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Hacks make Internet look lawless, but security just hasn't caught up to spear-phishers yet

Posted June 3, 2011 - 12:09 pm

Data breaches shake confidence in the cloud, blaming it for security gaps between new technology, old security policies and a human tendency toward trust. Fix that and you're golden.
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Hype confuses cloud customers who actually know more about it than they think

Posted May 31, 2011 - 1:53 pm

Surveys consistently show end-user companies are confused about how to secure, manage and buy cloud; if they left out the word "cloud," they'd already know most of the answers.
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Wall Street wants Ballmer's head, but for the wrong reasons

Posted May 27, 2011 - 10:57 am

Microsoft is making progress on several fronts that had it stuck a few months ago, but big investors aren't waiting to see if those positive indications will turn the company around. They want CEO Steve Ballmer fired.
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Citrix repackages your mess of phone and Web apps as 'Personal Cloud'

Posted May 25, 2011 - 1:36 pm

There are some impressive things in Citrix' biennial rush of product announcements, but many look focused only on unseating VMware, not creating real benefit for customers.
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Netflix isn't swamping the Internet; ISPs are overstating their congestion problems

Posted May 19, 2011 - 6:02 pm

Netflix streaming media makes up the most common form of Internet traffic, but it's not swamping ISP backbones, despite their complaints to the FCC, which lets them throttle with abandon.
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IBM, HP demonstrate fidelity problem with 'open' virtualization; KVM? Really?

Posted May 19, 2011 - 12:00 am

OVA is the latest in a long string of vendor consortia designed to back any kind of cloud or virtualization technology that will give IBM, HP and others a chance against VMware.
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IT outsourcers don't fulfill promises, invent work to inflate fees, survey respondents charge

Posted May 11, 2011 - 12:34 pm

The IT outsourcing market shrank during the past quarter, partially to cloud providers, while a new survey taps into a deep vein of distrust between IT and outsourcers.
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Amazon's east coast cloud crashes, brings down customers

Posted April 21, 2011 - 11:36 am

Amazon's EC2, poster child for enterprise class cloud computing, had major problems overnight, bringing down a series of web sites and other customers, marring its own reputation.
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Failure to see eye-to-eye with users about cloud could mean tough times for IT

Posted April 15, 2011 - 11:58 am

Cloud computing looks like a perfect, low-cost IT solution, at least to business managers, who are increasingly unhappy with IT for not giving them what they want, Accenture report shows.
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How late is too late for VMware everywhere?

Posted April 8, 2011 - 4:52 pm

VMware promises back-end performance improvements and more clients to fill out the very short list is has now, especially compared to Citrix.
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IEEE leaps into mob offering 'standards' for Cloud

Posted April 6, 2011 - 9:45 am

IEEE Cloud working groups have good intentions, objectivity, and lots of competition that didn't get to the party late.
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Tesla-Top Gear lawsuit bodes ill for green data center tech

Posted March 30, 2011 - 12:35 pm

You won't find one in a data center, but Tesla Motors continuing problems highlight the challenges of alternative power in cars, computers and almost anything else.
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Microsoft promises to turn almost any app into SAAS

Posted March 29, 2011 - 2:20 pm

Microsoft said its application virtualization software due later this year will let applications run on its Azure cloud as well as in the data center.
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Dell to offer both major types of cloud, from 10 new data centers

Posted March 22, 2011 - 3:48 pm

Michael Dell has promised to build 10 new data centers to support his ambition to be a cloud provider, offering IAAS and PAAS to compete with both Microsoft and Amazon.
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Cloud computing inches toward open source

Posted March 17, 2011 - 1:27 pm

With backing and additional services from Rackspace and Cloud.com, OpenStack may be a reasonable open-source alternative someday; just not yet.
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Amazon change makes 'public' cloud look a lot more like 'private'

Posted March 15, 2011 - 12:59 pm

VPNs, subnets, access control, make VMs in the look like LANs and make low-cost shared-tenancy look like pricey single-tenant clouds.
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There is no security standard for cloud; move forward anyway

Posted March 11, 2011 - 1:17 pm

Many specifications are competing to be the de facto security standard for cloud, but there's not enough data available to make any prove out.
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In attack on Amazon, Microsoft displays worryingly poor FUD

Posted March 11, 2011 - 12:03 pm

Microsoft execs slam Amazon's approach to cloud as insufficiently innovative or cost effective, even as Microsoft's Azure strives to imitate it.
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High end enterprise IT management comes down market

Posted March 9, 2011 - 3:25 pm

Virtela and other high-end enterprise monitor and management companies are offering help to SMBs as IT infrastructrure gets more complex.
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Cautious private cloud users turn out to be the early adopters

Posted March 9, 2011 - 2:36 pm

Upcoming IDC data indicates public-cloud users are confident in its security because they have less to lose than private-cloud adopters.
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VMware adds more controls for cloud computing

Posted March 8, 2011 - 12:34 pm

vCenter Operations is a new toolset that adds real-time analytics and configuration tools to give IT ways to see and manage cloud performance.
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IBM reinvents mainframe again; this time for cloud

Posted March 3, 2011 - 4:14 pm

IBM's newest mainframe sparked a huge increase in mainframe sales, but its pitch to be the all-function hub for a cloud infrastructure is weak.
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What's the difference between Microsoft and Amazon?

Posted March 1, 2011 - 2:54 pm

Microsoft and Amazon offer very different cloud services, but they fixate on each other so much their offerings are becoming too much alike.
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Missing element in migration to virtual private server: ambition

Posted February 23, 2011 - 7:10 pm

Virtual Private Servers: best idea ever or one more sign you've squeezed too much into your intertube?
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Cloud-capacity market makes IT's hottest trend a commodity

Posted February 17, 2011 - 6:19 pm

A cloud-capacity trading market called SpotCloud matches demand and supply more efficiently, makes the whole IT industry a commodity.
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