Grazed from Dark Reading.  Author: Kelly Jackson Higgins.

Salesforce.com has quietly snapped up an Israeli cloud security encryption firm and is expected to announce the acquisition at its Dreamforce conference next week in San Francisco, Dark Reading has learned. The move by Salesforce to add encryption to its portfolio goes to the heart of reservations about trusting cloud providers to protect their customers’ data.

"The number one reason organizations don’t adopt cloud computing more broadly is the lack of ability to protect information in the cloud," says Bob West, CEO of EchelonOne. "Salesforce itself doesn’t encrypt information, but it does a pretty good job at protecting data [in general]."…

 

Grazed from AFP.  Author: PR Announcement.

Brightcove, a US tech company which provides a cloud computing-based platform for online video, filed on Wednesday for an initial public offering (IPO) that aims to raise up to $50 million.

Brightcove plans to list on the Nasdaq electronic stock exchange under the ticker symbol "BCOV", the company said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission…

Grazed from CTO Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

It seems like with the introduction of any new set of technologies we see a sudden rise in the interest of high availability. The concept of high availability has been around since the dawn of the mainframe, but when there are new technologies and delivery models in play, such as virtualization and cloud computing, it almost seems like IT organizations get a lot more concerned about availability…
 

Grazed from Barrons.  Author: Tiernan Ray.

Barclays Capital’s Ben Reitzes today writes that server sales based on Intel’s (INTC) “x86″ chip architecture will be “more subdued” this latter half of the year as a consequence weakening demand in the financial services and public sectors, but that the fallout won’t be bad for Intel because it can still ride the wave of “cloud computing.”…

Graze from Sys Con Media.  Author: PR Announcement.

GlobalOne, a leader in Software as a Service (SaaS), social collaboration and cloud computing professional services for the enterprise, announced today it has secured an initial funding commitment in excess of $25 million from Columbia Capital. The investment will be used to fuel a rapid expansion of the company’s capabilities and market coverage. The company also announced the appointment of David Northington to the post of CEO. Northington, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of professional services leadership, most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Capgemini in North America…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author:  Carrie Schmelkin.

For quite some time, cloud companies were miles ahead of the consumer market as technology as a service seemed “too good to be true” and customers were reluctant to adopt cloud technologies, according to Dave Rokita, vice president of technology operations at Hexagrid Computing.

Fast forward a few years later and now consumers have come around and experts are referring to 2011 as the year of the cloud…

 

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."…