Cloud Computing News

For EU companies and companies doing business within the EU, the use of Gmail and Google Apps may not be as secure or legally compliant as thought. Whilst eyes have been focused on the US PATRIOT Act and how it … Continued

Cloud Isle of Man cloud computing The Guardian reports that the Isle of Man government applications have been moved onto cloud computing. Although the Isle of Man has a population of only 80,000, claimed savings are £250,000 from a previous … Continued

Whilst the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform has had Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in beta for some time, Google App Engine (GAE) has been missing a relational database service. Developers have had to be content with … Continued

Cloud Cloud computing security concerns declining According to a Wall Street Journal article, security concerns about cloud computing are declining, particularly amongst small and medium size enterprises. It’s not rocket science Formed by ex-NASA and ex-Rackspace employees, Piston Cloud Computing … Continued

The announcement that Slideshare will drop Adobe Flash for HTML5 increases the momentum behind the still-evolving web standard.  Slideshare is in good company; Apple embraced HTML5 essentially because it’s an Adobe Flash killer. Apple has never been happy with the … Continued

Cloud computing Liberal Democrats cloud computing concerns During their recent party conference, the UK’s Liberal Democrats published a policy paper Preparing the Ground: Stimulating Growth in the Digital Economy in which they noted the growing popularity of cloud computing but … Continued

Cloud news Cloud computing still in its infancy A recent survey by SWC Technology Partners reveals that cloud computing takeup is still in its early stages.  Over half of those surveyed indicated that their organisation is not implementing any cloud … Continued

Whichever type of cloud computing it is that European organisations are adopting, whether it’s SaaS, PaaS or IaaS, those organisations appear to be taking a head-in-the-sand approach to the implications of the European Data Protection Directive. The Directive regulates the … Continued

Not a company to rest on its laurels, Google have gone into overdrive with new features for a number of products: Google Docs gets comment-only access, which will be useful for documents that you don’t want to see vandalised too … Continued

Everyone’s doing Database-as-a-Service In our 5 September 2011 cloud computing news digest we mentioned thatVMware, Salesforce and Heroku have launched Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).  Now Engine Yard is getting in on the act too by creating its Engine Yard Data Team to … Continued