Google's Cloud Music Service

Google launching cloud music service tomorrow without industry support VentureBeat It sounds like the music industry is ready to embrace Google's long-rumored cloud music service as much as Hollywood jumped on board with Google TV. And yes, that's sarcasm. Google is apparently gearing up to launch its cloud music service — which ... See all stories on this topic »

HP Challenges Cisco with New FlexNetwork Architecture eWeek Hewlett-Packard is continuing to press Cisco Systems in the data center networking space, rolling out a new architecture that officials said is designed to enable businesses to leverage the benefits of such technologies as virtualization and cloud ... See all stories on this topic »

EMC CEO Prescribes Cloud For IT Pain Relief InformationWeek Private and public clouds were front and center at EMC World, but Joe Tucci's keynote address lacked detail about how clouds will ease IT pain. By Andrew Conry-Murray InformationWeek Budget dilemmas, data deluge, and security are the three biggest pain... See all stories on this topic »

Red Hat Summit recap: RHEL 6.1, cloud platforms, and a new openness eWeek The event debuted a "Red Hat CloudForms" cloud-computing initiative and related "OpenShift" development platform. The final version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 6.1) is not yet generally available, but was released to select partners this week at ... See all stories on this topic »

McAfee Launches Cloud Security Platform CRN By Stefanie Hoffman, CRN McAfee is throwing itself full-force into the cloud with the launch Monday of a security platform designed to protect cloud-based Web, e-mail and identity data. At its core, the McAfee Cloud Security Platform is designed to ... See all stories on this topic »

Amazon Cloud Drive: Now streaming to iOS CNET (blog) by Rick Broida It's a bit of a hassle to access the Amazon Cloud Player in your iPhone's browser, but at least it works. But as reported by Lifehacker today, Amazon just updated the service to support streaming over Safari. In other words, iOS users ... See all stories on this topic »

Cisco and Xerox to team up for cloud and printing initiatives V3.co.uk "This relationship puts Xerox and Cisco at the centre of a simplified, connected infrastructure, bringing together networking, printing and cloud services," said Xerox chief executive and chairperson Ursula Burns. "Together we are helping businesses ... See all stories on this topic »

Amazon SLAs Didn't Cover Major Outage InformationWeek By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Service level agreements in the cloud don't necessarily guarantee very much. Amazon.com's SLA says it's obligated to provide 99.95% uptime, but that SLA didn't apply to many customers caught in the recent outage.... See all stories on this topic »

Cloud can't outsource responsibility or managers ZDNet (blog) There's a debate brewing about whether or not cloud computing is synonymous with outsourcing. The concept puts ownership and location of hardware and infrastructure in somebody else's hands, but does that really shift responsibility? ... See all stories on this topic »

Cloud Computing Is for the Birds BusinessWeek (blog) That's why the large public cloud providers offer "ship your drives to us and we'll load the data" services. This isn't to say that the benefits offered by cloud storage don't exist—they're just not comprehensive. Businesses need data redundancy to ... See all stories on this topic »