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MegaUpload Update: Founder Denied Bail Over Flight Risk Concerns
Wed, January 25, 2012 - MegaUpload's founder Kim Dotcom was denied bail Wednesday by a New Zealand judge.
Tibco Adds Geolocation to Its Tibbr Social Platform
Wed, January 25, 2012 - Tibbr 3.5 also features new HTML5-based mobile capabilities
Amazon Web Services Moves Backups to Cloud with New Appliance
Wed, January 25, 2012 - The appliance costs $125 per month, while storage capacity and data transfer is extra
Startup Piston 'Ready for Fight' with VMware
Mon, January 23, 2012 - 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.
Out with SOPA, in with Cloud
Mon, January 23, 2012 - 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.
Former NASA OpenStack Researchers Enter Private Cloud Market with Piston Enterprise OS
Fri, January 20, 2012 - 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.
The Patriot Act and Your Data: Should You Ask Cloud Providers About Protection?
Fri, January 20, 2012 - 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.
What Megaupload's Demise Teaches About Cloud Storage
Fri, January 20, 2012 - Takedown of the file-sharing site over copyright violations provides a warning about being careful where you store stuff.
Open Group Publishes Standards to Align Cloud Strategies
Fri, January 20, 2012 - The Open Group has published two industry standards that enable businesses to integrate SOA (service orientated architecture) and cloud computing
NetApp's Tom Georgens: How We Got Big, Stayed Nimble, and View Storage Today
Thu, January 19, 2012 - In an exclusive interview, NetApp CEO Tom Georgens talks about virtualization, the private cloud, and how his company defines big data



