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Amazon Simple Workflow – Cloud-Based Workflow Management

news-feeder — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:20:03 +0000

Simple WorkflowToday we are introducing the Amazon Simple Workflow service, SWF for short. This new service gives you the ability to build and run distributed, fault-tolerant applications that span multiple systems (cloud-based, on-premise, or both). Amazon Simple Workflow coordinates the flow of synchronous or asynchronous tasks (logical application steps) so that you can focus on [...]

Running Esri Applications in the AWS Cloud

news-feeder — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:54:57 +0000

Esri is a leading provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and geo-database management applications. Their powerful mapping solutions have been used by Governments, industry, academics, and NGOs for nearly 30 years (read their history to learn more). Over the years, they have ported their code from mainframes to minicomputers (anyone else remember DEC and Prime?), and [...]

What Will The Taleo Purchase Bring To Oracle?

news-feeder — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:09:46 +0000

What Will The Taleo Purchase Bring To Oracle? On 9 February 2012, Oracle announced its purchase of human resources management software maker Taleo Corp. for $1.9 billion. Taleo’s cloud-based talent management solutions optimize how organizations hire, manage, develop and motivate employees to improve performance and drive growth. The $1.9 billion price values Taleo at $46 [...]

Implementing SaaS In Education In The United States

news-feeder — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:53:53 +0000

Implementing SaaS in Education in the United States The United States has always encountered problems with regards to the competitiveness of its population. Indeed, this particular problem has been even more emphasized today, especially with the crushingly intense global competition. Fortunately, Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) tools, along with other cloud computing services have dramatically grown in the [...]

Infrastructure as a Service Industry Leaders and Market Growth Trends

news-feeder — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:58:33 +0000

Infrastructure as a Service Industry Leaders and Market Growth Trends Cloud computing had changed the way businesses operate, as the profound change in the delivering of IT services has many implications for the way they are run and how people interact. And I believe that one of the most amazing cloud computing applications is the [...]

Swedish Collective Aims to Clean up the Cloud

news-feeder — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:17:56 +0000

Swedish Collective Aims to Clean up the Cloud Ten Regions set to Conquer Silicon Valley Stockholm, Sweden – February 21, 2012 – A cold climate, clean energy and one of the most stable electricity grids in the world have made Sweden very hot property in the IT giants’ quest for datacenter locations in Europe. In [...]

Icelandic Steam, French Bidding Wars: Europe and Cloud Computing in Early 2012

news-feeder — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:20:03 +0000

Icelandic Steam, French Bidding Wars: Europe and Cloud Computing in Early 2012 The European continent is — finally! — putting cash where its proverbial mouth is regarding the presence of cloud computing throughout the EU. At Switzerland’s World Economic Forum, Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes announced that Europe is ready to pledge 10 million euro [...]

Some Recent Cloud Computing Acquisitions – I

news-feeder — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:07:20 +0000

Some Recent Cloud Computing Acquisitions – I This is the second in a continuing series on cloud computing acquisitions. You can read the first one in the series here: Some Recent Cloud Computing Acquisitions. This article covers two recent acquisitions. IBM – Platform Computing IBM seems to be on an acquisition spree as far as [...]

Making The Leap From Public To Hybrid Cloud Computing

news-feeder — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:11:28 +0000

Making The Leap From Public To Hybrid Cloud Computing While the Private vs Public Cloud debate continues to plod along, a major Public Cloud user struck an equally massive blow for Hybrid Cloud when Zynga decided to make the move from AWS to their own zCloud private servers. In a move which flipped 80% of [...]

HP CloudSystem Matrix: Benefits of Private Cloud and Infrastructure as a Service Today

news-feeder — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:01:01 +0000

HP CloudSystem Matrix: Benefits of Private Cloud and Infrastructure as a Service Today Get the freedom and flexibility to provision infrastructure and applications in minutes rather than months. If you are like most companies, you have been adding servers, storage, and networking devices to keep pace with your business demands. You could be spending upwards [...]