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Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday a $250 million partnership designed to simplify technology operations for businesses and promote cloud-computing technologies. The high-tech giants said they plan to partner in all aspects of business technology, including servers, storage, software and networking, during the three-year agreement.

H-P and Microsoft said the partnership would be based on an "infrastructure to application" business model, including collaboration on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform and offering prepackaged technology offerings for data management and online transactions…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Tomio Geron.

Workday is the latest cloud technology company to go public this year and has drawn strong investor interest. It’s five times more expensive than Salesforce.com on a revenue basis, my colleague Eric Savitz notes. With Workday, the larger trend of software moving to the cloud has come in to focus. We caught up with early Workday investor Scott Sandell, a partner at New Enterprise Associates, to talk about Workday and trends in cloud computing.

What did Workday do that was so different?

Dave (Duffield) and Aneel (Bhusri) (cofounders of Workday) said: server technology has changed a lot. The main memory of servers has grown so large. It could be lightning fast. If we do a couple things right and have really good integration with the server for other applications in the enterprise–and then have a presentation layer that’s sophisticated so developers don’t have to care what kind of device it’s used on: tablet, laptop, etc.–then we could really do something. Their audacious goal was to build the entire ERM (human resources, finance) suite–core systems of record which companies use. These are systems of record because they contain all the important data…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Corent Technology, Inc., a leading innovator in the cloud computing space, was named the Best Emerging Growth Technology Company at The West Coast Wall Street Investment Conference yesterday. The awards were featured during the conference event held in Newport Beach, Calif., and was sponsored by the San Diego Investment Conference.

Corent’s game-changing approach to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enablement empowers software companies to instantly transform their software applications to fully operational, scalable, elastic and cost-effective SaaS solutions without the need to re-write the application…

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Dean Takahashi.

Dell revealed a big component of its enterprise strategy today, saying it will offer an “active systems infrastructure” that could make enterprise computing more efficient, flexible, and affordable. The strategy addresses a significant problem of the Internet era: big companies have to deploy new web services and data centers faster than ever. They must build racks and racks of computer server systems, going from zero to 60 miles per hour in a short time. This is a major issue for companies.

Enterprises have to be more agile, rock solid, and streamlined than ever before, said Marius Haas, (pictured), president of Dell Enterprise Systems. And they need a computing infrastructure that enables them to do that…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

In a move designed to reduce the biggest security inhibitors that organizations face in implementing cloud, mobile and big data initiatives, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a broad set of security software to help holistically secure data and identities.

IBM’s new software capabilities help clients better maintain security control over mobile devices, mitigate internal and external threats, reduce security risks in cloud environments, extend database security to gain real-time insights into big data environments such as Hadoop, and automate compliance and data security management. Along with IBM Security Services and IBM’s world-class research capabilities, this set of scalable capabilities supports a holistic, proactive approach to security threats spanning people, data, applications and infrastructure…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Appcore®, provider of the industry’s only complete automated cloud computing platform, today announced Jacksonville, Fla.-based Colo5 Disaster Recovery Center has selected the Appcore Onsite™ system to power their new cloud computing product, making simple and flexible private, public and hybrid cloud services available to businesses of any size in Colo5’s highly secure, high-availability data center.

Appcore’s fully automated platform expands Colo5’s product line with a complete, ready-to-launch system that makes it fast and easy for any business to get up and running on the cloud in just days. Appcore’s simple to use, pre-configured solution eliminates the complexity of cloud technology, implementation and management, providing Colo5 customers with an intuitive user interface and automated provisioning tools to streamline cloud and IT operations with a self-service system backed by end-to-end management and support…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

What sort of amazing cloud services could Amazon have up its sleeve? Werner Vogels ain’t saying anything in detail but here are five things to watch out for where the public cloud services giant is concerned.

Amazon is not known for tipping its hand about what new cloud services it may have planned. so it was no surprise this week when Amazon CTO Werner Vogels teased Structure Europe attendees with promises of new things to come from Amazon Web Services that “you wouldn’t believe.” Pressed for details, Vogels demurred: “I’m not going to tell you. If Steve Jobs can get away with that, I can.” So, if he’s not saying, we’re free to speculate. Here are five things to watch for from Amazon over the next few months…

Grazed from SmartDataCollective. Author: Michael Zeller.

Organizations increasingly recognize the value that predictive analytics and big data offer to their business. The complexity of development, integration, and deployment of predictive solutions, however, is often considered cost-prohibitive for many projects. In light of mature open source solutions, open standards, and SOA principles we propose an agile model development life cycle that quickly leverages predictive analytics in operational environments.

Starting with data analysis and model development, you can effectively use the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) standard, to move complex decision models from the scientist’s desktop into a scalable production environment hosted in the cloud (Amazon EC2 and IBM SmartCloud Enterprise)…

Grazed from The Register. Author: Matt Asay.

Open … and Shut Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, the thought police are back. For years, the open source community was torn apart by fractious debates over what "open" meant and who was open enough. As we’ve moved beyond name calling to focus on getting work done, the same old debate has shifted to cloud computing, with a new crop of pundits and evangelists wrangling over who is the cloudiest of them all. Don’t we have anything better to do?

For some, the answer may be "No." Flexiant founder, Tony Lucas, for example, took to the stage at Structure this week and denounced "cloud washing" and demanded that it be stopped. This follows Appirio calling out cloud washing’s biggest offenders a year ago, and constant chatter on Twitter about the offense…

Grazed from MTB Europe. Author: Dr. James Coffin.

When scientists embarked on the 13-year journey to map the human genome in 1990, they envisioned a future where the knowledge of DNA would aid in the diagnosis, treatment and even prevention of thousands of diseases and disorders.

Fast forward to 2012 and that dream is closer to reality thanks to ongoing advances at the nexus of high-performance computing and genomics research. Though we have yet to identify cures for diseases such as cancer and AIDS, personalised treatments based on a patient’s molecular makeup — as opposed to a “one size fits all” approach — are optimising and extending lives…