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  • Virtualization and cloud security modeled on NAC

    Posted April 12, 2010 - 9:20 pm

    Virtualization and cloud computing have disrupted the security industry to its core. We have not quite figured out how to deal with very dynamic infrastructure while most security is implemented in a mostly static ring of devices surrounding the resources they protect.

  • Cloud computing, virtualization top Interop agenda

    Posted April 12, 2010 - 4:11 pm

    In this Q&A with Interop general manager Lenny Heymann, we discuss the major themes of this year's show, the impact of cloud computing on the enterprise and how the rise of the iPad might affect IT.

  • CRM for Road Warriors: Phone or Laptop?

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 4:47 pm

    CRM was born in the call center and grew up in the headquarters office. Now it's a teenager and wants to travel. What do you need to consider for your road warriors, and what's reasonable to give them for software and devices?

  • Review

    Enterprise cloud put to the test

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 4:21 pm

    The potential benefits of public clouds are obvious to most IT execs, but so are the pitfalls -- outages, security concerns, compliance issues, and questions about performance, management, service-level agreements and billing. At this point, it's fair to say that most IT execs are wary of entrusting sensitive data or important applications to the public cloud.

  • Review

    Cloud computing: Choosing a personal cloud service

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 11:49 am

    Personal cloud services provide users with a clear path to their data, and even some apps, regardless of platform. Two of the most promising offerings are Tonido from CodeLathe, and PogoPlug from CloudEngines, which have a strong overlap in features, but approach the customer in different ways.

  • IT Operations: Beware the Cloud Boomerang

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 10:51 am

    Test applications created in the cloud will subtly migrate from development through trial to production. Then the developers will move on and IT Ops will be stuck caring for the apps. You'd better get ahead of the problem and get your cloud strategy moving now, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

  • The Look of Post-Cloud IT

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 10:12 am

    Thornton May wonders why no one is thinking ahead to the shape of the IT landscape once cloud computing becomes the norm.

  • What Does The Cloud Really Look Like?

    Posted April 2, 2010 - 9:31 am

    The reality of cloud computing has always been a lot more about the nuts and bolts of data-center operations than about the metaphor of on-demand computer power flowing from anonymous sources somewhere on the other end of the network connection.

  • 5 hot IT topics: 5 must-read books

    Posted April 1, 2010 - 9:30 pm

    Staying on top of all the new innovations, strategies and directions in today's IT world can be mindboggling. That's where a great IT library can help, filled with the latest and greatest guidebooks on all the hot IT topics you need to put your arms around in your company's constantly morphing technology environment.

  • Lawson puts its ERP on Amazon's cloud

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 8:37 pm

    Lawson Software announced a partnership on Wednesday that will make its ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other applications available on Amazon Web Services' cloud-computing infrastructure service.

  • Cloud security's seven deadly sins

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 3:12 pm

    A security expert warns organizations making a foray into cloud computing may know familiar terms like multi-tenancy and virtualization, but that doesn't mean they understand everything about putting applications in the cloud.

  • Companies create alliance to push open source clouds

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 11:51 am

    IELO, Mandriva, and Nexedi this week joined forces and formed the Free Cloud Alliance, which will work to push open source products for cloud computing.

  • Why ECPA Should Make You Think Twice about the Cloud

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 11:43 am

    The Digital Due Process coalition is pushing Congress to modernize privacy laws in the United States. The coalition--comprised of technology companies and special interest groups, including Microsoft, Google, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), eBay, and others--feels that existing privacy regulations do not adequately protect data in the digital era, and could stop businesses from embracing cloud computing.

  • Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 11:16 am

    Verizon Business and IBM are now offering a joint service aimed at helping large businesses safely store large chunks of data within the Verizon cloud.

  • Greenpeace: Facebook Has a Hand in Global Warming

    Posted March 30, 2010 - 9:22 pm

    Greenpeace has charged that Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others are contributing to global warming by using coal to power data centers for their cloud-based services. The charges are dramatic --- but are they on target?

  • Dell aims new PowerEdge servers at the cloud

    Posted March 30, 2010 - 1:53 pm

    Dell hopes to grab a bigger slice of the cloud infrastructure market with a new line of PowerEdge servers that the company announced on Wednesday.

  • Productivity Tools in the Cloud: Real World Best Practices

    Posted March 30, 2010 - 1:50 pm

    Moving applications to a cloud service is a disruption to any business, but in Ron Markezich's experience as Microsoft's VP of Online Services, a well executed cloud migration can redefine a company. Here are three best practices he's gleaned from Microsoft's largest BPOS customers.

  • Amazon adds private streaming to CloudFront

    Posted March 29, 2010 - 9:06 am

    Amazon Web Services has added the ability for customers of CloudFront to choose who gets to receive content streamed using the service, the company said on Sunday.

  • In the Federal CIO's crosshairs, patent office plots move to the cloud

    Posted March 25, 2010 - 8:42 pm

    The United States Patent and Trade Office is planning a complete redesign of its IT systems and a move to a cloud platform.

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    The difference between having and exercising freedom

    Posted March 24, 2010 - 10:17 am

    Primarily, Richard Stallman's objection to Software as a Service is that users lose control over their applications, because the applications are not installed locally. My objection to Stallman's argument is that a vast majority of computer users will never have real control--even if they use free software.

  • Six Cool Cloud Companies at DEMO Spring 2010

    Posted March 24, 2010 - 12:55 am

    At DEMO Spring 2010 this week, cloud computing startup companies got to strut their stuff. Here's a look at who stood out in the cloud crowd.

  • Moving to the cloud: Big savings, but plan ahead

    Posted March 18, 2010 - 2:42 pm

    Some might say that San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals was pushed into the cloud. The 23-year-old company's data center had been running at 100% capacity and IT executives feared inevitable performance problems, but the company was reluctant to build another site due to the poor economic climate.

  • Why is cloud computing hard? Top tech execs speak their minds

    Posted March 17, 2010 - 11:07 am

    Everyone's talking about cloud computing and security. But what makes it so hard? Execs at Microsoft, Trend Micro, EMC's RSA division, McAfee and Symantec tackle the question.

  • McAfee scans cloud environments for security vulnerabilities

    Posted March 16, 2010 - 9:53 am

    McAfee's new vulnerability-assessment scanning service is aimed at giving cloud-computing service providers a way to provide security assurances to their customers.

  • Inside MS Cloud Model for Productivity Apps

    Posted March 15, 2010 - 4:57 pm

    Corporate VP of Microsoft Online Services Ron Markezich discusses the joys and pitfalls of productivity apps in the cloud, how to mix your own data center with Microsoft's cloud model, and the rising tide of BPOS competitors. Hint: It's not just Google.
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