Links for February 23rd through February 25th

• Amazon aims to make it easier to build complex clouds
  Hey IT script-adults, this is what the cloud hard-core want to do to your menial labor: "The template is a text file using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to specify what the user wants to run. CloudFormation will figure out the rest, AWS said." Man, the Amazon folks are really just filling up that cloud "blue ocean" with fleets of Smokers.
• Google turns up the heat on Microsoft with enterprise collab plug-in | Applications – InfoWorld
  "Based on technology from DocVerse, a company that Google acquired about a year ago, the Cloud Connect plug-in lets Office users share and collaboratively edit their documents by storing them on Google's cloud infrastructure but without leaving the Office interface." Hopefully this means good offline support in Google Docs now. Not on Macs, though, so get out the tissues for your tears: "Unfortunately due to the lack of support for open APIs on Microsoft Office for Mac, we are unable to make Google Cloud Connect available on Macs at this time."
• Groupon Revenue Hit $760 Million Last Year
  "…revenue surge to $760 million last year from $33 million the previous year, with more than a third of its 2010 sales coming from outside the U.S., according to an internal memo."
• IBM Launches Service Management Connect to bring together customers, partners and IBM experts on Integrated Service Management
  "IBM has been very aggressive in building an extensive library of content to help customers in their integrated service management journey. To make this journey even easier IBM is announcing a new community called Service Management Connect to bring together its vast library of assets and IBM technical experts to answer your questions and receive your input."
• Is OSX Lion Server More Evidence That Apple is Gunning for the Enterprise?
• Meet the new guard, same as the old guard
• Work with Hadoop and NoSQL Databases with Toad for Cloud – ReadWriteCloud
• Momento 2.1 – Much More Snappy! – Momento Blog
  This is app is worth checking out if you're a (personal) data hoarder like myself.
• Five Things About Jahia 6.5
• SAP virtualization and the private cloud: What's the difference?

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