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FatCloud launches today, introducing a new IT development and management platform that delivers .NET applications in less time and at lower cost. The company behind the eponymous cloud-enabled application platform, backed by invention company Elevator Labs, also makes its public debut after nearly five years of team- and product-building.

Built to leverage .NET and the Microsoft ecosystem, FatCloud eradicates conventional IT development barriers and accelerates application time-to-market by providing a platform for scale-out processing, data management, and availability/redundancy. FatCloud takes care of an application’s back-end plumbing, so companies of all sizes can empower their IT and focus on accelerating their business strategy, product innovation and growth.

FatCloud uses Microsoft’s standard Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) stack, so developers already know many of the key concepts central to FatCloud, allowing .NET staff to be up and running in hours, not weeks. This preserves existing IT investments and reduces development time and costs, allowing any company to seamlessly leverage and integrate FatCloud’s enterprise-grade power.

Appsecute, the cloud application management company, today announced a set of tools to allow developers and operations staff to collaborate on applications deployed to the cloud.

"Our Cloud Application Management Tools enable a new way of doing operations that is inclusive of developers, rather than shutting them out," said Tyler Power, founder and CTO of Appsecute.

A key part of this vision is the use of Platform as a Service. PaaS delivers big reductions in the time to market and cost of running cloud-based applications, by eliminating most of the operational work and providing a ‘self-service’ interface for developers.

RightScale Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, is helping software vendors accelerate the process of bringing software-as-a-service (SaaS) products to market. Over 100 SaaS providers, from enterprises to startups, rely on RightScale to deploy and manage single-tenant and multi-tenant SaaS applications for their customers in cloud environments.

As a result of growth in SaaS adoption, software vendors are looking for ways to deliver SaaS solutions. SaaS providers use RightScale to leverage cloud environments to bring their SaaS offerings to market, including:

• New SaaS products developed specifically for cloud environments.
• Existing SaaS solutions migrating from traditional data centers to cloud environments.
• Traditional on-premise software being offered as SaaS solutions in the cloud.
• Demo and trial environments for traditional on-premise software.

On Friday, we like to step away from some of the news and headlines of the day, and instead hit the water coolers and have a bit of fun.

Here’s another laugh about the cloud from Scott Adam’s Dilbert strip.

Virtustream, Inc., the leading enterprise class cloud solutions provider, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service,”ⁱ which examined 15 vendors whose cloud compute solutions address scale-out cloud hosting, virtual lab environment, self-managed Virtual Data Center (VDC) and turnkey VDC.

According to Gartner, “Service providers are increasingly using dynamic physical and logical isolation mechanisms to create ‘private’ infrastructure within a shared, multitenant capacity pool. This allows economies of scale while enabling customers to meet a broader range of security and compliance requirements.”

Grazed from TechWeek Europe. Author: Peter Judge.

Everyone is out there selling the cloud like there’s no tomorrow, so it’s tempting to think the technology is all done. But there are people out there who say that is not the case. The cloud is still scaling up, and it’s not always a hundred percent clear how services will be operated, as more and more users turn to public shared resources for more of their IT.

The dream of cloud activists seems to be a shift away from in-house IT , and long term outsourcing deals, running on stable hardware in known locations. Instead, resource locations will be flexible, and customer processes will be running in an increasingly ad hoc, transitory way, on different providers’ services…

Grazed from HPCWire. Author: Editorial Staff.

ARM, Red Hat, Inc. and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation today announced a collaboration that aims to develop a disruptive 64-bit server design platform to dramatically lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of cloud computing, data centers and enterprises.

Fully compliant with the ARMv8 architecture, the AppliedMicro X-Gene Server on a Chip has been purpose-built for cloud and enterprise server deployment to deliver unprecedented low power, high performance and integration, with the goal of changing the way servers are designed for cloud, data center and enterprise applications. Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, is actively engaged in developing support within the Fedora community for the new 64-bit ARMv8 architecture, also known as AArch64…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

Adoption of cloud computing technologies is continuing to expand to new industries and verticals. More organizations are seeing direct benefits from moving to a controller, private cloud infrastructure. Still, there are some companies which are just beginning to enter the private cloud market. In those cases, using intelligent automation practices can help reduce time, complexity and cost. In a recent study, IDC expects spending on cloud server and application management software will total more than $3 billion by 2016 as IT customers of all sizes and across many industries embrace more efficient and automated data center operations strategies.

Currently, many medium and enterprise-sized organizations are budgeting millions of dollars into the development of their private cloud infrastructure. In designing their cloud platform, these organizations must look at private cloud automation solutions…

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Editorial Staff.

The Cloud is not only disrupting the way organizations acquire and utilize business applications and computing power, it is also changing the way software and systems are sold and supported. The Cloud is redefining the role of the channel and the nature of channel relationships in the software and technology industry.

A year ago, THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media launched an executive forum, called the Cloud Channel Summit, to bring together leading vendors and channel companies to discuss their mutual challenges, share best practices and showcase their success stories. The success of last year’s inaugural Summit encouraged us to host the second annual Cloud Channel Summit again at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on Monday, November 5…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Abby Shagin.

Life is easier with your head in the clouds, right? Perhaps. But does the same hold true for your company’s data? Are there risks to implementing this progressive solution into your business? The answer is yes.

Like most things in life, the benefits come with risks—it’s just a matter of knowing if the benefits outweigh the risks and vice versa. Let’s take a look at some grounded facts about cloud computing to help you decide if you are ready to go up, up, and away…