September 14, 2011 Off

Spiceworks to Speak at ITEXPO Austin on the Top Reasons SMBs Need Not Fear the Cloud

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Tomorrow at ITEXPO Austin, Spiceworks(TM) manager of IT Marketing Nicole Tanzillo will join executives from Broadview Networks and Telesphere to explore the various benefits cloud computing can deliver to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). During the session, the speakers will discuss many of the concerns SMBs have about cloud-based solutions, and how they can overcome them to embrace the cloud for everything from communications to business applications and IT resources…

September 14, 2011 Off

Two new publications provide a cloud computing standards roadmap, reference architecture

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Grazed from PhysOrg.  Author: PR Announcement.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published two new documents on cloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing standards roadmap and a cloud computing reference architecture and taxonomy. Together, the documents provide guidance to help understand cloud computing standards and categories of cloud services that can be used government-wide.

These documents, along with others from and NIST working groups, will be incorporated into the NIST U.S. Government Cloud Roadmap, expected to be published in November, 2011…

Deutsche Telekom Wants `German Cloud’ to Shield Data From U.S.

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Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author:  Kenneth Wong.

Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Systems information technology unit is pushing regulators to introduce a certificate for German or European cloud operators to help companies guard data from the U.S. government.

T-Systems plans to lure customers by emphasizing the security of its servers, over which it delivers its Internet- accessed computing services, Reinhard Clemens, the division’s chief executive officer, told reporters in Bonn on Sept. 12. This includes shielding clients from government access such as that allowed by the U.S. Patriot Act, he said…

September 14, 2011 Off

Cirracore’s Fred Tanzella to speak at TiE Cloud Computing

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Grazed from Digital Journal.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Cirracore is pleased to announce that Fred Tanzella, Cirracore’s CEO will be speaking at the TiE Cloud Computing event. Fred Tanzella will be speaking on “Cloud Computing: A Convergence Perspective”…

September 14, 2011 Off

Savvis Broadens Cloud Footprint With Massive Data Center Expansion

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Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Cloud provider Savvis will undergo a massive data center expansion in North America in the second half of 2011, a move the company said is designed to increase its footprint to fulfill the increasing demand in cloud computing infrastructure and services…

September 14, 2011 Off

Hexagrid Certifies Software Partners for Cloud Delivery

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Grazed from Digital Journal.  Author: PR Announcement.

Hexagrid Computing, a leading developer of cloud enablement solutions, announces a new Software Certification Program that tests and promotes certified software solutions within Hexagrid’s worldwide network of enterprise, service provider, and reseller cloud communities…

September 14, 2011 Off

Accelerating Cloud Deployment at Home and Abroad

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Grazed from Huffington Post.  Author: Robert Holleyman.

By fundamentally transforming the way computing power is bought, sold, and delivered, the cloud is proving itself to be truly transformative. Industry by industry, sector by sector, enterprises are reimagining their back offices and offering products and services to customers in new, highly efficient ways that create widespread benefits for the economy…

September 14, 2011 Off

Vembu Acquires CloudNucleus, Virtualization Based Data Protection Firm

By David
Grazed from TechGigg.  Author: PR Announcement.

Chennai based Vembu Technologies which provides cloud based data backup and recovery solution to SMBs has acquired CloudNucleus, a Chennai based company.

The deal is a mix of equity and cash and the acquisition will help Vembu strengthen its offerings in the areas of business continuity/disaster recovery, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and Bare Metal Recovery (BMR).

September 13, 2011 Off

Red Hat Broadens Global Cooperation With Amazon Web Services and SAP on the Cloud

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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Red Hat, Inc, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced support for SAP(R) solutions running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This complements today’s separate announcement Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with Support for SAP Business Applications Now Available.

"Today’s announcement fortifies Red Hat’s continued effort to provide customers flexibility in software deployment options and innovations in cloud computing," said Gus Robertson, vice president of business development at Red Hat. "Now customers have even more choice in procuring and provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux, now SAP-certified and recommended to run SAP applications."…