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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Callidus Software Inc., the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist in the 2012 American Business Awards in the "Company of the Year – Computer Software." CallidusCloud’s Sales Effectiveness Suite was named a finalist in the "Best New Product or Service – Software – Cloud Application/Service" and "Best New Product or Service – Software – Financial Management Solution" categories, and CallidusCloud’s website was named a finalist in the "Best Website – Computer Software" category.

"We are honored to be recognized in multiple categories at the 2012 American Business Awards," said Leslie Stretch, President and CEO, CallidusCloud. "We now have the broadest family of cloud-based, social selling products that will revolutionize sales by tapping into the competitiveness inherent to sales people, while fostering a culture of cooperative, collaborative and social selling. Our products help break down legacy silos to bring sales processes together as never before to truly unlock the potential of the sales team and drive performance against business objectives. This recognition reflects the value that our solutions bring to our customers and the commitment we have made to their success. I congratulate every member of the CallidusCloud family on this fantastic achievement."…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Telx, a leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud computing enablement services and data center solutions, today announced that ContinuityX Solutions, Inc. (CUSX), a unique provider of business continuity and disaster recovery services, has joined the Telx Cloud Xchange. Telx can now provide over 1,000 customers across 16 C3 Cloud Connection Center facilities direct access to ContinuityX’s comprehensive suite of disaster recovery and network management services.

"Telx has long been an industry leader in helping enterprises easily and quickly connect to entities in the cloud that meet their core business needs," said Kathy Godwin, senior vice president-operations for ContinuityX. "Their strategically-located, carrier-dense cloud connection centers provide us with optimal ability to meet all of our current and future customer’s application and infrastructure outsourcing needs, from security and disaster recovery to VoIP."…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Vaultive, a provider of cloud data encryption solutions that enable organizations to leverage the economy and efficiency of cloud computing while maintaining data security, control and compliance advantages of on-premise computing, today announced general availability of Vaultive for Hosted Exchange. Vaultive for Hosted Exchange is an enterprise-class cloud data encryption solution that enables customers to encrypt data-at-rest and data-in-use within the Hosted Microsoft(R) Exchange environment, while enterprise IT retains complete control of the encryption keys.

"Moving a vital application such as email to a cloud environment has the potential to save an enterprise a significant amount of time, resources and money, but security, data residency, privacy and regulatory compliance concerns are often barriers," said Steve Coplan, research manager for 451 Research’s Enterprise Security Practice. "In order to take advantage of the operational benefits of a cloud-based service without ceding the ability to manage access to data and emails residing on third-party infrastructure, a best practice is to require some mechanism to internally retain controls. Vaultive’s approach allows organizations to encrypt data-at-rest in the cloud, while holding the keys to decrypt the data."…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

Cloud computing, virtualization and mobile technology are increasingly prevalent among small to medium-size businesses (SMBs), according to a survey from IT security firm Symantec Corp. The findings of the company’s 2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey indicated that disaster preparedness is closely connected to these three technologies. The survey found more than one-third of SMBs (35 percent) are now taking advantage of mobile devices for business use.

In addition, SMBs are embracing technologies like virtualization and cloud computing that were once solely in the domain of larger enterprises, with 34 percent of SMBs surveyed either currently deploying or already benefitting from server virtualization. These companies are even more active in the cloud computing space: 40 percent said they are deploying public clouds and a similar number (43 percent) are implementing private clouds to help run their business. The survey, by research firm ReRez, covered decision-makers at 2,053 organizations worldwide, each with between 5 and 250 employees. Of the survey respondents, two-thirds were C-level and senior management, while the others were IT representatives…

Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Gemini Technologies today announced the integration of its industry-leading Cloudian Cloud Storage Platform with Citrix CloudPlatform, the market leading open source cloud platform based on the Apache CloudStack project, currently undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. Utilizing the Cloudian and Citrix CloudPlatform combination, cloud service providers and enterprises can seamlessly deploy S3 compatible cloud storage quickly and cost-effectively along with a state-of-the-art cloud computing platform.

The integration of Cloudian and Apache CloudStack unifies the S3 compatible cloud object storage service along with the file system requirements of the CloudStack cloud compute environment.  Users and their applications can directly utilize S3 cloud storage as they normally would with Cloudian, taking advantage of Cloudian’s S3 compatibility to deliver interoperability with the wide diversity of tools and applications found in the S3 ecosystem…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Today APEX Analytix is introducing a new cloud-based delivery platform for FirstStrike®, the company’s industry-leading family of procure-to-pay software for overpayment prevention, fraud detection and vendor management.

Grazed from IT Jungle.  Author: Jenny Thomas.

For once, growing clouds aren’t a sign of gloomy days ahead. At least not for Connectria Hosting, which currently provides cloud computing, managed hosting, and custom hosting solutions to more than 1,000 customers in more than 30 countries worldwide.

IT Jungle recently reported on Connectria’s plans to host public and private IBM i clouds. Now comes news of the addition of a fourth data center at Connectria to accommodate growing demand.

The new data center will be located in a CyrusOne facility in Lewisville, Texas. The data center is a Tier 4 designated facility, which is the highest level a data center can achieve, according to standards set forth by the Telecommunications Infrastructure Standards for Data Centers. The data center will be capable of hosting mission critical computer systems, telecommunications gear, and storage environments with fully redundant subsystems, and compartmentalized security zones, monitored by biometric access control methods…

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Cornelius Rahn.

SAP AG (SAP) plans to show this week it has learnt from a flawed venture into Internet-based software five years ago with its new strategy for cloud-computing, months after the $3.4 billion purchase of SuccessFactors Inc.

Investors’ attention at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Florida, will be on Lars Dalgaard, the SuccessFactors founder who joined SAP’s global management board last month. Dalgaard plans to explain how SAP can generate 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) in sales from software delivered over the Web by 2015 to help the Walldorf, Germany-based company reach its 20 billion-euro revenue target by then…

Grazed from MoneyWeb.  Author: Sasha Malic.

In order to enable organisations to compete effectively in this demanding marketplace, chief information officers (CIOs) are looking for increasing levels of performance from their infrastructure. At the top of their lists are ways to make infrastructure more dynamic, resilient and to take advantage of virtualisation, which itself is changing the traditional computing model.

Cloud computing offers a way to achieve many of these goals and is increasingly becoming part of corporate strategies.

As a model for consuming and delivering infrastructure, the cloud enables self-service, different sourcing options and significant economies of scale. It’s also clear that organisations will use a combination of private and public clouds to achieve their goals…