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News: Cloud computing security challenges unite hosting providers, security specialist

Created: 02/26/2010 by Ellen Messmer, Network...  Tags: Cloud Computing, Security

Cloud providers and security experts join hans to sort out risk factors and tackle compliance issues that stall cloud growth. These are the two major areas where many IT and security managers across organizations face resistance in adopting to cloud.

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Article: Organizations Get a Sneak Peak at Internap’s New Content Delivery Network

Created: 2 weeks ago by CDNadvisor.com  Tags: CDN, Cloud Computing, Internap

Internap announces a sneak peek of its new Content Delivery Network. The offer comes with a two months trial period.

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Blog Post: Cloud Computing Service Brokers Enable the Marketplace

Created: 02/18/2010 by Mark O'Neill,...  Tags: Cloud Computing, Vordel Cloud...

Vordel Cloud Service Broker provides an abstract layer between the user and providers to offer a cohesive view of all services. Other functions include managing API Keys, metering the connections for billing and collection of SLA data.

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Article: The Simplest Way to Profit From Cloud Computing

Created: 02/18/2010 by Tim Beyers  Tags: Cloud Computing, Rackspace Cloud

Rackspace's Q4 results show a gain of 10k customers (mostly cloud), revenue per server up 40% from 08 and cloud revenue accounting for 10% of total revenue

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News: VMware Shows Partners New Cloud Computing Technologies

Created: 02/11/2010 by Joseph F. Kovar,...  Tags: Cloud Computing, VMWare

VMware announces new vcloud features: memory compression, 8 concurrent vm migrations, predictive storage provisioning

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Blog Post: Cloud Speed Test Results

Created: 1 month ago by Jason Read,...  Tags: Akamai, AWS: CloudFront, AWS:...

Over the past 2 months we've used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to pay users with high speed, mostly residential Internet connections, to run our cloud speedtest. To date, about 1100 unique users in 115 different countries have run the speedtest...

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Article: Terracotta Partners with Eucalyptus in the Cloud

Created: 02/09/2010 by Mike Vizard  Tags: Cloud Computing, Private Cloud

Terracotta joins hands with Eucalyptus, a company providing open source cloud computing management software, to create a framework for dynamically managing its servers within a cloud computing framework.

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Blog Post: Google Buzz Is New Black - Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not

Created: 02/09/2010 by Chirag Mehta  Tags: Cloud Computing, Google...

Google launches Google Buzz,a tool to solve a problem in a well-defined "social" category that Google wave did not. Buzz is mobile-enabled with location-awareness capabilities and is expected to give other social networking sites a run for their money.

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News: Oracle Launches Worldwide Cloud-computing Tour

Created: 02/09/2010 by Chris Kanaracus, IDG...  Tags: Cloud Computing, Oracle

Oracle softens on cloud- Larry:"If orange is the new pink we'll make orange blouses. I'm not going to fight this thing"

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Article: 'Cloud Computing': What Exactly Is It, Anyway?

Created: 02/08/2010 by Roger Cheng, Wall...  Tags: Cloud Computing

This article by Roger Cheng demystifies cloud computing and provides pointers to small businesses on when to adopt cloud computing. The article also talks about the potential cost savings and reliability of cloud services.

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