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Amazon and Microsoft clouds struck by power outage

 08 August 2011

Stormy weather in Dublin blamed for data centre outage that affected users of EC2 and BPOS

Facilities giant ISS moves IT infrastructure to Atos' cloud

 04 August 2011

Site management company moves its UK-based IT infrastructure into a dedicated cloud environment, dropping incumbent IT services provider CSC

Open Cloud Initiative defines its principles

 27 July 2011

Industry body defines what it considers to be the basis of 'openness' in cloud computing

Government to collaborate in secure cloud using Huddle

 21 July 2011

The silicon roundabout start-up's software will be the first SaaS application hosted on the Government Secure Application Environment

Citrix buys cloud management vendor Cloud.com

 12 July 2011

Infrastructure software vendor picks up open source, "hypervisor-agnostic" cloud management provider

Three in ten virtual machines on AWS are insecure

 22 June 2011

Scientists find that 30% of virtual servers hosted on Amazon Web Services are improperly configured, exposing them to attack

Apple's iCloud will spur consumerisation, says analyst

 07 June 2011

TechMarketView analyst Richard Holway says tech giant's new content hosting service will make its devices even more popular in the workplace

Code hosting service BitBucket struck by DDoS

 06 June 2011

Hosted software development tool, operated by Australian company Atlassian, taken offline by denial of service attacks

New York Stock Exchange launches trading 'cloud'

 02 June 2011

Hosted services allow trading firms to outsource operations including regulatory reporting and market data analysis

Salesforce.com's profit margin just 1.1% in latest quarter

 20 May 2011

On demand CRM vendor's profit performance once again fails to quash questions about the viability of cloud computing

Telco/cloud buy up continues with Savvis acquisition

 27 April 2011

US telecommunications company CenturyLink buys cloud computing provider to the UK government

Amazon's cloud outage took three days to resolve

 26 April 2011

Some cloud computing customers were still suffering performance issues three days after last week's outage

Amazon Web Services struck by performance issues

 21 April 2011

Cloud computing services struck by errors and increased latency at web giant's North Virginia facilities

VMware rides data centre investment wave

 20 April 2011

Virtualisation software vendor grows revenue by a third as businesses pour money into data centre infrastructure

Vendors boast of huge cloud investments

 07 April 2011

Dell and Microsoft reveal billion dollar investments in cloud computing, as IBM launches raft of cloud services

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