Author: David

September 28, 2011 Off

IMS Provides Best-In-Class IaaS Through Partnership with VAZATA

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Innovative Management Solutions (IMS) and VAZATA (formerly Horizon Data Center Solutions) are elevating their partnership to provide best-in-class application hosting to Oracle end users.

"This strategic partnership will provide our customers access to the best available Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), in VAZATA’s purpose built cloud computing environment," says Jeff Collins, CEO of IMS…

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Riverbed to Showcase Hybrid Cloud Performance Solutions at Interop New York 2011

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, today announced its participation at Interop New York taking place October 3 – 7, 2011 in New York, NY. At the conference, Riverbed(R) (booth #409) will showcase its hybrid cloud performance solutions, which help globally-connected enterprises to consolidate IT infrastructure and reduce costs while increasing employee collaboration and productivity. Riverbed executives and a Riverbed customer will also participate in panel discussions to weigh in on issues that are challenging today’s distributed enterprises, including issues relating to hybrid cloud computing and network management…

September 28, 2011 Off

East Texas Tech Company Acquires Foundational Cloud Computing Patents

By David
Grazed from PR Web.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Kinetech Inc. a subsidiary of Brilliant Digital Entertainment (BDE) and PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC (PersonalWeb) today announced the recent completion of an asset contribution that provided BDE with majority ownership of PersonalWeb to combine the technology, software development and intellectual property strengths of both companies. As part of the transaction, Kinetech contributed its Truenames patent portfolio to PersonalWeb…

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CIOs say move to cloud applications inevitable as public sector leads the way

By David
Grazed from ComputerWeekly.  Author:  Bill Goodwin.

CIOs will be spending between 40% and 80% of their IT budgets on cloud services in five years, according to senior IT leaders.

The promise of lower capital spending on IT, lower overall IT costs and greater technical agility make cloud computing inevitable, according to a panel of 50 CIOs.

But there remain significant hurdles to overcome before businesses can trust core business applications in the cloud, the CIOs told management consultants Xantus…

September 28, 2011 Off

Morphlabs’ Pinoy makes mark in cloud computing

By David
Grazed from ABSCBN News.  Author: Steve Angeles.

La Salle-educated Chinese-Filipino Winston Damarillo moved to the US at age 20, sleeping on his uncle’s couch for a year.

He eventually landed his first job at Intel and eventually began building his startup companies. 
 
Now at age 41, his cloud computing software has been recognized as a leader in his field…
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Virgin Media launches cloud services

By David
Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: Matt Grainger.

Virgin Media Business has today launched a new cloud services and virtualisation portfolio.

Aiming to bring a easy-to-use and jargon free service to customers, Virgin has spearheaded the launch with the Virtual Private Data Centre, which is designed to offer powerful virtual computing to businesses of all sizes…

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Google backs off year-old cloud computing lawsuit against federal agency

By David
Grazed from IT World.  Author: Chris Nerney.

Usually it’s the defendant in a lawsuit that seeks to have a case dismissed.

But Google, for some mysterious reason, has filed a motion to dismiss the case it brought last October against the U.S. Department of the Interior alleging that the federal agency inappropriately rigged the bidding process for cloud-based email and collaboration services in favor of Microsoft…

September 28, 2011 Off

CloudPassage Taps Joerg Rathenberg as Vice President of Marketing

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security company, today announced that Joerg Rathenberg has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. Rathenberg joins CloudPassage from virtual event leader Unisfair, where he was Vice President of Marketing…

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A Look at IBM’s Small Business Cloud

By David
Grazed from Small Business Computing.  Author: Gerry Blackwell.

IBM believes the world needs to get smaller and smarter, and the way to achieve both goals is for small businesses to embrace cloud computing.

For years, the century-old computer giant has promoted “solutions for a small planet.” Now it’s pushing solutions for “the smarter planet.” Whatever the tag line, the company says that cloud-based solutions from IBM can help small businesses grow faster and succeed bigger…