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Cloud computing: End of the corporate WAN?

When vendors and marketers get their hands on an IT concept, it doesn't take long for that concept to morph into a totally new business opportunity and possibly a new market segment. Such is the story of cloud computing.

| Opinion | Networking | 10/01/08 at 8:38 pm |


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Amazon's EC2 plays nice with Windows

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted infrastructure service for developers will expand its choice of operating systems and databases to include Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server.

| News | SaaS | 10/01/08 at 8:35 pm |


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Ballmer: Microsoft will soon release 'Windows Cloud' OS

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications.

| News | Development | Operating systems | SaaS | 10/01/08 at 12:02 pm |


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IBM launches four new cloud computing centers

IBM opened up cloud computing centers in four countries on Wednesday to let enterprises, universities and governments test Web-based services and applications.

| News | SaaS | 09/24/08 at 9:35 am |


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