Cloud Computing

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Connected Cars Race Toward Mobility and the Cloud

Forget fuel efficiency, all-wheel drive and sunroofs. Your next car may connect wirelessly to an array of cloud services, talk to your iPhone, call 911 if you have a medical emergency and even place your coffee order. It's not as futuristic as y

Dropbox vs. SkyDrive Apps: The Rematch

SkyDrive and its mobile apps offer more for the money than Dropbox. But CIO.com blogger James A. Martin has found over the past few months that Dropbox is more reliable -- and the service and its mobile apps are about to get even more useful.

EMC ‘Bringing the Sexy Back’ to Data

When it comes to backup and recovery, IT is struggling to meet business demand within most enterprises--and the problem stands to get only worse. EMC believes the answer is a more open and agile protection storage architecture.

Dropbox Aims to Replace Your Hard Drive

Storing files is just the beginning. Dropbox will soon allow you to sync and transfer files, data, to-do lists and more between any of the devices you own.

Why SaaS HR Software Is Ready to Take Off

It's estimated that 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies plan to replace their human resources management software in the next four years. Many are replacing these legacy on-premises systems--some of which date back to the 1960s--with cloud-base

What Economists Can Teach Us About Cloud Computing

William Stanley Jevons was a Victorian-era economist who explained why Britain used more coal, not less, as the resource dropped in price. Ronald Coase wrote his seminal work on why people use firms to conduct transactions back in 1937. Both help exp

Govt releases security and privacy requirements for cloud

How to Do Financial Trading IT Right: Behind the Scenes at Liquidnet

With massive amounts of data, low latency, hundreds of connection points and no margin for error, financial trading is grown-up IT. Liquidnet does it in more than 40 markets with a staff of just 300. Here's how the company makes it work.

Cloud requires data protection rethink: ACMA