Businessweek - May 3 - Intel is looking to invest in cloud computing and mobility as the company tries to meet its US$200 million investment commitment in U.S. companies over a two-year period, an Intel executive said on Monday.

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The Washington Post - May 3 - The Obama administration recently reiterated its commitment to federal use of cloud computing -- a computer industry concept that has grown rapidly since first introduced in the late 1990s. The shift toward cloud computing raises important policy questions, however, only some of which have been highlighted in public discourse thus far. More needs to be done.

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SearchStorage.com - May 3 - There was no global recession in data growth in 2009, according to a Digital Universe study by Framingham, Mass.-based IDC. The technology research and consulting firm estimates the worldwide volume of digital data grew by 62% between 2008 and 2009 to nearly 800,000 petabytes (PB). IDC claims this 'Digital Universe' will grow to 1.2 million PB, or 1.2 zettabytes (ZB) in 2010 and reach 35 ZB by 2020.

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Reuters - May 3 - IBM said it bought privately held software company Cast Iron Systems to bolster its expertise in cloud computing, an increasingly popular technology that helps companies cut costs by enabling access to software online.

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Information Week SMB - Apr 29 - Freeing your business from managing an IT infrastructure can free you to focus on servicing customers, but you can't just walk away from your servers and applications. Here's how to get started ... smart.

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cnn Money - Apr 29 - As apps migrate to the Net, the software giant's old model looks older every day. I have been waiting for something spectacular to happen any day. And it’s not the explosion of another volcano in Iceland, but it will be a global event with far reaching ramifications that will be as well known. Apple’s market capitalization is about to be worth more than Microsoft's. That is quite a change from a decade ago.

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Network World - Apr 28 - Adoption of cloud computing is set to grow within the life sciences industries of Japan, China, and India. These are among the key findings reported by Ovum, a global analyst and consulting company. The report found that pharmaceuticals and bio-tech industries within the three countries "had on average more intent to invest in cloud computing than those companies interviewed in the rest of the world."

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Business Week - Apr 28 - With Microsoft and IBM now offering rival services, Amazon says its own efforts could one day surpass retailing revenues. To widen its lead in the cloud computing market, Amazon.com is working to make its Web services compelling to more customers as computing giants such as Microsoft (MSFT) and IBM (IBM) attack the same territory.

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CNET - Apr 27 - Two relatively new arrivals in the computing industry announced a partnership to profit from the trend toward general-purpose cloud computing services on the Net.

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Network World - Apr 27 - The Internet has changed the way people do nearly everything--from consuming media to performing research to maintaining relationships to communicating. Its effect on business has been similarly wide ranging. And today, for mission-critical data, Internet-based computing--aka cloud computing--is introducing major changes to the way work is done.

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