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The dominance that Intel’s x86 standard is enjoying in the computing market may be in trouble. AMD, ARM, Texas Instruments, and a couple of smaller chip manufacturers have entered a partnership called the Heterogeneous Systems…
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, together with Rackspace Hosting, are staging a price war for their services. Amazon started implementing its cloud support plans changes in response to the price slash Microsoft and Rackspace are…
KPMG has created an online resource regarding taxing of cloud computing services by tax authorities in various countries. Called as Country Perspective on Taxing the Cloud, the online resource aims to aid providers and users of…
SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) plans to use its testing methodology to benchmark cloud deployments . The company is well known in the industry because of its benchmarks on computer systems. It maintains and…
Zynga may be on its way to becoming a serious competitor to Amazon’s robust Infrastructure as a Service, since the social network gaming giant will soon sell cloud IaaS to game makers in need of a hosting platform. Zynga may not…
Employees tend to have multiple cloud endpoints in the form of mobile and tablet devices that are used to access both personal and corporate data from inside and outside the work environment. However, by giving our employers’…
Analysts from Gartner have recently released findings that reveal a delay in adoption of cloud computing in Europe, as a result of several factors that include different business processes across more than 40 countries, privacy…
Hewlett Packard’s 2nd quarter earnings call last May brought with it a lot of distressing news, chief among which is news that the company will be cutting 27,000 jobs, which basically amounts to 8% of their total workforce. The…
By: Matthew Smith On average everyday there are 22,200 blog posts written about the topic of cloud computing. You would need 444 hours if you tried to read every blog post from one day. If you are like me your calendar is already…
by Razi Sharir, CEO of Xeround Cloud infrastructure is being continuously improved and optimized, so that over time it will be standardized and commoditized. Today's cloud service providers are offering nearly identical hardware…