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Piston Cloud Computing announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Gridcentric, a virtualization optimization company, to include Gridcentric’s Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) technology in Piston Enterprise OS, which will support Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The exclusive licensing agreement assists enterprises in delivering secure, low-cost virtual desktops without complexity, according to Piston Cloud.

“Until now, there have been several challenges to VDI adoption in the enterprise, including prohibitive costs, security issues and complexity,” said Joshua McKenty, co-founder and CEO of Piston Cloud. “Bundling VMS technology with Piston Enterprise OS doubles the virtual machine density per server, requiring less physical RAM without any impact to user customization or application performance.”…

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Citrix today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 2012 "Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure*" report by Thomas Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst.

The report evaluates Citrix XenServer(R), a key component of the company’s virtualization and cloud computing strategy. For its evaluation of the server virtualization market, Gartner highlighted that "vendor understanding and articulation of the strategic path for virtualization (expanding into the foundation for the future of infrastructure architecture and operations, and extending toward cloud computing) is particularly important and differentiating."

The full 2012 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure report can be viewed on the Citrix website…

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A year after developing Hyundai’s Blue Link® – one of the broadest cloud-based infotainment and service programs in the consumer vehicle market — long-time connected vehicle service provider Agero envisions the sustained consumer frenzy over smartphone applications will continue to steer vehicle manufacturers toward cloud computing as an integrated component of next-generation dashboards. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the vehicle’s center stack control display is destined to resemble an iPad screen.

A more complex transformation is emerging, according to Frank Hirschenberger, Agero’s director of Innovation. "We’re certainly hearing about cloud-based smartphone apps inside the car opening up opportunities as both a revenue generator and brand differentiator, but we have already turned to the cloud to achieve a more fundamental objective – integrating off-board technologies into a flexible platform that hosts continually improving system responses," Hirschenberger explained…

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Peak Positioning Technologies Inc. ("Peak") and its Chinese partner, LongKey-Hong Kong Ltd. ("LongKey") today announced the commercial release of their second-generation AiNi(TM) (Access Information Networks Instantly) Mobile Cloud Platform for smartphones, tablets and other mobile computing devices.

AiNi(TM) 3.0, the predecessor of AiNi(TM) 3.2, was released in April 2012 as a pilot project in Jiangsu province. Feedback from that pilot has since been incorporated into AiNi(TM) 3.2, which also adds new features and corrects some minor bugs affecting specific mobile device models. New AiNi(TM) 3.2 features include: an improved contacts editor, faster response time and reduced energy consumption, as well as streamlined access to Chinese social media sites…

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Avago Technologies AVGO +1.34% , a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, today announced the availability of production volumes of 120 Gbps multichannel optical transmitter and receiver modules for "inside-the-box" data-center applications and a CXP pluggable transceiver for board-edge "box-to-box" and "rack-to-rack" communications.

Driven by the exploding demand for online media and applications in a cloud computing environment, the modules are ideal solutions for communications within data centers, server farms, network switches, telecom switching centers and many other high-performance embedded applications that require high-speed data transfers. System applications include data aggregation, backplane communications, proprietary protocol data transfers, and other high-density/high-bandwidth applications…

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As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) goal of shifting up to 80 percent of its computing environment to the cloud by 2015, the EPA Office of Environmental Information has awarded CGI Federal Inc. (CGI), a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc. GIB 0.00% CA:GIB.A -0.17% a three-year, US$15 million contract. The contract was awarded under the GSA Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) BPA, through which CGI is accredited to deliver certified, secure government cloud services.

As part of the three-year plan, EPA’s National Computing Center (NCC) is building an agency-wide hybrid cloud environment. CGI will serve as the external enterprise cloud provider, delivering a range of IaaS services, including hosting and virtualization in its secure cloud. CGI will also provide technical architecture and transition support for moving agency applications to the cloud…

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US District Court Judge Lucy Koh has forbidden Samsung to sell any more of its Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets in America once retail inventories are cleared.

Judge Koh ordered the ban late Tuesday at the point of a decision issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, where Apple went after she rejected its injunction request in December. Unwilling to second guess the appeals court, she rejected a second injunction request from Apple on June 4.

The Court of Appeals found that when all is said and done Apple will probably win its pending infringement suit against Samsung based on a single design patent…

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Platform-as-a-service provides a development environment in the cloud. Both Google and Microsoft supply PaaS, and as heavyweights, they dominate a lot of the discussion.

But there have been two surprises over the past year. One is that VMware, a company that makes only proprietary products, could field a platform-as-a-service, Cloud Foundry, declare it open source, and developers would flock to it. The other surprise is that Red Hat could supply its own OpenShift PaaS and make it competitive with Cloud Foundry.

Both Cloud Foundry and OpenShift.com are open source code; Red Hat made OpenShift Origin an open source project in April. Both OpenShift and Cloud Foundry can serve as a hosting service for resulting applications. They can also be duplicated on premises–a boon to companies that wish to develop for both their own data centers and the public cloud…

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Gravitas, a co-sourcing platform providing technology, risk and research services to the financial services industry, today announced the launch of Gravitas Private Cloud, an expandable, secure cloud solution based on leading converged infrastructure systems from VCE. The Gravitas Private Cloud is an industry vertical cloud, designed for the unique computing and hosting needs of alternative asset managers, from startup to established funds.

Gravitas Private Cloud combines the advantages of cloud computing – flexibility, scalability and lowered upfront costs – with the turnkey infrastructure and security that regulated financial firms require supported by the managed services required to run this effectively. The Gravitas Private Cloud enables deployment of a fully-functional IT system in days, as compared to weeks for traditional cloud solutions. It significantly expands Gravitas cloud services, which were launched in 2009…

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Today IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity, introduced a comprehensive set of resources and activities that bring together expertise from across the global organization to help accelerate the development and use of cloud computing technologies. The collection of resources and activities, established under the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), can be accessed from the newly launched IEEE Cloud Computing Web Portal ( http://cloudcomputing.ieee.org/ ).

The IEEE CCI represents the first, broad-based collaborative endeavor for cloud computing to be offered by a global technical professional organization. The IEEE CCI coordinates, under one umbrella, the extensive work that experts from multiple disciplines within IEEE contribute to cloud computing and makes the results of this work conveniently available to anyone who wants to learn about them. The IEEE Cloud Computing Web Portal provides members of the technical community as well as the general public a convenient, centralized gateway to news and information about cloud computing and the many activities organized and led by the IEEE CCI.