• The benefits of cloud-based BPM

  In 2011 Gartner's Jim Sinur predicted that business process management and the cloud would be the "real thunder." He stated that moving operations to the cloud would free up money and efforts for businesses, and those organizations would be remiss to ignore BPM.

• Platform-as-service offerings blurring lines between cloud packages

  Cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is for renting storage and compute capacity from a service provider, delivered via an Internet connection. Similarly, software as a service (SaaS) is for accessing applications that are hosted in the cloud.

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  Google App Engine powers Traderoo website

  In a bid to lift classified ad revenue, News Ltd used Google App Engine to develop the Traderoo classifieds website.

• Open source plug-in speeds mobile app development

  Soasta, Cloudbees partner to connect mobile app dev to Jenkins continuous integration server, making it easier for developers to test and deploy apps to the cloud

• Middleware is dying -- and for good reason

  As acceptance of platform as a service (PaaS) cloud services continues to accelerate, companies are increasingly free to bypass underlying in-house IT infrastructure and OS requirements, focusing instead on the type of services required and service level agreements (SLA). And that spells the beginning of the end of having to deal with the cost and hassles of complex middleware.

• The rise of Cloud-based IDEs

  Development tools in the cloud enable programming from anywhere, but they're not suited for all app dev needs

• 2012: The year Cloud computing took a bite out of IT

  As new public cloud plays leap in and the private cloud slowly evolves, we're on the brink of a shift to cloud computing for critical business workloads

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  Case Study: Outsourcery Delivering a Virtualised Cloud Platform

  Outsourcery is a hosted solutions provider based in the UK and offers a broad range of cloud services, including software applications, virtualised infrastructures and unified communications. Find out how it provided a managed end-to-end communications and collaboration solution, expanding the business fivefold!

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  Nermertes Research: Clouds at the End of the Rainbow