Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Editorial Staff.

The VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (an IaaS cloud alternative to Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure and Google Compute Engine) launches May 21. For VMware (NYSE:VMW) channel partners, there are at least five timely questions worth asking. Here’s a preview plus some perspective from The VAR Guy.

First, the background: VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger unveiled the IaaS cloud plan back on March 13 during an EMC-VMware Strategic Forum. Fast forward to this week: Gelsinger and Bill Fathers (GM, Hybrid Cloud Services) will unwrap the new IaaS cloud for partners and customers. The big questions?…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Powering its market leadership in cloud computing, business continuity, and battle-tested data recovery solutions, Venyu today announced the company has secured two premier honors in the "2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards," sponsored by Network Products Guide (NPG). The industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide is the world’s premier IT honors recognizing achievements in every facet of the industry.

Driving the company to victory are Venyu’s primary solutions which include cloud services, data center services and cloud backup. The VenyuCloud offering delivers leading cloud servers and data centers powered by VMware. Through its data center offerings, Venyu provides such critical services as managed hosting and collocation hosting. The company’s RestartIT is a battle-tested cloud backup and recovery platform specifically designed to meet the needs of today’s businesses…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Liz McMillan.

"Trust is an ongoing journey and sits at the foundation of any vendor relationship – the companies that don’t consistently earn trust won’t be around long," noted Henrik Rosendahl, Senior VP of Cloud Solutions at Quantum, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. "As they do more with cloud, trust will organically grow – maybe it’s just about meeting SLAs or seeing firsthand that data is there when you need it," Rosendahl continued.

Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time. – Agree or disagree?

Henrik Rosendahl: I believe it is actually both. Time is money, as they say. I typically think in terms of efficiency, which encompasses economics as well as the positive impact on administrative workflows. This is certainly true when we talk about cloud-based backup as a service (BaaS). Typically with BaaS customers, the first question is "How much is this going to cost?"…

Grazed from TelecomPaper.  Author: PR Announcement.

Romtelecom will launch in the second part of 2013 a virtual store that will offer online applications (software as a service) and cloud computing services, writes local publication Hotnews.ro citing Romtelecom CCO (Business) Mihai Tudor. Tudor said that providing cloud computing services bundled with communications services and hardware is essentially the business model for Romtelecom’s business division in 2013. The shop will be developped together with Romtelecom partners and will include all the applications developped so far by Romtelecom as well as new ones.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

ARM will take significant market share from Intel in the server chip space over the next few years, and Advanced Micro Devices will be a key vendor benefiting from the shift, according to the head of AMD’s server business. In an interview with eWEEK here, Andrew Feldman, corporate vice president and general manager of AMD’s Server Business Unit, said the rapidly changing compute demands and decades of tech industry history are creating an environment that’s ideal for ARM’s strong ascent into the data center.

The rise of cloud computing, the rapid growth in the number of connected mobile devices hitting the Internet, and the demands of massive Web 2.0 companies like Google and Facebook are quickly changing the kinds of workloads that are running on servers, Feldman said. Data centers increasingly are supporting millions of users with servers running massive numbers of parallel workloads that need the type of small-core chips that ARM and its partners are manufacturing to power the bulk of the world’s smartphones and tablets. And that trend will only continue, he said…

Grazed from The Huffington Post.  Author: James Grundvig.

In the same week, IBM put out two press releases on cloud analytics. Who would have thought that possible a few years ago? Did the big, rigid, and smart IBM of mainframe, Deep Blue, and Watson fame really migrate to the cloud?  Yes. They did it not just once, but twice.

First, internally with a secret and successful project called ‘Blue Insight,’ which IBM launched five years ago with great foresight from the CIO’s office to cull waste, duplication, and inefficiencies, while deliver data analytics to all of IBM’s business units and hundreds of thousands global employees. Then externally, IBM tailored its cloud solution offerings for industry-specific customers, with announcements this week on L’Oreal USA and the healthcare system of Saudi Arabia…

Grazed from Slashdot.org.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco didn’t just offer new products and services for consumers: the company used the event to unveil upgraded software for developers and those who deal with IT infrastructure.

For example, Google Compute Engine (which the company first announced last year) is now available to everyone in preview, with a bevvy of just-announced features. The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering gives developers access to Google’s enormous computing power, the better to crunch data and build applications…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

One month after opening its EU Central datacenter in France, Lunacloud announces the launch of Cloud Mongo, its cloud-based service of the popular MongoDB database. Lunacloud is the only cloud provider in Europe with a MongoDB service provided on a pay per usage model.

Cloud Mongo is a NoSQL database service built with MongoDB, which allows users to work with their favourite database without having to worry about server, operating system or database engine installation and management. These services are included in Cloud Mongo, which is a resilient and performance-optimized cloud platform service, guaranteed by Lunacloud…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Ken Hess.

What’s better than a cloud solution? An easy cloud solution. That’s what SmartCloud Entry 3.1 is—an easy cloud solution. It’s a private cloud solution that runs on your infrastructure in the privacy of your data center. Being a private cloud solution means that you can now enjoy the benefits of cloud computing in a secure environment. The best part, in my opinion, other than it being easy, is that it installs into your virtualized environment no matter which vendor’s products you use.

Don’t let the Entry moniker imply any limitations on the SmartCloud Entry solution, because there aren’t any. Entry just means easy, not limited. SmartCloud Entry is a full-blown, full-featured, highly scalable cloud enabling solution for businesses. IBM has just taken the sting out of cloud adoption both in complexity and in affordability…