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• Amazon cuts off Wikileaks after U.S. senator's call

  Amazon has stopped hosting the Wikileaks website, according to U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent.

  By Nancy Gohring | 02 December, 2010 08:29

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, wikileaks, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services

• Study: Oracle users have big private cloud plans

  While many Oracle customers are interested in running IT services on private clouds, most are still in the early stages of development, a new study from the Independent Oracle Users Group has found.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 30 November, 2010 04:22

  Tags: development platforms, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, Oracle

• Salesforce.com will not move beyond CRM

  Salesforce.com does not plan to spread its wings to offer its large customer base other applications besides its customer relationship management (CRM) applications, a company executive said.

  By John Ribeiro | 11 November, 2010 22:46

  Tags: Salesforce.com, development platforms, Software as a service, cloud computing, intel, internet, Infrastructure services

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  Microsoft fills out Hyper-V cloud ecosystem

  Microsoft has partnered with six major hardware vendors to provide reference architectures that should help enterprises build private IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)-styled clouds, the company announced Monday.

  By Joab Jackson | 09 November, 2010 04:03

  Tags: virtualization, Microsoft, Managed Services, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, virtualisation

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  Oracle revs up cloud API

  Joining a number of other vendors and multi-vendor initiatives in the race to standardize cloud computing, Oracle has released a set of APIs for running a private cloud that the company hopes will become an industry standard.

  By Joab Jackson | 04 November, 2010 02:35

  Tags: development platforms, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, Oracle

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  Cloud market lets users buy cheap excess compute power

  Enomaly has launched a compute market that will let anyone shop for low-cost, no-frills compute power offered by a variety of providers.

  By Nancy Gohring | 02 November, 2010 06:52

  Tags: Enomaly, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services

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  Amazon offering EC2 access at no charge

  Amazon Web Services is rolling out an offer on Nov. 1 for new customers that provides one year of access to a "micro instance" on its Elastic Compute Cloud, as well as a number of other services, at no charge.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 October, 2010 05:06

  Tags: business issues, Amazon Web Services, amazon ec2, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services

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  Joyent adds Windows, Linux support

  Joyent is now hosting applications built on Windows and Linux, opening the door to Web application providers who have some components built on those operating systems.

  By Nancy Gohring | 20 October, 2010 03:04

  Tags: cloud computing, internet, Joyent, Infrastructure services

• IBM to help telcos become cloud providers

  With a package of products and services, IBM is hoping to help telcos offer cloud services to enterprises.

  By Nancy Gohring | 15 October, 2010 04:29

  Tags: IBM, development platforms, Software as a service, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services

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  Credit Suisse saves power with virtualization

  Banking giant Credit Suisse has found a way to stem its seemingly ever-growing need for electricity, through the use of virtualization.

  By Joab Jackson | 09 October, 2010 06:20

  Tags: virtualization, Credit Suisse, Server Virtualization, finance, Managed Services, cloud computing, industry verticals, internet, Infrastructure services

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  Lustre settles into post-Oracle life

  Despite reassurances from Oracle, advocates of yet another ex-Sun Microsystems technology are voicing concern about the future of their software. In this latest case, the technology is Lustre, a file system widely used across the supercomputing community.

  By Joab Jackson | 01 October, 2010 04:25

  Tags: Clusters, supercomputers, storage, hardware systems, software, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, Oracle, Storage Management, High performance

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  Even Amazon.com doesn't exclusively use the cloud

  Amazon Web Services has its roots in the needs of Amazon.com, the retailer, but that doesn't mean that all of the book seller's operations run on Web Services.

  By Nancy Gohring | 30 September, 2010 05:26

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

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  More join HP, Intel and Yahoo on Open Cirrus cloud test bed

  Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo have recruited more backers for Open Cirrus, their joint, open source project for cloud computing research.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 28 September, 2010 02:30

  Tags: Yahoo, development platforms, Software as a service, cloud computing, intel, internet, Infrastructure services, Hewlett-Packard

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  IBM code unfetters virtual workloads

  Some of the first fruits of a European Union-funded project led by IBM are making their way into the field of cloud computing, in the form of a virtual machine migration technology.

  By Joab Jackson | 04 September, 2010 07:23

  Tags: virtualization, Server Virtualization, IBM, storage, Storage virtualization, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, Storage Management

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  RackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in

  Rackspace's contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary players like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), according to some observers.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 20 July, 2010 04:02

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, open source, Citrix Systems, development platforms, software, cloud computing, Infrastructure services, OpenStack, VMware, rackspace, Dell, amazon ec2