Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Tomio Geron.

Large Internet companies such as Facebook and Google have each built their own private cloud computing infrastructure to save money and increase speed and efficiency. A new start-up, Nebula, founded by former NASA CTO Chris Kemp is providing open source-based technology so that any company can build its own private cloud computing system like those Internet giants…

 

Grazed from TheScientist.  Author: Jessica P. Johnson.

China-based DNA-sequencing giant BGI announced this month that it will take its business to the cloud, harnessing the power of a network of computers to analyze massive quantities of sequence data from clients around the world, reports Nature…

Grazed from BUSINESS WIRE.  Author: PR Announcement.

World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a market-leading systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions, announced today it has received Cloud Builder certification from Cisco. The Cloud Builder certification recognizes partners who design and implement cloud-ready infrastructures or fully provisioned private or public clouds. The designation validates WWT’s competency in three aspects of building clouds: Infrastructure, Management Applications and Cloud Professional Services…

Grazed from Cloud Computing Best Practices.  Author: Neil McEvoy.

Recent conversations with suppliers in the Cloud industry suggest that we’re currently experiencing the Trough of Disillusionment for Cloud Computing.

Hosting providers haven’t experienced customers beating down their door to buy Cloud hosting, and they’re giving up on the trend.

Does this mean that it is all just purely hype, with no substance?

Grazed from Server Watch.  Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

OpenStack is getting a big vote of confidence from Dell.

Grazed from BusinessCloud9.  Author: Stuart Lauchlan.

With the UK government yet to produce its own Cloud Computing national strategy, the Americans have been setting yet another example to follow with the publication of new guidelines on the potential of Cloud and how to procure services.

The Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in US Deployment of the Cloud (or Cloud2), a foundation composed of figures from the Cloud market including Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and VCE CEO Michael Capellas, has presented the federal government with a Cloud Computing roadmap.

Grazed from Federal Computer Week.  Author: Rutrell Yasin.

The General Services Administration has successfully migrated 17,000 e-mail users to Google Apps for Government, a secure cloud-based e-mail and collaboration platform, according to GSA Administrator Martha Johnson.

“It’s official! The U.S. General Services Administration is the first federal agency to successfully migrate its employees to a cloud-based e-mail service using Google Apps for Government,” Johnson wrote in a blog.

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Scott Campbell.

Avnet (NYSE:AVT) Technology Solutions has launched two new cloud-computing services, cloud strategy workshops and cloud assessments to help VARs ramp up their cloud initiatives, according to the distributor.

The new services are offered under the CloudReady initiative Avnet launched last year, which most recently included the addition of cloud training programs.

Grazed from DataCenter Knowledge.  Author: Mike Klein.