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Adaptive Computing (www.adaptivecomputing.com), managers of the world’s largest supercomputing systems and experts in Cloud management solutions (www.adaptivecomputing.com/products/cloud-products/moab-cloud-suite/), today announced the availability of Moab Cloud Suite 7.0 (www.adaptivecomputing.com/products/cloud-products/moab-cloud-suite/whats-new/), its end-to-end integrated intelligent cloud management platform, bringing touchless optimization to private clouds.

Expanding on previous versions of the Moab intelligence engine, Moab Cloud Suite 7.0 adds true end-to-end cloud management. IT buyers can now purchase, from a single source, the tools they need to automate and optimize their private clouds. In addition to its core intelligence engine, Moab Cloud Suite now includes integrated server provisioning, a configuration management database, real-time monitoring tools, and a new REST-based integration framework. This release also brings an enhanced service catalog, new cloud service lifecycle reporting, and an improved self-service portal…

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The Portuguese Telecom and IT group Will Reduce Time to Market for New Services With the CA AppLogic® Platform

CA Technologies today announced that Oni, the Portuguese telecom and IT group, has signed an agreement to use the CA AppLogic® cloud computing platform to deliver the benefits of cloud-based services to the enterprise market in Portugal…

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Network Instruments, a worldwide leader in network and application performance monitoring, released its Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study today. The results suggest a potential management storm as IT teams face significant monitoring challenges from multiple forms of cloud computing, as well as substantially increased bandwidth demands.

Study Highlights

Moving apps to the cloud: 60% anticipate half of their apps will run in the cloud within 12 months

Video is mainstream: 70% will implement video conferencing within a year…

Grazed from Ecommerce Times.  Author: John K. Higgins.

Information technology leaders in the U.S. government have been promoting cloud technologies for more than a year. In December 2010, the federal chief information officer launched an IT reform plan that required agencies to start adopting cloud technologies. At the time, some agencies had already implemented cloud solutions, and since then many others have initiated cloud programs.

It’s still early days in the federal cloud revolution, and a key challenge in adopting the technology involves federal contracting procedures…

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Many companies in Europe are yet to adopt cloud computing because of reliability and safety issues, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.  “The relative newness and underdevelopment of the cloud computing market is the primary reason that public sector organisations delay adoption,” says Frost & Sullivan research analyst, Jayashree Rajagopal. “Several high-profile service outages in 2011 – such as serious technical difficulties that struck Amazon Web Services and affected a public cloud that serves thousands of businesses – resulted in more reliability questions.”

With organisations worrying that a datacentre problem could result in hacking or the loss of citizens’ sensitive personal information, the research firm says organisations are considering two options: private clouds that would either be managed internally or by a third-party and hosted internally or externally; and hybrid clouds, in which the organisation provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally…

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Microsoft Corp has adopted CarbonSystems’ Environmental Sustainability Platform (ESP) cloud application as its new global standard for managing its energy, efficiency and environmental-performance reporting, underpinning its commitment to the environment and a sustainable low-carbon economy.

CarbonSystems, a global provider of environmental and energy management solutions, was selected based on its ability to use cloud computing to simplify and streamline Microsoft’s global greenhouse gas management and reporting to stakeholders…

Grazed from TechZone360.  Author: Erin Harrison.

There are three main business modes that organizations are following as they harness the capabilities of cloud – optimizers, innovators and disruptors; this is based on a recent study by IBM, which found that recent technology and social media trends have created a “perfect storm” of opportunity for companies to embrace the power of cloud.

More businesses are embracing cloud as a way to reduce the complexity and costs associated with traditional IT approaches, according to the study conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, which surveyed 572 business and technology executives across the globe…

Grazed from TechEye.net.  Author: Matthew Finnegan.

The personal cloud will help bring about the move into a post PC age by 2014 according to a report from Gartner.

Cloud computing is hardly a new concept, in fact marketing departments seem to have been wailing about it for ages now.  But if analysts at Garnter are to be believed we are still waiting to see the full impact of the person cloud which will bring about the death of the PC as the centre of our affections.

Of course it could be argued that this is aready in the offing with a move to more mobile, accesible devices.  Just ask Tim Cook…

Grazed from Fox Business.  Author: Tom Taulli.

A few years ago, cloud computing was considered an experimental technology. No one knew whether big companies eventually would use Internet-based technologies to access and store their corporate data. But clearly, customers have been voting in the affirmative — with their wallets.

During the past six months or so, traditional software companies like Oracle (ORCL: 29.71, -0.42, -1.39%) and SAP (SAP: 69.45, +0.46, +0.67%) have plunked down billions for cloud operators like SuccessFactors, Taleo and RightNow. And there also have been a variety of successful IPOs in the space, such as Guidewire(GWRE: 22.55, +0.12, +0.54%), Brightcove (BCOV: 16.81, +0.71, +4.41%), Jive (JIVE: 24.65, +0.72, +3.01%) and Bazaarvoice(BV: 16.58, +0.87, +5.52%).

But the glut of offerings is far from over. The Wall Street Journal has a short list, but here’s a closer look at some of the likely players (many of whom I’ve gotten to sit down with):…

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THINKstrategies today announced that executives from Deloitte, Google, Splunk, and Zynga have agreed to present at the Cloud Analytics Summit hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media on Wednesday, April 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

The purpose of the Cloud Analytics Summit is to provide a forum for corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest cloud solutions aimed at addressing their business intelligence (BI) and analytics needs, so they can harness their big data sources and integrate their systems and applications into a more productive enterprise-wide resource to satisfy their business requirements…