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• Pentaho and Amazon.com deliver BI to the cloud

  Open-source business intelligence application Pentaho is joining the roster of applications available via Amazon.com Inc.'s EC2 Web hosting service.

• Cloud provider 3Tera announces 'five nines' SLA

  Cloud-computing provider 3Tera announced this week that beginning in April, its Virtual Private Datacenter service will offer a 99.999 percent SLA (service-level agreement).

• Sun begins new push into cloud services market

  Sun Microsystems is making a fresh push into the cloud services market, starting with hosted computing and storage services that it will offer to developers later this year.

• Rackspace takes on Amazon with cloud server, storage services

  Amazon has a new competitor in the cloud computing arena, with Rackspace debuting pay-as-you-go server instances and an online storage service.

• AWS adds option to reserve capacity on cloud

  Amazon Web Services Thursday for the first time began giving customers in the U.S. the ability to reserve capacity in advance on its Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure.

• 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.

• Report: Microsoft to bring full SQL Server database to cloud

  Microsoft, which last year announced plans to bring a limited version of its SQL Server database online, now plans to offer a fully capable cloud version.

• Ballmer: Azure ready for release by end of year

  Microsoft plans to release its Windows Azure cloud-computing platform before the end of the year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday.

• Web application platform Coghead shuts down

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

• Researchers outline cloud computing obstacles, opportunities

  UC Berkeley researchers have outlined their view of cloud computing, which they say has great opportunity to exploit unprecedented IT resources if vendors can overcome a litany of obstacles.

• IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy

  IBM and Juniper on Monday provided a sneak peek at technology that lets enterprise IT managers easily reallocate computing resources between a private and a public cloud.

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  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.

• Start-up VMops aims to ease cloud deployments

  Building a cloud computing infrastructure can be a complicated endeavor, but stealth start-up VMops hopes to provide a silver lining with its all-in-one infrastructure software that lets service providers or corporations deploy and host their own clouds.