"Many IT professionals recognise the benefits cloud computing offers in terms of increased storage, flexibility and cost reduction," said Songnian Zhou, chief executive officer of Platform Computing.

But he added that IT directors still have concerns about the security of their corporate data in the cloud. This means that it will be 2010 at the earliest before cloud adoption sees increased growth.

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Platform Computing, a provider of high performance computing management software, has released the Platform HPC for ICE-Linux, a system developed with HP, which combines the power of platform computing with the multi-systems management