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Stateless computing to become core to cloud computing?

As companies glom onto cloud computing, stateless computing is likely to emerge as a core tenant within the cloud and one that can deliver cost savings, predicted the chief technology architect for Merrill Lynch. Read more »

Dreamforce: Benioff preaches cloud computing gospel, Facebook

After a decade as the chief evangelist in the wilderness of software as a service, which has morphed into cloud computing, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff is having a more challenging time coming up with groundbreaking industry disruptions. Read more »

Ubuntu planning move to the cloud

Add Canonical to the roster of companies offering technology to help enterprise customers build their own cloud computing set-ups. But unlike most of the better-known players in this nascent market, the twist here is that the technology will be supplied by an open source shop. Read more »

Red Hat adds virtualisation, cloud to RHEL

Open-source software company Red Hat has made a bid at cloud virtualisation with the release of the latest version of its operating system, which includes a built-in hypervisor. Read more »

Visual Studio 2010 can replay bugs

Microsoft has revealed plans for the next version of its development suite, Visual Studio 2010, to be able to record testing sessions so that developers can reproduce and closely examine software bugs. Read more »

Interview: Red Hat's new CEO

Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News. Read more »

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Install OpenVZ on CentOS to create a virtual container

This article shows you how to install OpenVZ on CentOS. OpenVZ is an OS-level virtualisation product that allows you to completely isolate processes from each other, increase security by keeping bits separate, and tightly control resource utilisation. Read more »

Hapax's Amplify makes it easy to extract meaning from text

We put Hapax's Amplify, a lightweight natural language processing web service, through its paces. Here's what we think of this relatively new product. Read more »

What Ray Ozzie sees in Azure's cloud

In an interview after his keynote at the PDC, Ozzie talked about what Azure means for developers, businesses, and even the everyman. Read more »

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Microsoft readying My Phone cloud service

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft appears poised to officially unveil a Web-based service that will let users store, share, and back up data from their mobile phones. Read more »

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