CLOUD COMPUTING

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Sun enters the cloud

The world's largest open-source company, Sun Microsystems, has made its entrance to cloud computing in a massive open-source strategy of adoption, commercial innovation and efficiently connects the two opportunity.

Cisco, Juniper jump on ratings, upbeat tech results

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Shares of network equipment makers Cisco Systems Inc and Juniper Networks Inc jumped on Wednesday, helped by buy ratings by Citigroup as well as solid results from smaller rival Adtran and chipmaker Intel Corp .

Mid-day Minute - July 15 Tech

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Microsoft Corp. unveiled some of the pricing for its cloud computing platform, Windows Azure. It will offer a discount of 15% to 30% to developers and resellers who agree to work with them for six months or more. In the pay-per-use category, the company will charge 12 cents an hour for computing, 15 cents per gigabyte for storage and 10 cents per 10,000 storage transactions.
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Computing in the Clouds

Storing and sharing real estate documents on the Internet translates into higher productivity and better customer service.
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Daily Wrap up July 7 - Tech

Microsoft Corp., which has been fined 1.68 billion euros ($2.34 billion) in European Union antitrust cases, is in preliminary talks to settle two additional probes before EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes leaves office, four people familiar with the negotiations said.
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HP to sell Symantec backup service on consumer PCs

Hewlett-Packard Co, the world's biggest PC maker, will help sell online backup services from Symantec Corp, which is looking to expand its consumer business beyond its line of Norton security products.
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HP to sell Symantec backup on consumer PCs

Hewlett-Packard Co, the world's biggest PC maker, will help sell online backup services from Symantec Corp, which is looking to expand its consumer business beyond its line of Norton security products.
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Microsoft exec sees lower margins from cloud

Microsoft Corp's chief software architect said on Thursday the profit margins on providing online services -- broadly known as cloud computing -- would likely yield a lower profit margin than the company's existing software business.
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Verizon offers pay-as-you-go hosting service

Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday unveiled a pay-as-you go hosting service for corporate customers looking to save money by buying only as much computing capacity as they need at any given time.
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Tibco to offer cloud computing software

Tibco Software Inc will sell products to help companies build and run programs on Amazon.com's cloud computing system, a move that may spur adoption of the fledgling technology.
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AT&T to offer cloud-based storage as a service

AT&T Inc, the biggest U.S. telephone company, plans to offer Web-based data storage services for corporations using cloud computing technologies developed by data storage equipment maker EMC Corp.
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Little-known cloud startups attract venture interest

Venture capitalists are increasingly looking to invest in start-up companies that provide complementary services for the Internet cloud, hoping to get in on the ground floor of a trend that the world's biggest tech companies are pushing.
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AMD introduced 45nm Quad-Core EE

On Wednesday, AMD Inc. introduced the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron EE processor with the company's lowest x86 quad-core server power band.
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Salesforce offers customers free mobile service

Business software maker Salesforce.com on Tuesday launched a slimmed-down version of its customer-management services that existing customers will be able to access for free using high-end mobile phones.
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IBM to enter 'cloud computing' software market

IBM will sell a suite of Web-based collaboration software for businesses, including contact management, instant messaging and file sharing programs, the computing giant's biggest effort to date to sell software as a service.

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