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• 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.

• 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.

• Cloud computing shapes up as big trend for 2009

  It is still early in the year, but cloud computing already is shaping up as a key trend for 2009.

• Startup introduces cloud marketplace

  Deutsche Telekom spin-off Zimory has unveiled Public Cloud, a marketplace for companies that want to buy and sell hosted server capacity online.

• Cloud computing leaves IT managers in a fog

  Most IT managers do not understand what is meant by 'the cloud', according to research from hosting company Rackspace.

• Open source developers ride the cloud

  Nearly half of developers working on open source projects plan to offer applications as Web services offerings using cloud providers, according to results of an Evans Data open source development survey being released on Tuesday.

• Micro Focus shows way to extend Cobol to the cloud

  There's life in legacy Cobol applications yet. A new offering from Micro Focus will enable companies to use applications written in the language within cloud computing environments.

• Salesforce launches Service Cloud

  Salesforce has repurposed the customer-service software acquired through its August 2008 purchase of InstraNet into a new offering called the Service Cloud, the company announced Thursday.

• Engine Yard powers SOA for the cloud

  Engine Yard, which has specialized in Ruby on Rails application-hosting, is introducing a platform to extend SOA to the cloud. The company also is extending its Rails stack to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform, for quicker deployment of Engine Yard customer applications.