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Salesforce.com hires former US govt CIO
16 January 2012Vivek Kundra has joined software-as-a-service provider as executive vice president of emerging markets
Hillingdon council puts 3,500 staff on Google Apps
20 December 2011Local authority pursues "infrastructure free" IT strategy with Google's cloud productivity service, anticipating £3m saving over four years
Salesforce.com buys cloud HCM supplier Rypple
16 December 2011Human capital management purchase comes two weeks after SAP acquires comparable SaaS supplier SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion
Deutsche Bank's private cloud plan wins contest
01 December 2011The German bank's plan to build scalable IT infrastructure for its developers wins the Open Data Centre Alliance's Conquering the Cloud competition
Sunderland builds cloud for council and businesses
14 November 2011New cloud infrastructure, built by IBM and hosted in Sunderland City Council's data centre, will offer IT services to both local authorities and businesses
Cloud is "rich target for hackers", says US lawmaker
07 October 2011Chairman of a Homeland Security subcommitee expresses concerns over Obama administration's "cloud first" policy
Oracle launches "public cloud"
06 October 2011Systems giant says "industry standards"-basis of hosted cloud services gives greater freedom than Salesforce.com
Virgin Media Business to resell Savvis cloud service
28 September 2011UK telco has partnered with hosting provider Savvis to offer customers a virtual private data centre service
Former NASA engineer launches "private cloud OS"
27 September 2011One of the software engineers behind Nebula, NASA's cloud system that became the basis for OpenStack, launches "private cloud operating system"
Global Office 365 outage coincides with US power cut
09 September 2011Microsoft's cloud services go down around the world at the same time as a massive power outage on the West coast of the United States
Tata Steel adopts Microsoft's Office 365
26 August 2011Indian-owned steel giant makes its first move to the cloud, migrating two legacy email systems onto a Europe-wide Office 365 deployment
Microsoft resorts to Linux to crack China cloud market
23 August 2011World's biggest software company to partner with a Chinese Linux OS provider in an attempt to break into the highly valued Chinese cloud market
Salesforce.com growing fast, spending faster
19 August 2011SaaS CRM vendor beats Wall Street's expectations with 38% revenue growth but costs grew faster, leading to $4.3 million loss
IT admin accused of deleting ex-employer's VMs
17 August 2011Jason Cornish faces up to ten years in prison for allegedly sabotaging Japanese drugmaker's IT infrastructure by deleting virtual servers
Amazon launches secure cloud for US government
17 August 2011New service designed to satisfy the regulatory obligations of US government departments, with data stored and exclusively accessible from within the US
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