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Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds
Insight newsmaker Microsoft's software chief talks about Windows Azure, lessons learned from Sidekick fiasco and future in which devices record everything imaginable.
Tags: Business applications, Cloud computing, Microsoft Office, Ray Ozzie, Computing, Phone, Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Business applications, Virtual Machine
Xen.org to build open standards cloud platform
News Xen Cloud Platform will form part of wider initiative aimed at bridging private clouds with public cloud services such as those offered by Amazon and Rackspace.
Tags: Cloud computing, Security, Virtualization, Xen, Novell Inc., Hypervisor, Xen.org, Cloud computing, network, Rackspace
Alatum touts local presence as differentiator
News Singapore-based cloud provider says local presence helps win more enterprise customers, giving it edge over bigger players such as Amazon.
Tags: Cloud computing, grid computing, Citrix Systems Inc., SingTel, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Customer, network
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News EC2 is the only strong contender to eventually emerge as the leading cloud platform because it has open-source implementations, according to the Canonical chief.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Open Source, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Web 2.0, Amazon EC2, British Telecommunications, Savvis Communications
Amazon launches Hadoop data-crunching service
News Customers can use MapReduce to pay by the sip as they do things like index the Web, mine data, and conduct financial analysis or bioinformatics research.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data mining & analysis, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Apache Hadoop, Dana Gardner, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., API, software, job
Sun polishes up its Constellation HPC system
News Company updates its Constellation System for high-performance computing, covering software, networking and storage.
Tags: TOOLKIT, Software, Linux, Data Management
Amazon's EC2 to offer Windows, SQL Server options
News Software maker says that, starting later this year, those using its cloud computing service will be able to run Microsoft's operating system and database software.
Tags: Legal, Microsoft SQL Server, Database, Cloud Computing, operating system, Environment, Server, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Windows Server, programming model
Amazon servers, starting at 10 cents an hour
News The Elastic Compute Cloud service, from Amazon's Web services division, pipes processing power over the Internet.
Tags: Web services
Amazon adds Windows to its cloud
News Amazon has taken its Elastic Compute Cloud service out of beta status and added Windows to Linux and Solaris on its list of supported operating systems.
Tags: Web services, Autodesk Inc., SLA, Server, Amazon.com Inc., load balancing, Eli Lilly & Co., data-processing, management console, monitoring
Penguin unveils Linux-based HPC in the cloud
News Penguin Computing has begun allowing researchers, scientists and engineers to lease its high-performance computing capabilities through the cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, Computing, Intel Xeon, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., high-performance computing, University of Cambridge, high-performance, financial, Linux
Red Hat adds virtualization, cloud to RHEL
News Red Hat launches RHEL 5.4, the first version to include the standard Linux KVM hypervisor.
Tags: Cloud computing, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Intel Xeon, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Machine, Hypervisor, Cloud computing, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux
Sage CRM joins Microsoft, Salesforce in the cloud
News Business-software maker is trialling a cloud version of its CRM software, following other providers such as Microsoft and Salesforce.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, CRM, Gartner Inc., Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, software-as-a-service, Internet, Benefit, Salesforce.com Inc.
Ubuntu's new Linux tries getting cloud-friendly
News Canonical's newest versions of Linux are due Thursday. Notable features: synchronization for PCs and a built-in replica of Amazon Web Services for servers.
Tags: Linux, Operating System, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, EC2, software, Amazon.com Inc., Chrome OS, Ubuntu, Web Service, Amazon Web Services
Adobe takes LiveCycle tools to Amazon's cloud
News The software maker taps Amazon's EC2 and S3 service for a sandbox environment that lets enterprise developers build and test using LiveCycle without installing it.
Tags: Content management, Web servers, Open source, Adobe LiveCycle, Tool, Web service, data capture, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., Process Management
Open source developers reach for the cloud
News Forty percent of open source developers are planning to use cloud services, far more than among the general developer population, finds new survey.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Virtualization, IBM Corp., Google Inc., Open Source, Survey, Developer, Evans Data Corp., Open Source Developer, Environment
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