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Will a New Bill Virtually Eliminate the HITECH Act?
Recently legislation was introduced into the house that has some some backers of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act 2009) up in arms. -
The (5.2 Billion-Dollar) Future of the Mobile Cloud
Mobile devices will be playing a major role in the expansion of cloud computing in the coming years, according to ABI Research, a technology analysis and forecasting firm based in New York City. In a report released earlier this... -
Should the cloud be more regulated?
Should the federal government regulate the cloud? Apparently, Microsoft thinks so. Softzilla is asking Congress to pass legislation to regulate cloud computing. -
The Top 10 Things to Consider Before You Move to the Cloud.
If you want to reap the benefits of cloud computing for your organization, you’ll make sure that any business you conduct with a provider is grounded in a solid legal agreement and not thin air. -
Bandwidth Concerns Boost Source Dedupe’s Popularity
As organizations look for alternatives to tape for backups, one that’s attracting their attention is source deduplication. -
Private Clouds Trade Benefits for Security
Corporations guard their data jealously, and who can blame them? In the Information Age, data is to business as blood is to life. So it’s not surprising that any paradigm that removes an enterprise’s direct control of its data... -
Gentlemen, Start Your Cloud Predictions
In keeping with our end-of-the-year-predictions theme, it’s time once again to crank up the crystal balls and make fearless predictions about what will happen in the coming year. This time we look at cloud computing. -
Who you gonna trust? Apparently not Google.
As Google tries to expand beyond the search engine business, it’s meeting resistance from some IT quarters. On the surface it may seem that IT managers are worrying about their job security as the King of Search tries to... -
Why Cloud Computing Makes Sense…for Some.
One of the key selling points of cloud computing is that a company can pick and choose IT services from a provider (or, ideally, several providers) as needed, but not have to invest in building up its own IT... -
A Cloud by Any Other Name…
Cloud computing: is it the best new IT idea today or just a shiny repackaging of familiar services? The answer likely depends on who you talk to. Debate over the virtues of cloud computing has received a good deal...
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