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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Today at Citrix Synergy(TM) Barcelona, the event where virtualization, networking and cloud computing meet, Citrix Systems announced it is expanding its market effort across Western Europe with new localized versions of its popular cloud services products GoToManage(R) and GoToMeeting(R), while also continuing to invest in its business presence in the region. Citrix GoToManage, the market-leading cloud-based IT support and monitoring service is now available in localized versions for French and German speakers. The company also announced Italian and Spanish -language versions of its award-winning Citrix GoToMeeting online meeting service to meet growing market demand in Europe for easy-to-use and affordable web collaboration services…

Grazed from CloudComputing.  Author: John Collins.

That cloud computing is of use in academic and corporate research spheres is in little doubt.

Research funding doesn’t scale very well – in academia, one of the main functions of professors and department heads is to identify opportunities, build the necessary relationships and then bid for pockets of finance. Meanwhile, even for the largest companies, the days of unfettered research into whatever takes a scientist or engineer’s fancy are long since over. Is cloud computing signalling a new dawn in research circles, however?…

Grazed from Washington Business Journal.  Author: Jill Aitoro.

One-quarter of the government’s $80 billion information technology spending in fiscal 2012 is a potential target for cloud computing, which can supports agencies’ efforts to consolidate their IT footprint and cut spending while improving efficiencies…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Mae Kowalke.

In order to streamline their operations and cut costs, many companies are looking for ways to incorporate cloud computing concepts into their information technology (IT) structures. Automation is a big part of this.

In this context, automation refers to IT systems that essentially run themselves, with little or no day-to-day management of things like resource allocation, security, or workflow optimization. Self-service provisioning—the ability of users to access resources on their own, from any location—is a major component of automation…

Grazed from the Ritchmond Times Dispatch.  Author: John B. Farmer.

Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author:  Christina Larson.

In a suburb of Beijing, 800 workers arrive each day to a glass-and-masonry office block and a shared mission: to create China’s version of the Internet cloud. 

Known as Cloud Valley, the 7,000-square-meter technology campus is the creation of Edward Tian, a 48-year old entrepreneur credited with bringing broadband Internet to China in the 1990s. On the campus, millions in investments from Tian’s enterprises now fund engineers to wire-up servers into refrigerated shipping containers and all-night coding sessions by young programmers. These are components of what Tian hopes will become a complete supply chain for cloud computing—all of it Made in China…

Grazed from AlaskaDispatch.  Author: Chris Gaylord.

When the Apple iPhone 4S and Amazon Kindle Fire tablet debuted this fall, the tech press blogged breathlessly about how these new devices harness ‘the cloud.’ Menacing as this hazy tech term may sound, the cloud is actually a regular part of daily digital life. In fact, gadget analysts expect this metaphorical cloud to envelop more of the world in coming years…

Grazed from ADI News.  Author: Mark Whysall.

There’s a lot of hype happening right now about a technology that has been around since, what 2006? Cloud hosting and cloud computing are becoming big buzzwords again for a few reasons, the first being money and the second being that Amazon is offering packages for resellers and those resellers are signing up affiliates left and right. Has cloud computing really changed over the past five years? Not a whole lot, but it has been developed into a reliable technology that is becoming the standard for big businesses. Even after a massive data center outage back in April, Amazon still demonstrates that cloud hosting is solid, even though they had to learn a hard lesson about EBS re-mirroring. Even in the face of a near disastrous meltdown of the Amazon cloud, the technology has captured the minds of thousands of small business owners wanting to save on their IT service expenditures…