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Microsoft Revenues Suggest Cloud Still Just a Dream
Microsoft’s quarterly revenues of $16.04 billion exceeded many industry analysts’ expectations, and suggested that the economy –at least the portion of it that purchases software—is indeed slowly reviving from the deepest global recession in a generation. However, a deeper analysis of those results also reveals a peculiar dichotomy: despite Microsoft’s “all in” approach to cloud…
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Businesses Eager to Join the Cloud, Survey Finds
"The flexibility of cloud computing could help organizations recover from the current global economic downturn, according to 68 percent of IT and businesses decision makers who participated in an annual study commissioned by Savvis," the cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions specialist announced July 21. Research company Vanson Bourne "surveyed more than 600 IT and…
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Google Apps Gets User Policy Management Controls
Following an announcement July 13 regarding the addition of mobile device management options for Google Mobile Apps administrators, including a requirement for devices to use data encryption, search giant Google introduced what it said is "one of the most highly requested features from administrators: user policy management." This means "administrators can segment their users into…
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Open Source Gains Respect From Mainstream Vendors
While open source initiatives have always enjoyed a following despite skepticism and obstacles, the momentum behind this week’s O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, points to a growing momentum around the movement. A decade ago, there were big question marks around how open source – in particular, Linux – would fit into business…
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Private and Public Clouds Receive Equal Enterprise Attention
Private and Public Clouds Receive Equal Enterprise Attention Private Clouds Save CashEvery company is looking to save a little cash-there’s no doubt about that. The new survey results completed and compiled by cluster and cloud software company Platform Computing (http://www.platform.com) indicates as the private cloud computing market comes of age, CIOs and businesses are starting…
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Rackspace Open-Source Platform Parts Clouds
Hosting and cloud computing specialist Rackspace Hosting announced the launch of OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. OpenStack will feature several cloud infrastructure components including a fully distributed object store based on Rackspace Cloud Files, available via OpenStack.org. The company said the next component planned…
