to unify cloud, physical environments

Posted October 3, 2013 - 11:56 am

Red Hat on Tuesday announced new subscription offerings for Red Hat Enterprise Linux that are designed to make the company's flagship product a better fit for a mix of cloud, physical and virtual environments.
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Box pages developers, asks them to give healthcare industry a shot of innovation

Posted October 2, 2013 - 12:38 pm

To inject variety, volume and quality into health applications, Box has teamed up with Dignity Health and The Social+Capital Partnership on a developer contest.
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Where in the world are GitHub users?

Posted October 2, 2013 - 6:00 am

Using the GitHub Archive to see what cities commit the most code
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Cloud Security Alliance's new guidelines focus on mobile, data management

Posted October 1, 2013 - 4:33 pm

The Cloud Security Alliance has updated its Cloud Control Matrix (CCM), which is designed to help organizations vet the security credentials of cloud service providers.
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Dell updates private cloud to become PCI compliant

Posted October 1, 2013 - 4:32 pm

Looking to solidify its refocused efforts on private cloud platforms, Dell today rolled out new features to improve security and manageability of its offerings.
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What to do when your free cloud storage fills up

Posted October 1, 2013 - 4:26 pm

Giving away scads of free cloud storage is all the rage these days, but when you've hit your limit, your options are few.
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Aruba announces cloud-based Wi-Fi management service

Posted October 1, 2013 - 3:57 pm

Aruba Networks announced a new Aruba Central cloud-based management service for Wi-Fi networks that could be valuable to companies with branch operations, schools and mid-sized networks where IT support is scarce.
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See - and hear - what it was like to surf the web 20 years ago

Posted October 1, 2013 - 6:00 am

CERN launches a line mode browser emulator to recreate the experience of the first cross-platform browser
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Cisco, Intel push 'trusted geolocation in the cloud'

Posted September 30, 2013 - 3:54 pm

Cisco and Intel say that companies wanting to make use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds should be aware that controls exist for keeping virtual workloads on servers within country borders.
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Why Office 365 is a better value than Evernote Premium

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:45 pm

Evernote Premium has a number of new features and updates, but at half the cost of an Office 365 subscription the math doesn't add up.
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Multifactor authentication available on Windows Azure

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:56 am

Microsoft has announced the general availability of multifactor authentication on its Windows Azure cloud platform.
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Vendor to IT: You're blocking the wrong services

Posted September 26, 2013 - 1:45 pm

Security vendor cites blocking of low-risk cloud services but not higher-risk applications.
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Without these tools, you might hate JavaScript a lot more

Posted September 26, 2013 - 6:00 am

Firebug, the popular web development debugging tool, was inspired by these utilities that came before it
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Microsoft sails past Oracle in bringing Java SE to the cloud

Posted September 25, 2013 - 5:08 pm

While Oracle CEO Larry Ellison focuses his attention on the America's Cup sailing race, Oracle is rushing to keep up in another race, the one to get its Java SE (Standard Edition) in the cloud.
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Oracle OpenWorld attendees fume over Ellison keynote

Posted September 24, 2013 - 8:30 pm

Oracle customers pay handsome fees to attend its OpenWorld conference each year, and many of them felt short-changed Tuesday when Larry Ellison skipped his final keynote to watch an America's Cup sailing race.
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SkyDrive stumbles, becomes latest cloud app to get glitchy

Posted September 24, 2013 - 6:26 pm

Another day, another cloud app gets stung by a bug. Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service began malfunctioning on Tuesday afternoon, a day after Google's Gmail got tripped by a network breakdown.
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Citrix aims for VMware, Amazon with new cloud strategy

Posted September 24, 2013 - 4:14 pm

Citrix Tuesday updated its cloud computing strategy, saying that its platform – which is based off the Apache CloudStack project - can span both private on-premises deployments and public clouds and is the only one in the market that takes an application-centric approach to architecting clouds.
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Oracle takes the fight to Amazon, Salesforce.com with new cloud services

Posted September 24, 2013 - 2:37 pm

Oracle is offering a series of new services that position it as a one-stop shop for all things cloud and directly target the likes of Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com.
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Red Hat serves middleware to cloud developers

Posted September 24, 2013 - 12:19 pm

In a move to jump ahead of other PaaS (platform as a service) providers in the enterprise space, Red Hat will augment its OpenShift offering with a suite of middleware to ease the process of deploying cloud-based applications.
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CERN wants us to surf like it’s 1990

Posted September 24, 2013 - 6:00 am

The birthplace of the web wants to preserve the first website, and the experience of surfing it
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Oracle pushes into database-as-a-service

Posted September 23, 2013 - 4:04 pm

Oracle has hyped its new 12c database as faster and more powerful than ones that have come before, and now it's highlighting the release's ability to easily serve up multiple databases of varying size and scope according to a particular user's needs.
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Could the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 be your only device?

Posted September 23, 2013 - 3:52 pm

Today Microsoft held an event to announce and showcase the Surface 2 tablet and accessories. While there are several flashy new items like the thinner, back lit Type Cover 2 and the dedicated DJ type cover - the real potential of the new device comes in the form of business productivity enhancements.
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NSA spying fiasco sending customers overseas

Posted September 23, 2013 - 3:44 pm

The spectacle of National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposing the covert spying nature of US federal officials has sent ripple waves through the technology industry -- especially in the outsourcing arena.
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