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VMware’s Cloud Foundry Aims at PaaS
The point of platform as a service is to enable developers to focus solely on their application code and data, leaving the maintenance of the underlying stack to the service provider. One of the biggest potential problems with this approach is that of lock-in: Moving from one PaaS (platform as a service) to another, in…
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Software Companies Get $24 Million Investment from Intel
Intel is investing more than $24 million in software companies that touch on areas that the giant chip maker is particularly interested in, including cloud computing. In all, Intel Capital–the vendor’s investment arm–will spread the money among seven software makers. The investments, announced Sept. 8, highlights Intel’s ongoing interest in building out its software capabilities,…
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Microsoft, Google Both Suffer Cloud Computing Outages
It was not a banner week for cloud computing. Cloud computing rivals Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered brief outages that knocked off some of their key messaging and collaboration products. Google Sept. 7 saw its Google Docs word collaboration application cramp up for one hour, shutting out millions of users from their document lists,…
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HP Launches Private Cloud Service Beta Program
Hewlett-Packard is taking the latest steps in its efforts to become a major cloud computing player, launching the private beta for two public cloud services. The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings, announced Sept. 7, are HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, and offer a combination of HP hardware and software technologies as well as the…
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Breaking into the Cloud the Easy Way
While business decision makers prepare to increase their investments in cloud computing, a whole army of solution providers is still trying to figure out how to seize cloud opportunities. As with any profound change in the IT channel, solution providers have to adjust or be left behind. And this time, unlike previous channel transformations, clients…
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High-Value Competency Channel Partners to Drive Cloud Adoption: AMI Report
In the high-growth cloud services market, every advantage helps, and five key channel partner competencies help make them indispensable and highly profitable, a report from IT research firm Access Markets International (AMI) Partners shows. Channel partners with one or more of the five competencies—business analytics, unified communication and collaboration, business process management, mobility, and infrastructure…