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:Â PR Newswire Elsevier Business Intelligence, the biopharma industry's leading provider of strategic business intelligence and conferences, is hosting Windhover's 21st Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances (PSA) September 21-23, 2011 at the Millennium Broadway in...
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
SOURCE:Â FierceHealthIT drchrono, the company modernizing healthcare through a free Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform on the iPad, announced today that its free iPad app has received official government certification that will result in doctors receiving $44,000...
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:Â 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 1, 2011
SOURCE:Â 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:Â 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...
Aug 1, 2011
SOURCE:Â The Washington Post A commission of cloud computing industry leaders is recommending that federal officials provide clearer standards and better policies and processes geared to Internet-based applications and services. Read More
Jul 25, 2011
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, as one of eight companies in the large business category to participate in a five-year technology and...
