Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Dolphin announced its Content Archive Service (CAS) for Cloud 2.0 has achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. The solution has been proven to integrate with SAP® solutions, providing users access to cloud services as a repository to the SAP ArchiveLink® software. The cloud solution is SAP-certified for archived SAP data and documents and does not require any new on-premise infrastructure…
 

Grazed from Business Insider SAI.  Author:  Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Amazon’s cloud business is growing like crazy, and could hit $1 billion in revenue next year according to analysts, Reuters reports. Right now Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing unit, is small enough that Amazon doesn’t report its revenue, but according to estimates, it generated $500 million in revenue last year and will do $750 million this year–a 50% growth rate, which is impressive for such a large unit. If Amazon really hits these milestones it will be a big event not just for the company, but for the cloud computing industry in general.

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Huddle figures it’s the first cloud-based collaboration and content management service to offer an eyes-only private collaboration service to government customers with highly classified clearance that they can use to access and share their very private data stores.

It seems that the only way spooks on both sides of the pond can collaborate is still through couriers, the all-purpose drop box, phone calls and e-mail. Huddle means to bring them in out of the cold but its solution, which resembles Microsoft’s SharePoint, isn’t just meant for three-letter agencies like the CIA and MI6.

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Platform Computing, the leading independent cloud management software provider, today announced it will be hosting a webinar, entitled "Private Cloud Selection Best Practices: How to Select a Private Cloud Solution," on Thursday, Aug. 4.

Dr. Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platform Computing, will be joined by James Staten, principal analyst at Forrester Research, to discuss strategies and best practices that mid- and large-sized enterprises must consider when choosing a private cloud vendor. Mr. Staten will also discuss findings from his recent report, "Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions" (May 2011)…

Grazed from All Things Digital.  Author:  Arik Hesseldahl.

One of the basic assumptions about cloud computing is that services outages are bad. An application that goes down for one reason or another is an expensive problem when it happens. But it’s also an expensive problem for which to plan ahead, usually involving buying a lot of redundant hardware and software that kicks in when the primary systems fail. It’s not an attractive notion, but then again neither is downtime…

Grazed from GIGAOM.  Author: Jonathan Koomey.

There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloud computing has significant efficiency and cost advantages. The most recent one with which I am directly familiar was conducted by Jon Taylor’s team at WSP Environment & Energy for Salesforce.com, and it showed per-transaction emissions reductions averaging 95 percent for companies that shift to using the cloud…

Grazed from ITNews.  Author:  James Hutchinson.

The University of Western Australia has embarked on an 18-month project to consolidate approximately 1000 disparate servers to a private cloud platform in Amcom data centres.

The institution would look to migrate 400 terabytes of data currently held on-campus to Amcom’s two Perth-based facilities under a $9 million, three-year agreement signed with the Western Australia service provider over the weekend…

Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: Peter Dinham.

Ovum analyst and author of a just published report into the market, Mark Giles, telcos face “considerable challenges when it comes to supporting and selling cloud services.”

Grazed from Business Day Technology.  Author:  Kevin J. O’Brien.

When the founders of Shutl, a British courier service that makes deliveries in 90 minutes in busy London, decided to set up a business that ran exclusively on cloud computing, they needed to get creative.

Data privacy laws in Europe restrict the transfer of information about individuals outside the 27-country European Union. That had prevented many companies on the Continent from moving to the cloud, where data may be stored on remote servers in Asia, the United States or elsewhere at a lower cost than what a company would pay for its own servers…