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Cloudy Days: Trio Of Vendors Announce Pair Of Cloud-Computing Initiatives
Two new cloud-computing deals show just how much the technology continues to gain traction among traditional IT players. -- Nov 11, 2008
Salesforce.com Extends Platform To Host Web Sites
Salesforce.com is broadening its cloud with a hosted service that lets subscribers build and run Web sites using its Force.com platform. -- Nov 3, 2008
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Google Apps Looks To The Future
In the wake of yesterday's announcement of Labs for Google Apps, I just happened to get a chance to sit down with a Google project manager on the apps enterprise team. He offered some insight into the company's plans to differentiate its products. -- Oct 29, 2008
Yahoo's Zimbra Joins The Cloud Club
Yahoo's Zimbra is becoming a hosted service provider in its own right, for the first time taking its open-source, Web-based messaging and collaboration application straight to a select customer segment. -- Oct 28, 2008
Microsoft Unleashes Cloud OS: Red Dog
Into the intersection of contracting IT budgets due to the financial crisis and gathering momentum for cloud computing steps Microsoft with Azure, a platform that allows developers to create cloud-computing architectures run from (where else?) Microsoft servers. -- Oct 27, 2008
We Have Lift-Off: IBM Launches Lotus Notes Into The Cloud
Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a rocket from India, AND it's Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging, a software-as-a-service version of IBM's popular e-mail offering. -- Oct 23, 2008
What Traditional Software Vendors Are Saying About Cloud Computing
At today's Cloud Summit in Silicon Valley, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka gave a thoughful analysis of why he thinks cloud computing isn't ready for prime time. But is that an honest assessment or just the stance of traditional software vendor worried about being outflanked? -- Oct 14, 2008
Egnyte's On Demand File Server For The iPhone
What would you say to a single solution that centralized storage, collaboration, and backup in an on-demand infrastructure for $15 per user per month? Oh and it works on the iPhone too. The power of cloud computing realized or more cloud vapor? -- Oct 14, 2008
Online E-Mail Archiving Attracts Google, Symantec
The last thing I want hanging around is a 10-year-old e-mail, but both Google and Symantec today announced new developments concerning online e-mail archiving. -- Oct 8, 2008
Crisis Suvival Kit: Helpful Examples From The Cloud
An on-demand financial services vendor points to a couple of companies who are betting on cloud computing to cope with the current economic troubles. -- Oct 8, 2008
Gmail Account Blockages Show Service Problem With Free Services
Forgot or (mistyped) your Gmail password? Be careful how many times you try and fail to get it right. You just might find your account cut off. And then you'll find just how hard it is to get service from the service. -- Oct 6, 2008
IBM Expands Cloud Services
IBM has released a series of cloud computing services, including a social networking and online collaboration beta that promises secure, cross-company communication. -- Oct 6, 2008
Free Cloudmail Continuity Offer From LiveOffice
Snailmail may be immune to rain, sleet snow, etc. but heavy weather can wreak heavy damage -- and outright interruption and downtime -- on your e-mail traffic. A new free service from LiveOffice argues that the solution to storm clouds' potential for disruption lies in the digital Cloud. -- Sep 29, 2008
Risky Employee Web Use: Cloud Storms Gathering
How are you going to keep them on task when they can go to the Web? is not only a productivity question, it's a growing security concern. A new study indicates the concern is growing fast. -- Sep 23, 2008
Cloud Computing Isn't Just FOR Small Companies, It's Also BY Small Companies
Cloud computing is a hot area for innovation, and who better to innovate than entrepreneurial startups? Check out these 20 companies to watch. -- Sep 22, 2008
Amazon Floats The Cloud Closer To End Users
Amazon continues to spread its cloud-computing wings with a new content-delivery service it says will help businesses get their files onto their customers' computing systems via the Internet quicker than ever. -- Sep 19, 2008
Even Hockey Moms Not Safe: Palin Hack Shows Cloudmail Security Concerns
The hacking of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account is a reminder of the vulnerability of Web-based mail -- and that's a cause for concern, or at least heightened vigilance, whatever side of the political spectrum you mail from. -- Sep 18, 2008
ZoooS and Zoho Boost Cloud-Based Alternatives To Microsoft Office
At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week, ZoooS and Zoho offered new evidence that productivity software is moving to the cloud. -- Sep 5, 2008
Network Security Scares You Most: Survey
Even as the cloud and related next-new-things beckon, it's your traditional networks -- and the challenge of protecting them and the data they contain -- that holds top spot among IT concerns, a new survey from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) reports. -- Sep 3, 2008
Google's Chrome: It's All About The Cloud
Google's release of its new open source Web browser, Chrome, has everyone abuzz. But the most significant aspect of this new browser is its emphasis on running applications, not just showing pages. Time to hop on the cloud. -- Sep 3, 2008
Leaked Documents, Unintended Access: That's Also Life In The Cloud
Running a business in the cloud, or even part of a business, is great for so many reasons: It's cheap (sometimes free), incredibly convenient, and simple. But life on your private little cloud can get unintentionally, and unknowingly, crowded with extra eyes if you're not very careful. -- Aug 29, 2008
Outage At Microsoft's Office Live: That's Life In The Cloud
Users of Microsoft's Office Live Small Business recently experienced a brief e-mail outage. I'm guessing they have a lot to talk about with users of Apple's MobileMe and Google's Gmail. -- Aug 28, 2008
QuickBooks Climbs Into The Cloud
"SMBs are at an interesting point right now. When they open for business they don't think about main street, they think across the county, they think globally. The days of the yellow pages are gone." -- Aug 18, 2008
SMBs Say "Show Me" When It Comes To Cloud Computing
There's so much cloud computing talk right now, it borders on inescapable. But smaller businesses have been taking a wait and see approach, holding steady until the mists fade and reveal a clear path to follow. That reticence may have saved some from missteps, while costing others opportunity, but now the clouds may be lifting. -- Aug 8, 2008
Dell's Cloud Computing Trademark Play Shows Chutzpah, Hubris
Today's news reports indicate that Dell is trying to trademark the term "cloud computing." The nerve! Just because Michael Dell is very very rich doesn't mean he gets to own everything. -- Aug 4, 2008
Using Cloud Computing To Beat The Enterprise
Many enterprises remain reluctant to embrace cloud computing. They have their reasons, but this could be a big opportunity for smaller companies. -- Jul 3, 2008
New Backup Options Blur The Line Between Physical and Virtual Storage
NovaStor's new NovaBACKUP 10 data protection and disaster recovery software for Windows lets small busineses store data locally and online in the cloud. -- May 30, 2008
Google Docs Shifts Into High Gear
Can you guess what new feature Google Docs just introduced? Here's a hint: It doesn't involve a talking paperclip. -- Apr 28, 2008
Salesforce, Google Merge Their "Clouds"
What do Google Apps, Salesforce and Lava Lamps have in common? I'm not sure either, except that they all starred in a lavish lunch held this afternoon to announce the integration of the two on-demand software suites into a single "cloud computing" solution. -- Apr 14, 2008
Amazon Had a Very Bad Day. But Keep Reaching for Those Clouds
Much was made of the problems Amazon's Web services had last week. Its data storage service was down for a few hours, leaving many smaller businesses in the lurch. Is cloud computing not the knight in Web storage armor small businesses had hoped for? -- Feb 19, 2008
Is Hardware Dead?
As the Internet "cloud" lets Amazon, Yahoo! and EMC's Mozy rent computing power at bargain prices, is there a still reason for small and midsize companies to buy their own machines? -- Jan 25, 2008
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