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3 best practices for your cloud computing first-timers


As enterprises continue to move to cloud computing, blunders will occur, but we'll also see success with the cloud. Now is a good time to survey what works -- that is, the best practices around cloud deployment. Here is my initial list, but it will evolve over the next few years.

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4 critical trends in IT business continuity


In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to internal users and outside customers.

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Information Builders gives its BI platform more cloud-like capabilities


Information Builders has added a range of improvements to its WebFocus BI (business intelligence) platform that will make it more appealing to ISVs and other providers that want to offer it as a cloud service, the company announced Monday.

First off, the company has introduced support for multitenant deployments, a software architecture common in cloud applications that allows a provider to serve many customers from a single application instance, as well as scale the service on demand.

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Amazon expands cloud-based live streaming


Amazon has added the ability for CloudFront to stream live content to Apple iOS devices and Microsoft Silverlight clients, the company said in a blog post on Sunday.

Amazon CloudFront is a Web service that allows enterprises to distribute content, including images, videos, media files or software downloads. To improve performance, CloudFront uses a network of edge locations spread out across Asia, Europe, South America and the U.S.

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Carriers make their play in the cloud


The wave started last year when Time Warner Cable, the telecommunications company serving much of the Eastern United States, spent $230 million to purchase NaviSite, a provider of cloud services for businesses.

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VMware tackles enterprise personal cloud


The public cloud and now even the private cloud have been pretty well defined. The personal cloud is somewhat fuzzier.

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Dell expands virtual desktops into the cloud


Dell said this week it is expanding its virtual desktop offerings into the cloud through a partnership with another company.

Dell's Simplified DaaS (Desktop as a Service) is a cloud-based virtual desktop offering targeted at companies of any size. Dell partnered on the offering with Desktone, a company that makes software to access cloud-based desktops. The product is expected to be available at some point this quarter and pricing details have not yet been released.

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