Communications bandwidth and general FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) relating to reliability and security are likely to be barriers to adoption of cloud computing by large enterprises, according to participants in a panel session on cloud infrastructure at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today.

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For those interested in high speed interconnects, of the kind used to connect server farms and storage networks, High Performance on Wall Street should have plenty of interest … and may help decide whether your future is in Gigabit Ethernet or InfinBand.

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Speaking at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today: Ryan Floyd of Storm Ventures suggested that 2.0-style mashups have facilitated enterprise integration more readily than SOA initiatives, that have largely failed to fulfill their promise, he claimed. He pointed to the straightforward integration of Echosign’s e-signature service with suites like Salesforce.com.

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CME Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Japan’s largest derivatives market, the Osaka Securities Exchange, under which both parties will jointly develop new products and services. The agreement is part of the US derivatives exchange’s plans to expand its global footprint to the BRIC countries.

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Current board director of the NZX Andrew Harmos has been appointed as chair of the exchange’s board. Harmos is one of the founding partners of Harmos Horton Lusk, an Auckland-based specialist corporate legal advisory firm.

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Royal Bank of Scotland has indicated that it is in the process of integrating the locally owned ABN Amro Australia business into its domestic operations, which will result in the current CEO, Angus James, stepping down from the position.

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It’s been a busy couple of days in the world of virtualisation. Red Hat acquired Qumranet, developer of the open source KVM offering, Sun updated its xVM hypervisor, and VMware lost a top R&D exec, who is returning to Oracle.

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Deutsche Bank has relocated Peter Kerger to Singapore to assume the new role of head of Asia Pacific for DB Advisors, the bank’s institutional asset management business. He will report to Roelfien Kuijpers, the New York-based global head of DB Advisors.

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Sinopia Asset Management has appointed Alfred Yip, who is currently CIO of HSBC Insurance in Asia Pacific, as CEO for Asia Pacific to oversee its plans for expansion in the region. Sinopia, which is the quantitative specialist of HSBC Global Asset Management, is strengthening its team in the region via the relocation of staff and new hires.

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Here at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, cloud and utility computing specialist 3Tera announced the availability of global cloud services, based on 3Tera’s AppLogic grid operating system and leveraging a number of data centre partners.

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Platinum Capital Management, a London-based manager of structured products, funds of hedge funds and single strategy hedge funds, has released plans to set up offices in Asia, including Singapore and Hong Kong.

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Citi has indicated that it is moving Aziz Dean, a managing director with Citi Australia fixed income, to Citi Japan on 1 October to take over as head of acquisition finance and syndicated lending for the region.

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China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB), a Taipei-based venture capital and investment banking institution, has selected Imagine Software’s Derivatives.com product to power its new multi-strategy, global macro trading desk.

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HP has launched a set of new and enhanced products - blade servers, storage and software - that it is positioning as “designed” to host virtualised environments. The company has also enhanced its business and IT service management offerings to incorporate support for virtualisation, and has a new development agreement with Red Hat to simplify the management and monitoring of virtualised data centres.

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Viveo Cognitive Systems (VCS), a member of the Viveo Group, has established its Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong as part of its planned expansion into Southeast Asia.

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Goldman Sachs has appointed Adam Broder as CEO and Prashant Khemka CIO of its new asset management and mutual fund business in India. Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has received regulatory approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India to start wholly owned operations in India.

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US-based investment bank Baird has announced that it will be expanding its business in Asia with the launch of investment banking operations in China.

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Google will today launch a beta version of its Chrome web browser in 100 countries. Commenting on the development, Google executives stated in a blog post that “What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.” Initially available for Windows only, Linux and Apple Mac versions will be released in the future.

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