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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

freedomone mobile, a sourcevolution company providing innovative mobile solutions for businesses, has announced that it is now ready to offer its mobile communication platform freedomone(TM) in cloud computing mode, thus allowing it to offer its solution as software as a service (SaaS). The freedomone(TM) platform is hosted in a private, banking-type cloud which offers the highest security standards in Canada.

In addition to creating a mobile communication platform that offers innovative features, freedomone mobile has maintained its leading-edge position by once again developing an offering that is unique on the market. Not only is it the first company in Quebec to offer a cloud-based mobile solution; freedomone mobile is also the only company to have a private cloud dedicated exclusively to mobility…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

ServiceMesh, provider of the market-leading enterprise cloud platform for Global 2000 companies, today announced support for Fujitsu’s Global Cloud Platform, giving ServiceMesh customers access to Fujitsu’s global, on-demand cloud computing footprint. The new capabilities enable ServiceMesh customers to leverage Fujitsu’s Global Cloud as part of their hybrid cloud strategies to reduce the cost and time-to-market for delivery of enterprise IT services.

Enterprises use ServiceMesh’s Agility Platform to provide cloud governance, policy management, security, and workflow automation in hybrid environments spanning multiple internal and external clouds using a single management interface. The Agility Platform now provides business users with fully governed, self-service access to Fujitsu’s Global Cloud resources, while giving enterprise managers the confidence that appropriate policy controls will be enforced across all cloud workloads regardless of the target deployment environment…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

EMC® Corporation (NYSE: EMC) will provide customers with a unique opportunity to gain practical guidance from EMC Solution experts and their peers, and view real-time demonstrations to accelerate their journey to the cloud (private, public and, ultimately, hybrid clouds) at the Cisco Live London 2012 conference at ICC London ExCeL in London  (Jan. 30 – Feb. 3).  Cloud computing is transforming IT infrastructure, applications and end-user device layers, ushering in a wave of disruptive change unlike anything the industry has ever experienced. 

Key opportunities to listen, learn and gain hands-on experience:..

Grazed from Fresh Business Thinking.  Author: Marcus Leach.

Cloud products and services were in abundance at International CES 2012, due to the increasing demand for easy to use, flexible, and high availability solutions for accessing information.

In three separate reports, Strategy Analytics covers global cloud services, with detailed forecasts and analysis of opportunities and challenges in this rapidly expanding market, including:

– Software as a Service (SaaS);
– Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); and
– Platform as a Service (PaaS)…

Grazed from EON.  Author: PR Announcement.

Infinitely Virtual, a provider of virtual server cloud computing services for businesses, today reported record growth in 2011, as entrepreneurial businesses responded to its ability to deliver customized server hosting with minimal investment risk, combined with maximum performance and round-the-clock customer care.

“We offer an economical solution that CFOs appreciate, given that we bypass the entire subject of capital expenditures, depreciation and obsolescence.”

Infinitely Virtual doubled in revenue from 2010 to 2011 and expects revenue growth of 70 percent in 2012, with a projected 33 percent ROI this year, according to Adam Stern, Infinitely Virtual founder and CEO…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

The federal government has been very active in the cloud computing space in recent times, and accordingly, The National Institute of Standards and Technology has been busy researching and setting definitions and guidelines to ensure agency and contractor understanding and compliance.

To help organizations address security concerns in the cloud — an extremely sensitive area — NIST just issued a set of working guidelines on cloud security and privacy. The guidelines, prepared by Wayne Jansen of Booz Allen Hamilton and Tim Grance of NIST, are meant for agencies and contractors, but provide excellent guidance to private-sector organizations as well…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author:  Jeffrey Burt.

Cisco within the next few months will roll out its IEWS, a solution that includes its router and WAN offerings to help enterprises more easily and safely take advantage of cloud computing.

Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in the increasingly competitive router space, and executives are looking to push that advantage going in 2012 by extending the solutions strategy they say is the company’s key differentiator.

Over the past year-plus, Cisco has aggressively brought services—such as security and collaboration—onto its Integrated Service Routers (ISRs) to give customers more of a solution than simply a networking router, according to Praveen Akkiraju, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Services Routing Technology Group…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author:  Elizabeth Montalbano.

Several states are using an online balloting website based on Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform to allow U.S. voters living overseas to cast their votes via the Web in 2012 primary elections.

LiveBallot, based on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud infrastructure, has already allowed more than 1,200 voters from Florida living in 40 countries around the world to access their ballots for a Jan. 31 election, according to Microsoft.

Democracy Live, a provider of e-ballot technologies, developed the system, the back end of which is running in Microsoft data centers. The website Florida developed to give voters access to the system–Our Mission: Your Vote!–also was built by Democracy Live and is being hosted by Microsoft…

Grazed from TechRepublic.  Author: Thoran Rodrigues.

Cloud computing is a term that encompasses a lot of different things. From servers and infrastructure to office software, a lot of IT is now sold on a cloud-based, service model. This means that any comparison of cloud providers can not only be very complex, but can also end up measuring companies that don’t even compete with each other. To avoid this situation, different types of cloud services should be looked at separately. Today, we are going to focus on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS).

IaaS providers are companies that provide the most basic IT needs – servers, networking, and storage – on a usage-based payment model. They typically make heavy investments in data centers and other infrastructure, and then rent it out, allowing consumers to avoid investments of their own. Even these providers, however, are not all pursuing the same business model. While the largest and most well-known are focused on the general public, with fully on-line automated set-ups, there are also some niche players that cater only to the enterprise market, as well as smaller companies that resell infrastructure from larger ones, usually with some added services…

Grazed from ITWorld.  Author:  Brian Proffitt.

PostgreSQL has been getting a lot more enterprise attention lately, and now it’s going to be an even bigger player in the cloud.

PostgreSQL commercial vendor EnterpriseDB announced today the release of its new Postgres Plus Cloud Database (PPCD), a cloud-based instance of both their community and commercial database offerings that is currently ready for deployment on Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) and HP’s Cloud Compute (which, as you will recall, runs on the OpenStack APIs).

EnterpriseDB’s marketing arm is a bit, um, overly enthusiastic about the release–they’re coining this as a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) product. But, despite the attempt to foist yet-another *asS term on us all, this release is still interesting…