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Grazed from Forbes. Author: Jacqueline Vanacek.

So much has been written about “the risks” of cloud computing, but that risk leads to bigger rewards, especially for small business. And as the engine of job creation, small business will accelerate the economic recovery. SMBs can launch new operations in the cloud with little up-front capital. This levels the playing field against market leaders and allows for rapid growth.

Seventy-four percent of small-medium businesses expect to use cloud services next year. They are also mobilizing their workforce (see Infographic). This can increase remote worker productivity by seventy-two percent…

Grazed from Tyan. Author: PR Announcement.

TYAN, an industry-leading server platform design manufacturer and subsidiary of MiTAC International Corp, will live demo its FT48-B7055 with LSI NytroTMMegaRAID® application acceleration card and NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerator pre-installed. This platform delivers outstanding computing performance for data transmission and data migration. TYAN will display a full array of products in cooperation with industry leading companies designed for HPC and power-efficient computing environments at SC’12.

This includes the latest microserver platform, the FM65-B5519, with 18 front-serviced computing nodes, the 4-Socket systems GT26A-B8812 and FT68-B7910, the FT48-B7055 and FT77A-B7059 high-density GPU platforms supporting 4/8 GPU cards, and the KGN70A and KTN70A storage platforms with 18/24 HDDs in a 2U chassis. These platforms will all be showcased at TYAN’s booth (#2419) along with Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters, an LSI NytroTM MegaRAID® application acceleration card and a NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerator…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

It’s probably not a huge investment, especially by Oracle’ s usual standards, but the database giant has bought a minority stake in Engine Yard, the PHP, Ruby and Node.js Platform as a Service. The stake gives Oracle a better story — sort of — in PaaS.

Oracle, which for the past year or so has proclaimed itself a cloud company, now has at least part of a Platform as a Service story. It’s made an investment – the amount was undisclosed — in Engine Yard, a PaaS provider that supports Ruby, Node.js and PHP. The company has long been a rumored acquisition target especially since Salesforce.com bought Heroku in 2010, starting a sort of run on PaaS companies…

Grazed from PenguinComputing. Author: PR Announcement.

Penguin Computing today announced the immediate availability of new access and management features on its public HPC cloud Penguin Computing on Demand (POD).

POD’s new sign-up automation enables immediate user access to Penguin’s on-demand infrastructure. The sign-up procedure has been reduced to a simple process: After completion of a short web-based sign-up form, new users select an operating system image for a virtual gateway node that is then provisioned instantly for launch. After a virtual gateway server has been launched users can access POD’s HPC infrastructure by submitting compute jobs through a scheduler of choice. The POD compute infrastructure itself executes HPC compute jobs directly on physical compute nodes to ensure optimal performance and enable the use of Infiniband interconnects and GPUs…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Champion Solutions Group, a Boca Raton, Fl.-based virtualization and cloud computing services provider, is building out its Microsoft cloud services through the acquisition of Charlotte, NC-based MessageOps.

MessageOps has focused its core business on being a Microsoft cloud services and utilities company. The acquisition will give Champion Solutions a larger customer base, as well as a broader solutions offering. One of the reasons for the acquisition, according to the cloud services providers, is to provide customers with a migration strategy to Microsoft cloud services, as well as build out its portfolio of cloud management tools…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jack Clark.

The growth of cloud computing will affect the economic nature of the industry as much as its technology. The huge scale at which the hardware and software of the cloud operates is having a significant affect on not only the types of technology being used in the industry, but which companies stand to benefit from its rise.

A round of interviews with executives within cloud companies, hardware vendors and analysts underlines the trend towards the growing influence of the cloud over the structure of the IT industry, and identifies the likely winners and losers among IT suppliers…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Editorial Staff.

You know when you hear someone say, “I swear, you can’t make this stuff up,” well let’s just say I had one of those moments when I came across a national survey conducted by Wakefield Research. Sadly, of the more than 1,000 adults surveyed, the majority of respondents actually believe the cloud is related to weather, pillows, drugs, and even toilet paper.

The good news, however, is that those who may not understand the cloud, do understand its economic benefits and ability to act as a catalyst for small business growth. In fact, 59 percent believe the cloud is the “workplace of the future.”…

Grazed from 4Traders. Author: Editorial Staff.

Symantec today launched its first Digital Information Index highlighting the significant impact that cloud computing and mobility are having on businesses today. The 2012 State of Information Report reveals the benefits but also growing challenges of "information sprawl" as organizations increase the level of information stored and accessed outside of the firewall.

"Businesses are undergoing a transformation unlike anything we’ve seen before. With mobile devices and cloud giving employees access to information from nearly anywhere, we’re also seeing more sensitive information living beyond the traditional IT boundaries," said Francis deSouza, group president, Enterprise Products and Services, Symantec Corp. "This is creating concern about how to best protect this information."…

Grazed from Vitual Instruments. Author: PR Announcement.

Virtual Instruments , the leader in Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments, today announced that its VirtualWisdom platform has been certified on VCETM VblockTM Systems as "VCE Vblock Ready." The VirtualWisdom platform provides real-time, system-wide visibility into the performance, utilisation and health of Vblock systems as well as broader physical, virtual and private cloud computing environments.

Vblock systems integrate leading Cisco networking and server, EMC storage and VMware cloud infrastructure technologies into a single intelligent converged infrastructure system with seamless support. This certification provides customers with the assurance that the Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom platform will interoperate with Vblock systems…