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MegaUpload Update: Founder Denied Bail Over Flight Risk Concerns

MegaUpload's founder Kim Dotcom was denied bail Wednesday by a New Zealand judge.

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Tibco Adds Geolocation to Its Tibbr Social Platform

Tibbr 3.5 also features new HTML5-based mobile capabilities

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Amazon Web Services Moves Backups to Cloud with New Appliance

The appliance costs $125 per month, while storage capacity and data transfer is extra

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Startup Piston 'Ready for Fight' with VMware

Having just released its new cloud operating system, Piston Cloud Computing finds itself in a contentious position -- and company co-founder Josh McKenty says that is exactly where the company wants to be.

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Out with SOPA, in with Cloud

Count us among the critics of SOPA and PIPA, the two ill-conceived bills that were intended to protect American firms against copyright infringement by foreign websites.

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Former NASA OpenStack Researchers Enter Private Cloud Market with Piston Enterprise OS

Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to addressing friends and colleagues at his company's launch party.

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The Patriot Act and Your Data: Should You Ask Cloud Providers About Protection?

Does the USA Patriot Act give the U.S. government too much access to data stored on the cloud servers of American providers regardless of where those servers are located? That's the concern among European IT leaders.

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What Megaupload's Demise Teaches About Cloud Storage

Takedown of the file-sharing site over copyright violations provides a warning about being careful where you store stuff.

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Open Group Publishes Standards to Align Cloud Strategies

The Open Group has published two industry standards that enable businesses to integrate SOA (service orientated architecture) and cloud computing

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NetApp's Tom Georgens: How We Got Big, Stayed Nimble, and View Storage Today

In an exclusive interview, NetApp CEO Tom Georgens talks about virtualization, the private cloud, and how his company defines big data

 
Virtualization and cloud are driving new requirements for data center network performance, VM support, automation and simplified orchestration. This paper outlines Extreme Networks® open fabric approach to high speed, low latency networks for modern data centers.
On March 14, IBM announced "Smarter Commerce", a strategic initiative that addresses the surging market for Commerce 2.0 solutions that take advantage of the convergence of a number of disruptive software and hardware technologies.
Enterprise storage has undergone many changes in recent years - with converged storage and infrastructure 2.0 paving the way for reduced IT infrastructure costs and greater performance. This report discusses the latest trends that are setting the stage for the next era of computing. Learn about the new infrastructure and storage trends that are changing the way business storage works today.
In most companies, the needs of the business are outpacing what IT can deliver. Technology is the foundation and enabler of business innovation, but developing and implementing new solutions is resource-intensive. Integrating and optimizing islands of IT is complex, time-consuming and costly.

However, implementing a private cloud can be complex and daunting. HP's solution, CloudSystem Matrix, helps you build a turnkey private cloud environment to deliver the benefits of the cloud to your business users. Read now to find out how the HP CloudSystem Matrix can enable you to move quickly to a private cloud model.
Cloud computing continues to grow in popularity among the IT industry. And more businesses are advertising that they are the front runner for providing the best cloud services. However, in this race to remain top dog, IT pros remain unsure of what cloud computing is and the benefits it can bring to their organization.
This white paper examines IT management challenges from a fundamental and system standpoint. In addition, it introduces the concept of a service-oriented and automated approach to IT management.
Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and enterprise campus network infrastructures for the Cloud, and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance.
VMware recently announced VMware vFabric™ Data Director, a new database deployment and operations platform that enables enterprise IT organizations to offer database as a private cloud service. Built on top of VMware vSphere 5, vFabric Data Director enables IT organizations to ontrol database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement and accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management. Attend this webcast to learn how vFabric Data Director can help you build database-as-a-service in your datacenter.
InfoWorld contributing editor and consultant David Linthicum offers expert advice about choosing services to outsource to the public cloud providers, cloud data security and identity, integrating public cloud services, and how to avoid provider lock-in.
In this exclusive Virtual Briefing Center session from Microsoft and IDG, you'll discover how deploying Windows 7 Enterprise now will help you take advantage of this new environment. Learn through a series of videos, audio webinars and rich downloadable resources how to power today's flexible workstyles with Windows 7 Enterprise.
Cloud deployments are playing a critical role in propelling innovation for many companies. At the same time security has become the #1 one of the top concerns for IT and business leaders as they migrate into the cloud. In this webinar, learn from Accenture discusses how to recast the cloud as a "fresh chance to rethink your approach to security."
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
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