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Sun eyes cloudware position
News The open source vendor hopes OpenSolaris will be its entry point into becoming a platform provider for cloud computing by courting the developer community, say execs.
Tags: Open source, Web services, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Developer, Cloud Computing, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., PaaS, Microsoft Windows
Developers wary of cloud lock-in
News Software developers want a standards-based cloud, and for platforms to provide tools that will allow them to deploy apps to the cloud quickly.
Tags: Security, Google Inc., Open Source, Tool, Abiquo, Azure, Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Environment, PaaS
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
'Back to basics' for Asia's IT services market
News Region's IT services sector will focus on cost savings and less on business transformation, while balancing need for corporate governance, says IDC.
Tags: Services, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cost control, Outsourcing, IT Services, International Data Corp., PaaS, cost management, corporate governance, managed services
Firms will adopt hybrid software cloud
News correction Most businesses will deploy mix of open source and proprietary software on cloud platform due to complexity of business apps, says Red Hat executive.
Tags: Open source, Cloud computing, Cloud, Red Hat Inc., Open-source Software, International Data Corp., Developer, Interoperability, Cloud computing, PaaS
Salesforce offers hosted accounting software
News Accounting company Coda and on-demand specialist Salesforce.com claim to have come up with a way for companies to handle their accounting software without having to pay for a full-scale application.
Tags: Software, Accounting, On-demand, software company, Roche Holding AG, PaaS, accounting company, financial, shareholder, Software
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
HP service aims to strengthen trust in the cloud
News Cloud Assure has been launched in an effort to increase trust in SaaS security, availability and application performance, the company.
Tags: Cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Security, business availability, middleware security, Application Security, Cloud computing, PaaS, performance, software-as-a-service
Uncertainty over cloud strengthens SIs
News Lack of policies and regulations governing cloud computing strengthens value proposition of systems integrators, says Datacraft executive.
Tags: Cloud, ITIL, Information Security, Cloud Computing, PaaS, managed services, software-as-a-service, systems integrator, business case
Tech giants form open cloud standards group
News Companies including AMD, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, Sun and VMware are to develop open standards for private and public cloud interoperability.
Tags: Cloud computing, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Specification, Standards, VMware Inc., Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., PaaS
Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat
News Company wants the world to take up its software-as-a-service model, and company president Marc Benioff says he will "change the consciousness of the industry" to do it.
Tags: Business applications, Customer support, Best strategies, Sales force management, Marc Benioff, Server, PaaS, performance, software, journalist
The future of the cloud
News The cloud is omnipresent at the Web 2.0 Summit as industry executives discuss the migration from the client to millions of virtualized servers as the information pipe.
Tags: Web services, Cloud, Web 3.0, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, PaaS, CTO, CEO, Adobe Systems Inc., industry
VMware buys SpringSource for US$420M
News VMware will pay US$420 million for privately held SpringSource to become a bigger player in cloud computing application management and the open source community.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Open source, Virtualization, VMware Inc., middleware, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), PaaS, monitoring
Cloud computing: Silver lining or marketing fog?
Insight Depending on what you go for, clouds can accelerate results and replace upfront expense with a regular service fee. How do you decide what works?
Tags: Business applications, Data centers, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, SLA, software, marketing
Firefox makes it to Intel Macs
News The Firefox browser has been ported to the new Intel-based Mac OS X platform, with the assistance of Apple.
Tags: Personal Computers, Operating systems
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