Peppermint, a new Linux-based operating system with a focus on cloud computing and Web applications, is launching into a private beta this week to a limited number of participants, and will open up later next month to even more. The OS is a fork of Lubuntu and uses some of Linux Mint's configuration files...
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Verizon and IBM want to give enterprise customers a cloud-based option for backing up and recovering massive data reservoirs.
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Two major identity management companies are forging ahead with products designed to satisfy what a cloud-computing consortium calls one of the trickiest problems preventing secure and automated connections between internal IT infrastructures and external service providers: identity and authentication.
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Two major identity management companies are forging ahead with products designed to satisfy what a cloud-computing consortium calls one of the trickiest problems preventing secure and automated connections between internal IT infrastructures and external service providers: identity and authentication.
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A future Microsoft operating system may be entirely Web-based. Here are the pros and cons of Midori and the "cloud computing" concept. Read more...
As cloud computing environments become more commonplace and complex, users will have a difficult time integrating the various cloud services and ensuring their integrity, according to Gartner. That will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service brokerages,” which will essentially negotiate the relationship between the end users and providers and make it easier for businesses to manage their cloud services. Read more...
A hacker has reportedly obtained and distributed more than 300 confidential documents pertaining to Twitter's business affairs. The documents were reportedly stored on Google Apps.
The hacker apparently accessed documents with potentially sensitive information about Twitter employees, company finances, partner agreements, and other topics, and forwarded the documents to media outlets such as TechCrunch, which reported on the data breach Tuesday. Read more...
The Microsoft Private Cloud enables:
Microsoft is enabling customers to build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure using Windows Server® and System Center family of products with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises (availability scheduled in the first half of 2010).
The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises is a free, partner-extensible toolkit that will enable datacenters to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable IT as a service. Read more...
G.ho.st , a free cloud solution from Ghost Inc founded by Zvi Schreiber which is developed in Openlaszlo. Check the guest account to get a feel of.
A nice article on top cloud computing solutions. Read more...
Cloud computing is "everything online". A style of computing, in which dynamically scalable and virtualized resources are provided as a service. Everything is a service from a BIG service provider. Like hardware is provided as a service, software is provided as service. No or less technical knowledge is required as end user is not directly handling any hardware. Read more...
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