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Grazed from USA Today.  Author: Maria Bartiromo.

It’s beginning to feel a lot like 1999 again in the technology business.  Facebook recently filed for an initial public offering that could value the company around $100 billion. Social networking is soaring, and upstarts such as Groupon and Zynga are going public with much fanfare. The leader, Apple, has become the world’s most valuable company.

I caught up with one of the leading venture capitalists to find out what’s behind the vibrancy in technology and how sustainable it is this time around. Ben Horowitz, who started Horowitz Andreessen with Internet billionaire and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen, says the Internet has undergone radical transformation, and the trends are just beginning to gain long-standing traction. Our interview follows, edited for clarity and length…

Grazed from CloudTimes.  Author: Martin Tantow.

Data integration and management practices are the growing trends in the new business market. This is as more and more businesses seek better ways to grow their enterprise. This is also a response to the irreversible challenges and demand for variety, storage, scalability and complexity in information handling.

As a result of these trends, more companies are migrating to the cloud strengthening their backroom in data integration and data management and laying a secure and reliable information structure.  Experts say that the cloud computing trends will move towards more reliable and secure cloud-based data integration and data management cloud solutions…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

GovDelivery announced today that they have been accepted into the UK Government’s G-Cloud programme and will be listed in the G-Cloud catalogue.

The government first proposed the G-Cloud initiative to bring a wider range of suppliers to the public sector market while increasing the flexibility of procurement contracts. The programme aims to create an online system that public sector organisations can use to find services and supplies without the restriction of lengthy contracts and complex procurement.

GovDelivery will be listed in the Software-as-a-Service category. As an international leader in government-to-citizen communication solutions, GovDelivery currently serves more than 500 government organisations, including dozens of central government agencies and local authorities in the UK…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Brian T. Horowitz.

Dell and Siemens are coming together to provide a massive amount of cloud storage space for medical images.

The two companies will create the Siemens Image Sharing and Archiving (ISA) service, which will provide a cloud platform for vendor-neutral image archiving and sharing. ISA will incorporate Dell’s Unified Clinical Archive. The Dell archive will also provide redundant archiving support for the Siemens Healthcare Cloud Computing Center.

Dell and Siemens will formally announced the agreement at the HIMSS12 health care IT conference in Las Vegas, which begins Feb. 20.  "With Siemens, they’ll have a first copy in their data center; the other copy will be in our Dell Unified Clinical Archive," Dr. Jamie Coffin, vice president and general manager for Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences, told eWEEK…

Grazed from ServerWatch.  Author: Sean Kerner.

The open source OpenStack cloud computing platform has grown significantly since it was first introduced in July 2010. The effort was originally started by NASA and Rackspace and has since grown to include more than 100 vendors including HP, Dell and Cisco.

Now OpenStack developers are aiming to help make it easier than ever for enterprises and developers to get familiar with OpenStack. A new effort called TryStack debuted this week, providing developers and users the opportunity to try OpenStack on a hosted infrastructure…

Grazed from The Lagonian.  Author: Alexa Hemken.

Foster City-based E2open Inc. has registered for an initial public offering to sell up to $86.2 million in stock.  Founded in 2000, E2open is a provider of on-demand software solutions that enables companies to manage their supply chains.  The company was recognized three years in a row as one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.


E2Open’s offering is being underwritten by BofA Merrill Lynch, William Blair & Company, Pacific Crest Securities, Canaccord Genuity, and Needham & Company…

Grazed from Government Technology.  Author: Justine Brown.

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Thor Olavsrud.

t’s an oft-repeated mantra: Organizations engaged in or investigating cloud computing in any of its many flavors are concerned about security. In fact, concerns about security, data privacy and data residency are often cited as inhibitors to cloud adoption. But are the concerns justified? Some security experts say visibility and control are the missing elements.

In a recent study of IT and business executives, CompTIA, the IT industry association, found that 50 percent of respondents cited greater reliance on Internet-based applications like cloud computing and software-as-a-service as a driving factor in their cyber security concerns. But a number of cloud experts say that in many ways data in the cloud is more secure than in an on-premise installation—or at least rapidly becoming that way—especially for smaller organizations that don’t have the resources to dedicate to security technology and expert staff…

Grazed from Investors.com.  Author:  Reinhardt Krause.

As competition in cloud computing services mounts, telecom leaders AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) aim to win a tug-of-war with tech titans Amazon.com (AMZN) and IBM (IBM).

All are battling to provide services to companies that are steadily warming to the idea of buying Web-based, or "cloud," computing services. Companies tap computing resources in remote data centers to cut their spending on servers and storage, and to easily ramp up or down. Research firm IDC says the global cloud infrastructure as a service, or IAAS, market will jump to $14.9 billion by 2014 from $6.6 billion in 2011…

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

Just when the US Postal Service looks down for the count, a self-funded Seattle start-up called PaperKarma figures its destiny is to suppress junk mail on which the post office depends.

The company was started by Sean Mortazavi, who hasn’t given up his day job at Microsoft yet, and PaperKarma’s sole employee Brendan Ribera. The pair has developed a free multi-platform mobile app that lets junk mail-inundated protesters take a picture of the junk mail flooding their mailbox, hit an "Unsubscribe" button and send it to PaperKarma.

The start-up will automatically pass it on to the mailer with Federal Trade Commission-enforced instructions that the recipient be dropped from its mailing list…