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Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the world’s most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced participation at a number of industry events in the coming months, including VMworld, Gartner Catalyst, CloudOpen, Cloud Connect Chicago and Data Center World Fall.

Be Prepared for Tomorrow’s IT Forecast: Great Chance of Hybrid Clouds Webinar July 26, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. ET Speakers: Judith Hurwitz, President and CEO at Hurwitz & Associates Marcia Kaufman, COO and partner at Hurwitz & Associates Paul Weiss, Technical Marketing Manager at Eucalyptus David Butler, SVP of Marketing at Eucalyptus

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People across much of the planet were having problems accessing Twitter on Thursday, a day before the 2012 Olympic Games are expected to cause a spike in use of the micro-blogging site.

The San Francisco-based company acknowledged the problem, saying in a statement that its engineers are "currently working to resolve the issue," although it didn’t go into any further detail. Visitors to the site were greeted with a half-formed message partially in code saying that "Twitter is currently down."

The fields where a reason for the outage and a deadline for restoring service were apparently meant to go were filled with computer code…

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Google’s instant messaging service, popularly known as GTalk, has been restored after suffering a massive global outage lasting over four hours on Thursday.

Many users said that Google Talk was working again. The company also confirmed the same.

According to Google, the service was restored around 8.25 pm. "Google Talk service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change," the company said…

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

After reportedly snubbing an acquisition bid from Citrix worth at least $700 million earlier this year, Box, the cloud storage start-up, is raising more money at the tune of a $1.2 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reports.

It supposedly has designs on going public next year at a $2 billion-$3 billion valuation.

The seven-year-old outfit that started in a college dorm has raised about $162 million so far from Mark Cuban, Salesforce.com, SAP, Andreessen Horowitz, Emergence Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates and DFJ Growth at a valuation of more than $600 million, the paper said…

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ZapThink, a Dovel Technologies Company, is now delivering version 2.0 of the Cloud Computing for Architects course at its headquarters in McLean, Virginia. The two-day Cloud Computing for Architects course is the only architect-focused course on Cloud Computing available on the market today.

ZapThink has successfully run version 1.0 of this course in London, Singapore, and India. The McLean course represents an updated version of the material and the first time ZapThink has presented this course in the United States. Cloud Computing for Architects will be offered September 27 – 28, 2012 in McLean, VA, and again on October 18 – 19, 2012 in London, in partnership with IRM UK…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Larry Carvalho.

Why is it that cloud computing is maturing but adoption is lagging? This transformational approach has huge potential but compared to the buzz surrounding it, enterprises are just taking baby steps towards widespread adoption. When invited by IBM to do a tweet chat on “Accelerating the Adoption of Cloud”, I liked the opportunity because of the widespread discussion around it as well as controversial enterprise adoption efforts made by “Shadow IT”, a common term used for folks who bypass corporate IT to start their own cloud initiatives.

Another aspect of this tweet chat was that it was centered about integrated systems, another transformational technology destined to change enterprise IT initiatives. Similar systems have been around since IBM made a big bet on the System 360 mainframe family in the 60’s.

What we’re seeing today is a higher level of integration that tightly links systems, storage and networking, bringing greater visibility across key aspects of an IT infrastructure Enterprise vendors now notice that iPods, iPads and iPhones, featuring a combined hardware and software stack with significant profit margins for Apple, and we are starting to this business model being applied to the enterprise space…

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Just in time for the Olympics, there’s a Windows Azure outage in Europe.

A flag posted at 11:09 UTC on the Windows Azure dashboard:

“We are experiencing an availability issue in the West Europe sub-region, which impacts access to hosted services in this region. We are actively investigating this issue and working to resolve it as soon as possible. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers.”…