Our cloud computing roundup for Friday looks at Salesforce.com's new Service Cloud, running mainframe apps on EC2, Joyent makes an acquisition, and the latest take on cloud security.
EMC is reportedly building data centers in three continents to support its Decho cloud storage initiative.
The NASDAQ Stock Exchange is storing "many terabytes" of stock market data on Amazon's S3 cloud storage system.
Can cloud computing support the regulatory compliance requirements of enterprise customers? Skeptics and providers debate the issue.
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Savvis Inc. (SVVS) has allied with SOASTA to provide an application testing service for cloud applications.
Cisco is now extending its Data Center 3.0 vision to cloud computing, and sees its networking gear and technologies enabling an "InterCloud" of interconnected cloud platforms.
A Gartner analyst predicts "thousands" of specialized cloud computing providers will emerge, creating opportunities for systems integrators and VARs to act as service brokers.
At the Gartner Data Center Conference, 51 percent of the audience of enterprise users expects to be using external cloud services in some fashion by 2010.