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iSoftStone Holdings Limited ("iSoftStone," NYSE: ISS), a leading China-based IT services and solutions provider, and International Business Machines ("IBM"), the largest IT and business solutions provider today announced a collaboration to build www.xb-cloud.cn ("XB-CLOUD"), a Cloud Service Platform for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises ("SMEs") in Northwest China. The two companies, together with Industry and IT Committee of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Municipal Government, and China Mobile Gansu also recently officially established the Cloud Service Association for SMEs of Gansu Province. These initiatives aim at facilitating SMEs’ daily operations through efficient use of cloud computing and promote Lanzhou as a model of the Northwest China in using advance technology to drive industries’ growth.

The establishment of XB-CLOUD and Cloud Service Association for SMEs of Gansu Province is an extension of the Cloud Computing Service Center for SMEs in Northwest China co-launched by Lanzhou Municipal Government, China Mobile Gansu and IBM last year. The Cloud Computing Service Center has been built in China Mobile Gansu’s Xigu premises, and the initial phase of cloud computing services platform and application development are completed…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Reuven Cohen.

The lyrics of the iconic Eagle’s 1977 song are beginning to take on new meaning as a growing group of cloud computing users realize that leaving is not necessarily as easy as checking –in at the various cloud computing providers.

In many ways cloud computing is like a hotel. Both provide the ease and convenience to scale and a temporary home for your apps. Both provide all the comforts of home without the need to do any of the preparation, management and up-keep. In many ways, it’s the ideal computing environment. That is, until you want to leave…

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ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, today announced the general availability of true High Availability (HA) virtual data centers for business-critical cloud deployments. This new feature enables an easy-to-use implementation and offers dynamic routing of IPv4 addresses to virtual machines (VMs) through the industry’s first support of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).

Worry-free High Availability IaaS Solution

ProfitBricks’ own network stack can dynamically assign the address to any VM in the network and provides the industry’s first implementation of high availability functionality — the same as can be configured in on-premise data centers. ProfitBricks’ dynamic routing provides maximum reliability of the virtual infrastructure, which is different from standard networks where the IPv4 address is assigned to a specific virtual machine…

Grazed from RFPConnect. Author: Editorial Staff.

FICO World unveiled the FICO Analytic Cloud, for creating, customizing and deploying powerful analytic-driven applications and services. The FICO Analytic Cloud will spur Big Data innovation by giving application developers, business users and FICO partners around the world one-stop access to FICO’s best-in-class analytics and decision management tools and technology, including SaaS (software as a service) applications for social and mobile customer engagement, targeted marketing campaigns and offers, delinquent account management and instant credit decisioning. The FICO Analytic Cloud will include an analytics and decision management community for sharing and collaborating.

The FICO Analytic Cloud will provide platform-as-a-service access to the new FICO® Decision Management Platform, which includes FICO’s award-winning and market-leading software for business rules management, predictive analytics, data and text mining, optimization, visualization and reporting. Delivered in the cloud or on-premise, the FICO Decision Management Platform helps close the gap between data and decision making by enabling organizations to create powerful decision services that analyze customer behavior, target decisions to individuals and determine the best possible action in real-time…

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Rene Millman.

Microsoft is rumoured to be working on a pay-as-you-go Windows Desktop-as-a-service product. According to a report on ZDNet, the firm’s desktop virtualisation service, codenamed Mohoro, is in early development and looks set to launch in 2014. The service is set to be offered as a remote application aimed at enterprises running thin clients that want to run legacy apps in the cloud rather than on-premise.

"With Mohoro, you click a few buttons, deploy your apps, use Intune to push out configuration to all of your company’s devices, and you’re done," a source told the publication. The codename Mohoro is named after a town located on the island of Grande Comore in the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean. It gives a clue to where the development of the service is taking place, most likely Microsoft’s India Development Centre…

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Backupify, the leading provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, will be participating in several upcoming CIO events to share best practices on protecting digital assets in the cloud. According to a recent Aberdeen Group report, "SaaS Data Loss: The Problem You Didn’t Know You Had," 80 percent of survey respondents reported some form of SaaS application in their organization and of that group, a third had experienced data loss within these applications. With more data in the cloud than ever before, data backup is a key component of any IT strategy.

Rob May founded Backupify in 2008, helping to create the first cloud-to-cloud backup solution. He serves as the company’s chief strategist and under his leadership, Backupify has secured $19.5 million in venture capital funding and is now backing up more than 1,000,000 accounts in total. A frequent speaker at cloud events, Rob also actively contributes to publications including Wired and Xconomy…

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CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor in the Cool Vendors in the European Cloud Computing Market, 2013 report, authored by Gartner Research Director Gregor Petri, Gartner Research Director Tiny Haynes and Gartner Research Director Hanns Koehler-Kruener.

According to Gartner’s analysis, "Cloud computing in Europe is developing slower than in other parts of the world, especially North America, but this region is home to some bright spot vendors that warrant closer examination." Gartner names CloudSigma’s IaaS offering as innovative, impactful and intriguing…

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iYogi a global provider of software and technical support services has launched a cloud based solution that drives service innovation through support automation and customer experience management. With iYogi’s ‘Digital Services Cloud’ (DSC), telecom companies, OEM’s, technology retailers and BPO companies can address new opportunities and generate revenue, while enhancing customer experience and reducing costs.

“Digital Service Cloud has a proven capability to increase customer lifetime and value, and can generate operating income between USD 15 and USD 20 for every customer interaction. By using Digital Service Cloud telcos, technology retailers, OEMs and global service providers or BPO companies can not only use support as a channel for new revenues, but also expand their business by adding tech support services, the market for which is estimated at USD 100 Billion globally and at least INR 20,000 crore in India.” said Uday Challu, CEO and Co-founder of iYogi…

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Login VSI B.V. announces 4.0, a major new release of its flagship product Login VSI, the industry standard performance and scalability testing tool for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and Server Based Computing environments.

The design of this new release has been driven by extensive customer feedback programs, and production testing projects executed at multiple customer and vendor sites, including the tests done for the acclaimed independent research project Virtual Reality Check. Login VSI 4.0 makes testing of VDI and SBC environments easier and more realistic than ever before…

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The latest benchmark testing by Heirloom Computing revealed that the company’s ELPaaS cloud platform for legacy applications is much faster than mainframe computing alternatives, while costing companies 90% less.  The results strongly validate the viability of cloud computing as a less expensive and highly reliable alternative to traditional and expensive mainframe computing solutions.

In this TPC-C benchmarking test, Heirloom used an HP Compute Cloud “Standard, Extra Large” (4 CPU, 16GB RAM) instance as its building block. Blocks can be added or removed dynamically for exceptional scalability and flexibility. Heirloom used 1,500 terminals to achieve a transaction throughput rate of 12,105 CICS transactions per minute, equivalent to a 905 MIPS mainframe – well within the needs of the vast majority of mainframe users…