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• Sencha Architect: Visual HTML5, sort of

  Sencha describes Sencha Architect 2, the latest incarnation of its visual Web development tool, as "a massive upgrade to Ext Designer," the previous version. The name change from Designer to Architect reflects the product's new focus. Instead of a tool for building Web UIs, Sencha says the new version is suitable for creating complete Web applications, both for UI designers and back-end developers. That's true up to a point.

• What should Cloud providers know about their customers?

  When customers sign up for an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) plan from one of the number of vendors in the market, usually a name and credit card is needed before data is stored in the provider's Cloud. But just what are public Cloud providers doing with that information?

• Sourcefire debuts anti-malware software FireAMP for enterprise

  Sourcefire today announced anti-malware software for Windows-based devices that combines signature- and behavior-based detection methods to identify malicious code trying to invade the enterprise network, tracking it down through cloud-based analysis.

• Feds launch cloud security standards program

  Federal agencies will soon have a government-wide security standard for assessing, authorizing and monitoring cloud products and services.

• Microsoft to help C++ developers leverage parallel programming

  Microsoft introduced this week technology for C++ developers to leverage GPUs (graphics processing units) for parallel programming.

• Linux PHP vs. Windows ASP for Web hosting

  There are three major Web development platforms, all of which have advantages and disadvantages which can impact which platform is best suited for the user's application: Microsoft's ASP.NET/IIS/Windows Server; Linux (or other UNIX clone)/Apache/MySQL/PHP -- most often called LAMP; and Sun Java J2EE.x. When the term ASP is used in this particular context, it is referring to ASP.NET and not ASP, which is a similar but entirely different product.

• CSC deploys cloud lifecycle management tool

  Technology company CSC has announced its deployment of a cloud lifecycle management tool in an effort to provide its customers with a self-service web portal aimed at controlling multiple cloud models.

• AMP chooses CSC to move into the cloud

  CSC's heavy push into cloud computing services earlier this year has already paid off, with financial services group AMP this morning revealing it had selected the IT services giant to host its Microsoft-based email and collaboration needs.

• AMP CIO gets 21% salary increase in 2009

  AMP’s chief information officer (CIO), Lee Barnett, received a 21 per cent increase in remuneration for the organisation’s 2009 financial year over 2008.

• AMP hits milestone in ICT transformation program

  Investment in ICT during 2009 has helped AMP minimise the negative impact of the global financial crisis.

• AMP inks $300m contract extension with CSC

  Financial services giant AMP has entered into a revised $150 million outsourcing contract over six-years with IT service provider CSC, with the option for additional services to a total of $300 million.

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  Social networking in business: plan less for less pain

  Productivity loss, information leakage, and defamation of fellow employees are all enough to get us fired from our jobs, unless, of course, it is done under the guise of a social network for the enterprise 2.0.

• AMP, Commonwealth Bank choose homegrown security

  Wealth management firm AMP has rejected established auditing and security frameworks for a procedure list hand-drawn by its own head of security.