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    1. Is HP Ready to Take on Amazon in the Cloud?

      Explore internetnews.com (Mar 14 2011) Cloud Computing

      Is HP Ready to Take on Amazon in the Cloud? Perhaps the biggest news from the event was Apotheker's promise to take on all rivals and make HP a premier provider across a range of cloud services. Not only does HP plan to roll out cloud services in competition with Amazon Web Services, the company also plans to have an online app marketplace that would compete with Apple for consumers, SMB and enterprise applications and services. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Hewlett Packard

    2. Cloud IT a $1.6B Business in 2011: IDC

      Explore internetnews.com (Jan 6 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

      Cloud IT a $1.6B Business in 2011: IDC The cloud will be discussed everywhere in 2011, but how much money actually is there in the cloud business? In a live webcast event this week, analyst firm IDC's Research Vice-President Cindy Borovick forecast a $1.6 billion cloud market in 2011. Borovick's forecast is not for the entire cloud services ecosystem, but rather is a subset of IDC's data center and networking forecast. The $1.6 billion figure is IDC's projection for network equipment revenues used to power both public and private cloud deployments in 2011. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Interactive Data Corporation

    3. Microsoft Apologizes for Cloud Outage

      Explore internetnews.com (Aug 25 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

      Microsoft Apologizes for Cloud Outage Microsoft has emerged recently as perhaps the most vocal proponents of the cloud. It certainly wasn't the first to embrace the new model of computing as a service, and many would argue that it's not the best. But the company is there now, and this week it received a reminder about the basics of always-on service. For more than two hours on Monday, some customers in North America were unable to access many of Microsoft's most popular services, including the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft Corp

    4. Federal IT's Cloud Efforts Probed by Congress

      Explore internetnews.com (Jul 1 2010) Cloud Computing

      Federal IT's Cloud Efforts Probed by Congress U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra and others give an update on the progress, pros and cons of government's move to the cloud, as Congress weighs the benefits of data center consolidation against security considerations. Just as many enterprises are weighing the benefits and the costs of adopting cloud computing for some or all of their infrastructure, so too is the U.S. federal government. Of course, it's going to be a long and complex process to revamp government IT policy and processes to before U.S. agencies can fully leverage the cloud. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra today gave a House committee an update on the government's progress in migrating to a more efficient IT organization, while also facing questions about the cloud's long-term payoff and security concerns -- both areas familiar to private-sector CIOs looking to justify a transition to a cloud-based infrastructure. Datamation has the story. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Vivek Kundra

    5. New Software Disrupts Data Center and BI Markets

      Explore internetnews.com (Jun 23 2009) Cloud Computing

      New Software Disrupts Data Center and BI Markets Virtualization, cloud computing, and service oriented architectures (SOA) are all driving change in the vital data center management and business intelligence markets. These products, which connect mission critical systems to each other, are moving to the Web as software sublimates, turning assets that were once physical into services delivered over the Web. Most of these products are built by young insurgent companies and not by the incumbents (but not all -- Cisco's doing it too). AccelOps is one such young and upcoming company, founded in 2007 in Santa Clara, California. Today, AccelOps announced that its datacenter management solution is available as a SaaS offering and as a virtual appliance for customers using VMware. (Read Full Article)