Grazed from V3 Virtual Cloud Summit.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Cloud computing is without doubt the biggest IT story for a generation. But the concept is a broad one, with definitions of "the cloud" varying from one IT professional to the next. Rates of adoption also vary massively: some businesses are still sceptical about the cloud, while others have completed full migrations.

The V3 Virtual Cloud Summit has been developed to offer tailored insights to specific groups. Whatever stage of planning or implementation your cloud project is at, wherever your specific area of concern lies, there is a session for you at this event. And, because you can experience the entire conference without leaving your desk, you need only attend the sessions that are relevant to you.

Using the latest Virtual Trade Show technology, we have created an online environment that brings you all the features and benefits of a conference, through your PC…
 

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Barbara Darrow and Carl Brooks.

As the business of hardware reselling goes the way of the dodo bird, smart solution providers are devising cloud-inflected services to take up the slack.

For example, GreenPages Technology Solutions will soon offer its own "data bus" that would help customers move data from on-premises data centers to hybrid and public cloud as well as remote desktop and server management as a service parlaying technology from BMC Software and CA…
 

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author: David Strom.

We haven’t written much on Appistry, a St. Louis-based cloud data management and analytics applications vendor. So when it was in the news this week with raising a new round of venture funding, it seemed like a good time to cover it here…

Its product family is called CloudIQ and there are several different components. First is the CloudIQ Manager that configures the components and monitors their health. Next is CloudIQ Storage module, which allows Hadoop users to upgrade to their storage repository when you need more reliable operations and higher throughput. And finally there is CloudIQ Engine, which is used to build scalable analytical applications.  Its family is designed for those very large data-intensive apps that are proliferating around the Internet these days, such as in genomics, that require huge horsepower and have to scale up tremendously and do it quickly, too…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Microelectronics Technology Co. (pinksheets:MELY) (hereafter "The Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a letter of Intent for the purchase of all of the existing outstanding shares of Cloud Data Corporation.

The terms and condition of the share exchange have been finalized and the closing is subject to certain due diligence to be completed over the following weeks. It is anticipated that the transaction will close and be effective August 26, 2011…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Aimed at shaping the future of cloud computing and how increasing numbers of everyday devices will add computing capabilities, Intel Labs announced the latest Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTC) both headquartered at Carnegie Mellon University.

These centers represent the next $30 million installment of Intel’s recently announced 5-year, $100 million ISTC program to increase university research and accelerate innovation in a handful of key areas. As with previously announced ISTCs for visual computing and secure computing, the new centers encourage tighter collaboration between university thought leaders and Intel. To encourage further collaboration, the ISTCs use open IP models with results publically available through technical publications and open-source software releases…

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing is real inside Intel IT. In fact, it is one of our Top 3 Priorities this year (the other two are “consumerization” and security).  At Intel, our private cloud infrastructure as a service implementation is important because it means we can deliver a highly available computing environment that provides secure services and data on-demand to authenticated users and devices from a shared, elastic, and multi-tenant infrastructure.

Now you’re probably thinking, “sounds good, but so what?”  Well, let me explain.

Grazed from CampusTechnology.  Author: Jennifer Skelly.

With cloud computing looming as the next big thing in higher education, Citrix Systems‘ recent acquisition of Cloud.com, an open source cloud computing platform, will have caught the attention of university CIOs nationwide. The move bolsters Citrix’s cloud infrastructure portfolio by giving customers virtualization, orchestration, and networking solutions that are designed and built specifically for the new cloud era…

Cloud.com is the developer of CloudStack, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform that simplifies the process of building, deploying, and managing a cloud computing environment. As opposed to traditional enterprise server virtualization platforms where cloud management is layered on top, Cloud.com’s product is designed to help users design and create a cloud infrastructure from the ground up. As a result, customers have the ability to choose the hardware, software, management products, and service providers they want—an important consideration for CIOs leery of getting locked in with any one vendor…

Grazed from ThirdAge.com.  Author:  Jasmine Williams.

For the U.S. government adoption of cloud computing, Lockheed Martin said it collaborated with the TechAmerica Foundation and others to develop a road map.   Together with 70 other commissioners working over a period of three months, Lockheed Martin and the group collaborated on four areas of the report pertaining to Trust, Transformation, Transparency and Transnational Data Flow, UPI.com reports…