|
|
|
Get the most up-to-date Cloud Computing news, insight, analysis blogs and product reviews. Covers the latest Cloud Computing topics including utility computing, application delivery, online platforms and services, managed services, service providers, custom and flexible on-demand offerings, grid computing and high availability backup and delivery. eWEEK watches Cloud Computing vendors and products such as Akamai, Amazon, Areti Internet, Enki, Fortress ITX, Joyent, Layered Technologies, Rackspace, Salesforce.com, Force.com Terremark and XCalibre.
Top Cloud Computing News
Microsoft in January nabbed 11.3 percent of the searches in the United States, grabbing market share from market leader Google and sinking search rival Yahoo. comScore claimed Google notched 65.4 percent of U.S. searches, down from 65.7 percent through December 2009. Yahoo claimed an even 17 percent of the market, down from its 17.3 percent share from December. Each month that Yahoo slides in search places greater importance on the company's deal to let Bing power its search results on the back end. In this arrangement, Microsoft will take ownership of Yahoo's search and boost Bing's search share to 28 percent of the market.
News
Websense is pushing a unified architecture that combines data loss prevention, secure Web gateway and e-mail security and allows businesses to manage security tasks whether with on-premises software or in the cloud.
News
Google makes its most aggressive move against Facebook and Twitter yet, launching Google Buzz to let users post status updates and share Picasa photos, YouTube videos, links and other content inside Gmail. Google Buzz will automatically push updates to Gmail users from fellow users with whom they exchange e-mail and engage in chat sessions. Responses to Buzz posts appear in real time, making the feature more relevant now that users have become accustomed to instant feedback on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and other messaging and collaboration sites.
News
Verizon Business reaches out to cost-conscious businesses in need of a security upgrade with two integrated solutions from security firm McAfee.
News
SAP's new management team will have the task of getting the company growing again and restoring a sense of trust in the enterprise applications maker among SAP employees, partners and customers, according to Hasso Plattner, chairman of the company's Supervisory Board.
News
Facebook will no longer be serving banner ads from Microsoft, but this isn't a sign that relations between the companies have grown cold. A Facebook spokesperson said ad formats that feature social actions, or social ads, perform better and can be targeted to the site's 400 million users based on the info they provide about themselves on the site. Altimeter Group analyst Charlene Li wondered if and when Microsoft and Facebook will partner to let Facebook offer social ads, via the Facebook Connect application to extend the social network to third parties, to partner publishers that want to serve social ads on their sites.
News
SAP CEO Leo Apotheker resigned on Feb. 7 after he and the SAP supervisory board "reached a mutual agreement" not to extend Apotheker’s contract as a member of the SAP executive board. SAP named Bill McDermott, head of SAP’s field organization, and Jim Hagermann Snabe, head of product development, as co-CEOs replacing Apotheker as sole CEO.
News
Microsoft experienced a cloud-centric week with Windows Azure, which is now generally available in 21 countries and no longer available for free. Microsoft hopes that the cloud-based platform and its application-building tools for developers will allow it to gain market share in the cloud computing arena, where it faces strong competition from the likes of Google and Amazon. In addition to Azure, Microsoft received some good news on the Windows 7 front, with a new report from Net Applications showing a rising rate of adoption for the new operating system. However, Microsoft continues to face some difficulties in mobile, with the rumor mill suggesting that the company may try to introduce a branded smartphone later this month.
News
Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard said the search engine company will release a version of Google Voice for businesses, roll out Google Wave to all users who want it, and may deliver as many as 200 new features to Google Apps this year. Google Voice offered as part of Google Apps could be a powerful combination for businesses in the market for a UCC (unified communications and collaboration) suite, particularly at a time when companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for UCC from Microsoft or IBM. Google will also release Google Wave, the company's real-time collaboration platform, for all consumers and businesses in 2010.
News
The amended Google Book Search agreement to scan millions of books online and sell them to readers remains in limbo in the wake of the Department of Justice's statement that the deal stands to make Google a monopoly in the digital book market. Not only did the DOJ conclude that the deal would make Google a monopoly power in the nascent e-book space, but it questioned whether the lower court even has the authority to preside over the case. Google, authors and publishers may find themselves back at the bargaining table later this month.
News
Google this: Microsoft and Facebook are broadening their search pact to let Bing power Facebook's Web search return universal features such as images, maps and other information. Facebook will also regain total control over selling its display ads, signaling that the world's leading social network is ready to strike on its own in the competitive display ad market versus Google, Yahoo and, yes, even Microsoft. Jon Tinter, general manager for Microsoft, said in a blog post Feb. 5 that Microsoft will in 2010 provide "full access to great Bing features beyond a set of links, including richer answers combined with tools that help customers make faster, smarter decisions."
News
Facebook, which turned six Feb. 4 and has more than 400 million users, improved its search engine and made several navigational changes to its homepage. The search bar, currently to the right for the majority of the site's users, is being moved to the center of the page, sitting above the News Feed in the top menu. Users will see their newest notifications, requests and messages in the top menu. The changes, designed to improve the social network's usability, will roll out gradually to all users and could spark an outcry from people who have gotten comfortable since the company's last major homepage change in October 2009.
News
The Department of Justice Feb. 4 urged a New York District Court not to bless Google's amended Google Book Search deal with authors and publishers, citing copyright and antitrust issues that render the deal anticompetitive. The DOJ said the deal would let Google be the only competitor in the digital marketplace with the rights to distribute many works in multiple formats. The DOJ further agreed to work with Google, authors and publishers on a viable, fair solution. District Court Judge Denny Chin will hold a hearing on the amended settlement agreement Feb. 18.
News
Microsoft and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a collaboration to provide NSF-supported researchers with free access to the Windows Azure cloud platform and its development tools for three years. The evident hope is that those researchers will leverage the cloud-computing capabilities of the platform to analyze massive amounts of data inherent in large projects. Microsoft made the Windows Azure platform generally available on Feb. 1 in 21 countries, requiring users to pay for the service.
News
News Analysis: Facebook, now a 6-year-old company with about 400 million users, is a major player in the way people consume news all around the world, according to ReadWriteWeb and research company Hitwise. Hitwise found that Facebook was the No. 4 source of visits to news and media sites the week of Jan. 25, after Google (17.3 percent), Yahoo (7.9 percent) and MSN (4.4 percent). Looking forward, Facebook could become a supreme recommendation engine, with users going to the Web 2.0 site to socialize, share and discuss news, and recommend products to buy.
|
|
|
 |
|
Salesforce.com's Eclipse plug-in for targeting the company's Force.com platform provides a seamless development experience for organizations aiming their application efforts cloudward.
The future looks bright for HTML 5, as more browsers and Web apps take advantage of its capabilities, and tablets, which will get a push from major vendors. Storm clouds may be brewing, however, for cloud computing and Google's Chrome OS.
A recent case seems to show that we can lose access to our e-mail accounts and other cloud-based apps for simply avoiding the kinds of e-mails that pretty much everyone would assume were spam.
Organizations need to take care to ensure that applications in the cloud are secure and compliant--and can be proven as such. Experts say the public cloud might not be suitable for some applications right now, but that providers will face increasing pressure to develop systems that can be used securely in a cloud computing environment.
Known in the past for introducing innovations that wouldn't appear in rivals for years, Opera continues to push browser boundaries--just not as much in Version 10 as in previous versions. That said, Opera 10 boosts performance on flaky connections, and offers interface and mail client improvements.
|
|
|
|
| FEATURED SPONSORED MESSAGE |
|
| |
|
| FEATURED SPONSORED MESSAGE |
|
| |
|
|
|
MOST READ CLOUD-COMPUTING STORIES
PAST 7 DAYS
MOST READ CLOUD-COMPUTING STORIES
PAST 30 DAYS
|
|
Cloud Computing 
