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• Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

  Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

• Telstra IaaS platform gets ISO certification

  Telstra's (ASX:TLS) full infrastructure-as-a-service platform has been classified as compliant with the ISO27001 international standard for information security management.

• Customisable Cloud SLAs on the way, researchers predict

  Service-level agreements and legal standards for Cloud offerings will become more customised to individual customers and vertical industries as the cloud market continues to mature and providers look for ways to differentiate their offerings, researchers at the University of London predict.

• About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

  About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

• Ninefold providing Cloud services for ilab incubator

  Australian Cloud computing and storage company Ninefold has signed on to provide free Cloud services to participants in technology incubator ilab's Germinate program.

• Optus Business to debut new Cloud, mobility services

  Optus Business has revealed plans to expand its portfolio of Cloud computing and enterprise mobility offerings.

• Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

  Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

• Study: Patriot Act gives US government no special acess to cloud data

  An often-repeated concern that the U.S. Patriot Act gives the U.S. government unequaled access to personal data stored on cloud services is incorrect, with several other nations enjoying similar access to cloud data, according to a study released Wednesday.

• Brocade outlines its SDN approach

  Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series 100Gbps routers as part of a broader SDN strategy.

• 10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

  If at first you don’t succeed…

• CeBIT 2012: Lack of Cloud standards hinders uptake, says NAB

  Speaking at the CeBIT conference in Sydney, NAB head of strategy and innovation, Denis Curran, said Cloud standards would promote innovation.

• EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

  EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

• When it comes to security, keep your head in the clouds

  Australian enterprises may be rushing to embrace cloud computing, but those making the transition must take a proactive approach to infrastructure security that lets them provide consistent information assurance across public, private and hybrid cloud models.

• Upcoming Salesforce.com release adds real-time chat capabilities

  Salesforce.com, which has placed ample emphasis on its Chatter social networking application, will actually begin providing real-time chat functionality as part of an imminent upgrade to its family of cloud-based software, according to a company document.

• Cloud computing: You can't outsource your compliance obligations

  When it comes to moving functions to the cloud, there's no such thing as being too thorough.