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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
VMware's cloud proposition 'attractive'
News Vendor still has to win cloud providers over to its new "cloud OS", but the virtualization giant's lion's share of market is a big advantage, say analysts.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, Forrester Research Inc., Virtualization, Xen, data center virtualization, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Cloud computing, Environment
Clearpace puts archived data in the cloud
News The software vendor introduces Rainstor, which uses Amazon's cloud tools to store customers' legacy data in the cloud.
Tags: Data centers, Services, Cloud computing, Database, Archiving, EMC Corp., Storage, Service, Cloud computing, Amazon.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
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
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.
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
IBM teams up with Amazon Web Services
News Big Blue announces plans to deliver its software in the cloud via Amazon's hosted Web services.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Business applications, IBM Corp., Informix Dynamic Server, Web Service, Informix Software, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc.
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
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
'Jaunty Jackalope' Ubuntu springs into beta
News Version 9.04 of Canonical's popular Linux distribution is now into the final testing phase before its April launch.
Tags: Cloud computing, Open-source Software, X.org, CD-burning, Storage, Ubuntu, Eucalyptus, Beta, Cloud computing, Server
Lightning takes down Amazon cloud
News The latest disruption to a high-profile cloud-computing service follows outages from other providers, including Google and Salesforce.com.
Tags: Cloud computing, Virtualization, Google Inc., Xen, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, online retail company, software-as-a-service, data center
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
Cloud storage in cloud requires different mindset
Techguide One of the fundamental requirements for any IT professional deciding whether to embrace or dismiss cloud computing is to first understand it. An expert highlights big picture offerings of storage in the cloud.
Tags: Storage, Web services, Cloud computing, Storage, Web Service, provisioning, Cloud computing, Rick Vanover, Rick, Amazon.com Inc.
Amazon opens up SimpleDB to the public
News The database component for Amazon's cloud-computing range of services is now out of its private-beta stage, with the company offering limited free usage for the next six months.
Tags: Web sites, Personal applications, Database management, Web Page, Database, Hosted Storage, Storage, content delivery, SimpleDB, Amazon.com Inc.
