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Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Skytap, the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced it was selected by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization as a "Best of VMworld 2011" award winner in the public and hybrid cloud computing technologies category.

The "Best of VMworld" awards program recognizes outstanding cloud computing and virtualization products and solutions released in the last 12 months. A team of expert judges, consisting of editors, independent analysts, users and consultants, evaluated nominations based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality, value, and how the nominated technology fills a market gap…

Grazed from OnlinePR.  Author: PR Announcement.

NovelASPect, a leading innovator of hosted application services – including a full line of QuickBooks applications – is proud to announce its new membership in the Citrix Service Provider (CSP) Program, designed to offer strategic partnerships between hosting service providers and Citrix for dynamic, 21st-century cloud computing….

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Morphlabs, the leader in converged Dynamic Infrastructure solutions for the Enterprise, announced today that it has raised $5 million in Series C funding. The round was led by strategic partners BBT of Japan and a private, Indonesia-based investor group. Morphlabs will use the additional capital to fuel immediate deployments in the ASEAN region as well as select deployments in North America, like the recently announced Alchemy Communications operating partnership…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

Those already working with public clouds understand that integration links should go into existing enterprises systems. For example, customer data entered into a cloud service should be synchronized with customer data in your enterprise systems. Common sense, right?…

Grazed from Computing.co.uk.   Author: Martin Courtney.

Dell plans to launch a public cloud computing service later this year as it seeks to expand its software and services revenue to combat shrinking profit margins from its PC business.

However, while the company strives to emulate rivals HP, IBM and Oracle in becoming a one-stop shop for business buyers looking for either on-premise or cloud-based application and infrastructure systems, analysts question whether Dell has the datacentre capacity for the job, especially in Europe, and the extent to which it will rely on partnerships to mask the gaps in its portfolio…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

vCompute announced today it has successfully negotiated a new partnership with Quasar data center to provide cloud computing and high performance computing services. "This facility is a key component for cloud efforts and the additional complex computing services our clients require. The Quasar center will also allow vCompute to deploy a high security development lab for software companies that need to perform benchmarking and scalability testing," commented Edward Hawes, CEO of vCompute This facility is the third compute center vCompute has deployed in Houston and a fourth is planned for San Diego CA. to accommodate defense efforts.

The Quasar and vCompute partnership will concentrate on providing private cloud services and server farms to clients locally and abroad. "Our clients have requirements for increased compute capacity but do not want to expand their internal centers, or add more staff and infrastructure," continued Hawes…

Grazed from IT Web.  Author: Editorial Staff.

A new survey of 2 000 CIOs by analysis giant Gartner found that, although budgets are not growing yet as the recession recedes, they are looking hard at technologies such as cloud computing and virtualisation to reduce IT costs and help to drive revenue growth.

The move towards cloud computing and virtualisation has brought about innovative ideas and has become one of the most prominent trends in IT today. What does cloud computing and virtualisation mean for the future of IT skills?…

Grazed from Independant.IE.  Author:  Peter Flanagan.

NEXT month’s Dublin Web Summit has received a boost with the confirmation that one of the driving forces behind cloud computing has been added to the speakers’ list.

Amazon’s chief technology officer Dr Werner Vogels, who is also known as one of the fathers of cloud computing will address the summit’s "Beyond The Cloud" event.

Dr Vogels has pushed the cloud as an additional revenue stream for Amazon and has become known as a "cloud evangelist"…

Grazed from USA Today.  Author: Jon Swartz.

Steve Jobs‘ bombshell resignation as CEO. Hewlett-Packard’s abdication of its multibillion-dollar PC group. Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility. Dell’s wobbly sales forecast.

The whipsaw sequence of recent events in the technology industry highlighted what many are calling the rise of mobility and the marginalization of the PC. Meteoric spikes in the sale of smartphones and tablets are merely hastening the diminished status of the traditional desktop PC, whose sales have flattened the past few years with little relief in sight…