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Dell's designs on cloud computing Standing 52 stories in the air at San Francisco's upscale Carnelian Room, executives from Dell, Facebook, and Salesforce.com discussed the meaning and use of the latest technology buzzword, cloud computing. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Dell defends its 'cloud computing' trademark bid Dell's trademark of the ubiquitous, commonly used term "cloud computing" is one of those eyebrow-raising events that immediately begs the question: How is that possible?The simple answer is that Dell is proving Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Dell links up with Salesforce's development platform Dell has reached a three-year deal with Salesforce to use the latter's Force.com development platform to build software for its "entire global workforce," according to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.The deal is the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Dell gets business-savvy with 'E' family laptops Tuesday Dell unveils its new take on the business notebook with its "E" family of laptops. Trying to merge consumer sex appeal with business-savvy notebook features is no easy task--but that isn't stopping Dell from making the attempt. Is the new line merely business Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The dangers of cloud computing The idea of cloud computing -- designed around an architecture whose natural state is a shared pool outside the enterprise -- has gained momentum in recent months as a way to reduce cost and improve IT flexibility. But the use of cloud computing also carries with it s Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Yahoo, Intel, and HP form cloud computing labs Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are partnering for cloud computing research and education in order to advance the development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive Internet-hosted applications and related IT infrastructure. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Cloud computing may draw government action Cloud computing will soon become an area of hot debate in Washington, D.C., with policy makers debating issues such as the privacy and security of data in the cloud, a panel of tech experts said Friday.There are Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM launches four new cloud computing centers IBM opened up cloud computing centers in four countries on Wednesday to let enterprises, universities, and governments test Web-based services and applications.The new cloud computing centers are in Bangalore, I Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Cloud computing pondered at eBay event Officials from companies such as HP and Joyent debated the merits and even the definition of cloud computing Monday during an event at eBay headquarters, emphasizing efforts underway and noting limitations to cloud computing on the software side. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Will the downturn accelerate cloud computing? Facing uncertain economic times, enterprises may be more likely to turn to cloud computing services -- such as SaaS (software as a service), Amazon-style utility computing, and managed service providers -- for the lower up-front costs, the faster time to market, and t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Should enterprises reconsider the cloud? With support for three of the major pillars of application development and deployment -- Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL, and open source MySQL -- under its belt, Amazon.com appears to be anticipating a major move by the enterprise into the cloud. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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In the cloud: What startups need to succeed With Google's recent launch of its App Engine, and with the likes of IBM and Amazon having staked claims, cloud computing is clearly a major development in the IT landscape. The benefits are obvious, enabling enterprises to scale rapidly with a level of performance pr Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Cloudy picture for cloud computing You can call it cloud computing. You can call it grid computing. You can call it on-demand computing. Just don't call it the next big thing -- at least not yet.Efforts by such Web heavyweights as Amazon and Goog Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Google's right, but cloud computing's timeline isn't so clear No doubt cloud computing is going to be the future, but as the last couple of days demonstrated, there's still a lot of remaining spadework. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Gartner: Seven cloud-computing security risks Cloud computing is fraught with security risks, according to analyst firm Gartner. Smart customers will ask tough questions and consider getting a security assessment from a neutral third party before committing to a cloud vendor, Gartner says in a June report titled Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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US Patent Office rains on Dell's 'cloud computing' trademark Claim on the term was a topical storm Dell's grip on a "cloud computing" trademark may not be as solid as it first seemed.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Can you trust your data to storage cloud providers? Michael Witz, founder of online file-sharing site FreeDrive, knows the horror of that proverbial middle-of-the-night call: "The site is down."He lived the nightmare last fall when a fiber link between a Web serv Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM invests big in two new cloud-computing centers IBM is building a $360 million cloud-computing data center in North Carolina that the company calls its most sophisticated datacenter ever, and is opening a new facility in Tokyo designed to help customers pilot their own cloud infrastructures and applications, IBM an Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Report: Cloud computing poised for enterprise adoption Gartner has named cloud computing, green IT and social-computing platforms among technologies that are poised to reach broad enterprise adoption in the next two to five years.The report "Hype Cycle for Emerging Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Ballmer's cloud computing memo timed for election's winner With next week's presidential election, the nation's capitol is about to experience the mother-of-all platform changes, and that's why Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's cloud computing memo, titled "A Platform for the Next Technology Revolution," seems especially well tim Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |