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• Cloud security stokes concerns at RSA

  Two words -- cloud security -- dominated discussion and drove the action this week at RSA Conference 2009.

• Financial crisis challenging CIOs: VMware

  The global financial crisis is causing CIOs to jump through more hoops than ever to get their IT projects approved, according to VMware’s APAC managing director Paul Harapin.

• SOA evolving thanks to cloud computing: Gartner

  The growing prevalence of software as a service (SaaS), business process management (BPM) and cloud computing is helping drive service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption, despite a number of high profile failures, Gartner has said.

• Cloud computing may spawn compliance as a service

  With the growth of cloud computing, enterprises may soon be having conversations about compliance as a service as they seek to deal with the legislative and compliance requirements around protecting personally identifiable customer data.

• New security threats, data integration, affecting cloud adoption

  Questions around security, vendor openness and cost continue to hold back cloud computing adoption in Australia, according to analyst firm IDC.

• Cloud efforts examined by Microsoft and others

  Established vendors weighed in on cloud computing at Microsoft's Silicon Valley offices on Friday afternoon, citing it as a dramatic shift but offering caution as well.

• Avanade MD makes his case for cloud computing

  With Microsoft increasingly talking up cloud computing it is not unexpected that Avanade, the consultancy dedicated to using the Microsoft platform, and which was co-founded by Microsoft, is starting to talk up the benefits of running services in the cloud. To get a little more of a local insight where he thinks the market is positioned and what Avanade can offer organisations, we spoke to Craig Dower, managing director, Avanade Australia.

• Web application platform Coghead shuts down

  Coghead, maker of a cloud-based enterprise application development platform, is shutting down, according to its Web site.

• The cloud-SOA connection

  Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments, industry experts say. With cloud computing, enterprises can access services hosted on third-party servers over the Internet. In SOA, enterprises use integrated application services in a more lightweight fashion than traditional application platforms.

• Sun to take to the cloud

  Sun Microsystems plans to detail on March 18 its grand entrance into the cloud computing space, Sun officials said Tuesday morning.

• Cloud computing shapes up as big trend for 2009

  It is still early in the year, but cloud computing already is shaping up as a key trend for 2009.

• Open source developers ride the cloud

  Nearly half of developers working on open source projects plan to offer applications as Web services offerings using cloud providers, according to results of an Evans Data open source development survey being released on Tuesday.

• Micro Focus shows way to extend Cobol to the cloud

  There's life in legacy Cobol applications yet. A new offering from Micro Focus will enable companies to use applications written in the language within cloud computing environments.

• Salesforce launches Service Cloud

  Salesforce has repurposed the customer-service software acquired through its August 2008 purchase of InstraNet into a new offering called the Service Cloud, the company announced Thursday.

• Engine Yard powers SOA for the cloud

  Engine Yard, which has specialized in Ruby on Rails application-hosting, is introducing a platform to extend SOA to the cloud. The company also is extending its Rails stack to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform, for quicker deployment of Engine Yard customer applications.