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5 tips to ensure cloud data quality
News Choose neutral platforms and read providers' fine-print. These are steps companies should take before leaping to cloud, say data management vendors.
Tags: Cloud computing, Database management, Database, Informatica, Cloud, Tool, SLA, remote site, Cloud computing, Environment
Asian enterprises want 'packaged clouds'
News Enterprises looking to go to cloud quickly are not keen on piecemeal components. Instead, they want cloud offerings that come packaged, says virtualization vendor.
Tags: Cloud computing, Standards, Citrix Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Cloud, Virtualization, Asia, Red Hat Inc., Asia-Pacific
Cloud floats among India's large firms
News Large enterprises in India are opting for cloud computing, choosing hybrid and private clouds to resolve concerns over data security and regulatory compliance.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Data security, Cloud, Security, India, Regulatory Compliance, Small And Medium Business, TCO, Cloud computing
VMware service links public and private clouds
News Company has launched vCloud Express, a pay-as-you-go service that lets developers write applications for internal virtualized environments and external clouds.
Tags: Cloud computing, Cloud, Virtualization, software company, Gartner Inc., VMware Inc., Cloud computing, Environment, Hardware, service provider
Symantec eyes easier cloud security
News Security and storage vendor is developing capabilities to make data security management in and outside of the cloud, more "straightforward".
Tags: Cloud computing, Security Management, Business security, Cloud, Security, Tool, Singapore, Storage, Cloud computing, Server
Red Hat builds one API for many clouds
News Deltacloud project aims to provide "cloud broker" API that will allow applications, scripts and tools to be created once and then used across public and private clouds.
Tags: Business applications, Cloud computing, Cloud, Red Hat Inc., Rackspace, VMWare ESX, Web portal, Cloud computing, Business applications, Deltacloud API
Novell aims to tighten cloud security
News Company demonstrates security service designed to extend security policies of businesses, to the cloud. Capabilities will exist as a product by early 2010.
Tags: Cloud computing, Network security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Cloud, Ovum, Security, EMEA, Identity, Novell Inc.
Cloud usage bills may turn some off
News Bandwidth fees from heavily moving data to and from cloud may discourage companies to adopt, but some analysts say clouds bring additional value.
Tags: Cloud computing, Bandwidth, Cloud, CRM, International Data Corp., Cloud computing, e-mail, Bandwidth, data management, software-as-a-service
S'pore firm not gaga over Google Apps
News Google launches marketing campaign to drive adoption of office suite, but one Singapore company has concerns over security and lack of formatting capabilities.
Tags: Cloud computing, Google Inc., Cloud, DSC, Microsoft Corp., CEO, software, Cloud computing, Wong, e-mail
HP dismisses cloud 'hype'
News Top HP software execs say that, while the computing models represented by 'the cloud' are important, they don't like the name or associated hype.
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise risk management, Web services, Hewlett-Packard Co., Google Inc., Conference, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Cloud Computing, Europe, cloud
'Best effort' insufficient for cloud
News Cloud ecosystem needs operator participation to provide single point of blame, to win businesses' confidence in moving over, says consultant.
Tags: Service level management, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, NTT Corp., SingTel, network, Uptime, Asia-Pacific, SLA, Service Management
Azure evangelist tackles cloud doubts
Insight newsmaker Microsoft's Mark Taylor talks about issues ranging from risk and resilience to private clouds and interoperability.
Tags: Business applications, Cloud computing, Service level management, Cloud, Akamai Technologies Inc., Database, Azure, SLA, Community Technology Preview, Cloud computing
Amazon to boost Asia's cloud assurance
News update Cloud provider's push into Asia-Pacific is expected to provide a boost of assurance to companies of cloud computing's viability, says analyst.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, SingTel, software, Amazon.com Inc., Asia, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Storage, Web Service
IBM joins party in the clouds
News Big Blue's Global Business Services unveils several cloud computing initiatives, ranging from consulting and implementation services to a validation program.
Tags: Web services, Utility computing, IBM Corp., Cloud, Storage, Cloud Computing, Consulting, business service, remote server, outsource
Cisco pushes unified comms to cloud
News Cisco Systems has cloud plans for WebEx unified communications service, intends to support both platform and top layer software-as-a-service delivery.
Tags: Web services, Communications, VoIP/IP telephony, Cloud, Cisco Systems Inc., channel partner, PaaS, API, WebEx Communications Inc., network
