Admit it, you’ve used weedy looking pictures of clouds to represent Amazon Web Services in your Powerpoint presentation. Now you can have the real thing, AWS icons for cloud architecture diagrams ow.ly/7NkKo
Is the cloud good or bad for IT jobs? ow.ly/7LtXp
Reports of CouchDB’s demise are premature. Apache CouchDB, it lives! ow.ly/7Ltu0
More Database-as-a-Service as Rackspace launches private beta MySQL cloud database ow.ly/7LsG0
Implementing an encrypted database in the cloud, as your should be by default? Porticor offer some practical considerations for implementation ow.ly/7JDZB
NoSQL database MongoDB goes head-to-head with relational behemoths Oracle and Mysql ow.ly/7JDUx
Was Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) not supposed to offer seamless, transparent upgrades? Office 365 makes a song-and-a-dance of its first service update ow.ly/7JDRP
Back 2 the old skool: provider of enterprise social networking services, Yammer, is dropping Scala in favour of good old Java ow.ly/7JDMO
Muddying EU data privacy protection somewhat, the European Court of Justice has determined that unauthorised processing of personal data can’t be prohibited ow.ly/7IK71
Whisper Systems, creator of security and privacy mobile solutions, is joining Twitter, aka a buy-out! ow.ly/7It82
Puppet Labs, the DevOps friends, has secured funding from, amongst others, VMware, Google and Cisco ow.ly/7IuhH
A single-issue web site dedicated to the Twelve-Factors of building SaaS, by Adam Wiggins of Heroku fame ow.ly/7HHbB