Grazed from InfoBoom.  Author: Rick Robinson.

Now that you’ve grown accustomed to hearing about software-as-a-service (SaaS), get ready to hear more about platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Also expect to hear more about private cloud options from major cloud and virtualization providers…

Grazed from Xinhuanet.com.   Author: Editorial Staff.

China’s telecom titan, the China Mobile Communications Group, is planning to build a cloud computing base in north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region to bolster its online data management services…

Grazed from Hostreview.com.   Author: Michael Maxstead.

Computer security is more important nowadays than it was 10 years ago, because there are so many sensitive operations performed using on. What this means is that for someone who is working with such data, it’s mandatory that he or she will benefit from a form of backup that will guarantee he or she will recover the files lost due to some unexpected system crashes or hardware failures…

Grazed from Austin American Statesman.  Author: Barry Harrell.

The University of Texas and a Pennsylvania technology company have agreed to be partners on a cloud computing research center on UT’s campus.

SunGard Availability Services, based in Wayne, Pa., plans to make a "high six-figure" investment in the center, said Indu Kodukula, executive vice president and chief technology officer at the company…

Grazed from TechRockies.  Author: PR Announcement.

Boulder-based Standing Cloud, the developer of application software for the cloud computing market, announced today that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. The round came from existing investors Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures. Standing Cloud, which is headed by David Jilk, said that the new funding brings its total raised to $8M. As par tof the funding, the company has added Will Herman–a TechStars mentor–to its board. Herman was formerly CEO of Innoveda (acquired by Mentor Graphics), founded Viewlogic Sytsems, and has served at Silerity and Scopus Technology. Standing Cloud said the new funds will go towards continued development and deployment of its products. Standing Cloud provides a pre-configured set of over 100 open-sourec and commercial applications, which can easily be deployed on a variety of cloud computing platforms.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Chris Preimesberger.

The ninth International Cloud Expo conference in Santa Clara, Calif., this week was packed to the brim. Parking places were hard to find, the food went quicker than usual, and the expo floor was almost elbow-to-elbow with new companies introducing themselves and established companies making themselves look new. The entire scope of cloud computing, infrastructure, management, applications, services, networking and consulting was represented. If there was one headline that could be used to describe this event it might be: "Cloud Expo 2011: It’s About Control of All That Big Data." Companies, such as newby Cloud Cruiser, whose specialty is keeping track of all costs and chargebacks connected with cloud systems, and Arista, which simplifies cloud networking, are two good examples. Here is a list of all the good-idea companies at the conference. This eWEEK slide show presents 10 important highlights.

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Greg O’Conner.

We were all there at the beginning when, "The Internet changed everything," morphed into the paradigm buster we now call "The Cloud." As an industry, we watched Amazon (AWS) break the $100M revenue mark in 2008; scanned Gartner’s first cloud computing vendor list in 2009; and heard Microsoft declare itself "all in" in 2010…