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• Clouds gathering

  By Brad Howarth | 19 August, 2010 10:22

  What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago it was almost impossible to find Australian organisations that had embraced cloud computing. Now pretty much everyone is planning, piloting or executing some form of migration to the cloud. If there was ever doubt that cloud was little more than hype, it was eradicated in April 2010 by Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) group executive for enterprise services and chief information officer, Michael Harte. In a speech to Committee for Economic Development in Australia, Harte declared that never again did he wish to be locked into using proprietary hardware or software and cloud computing was his escape route.

• Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

  By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

  There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.

• Why my company uses Amazon’s EC2 cloud

  By CIO Staff | 06 July, 2009 10:04

  Got unpredictable demand for your company's Web-based service? Perhaps Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud is the answer. Here's how one start-up cashed in on Amazon EC2.