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• Ellison: Next version of Oracle database set for December or January release

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:59

  The next version of Oracle's database will be released in either December or January, CEO Larry Ellison said during an onstage interview at the AllThingsD conference in London.

• Salesforce.com's Desk.com service adding multilingual support

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:19

  Salesforce.com's Desk.com service is about to add multilingual support to the cloud-based help-desk software, the company said Thursday.

• Microsoft launches Office 365 edition for US government customers

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 30 May, 2012 19:13

  Microsoft has released a government-specific edition of its Office 365 cloud-based email and collaboration suite that offers U.S. public-sector customers a cordoned-off data center infrastructure just for them.

• Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars

  By Chris Kanaracus | 29 May, 2012 20:59

  Oracle may lay out how it plans to become a player in the burgeoning PaaS (platform as a service) market next week during a webcast event featuring CEO Larry Ellison and co-president Mark Hurd.

• Telco Watch: Court ruling destructive for Cloud computing?

  By Spandas Lui | 28 May, 2012 10:53

  When Optus TV Now was launched in July 2011, the telco probably didn’t expect to withdraw the service less than a year later. It probably didn’t predict the court case over Optus TV Now would have broader ramifications for the Cloud computing industry.

• Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

  By Chris Kanaracus | 25 May, 2012 17:12

  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.

• Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer

  By Jim Duffy | 25 May, 2012 15:29

  Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping.

• Customisable Cloud SLAs on the way, researchers predict

  By Brandon Butler | 24 May, 2012 20:30

  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

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

  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).

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

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 13:00

  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.

• SAP president claims €1bn worth of in-memory business in the pipeline

  By Derek du Preez | 23 May, 2012 17:07

  SAP has 1 billion (£808 million) worth of business in the pipeline for its in-memory HANA product, according to SAP's president of sales Robert Enslin.

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

  By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 16:02

  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.

• SuccessFactors opens first datacentre in Australia

  By Spandas Lui | 23 May, 2012 10:16

  The SAP-owned business execution software company has plans to turn Australia into a Cloud computing hub for the Asia-Pacific region.

• Brocade outlines its SDN approach

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 05:30

  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

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 03:33

  If at first you don’t succeed…