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Grazed from OpenPR.  Author: PR Announcement.

It can be announced that Eric Yee, Head of Enterprise Sales at Google Greater China will be joining the list of prestigious speakers at the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia, taking place on the 30th November and 1st December at the Mira, Hong Kong.

Grazed from Law.com.  Author: Douglas Wood.

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author: Joe Brockmeier.

When selecting a cloud provider, you want to make sure that you’re getting the best bang for your buck – but that’s not easy. Unlike hardware offerings, which are relatively easy to compare, cloud providers are all over the map when it comes to pricing and features…

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Warwick Ashford.

UK civil servants are to be among the first in the world to use cloud computing to work on classified documents due to a partnership between UK start-up Huddle and government security chiefs.

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Chris Mellor.

Nasuni is offering a 100 per cent uptime guarantee for data access through its cloud filer gateway appliance.

Of course, it can’t actually rule out service outages, so it is offering compensation for outages if the 100 per cent uptime target is breached.

Grazed from Investor’s Business Daily.  Author:  PR Announcement.

With so much hype about cloud computing, it’s not hard to bring the sector down to earth.

The mention of cloud computing in earnings calls has become routine by companies such as virtualization software maker VMware (NYSE:VMW – News). But like many emerging tech trends, expectations can jump ahead of reality…

Grazed from Internet.com.  Author: Jeffrey Kaplan.

As the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and public cloud services industries mature they are being deployed to play more pivotal roles in the day-to-day operations of bigger and bigger organizations. The latest example is Coupa Software’s recent contract with the Independent Purchasing Cooperative (IPC) of SUBWAY, the largest franchise company in the world.

Grazed from IT World.  Author: Patrick Thibodeau.

While Congress debates the debt ceiling and the federal budget, the White House is accelerating its plans to close data centers as a means to trim billions of dollars from its IT budget.

By 2012, the U.S. plans to close 373 data centers, representing about 800,000 square feet of space, or about the size of 14 football fields, an official pointed out on Wednesday.

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author: Frank Ohlhorst.

Most data center managers are facing the increasing complexity of virtualized and cloud-based environments. Successfully managing cloud operations and virtualized environments takes intelligence–not so much the type of intelligence as defined by IQs, but more along the lines of intelligence defined as the ability to gather information of value.