Cloud Links: Nimbula, Cloud Cruiser, nScaled, enStratus
Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: Rich Miller.
There were a number of announcements today of new products and features for the cloud computing sector. Here’s a roundup with links to the news announcements:
Nimbula Powers Distributed Clouds – Nimbula today introduced Nimbula Director 1.5, the newest release of its cloud operating system that helps enterprises and service providers build private, hybrid and public cloud infrastructure. Providing a one-stop virtual data center management solution, Nimbula Director isolates customers from the operational and hardware complexity associated with deploying a private or public cloud. With version 1.5, Nimbula Director is now capable of supporting a geographically distributed cloud, an industry first. The software can manage many geographic locations of a multi-site cloud from a single view. This dramatically improves the cloud experience for end users as they now have a single login from which they can access any resource world-wide and deploy their workloads to any site in a self-service manner…
Microsoft might be planning a future where Windows open to something far bigger, the next time you push your power button on. A patent filed by Microsoft points to its plan for an operating system environment beyond Windows 8 that depends on cloud computing, not locally installed software. The patent suggests your computer will be booted through remote storage in a cloud computing construct, where software services control your digital work...
Infinitely Virtual, a rapidly expanding provider of virtual server and cloud computing technology, is pleased to announce the release of the InfiniteApp Cloud–Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) plans, which give organizations the power to supply each standard or power user with their own Virtual Dedicated Desktop, and to share integrated resources across servers.
VMware Inc. (VMW) is working with 
nScaled, provider of hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for the enterprise, today announced key deployments among its customers in the legal services sector, with customers including: 
Cloud computing has been credited with boosting 
Cloud Cruiser, the leader in cloud cost management solutions and a member of the