A lightening strike in Dublin on Sunday caused a power failure in data centers belonging to Amazon and Microsoft, causing the companies' cloud services to go offline. Lightening struck a transformer, sparking an explosion and fire which caused the power outage at...
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Aug 8, 2011
SOURCE: eWeek As health care companies grapple with whether to adopt cloud computing platforms to store patient data, providers face many choices on which services to choose and how to keep data secure. A recent report by CDW found that health care companies are...
Aug 5, 2011
Device maker HTC Corporation has acquired mobile applications and web services firm Dashwire. Financial details were not disclosed, although The Wall Street Journal reports the deal is valued as high as $18.5 million. Dashwire will continue as a wholly owned HTC...
Aug 5, 2011
Intel Labs has announced two new Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTC) hosted at Carnegie Mellon University focused on cloud and embedded computing research. Aimed at shaping the future of cloud computing and how increasing numbers of everyday devices will add...
Aug 3, 2011
SOURCE: Silicon.com Utility computing has switched quickly from hype to reality, with increasing numbers of organisations moving infrastructures, platforms and even applications to the cloud. What will be some of the next frontiers for on-demand technology and how...
Aug 3, 2011
SOURCE: Birst Birst, Inc., the leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) and analytics, today announced the availability of Birst Mobile for the Apple iPad. Birst Mobile for the iPad provides secure and real-time access to highly...
Aug 2, 2011
Cloud computing offers companies so much more than merely a chance to simplify their IT estates and cut their operational costs. It is a ‘‘game-changer’’, giving businesses a chance to do things substantially differently. So what does the future hold? Just how...
Aug 1, 2011
SOURCE: Cloud Computing Journal After a couple of false starts over the last couple of years, the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) has been resurrected to advocate for royalty-free open standards in cloud computing with a set of Open Cloud Principles (OCP) that are...
Aug 1, 2011
SOURCE: Sys-Con It started out innocently enough with a simple question, “What exactly *is* the model for PaaS services scalability? If based on HTTP/REST API integration, fairly easy. If native middleware… input?” You’ll forgive the odd phrasing – Twitter’s...
Aug 1, 2011
SOURCE: Alibaba Alibaba Cloud Computing ("AliCloud"), developer of advanced data-centric cloud computing services and a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, has unveiled its internally developed cloud-based mobile device operating system, "Aliyun OS." The K-Touch Cloud-Smart...
