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Salesforce.com buys cloud HCM supplier Rypple

 16 December 2011

Human 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 2011

The 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 2011

New 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 2011

Chairman of a Homeland Security subcommitee expresses concerns over Obama administration's "cloud first" policy

Oracle launches "public cloud"

 06 October 2011

Systems 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 2011

UK 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 2011

One 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 2011

Microsoft'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 2011

Indian-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 2011

World'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 2011

SaaS 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 2011

Jason 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 2011

New service designed to satisfy the regulatory obligations of US government departments, with data stored and exclusively accessible from within the US

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

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