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Grazed from Market Watch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Houston-based StratITsphere today announced a new cloud computing service that removes many of the weights that ground firms from taking full advantage of the growing cloud technology.

Dubbed Nimbus, the new offering eliminates barriers such as infrastructure costs, staffing requirements, long implementation times and security & availability concerns by leveraging StratITsphere’s existing physical and intellectual resources…

Grazed from FormTek.  Author: Dick Weisinger.

There is a strong correlation between the culture of a company and how a company approaches the cloud.  An excellent white paper by  Michael Heric, Ron Kermisch and Stephen Bertrand of Bain & Company examines company cultures in relation to the cloud computing and categorizes cloud customer profiles into five types…

Grazed from Market Watch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud Silver Lining, an IT consultancy which guides enterprises in the business-focused assessment and adoption of Cloud technologies, and Egenera, a provider of enterprise-scale converged infrastructure data center solutions and services, today announced a strategic partnership to certify Egenera’s PAN Manager as Cloud-compatible. The Cloud Silver Lining certification process, Xertification, assesses products for compliance with the seven characteristics of Cloud as defined by the Cloud Council of 7…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

Grazed from International Business Times.  Author: Dave Smith.

Amazon has unveiled its first tablet, officially called the Amazon Fire. But in a surprising move, the company announced it would also launch a brand-new browser, called Amazon Silk.

Silk is the answer to the question, "What does a browser look like in today’s era of cloud computing?"…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author: Susan J. Campbell.

Cloud computing and subsequently, cloud business, are garnering much attention as the hype surrounding this alternative to on-premise deployments is mounting. Beyond the hype, however, are proven solutions that can enable your organization to measure powerful improvements.

One company making waves in the cloud business space is Aplicor and the company offers 10 aspects that ensure its competitive advantage…

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…

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…

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…