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For the last several years, Gartner’s Daryl Plummer and David Mitchell Smith have presented "the cloud scenario," at the company’s annual Symposium. What struck me this year, however, is that much of the discussion has moved from defining cloud computing toward specific models of implementing cloud computing that will differ for each organization.

First, Smith shared Gartner’s definition of cloud computing: "A style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided ‘as a service’ to external customers using Internet technologies." …

CX Inc. announced the most recent production release representing, a new higher-level intuitive user experience, a new pricing model and the addition of two new executives. The new production release is the culmination of ten months of effort for the cloud computing and collaboration company. CX now offers customers free groups with potential to add up to 1 million participants per group, a collaboration and real time notification suite and 10 gigabytes of free, secure storage…

As cloud computing continues to reshape today’s enterprise landscape, IT administrators are demanding flexible management solutions that enable them to define how they provide support capabilities to end users. In order to meet this growing demand, LANDesk Software, a global leader in systems lifecycle management, endpoint security and IT service management, today announced LANDesk® Service Desk as a Service. LANDesk Service Desk as a Service can be leveraged in the same way as a typical cloud-based solution, with all data and services accessible remotely over the Internet; or a hybrid approach can be taken – where services, integration points and even data can be split between on premise and cloud. This flexible delivery method provides the ultimate synergy across the enterprise, enabling secure usage based on business priorities, the type of data, the service or the location, both in the cloud or on premise…

VMware, Inc. /quotes/zigman/464645/quotes/nls/vmw VMW +4.30% , the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled three product suites designed to simplify and automate IT management. With significant enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations(TM) and the introduction of new VMware vFabric Application Management(TM) and VMware IT Business Management suites, VMware will help customers amplify the value of their virtual environments and achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing…

The term “cloud computing” has been used to describe a wide variety of services and frameworks recently, which has caused confusion among many in the industry.

One definition of the cloud is a service or services provided by an outside entity, such as an application stack you access from your systems, running on servers and storage maintained by the provider. In this definition, Google provides a cloud service such as Gmail or Google Docs that you might use but not need to maintain…

If you’re looking to move to the cloud, you’ve probably wondered whether Google Apps or Office 365, two of the leading cloud computing service providers, is right for you.  So how do you know which service to choose?  Here is a side-by-side comparison of the services offered through each…

Microsoft has released a new version of Windows Intune — its fledgling online service for managing PCs — continuing its push into the brave new world of “cloud computing”.

“Our vision for Windows Intune is big,” Eric Main of Microsoft said in a blog post on Monday. “We want to take the best of the capabilities delivered through our on-premises solutions…and enable them through the cloud.”…

In an unusually tame appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit, Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:SFDC) CEO Marc Benioff declined to lash out at rival Oracle and its mercurial CEO Larry Ellison and even praised the company for its success…