Cloud Computing News
Amazon Web Services gets FedRAMP certification for US government cloud use
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program should offer savings in cost, time and resources when moving to the cloud read more »
Aviva adopts cloud-based financial forecasting
Aviva is using a cloud forecasting system from Anaplan read more »
Canadian regulator takes lighter view of Bitcoin
Bitcoin exchanges are not required to register with the country's anti-money laundering regulator read more »
Janet integrates with Microsoft cloud to offer better research networking
Janet has said the move would mean "bandwidth is managed, ensuring high-speed delivery with no delay or latency" read more »
Yahoo revamps Flickr and offers a terabyte of free storage
Full-quality image uploads and a photo-rich interface are at the heart of the updated service read more »
The good, the bad and the ugly of Tumblr under Yahoo
More ads could destroy Tumblr's brand, but the site could also gain loads more users, experts say read more »
Google Checkout to shut down in November
The company will focus on expanding features in its Wallet online payments tools read more »
Yahoo on Tumblr: We won't 'screw it up'
Yahoo will now have to figure out how to grow Tumblr revenue without alienating its user base read more »
Bitcoiners crave coders to cope with demand
More support to help with backend testing is high on developers' wish lists read more »
Yahoo Japan says 22 million user IDs may have been stolen
Japan's biggest Web portal said its ID servers were hacked, but no passwords or private info were leaked read more »
At Google I/O, developer services hogged the spotlight
Further opening the company's services to developers was a focus at the show read more »
Tech City start-ups offered 'wibre' to quickly connect to cloud
Optimity can connect firms to their cloud-based applications via antennae on rooftops read more »
Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox
A patch to only allow cookies from sites visited still needs more work, Mozilla's CTO said read more »
SAP urges large enterprises NOT to virtualise HANA
The enterprise software giant has also said customers should buy the latest x86 hardware read more »
SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem
SAP is shipping a raft of new features for the in-memory platform and letting partners in on its HANA Enterprise Cloud read more »
SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps
Keep your core ERP intact and add new apps from the cloud, SAP says read more »
Google takes Quick Action on Gmail
Cloud-based email system update announced during Google I/O conference read more »
Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost
Users can now do parallel scans to access data in large tables more quickly read more »
Telefónica deploys Office 365 across 130,000 strong cloud
Staff need to spend less time on infrastructure support of collaboration services read more »
SAP CEO shuns Forrester's criticisms that HANA cloud is a ‘half-baked business model’
Forrester has said that SAP’s enterprise HANA cloud is useless for many customers read more »













