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Grazed from Daily Commercial News and Construction.  Author: Greg Meckbach.

Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) recently announced a set of services in which it uses its own computer hardware to remotely monitor customers’ meters and analyze buildings’ use of gas, steam and electricity.

Attune Advisory Services, introduced in March by Morris, New Jersey-based Honeywell, includes software that collects information from utility meters, and is also designed to provide insight on building performance and identify opportunities to cut energy costs.

It uses technology from E-Mon LLC, a Langhorne, Pennsylvania submeter manufacturer that Honeywell acquired in July, 2010…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

The DEMO Spring 2012 Conference, world-renowned for launching the most innovative companies in enterprise, mobile, cloud computing, consumer, social media and disruptive technologies, officially kicked off today — featuring ground-breaking new innovations and product launches in the areas of cloud computing, enterprise, and mobile technologies and applications from companies across the globe.

To start, DEMO executive producer Matt Marshall welcomed the audience of technology innovators, decision-makers, press and investors to the 22nd year of DEMO. Following those remarks, CNBC Technology Contributor Jon Fortt sat down with Intuit President and CEO Brad Smith for an insightful one-on-one conversation about the state of today’s technology industry. Later in the day, Marshall hosted an exclusive one-on-one session with Zach Nelson, president and CEO at NetSuite, about some of the challenges and opportunities that established and emerging technology companies face, before he spoke with Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box on entrepreneurship and taking a startup from conception to reality…

Grazed from The Boston Globe.  Author: Hiawatha Bray.

There are clouds in the forecast, in Boston and everywhere else.

A host of press reports suggest that Google Inc. will next week launch a new product called Drive, a free “cloud storage’’ service that’ll let you stash five gigabytes of data online, and access it anywhere through any Internet-connected device.

It’s welcome news, but a bit late. More than 50 million people worldwide already use a similar service called Dropbox. There are many more cloud storage offerings, too. SugarSync, Microsoft Corp.’s SkyDrive, and a new offering called Cubby, from Woburn-based LogMeIn Inc., to name only a few of the more appealing ones that I have tried…

Grazed from NetworkWorld.  Author: Brandon Butler.

During a series of analyst briefings this week, Oracle has provided additional details of how it plans to play in the cloud moving forward.

The overall strategy is an ambitious one that features software (SaaS) and platform (PaaS) offerings, along with social collaboration tools, all leveraging the legacy database management systems that have made Oracle one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

"They’re investing substantially in the cloud," says Paul Hamerman, a Forrester analyst who is attending Oracle Industry Analyst World 2012…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

One of the initial promises of cloud computing is that it can be built onto existing data center infrastructure. No expensive hardware upgrades this time. To get the highest level of performance, simply implement the proper virtualization and resource allocation software and you’re good to go.

That may have been true enough when enterprises were first looking to build clouds. But now that the time has come to optimize those environments, it seems that a little hardware refresh is in order after all.

Primarily, this is to facilitate the integration of cloud layering technology onto easily deployable hardware footprints, which are quite often the purview of separate business units or entirely different companies. Fujitsu, for example, recently released an optimized System Center 2012 platform consisting of Primergy servers and the ServerView Resource Orchestrator software under Microsoft’s Private Cloud Fast Track partnership program. The end result is a complete server/storage/networking/management package geared specifically toward launching Hyper-V environments into the cloud…

Grazed from PRWeb.   Author: PR Announcement.

En Pointe Technologies Inc. has plenty of experience leading customers to Microsoft Office 365 and providing cloud solutions. The California-based IT solutions company has been recognized as a Cloud Innovator and is the subject of a Cloud Innovators profile at wsj.com this month documenting its success in moving companies to the cloud.

Since the early 1990s, En Pointe has grown from its role as an IT hardware provider into a premier software services and solutions consultant. Providing solutions to its customers is En Pointe’s focus, and the company works with clients at all stages of cloud computing — from those with small parts of their business in the cloud, to those with entire IT infrastructures hosted there. Microsoft Office 365 is a constant thread, offering numerous ways to improve service and reliability…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: John Connors and Brad Silverberg.

It’s no secret that recent consumer-technology innovations, from social networking to online chat to iPhones, are fundamentally transforming corporate IT. At the office, people are now demanding the same types of easy-to-use devices and social features they use at home. Witness new corporate-software products like Salesforce.com’s Chatter product, a sort of Facebook for business, or the decline of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. That device is losing dramatic market share in corporate environments to the application-rich, consumer-focused Apple iPhone.

But there’s another, much bigger story to this “consumer-ization” of IT. We call it the “re-platforming” of enterprise computing. By that, we mean a move by enterprises to build the next generation of new applications and core services on top of the emerging “cloud-computing” and mobile-device platforms. This re-platforming will fundamentally re-shape the enterprise and usher in a massive new wave of tech innovation, just as similar platform waves such as the personal computer, client-server and the Internet did in the past…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

German enterprise software maker SAP AG aims to double its cloud computing market share this year, and to expand it thirty-fold over the next five years, manager magazin reports, citing an email to employees from board member Vishal Sikka.

Part of the expansion strategy includes further acquisitions in the field, the advance release of the report adds, citing employees at the company’s development facility in the German town of St. Leon-Rot who were present at a meeting with new cloud chief Lars Dalgaard.

A spokesman for SAP declined to comment…