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		<title>Investors advisory: PaaS companies have the best upside potential</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/04/05/investors-advisory-paas-companies-have-the-best-upside-potential/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long, thoughtful analysis of the business prospects for cloud companies was just published at Seeking Alpha. The author, Sunit Gogia, is a senior analyst with Morningstar and he looks at how the technology shift will affect the current large IT companies before settling into some predictions about today&#8217;s opportunities for investors.
His best advice: PaaS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth fearing: the next big wave in IT</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/28/worth-fearing-the-next-big-wave-in-it/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/28/worth-fearing-the-next-big-wave-in-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal posed a time-honored question to EMC&#8217;s chief executive Joe Tucci yesterday. &#8220;What keeps you up at night?&#8221; EMC holds controlling shares in a number of major technology companies, including VMware and RSA Security, and it has just reported 2009 income was up 58 percent.
“What keeps you up all night is these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware&#8217;s Maritz, in posting solid growth, affirms clouds are the next wave of IT</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/26/vmwares-maritz-in-posting-solid-growth-affirms-clouds-are-the-next-wave-of-it/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/26/vmwares-maritz-in-posting-solid-growth-affirms-clouds-are-the-next-wave-of-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, its customers were uncertain about what they would be doing. But recovery set in as the year came to a close. And now, Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware closed out 2009&#8217;s financial results by telling investors that in the last quarter, he was able to get a clear vision for what his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware adds communications platform to its cloud strategy</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/13/vmware-adds-communications-platform-to-its-cloud-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/13/vmware-adds-communications-platform-to-its-cloud-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On first glance, VMware&#8217;s acquisition of the desktop collaboration suite Zimbra &#8212; which it is buying from Yahoo! &#8212; does not seem to have much to do with the company&#8217;s emerging cloud computing strategy. However, VMWare CTO Steve Herrod explains otherwise.
In his blog post, Herrod writes that the acquisition of Zimbra is all about adding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dell deal with Chinese SaaS provider: more smoke than cloud?</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/06/dell-deal-with-chinese-saas-provider-more-smoke-than-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2010/01/06/dell-deal-with-chinese-saas-provider-more-smoke-than-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know &#8220;cloud computing&#8221; is risking over-exposure when companies start exaggerating their &#8220;cloudiness.&#8221; A press release from Bejing based SaaS vendor Infobird is a prime example. Until now, Infobird has marketed an SaaS platform for call-center management known as Qitongbao. 
But in the PR Newswire announcement, Infobird claims:
Dell, the global IT giant, and Infobird, China&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven questions to ask when evaluating a cloud supplier</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2009/11/30/seven-questions-to-ask-when-evaluating-a-cloud-supplier/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2009/11/30/seven-questions-to-ask-when-evaluating-a-cloud-supplier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WHIR has published an interesting article by David Snead, a lawyer whose practice is focused on internet infrastructure providers. Snead just finished work on a study of cloud computing services for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and his focus is on legal risks.
He says any provider should be able to answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six cloud computing stocks to watch. Maybe seven?</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2009/11/17/six-cloud-computing-stocks-to-watch-maybe-seven/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2009/11/17/six-cloud-computing-stocks-to-watch-maybe-seven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Moltzen is not a professional stock picker. He is a technology analyst, blogger and manager of product testing for Computer Reseller News (published by United Business Media). So if he picks a basket of cloud computing stocks, you can expect that the companies are strong technically. For financial fundamentals, you&#8217;ll need to do your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Structure of IT deparments will change with growth of cloud services</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2009/10/20/it-departments-change-growth-cloud-services/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2009/10/20/it-departments-change-growth-cloud-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing will change the basic structure of the IT department in coming years.
&#8220;The IT organization will be replaced by relationships to many cloud-computing service providers &#8212; each for one or a handful of services,&#8221; said Gartner Vice President Phil Dawson, speaking yesterday at the Gartner IT Xpo in Orlando, FL.
Dawson said that a cloud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles worries over the &#8220;dependability of cloud computing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2009/10/19/la-worries-over-the-dependability-of-cloud-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2009/10/19/la-worries-over-the-dependability-of-cloud-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[backup-restore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Los Angeles municipal email contract still up for debate, The LA Times published a "think piece" today on whether cloud computing is dependable. The piece is even-handed, ending with a quote by the city's chief technology officer, "Is it going to be 100%? There's probably going to be a time when we may have an issue. But what don't we have an issue with?"]]></description>
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		<title>FindLaw Technologist: Liability in Twittergate and Remote Storage DVR Case</title>
		<link>http://cloudynews.com/2009/10/13/findlaw-technologist-liability-in-twittergate-and-remote-storage-dvr-case/</link>
		<comments>http://cloudynews.com/2009/10/13/findlaw-technologist-liability-in-twittergate-and-remote-storage-dvr-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technologist, the FindLaw Technology Blog, maintains a section on Cloud Computing. As of October 11, 2009, there are two cases discussed.

Determining Liability in Twittergate, the case surrounding a hacker who broke into the Google DOCs accounts of Twitter executives and then emailed them to news outlets. TechCrunch published them.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal [...]]]></description>
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