cnet news - Apr 13 - Truth be told, Google wants to be the next big everything. Monday's target was the budding Web-based enterprise software market, as Google pulled out all the stops to convince an audience of 400 CIOs and technology managers--plus far more on a Webcast--that cloud computing isn't so much the future as the present and Google can make it happen.

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ZD Net - Apr 12 - As new technology or an incremental enhancement of technology is released, industry awareness cycles through the following stages...

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Info World - Apr 12 - Independent cloud-based services help you integrate SaaS apps with locally installed software.

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IP Osgoode - Apr 12 - For those unfamiliar with the term “cloud computing”, it refers to performing the functions of personal computers – such as running applications, communicating, and storing data – not on those personal computers, but rather on servers. Cloud computing is likely already part of your life. For example, Flickr allows us to store and share images online, Google Docs allows us to word process and create presentations, and every day we communicate with each other using Gmail and Facebook.

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cnet news - Apr 12 - Google has made some under-the-hood changes to its Google Docs product, promising faster service and real-time collaboration tools.

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Computerworld - Apr 12 - Cloud computing users are shifting their focus from what the cloud offers to what it lacks. What it offers is clear, such as the ability to rapidly scale and provision, but the list of what it is missing seems to be growing by the day.

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E-Commerce Times - Apr 11 - The world of IT is getting cloudier by the day, but what's most hazy is how this move into various forms of subscription models is going to change what you pay for IT. Conventional thinking usually supposes that cloud-based models will be cheaper, but that may not always be the case, at least at the outset. Is cheap IT really the goal of cloud computing?

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.Net - Apr 10 - Generally speaking when the term “hybrid” as an adjective to describe a cloud computing model it’s referring to the combining of a local data center with a distinct set of off-premise cloud computing resources. But there’s another way to look at “hybrid” cloud computing models that is certainly as relevant and perhaps makes more sense for adoptees of cloud computing for whom there simply is not enough choice and control over infrastructure solutions today.

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Information Week - Apr 9 - An aircraft parts designer has boosted productivity 76% by doing away with physical prototypes and moving testing to a virtual environment hosted by IBM and its cloud partner Nimbis Services, according to IBM.

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Web CPA - Apr 9 - FinancialForce.com has introduced an add-on to its Web-based accounting software that gives the system Facebook-like social networking features and could represent a new paradigm for accounting software.

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