Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Salesforce.com is going to buy a two-year-old Nova Scotia start-up that just launched last September called GoInstant for a reported $76 million.

The outfit does real-time shared web browsing, a slick answer apparently to the cumbersome WebEx.

The start-up’s page on CrunchBase says, "All participants that join a co-browse session can click, scroll, type and browse at the same time. Co-browsing does not require any downloads or plug-ins to work; all users need is a web browser. A co-browse session can be used to co-browse any web site for customer support, sales, e-commerce and training."…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Numerate, Inc., a technology platform company that is leveraging proprietary algorithms and the power of cloud computing to transform the drug design process, announced today that its drug discovery platform, based on its open-source distributed framework, Numatix, has been shown to reliably and cost-effectively scale to 10,000+ cores using spot instances on Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Cloud Compute (AWS EC2). The 10,000+ cores were used to screen virtual compounds against predictive assay models in one of the company’s commercial partnerships.

Numatix is a dataflow processing platform developed by Numerate that enables great scalability and flexibility in distributed computing with minimal operational overhead. Combining online processing with detailed dataflows, Numatix allows for the deep and interactive analyses of large data sets. At Numerate, Numatix is used for the computational assessment of billions of molecules in the search for new drugs and for the development of complex systems biology models of drug behavior in various animals and humans…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Sprint today announced an exclusive relationship with CSC to deliver cloud computing, cloud-based email, managed hosting and colocation services within the United States to potential commercial customers. Sprint’s ability to deliver CSC’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions joins Sprint Complete Collaboration, a Unified-Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solution launched earlier this year, in an expanding portfolio of Sprint cloud-based solutions that are planned for launch in the second half of 2012.

Sprint’s comprehensive approach to the cloud includes teaming with leaders in software and cloud computing while enhancing the services with seamless integration of mobility for anytime, anywhere access from any device. With reliable, secure connectivity over Sprint’s 3G, 4G, and all-IP Global MPLS networks, businesses of all sizes can confidently embrace a variety of hosted services to improve their productivity and cost structures. Expansion of Sprint’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) portfolio will be announced later…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

GitHub, the cloud-based collaborative source code management site, has raised a whopping $100 million first round.

Almost all of the money is coming from Andreessen Horowitz. It’s the largest single investment the young VC operation has ever made and values the San Francisco start-up at $750 million according to the Wall Street Journal. Ron Conway’s SV Angel firm is taking the crumbs Andreessen Horowitz left on the table.

GitHub wants to be the standard in coding and is taking the dough to expand and build out an enterprise sales team…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babbcock.

Cloudability has added a "tribes" feature to its cloud bill monitoring service that lets a company aggregate employee users into a project team or a business unit to see the computing bill they are generating and spot whether it exceeds their monthly budget.

The inability to see into a bill as its taking shape versus paying it after its reached runaway heights is a common complaint of major cloud computing users. Several startups have attempted to address the issue, each in a different way. They include Apptio, Cloudyn, Uptime Software, 6Fusion, and CloudCruiser.

Cloudability is giving companies the means to automatically aggregate individual accounts into a company-wide bill, then segregate groups of users within that bill…

Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Editorial Staff.

Citrix today announced that leading Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet has designed its public cloud offering, Dynamic Cloud Server, on Citrix XenServer™ technology, demonstrating significant momentum for the rapidly growing Citrix Cloud Platform Business. Fueled by the strong leadership and rapid adoption of open source Xen technologies, 1&1 Internet has strategically adopted Citrix technology for its public cloud computing solution. Citrix XenServer is now powering cloud services for four out of five of the world’s largest hosting providers.

With 11 million customers supported by five highly secure green data centers across Europe and the U.S., 1&1 Internet selected XenServer to provide a flexible infrastructure from which to launch its public cloud services. XenServer will make it possible for the global hosting company to deliver granular control of server resources using a proven cloud-ready virtualization platform to meet customer price, performance and scalability requirements…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Stephen Lawson.

EMC is updating its NetWorker backup and recovery software on Tuesday with an eye to greater efficiency, tighter integration with other EMC products, and cloud computing.

NetWorker 8 is the most significant new version of the software since 2003, when NetWorker 7 was released. It updates the product in several major ways, both streamlining it for higher performance and enhancing its usefulness.

In fact, the basic architecture of NetWorker has been changed for improved performance and scalability. In previous versions of NetWorker, the management of backup appliances ran entirely on the central NetWorker server. With Version 8, that work is distributed among NetWorker Storage Nodes, the servers that send data to backup appliances. Adding more backup systems no longer requires more central server capacity…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

The concept of unified storage — in which both file and block storage are managed as one — was pioneered by storage hardware giants like EMC and Hitachi Data Systems. Unified storage technology enables one hardware device to handle both SAN and NAS storage protocols and thus supports both file and block storage.

Now, Nasuni, which manages cloud storage for businesses – mostly mid-sized enterprises as well as departments of bigger enterprises, — is following suit with what it’s calling Unified Storage for ROBO (ROBO stands for remote offices and branch offices.) That means Nasuni, which focused up till now on the file storage prevalent in most branch offices, now supports block storage as well…