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AppRiver to Present at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

AppRiver, a leading provider of email messaging and Web security solutions, today announced that Brian Haynes, director of channel sales for AppRiver, will be a featured speaker at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo. The conference is taking place November 7-10 in Santa Clara. The full agenda can be found at: http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/event/schedule…

 
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Google Channel Chief To Cloud VARs: ‘We Need You’

By David
Grazed from CRN.  Author: Andrew R. Hickey.

Cloud computing creates tremendous opportunities from the channel, and cloud vendors will rely heavily on the channel as the cloud drives a technological sea change, Google (NSDQ:GOOG) Enterprise Director of Channels and Business Development Stephen Cho said…

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Next Generation Preps for Cloud Containers

By David

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Rich Miller.

Can Wales become a destination for modular data centers? Next Generation Data (NGD) has prepared the top floor of its massive facility in Newport, Wales to house containerized data centers.

The 140,000 square foot space includes just four pillars, which NGD executives say has made it ideal for a major modular deployment, perhaps for a U.S. cloud computing provider seeking to add capacity in Europe. The new space spans one of the three floors at the 750,000 square foot NGD facility, with the other two floors housing traditional raised-floor data center space…

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Amazon Looks to Increase Presence in Financial Services Cloud

By David
Grazed from Wall Street Journal.  Author: Greg MacSweeney.

Most big financial services companies have been eager to tout their own private clouds, but only a few have made a large move to public cloud offerings, citing security and compliance concerns. However, Amazon Web Services, the division of Amazon that runs its cloud computing offering, has been making inroads in the highly regulated financial services industry…

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Cloud-computing firm enStratus raises $3.5M

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Grazed from MinSt.Paul Business Journal.  Author: Katharine Grayson.

Cloud-computing startup enStratus Networks Inc. has raised $3.5 million in venture capital in a round led by El Dorado Ventures 

Minneapolis-based enStratus will use the funding for product development and to expand its sales and marketing teams…

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Best Buy Acquires Cloud Provider mindSHIFT

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Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge.  Author: Rich Miller.

The Geek Squad has a new question: Want some cloud storage with that virus cleanup? Electronics retailer Best Buy has reached an agreement to acquire managed services provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million, the company said today. Best Buy says the deal will help extend its growth in the small and mid-sized business IT services, which is a focus of mindSHIFT’s business…

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US Government Hits the Road with Cloud Details

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Grazed from BusinessCloud9.  Author: Stuart Lauchlan.

With the UK government’s G-Cloud ambitions now public, there’s more activity across the pond where the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the first two volumes of a draft ‘roadmap’ for Cloud Computing…