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| Enhancing the Experience for Cloud Consumers | |
| by Huseni Saboowala | |
| The shift toward cloud-based services is accelerating, whether it be Infrastructure-at-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). We are seeing the emergence of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), who are standing up massive data centers, delivering on the cloud’s promise of ubiquitous access, rapid elasticity and pay-per-use. A natural question emerges: How to identify the ideal geographical location for hosting the cloud services. | |
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| Cloud Computing - Survey of Optimization Problems |
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| February 15 2013 |
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| A survey of Optimization problems in the Cloud Computing space. |
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| @IAmOnDemand View on CloudConnect 2012 |
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| July 03 2012 |
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| Last week I attended one of the most popular cloud technology conferences in the world – CloudConnect. The CloudConnect conference started about four years ago. Attending the event gave me a clear understanding of the market maturity and evolution rhythm. Check out the following sections for the main points on what I learned:
1 - Cloud Performance is important
2 - That DevOps doesn’t exist
3 - The Openness of Cloud - You must be open in order to be in the cloud
4 - That“Amazon is Princess White”
5 - The the best presentations are like movies; they should be based on real cases
I invite you to read more.
Ofir.
@iamondemand
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| Secure Environment for Federal Government Cloud Pilot |
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| April 30 2012 |
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| How is the Federal government hoping to achieve the $12 Billion in projected annual savings? This projection was quoted by the MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange and published today by Forbes.com, and it doesn’t seem too optimistic given that the Federal government is already saving approximately $5.5 Billion per year.
These savings have been achieved by individual agencies adopting cloud solutions, but such organic growth will only go so far. In order to expand this in a generic and scalable manner, the Federal government would need a secure environment to test the cloud and run pilot programs. |
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| The Cloud 300 - Who is Gaining Mind Share in 1Q 2012? |
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| April 02 2012 |
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| A look at the cloud computing segment's mergers, acquisitions, and organizations gaining mindshare in the 1st quarter of 2012. One of the lessons from Salesforce was how it increasingly gained mindshare in the industry positioning itself among industry leaders long before it gained market share.
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| Vertical Cloud Computing |
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| March 20 2012 |
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| Cloud computing is disruptive innovation which enables a fundamental shift from Capex to Opex model. It separates application and information resources from the underlying infrastructure, and the mechanisms used to deliver them.
A vertical cloud, or vertical cloud computing, is the phrase used to describe the optimization of cloud computing and cloud services for a particular vertical (e.g., a specific industry).
The cloud provider will offer specialized functions and options that best meet industry-use and specifications. Today, the vertical health-care cloud is one of the more well-established vertical clouds. |
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| Life Science Application, FDA and Cloud Computing |
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| November 10 2011 |
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| The life sciences comprise all fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, like plants, animals, and human beings. However, the study of behavior of organisms, such as practiced in ethnology and psychology, is only included in as much as it involves a clearly biological aspect. Life science industry and all operate under the regulatory guidelines put forth by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).The IT organizations in these companies must adhere to the FDA guidelines put forth in the Code for Federal Regulations 21 Part 11 – or CFR 21 Part 11, which defines how systems managing electronic records in life science firms must be validated and verified to ensure that the operation of and the information in these systems can be trusted. Cloud computing can improve and speed up this process by reducing IT complexity and cost while allowing R&D organizations to focus on the ‘what’ of the R&D process in stead of the ‘how’. |
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| The IaaS Management Market: Evolution, Vendors and More |
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| October 03 2011 |
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| A lot have already been said about the false cloud use where the IaaS platform utilized as an hosting extension of the IT organization’s data center and not taking advantage of the elasticity benefits to generate a cost effective and scalable IT operation. Using the public IaaS whether it is Amazon, Rackspace or any other vendor means using an highly dynamic environment which presents an increasing complexity hence loss of control. Checking the list below I can say that cloud (including all its layers IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) control basically contains the same aspects as the good old system management. |
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| 3 areas of differentiation in Public Cloud |
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| August 30 2011 |
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| If we bring things back to basics, a cloud consists of three key components: one or a number of datacenters, a network and a zillion of devices. Most cloud providers are focusing on optimizing one of the three. Wouldn't it make sense to look at all three holistically? Telco's are in a unique position to do just that, but what does it take to get there? |
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| Top 4 providers on CloudWiz |
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| June 29 2011 |
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| Cloud providers seem to be popping up everyday in some part of the world, but some providers are emerging as the key players by dominating all the others in one or more aspects. CloudWiz – the free cloud capacity and provider comparison tool – has enabled an apples to apples comparison of a number of providers, thus revealing the winners. |
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| 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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| 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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| IPv6-only hosting far off; a market for IPv4 addresses is sad, but likely |
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| June 06 2011 |
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| As has been predicted for years, the world is running out of IPv4 addresses.
So what happens now? Well, there are several possibilities, but our prediction is that a brand new market will spring up in second-hand IPv4 addresses. Like the Wild West, it’s going to be lawless and unpredictable for a bit — and sadly the profits will go to the current IPv4 address hogs. |
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| 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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| 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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| Carrier Cloud Opportunity |
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| May 25 2011 |
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| Co-Founder and CTO Randy Bias on how web-scale cloud is the only way to be successful in the cloud. Carriers have a huge opportunity in the cloud, but only if they embrace the disruption of web-scale cloud and adopt a two-cloud strategy in the short term.
To be successful, you must also build and deploy web-scale cloud in the model proven by Amazon Web Services and other cloud pioneers. To capture the huge total addressable market available in mobile, web apps, and emerging markets, web-scale cloud is the only path forward.
The good news for carriers is that implementing a two-cloud strategy is a low risk move that will deliver much more favorable cost and deployment metrics than they’ve been trained to expect. |
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| What's the Big Deal About Cloud APIs? |
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| May 21 2011 |
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| APIs for cloud are important. Based on the number of writings, conference sessions, and Twitter blasts endorsing the cloud API movement, I think this is something on which we can all agree. However, I sometimes get the feeling that we just accept the fact that the API movement is important without really stopping to ask a very basic question: ‘Why are APIs for cloud important?' |
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| Embracing the Cloud Disruption |
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| May 15 2011 |
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| Dr. Donald Ferguson knows about IT complexity.
The father of IBM’s Websphere and current CTO of CA Technologies was recently quoted in a BBC interview saying, “IT departments spend 75 to 85 percent of their budgets just to keep existing IT environments running; that leaves little room for innovation.”
Ferguson explains that a primary driver of this cost profile is that modern IT systems are too complicated, over-designed and, in the end, expensive obstacles to innovation.
Cloud Computing = Simplified IT |
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| 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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| 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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| Randy Bias, Cloud Outages, and Firearms |
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| April 29 2011 |
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| The Founders of Cloudscaling and Blue Mountain Labs discuss the Amazon Web Services crash and how some data was irrecoverable. They also talk about how the federal government is embracing the cloud and more. |
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| Telcos Show Cloudy Thinking |
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| May 11 2011 |
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| Cloudscaling CTO, Randy Bias, says telcos should take a more Internet-centric approach to cloud computing by using commodity hardware and getting to market quickly. |
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| Cisco CTO on Cloud Computing |
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| March 02 2011 |
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| TalkinCloud FastChat Video interviews Cisco Systems CTO Padmasree Warrior. She describes how Cisco developed its cloud computing strategy and why Cisco won't become a public cloud provider, preferring instead to leave the cloud market to service providers and channel partners. |
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| Cisco@25: CTO, Padmasree Warrior's Perspective on Innovation at Cisco |
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| June 23 2010 |
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| Chief Technology Officer, Padmasree Warrior, shares her perspective on Cisco innovation and where she sees technology in the next 25 years for Cisco's 25th Anniversary video blog series. |
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| Core, Content and the Cloud |
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| April 12 2010 |
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| The Managing Director at TCG Advisors on the Business Drivers that are Shaping the Cloud Computing Industry. |
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| LinkedIn Founder, Reid Hoffman, at the incentive2innovate Conference |
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| July 17 2009 |
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| The Founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, presents a keynote on the new age of entrepreneurship and why innovation is critical in the current economic climate. |
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| Limitations of the Cloud to Consider |
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| May 15 2009 |
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| Limitations of the Cloud to Consider |
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| Cloud Computing Power Panel Live from Times Square |
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| May 04 2009 |
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| The panel includes Werner Vogels from Amazon.com, John Engates from Rackspace, Rod Fonticella from Booze Allen Hamilton and Hal Stern from Sun Microsystems. |
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| An Interview with Russ Daniels at the DLD Conference |
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| March 19 2009 |
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| HP's Russ Daniels talks about Cloud Computing, technologies of the future, promoting innovation, and getting through the recession. |
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| Slicehost Livechat |
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| November 20 2008 |
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| Jason and Matt from Slicehost are joined by Lew Moorman from Rackspace to discuss the acquisition. |
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| Rackspace Acquires SliceHost to Engage Cloud-Based Businesses |
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| November 19 2008 |
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| Rackspace bought SliceHost, which enables them to more effectively compete with Amazon and Microsoft in the area of cloud-based web services. Here Matt Tanase and Jason Seats, co-founders of SliceHost explain why they are going to Rackspace and what that means for their businesses. |
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| Integrated Cloud Framework and Social Management or Crowdsourcing the easy way |
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| March 01 2011 |
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| Crowdsourcing is one of the real examples of shifting paradigm between IT Worlds created exclusively for Business Purposes and Society following their global goals. Crowd is in physical world depended on proximity, in virtual world the communities are able to connect together anytime, anywhere in the world and most important, they are growing and acting exponentially cumulating their “crowd power” by socializing and following community goals.
What makes CrowdSourcing so powerful is the broad participation that takes place at relatively no costs. Solutions are generated from volunteers or freelance professionals who get paid only if you use their ideas.
The most famous example of Crowdsourcing is Wikipedia, collaboration of millions people, concentrated around one goal – to describe world around us in structured way; following integrated semantic and reference rules, driven by volunteers. Contribution model is literally spread out into all social levels and geographically speaking – everybody is contributor of this Collective Intelligence product. |
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Cloud Computing: How Client Devices Affect the User Expereince  |
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| October 18 2010 |
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| The growth of Cloud Computing, along with the consumerisation of IT, is driving enterprises to support a compute continuum in which users will increasingly be able to access applications and services using a spectrum of client devices in a variety of form factors. Whilst mobile business PCs remain employees' primary client devices, other devices such as smartphones and tablets are being enabled. Providing employees with the freedom to use these devices, in addition to mobile business PCs, further enhances mobility and increases productivity. This paper presents the results of research and analysis to compare the user experience with different client devices when accessing a range of cloud-based applications to illustrate their value with respect to mobility and productivity. |
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| Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch |
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| August 29 2011 - CloudSwitch, Inc | ||||
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| CSC offers “on-premise private cloud” |
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| August 17 2011 - Delimiter | ||||
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| Easing Latin America Into the Cloud |
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| August 17 2011 - Light Reading | ||||
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| After power outages, cloud insurance looks even better |
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| August 15 2011 - GigaOm | ||||
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| The 4 biggest threats facing the cloud |
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| August 12 2011 - CNN Money | ||||
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| Linux Labs' NimbusOS Upgraded for Use as OS for Cloud Computing Service |
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| August 12 2011 - TMCNet | ||||
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| iCloud: It's not the cloud, but it's good for the cloud |
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| August 11 2011 - InfoWorld | ||||
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| Government Agencies Moving to Cloud Computing, Study Shows |
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| August 11 2011 - ITChannel Planet | ||||
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| Cloud Computing Brings Challenges for Health Care Data Storage, Privacy |
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| August 08 2011 - eWeek | ||||
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| Apple Gets Ready To Unleash Its Big Cloud Service |
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| April 28 2011 - Business Insider | ||||
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| Sony, Amazon Uptime, Security Problems Arent Unique to the Cloud |
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| April 27 2011 - eWeek | ||||
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| CenturyLink Set to Acquire Savvis for $2.5 Billion |
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| April 27 2011 - NY Times | ||||
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| Data Migration Becomes Major Cloud Computing Issue |
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| April 27 2011 - ITBusiness Edge | ||||
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| VMware is a Virtualization Company - So Why is it Buying a Slide Show Service? |
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| April 27 2011 - ReadWriteCloud | ||||
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| Cloud computing: Is it a threat to Indian outsourcers? |
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| April 26 2011 - The Economic Times India | ||||
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| What Your Business Can Learn from the Amazon Cloud Outage |
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| April 26 2011 - PC World | ||||
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| Dell Adds To Boomi's Cloud Integration Capabilities |
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| April 26 2011 - Network Computing | ||||
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| StrikeIron CEO to Speak on Panel at CED Venture Conference |
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| April 26 2011 - SFGate | ||||
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| Asia 'most important' region for Microsoft |
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| April 25 2011 - The Nation | ||||
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| Infosec: Cloud computing ‘explodes’ the security perimeter |
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| April 25 2011 - Computer World UK | ||||
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