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Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

independenceIT™ (iIT), provider of the Freedom desktop workspace, today announced at XChange Solution Provider 2012 that it has signed an agreement with EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK), a leading managed IT services and communications provider. Under the terms of the agreement, EarthLink will offer iIT’s Total Freedom™ Workspace and Instant Freedom™ Workspace solutions to its customers as a part of the EarthLink’s IT Services offerings.

EarthLink Business® IT Services, Internet and MPLS services deliver the superior and secure computing and communications experience that business customers require. The addition of iIT’s desktop computing solutions to EarthLink’s IT service offerings enables customers to have the ability to access all of their business applications and data in the cloud, from any device, at any time. EarthLink IT Services will roll out an additional desktop workspace service incorporating iIT’s solution as a complement to the managed virtualization, security, application and support services it already offers…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Hubspan Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based business integration solutions, today announced the release of six new B2B SuiteApps, built using the NetSuite SuiteCloud Computing Platform. The new SuiteApps include PunchOut Connector SuiteApp, Purchase Order Connector SuiteApp, Invoice Connector SuiteApp, Price and Product Availability SuiteApp, PO/INV Integration for Manufacturers SuiteApp, and File Transfer Connector SuiteApp. Focused on Ecommerce, Manufacturing and Wholesale Distribution, these SuiteApps are designed to help businesses increase sales, enhance productivity, and improve customer satisfaction.

NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools, and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. The complete SuiteCloud includes NetSuite’s multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure and the NetSuite Business Suite of applications which cover accounting, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and Ecommerce…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

hawkeye Channel will present a Baptie-sponsored webinar titled “Paths to the Cloud: Cloud Computing and the New Channel Engagement Model” on Thursday, March 29 at 9 a.m. PST. Attendees will gain insight into Vendor best practices to assist Partners with a successful business transformation to a cloud computing services model.

While the state of cloud computing is still in flux, 2012 is turning out to be the year during which the cloud computing “hype” turns into reality. Gartner states that by 2015, 46% of all businesses will have more than half of their infrastructure and applications in the cloud, versus only 3% in 2011. IDC predicts that 85% of net-new software firms created this year will be cloud businesses. Cloud computing is changing the way Vendors and Partners do business together, requiring transformational business changes by all channel players…

Grazed from GovWin.  Author: Joe Loong.

The federal government’s move to the cloud is fact, not fad, and agencies and contractors are anxious to go further. However, challenges remain, and panelists and participants agreed at GovWin’s Virtual Roundtable Webinar: The Federal Government, Contractors & the Cloud: Challenges & Opportunities — while technology challenges exist, many significant hurdles come from culture and policy.

Federal Cloud Implementation: Where Are We?

Hosted by GovWin and led by Senior Community Manager Michael Hackmer, the event began with Stanley Kaczmarczyk, FAS/ITS Director of the Cloud Computing Service, General Services Administration (GSA), summarizing agencies’ current cloud projects. Of the 78 identified, approximately half involved software-as-a-service (SaaS) projects, with the remaining covering infrastructure platform work…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

AMD is giving up what remains of its ownership of its manufacturing plants, turning its 8.8% position over to the Abu Dhabi owners of Globalfoundries.

AMD will keep getting its chips made by Globalfoundries under a new negotiated take-or-pay wafer pricing commitment through 2013 but it doesn’t have to use Globalfoundries exclusively for certain of its anticipated 28nm APUs.

That concession, following serious 32nm yield, ramp and cost overrun problems at Globalfoundries last year, is going to cost AMD $425 million altogether: $150 million Monday, $50 million July 2, another $50 million October 2 and finally $175 million in 1Q13. As a result it’ll take a one-time charge of $703 million this quarter…

Grazed from V3.co.uk.  Author: Rosalie Marshall.

SAP is set to release a cloud computing version of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite for small businesses, Business One OnDemand.

The product marks the next step in SAP’s cloud strategy, having previously launched Business ByDesign in 2010 for midsize businesses, an ERP suite specifically developed by SAP for cloud computing.  Last year SAP teamed up with HP and Verizon to use their datacentres to deploy cloud versions of its Business Suite offering.

"SAP Business One has been a successful on-premise product with 34,000 customers worldwide. It was specifically designed for small enterprises. Many companies operate their entire company on Business One," Bobby Vetter, SAP channel readiness senior vice president, told V3…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

SEEBURGER and HP Germany today announced an agreement making SEEBURGER File Exchange (SEE FX), a solution for secure, traceable and compliant user-to-user file sharing, available on HP’s new cCell Services platform. The multi-tenant and private cloud options of HP cCell Services include a pay-per-use, HP-managed ‘cloud in a box’ that can be deployed in the customer’s own data center to avoid capital outlays and maintain data on company premises.

A first preview of the joint solution will be demonstrated at Cloud Computing World in Hall 4, Booth A58 at this week’s CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Ray DePena.

We’re seeing a lot of changes in the IT landscape. Oracle buying its way into the Cloud, AMD wants in on the server business, Dell is no longer a PC company, and some legacy players are learning about the Cloud market the hard way (see: Harris Scraps Secure Public Cloud).

Harris claims customers have a preference for on premise (private cloud) solutions, though a McKinsey survey mentioned in the article indicates CIOs will take a “balanced” approach (read: Hybrid Cloud). Besides, acquiring on-premise IT business won’t get easier in the Federal government space with its shift to a Cloud First Policy, nor in State government (see Time For State And Local Govs To Head To The Cloud)…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

For businesses contemplating a move to the cloud, there’s backup — and then there’s backup.  According to Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services for small and mid-size businesses, data protection and backup must occur at the highest level, if cloud migration and implementation initiatives are to be successful.

The company knows whereof it speaks. Infinitely Virtual announced today that it has passed the SSAE (Standards for Attestation Engagements) No. 16 Type II audit, one of the most rigorous auditing standards for hosting companies. Conducted by The Moore Group, CPA, the audit confirms the highest level of service and reliability attainable for a virtual server hosting company. To be SSAE compliant, a hosting provider should offer SSL capability, enterprise-level, application level protection, hardware firewall, IP-restricted FTP, managed backups with 14-day retention, advanced monitoring and multi-level intrusion prevention…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Dan Kusnetzky.

Chris Marino, the CEO and co-founder of vCider, stopped by to both introduce himself and introduce his company. vCider is offering tools to help organizations create their own virtual private networks to link applications and their components together as if they were all on the same local area network.