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Grazed from Wired.  Author: Alexander Haislip.

Most people don’t realize that there are two HPs in Silicon Valley.  There’s the one you know from the news, plagued by scandals such as journalist spying, Russian bribery and that whole Mark Hurd thing. The one that appointed a CEO nobody interviewed who tried to scrap its flagship business. The big, old behemoth.

But as HP prepares for the May 10 launch of its public cloud and HP Cloud Services, people are going to start noticing the other HP.

The other HP closes the biggest contracts to be had and books ridiculous revenue by making large corporations and governments very comfortable with a new technology and pulling them into the future…

Grazed from MiamiHerald.  Author: Joseph A. Mann Jr.

Fort Lauderdale-based Citrix Systems on Wednesday opened its annual Synergy conference in San Francisco and announced a series of new products, services and enhancements aimed at easing the transition from the PC era to the cloud computing era.

Previously, it was assumed that employees were going to work in offices on devices owned and managed by companies on large corporate computer systems and using well controlled applications, Wes Wasson, Citrix’s senior vice president and chief marketing officer, said in a pre-conference briefing.

“The key to success in the cloud era is to design everything you do with the assumption that everyone is mobile and is using a mix of personal devices, communications over wireless networks you do not own and using cloud systems,” Wasson said. Young people today are accustomed to working with a wide variety of apps and often arrive at a company with a set of their favorite apps. “This is the new normal.”…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Daniel Robinson.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has extended its cloud computing service offerings aimed at Windows developers with the introduction of SQL database and ASP.Net application support as managed services.

Available now worldwide, the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.Net support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk enable organisations to deploy SQL Server databases and ASP.Net applications onto Amazon’s cloud infrastructure using familiar Microsoft tools, without having to worry about management or adding extra resources if they need to scale up, the firm said.

"We’re excited to give Windows and ASP.Net developers new options for taking advantage of AWS to quickly deploy and easily manage their databases and applications in the cloud," said Amazon Web Services vice president Charlie Bell…

Grazed from BusinessWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

6fusion, the leading provider of utility metered public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure management solutions today announced multi-hypervisor support with the expansion of its cloud computing platform to support the Open Source and Citrix Xen platforms.

“6fusion’s objective is to neutralize the relevance of the hypervisor when building cloud infrastructure,” says John Cowan, CEO and co-founder of 6fusion. “With this release, customers now not only have the ability to operate Xen based infrastructure side by side with other hypervisors managed by 6fusion’s UC6 platform, but they can move cloud workloads seamlessly across private or public cloud infrastructure managed by different hypervisor technologies,” he added.

With this new release, 6fusion users will have the ability to build, meter, and manage both public and private infrastructures using the VMware vSphere, Open Source Xen, and Citrix Xen virtualization platforms…

Grazed from Computing.co.uk.  Author: Graeme Burton.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced the Wyse Xenith 2, based on the ultra-secure Wyse zero framework. This breakthrough zero client was revealed today at Citrix Synergy(TM) 2012, the premier event on cloud computing, virtualization and networking. Wyse, the leading shipper of fixed and mobile desktop zero clients in the world, will be demonstrating the Xenith 2 at Wyse Booth #206 from May 9-10, 2012.

Following on the success of the Wyse Xenith and Wyse Xenith Pro, the Wyse Xenith 2 is the ideal Citrix zero client solution for both enterprise and SMB organizations. The Wyse Xenith 2 zero client is purpose-built for Citrix XenDesktop(R) blending the amazing cost benefits of the ARM System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture, with a non-Windows Citrix Receiver compatible client, developed in cooperation with Citrix. Improving on the success of the Xenith, with 30% faster performance and lower power consumption, the result is a super secure, very affordable, true high-fidelity desktop experience. For users requiring a diverse variety of applications, including HD multimedia, the Wyse Xenith 2 delivers a new standard in price and performance in a compact zero client and delivers an unprecedented combination of simplicity, performance and security for office-based workers…

Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Sharon Hurley Hall.

Discussion of cloud computing is likely to move away from whether to adopt it to questions how to management it. That’s the view of Michael Vizard, writing for IT Business Edge. Mr Vizard believes that the adoption debate is largely over, and this hypothesis is borne out by recent IDC research that predicts 14 million new jobs in this sector over the next three years.

Cloud Job Expansion for Midsized Businesses

Small and midsize businesses will see their share of this expansion and will account for about half of the new jobs. Since their size makes them able to respond easily to technological and business changes, these businesses are quickly turning to cloud solutions, something many large businesses have been slower to do. In the main, small and midsized businesses are less constrained by the need to support legacy systems…

Grazed from CIOZone.  Author: Bill Gerneglia.

America’s mid-sized companies are far more important to the U.S. economy than most people realize. A recent Deloitte survey titled “America’s economic engine” whose purpose was to provide insight into this often overlooked source of economic dynamism yields interesting insights. As a group, this segment employs more people than the entire S&P 500 and has total revenues equivalent to 40 percent of the U.S. GDP. This is a collection of companies that really leverages the latest in IT to drive profits.

 Companies recognize the growing importance of technology. They continue to prioritize automation of business processes, data analytics, and business intelligence as triggers to increase productivity and areas where they are most likely to make investments in 2012. According to the survey there seems to be a greater recognition of the benefits of cloud computing. In the Deloitte September 2011 survey, Cloud Computing was recognized as a distant fourth as a means to increase productivity. In the current survey conducted in March 2012, it nearly equaled data analytics and business intelligence in terms of likely investments…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Larry Dignan.

OpenStack, a cloud platform started by Rackspace and NASA, is either the biggest virally growing open software movement since Linux or a murky hodge podge of technologies that could flop.

It all depends on what tech vendors you ask and the horses they have in the cloud architecture race.

Most of the horses—at least the vocal ones—to date appear to be on the pro-OpenStack side of the equation. Rackspace’s recent first quarter results highlight the power of OpenStack. Rackspace’s first quarter and outlook illustrate the power of OpenStack. Rackspace’s quarter was a disappointment, but Wall Street analysts kept gushing about the power of OpenStack…