Windows 8 Won't Win Microsoft's Biggest Battle

Windows 8? It Won't Win Microsoft's Biggest Battle | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: "But now, you can run your applications on cloud services operated by the likes of Amazon, Google, Rackspace, and, yes, even Microsoft. You don’t have to set up your own physical servers. You can just spin up virtual servers from your web browser. And in this world, Microsoft is well behind. That’s because the building blocks of what we call cloud computing have been cooked up by the users rather than technology vendors — companies that have been forced to slap together their own own back end systems. And these tinkerers like source code, according to Tim Burke, vice president of Linux engineering at Red Hat. “That really plays into the open source type of model,” he says. “I think that’s fundamentally why Linux has been the dominant use case.”"

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AT&T Government Solutions Receives Authority to Operate for Cloud Storage ...
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The ATO allows AT&T to offer cloud storage services to federal agencies through the GSA Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (GS00Q11AEA0002). AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service allows federal agencies to securely store ...

Cloud computing: Top five tax considerations for your business
Financial Post
Ernst & Young's latest Global information security survey reveals 45% of companies have already deployed or are evaluating cloud services. What's more, cloud revenue growth is expected to experience a 26% compound annual ... Cloud computing has the ...

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Akamai beats estimates on cloud computing demand, shares rise
Reuters
"Even though IT spending globally is under a lot of pressure, it is not showing up in our results because one of the things the CIOs are doing is to move businesses to the cloud," Chief Executive Paul Sagan told Reuters. Cloud services revenue was up ...

The Risks And Benefits of Cloud Computing
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Cloud computing is dependent on the internet. The most basic drawback of cloud computing is that you need internet connection to access the cloud and this direct tie to the internet means that this system is prone to outages and service interruptions ...

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What It Will Take to Sell Cloud to a Skeptical Business
Forbes
Andi Mann, vice president for strategic solutions at CA Technologies, for one, questions whether CIOs are the right individuals to talk to about the success of cloud computing. And he takes the original Navint Partners report – which was based on ...

Forbes

KiteDesk Creates Integrated 'Streams' of Your Cloud Services, Including ...
CMSWire
Jack Kennedy, founder and CEO of Kitedesk, said in statement that cloud-based services and public APIs are a “huge opportunity” to provide personalized access to cloud-centered information. “When I look at my calendar, I want to see more than my next ...

Wealth Strategies: Salesforce, Amazon will fly in the cloud
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Loading... Published on Oct 25, 2012 by ReutersVideo. Oct. 25 - Wells Fargo's Walter Price says the shift toward cloud computing will be a major driver for companies like Salesforce.com and Amazon and feels that Windows 8 will be key for Microsoft's ...

Managed Hosting and Cloud Services Provider, OneNeck, Wins Five-Year Deal ...
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The Impact of Cloud Computing On Developing Economies | The ...
Washington. District of Columbia. 20005. VIEW MAP. While there has been much discussion about the impact of cloud computing in developed countries, there has been little research on the impact that this will have on developing countries.
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