Author: David

September 14, 2011 Off

Hexagrid Certifies Software Partners for Cloud Delivery

By David
Grazed from Digital Journal.  Author: PR Announcement.

Hexagrid Computing, a leading developer of cloud enablement solutions, announces a new Software Certification Program that tests and promotes certified software solutions within Hexagrid’s worldwide network of enterprise, service provider, and reseller cloud communities…

September 14, 2011 Off

Accelerating Cloud Deployment at Home and Abroad

By David
Grazed from Huffington Post.  Author: Robert Holleyman.

By fundamentally transforming the way computing power is bought, sold, and delivered, the cloud is proving itself to be truly transformative. Industry by industry, sector by sector, enterprises are reimagining their back offices and offering products and services to customers in new, highly efficient ways that create widespread benefits for the economy…

September 14, 2011 Off

Vembu Acquires CloudNucleus, Virtualization Based Data Protection Firm

By David
Grazed from TechGigg.  Author: PR Announcement.

Chennai based Vembu Technologies which provides cloud based data backup and recovery solution to SMBs has acquired CloudNucleus, a Chennai based company.

The deal is a mix of equity and cash and the acquisition will help Vembu strengthen its offerings in the areas of business continuity/disaster recovery, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and Bare Metal Recovery (BMR).

September 13, 2011 Off

Red Hat Broadens Global Cooperation With Amazon Web Services and SAP on the Cloud

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Red Hat, Inc, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced support for SAP(R) solutions running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This complements today’s separate announcement Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with Support for SAP Business Applications Now Available.

"Today’s announcement fortifies Red Hat’s continued effort to provide customers flexibility in software deployment options and innovations in cloud computing," said Gus Robertson, vice president of business development at Red Hat. "Now customers have even more choice in procuring and provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux, now SAP-certified and recommended to run SAP applications."…

September 13, 2011 Off

Bitcasa: Cloud Storage Startup Seeks to Change the Game

By David
Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Sam Dean.

It’s no secret that cloud computing is one of the biggest trends on the technology scene, and one that is profoundly affecting the open source arena. As more and more companies, organizations and individuals leverage the cloud for applications, data storage and more, they are also changing the way storage itself works. Just consider Amazon and the enormous amount of data that it deals with in the cloud via Amazon Web Services. There is a new startup making waves with a very different approach to cloud storage: Bitcasa. It claims to offer infinite storage for $10 a month, and it is getting noticed…

September 13, 2011 Off

Managing cloud risks

By David
Grazed from Continuity Central.  Author: Mike Small.

Adopting cloud computing may save money, but how does it change risk? The cloud allows the procurement of IT services from both internal and external suppliers to be optimized because the services are delivered through the Internet in a standard way. The cloud is not a single model, but covers a wide spectrum from applications shared between multiple tenants to virtual servers used by one customer and hosted internally…

September 13, 2011 Off

Veddio’s New Nebula Dashboard Gives MSPs Cloud Control

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Veddio’s new Nebula(TM) dashboard delivers a unified view for Managed Service Providers (MSP) and Integrators to profitably provision and manage the cloud computing needs of their savvy business customers and it debuts this week at MSPWorld in Austin, TX, booth 1414…

September 13, 2011 Off

Xignite raises $10M for cloud delivery of financial market data

By David
Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author: PR Announcement.

Xignite is out to democratize access to financial data, which has exploded in the past decade with the onset of real-time, 24-hour trading. It is doing so by taking that data and making it more accessible via cloud computing.

That business is enough to enable the company to raise $10 million in a second round of funding, which the San Mateo, Calif.-based company is announcing today. One of the results is that financial markets will be more transparent, as Xignite helps meet the demand of consumers and businesses who want to access market data and understand it immediately…