Mikio Hirabayashi gave us an exclusive interview. He is the author and maintainer of Tokyo Cabinet, a free (open source) library of routines for managing a database.

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It is not because we don't see them that they don't exist, the thousands and thousands of computers, gathered in large Data Center, which are used to run the Internet, or the companies software. Those Data Centers are a huge source of pollution. Therefore we start to hear about 'Green IT'. But is it possible to transform Data centers when they are not Green by Nature?

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After being introduced in May at Paris Chamber of Commerce, the Free Cloud Alliance will be the subject of a lecture at CONSEGI 2010 in Brazil.

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According to Research Firm Deloitte, even if many companies are moving to the Cloud, data security remains a big problem for them.

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Cloud Deployment Toolkit (CDTK) is a project which was developed with Eclipse Community and which will support hundreds of thousands of customers soon. Bret Piatt from Rackspace Hosting -the company which initially proposed the project- answered to our questions.

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Companies seem to Underestimate the financial Risks associated with the Loss of sensitive Data.

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"We are witnessing an acceleration in the adoption of cloud computing" is the one-sentence summary of the latest survey by Gartner.

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J Chris Anderson -Representative of Apache CouchDB gave us an exclusive interview to introduce this post-relational database to the FCA readers. Let's discover CouchDB, its components, its users and how open-source makes it a strong product.

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ViFiB has just announced an experimental offer for free Internet access via fiber optics, coupled with a major technological breakthrough in the field of cloud computing.

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We have had an exclusive interview with Rich Wolski, the founder of Eucalyptus System -the company behind Open Eucalyptus which was ultimately formed to continue a research work which was begun at the University. Let's discover the project, the story behind and which features have made an open-source cloud project of it.

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Demotera company and its solution -AtikTeam- recently joined the FCA. We had an interview with Paul Rivier, Demotera CEO, in order to know more about AtikTeam and about their vision on Open Source.

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Officially launched at the end of March 2010, the Free Cloud Alliance (FCA) recently got 3 new members who are willing to defend the principles of Freedom and Open Source for the cloud.

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French initiatives around open source interoperability clouds have developed at great speed in the past few months- and among them, the FCA. But now, a new project has appeared : the idea of unifying these communities. Compatible One -a project born within Systematic Workgroup Free- aims at materializing this union. At the end of the path should come open source technicals to enable the transferability from a cloud to another.

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Apparently, choosing an Open Source solution does not scare many companies anymore. Still, to be suitable, the solution has to meet the needs of the employees.

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TIO News aims at giving you more informations about providers. FengOffice is a service which provides a Total Outsourcing Informations service. Let's study this solution, its state of growth until now, its type of customers and the guarantees in terms of security which it offers.

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TioLive, the Open Source Platform as a Service (PaaS) and ERP/CRM Software as a Service (SaaS), has just announced the release of "TioLive Grid". It introduced the concept of "Distributed Cloud Computing". It is a combination of Grid Computing and Cloud Computing technologies which enables to create a Cloud Computing environment using everyone's servers instead of a having everything stored in a central farm of servers. This has tremendous advantage for security, environment, cost, etc.

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After that some users have been complaining, including according to law in the US, Google Buzz have just got a new setup page.

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