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Today is the first day of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York, and an unprecedented number of runway shows as well as interviews with designers are streamed live online. Want to catch a glimpse at what’s coming in spring 2011? Then check out our guide. Read more »

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Which venture capital firms are “eating their own dog food” and consuming cloud services, asked Paul Kedrosky of a panel of VCs who invest in web infrastructure. You can just wave your hands if you’re running your firm on the cloud, he said. Let’s just say […] Read more »

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SAP, not exactly an early cloud adopter, thinks cloud computing will factor significantly into large-scale computing services, said SAP CTO Vishal Sikka in conversation with GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham at the Structure 09 conference in San Francisco today. But that doesn’t mean enterprise services of the future […] Read more »

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Faster, cheaper, more ubiquitous bandwidth has spawned a decade of new applications that depend on it as a platform: Google, YouTube, Twitter, Hulu. The bigger pipes, the richer the application. What will higher bandwidth speeds, wider-reaching networks and cheaper access to connections produce in another decade? […] Read more »

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While it may seem that everyone and their mother is moving to the cloud, the truth is that many enterprises are still wary about moving into public, shared infrastructures. But there are undeniable business benefits to cloud computing, and enterprises are beginning to ask: How can […] Read more »

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“The real reason we talk about the cloud so much is that everyone can draw one,” said Russ Daniels of HP, VP and CTO of HP’s cloud services strategy, who’s now been put in charge of technology for HP’s EDS division. Daniels joked that since the […] Read more »

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Running the 11-year-old content-distribution kingpin Akamai, which manages nearly 50,000 servers and optimizes the world’s overtaxed web services, might be a high-profile job for some. For Akamai CEO Paul Sagan, it’s actually his second act — the cousin of science writer Carl Sagan was formerly an […] Read more »

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When you’re running a web app, what can you offload responsibility for by outsourcing to the cloud and what do you need to do yourself? The balance between the two is changing, as was discussed on a Structure panel that pitted hosting providers (of sorts) and […] Read more »

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The emergence of cloud computing has forced companies to re-think about where their data is stored, as well as which technologies are best to support a distributed data storage model. The ideal scenario is storage that’s cheap and quickly scalable — just keep on adding storage […] Read more »

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