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Forecast: partly cloudy
Some agencies, especially those that deal with less confidential information, have been quick to adopt the model. In the first six months of Mr. Kundra’s policy, the Agriculture Department has moved about 46,000 employee accounts and is in the process of adding 120,000. The cloud can help speed along technology projects, said Chris Smith, the agency’s information chief.
But other departments, especially defense and state, are proceeding more slowly. Teri Takai, the chief information officer for the Defense Department, said her agency’s use of cloud computing would be limited for the near future to keep confidential data within the military’s advanced security systems.
Federal Push… Continue reading: Federal Push for ‘Cloud’ Technology Faces Skepticism – NYTimes.com
A personal private cloud market profile by Hiawatha Bray
There’s a lot to like about cloud computing, but why use the other fellow’s cloud? Many of us save our most precious photos, videos, documents, and music on servers owned by Google or Amazon or Microsoft. But now it’s cheap and easy to create clouds of our own, with simple, but powerful servers that will fit on a bookshelf in the basement and transmit our files to any Internet-connected device on earth.
Your own cloud – silver lining included – The Boston Globe
Continue reading: Your own cloud – silver lining included – The Boston Globe
Government IT heads to the cloud
The federal government is the largest buyer of information technology in the world, spending about $80 billion a year. The Obama administration, in plans detailed Wednesday, is taking aim at some of that by closing 800 of its sprawling collection of 2,000 data centers. The savings, analysts say, will translate into billions of dollars a year and acres of freed-up real estate.
U.S. to Close 800 Computer Data Centers – NYTimes.com
Continue reading: U.S. to Close 800 Computer Data Centers – NYTimes.com
An Office 365 reality check
Office 365 enters a crowded field. Google Docs from Google and VMware’s Zimbra email, for example, are attracting hundreds of companies seeking tools that work from desktop computers, smartphones or the growing number of tablet computers in use today.
Microsoft’s biggest competitor, however, might be itself. Nearly nine of every 10 office computers runs one of the 14 versions of Office the company has released since the software’s launch in 1989. The company now needs to convince those computer users, estimated at about one billion, to switch to Office in the cloud without disrupting the legacy version that is financing the transition.
Microsoft Challenges Itself… Continue reading: Microsoft Challenges Itself With New Cloud Version of Office – WSJ.com
Apple’s cloud plans to become less vaporous next week, along with Mac OS and iOS news
Apple said the new software would include iCloud, which will be the company’s cloud computing offering. The company will also show a new release of its OS X operating system for desktop and laptop computers, called Lion, and iOS 5, the latest update to Apple’s mobile operating system, which supports the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
The company’s decision to announce the keynote event in advance was unusual for Apple as the company usually goes to great pains to remain secretive about any coming announcements or new products.
Apple has recently completed a billion… Continue reading: Jobs to Unveil Apple’s ‘Next Generation’ Software – NYTimes.com
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