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Free Web services a more reliable choice
News Small and midsize businesses should rely on Web services--even free options--because uptime is still higher than on-premise alternatives, say industry voices.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, Internet, Online Service, Backup, Google Inc., Uptime, Web Service, Small And Medium Business, SLA
Cisco offers open source alternative to Soap
News The networking equipment maker has developed its own messaging protocol Etch as an alternative to the Soap standard, and made it open source.
Tags: Web services, Open source, Security, Cisco Systems Inc., GPL, W3C, CIO, performance, software, networking equipment company
Be cautious of message, not tools
Insight newsmaker Twitter co-founder Biz Stone shares how the micro-blogging site is attracting commercial usage from the likes of Dell.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Web logs, Twitter, Tool, Video, Comcast Corp., social networking, Web 2.0, video search
Amazon's in-cloud database gets MySQL option
News Net retailer's cloud-computing effort is getting more sophisticated with the arrival of a database service with which more people will be familiar.
Tags: Databases, Web services, Database, Google Inc., Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Web Service, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Server
Apple gets higher profile in HTML standardization
News Group standardizing the fast-changing language of Web pages now has three leaders, and an Apple manager occupies the new seat.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Browser Company, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, Web Application, co-chair, Web
SugarCRM adds mobile, collaboration tools
News A new beta-test version of the popular open-source CRM software promises to work better with other Web services, and it adds mobile and collaboration features.
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Open source, Web services, Business applications, Mobile, CRM, Tool, Web Service, On-demand, collaboration tool
Salesforce.com and Google expand alliance
News Force.com for Google App Engine is designed to enable developers to create applications in the cloud.
Tags: Search, Web services, Marc Benioff, Google Inc., CRM, Cloud Computing, Environment, API, News.com, alliance
Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture
News Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. For now we'll see who can deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers first.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Web services, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Web service, Jeffrey Lindsay
Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008
Techguide In the past year, many companies have finally moved on beyond the experimentation and pilot stages when it comes to SOA. Joe McKendrick presents stellar examples of where and how SOA made a difference for some companies in 2008.
Tags: Web services, Standards, Mainframe, ITIL, SOA, CERN, Enterprise Service Bus, Lufthansa, United Airlines, AbeBooks.com
Oracle and Intel jump on a cloud
News The enterprise software heavyweight and the chipmaking giant are teaming up to improve the efficiency, security, and standards-based technology of cloud computing.
Tags: Business applications, Security, Virtualization, Web services, Intel Corp., Database, Cloud Computing, Hypervisor, software, processor
Amazon's S3 faces outage
News Problems with online storage service causes many sites to present broken images.
Tags: Storage, Web services, Storage, Europe, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, software, online retail company, job, network
Sunny skies ahead for cloud computing
News CIOs need to prepare for the advent of cloud computing, because the technology is here to stay, says Gartner analyst.
Tags: Web services, Web 2.0, Outsourcing, Security, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, CIO, enterprise computing, Web 2.0, data center
Gartner: Web 2.0 set to transform business
News Analyst predicts technologies such as SaaS and mashups, will have a change-inducing impact on business within two years, despite current user disillusionment.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Utility computing, Internet, Technology, Cloud Computing, Gartner Inc., 3D, social networking, printer
Asus content plans 'too ambitious'?
News PC maker's plan to offer free online services sits well on paper, but it should focus on core competencies or risk spreading itself "too thin", says analyst.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Web services, Digital media, PC Company, phone, ASUS, software, theory, core competency, partnership
Azure: Can Microsoft meld Windows with the Web?
News news analysis The software giant's bid to join the world of cloud computing is likely to appeal most strongly to corporate users.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web services, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., software, corporate computing, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT
