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FXI Technologies, a hardware and software startup based in Trondheim Norway, demonstrated today the world’s first any screen, connected computing USB device. Codenamed "Cotton Candy", this sweet little device serves as a technology bridge between any display, the Cloud, and any input peripheral.

The vision for Cotton Candy is to allow users a single, secure point of access to all personal Cloud services and apps through their favorite operating system, while delivering a consistent experience on any screen. The device will serve as a companion to smartphones, tablets, notebook PCs and Macs, as well as add smart capabilities to existing displays, TVs, set top boxes and game consoles…

Grazed from GlobalNewsWire.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Now, using the next-generation platform‑as‑a‑service (PaaS) offering Jelastic, it is possible to build and run any Java application in the cloud instead of from a personal computer — speeding development time and maximizing computing resources.

Jelastic allows developers to make code changes and rebuild applications in the cloud, removing the lag time caused whenever files are updated and uploaded from a personal computer. Jelastic can take application source code directly from version control repositories, via either the Git or SVN protocol.

Using Jelastic, developers can easily swap test and production environments with simple point-and-click. The same is true for cloning an exact copy to test or prepare an application for production deployment. Jelastic is fully compatible with existing Java applications and libraries…

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Infocomm Asia Holdings (IAHGames), a leading publisher, operator and distributor of popular online games, today announced that they are the first gaming company in Southeast Asia to use the power of unified computing to deliver efficiency and scalability to their operations in the region. IAHGames achieved this using Corous360, a leading independent online games cloud service provider that chose the Cisco Unified Computing System(TM) (Cisco UCS(TM)) to take their operations of managing interactive entertainment into the virtual space.

The implementation provides a highly secure, scalable, efficient and cost-effective platform that reduces information technology infrastructure costs and complexity, while improving IAHGames’ business agility. The business value in using cloud computing has also resulted in IAHGames offering the platform to all game developers and providers, as they collaborate to share knowledge and cost-savings measures with other companies in the industry, taking the business of online games to a future-state…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author:  Michael Vizard.

There’s obviously a lot of confusion these days about the distinctions between public and private cloud computing, managed hosting and managed services. In fact, it’s not all uncommon for IT organizations to start investigating cloud computing only to discover what they really want is some form of managed hosting or managed service.

The reason for this comes down to concerns about data security and the nature of the application workloads that the IT organization wants to run. In an ideal security world, many IT organizations don’t want to have their applications running on multi-tenant systems where not only is security a potential issue, but where events such as “noisy virtual machine neighbors” can have unexpected consequences for the applications they have running on shared IT infrastructure…

Grazed from University of Texas at Austin.  Author: PR Announcement.

As part of its research efforts to help create safer and faster computing, the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin has partnered with SunGard Availability Services to improve emerging cloud-based technologies through a new center for cloud computing research…

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Grazed from Industry Week.  Author:  Adam Swidler.

Cloud computing is an information technology revolution on par with the advent of the personal computer. Few technology fads claim to deliver so many benefits together with so much cost savings. And as the hype has grown, more and more vendors are rushing into the fray with their own "cloud" solutions. But not all clouds are created equal, and some clouds are not even really clouds at all. One of the debates that is starting to emerge in this area is "public cloud" vs. "private cloud". In this article, we will attempt to describe some of the key differences between public and private clouds, ultimately leading to the conclusion that private cloud is an oxymoron and there is only one type of cloud…

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Learning Tree International /quotes/zigman/55860/quotes/nls/ltre LTRE -0.13% has announced the introduction of a new Cloud Computing course– Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services(TM). This course provides extensive hands-on experience developing cloud solutions with Amazon Web Services…

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Logicworks today announced the launch of infiniCloud PowerCluster, a service specifically designed for large-scale cloud computing customers. infiniCloud PowerCluster, or simply "PowerCluster," is a bulk computing package that combines the company’s popular infiniCloud service with private cloud resources creating a dedicated grid of compute nodes in a Private Availability Zone…