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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

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  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

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  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

• Optus Business to debut new Cloud, mobility services

  Optus Business has revealed plans to expand its portfolio of Cloud computing and enterprise mobility offerings.

  By Dylan Bushell-Embling | 24 May, 2012 15:00

  Tags: Optus Business, cloud computing, cloud

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  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

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  Study: Patriot Act gives US government no special acess to cloud data

  An often-repeated concern that the U.S. Patriot Act gives the U.S. government unequaled access to personal data stored on cloud services is incorrect, with several other nations enjoying similar access to cloud data, according to a study released Wednesday.

  By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 16:02

  Tags: Winston Maxwell, security, Regulation, privacy, Openforum Academy, Marc Rotenberg, legislation, Ivo Opstelten, internet, Hogan Lovells, government, Electronic Privacy Information Center, cloud computing, Christopher Wolf

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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