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• Google battles Amazon for corporate Clouds

  Google says it's in the enterprise Cloud market to stay.

• Has cloud computing been a failed revolution?

  Talk to IT personnel, or study what they look up on Google, and you may think they're done with cloud computing. Talk to analysts or more importantly, end users, and you'll hear a different story.

• Cloud Hub Is a Good Fit for Footwear Company

  An online supply chain platform helps Wolverine Worldwide integrate a major acquisition and become more agile

• VMware unwraps hybrid Cloud desktop virtualisation

  With the new VMware Horizon DaaS offering, IT organisations can deploy enterprise-class virtual desktops to a public Cloud, private Cloud or seamlessly mix the two with a hybrid Cloud deployment.

• 23 signs your cloud project may be in trouble

  On many an old map, unknown territories were marked, 'Here be dragons!' Sure, it's actionable, but it's not very informative. Centuries later, do we have the same problem with software project management? Here's how to slay the dragons that threaten to set your cloud projects aflame.

• Rackspace Aims for a More Flexible Public Cloud

  Rackspace Hosting says it has rearchitected its public cloud with a workload-oriented framework designed to deliver optimal performance and price based on the workload. It now comes in two flavors and the company says more are on the way.

• How CIOs Can Become Business Heroes

  Columnist Michael Hugos offers clear directions for how CIOs can open the exit door from the techie trap.

• Self-Service IT Catches On

  Cloud-based software for the IT help desk turns out to be useful in departments outside of IT, too.

• Verizon Recreates the Public Cloud for the Enterprise IT

  For the past two years, Verizon has been quietly re-architecting its public cloud from the ground up to build a new enterprise-focused offering that allows organizations to dial in precisely the level of compute, network and storage they need for individual uses.

• U.S. Cloud Firms Suffer From NSA PRISM Program

  Revelations of the NSA's massive electronic surveillance program give fuel to foreign firms and governments that warn of privacy risks of doing business with U.S. cloud service providers.

• OpenStack Celebrates 3 Years of Building Open Source Cloud Platform

  The project to deliver a ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds has become one of the fastest growing open source projects in history.

• Could Privacy Protection Bills Hinder Law Enforcement?

  The Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform bill advances to the Senate floor to better protect email privacy. Meanwhile a House subcommittee considers privacy protections for location data, data which some in law enforcement say is necessary to solve crimes.

• 5 Things IT Pros Need to Know About SaaS Governance

  Software as a service is here to stay. So CIOs need the tools to manage their sprawling portfolios of SaaS applications with the same rigor they use for on-premise software.

• As CMOs grab IT budget from CIOs, cloud capex and opex shift

  If analysts are correct, and the CMO eventually wrests control of the IT budget from the CIO, then spending on cloud computing will get a lot less predictable and a lot more complicated.

• Adidas Heads to the Cloud to Control IT Spending

  The sporting goods unit in Latin America implemented cloud-based procurement software in a multinational environment. It wasn't easy.