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Aviva adopts cloud-based financial forecasting

Aviva is dumping the spreadsheets and adopting a cloud-based forecasting system for its insurance and savings business. read more »

Canadian regulator takes lighter view of Bitcoin

It appears Canada's anti-money laundering regulator will leave Bitcoin exchanges in the country alone for now. read more »

Janet integrates with Microsoft cloud to offer better research networking

The Janet education network has been integrated with the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud network to help improve connectivity and easily offer cut-price Microsoft cloud applications to colleges, including the Office 365 productivity suite. read more »

Tech City start-ups offered 'wibre' to quickly connect to cloud

Tech City businesses in Shoreditch, east London are being offered combined data centre and new "wibre" connectivity services to help them quickly grow. read more »

Telefónica deploys Office 365 across 130,000 strong cloud

Telefónica, the owner of the O2 mobile brand in the UK, is deploying the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite and Yammer social networking platform across its operating businesses worldwide, covering 130,000 staff in 24 countries. read more »

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Squeezing savings from the cloud

Calculating the real ROI of cloud apps requires the analysis of a lot of factors, and cutting corners on that process means you might not save money. read more »

Office 365 review: Serious enhancements for the enterprise

Latest blend of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync servers in the cloud combines an excellent feature set with easier setup and management. read more »

VFX studio opts for Amazon cloud to create scenes for Oscar-nominated film

Atomic Fiction is leading the way for Hollywood visual effects (VFX) studios that are looking to cut costs on production, whilst maintaining a high level of artistic quality, by rendering images in Amazon’s EC2 cloud. read more »

How a private cloud can save money and the environment

When Ricoh Europe realized its IT environment was both spiraling out of control and environmentally unfriendly, it turned to a IT services provider for help. Working with Infosys, Ricoh developed a private cloud that helped it consolidate nine data centers into two, cutting infrastructure costs and reducing carbon dioxide emissions significantly. read more »

Cloud service partnerships could boom in 2013

Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report predicts. read more »

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Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace vs. Microsoft vs. Google

The cloud industry is so young that it's hard to determine who the winners and losers are yet

Centrica Energy deploys mobile Salesforce cloud

CloudSense will help mobilise Centrica's gas and power origination teams

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A list of common, but very important 'fine print' issues that companies miss when they don't read contracts closely

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