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Thursday, June 02, 2011

IT increasingly bypassed on cloud adoption

No 'Joni Mitchell clouds' here ... OK, just one | NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms

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IT increasingly bypassed on cloud adoption
IT departments, long criticized as being too slow in offering new technologies and services, may be facing a grassroots rebellion in many companies over cloud services. Read More


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No 'Joni Mitchell clouds' here ... OK, just one
A colleague recently sent around this quote from a university CTO he interviewed for an upcoming article: "We're not building some generic Joni Mitchell cloud. The thing we're trying to do is build a cloud that is really infrastructure and services, not some vanilla, virtualized blah, blah, blah." No generic Joni Mitchell cloud for these guys; no sir, no way. Read More

NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms
NYSE promises robust security, performance in cloud for financial industry. Read More

Obama's CTO eyes cloud, mobile options
Aneesh Chopra, the first U.S. CTO, tells InfoWorld about his ambitious plans to modernize IT, address Internet privacy, and increase transparency. Read More


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Mobile Technology: The Productivity Edge
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Private clouds hold a wide lead over public clouds among IT pros polled
Public clouds have a way to go if they want to be the top choice of businesses looking to put resources in a shared, centralized computing environment, according to a poll of 1,200 IT professionals. Read More

Steve Jobs to debut iCloud, tout iOS 5 and Lion next week
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take the stage at the company's developer conference next week to introduce iCloud -- Apple's new cloud service -- and the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 5. Read More

Security still a concern for those considering cloud move
Security concerns continue to be a key issue for organizations using or considering cloud-based services. Read More


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Qwest Cloud-Based Services: On-Demand Access to IT Resources
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Steve Ballmer: Office 365 to launch in June
Steve Ballmer said Microsoft's cloud productivity service will launch next month. Read More

Managing the cloud
As mentioned in our last newsletter, IT organizations are beginning to acquire a wide range of traditional IT applications from SaaS providers. This newsletter will discuss one of the challenges that this new wave of SaaS-based applications is targeting: managing other cloud based applications. Read More

Oracle proposes OpenOffice.org to Apache Incubator
In what may not be the best-kept secret, Oracle has finally spilled the beans: It's proposing OpenOffice.org as a Apache Incubator project — and not to The Document Foundation. Read More

Smartphone apps will boost enterprise productivity by 2015
Smartphones and tablets are already starting to flood the enterprise and this trend is expected to accelerate rapidly over the next four years. Enterprises expect mobile apps to accomplish some big goals, including reducing paper in the office. Read More



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