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Article: Specialized Clouds Will Be A Tough Sell |
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June 27 2011
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NYSE Euronext's new cloud services will open for business July 1, from its Mahwah, N.J., data center, letting companies buy pay-per-use computing with functionality and data honed to the needs of capital markets firms. The service's launch sparked speculation that more clouds will follow that are customized to the specific needs of different industries.
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Article: Your Company's Next Secret Weapon: Cloud APIs |
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June 24 2011
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Getting well-designed and well-managed application programming interfaces into the marketplace for developers to use may be just as important as having a corporate website, agreed a panel at the cloud-oriented Structure 2011 show Thursday in San Francisco.
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Article: 'Engineering Cloud' Promises To Modernize Manufacturing |
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June 22 2011
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Fujitsu's specialized cloud computing platform combines on-demand computer-aided design and analytics software with a thin-client environment to offer manufacturers additional product design and production power at an economical entry cost.
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Article: Private Clouds? Business Execs Miss The Point |
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June 03 2011
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Business executives believe their firms should be investing in cloud technologies, according to a survey released by Avanade, an IT consulting group. But most are thinking in terms of private cloud adoption, a move that stalls or diminishes their returns.
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Article: IT As A Service Is The Future |
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May 27 2011
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Software execs say software as a service has more domains to conquer, will gradually take over more of the IT infrastructure.
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Article: Tough Questions To Ask Cloud Service Providers |
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May 13 2011
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The cloud is not one thing, so when you're thinking about moving to the cloud, try to find the one that most closely matches the IT environment you've built for yourself. And beware of cloud SLAs, advised Carl Meadows, director of managed services product management at SunGard.
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Article: Cloud Customers Must Understand Weak Points |
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May 11 2011
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A panel of cloud computing advocates met the issue of the recent Amazon Web Services and Sony Playstation Network outages head on Wednesday at Interop 2011 in Las Vegas, a UBM TechWeb event.
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Article: Top Signs You Need NoSQL For Your Data |
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May 10 2011
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Not everyone is sure whether they have big data or not, or whether they need a NoSQL system to handle it. One way to find out, said one adopter of a NoSQL approach, is to ask yourself whether it is taking you longer to process your data than it did to collect it.
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Article: Virtualized Desktops The Next IT Challenge |
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May 04 2011
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Virtualization accomplished so much in consolidating servers in the data center during the last four years that many observers assumed it would next sweep through end user desktop computing. But instead, it stalled for the most part, while still idling at the gates.
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Article: Accenture: High Tech Firms Need Multiple Business Models |
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April 20 2011
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One-size-fits-all won't work any more. A tech company may need 4-5 business models to survive.
The cloud changes much more than we have been prepared to admit. Some of the possibilities are just too disruptive and jarring. (Resistance may be futile, but it’s busy, nevertheless.)
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Article: The Real Cloud Imperative Is Greater Simplicity |
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April 07 2011
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Making it sound simple is not the same thing as making it simple; there's work to be done to get users into the cloud.
I saw the look of consternation on some faces: Doesn't cloud computing involve a lot more complexity? Haven't we already managed to create too much complexity on our own, without your assistance? And you're advising us to adopt more -- just so we can call it cloud computing?
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