Grazed from IT World.  Author: Chris Nerney.

Usually it’s the defendant in a lawsuit that seeks to have a case dismissed.

But Google, for some mysterious reason, has filed a motion to dismiss the case it brought last October against the U.S. Department of the Interior alleging that the federal agency inappropriately rigged the bidding process for cloud-based email and collaboration services in favor of Microsoft…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security company, today announced that Joerg Rathenberg has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. Rathenberg joins CloudPassage from virtual event leader Unisfair, where he was Vice President of Marketing…

Grazed from Small Business Computing.  Author: Gerry Blackwell.

IBM believes the world needs to get smaller and smarter, and the way to achieve both goals is for small businesses to embrace cloud computing.

For years, the century-old computer giant has promoted “solutions for a small planet.” Now it’s pushing solutions for “the smarter planet.” Whatever the tag line, the company says that cloud-based solutions from IBM can help small businesses grow faster and succeed bigger…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Searchlight Solutions Ltd. (pinksheets:SLLN) today announces its subsidiary, Linux Labs International, Inc., is launching a beta program for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) style private and hybrid clouds based on their proprietary Indigo file system and Nimbus cloud operating system. The platform provides a single interface that lets users access high performance computing infrastructure resources available in private clouds…

Grazed from Web Host Review.  Author: Nicole Henderson.

Data center provider Telx (www.telx.com) announced on Tuesday that it has formed a strategic alliance with cloud computing solution provider Hexagrid Computing (www.hexagrid.com).

According to the press release, the relationship will enable Telx’s managed service provider and enterprise colocation customers in its 15 "cloud connection" centers to build customized cloud environments with Telx interconnection services and Hexagrid’s cloud computing platform…

Grazed from Web Host Industry Review.  Author:  Justin Lee.

Cloud application developer CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com) announced on Tuesday it has named former Oracle senior vice president Steven Harris the company’s senior vice president of products.

In his new role, Harris will oversee all product strategy, product management and product development activities…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today, the leading provider of cloud-based healthcare management solutions, CareCloud ( www.carecloud.com ) has announced Series A funding of $20.1 million, led by Intel Capital and joined by Norwest Venture Partners. The round includes an approximately $3.8 million conversion of debt to equity…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Birst figures it’s got the first SaaS-based BI software appliance.

The virtual appliance in Tuesday’s release of Birst 5 is supposed to deliver enterprise-class BI capabilities to customers on their premises with the agility and economics of a Software-as-a-Service architecture…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Sensible Cloud, the industry’s first cloud control company, today introduced sense(TM), a new solution that makes cloud computing easier, more cost-effective and transparent, ensuring that organizations have tighter governance over cloud investments. sense automatically right-sizes cloud resources in real-time, driven by customers’ business, cost and performance parameters. sense is delivered in two configurations: as a platform with a highly-customized series of cloud control applications targeted at large enterprise organizations; or through controlmycloud.com, which offers a range of hosted template-based cloud control applications tailored specifically for SMEs. In both cases, customers select or design cloud control apps that enable them to scale cloud resources up and down as necessary to meet key business requirements, minimize costs and eliminate downtime and concerns associated with cloud outages…