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Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

By Chris Kanaracus | 25 May, 2012 17:12

Tags: Internet-based applications and services, cloud computing, internet, Financial / tax, applications, software, Intuit

Customisable Cloud SLAs on the way, researchers predict

Service-level agreements and legal standards for Cloud offerings will become more customised to individual customers and vertical industries as the cloud market continues to mature and providers look for ways to differentiate their offerings, researchers at the University of London predict.

By Brandon Butler | 24 May, 2012 20:30

Tags: University of London, The Cloud, SLAs, service level agreements, Queen Mary, internet, cloud computing

About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

Tags: Software as a service, cloud computing, internet, collaboration, e-mail, applications, software, Google, Microsoft

Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

Tags: Leo Apotheker, Charles Phillips, larry ellison, Application services, services, Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, personnel, business issues, applications, software, hewlett-packard, TomorrowNow, oracle, sap

iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped

Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.

By Matt Hamblen | 24 May, 2012 14:16

Tags: symbian, smartphones, mobile phones, Mobile and Wireless, IT industry, IDC, Gartner, consumer electronics, Apple

Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 13:00

Tags: Software as a service, cloud computing, internet, collaboration, applications, software, Box.net

VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova

VMware has acquired Wanova, a developer of software used to centralize and simplify image management on physical and virtual desktops, the company said Tuesday.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 May, 2012 11:06

Tags: desktop virtualization, Virtualization, system management, software, mergers and acquisitions, business issues, Wanova, VMware

Brocade outlines its SDN approach

Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series 100Gbps routers as part of a broader SDN strategy.

By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 05:30

Tags: SDNs, OpenFlow, Network Virtualization, multi-tenant data centers, internet, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud computing, cloud, brocade

10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

If at first you don’t succeed…

By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 03:33

Tags: service providers, router, LAN & WAN, juniper networks, internet, Ethernet Switch, core routing, cloud computing, Cisco, alcatel-lucent, 100G Ethernet

EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

Tags: Syncplicity, storage, mergers and acquisitions, internet, EMC, cloud computing, business issues

Upcoming Salesforce.com release adds real-time chat capabilities

Salesforce.com, which has placed ample emphasis on its Chatter social networking application, will actually begin providing real-time chat functionality as part of an imminent upgrade to its family of cloud-based software, according to a company document.

By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 05:27

Tags: software, salesforce.com, Internet-based applications and services, internet, customer relationship management, cloud computing, applications

Cloud computing: You can't outsource your compliance obligations

When it comes to moving functions to the cloud, there's no such thing as being too thorough.

By Thomas J. Trappler | 22 May, 2012 02:27

Tags: Regulation, internet, Gov't Legislation/Regulation, government, cloud computing, CA Technologies

Amazon load balancers designed to be simpler to use after console upgrade

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upgraded its management console, allowing IT staff to use it to administer security protocols on the Elastic Load Balancing service, the company said in a blog post.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 21 May, 2012 23:26

Tags: internet, Infrastructure services, cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, amazon.com

Does standardized interoperability in data center fabrics matter?

Despite interoperability trials and demonstrations involving alternative data center fabric standards, a non-standard fabric technology is said by proponents to be at the front of the pack.

By Jim Duffy | 21 May, 2012 20:32

Tags: TRILL, standards, Shortest Path Bridging, MLAG, metro Ethernet, LAN & WAN, internet, extreme networks, Ethernet Switch, Ethernet, data center fabrics, cloud computing, cloud, Avaya, arista, alcatel-lucent

The look ahead to a software-controlled world

The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up.

By John Dix | 21 May, 2012 20:32

Tags: Zynga, zCloud, software defined networking, software defined data center, SDN, OpenFlow, LAN & WAN, Interop Las Vegas, Interop 2012, Interop, internet, hybrid cloud, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud computing, Allan Leinwand

Career Watch: IT jobs on top

Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader:Allan Hackney

By Jamie Eckle | 21 May, 2012 20:11

Tags: Management and Careers, internet, cloud computing

Consider desktops in the cloud for BYOD

Desktop-as-a-Service is an interesting way for IT execs to provide cloud-based Windows desktop sessions, as well as shared resources such as storage. DaaS can help companies roll out new desktops and support Bring Your Own Device policies.

By Tom Henderson | 21 May, 2012 14:29

Tags: Nivio, internet, ICC Global Hosting, dinCloud, desktop as a service, Desktone, comcast, cloud computing, Applications2u

How we tested desktops-as-a-service

We noted the customer intake procedures for each of the five DaaS vendors, focusing on what options and what type of process were used. We set a platform consisting of several Windows 7 virtual machines, as well as a Lenovo T520 running native Windows 7, another T520 running Linux Mint 2, and three MacBooks running Mac OS 5, 6, and 7 respectively, as well as an Apple iPad running iOS 5.

By Tom Henderson | 21 May, 2012 14:29

Tags: VMware, Microsoft, Lenovo, internet, extreme networks, desktop as a service, comcast, cloud computing, Apple

Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option

Flash array start-up Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, today announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.

By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 07:44

Tags: VMware, storage, Networked Storage, network-attached storage

Download the Cloud Applications Deep Dive report

Thanks to the success of Amazon EC2, Salesforce, and other public cloud services, most enterprises understand the value of cloud computing, and an increasing number of enterprises are exploring the idea of getting into the cloud computing business. Why not? Launching a public cloud service may establish a new revenue stream -- or self-service convenience for customers -- with minimal additions to existing infrastructure.

By InfoWorld staff | 16 May, 2012 05:16

Tags: software, managed services, internet, freemium, cloud computing, applications

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