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• Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

  By Chris Kanaracus | 25 May, 2012 17:12

  Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

• Customisable Cloud SLAs on the way, researchers predict

  By Brandon Butler | 24 May, 2012 20:30

  Service-level agreements and legal standards for Cloud offerings will become more customised to individual customers and vertical industries as the cloud market continues to mature and providers look for ways to differentiate their offerings, researchers at the University of London predict.

• About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

  About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

• Optus Business to debut new Cloud, mobility services

  By Dylan Bushell-Embling | 24 May, 2012 15:00

  Optus Business has revealed plans to expand its portfolio of Cloud computing and enterprise mobility offerings.

• Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 13:00

  Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

• Study: Patriot Act gives US government no special acess to cloud data

  By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 16:02

  An often-repeated concern that the U.S. Patriot Act gives the U.S. government unequaled access to personal data stored on cloud services is incorrect, with several other nations enjoying similar access to cloud data, according to a study released Wednesday.

• Brocade outlines its SDN approach

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 05:30

  Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series 100Gbps routers as part of a broader SDN strategy.

• 10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 03:33

  If at first you don’t succeed…

• EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

  By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

  EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

• Upcoming Salesforce.com release adds real-time chat capabilities

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 May, 2012 05:27

  Salesforce.com, which has placed ample emphasis on its Chatter social networking application, will actually begin providing real-time chat functionality as part of an imminent upgrade to its family of cloud-based software, according to a company document.

• Cloud computing: You can't outsource your compliance obligations

  By Thomas J. Trappler | 22 May, 2012 02:27

  When it comes to moving functions to the cloud, there's no such thing as being too thorough.

• Amazon load balancers designed to be simpler to use after console upgrade

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 21 May, 2012 23:26

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upgraded its management console, allowing IT staff to use it to administer security protocols on the Elastic Load Balancing service, the company said in a blog post.

• Does standardized interoperability in data center fabrics matter?

  By Jim Duffy | 21 May, 2012 20:32

  Despite interoperability trials and demonstrations involving alternative data center fabric standards, a non-standard fabric technology is said by proponents to be at the front of the pack.

• The look ahead to a software-controlled world

  By John Dix | 21 May, 2012 20:32

  The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up.

• Career Watch: IT jobs on top

  By Jamie Eckle | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader:Allan Hackney