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Grazed from Virtual-Strategy Magazine.  Author: PR Announcement.

ATEN today announced that it is exhibiting and showcasing new cloud technology at this week’s Cloud Fair 2012 with partner US Micro, Inc., a WA-based manufacturer of innovative computing solutions. Cloud Fair is held from April 17-19, 2012 in Seattle, WA where ATEN and US Micro are demonstrating a new hardware-based cloud computing solution at booth #9. Available now, CriKit (Cloud Resource and Infrastructure Kit), is a compact and energy-efficient, multi-node desktop cloud computing solution.

Custom developed by US Micro, the CriKit solution is comprised of several hardware components: powerful micro-servers, Networked Attached Storage, a 1GB Ethernet switch, a 19" LED monitor, keyboard, optical mouse and finally, ATEN’s CS1768 — an eight-port DVI/USB KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) switch. CriKit was developed to provide unique business value for a variety of applications such as software development, software test and quality assurance, training, demonstration and education. Since it employs generic Intel x86 computing platforms that run all major hypervisors and operating systems, it can be used across industries on a wide variety of applications…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Users of StratITsphere’s cloud computing service will soon be able to assure the quality of their communications in real time, thanks to a partnership announced today with NetSocket.

Plano-based NetSocket’s Service Visibility Solution Suite assures a positive user experience for cloud-based communications, such as voice over IP, video conferencing, or Unified Communications in the Cloud as a Service (UCaaS), at all transmission levels in real time. The result is that errors can be detected and corrected before they cause critical communications problems.

"After considerable research, it became clear to us that NetSocket’s real-time software assurance solution is unique in the market, and can play a critical role in assuring the quality of collaboration and communication services offered through our cloud computing services," said Stephen Webster, president and Chief Executive Officer of Houston-based StratITsphere. "Under this partnership, we plan to provide our customers with per-session visibility into the service quality of their cloud communications, something which no other cloud computing service currently offers…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

ServiceMesh, provider of the market-leading enterprise-class cloud application management platform for Global 2000 companies, today announced it has been named a 2012 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Management. Published April 11, 2012, the Gartner, Inc. survey of global CIOs identified cloud computing as one of the top-three strategic technology investments and recommended that IT executives take advantage of cloud computing innovations in self-service provisioning, software tool chain automation, and policy-driven governance to improve the agility and efficiency of their infrastructures, platforms, and applications.

ServiceMesh’s cloud management platform enables enterprise IT organizations to maximize the strategic competitive advantage of these investments by managing the plan, build and run lifecycle of cloud resources leveraging a sophisticated, policy-based framework…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Coyote Point Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class application delivery and acceleration solutions, today announced the general availability of Equalizer OnDemand(TM), a robust Application Delivery Controller based on Coyote Point’s new EQ/OS 10(TM) architecture that runs as a VMware virtual appliance. Equalizer ADCs can now be deployed as hardware or software to provide content routing, load balancing and application acceleration to optimize application performance.

Originally available only to Hosting and Managed Service Providers, Coyote Point’s Equalizer OnDemand virtual appliance is now available to all businesses looking to reap the benefits of cloud computing and server virtualization. Based on Coyote Point’s new EQ/OS 10(TM) architecture, Equalizer OnDemand is a full-featured, virtual Application Delivery Controller (ADC) that provides users with flexible deployment options and capabilities that reduce datacenter and cloud computing costs without sacrificing performance. Coyote Point’s virtual Equalizer OnDemand brings the same proven, robust application traffic management capabilities found in their hardware appliances to customers who want to leverage virtualization technologies within their data centers…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, has been named one of the 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors for 2012 by Everything Channel’s CRN. For the second year in a row, Wyse has been named as a cool cloud vendor for its portfolio of thin, zero and cloud PC client solutions coupled with its infrastructure management, desktop virtualization and cloud software to support desktops, laptops and mobile devices. The comprehensive list highlights the most innovative cloud vendors and solutions for the channel — including storage cloud offerings, security cloud offerings, cloud apps, cloud infrastructure and cloud platforms to assist solution providers in navigating the cloud phenomena successfully.

"This year’s Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors list is based on a cloud vendor’s approach to creating an innovative product, or an innovative approach to supporting solution providers in the IT channel," said Kelley Damore, Vice President and Editorial Director CRN. "Specifically, these Cloud vendors help resellers transform themselves into true service providers and help organizations and enterprises take advantage of the ease, flexibility, scalability, elasticity and cost savings that leveraging cloud computing has to offer."…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

The high costs of operating, securing and maintaining a large variety of often redundant legacy stove-piped networks has steered the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) toward mature commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology. Cloud computing will enable the DoD to share servers, storage devices and applications to save resources and time. The military can maximize the potential of network-centric warfare and enhance collaboration by using commercially successful service oriented architectures to provide software and applications within a private cloud.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan’s ( http://www.aerospace.frost.com ) Analysis of the U.S. Department of Defense Cloud Computing Market research finds that the DoD’s cloud spending will grow from $676 million in 2011 to reach $740 million in 2016 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3 percent…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced an oversubscribed $30 million Series C round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). Existing investors, including Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Inc., also joined the round, which will be used to drive product innovation, sales, and customer support. To date, Eucalyptus has raised a total of $55.5 million in capital.

With this round, Eucalyptus has appointed Steve Harrick, General Partner at IVP, to its Board of Directors. IVP is one of the top performing venture capital firms in the industry, having made similar late-stage investments in companies like Aster Data Systems, DropBox, LegalZoom, MySQL, Netflix, Seagate, Twitter, and Zynga…

Grazed from Wired Enterprise.  Author: Robert McMillan.

Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure is growing so fast that it’s silently becoming a core piece of the internet.

That’s according to an analysis done by DeepField Networks, a start-up that number-crunched several weeks’ worth of anonymous network traffic provided by internet service providers, mainly in North America.

They found that one-third of the several million users in the study visited a website that uses Amazon’s infrastructure each day.

Most people still think of Amazon as the internet’s giant shopping mall — a purveyor of gadgets, books and movies — but it’s quietly become “a massive utility” that is either on the sending or receiving end of 1 percent of all of the internet traffic in North America, says Craig Labovitz, a well-known internet researcher and co-founder of DeepField…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

VMware on Monday unveiled Accelerate Advisory Services, a set of IT benchmarking services designed to help CIOs get the most out of the investments they’re making in virtualization and cloud computing.

In addition to in-house expertise, Accelerate Advisory Services include technology from VMware’s recent acquisition of assets from Info Tech Health Check, a Lynchburg, Va.-based IT analytics vendor. That deal, details of which weren’t disclosed, brought in some 3,500 additional IT performance metrics spanning 20 industries and four geographical regions, according to VMware.

iTHC’s background lies in providing services to Department Of Defense and government agencies, and its team of analysts — who average more than 18 years of experience — provide analysis of costs, staffing, processes, technologies, outsourcing and best practices…

Grazed from NPR.org.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Greenpeace released its latest report today asking, "How clean is your cloud?"

The annual report examines the server farms built by the largest Internet companies — including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo — and ranks them according to how efficient their cloud facilities are, and where they get their electricity.

Yahoo — which has struggled to please investors in recent years — was the only major Internet company in the study to get most of its electricity from renewable or clean energy sources, according to the report…