Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

VMware Inc.’s VMW +5.42% first-quarter net income rose 52% on strength in license revenue and services, as companies continued to invest heavily in technology for cloud computing.

International revenue made up 54% of total revenue for the period, the highest level for any quarter, and helped VMware post quarterly net income of $191.4 million, or 44 cents a share, up from $126 million, or 29 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding stock compensation and other impacts, earnings rose to 66 cents a share from 48 cents a year earlier. The consensus of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters projected adjusted earnings of 60 cents a share.

VMware dominates the market for virtualization software, which allows users to run multiple computers’ operations on a single machine, the first step in cloud computing. Customers that had turned to the company for software to virtualize their information systems are now buying software to build applications and run their enterprise…

Grazed from CloudTweaks.  Author: Humayun Shahid.

Cloud computing has a lot in store in terms of future job creation. It is anticipated that cloud computing will lead to a generation of an estimated 14 million novel job opportunities across the world in the span of the coming three years. Surprising enough, the scope of the fresh jobs may extend beyond the IT sector. The estimates are an outcome of research carried out by IDC funded by the Microsoft Corporation. Fourteen million expected jobs sure is a promising number in itself, but when stacked against the current volume of the available global workforce (a little greater than 3 billion to be exact) it equals a shy half a percent – a mere droplet compared against the  pail…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today unveiled Joyent Cloud Europe, an extension of the US-based Joyent Cloud that will provide high-performance real-time Infrastructure-as-a-Service in Europe, located in Amsterdam.

This launch is driven by demand from customers in North America who are expanding into Europe and need the same level of real-time performance, reliability and unmatched Cloud Analytics they receive from Joyent in the U.S. Joyent’s Amsterdam facility will also provide Europe-based businesses and developers with access to Joyent Cloud’s superior value.

Joyent Cloud Europe uses Joyent’s SmartDataCenter, the company’s cloud infrastructure platform, to deliver in-depth analytics, reliability, performance and scalability all while ensuring data security…

Grazed from MoneyControl.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

Networking giant Cisco bet big on the cloud computing space a decade ago, and today, it has emerged as a leader in that universe.

In conversation with CNBC-TV18’s editorial director Senthil Chengalvarayan and Forbes India’s consulting editor, Mitu Jayashankar, the CEO and chairman of Cisco, John Chambers discusses his strategy based on market transitions.

Below is an edited transcript. Watch the accompanying videos for more.

Chengalvarayan: It’s increasingly becoming a wireless world and you are synonymous with switches, routers and in the wire world, your margins are been stretched thin by Juniper and HP and others. In the world of the cloud, you have got formidable competitors – Microsoft, Google,

Chambers: No, it’s actually the reverse. Cisco focusses on some market transitions and we are customer driven; the trend being in all those areas that you talked about from Intelligent Networks i.e. switches and routers in services, into the cloud i.e. the data centre activity, service coming together with a network, through video capabilities, which will be 90% of the loads on the internet, through collaborations, social media – all tied together, architecturally solve customer’s business problems that’s what we are about…

Grazed from Daily Commercial News and Construction.  Author: Greg Meckbach.

Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) recently announced a set of services in which it uses its own computer hardware to remotely monitor customers’ meters and analyze buildings’ use of gas, steam and electricity.

Attune Advisory Services, introduced in March by Morris, New Jersey-based Honeywell, includes software that collects information from utility meters, and is also designed to provide insight on building performance and identify opportunities to cut energy costs.

It uses technology from E-Mon LLC, a Langhorne, Pennsylvania submeter manufacturer that Honeywell acquired in July, 2010…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

The DEMO Spring 2012 Conference, world-renowned for launching the most innovative companies in enterprise, mobile, cloud computing, consumer, social media and disruptive technologies, officially kicked off today — featuring ground-breaking new innovations and product launches in the areas of cloud computing, enterprise, and mobile technologies and applications from companies across the globe.

To start, DEMO executive producer Matt Marshall welcomed the audience of technology innovators, decision-makers, press and investors to the 22nd year of DEMO. Following those remarks, CNBC Technology Contributor Jon Fortt sat down with Intuit President and CEO Brad Smith for an insightful one-on-one conversation about the state of today’s technology industry. Later in the day, Marshall hosted an exclusive one-on-one session with Zach Nelson, president and CEO at NetSuite, about some of the challenges and opportunities that established and emerging technology companies face, before he spoke with Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box on entrepreneurship and taking a startup from conception to reality…

Grazed from The Boston Globe.  Author: Hiawatha Bray.

There are clouds in the forecast, in Boston and everywhere else.

A host of press reports suggest that Google Inc. will next week launch a new product called Drive, a free “cloud storage’’ service that’ll let you stash five gigabytes of data online, and access it anywhere through any Internet-connected device.

It’s welcome news, but a bit late. More than 50 million people worldwide already use a similar service called Dropbox. There are many more cloud storage offerings, too. SugarSync, Microsoft Corp.’s SkyDrive, and a new offering called Cubby, from Woburn-based LogMeIn Inc., to name only a few of the more appealing ones that I have tried…

Grazed from NetworkWorld.  Author: Brandon Butler.

During a series of analyst briefings this week, Oracle has provided additional details of how it plans to play in the cloud moving forward.

The overall strategy is an ambitious one that features software (SaaS) and platform (PaaS) offerings, along with social collaboration tools, all leveraging the legacy database management systems that have made Oracle one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

"They’re investing substantially in the cloud," says Paul Hamerman, a Forrester analyst who is attending Oracle Industry Analyst World 2012…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

One of the initial promises of cloud computing is that it can be built onto existing data center infrastructure. No expensive hardware upgrades this time. To get the highest level of performance, simply implement the proper virtualization and resource allocation software and you’re good to go.

That may have been true enough when enterprises were first looking to build clouds. But now that the time has come to optimize those environments, it seems that a little hardware refresh is in order after all.

Primarily, this is to facilitate the integration of cloud layering technology onto easily deployable hardware footprints, which are quite often the purview of separate business units or entirely different companies. Fujitsu, for example, recently released an optimized System Center 2012 platform consisting of Primergy servers and the ServerView Resource Orchestrator software under Microsoft’s Private Cloud Fast Track partnership program. The end result is a complete server/storage/networking/management package geared specifically toward launching Hyper-V environments into the cloud…

Grazed from PRWeb.   Author: PR Announcement.

En Pointe Technologies Inc. has plenty of experience leading customers to Microsoft Office 365 and providing cloud solutions. The California-based IT solutions company has been recognized as a Cloud Innovator and is the subject of a Cloud Innovators profile at wsj.com this month documenting its success in moving companies to the cloud.

Since the early 1990s, En Pointe has grown from its role as an IT hardware provider into a premier software services and solutions consultant. Providing solutions to its customers is En Pointe’s focus, and the company works with clients at all stages of cloud computing — from those with small parts of their business in the cloud, to those with entire IT infrastructures hosted there. Microsoft Office 365 is a constant thread, offering numerous ways to improve service and reliability…