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PC World - IBM has customized its new BPM (business process management) software to help small and midsized organizations set up their own automated workflows just like big businesses do.

PC World - A Who's Who of IT bellwethers including Apple, IBM, Intel and Qualcomm issued strong financial reports this week, the height of earnings season, reinforcing forecasts for a strong year for the tech sector.

PC Magazine - Blue Gene/P, a second-generation supercomputer running at 1petaFLOP, has solved a previously impossible calculation.

PC World - The availability of the iPhone on Verizon and AT&T's discount on the iPhone 3GS kept Android at bay in the enterprise, at least for customers of Good Technology.

AP - Amazon.com struggled Friday morning to restore computers used by other major websites such as Reddit as an outage stretched beyond 24 hours.

Reuters - Disruption to Amazon.com Inc servers that host Internet services took down a raft of social networking websites including Foursquare and Quora early on Thursday, underscoring concerns about reliability as more companies turn to the "cloud."

Mashable - HootSuite, Reddit and Foursquare aren't the only sites affected by issues with Amazon’s AWS services -- music collaboration platform Indaba is also down for the count. Good thing it has provided users with a host of angsty jams for remixing.

Digital Trends - Earlier this morning, some of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) servers failed, causing several high-profile websites to go down. Sites affected by the outage include Reddit, Quora, Foursquare and HootSuite.

The Atlantic Wire - Jacob Aron at the New Scientist notes that as the web hosting industry becomes more consolidated it holds major risks for the Internet's independence. "Is there a danger in placing too much of the web on Amazon's servers? The company has already shown its willingness to get rid of problematic sites, as demonstrated by the removal of WikiLeaks from its servers in December last year," he writes. "The internet was designed as a distributed network that could route around failure, but the web is now becoming increasingly centralised as more services move in to the cloud." He also notes that Amazon has just revealed itself as major target for malicious hackers. "With some of the web's big names inaccessible, it's now clear that Amazon is a target for those looking to cause major online disruption," he writes.

PC World - A German software company known for its Windows utilities is warning customers to be on the alert for malicious e-mail messages after its servers were hacked.

Mashable - Welcome to this morning's edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on five particular stories of interest today.

Mashable - Some of Amazon's AWS services, which together comprise the company's cloud computing platform, are currently experiencing technical difficulties, and it's very visible on the social web.

PC World - The next version of Canonical's Ubuntu Server, version 11.04, due out April 28, will set the stage for the open-source operating system's greater usage in the enterprise cloud, company officials said.

PC World - Google will open up to third parties its digital maps infrastructure so that enterprise organizations can use it to store and serve up geospatial data to their end users.

AFP - US computing giant IBM and the municipality of Targu-Mures on Wednesday signed an agreement on the construction of a center of excellence in the central Romanian city.

Reuters - Intel Corp forecast revenues well above Wall Street's targets, sending its shares higher in after hours trade.

AP - IBM Corp. on Tuesday reported stronger-than-expected net income and revenue for the first quarter, helped by the weak dollar and strong performance from its hardware division.

Reuters - IBM raised its profit forecast as the tech giant released quarterly earnings ahead of Wall Street projections, citing strong sales of its mainframe computers and brisk business in emerging markets.

PC World - Intel reported growth in revenue and income for the first quarter of 2011, driven by the addition of new products and strength in the enterprise market.

PC World - IBM on Tuesday reported quarterly sales growth across all its major divisions and raised its earnings outlook for the full year, the latest sign that business spending in the IT sector continues to recover.