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Federal agencies that use platform-as-a-service in their cloud computing strategy can cut development costs by 50 percent, according to a recently released white paper by NJVC and Virtual Global. In “Platform as a Service (PaaS): What Is It? Why Is It So Important?,” authors Kevin Jackson and Cary Landis outline why …

 AT&T has made a push in cloud technology with the unveiling of it’s platform as a service application software. PaaS serves as a self sustainable cloud based service tool to help businesses customize, develop and launch their own cloud apps to assist with business related tasks. AT&T believes PaaS will be …

McAfee has added its latest enhancements to its cloud security platform, which is responsible for securing all primary channels of traffic moving between the cloud and organization such as email, web and authentication. “Offering comprehensive security capabilities from both Intel and McAfee, we are developing and investing in technology that makes …

 Red Hat and SAIC have agreed to collaborate to create solutions that will try to maximize open source cloud computing technologies that are scalable, secure, interoperable and portable. The companies’ goal is to reduce infrastructure costs and ease the Defense Department‘s adoption of cloud computing. Through the collaboration, Red Hat solutions will help …

Rumors are swirling about Oracle‘s potential plans to release a platform-as-a-service offering at this week’s annual Oracle OpenWorld conference, ComputerWorld UK wrote. It would be a risky, but logical move, according to analysts surveyed by the site. Enterprises are demanding hosted services and the company could generate more revenue by …

So what do you think about the cloud? That’s what cloud computing researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology want to know by seeking comments from the public on a draft of its most complete guide to cloud computing. NIST Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations lays out cloud-computing …