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• Facebook stands by its homegrown infrastructure

  Facebook regularly reviews whether to continue using its own data centers or hand off its processing to a cloud service provider, and its operations remain on homegrown infrastructure.

• Survey: IT wants public and private cloud services

  Skeptics who disparage the concept of the so-called private cloud and doubt its relevance should think again, according to research from IDC.

• Business school swaps Google Apps for Microsoft Live@edu

  A French business school plans to trade Google Apps, used by around half its staff and students, for Microsoft's rival Live@edu service.

• Oracle APEX gets Web 2.0 boost

  Oracle has upgraded its Oracle Application Express development software so that it will allow developers to add some Web 2.0 flash to their applications.

• Microsoft's Bing turns up the heat in war with Google

  Microsoft fired another salvo as its battle against <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136345/Google_Update">Google</a> for <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142593/Google_and_Microsoft_to_escalate_war_in_2010">search turf</a> heated up this week.

• Amazon EC2 creator launches private cloud start-up

  The "private cloud" is a popular phrase in IT these days, but often a meaningless one, with tech vendors slapping the label on any old product that happens to make an existing IT function slightly more efficient.

• VMware's Maritz: OSes are having their jobs stolen

  Virtualization and open development frameworks are squeezing out operating systems in data centers, VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz said Wednesday at the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco.

• Facebook engineer: Going large requires thinking small

  When managing a constantly expanding system with many moving parts, it is crucial to break the system into large numbers of small pieces and manage them with lots of small, dedicated teams, advised Bobby Johnson, who is director of engineering for Facebook, at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference in Boston.

• Google Voice: 10 Reasons to Check It Out

  Now that Google Voice is open to everybody in the U.S., small business owners, particularly those with less than 25 employees, should take a close look at Google's free phone management service. Here are ten good reasons why:

• Red Hat launches hybrid cloud platform

  Red Hat has launched a comprehensive package, called Red Hat Cloud Foundations, that will allow organizations to run applications in both public clouds and their own private clouds.

• Sun's Lew Tucker to lead Cisco's cloud efforts

  Lew Tucker, who was vice president and chief technology officer of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, has been named the first CTO of cloud computing at Cisco Systems.

• Google Docs creates expectations CIOs can't meet, Red Hat CEO says

  As chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst spends much of his time traveling the world and talking to CIOs, and he constantly hears one thing: that they are "under siege" by user expectations.

• Let Bing's New Features Entertain You

  To give Bing a boost, Microsoft's bringing in the muscle of its modest entertainment empire.

• Judge rules in favor of YouTube over Viacom

  Viacom's US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's video-sharing site YouTube has been dismissed by the court, ending for now an acrimonious legal battle between the companies that has been going on for more than three years.

• IE9 preview brings new features, impressive performance

  Microsoft is progressing to the next phase of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) development today with the launch of Platform Preview 3 (PP3) of the next generation Web browser. Developers can download the latest preview to get a sneak peek at what's in store with IE9 and what new functionality Microsoft is incorporating.