Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced its platinum sponsorship and full participation in Citrix Synergy(TM) Barcelona at the International Convention Centre of Barcelona (CCIB) on 26-28 October 2011. Delegates to the second year of this hugely successful European event will be able to experience the latest Wyse cloud client computing solutions throughout Citrix Synergy including at the Wyse booth #202 next to the main Citrix booth in the Solutions Expo…

John McCarthy, the man who first proposed the notion of utility computing, has just died at 84.

Business agility and the demand for quick turnaround to infrastructure and application requirements to service organisational growth have fuelled the rise of cloud services. For organisations that have had their IT system requirements held back by traditional sourcing and project based delivery of information technology, cloud seems to be the answer. Cloud computing is defined by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a:

“Model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”…

The Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) today released preliminary results from its recently conducted benchmark study on the impact of cloud computing on technology professional services…

Software giant Oracle is acquiring RightNow Technologies Inc. for $43 a share, or a total of about $1.5 billion, to expand its Internet-based offerings and offer a challenge to customer relationship management powerhouse Salesforce.com.

Oracle said in a press release that RightNow’s customer service cloud approach helps organizations work across its call centers, the Web, and social networks…

Use of cloud computing has generated a permanent shift in the field of data management, new survey results indicate.

A poll of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) by CIO magazine has revealed that 83 per cent of firms are using some form of virtualized network…

The issue of success or failure in moving your company data, IT storage, servers or software to the cloud is often driven by technical issues, including performance, bandwidth, security and total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) considerations. While many of these factors are key criteria for selecting cloud solutions, they usually don’t align with the bigger picture that C-level executives must consider when adding new IT solutions…

Massive security flaws at Amazon Web Services discovered and remedied

Researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum have found a massive security gap at Amazon Cloud Services. Using different methods of attack (signature wrapping and cross site scripting) they tested the system which was deemed "safe". "Based on our research results, Amazon confirmed the security gaps and closed them immediately", said Prof. Dr. Jörg Schwenk, chair for network and data security at the RUB. Amazon Webservices (AWS) offers its customers cloud computing services and hosts, among others, services like Twitter, Second Life and 4Square…