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<item><title>Gartner Predict Rise of ‘Cloud Service Brokerages`</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:56:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[As cloud computing environments become more commonplace and complex, users will have a difficult time integrating the various cloud services and ensuring their integrity, according to Gartner. That will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service brokerages,” which will essentially negotiate the relationship between the end users and providers and make it easier for businesses to manage their cloud services.<br/>   -  As the use of cloud
computing grows and the model becomes more complex, end users are going to
need help integrating the various combinations of services, according to
research firm Gartner.
The need will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service
brokerages,” or third parties whose jo...]]></description>
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<item><title>Google Apps End Their State of Permanent Beta</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:46:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[With its recent move to peel back the beta label from Gmail and other Google Apps, Google has admitted that lots of companies aren't comfortable with using beta products.<br/>   -  Finally,
our long national nightmare is over. No, Im not talking about the
economy, thats still a mess.

No,
what Im talking about is the misguided and confusing practice of
referring to products as beta that are intended to be used by people
and businesses. In the same week that they announc...]]></description>
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<item><title>Enterprise Not in Love with Software as a Service, Gartner Finds</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:34:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[A new survey by research firm Gartner found that businesses were relatively lukewarm to software as a service, suggesting that, despite the hype, these applications need more work in order to gain full acceptance within the enterprise. Those who declined to use SAAS cited high costs, difficulty with integration and failure to meet technical requirements as primary reasons.<br/>   -  A new survey by research firm Gartner shows that not everyone
in the enterprise is overwhelmed with love for software as a service, even as it becomes an increasingly
mainstream aspect of business life. According to the attendant survey, much of
the dissatisfaction stems from less-than-ideal inte...]]></description>
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<item><title>Free Zoho Plug-in Continues Microsoft Migration to the Cloud</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:55:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Zoho continues to create plug-ins to let users migrate data created in Microsoft's on-premise applications to Zoho's cloud computing application environments. The latest free plug-in, Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Access, lets users import their data from Microsoft Access database applications to Zoho Creator. The idea is to help Microsoft customers migrate to Zoho's SAAS suites.<br/>   -  






Zoho July 9 released Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Access, a free software
add-on to let Microsoft users migrate database information housed on their
desktop computers to the Internet cloud.
As the moniker suggests,
Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Access lets users import their database in...]]></description>
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<item><title>CSC to Resell Microsoft Cloud Services</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:45:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[CSC announces an agreement with Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell the software giant's cloud-based online services.<br/>   -  CSC has announced an agreement with
Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell cloud-based Microsoft online
services.
Under the agreement, CSC will resell the
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online
Services. The move is an expansion of a cloud services an...]]></description>
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<item><title>Labs Gallery: Firefox 3.5 Provides Significant Improvements</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:24:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[On the surface it may look like not much has changed in the new version of the Mozilla Web browser, but Firefox 3.5 is actually a very significant improvement, fixing many of the key flaws of previous versions of Firefox and adding some nice new capabilities under the hood. Among the welcome new features are greatly improved speed and stability, a private browsing feature and location-aware capabilities. Also, Firefox 3.5 includes a very good implementation of the forthcoming HTML 5 standard, which allows for cutting-edge interaction in Web pages and makes video as much a part of the browser and the Web as images and text are.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Canonical Launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:36:07 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu Linux project, has launched new professional services to help and support users building private clouds.<br/>   -  Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, has launched new professional services to help and support users building private clouds.
In an interview with eWEEK, Simon Wardley, head of cloud strategy at
Canonical, said the new services follow up on Canonical's preview
release of the Ubuntu Ente...]]></description>
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<item><title>HP Launches New Cloud Consulting Services</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:13:21 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[HP is offering new consulting services designed to help enterprises develop and implement a cloud computing strategy. The services complement cloud computing offerings that Hewlett-Packard already had in place. The goal is to help businesses take advantage of the cost savings promised by cloud computing. Other technology vendors such as IBM and Sun Microsystems are rolling out services designed to make it easier for businesses to develop the incremental steps necessary for adopting cloud computing.<br/>   -  Hewlett-Packard is rolling out several new consulting services focusing on
cloud computing.
The services unveiled June 23 are part of a larger package of enterprise
consulting services HP already has in place, including services designed to
help businesses move into the cloud computing arena.
H...]]></description>
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<item><title>Logicworks Offers Private Cloud Service</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:06:49 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Logicworks, which offers hosted solutions, is making the move into cloud computing. Logicworks is offering its Private Cloud service, which is based on VMwares Virtual Infrastructure virtualization platform and is designed to give businesses a way to acquire and use IT assets without the costs and management hassles. A Logicworks Private Cloud includes at least two VMware ESX servers and two iSCSI servers for redundancy.<br/>   -  To Ken Ziegler, president and chief operating officer at managed
hosting provider Logicworks, moving into the cloud is just a natural
extension for his company.
That is the impetus behind Logicworks Private Cloud offering, which the company unveiled June 17.
Based on VMwares Virtual Infrastructu...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Clarifies Its Cloud Approach</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:42:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Following a five-year-long, multibillion-dollar development effort, IBM is making available a new portfolio of cloud computing products and services that it claims will provide corporate users with ease of use to rival the consumer Web.<br/>   -  IBM has been trying to
get its Big Blue arms around cloud computing for a while, perhaps because the
cloud is one of the few things in IT that IBM didn't help invent.

The vision from Armonk, N.Y., was fuzzy for a couple of years, but now the glasses
are on and the focus appears to be sharpenin...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM to Unveil Cloud Computing Products, Strategy: Report</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:32:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[IBM will announce a number of new cloud computing products and services June 16, according to The New York Times. In addition, IBM will unveil plans for a new research lab fo-cused on cloud computing. The initial plans will be for a bundle of hardware, software and services aimed at soft-ware developers and testers, and an-other targeting virtual desktop envi-ronments. The moves come at a time when every major IT player, including HP, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, Google and Amazon, are making deeper in-roads into the cloud.<br/>   -  IBM is preparing to roll out a host of products and services focused on cloud computing, according to a published report.
IBM June 16 will unveil the first of its offerings and offer a road map for its cloud computing plans, The New York Times reported.
The offerings will be delivered through bund...]]></description>
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<item><title>Apple Safari 4 Is Like Whole New Browser</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:13:12 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[In previous versions of Apple Safari, the Web browser was a capable if somewhat basic and utilitarian tool for surfing the Web. But with the release of Safari 4, Apple has gone in a very new direction, creating one of the most attractive and interactive browsers on the market today. Borrowing liberally from Apples iTunes, Safari 4 provides visually attractive site tracking and searching tools that help users scan through their favorite sites. Along with its excellent standards support and other strong browser features, Apples Safari 4 has gained considerable ground on its browser competitors.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Google Must Unleash Gmail to Meet Enterprise Needs</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:43:50 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Gmail pretty much has what it takes to satisfy individual requirements, but Google needs to free Gmail and Google Apps from its own data centers before the enterprise will really sit up and take notice.<br/>   -  Of the all the e-mail clients I've tried be they Web-, desktop- or mobile-based Google's Gmail is, without question, my favorite. Gmail interface elements such as conversation grouping and message archiving match the way I like to work, and I appreciate Gmail's points of integration with complementa...]]></description>
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<item><title>Understanding Cloud Economics</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:11:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[In this eWEEK podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the general manager for managed hosting at Terremark, Randy Rowland, explains why cloud computing is going to become the primary way IT services get delivered to the enterprise.<br/>   -  Audio Podcast Content....]]></description>
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<item><title>Managing Identity in the Cloud</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:03:33 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Managing-Identity-in-the-Cloud-666996/?kc=rss</link>
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<![CDATA[In this eWEEK podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the chief architect for Layer 7 Technologies, Scott Morrison, outlines the challenges that IT organizations will face trying to manage identities across federated clouds of computing.<br/>   -  Audio Podcast Content....]]></description>
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