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Cloud computing is an increasingly broad topic that encompasses everything from Google Apps to data center services to virtualization to software-, infrastructure- and platform-as-a service. Technology executives are increasingly interested in cloud computing as a way to save money. Nevertheless, cloud adoption remains in the single digits amid security concerns. Rest assured that cloud computing is a game changer. Key players include: IBM, HP, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com, NetSuite, VMware as well as dozens of others.
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Barracuda Networks plans Australian cloud within months
Storage, backup and security appliance provider Barracuda Networks will launch an Australia-based cloud service within months as it upscales its international investment to support the extension of its core capabilities into the cloud.
Structure 2013: Amazon CTO offers forecast for cloud market
The "cloud father" also shares some lessons to be learned from the evidently winning strategy at Amazon Web Services.
Workday CEO on Oracle, Dropbox, and the CIO role at Structure 2013
Workday's chief offers suggestions for the best approach for dumping legacy systems for the cloud.
First Windows, now Xbox: Why Microsoft is listening to the masses
Microsoft is actually listening and responding to customer feedback. That's a refreshing change from the policies of some divisions over the last few years.
Which Microsoft apps are supported (and not) on Windows Azure?
Wondering which Microsoft apps and services are validated and supported on Windows Azure for running in virtual machine? Here's the list.
Kim Dotcom: Petabytes of Megaupload users' data has been destroyed
An enraged Dotcom says European web hosting company LeaseWeb is guilty of 'the largest data massacre in the history of the internet'.
AMD exec at Structure 2013: The one-size-fits-all hardware era is over
"For a long time in this industry, we just sat around for a more efficient processor to come out and put that on a motherboard. Those days are over," according to an AMD executive.
SHI's cloud mantra: Keep IT involved
With more than $4.45 billion in annual sales, the reseller has close ties to Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Dell, Microsoft, Symantec, and VMware.
Zetta.net speeds up cloud backup solution
The service provider has nabbed $8 million in venture funding, bringing its total backing to $39.5 million.
Cloud, automation to alter offshore outsourcing equation
Offshore outsourcing may begin to lose its appeal as technology management is increasingly automated.
Oracle's Q4 and beyond: Five big issues
Hardware, Mark Hurd, open source databases and cloud computing are among the big question marks that need to be answered for Oracle.
Aussie cloud adoption sluggish, but not for long: IBM
As more cloud providers set up shop in Australia, local organisations are getting more comfortable with adopting cloud services, according to IBM.
Think like Amazon to beat superficial mobile banking: ANZ Bank CIO
Mobile banking boosts customer transaction levels, but its impersonality erodes relationships — and opens big-bank customers to poaching from smaller, nimbler opponents. ANZ CIO Anne Weatherston explains how one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest banks is fighting back.
Adobe hits Q2 targets while boasting record digital publishing figures
UPDATED: Adobe CEO's comments hint at customer (dis)satisfaction over jump from desktop to cloud versions of the Creative Suite.
Blue Marble Media shows how mid-market cloud selling gains new life via Ariba Discovery
Blue Marble Media in Atlanta has been using so-called spot-buying capabilities on the Ariba Network and Ariba Discovery to find new sales channels and new clients in the cloud.