Microsoft has an entire portfolio of pre-built virtual machines, all of them Linux systems, designed to run on the Windows Azure cloud service.

If you're looking for a secure and portable backup technique, try combining the trusty command-line utility Duplicity with an available cloud account.

• New Intel Xeon Phi
• Intel-HP HPC Center
• Oracle Supports Azure Cloud
• Wayland 1.2 Released
• Java Enterprise Edition 7 Released

Cloud computing is most definitely here, but does it have a role in HPC? We discuss changes in HPC that could be solved effectively by cloud computing.

If you want to enjoy all the benefits of a cloud solution without losing control of your data, AeroFS offers an intelligent solution.

Thanks to the scalability of Amazon's web services, the Angry Birds shop and its databases do not fail even when visited by a teaming mass of bird lovers.