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Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Sonata Software today announced that it has expanded its Cloud based services offerings through alliances with Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services. Sonata’s Cloud Computing Center of Excellence (CoE) will creatively bring together Sonata’s product & platform engineering expertise, combined with leading Cloud technology platforms Windows Azure, Force.com & Amazon Web Services (AWS) – to help transform its customers’ business on the cloud.

In the April 2011 report "Sizing the Cloud", Forrester Research, Inc., estimated that the global market for Cloud Computing will grow to more than $241 billion in 2020. The same report also says that by 2016, SaaS will have total revenues of $92.8 billion, which accounts for nearly 26% of the total packaged software market. This further validates the growing demand for Cloud Computing services…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], today unveiled ArrowSphere, a cloud services aggregation and brokerage platform for the European solution provider community, system integrators, independent software vendors and service providers.

Through ArrowSphere, Arrow ECS is adding new growth opportunities for enterprise and midmarket business solutions for the channel. ArrowSphere will enable the Arrow ECS European channel network to resell aggregated cloud services, such as infrastructure-, platform-, storage- and software-as-a-service solutions, from industry leaders around the world. ArrowSphere brings new dimensions to cloud delivery by facilitating access to more than 60 leading-edge cloud services, in addition to adding flexibility with white-label webstores; increasing simplicity by centralizing billing and provisioning; and improving reliability through trusted single-sign-on solutions…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Curaçao Technology Exchange (CTEX), in collaboration with VCE and Zuora, have established a strategic alliance. Targeted for September 2012, CTEX, which is building the region’s most advanced Tier-IV designed data centers, will launch a unique portfolio of ‘infrastructure as a service’ (IAAS), ‘backup as a service’ (BAAS) and ‘software as a service’ (SAAS) offerings to the Caribbean and Latin America markets. HyperCloud_Express(sm) and HyperCloud_Enterprise(sm) will be the first advanced cloud computing offerings launched in the intended market.

VCE’s Vblock™ platform leverages best-in-class technology and integrates computing, network, storage, virtualization, and management components from trusted, industry-leading vendors (Cisco, EMC, and VMware) to deliver a world-class unified computing infrastructure. CTEX’s HyperCloud(sm) services will be further powered by Zuora’s subscription commerce platform to manage real-time billing and settlement of global transactions…

Grazed from Management Today. Author: Editorial Staff.

Since the term ‘cloud computing’ was first introduced in 2006, it’s become (albeit rather reluctantly) one of the buzzwords in technology.

For the consumer, the idea is that documents and photo albums can be stored online, or ‘in the cloud’, making them accessible from any machine or mobile. And anyone who accesses their work emails from home are regular users of the ‘cloud’, as they log into a web mail account remotely instead of having the email programme installed on the computer.

Google and Amazon were the two biggest companies behind the vision that computing will increasingly be delivered as a service over the internet, taking away the need for installing large amounts of software. The concept grew out of the idea of renting spare server capacity – which the the two internet giant’s have in spades – and thus providing a useful service and generating some handy extra revenue…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Ellen Phneah.

Cloud contracts significantly differ from the past, which used to ensure customer stickiness for a pre-defined period of time, Mayank Kapoor, data center and cloud computing industry analyst of Frost & Sullivan’s ICT practice observed.

Cloud contracts are still gaining maturity, with the main change around service delivery, or the "relationship" between the customer and the cloud service provider, she explained. However, the main themes still are security, privacy, service level, scalability, data retirement and compliance with regulations, she noted.

For one, cloud service provider Avaya, told ZDNet Asia that it now works with customers in defining and fully understanding their business needs in order to offer an appropriate solution…