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Grazed from HPC Wire.  Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM today announced new server solutions designed to expand cloud and analytics capabilities across its entire portfolio, helping make Smarter Computing a reality for x86 clients.

The new offerings include high-performance systems, networking and software products aimed at helping clients optimize data center operations with flexible, easy-to-deploy solutions to help reduce complexity, lower costs and deliver rapid return on investments.

Today, clients are looking for solutions that help them handle specific business challenges and make better use of existing IT infrastructures. More and more clients are turning to cloud computing, analytics and other smarter computing solutions to help their businesses grow. Cloud computing deployments are expected to grow more than 19% per year, according to IDC (1), and a recent IBM CIO study (2) showed cloud implementations nearly doubling from 33% to 60% over the last two years…

Grazed from The Register.  Author: Matt Asay.

Open … and Shut Amazon is on a roll, and it’s no longer just a question of dominating online retailing or public cloud computing. According to a Business Insider article, Amazon is already clearing more than $1bn each year in advertising revenue. This has Google scared. But it probably should have Apple scared, too.

Amazon, after all, is the anti-Apple. Whereas Apple only knows how to do high-margin businesses, Amazon only knows how to do low-margin businesses. Guess which one tends to dominate markets over time?…

Grazed from Fox Business.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the fastest-growing provider of HIPAA-compliant cloud computing services for the healthcare industry, today announced it has formed partnerships with the Regional Extension Centers (REC) in Arizona and South Dakota to provide HIPAA-compliant cloud computing and information security services. The ClearDATA REC Partner Program will help the RECs achieve Meaningful Use and sustainability by providing cloud hosting services, backup, disaster recovery, security risk analysis (SRA), and remediation services to the healthcare providers in their respective states. ClearDATA is currently in active partnership discussions with numerous other RECs throughout the country.

“ClearDATA is pleased to provide collaborative services with Regional Extension Centers to help them fulfill their missions to their state’s healthcare providers,” said David Bean, executive vice president of sales and marketing, ClearDATA Networks, Inc. “We strongly invite all RECs throughout the country to learn more about our REC Partner Program, our services, and the numerous benefits we can provide their clients and their organizations.”…

Grazed from ITWorld.  Author: Tam Harbert.

Your company is embroiled in a lawsuit, and your general counsel has come to IT for help in conducting e-discovery on a batch of data. You easily gather some of the information from storage in your data center, but some of it is sitting in the cloud. Easy enough, you think, to get that data as well.

You may be in for a rude awakening.

Many lawyers and IT staff "just assume if they put data in the cloud it’s going to be at their fingertips, that it’s inherently discoverable," says Barry Murphy, co-founder and principal analyst at eDJ Group Inc., a consulting firm specializing in e-discovery. "That’s not necessarily the case."…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Fujitsu today launches the new PRIMERGY CX400 S1 multi-node Cloud eXtension server. This innovative technology requires only half the space of a standard rack server to provide enterprises with cost-effective, energy-efficient access to smart scale-out capabilities for deployments such as private cloud, high-performance computing (HPC) and large-scale virtualization.

Business benefits Enterprise customers of all sizes are increasingly looking for improved energy efficiency, higher platform density and better management effectiveness when realizing their cloud computing, high performance computing, virtualization, hosting, or virtual-client computing strategies…

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…