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Introduction to the Business of Cloud
by Ilyas Iyoob
Cloud computing is just a fancy way of saying computing via the network. A relatively new concept, made possible by virtualization and advancements in technology, cloud computing provides many benefits. However, organizations must....
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Another Sunny Day for Cloud Company NetSuite
February 03 2012 - AllThingsD.com
By: Arik Hesseldahl
You know, this whole cloud computing thing might just turn out to be something after all. NetSuite, the cloud-based software outfit that businesses use to, well, run their businesses, just reported its latest quarterly and annual results, and the results are pretty good.
BMC, VCE to Jointly Enhance Converged Infrastructures in Cloud Computing
February 02 2012 - CBR
By: CBR Staff Writer
They will collaborate across other areas of the BMC Business Service Management platform Business service management firm BMC Software and Virtual Computing Environment (VCE), a company formed by Cisco and EMC, have partnered to address the demand for converged infrastructures in cloud computing projects. Under the partnership, BMC and VCE will enhance the interoperability and integration of their products and collaborate to promote and offer their offerings in the market. The VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platform is integrated with BMC's business-centric cloud management offerings to help joint customers for BMC and VCE automate their management of comprehensive cloud infrastructures.
Cloud Computing: Facebook IPO to Dwarf Recent Groupon, Zynga, LinkedIn Stock Market Debuts
February 02 2012 - eWeek.com
By: Clint Boulton
Facebook filed for its initial public offering as expected Feb. 1, ending a week of hype, buzz and punditry that had financial and Internet analysts predicting the social network giant's initial public offering would be the biggest in the history of the Internet. The company will trade under the ticker symbol “FB,” but has not revealed whether it will trade on the NASDAQ or NYSE. While Facebook will go on touting its Like buttons for Web publishers and hawking its Timeline user interface for consumers and applications alike, the company's financial statements will be poked, prodded and pored over by hundreds of experts looking to divine just how big an Internet player Facebook is now and can become 5, 10, 15 years down the road.
AMD's New Plan: Focus on Tablets, Cloud Computing and Developing Markets
February 02 2012 - engadget.com
By: Michael Gorman
Chipzilla has long been atop the PC chip manufacturing mountain, with AMD running a rather distant second. That's why AMD's new top man, Rory Read, plans to move the company in a more mobile direction. Speaking at the company's analyst day, Read stated that the chipmaker will focus on outflanking Intel in the tablet space and by growing its business in cloud computing and emerging markets like China.

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Article: The Hard Part About Rolling Up Clouds
November 11 2012
By: Jeff Kaplan - Founder & Managing Director at THINKstrategies, Inc
Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) recent acquisition of RightNow (Nasdaq: RNOW) raises a question: Can multiple cloud companies be merged together to form a tightly coupled suite of solutions like those which were promised but never delivered during the client-server era? On the face of things, it would appear that merging cloud companies together should be relatively easy and straightforward since many of them already interconnect with the advent of application program interfaces (APIs). Alas, not every cloud company is built the same. Like snowflakes, cloud company architectures, programming languages and a myriad of other operational pieces and parts can differ dramatically.
Paper: Compliance Auditing in Future Web-based Infrastructures PDF
June 14 2012
By: Benoit Hudzia - Sr Researcher at SAP Research
Jonathan Sinclair - Research Associate at SAP Research
Businesses today are required to comply with a litany of legislation, regulations and standards. However, with an in- creasing utilisation of the internet for delivering products as services, challenges arise in assessing and maintaining com- pliance. We propose to discuss an architecture that attempts to leverage the dynamism of service-based infrastructures in order to process the real-time compliance state of a system.
Article: The dirty business of cleaning the Cloud with SOPA
January 31 2012
By: Ian Bergin - Cloud Evangelist at CloudedIssues.com
A look at how SOPA-type legislation can, & will undermine the growth, success & viability of Cloud Computing in the face of the recent closure of MegaUpload, especially to Small to Medium businesses caught in the crossfire between the rights holders & the Internet.
Article: Latest on Cloud ComputingPredictions, New Offerings and Other News
January 30 2012
By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
1) AWS Storage Gateway 2) Other Predictions 3) Information Age’s 2012 reader survey 4) Unisys 2012 Predictions for Cloud Computing 5) How Cloud Redefines Our Most Important Business Technology 6) Relationships 7) Amazon’s Expanding Ventures in Cloud Computing 8) Enterprise Going Strong on Green IT Initiatives 9) Cloud computing fuels the economy and creates jobs 10) Amazon Embraces Flexibility 11) ATMs using cloud computing for security 12) Dell Introduces 200-VM Server for Private Cloud

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