Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and its partner Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced customers that have chosen the RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack. The RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack is an Open Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, developed jointly to provide a pre-configured cloud platform for PHP application deployment and management that customers can run themselves. Leading companies including mediaspike, Dmedia Commerce, and VYou.com have chosen the solution as a means to solve multiple problems related to rapid scaling, simplified deployment, and high availability of applications…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Joab Jackson.

Further preparing its software for production use, Eucalyptus Systems has outfitted its private cloud software with the ability to keep running even if an individual node fails, a feature called high availability (HA), the company announced Wednesday.

"If something fails, the software will put other nodes into use immediately, and your operation will not be interrupted," said Marten Mickos, Eucalyptus Systems CEO. "Even if you have an entire rack that crashes, we can move [the workload] to another rack."…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: PR Announcement.

Momentum behind the cloud computing movement continues to accelerate as organizations move from limited deployments to more comprehensive cloud solutions, according to new research published today by CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the information technology (IT) industry.

More than half (56 percent) of the organizations surveyed for CompTIA’s Second Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study said their investment in cloud computing will increase by 10 percent or more over the next 12 months. The survey of 500 IT and business professionals in the United States involved in IT decision-making took place in June…

Grazed from IT World.  Author: Kevin Fogarty.

In case you were looking for a well-informed, solidly objective take on the hype surrounding cloud computing, I’m going to suggest the first half of an essay I’d normally spend a lot of energy to ignore.

First, though, since it involves Cloud Computing, you have to pick among the three following options regarding hype about cloud computing, which has generated enough coverage int he press to actually outweigh the number of stories on cloud computing alone…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

The sad, bad secret about cloud-computing is that setting up a cloud and running an application on any of them is relatively easy, managing it though, that’s another thing entirely. That’s where companies like Convirture come in.

Convirture’s open-source project is ConVirt Open Source. With it you can manage both Xen and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)-based virtual machines (VM) and clouds. Specifically, with ConVirt, you can create and provision “gold” images, diagnose performance problems, and balance load across the datacenter, all from a Web-based interface and with consistent feature set across open-source virtualization platforms…

Grazed from Internet Evolution.  Author: Ariella Brown.

Though New York State is not home to “the windy city,” it is a center for research into harnessing wind power for datacenters.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and Clarkson University are working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) (NYSE: AMD) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) on software that will enable cloud computing systems to be powered by renewable energy sources with no loss of performance…

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

Two-year-old Pure Storage, the latest flash start-up, shook off its cloak of invisibility Tuesday and showed off a reportedly oversubscribed $30 million C round for its all-flash enterprise array technology.  That makes $55 million altogether.

The new money was put in by Samsung, the largest flash maker, as well as Redpoint Ventures, Greylock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and angel investors…

Grazed from The Washington Post with Bloomberg.  Author: Hayley Tsukayama.

State governments are taking a wary look at cloud computing and how best to adjust their tax laws to keep up with shifts in technology.

According to a report from Bloomberg, state governments are taking a hard look at the way they tax transactions as the traditional point-of-sale has shifted from a countertop to a Web page…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: PR Announcement.

Tech Data Corporation (nasdaqgs:TECD) today announced the expansion of its TDCloud offering to include IBM Cloud hardware, software and services, giving resellers additional resources to transform their business and become profitable in the cloud. IBM helps resellers excel in cloud computing by providing secure and reliable Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (Paas), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, which enable agile collaboration and simplify the deployment and technology needed to build and manage cloud environments.

"Tech Data has aligned with IBM to offer cloud solutions that enable resellers to implement a private cloud, as well as offer them the opportunity to sell IBM public cloud services such as Smart Cloud Enterprise and Managed Backup Cloud," said Chuck Bartlett, vice president and general manager of Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) at Tech Data. "Along with these IBM products and services, we provide the necessary training and technical support, as well as configuration and shipping services, on behalf of our resellers who are providing private clouds."…