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Gartner: SaaS contract language on security is lacking

The large majority of people working in IT procurement are "significantly dissatisfied" with the way SaaS (software as a service) vendors define contract language related to security, a feeling likely to persist through 2015, according to a Gartner report. read more »

W3C's Web Storage technology goes live

The World Wide Web Consortium has finalised its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. read more »

IBM cloud revenue reporting investigated by SEC

IBM is the subject of a probe by the US Securities and Exchange Commission into how it reports revenue related to its cloud computing business, the vendor revealed Wednesday. read more »

Salesforce.com expands mobile application development support

Salesforce.com has expanded the number of mobile application development tools it supports and also created a series of templates aimed at helping coders create mobile applications faster. read more »

Dutch banks get approval to use Amazon cloud

The Netherlands banking regulator has approved Amazon Web Services (AWS) for use by financial organisations, Amazon said yesterday. read more »

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Hogan Lovells ‘breaks the mould’ with legal sector cloud HR deployment

International law firm Hogan Lovells has sought to ‘break the mould’ in the traditionally conservative legal industry by moving its HR system into the cloud with Workday, choosing the Saas model over traditional HR vendors. read more »

What economists can teach us about cloud computing

William Stanley Jevons was a Victorian-era economist who explained why Britain used more coal, not less, as the resource dropped in price. Ronald Coase wrote his seminal work on why people use firms to conduct transactions back in 1937. Both help explain why this is the era of cloud computing. read more »

Platform as a service heats up

The platform-as-a-service market is still tiny, but it's growing as vendors consolidate and more users decide give PaaS a try. Insider (registration required) read more »

Big changes in store for the PaaS market

The platform-as-a-service market is likely to undergo a period of consolidation and change as big enterprise IT vendors and infrastructure-as-a-service vendors vie for a piece of the action. Insider (registration required) read more »

Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange will help reduce enterprise Iaas spend

The launch of Deutsche Börse’s Cloud Exchange trading platform will support the growth of cloud brokers acting as intermediaries for end-user customers, enabling them to save on IT budgets by offloading excess capacity. read more »

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