Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency
Businesses should use caution when procuring cloud services, according to the European agency charged with promoting IT security good practice.
Businesses should use caution when procuring cloud services, according to the European agency charged with promoting IT security good practice.
A tenth of all outsourcing spend over 2010 will have gone on cloud services including software, business processes and infrastructure as a service, according to analyst firm Gartner
Consumer tech makers such as Twitter are setting the pace in the workplace, Marc Benioff says as Salesforce announces social-networking app Chatter Mobile
IT management will increasingly focus on cloud services and managing virtual infrastructure in hosted environments, said VMware at the launch of a number of cloud products
The Deltacloud project aims to provide a 'cloud broker' API that will allow applications, scripts and tools to be created once and then used across public and private clouds
Microsoft is recovering from an outage lasting hours that prevented people around the world from accessing web mail and other Windows Live cloud-based services
The Progress Thru Processors Facebook application allows people to donate their unused processor time to research into climate change, cancer and malaria
The company has launched a private cloud offering that will also be repackaged and resold with optional services from companies including Fujitsu, Dell and HP
The security company will collaborate with companies on building identity verification products for use in cloud computing
Businesses on a standard cloud contract should not expect providers to accept responsibility for data breaches, say Microsoft and Dell lawyers