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Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Zenith Infotech, a leading Indian IT product company in the US, today announced the launch of its new product TigerCloud which is primarily aimed at mid-size organisations. TigerCloud is a high performance private cloud product that combines server, storage and network virtualization technology and allows customers to build and have their own sophisticated private clouds at costs lower than public clouds. Based on Intel® Xeon® E3 processor family, TigerCloud is a three-in-one product, combining private cloud, business continuity & backup as well as scale out iSCSI storage.

As per IDC*, though cost continues to be an important variable constraining technology adoption, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are also exhibiting a perceptible desire for customized solutions and products that cater to their unique requirements. IT spending in SMB will reach record levels in 2012 and as such this market presents huge opportunities. The growing role of "social, mobile, and virtual" will drive major SMB investments in Cloud…

Grazed from Cisco Newsroom.  Author: Melissa Jun Rowley.

Tech entrepreneurs can see clearly now; the rain is gone, thanks to the cloud. Cloud computing is making it easier and more affordable for people all over the world to be entrepreneurs, and individuals and businesses are acting accordingly.

According to Forester Research, the cloud computing market is expected to grow to $241 billion in 2020. And, an IDC white paper  shows the cloud computing industry is expected to generate 14 million jobs in the next three years. With the sizeable growth in cloud-based entrepreneurship taking shape, new opportunities for investors are surfacing, and cloud investments are increasingly funding new business strategies…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Sean Hull.

For many MySQL database admins, Amazon Web Services represents the brave new world of cloud computing — one fraught with disappearing servers, disk I/O variability, and other shared resource challenges, not to mention questions regarding the security of data.

But for those seeking to tap the powerful flexibility that cloud computing affords MySQL database deployments, AWS should be viewed simply as the next natural step in data center evolution — one in which virtualization and commodity hardware are a given, and scalability, performance, and high availability are readily attained…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

GraphOn Corporation , a leading worldwide developer of cloud application delivery and Web-enabling solutions, announced today that it has been issued a new patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

U.S. Patent 8,117,298, issued February 14, 2012, is directed towards an easily configurable Web server that has the capability to host (or provide a home for) multiple Web sites at the same time. This patent helps small companies or individuals create the same kind of Web presence enjoyed by larger companies that are able to afford the cost of multiple, dedicated Web server machines…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading global provider of enterprise data center solutions, today announced a new US$20 million investment in the company’s cloud and data center infrastructure. With this investment, OnX becomes one of the first to market with a dual data center cloud strategy in Canada. The new investment will help OnX expand its cloud offerings to clients throughout North America in the enterprise market who are seeking a high-availability solution with multiple facility failover capacity.

The new US$20 million investment will be used to build out OnX’s cloud infrastructure including greatly increasing data center capacity levels, building on its best of breed technology solutions, and furthering OnX’s partnerships with leading cloud providers including Cisco, EMC, and VMware. This new data center investment comes on the heels of OnX’s announcement of its Federated Cloud Centers of Excellence (FCCE) where clients can test-drive enterprise cloud solutions at fully equipped data centers with live data using real-world applications and scenarios. OnX FCCE are available for client demos at the OnX Lab Centers located in Chicago, Irvine, New York and Toronto…
 

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

A federal IT consortium now estimates that federal agencies are now already saving about $5.5 billion annually with their cloud implementations, but that’s only part of the story. It’s likely that this savings will rise to $12 billion as cloud efforts move forward.

That’s the call from MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange (CCX), a community of Federal cloud leaders. The rosy savings numbers come from a newly released survey of 108 federal IT managers that extrapolates the cloud numbers from reported savings. On average, the IT executives report a savings so far of at least 7% off their IT budgets for the next fiscal year.  Based on the 2013 IT budget of $78.9 billion, that’s about $5.5 billion in annual Federal savings, the study concludes…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Eric Savitz.

If the innovative ways that businesses are using cloud computing haven’t set off alarms within your organization, it’s time that they did. Enterprises that look at the cloud solely through the lens of technology will be left behind by more agile competitors that use the cloud to develop innovative new business models based on faster time to market, new modes of customer interaction and more efficient operating models. Likewise, IT service providers that market their cloud offerings simply as technology solutions will be outmaneuvered by competitors that position their offerings based on the business value they deliver.

Gone are the days when cloud computing could be regarded as just the latest in a long line of technology trends. For leading-edge enterprises, the cloud has emerged as one of the key strategies CEOs are exploring to enable their companies not only to reduce costs, but, more importantly, to empower entirely new business models and offerings for customers…

Grazed from Globes.  Author: Shmulik Shelach.

Cloud computing company Gizmox Ltd. has raised $3.5 million at a company value of $26 million. Gizmox shareholder Maayan Ventures Ltd. (TASE:MAYN), which owns 30.4% of the company, announced that investment funds IVIC and CIG invested $2.5 million, and current shareholders, Maayan Ventures, Citrix Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) and private investors, including Prof. Arie Scope, invested $1 million.

Gizmox CEO Navot Peled, Guy Peled, and Dan Lichtenfeld founded the company in 2007. The company’s Visual WebGui solution converts applications to cloud environments. The company has raised $11 million to date…