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Although being technically in operation for three and a half years, Amazon’s RDS database never made general release until now. Along with the public unveiling, the service has gained a useful SLA for some peace of mind.

A report from Rackspace Hosting has concluded that, with the rise of wearable technology, it will drive the rise of the “human cloud”. Cloud computing has become an integral facet of the rise in wearable tech, with the rich data available at a user’s command all being easily stored in the cloud. As a result the report, ‘The Human Cloud: Wearable Technology from Novelty to Productivity’, examined the responses of 4000 UK and US adults, as well as collaborating with experts from the Centre for Creative and Social Technology (CAST).

LogMeIn’s Xively is ready to connect “The Internet of Things” as a brand new PaaS (platform as a service) offering APIs for interacting with real world objects, along with real-time messaging thrown into the mix for good measure.

Among the hive of activity at Google I/O, one of the search giant’s more interesting announcements has come in the form of Google Compute Engine (GCE), giving developers increased access to Google infrastructure. Google’s latest push is a further move into the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) space, and culminates in the Silicon Valley company finding itself jockeying for position in a three horse race alongside Amazon and Microsoft.

Even today's most successful organisations will not survive the converged business future by merely doing the same things they currently do, only differently. What is needed is a shift to do different things. Ovum believes that rapid, assured and sustained business innovation is imperative to an organisation's success. IT leaders therefore need to effectively harness technological advances, cut time to market, and improve quality and performance.

Cloud, SaaS, big data, fast data, NoSQL, PaaS...while this economy cannot produce jobs, it can definitely produce jargon at the speed of light. What I wanted to know was what, then, does NoSQL give me from a business perspective?

With 2013 just around the corner, it’s not surprising to see many companies rolling out their 2013 tech predictions – and it’s even less of a surprise that cloud computing features heavily.

The cloud has delivered us into a radical new world; a world where lean manufacturing principles can be applied to tech infrastructure development. But are enterprise IT organisations willing, or able, to seize the potential benefits?