Grazed from IT Jungle.  Author:  Timothy Prickett Morgan.

Here’s the kind of deal you never see on a mainframe or a Power Systems-IBM i platform: free server capacity. And it is certainly not the kind of deal you see twice in the same year. But IBM is trotting out another deal to give customers a free spin on its SmartCloud infrastructure clouds, which support Windows and Linux workloads on X64-based iron…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cartika recently launched its Canadian Cloud from within their NOC in Toronto, Canada. In addition to being able to deliver a 100% Canadian based Cloud solution, the Cartika Canadian Cloud boasts a revolutionary storage solution built on Open Standards and Open Source ZFS Storage Platforms…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.  

Cloudcor(R) today announced Microsoft as headline Diamond Sponsor of UP 2011 – a hybrid format cloud computing conference taking place December 5 – 9, 2011, at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, Calif., and broadcast online…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Zen Internet, one of the UKs leading independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs), has launched Managed Cloud Servers, offering businesses of all sizes the opportunity to benefit from cloud-based technology, to work more efficiently and reduce IT costs…

Grazed from ITChannel.  Author: D.H. Kass.

IBM Corp. said that it will add 24 pre-configured hardware and software bundles for analytics, cloud computing, collaboration and security technologies aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and backed by $1 billion in financing through the vendor’s Global Financing arm.

The new solutions build on an offer the company initiated in June, 2010, in which it incorporated custom financing into a collection of five solutions constructed around analytics, help desk, IT monitoring, collaboration and data protection under an umbrella called Cost Buster Solutions…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

ZeroDesktop(TM), Inc., a leading developer of fully featured public and private cloud computing solutions, today announced a new "Freemium" plan for its ZeroPC ( http://www.zeropc.com ) personal desktop in the cloud, providing worldwide consumers with 1GB of free cloud storage, plus integrated access to up to an additional free 14GB from popular cloud storage services, for a total of up to 15GB of free combined storage. A pay-as-you-go ZeroPC plan, starting at $1 per month, is also available for power-users who require up to 50GB of storage and expanded features. Existing ZeroPC users may continue to use their pay-as-you-go account or open a new Freemium account without a credit card or subscription fees…

Grazed from New Zealand Herald.  Author:  Andre Hueber.

A code of practice is being prepared for the biggest electronic challenge that has faced small and medium enterprises in 15 years – cloud computing.

The change in the way of working – in which companies hand over the running of systems to outside providers, often overseas – comes loaded with risks and privacy breaches are frequent…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Clint Boulton.

Google and Microsoft both watched their cloud computing systems choke this past week, with Google Docs going dark for an hour and Microsoft Hotmail, Office 365 and SkyDrive knocked offline for three hours.

It was not a banner week for cloud computing. Cloud computing rivals Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered brief outages that knocked off some of their key messaging and collaboration products…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author:  Shaun Nichols.

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Leah Nylen.

A federal judge will order the U.S. Interior Department to hire an independent expert who will examine the security of Google Inc.’s cloud computing e-mail products…