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• Salesforce to launch government Cloud

  By Kenneth Corbin | 25 April, 2012 23:27

  Salesforce.com, already a leading provider of cloud services to the public sector, is doubling down on its government business, unveiling on Wednesday a major initiative to host federal, state and local agencies' computing operations in a multi-tenant cloud environment, along with a new app marketplace and a training program to equip integrators with the skills to help government clients shift to the cloud.

• Oracle quietly plotting ambitious cloud computing plan

  By Brandon Butler | 19 April, 2012 07:39

  During a series of analyst briefings this week, Oracle has provided additional details of how it plans to play in the cloud moving forward.

• IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds

  By John Dix | 05 April, 2012 05:39

  Mark Adams, vice president of IT at HireRight, is living the dream -- the chance to completely rethink the infrastructure for a $300 million software-as-a-service employment screening service company. While the nucleus of the 1,600 employee company has been around for 30+ years, a three year acquisition spree resulted in data center sprawl, leaving the company with 10 facilities, including company owned and collocation and disaster-recovery sites, some of them overseas. Now HireRight is three quarters of the way through a consolidation effort with a heavy emphasis on cloud. Adams gave an update on the company's modernization progress to Network World Editor in Chief John Dix.

• Cloud services face taxing dilemma

  By Brandon Butler | 29 March, 2012 06:39

  States are having a hard time keeping up with the cloud, especially when it comes to taxing it.

• 5 signs that you've lost control over your Cloud apps

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 March, 2012 21:28

  CIOs are waking up to the reality that they've lost control over access to data stored in software-as-a-service applications purchased by other departments.

• SaaS seeds ready to bloom

  By John Dix | 12 March, 2012 21:28

  One expected benefit from the shift to the cloud is the emergence of a refreshing new crop of innovative software suppliers.

• Cloud consultants Cloud Sherpas, Global One merge

  By Brandon Butler | 06 March, 2012 10:30

  Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne, which advise clients in implementing cloud-based Software as a Service applications, have merged in what is a sign of the continually busy M&A activity in the SaaS market.

• Application streaming gets a new face with Cloudpaging

  By Thor Olavsrud | 06 March, 2012 04:53

  Delivering software on-demand from centralized servers or the cloud was the great promise of application streaming technology. But Osman Kent, CEO of startup Numecent (formerly known as Endeavors Technologies) says that promise was tarnished. Kent believes it's time the technology delivered.

• Riverbed teams with Akamai to boost SaaS performance

  By Colin Neagle | 01 March, 2012 03:37

  Anyone who has endured the painful wait of a slow-loading application is familiar with the frustration and lost productivity that follows. That's the problem that motivated Riverbed and Akamai to join forces for a new SaaS acceleration offering, with the objective of resolving SaaS application performance issues that were previously untouchable.

• How the Cloud cuts VC dependencies and democratises entrepreneurship

  By Jeff Vance | 01 March, 2012 02:38

  Back in the fall of 2000, the buzz at the Internet World conference centered on two things: the NASDAQ meltdown and a number of acquisitions. One of the big acquisitions announced at the show was HP's deal to purchase Bluestone Software for $450 million.

• NaviSite wants to host your virtual desktops

  By Brandon Butler | 28 February, 2012 07:33

  Seeking to capture a slice of market share in the emerging field of virtual desktop services, NaviSite, a Time Warner Cable managed service provider of cloud-based products has announced its next major endeavor: a desktop as a service (DaaS) offering aimed specifically at enterprise customers.

• Bullish on PaaS

  By Christine Burns | 27 February, 2012 16:36

  As early as 2008, Bullhorn Inc., a fast growing Boston-based provider of front-office staffing and recruiting management software, was considering the cloud to help streamline development and distribution of its Software as a Service (SaaS) products to over 2,500 customers and 25,000 users in 35 countries.

• (Fill in the blank)-as-a-service

  By Brandon Butler | 22 February, 2012 05:34

  IaaS, SaaS and PaaS are the obvious as-a-service offerings, but there are plenty of others. In fact, just about every letter of the alphabet has an "as a service."

• Salesforce.com: 'Cloud computing debate is over' in Washington

  By Kenneth Corbin | 18 February, 2012 02:58

  WASHINGTON -- In the federal government, which carries a roughly $80 billion annual IT budget, the question of cloud computing is no longer a question of "if," but rather "how," and "how soon."

• Building an IDPS without big iron

  By Livio Ricciulli, president and chief scientist at MetaFlows Inc. | 14 February, 2012 07:31

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.