Grazed from PR Web.  Author: PR Announcement.

NextComputing, a leading provider of portable workstations and dense, small-footprint servers, announces a new rugged portable server solution for forward deployed military environments or any remote location that requires enterprise computing resources. The Vigor EX-B is NextComputing’s first completely battery-powered and fully mobile rugged server, able to run on its own internal power for up to 4 hours. Designed to support tactical operations centers and other mission-critical environments, the Vigor EX-B is the ideal platform for delivering virtualized “local cloud” computing services to multiple users in a remote setting…
 

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Jennifer Hagendorf Follett.

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Wednesday rolled out a new SMB partner program and encouraged partners to step up their move toward cloud computing.

Eric Martorano, senior director of the U.S. SMB channel group at Microsoft, launched the new Top VAR Program from XChange Americas, where he delivered a keynote address. The program provides a designated Telepartner account manager as well as increased incentives, MDFs and technical support to qualified partners committed to building Microsoft SMB practices…

Martorano also exhorted partners to “lead with the cloud” this year as they build their solutions sales strategies.

 

 “There is an opportunity for you to build, tell, sell and support the cloud. There’s opportunity out there, and that’s not going to change,” Martorano said. “Those partners that are leading with cloud get more on-premise revenue. Why? Because they are the trusted advisors,” Martorano said. “I say to every partner, lead with the cloud.”…

Grazed from IT ChannelPlannet.  Author: D.H. Kass.

Nearly a year after the federal government instructed agencies to opt for cloud-based technologies, about two-thirds have identified applications to move to the cloud, with half of those already commencing the migration process, according to a survey conducted by ScienceLogic, a Reston, VA-based provider of IT operations and cloud management software…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

A-Frame Technology Services today announced the availability of RentTheCloud.com, a brokerage service that matches companies seeking cloud services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) with cloud vendors.  Unlike the uncertainties and risks of conventional approaches to evaluating, selecting, and implementing a cloud service, RentTheCloud.com is 100% success-based, like a realtor. Fees are based on a "cloud brokerage agreement" modeled after a standard realtor agreement and equal to one or two months of the cloud rental fee…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CoreMatrix Systems(TM), one of the country’s leading cloud computing consulting and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployment companies, today announced a new service offering called QuickCloud. With three variations (QuickCloud, QuickCloud with Campaigns and QuickCloud Data Plus), the new service helps companies get up and running on Salesforce.com in as little as five business days…

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Bryan Betts.

Cloud computing takes more than just a philosophical shift. It requires new skills, processes and architectures.  In particular, traffic patterns in cloud networks can be quite different from those of the familiar enterprise network and the scale of operation can be significantly higher.

Grazed from IDG News.  Author: Nicolas Zeitler.

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

The Department of Defense (DOD) is seeking a way to use cloud computing to power embedded military applications that so far have not been able to take advantage of the technology.

The Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released a request for information on what it is calling "military critical clouds."…