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Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Ted Samson.

Cloud computing has given organizations worldwide on-tap access to compute power, storage, and applications, resulting in a huge boost in flexibility coupled with cost savings. A new study foretells that the IT workforce soon may become the next on-tap resource thanks to the cloud, which could mean even greater agility and lower costs for companies — but it could also hurt job security and breed resentment among tech pros…

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

There’s been a small cluster of hysterically big funding rounds lately exemplified by Dropbox’ $250 million B round last week.

On Monday six-year-old Workday, which logically enough does a SaaS version of PeopleSoft’s HR, payroll and financial management widgetry since it was started by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield and his trusty lieutenant Aneel Bhusri, said it got a handsome $85 million in Series F financing led by cloud-struck new investors including T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Janus Capital Group and Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment arm of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

PreAxia Health Care Payment Systems Inc. introduces their automated platform for managing Health Spending Accounts (HSAs) in Canada. This follows three years of development to create the first fully integrated HSA solution for Canada’s brokerage and broker community. Through the use of Cloud Computing technologies, PreAxia allows HSA brokers to more easily offer and manage HSA accounts. PreAxia technology simplifies fund-management, claims adjudication, transaction processing and on-line health benefit administration, through a broker’s own web site. This automation results in cost savings for both HSA brokers and the companies that purchase these services…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Scott Campbell.

Dell (NSDQ:Dell) Boomi has added enhanced data mapping, more transparency and predictive analysis to its cloud and SaaS application integration solutions.

The AtomSphere Fall 11 version of Boomi should simplify the move to cloud computing with easier integration and more VAR-friendly tools for monitoring and maintenance, said Rick Nucci, founder of Boomi and CTO of Dell Boomi…

Grazed from IT World.  Author:  Brian Proffitt.

Another major player in the enterprise Linux arena has joined the OpenStack Project: SUSE Linux. And their arrival will continue the ongoing struggle for supremacy in the cloud computing market between Red Hat… and everyone else…

Grazed from CFO.com.  Author: David Rosenbaum.

Rackspace, a cloud hosting company headquartered in San Antonio, has been racking up sales at a torrid pace. Net revenue for the second quarter of 2011 was $247 million, a 32% increase over the previous quarter, beating analyst expectations and propelling the company to $1 billion in annualized run rate revenue. The company reported 10,000 new customers in its October earnings call, bringing its total count to 152,000. Gartner has placed Rackspace in the upper-right “visionary leader” square of its trademarked Magic Quadrant for hosting and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)…