Vordel, a provider of gateways for SOA and Cloud Computing, today announced, the availability of Vordel Siebel Gateway ( http://www.vordel.com/solutions/siebel_gateway2.html ) to enable Siebel users secure and compliant access to their valuable CRM data from mobile, desktop, and Cloud applications. Vordel Siebel Gateway enables Siebel users manage application integrations across multiple instances and address the security, audit, and interoperability challenges they encounter. Deploying Vordel Siebel Gateway, in front of Siebel SCM means enterprises derive immediate benefit from increased operational efficiencies, reduced costs and can open new revenue streams via Cloud, mobile, and Web 2.0 channels…

Online Tech announced the first easy, comprehensive, and cost-effective disaster recovery solution for cloud computing today. DR Now!(TM) replicates the entire hosted cloud including servers, software, network and security to an offsite disaster recovery cloud without any programming or special configuration. DR Now! disaster recovery cloud delivers recovery times under 4 hours for less than half the cost of the production cloud servers…

MuleSoft, provider of the #1 integration platform for the cloud, web and enterprise, today announced that it has been named a winner of THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today’s cloud computing solutions…

NetSol Technologies Inc. , a worldwide provider of global IT and enterprise application solutions, said it is joining a select group of technology companies to exhibit today at the 50th annual convention of the Equipment Leasing & Finance Association (ELFA), taking place in San Antonio, Texas. Drawing more than 900 industry senior managers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts from 500-plus organizations in the United States, the meeting is the premier showcase for the industry’s software and service providers…

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced its platinum sponsorship and full participation in Citrix Synergy(TM) Barcelona at the International Convention Centre of Barcelona (CCIB) on 26-28 October 2011. Delegates to the second year of this hugely successful European event will be able to experience the latest Wyse cloud client computing solutions throughout Citrix Synergy including at the Wyse booth #202 next to the main Citrix booth in the Solutions Expo…

John McCarthy, the man who first proposed the notion of utility computing, has just died at 84.

Business agility and the demand for quick turnaround to infrastructure and application requirements to service organisational growth have fuelled the rise of cloud services. For organisations that have had their IT system requirements held back by traditional sourcing and project based delivery of information technology, cloud seems to be the answer. Cloud computing is defined by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a:

“Model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”…

The Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) today released preliminary results from its recently conducted benchmark study on the impact of cloud computing on technology professional services…