Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Agam Shah.

Intel on Monday said it is developing high-performance server chips that in the future will serve up faster results from cloud services or data-intensive applications like analytics, all while cutting electricity bills in data centers.

The chip maker will integrate a converged fabric controller inside future server chips, which will make server communication faster while helping data centers operate at peak efficiency, said Raj Hazra, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group. Fabric virtualizes I/O and ties together storage and networking in data centers, and an integrated controller will provide a wider pipe to scale performance across distributed computing environments…

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Trend Micro Incorporated, is broadening its consumer strategy beyond Internet Security to help home users connect and work online, effortlessly. With 25 years of expertise in the security industry and proven success with its Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ cloud computing security infrastructure, Trend Micro is uniquely positioned to protect consumers in all aspects of their digital lives and evolve the consumer security industry to protect an array of devices, data, people and privacy.

With the multitude of devices and platforms that people are using today, consumers are connected more than ever before.Within the past five years, laptop sales have outpaced desktop PC sales. Mobile phones are now personal computers that have the ability to record moments and take pictures. Tablets have become the new "need to have" personal device. With the multitude of devices and platforms – people are always online. While online banking and shopping are still prominent, they are eclipsed by the rise in social networking. The evolution of devices, operating systems and uses for data has created a new set of security issues that, until today, have gone unresolved…

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Nirvanix, the leading provider of enterprise cloud storage services, today announced the appointment of Tina Gravel as Vice President of Worldwide Sales, effective immediately. Gravel joins Nirvanix after a highly successful career at Terremark, where she was instrumental in growing the cloud computing services provider from its early beginnings to the point where it was acquired by Verizon for $1.4B in Jan. 2011. At Nirvanix, Gravel is responsible for the company’s sales strategy and global expansion across both established and emerging markets and verticals such as healthcare, media & entertainment and financial services. Gravel will report to Scott Genereux, President and CEO of Nirvanix.

"Nirvanix has established itself as the go-to service provider for petabyte-scale cloud storage deployments for Fortune Global 500 corporations," said Tina Gravel, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Nirvanix. "The company is deploying the largest cloud storage implementations in the industry at a time when other vendors are still searching for a solution. With Nirvanix’s strong market position, significant time-to-market advantage and highly differentiated cloud storage services portfolio, I expect to drive material market share capture and further accelerate the company’s growth trajectory."…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

As ProfitBricks rolls out its scale-up infrastructure as a platform in the U.S. this week, it says it can offer more powerful instances to customers cheaper than market leader Amazon Web Services. That’s a tall order, but an intriguing one.

ProfitBricks is nothing if not ambitious: It plans to take on Amazon in massively scalable cloud infrastructure. That’s no mean feat, but Bob Rizika, CEO of ProfitBricks USA, says the company — which launches cloud services in the U.S. this week — is attacking it from a position of strength…

Grazed from R&D Magazine. Author: Editorial Staff.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new software tool to prevent performance disruptions in cloud computing systems by automatically identifying and responding to potential anomalies before they can develop into problems.

Cloud computing enables users to create multiple "virtual machines" that operate independently, even though they are all operating on one large computing platform. However, this approach can cause performance issues when a software bug, or other problem, in one virtual machine disrupts the entire cloud…

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Recognizing that some organizations find migrating to the cloud intimidating, Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services for businesses, today announced an innovative Onboarding Service, aimed at eliminating the fear factor from the migration process.

The service, which consists of a free, one-hour tutorial on hosting in the cloud, enables new customers to ask virtually any question of a live company representative and get the relationship off on a sound, secure footing…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: John Omwamba.

It is no longer a mere premise that the prospects of integration of cloud computing are embraced by nearly all major industries, including the automobile industry. Cloud computing is bound to change this industry and the driving experience as we know it today. There are three main areas of the automobile industry that could experience the greatest impact of cloud computing.

Partnerships and integration

Consumer demographics are changing, with more attention being directed at technological integration of scalable systems that are affordable and easily adaptable. This has required mergers and partnerships between technology and automotive companies in order to form a manageable synergy for competitive and quality delivery…

Grazed from Federal Times. Author: Nichole Blake Johnson.

The General Services Administration is supposed to be the leader guiding agencies’ adoption of cloud computing. But some agencies have gone elsewhere for cloud services.

One reason is GSA was delayed in launching a governmentwide contract for cloud email until last month. Another reason is GSA has been slow in verifying that awardees on an earlier contract have information systems that meet federal security standards…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Om Malik.

Zynga which has been losing senior executives with an alarming rate lost another key member recently – its CTO of infrastructure. Earlier this summer, the company lost about seven executives including Mike Verdu, Zynga’s former chief creative officer and Bill Mooney, who spearheaded the Farmville franchise.
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Allan Leinwand, chief technology officer of infrastructure for San Francisco-based social games company Zynga, has left the company, according to an update on his LinkedIn profile page. Leinwand is assuming a similar role at ServiceNow, a company that offers software to automate enterprise IT operations as a service…

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Joel Schectman.

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 is a big step in the company’s shift toward cloud computing, analysts say. For CIOs who are moving an increasing amount of their resources into the cloud, that means that Microsoft is likely to remain a viable option, even as rivals continue to gain traction in the market.

Windows Server 2012 is the back-end companion to Windows 8, the soon-to-be-released overhaul of Microsoft’s operating system for desktop computers, tablets, laptops and other devices. Server 2012, which manages storage and applications for the other devices that share the network, has been designed with the cloud in mind. It makes it easier for CIOs and network administrators to utilize data centers, private clouds, public clouds, or some fluid combination…