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Grazed from GigaOM.  Author:  Barb Darrow.

Oracle’s cloud computing stance has, um, evolved, to say the least, over the past few years. As the company preps for its annual Oracle OpenWorld mega-show in San Francisco next week, a question lingers: Is Oracle software and/or hardware cloudworthy?

Expect a lot of cloud talk out of the conference and more on hardware-software bundles a la the company’s Exadata, Exalogic and new database appliance. But Oracle still has a lot to prove on the cloud front…

Grazed from Virtual Bridges.  Author: PR Announcement.

Virtual Bridges, Inc. today announced a global distribution agreement with Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, a business region of Avnet Technology Solutions, the global IT solutions distribution leader and operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT). The agreement provides for Avnet Technology Solutions to distribute Virtual Bridges’ virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, VERDE VDI Gen2, worldwide to Avnet’s community of value added reseller (VAR) partners in the U.S. and Canada…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Autonomy Corporation plc , a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced a new release of its flagship document management solution, WorkSite version 9.0. This release delivers next-generation private cloud computing platform and new capabilities in mobile support and security, to empower users with on-demand secured access to matter content from anywhere at any time on any mobile devices…

Grazed from CTO Edge.  Author: Julius Neudorfer.

There was an interesting “mind meld” announced at the Intel Developer Forum 2011 conference a few weeks ago.  During the event, held in conjunction with the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), Frank Frankovsky director of technical operations at Facebook, came onto the stage and announced that Facebook’s Open Compute Project would be collaborating with the ODCA to accelerate the development and adoption of cloud computing standards…

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?"…