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OUT-LAW News, 23/06/2009
The Government has asked all public sector bodies to make future IT purchases consistent with cloud computing so that it can move all its digital services into a private, secure ‘cloud’ called ‘G-cloud’ for government bodies.
In its Digital Britain report the Government said that it wanted the public sector to reap the benefites [...]

The fist day of cebit was full of action. The layout is far better this year and it is easier to move around the show.
Webciety is a new concept for Cebit Australia. It features 12 of Australia’s leading Web based companies including :

Devnet
Hiive Systems
Siteflex
ModSite
Saasu.com
Buzz Numbers
wotnews.com.au
SportsPassion
Design Bay
TJoos
IPScape
Travellr

Webciety provides a great area to interact with customers [...]

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Recently, McKinsey & Company published a study on cloud computing as part of a symposium for The Uptime Institute, an organization dedicated to supporting the enterprise data center industry. We share McKinsey’s interest in helping the IT industry better understand cloud computing, so we’d like to join the conversation [...]

24 April 2009 02:46PM  ITNews

IT investment in hardware is expected to remain relatively stable this year with many Aussie firms also set to increase spending on virtualisation, Gartner said.
A survey of people responsible for spending money in March proved that investments in client computing, printing devices, storage and servers would stay the same in the [...]

Posted by Dion Hinchcliffe @ 12:03 pm April 18th 2009
, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dion Hinchcliffe

Last week’s announcement of Java support for Google App Engine (GAE), along with a host of new features aim specifically at businesses, served to reconfirm the Internet giant’s interest in providing enterprises with its [...]

iHotDesk
A green data centre is to be built as part of a development at Inverness Harbour, those looking at IT outsourcing may be interested to know.
The plans have been announced by Alchemy Plus and are expected to require an investment of £20 million from the firm.
Scotland’s first green data centre, the site will service both [...]

Eweek
Google scores a coup over Microsoft in the messaging and collaboration market as application development specialist Serena Software announces plans to replace Microsoft Exchange with Google Gmail. Serena expects to save $750,000 per year in the switch, which will roll out to all 800 employees by the end of 2008.
Serena Software expects to save $750,000 [...]

Capgemini, one of the world’s largest providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, is to extend its portfolio of outsourced services by offering Amazon Web Services. This adds to its cloud portfolio which includes Google Apps Premier Edition.
Capgemini has opened a new centre of excellence focused on cloud computing and Amazon Web Services. It will [...]

As more and more companies are storing data in the cloud, and as this data grows, so does the need for reporting tools to make sense of this information. To address these growing needs, earlier this year Google engineers introduced the Google Visualization API, a powerful API that enables anyone to build apps on top [...]

The reliability of cloud computing has been a hot topic recently, partly because glitches in the cloud don’t happen behind closed doors as with traditional on-premises solutions for businesses. Instead, when a small number of cloud computing users have problems, it makes headlines. As with most things at Google, they are fanatical about measuring the [...]