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Thompson Reuters moves payroll, HR data to the cloud
Information and financial services giant Thompson Reuters has more than 55,000 employees spread over 100 countries. Read More


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Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™
The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more

Amazon adds in-memory caching to its cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a public beta test of ElastiCache, which is designed to allow enterprises to speed up their Web applications. Read More

What do top CIOs make?
CIOs and CTOs at major companies including GM, Boeing, Home Depot and FedEx took home multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2010. See what each of these senior IT leaders' pay packages is worth, once the salaries, bonuses, stock options and perks are tallied. Read More

Technology Review's annual 35 Innovators Under 35: Uncrashable software, secure cloud computing among areas of expertise
MIT's always interesting Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 list is out, and several innovators in the networking and computing field made the cut (in addition to others in fields such as biomedicine and energy). Read More


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Building a Faster VDI Infrastructure at Less Cost
This note summarizes the cost and performance challenges of the VDI infrastructure, and the solutions offered by new fabric-based solutions. Learn why next-gen cloud architectures increase overall VDI performance while reducing complexity. Read now.

RIM starts trial of music service, launching later this year
Research In Motion is testing a cloud-based music service around its BlackBerry Messenger that it plans to offer commercially later this year. Read More

VMware launches a developer edition for cloud service
Hoping to spark developer interest in building cloud applications, VMware has issued a free version of its Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) stack that can run on a single laptop or desktop computer. Read More

EnterpriseDB adding new cloud option for PostgreSQL database
Companies looking to move database operations to public and private clouds will soon have another option in the form of Postgres Plus Cloud Server, EnterpriseDB announced Thursday. Read More


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Qwest Cloud-Based Services: On-Demand Access to IT Resources
More and more IT leaders are turning to outsourced, cloud computing services to fulfill their growing technology needs—and do more with less. See how you can grow your business with on-demand, scalable applications and cloud-computing infrastructure—and pay only for what you need. Read now!

Eucalyptus gets high-availability protection
Further preparing its software for production use, Eucalyptus Systems has outfitted its private cloud software with the ability to keep running even if an individual node fails, a feature called high availability (HA), the company announced Wednesday. Read More

StackMob aims mobile cloud platform at Heroku customers
StackMob hopes to make it easier for Heroku's customers to extend their applications to mobile phones, by adding its service as a Heroku add-on. Read More

HP releases 3Par storage system, federated storage software
As part of its Converged Storage portfolio, Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced new federated storage software, Peer Motion, which enables admins to transparently move application workloads between disk systems in virtualized and cloud computing environments. Read More



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