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…

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”…

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…

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…

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).

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

When it comes to the security of cloud computing, there’s obviously a lot to be concerned about. But for all the talk about cloud security there hasn’t been much discussion about how to actually make managing security in the cloud a whole lot easier…

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."…

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

Tech Data Corp. said that it recently added IBM Corp.’s cloud computing services and equipment to its TDCloud portfolio for its base of channel partners.

The IBM cloud computing solutions span Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (Paas), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Sam Dean.

It’s no secret that cloud computing is one of the biggest trends on the technology scene, and one that is profoundly affecting the open source arena. As more and more companies, organizations and individuals leverage the cloud for applications, data storage and more, they are also changing the way storage itself works. Just consider Amazon and the enormous amount of data that it deals with in the cloud via Amazon Web Services. There is a new startup making waves with a very different approach to cloud storage: Bitcasa. It claims to offer infinite storage for $10 a month, and it is getting noticed…