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Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

The sad, bad secret about cloud-computing is that setting up a cloud and running an application on any of them is relatively easy, managing it though, that’s another thing entirely. That’s where companies like Convirture come in.

Convirture’s open-source project is ConVirt Open Source. With it you can manage both Xen and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)-based virtual machines (VM) and clouds. Specifically, with ConVirt, you can create and provision “gold” images, diagnose performance problems, and balance load across the datacenter, all from a Web-based interface and with consistent feature set across open-source virtualization platforms…

Grazed from Internet Evolution.  Author: Ariella Brown.

Though New York State is not home to “the windy city,” it is a center for research into harnessing wind power for datacenters.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and Clarkson University are working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) (NYSE: AMD) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) on software that will enable cloud computing systems to be powered by renewable energy sources with no loss of performance…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Two-year-old Pure Storage, the latest flash start-up, shook off its cloak of invisibility Tuesday and showed off a reportedly oversubscribed $30 million C round for its all-flash enterprise array technology.  That makes $55 million altogether.

The new money was put in by Samsung, the largest flash maker, as well as Redpoint Ventures, Greylock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and angel investors…

Grazed from The Washington Post with Bloomberg.  Author: Hayley Tsukayama.

State governments are taking a wary look at cloud computing and how best to adjust their tax laws to keep up with shifts in technology.

According to a report from Bloomberg, state governments are taking a hard look at the way they tax transactions as the traditional point-of-sale has shifted from a countertop to a Web page…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: PR Announcement.

Tech Data Corporation (nasdaqgs:TECD) today announced the expansion of its TDCloud offering to include IBM Cloud hardware, software and services, giving resellers additional resources to transform their business and become profitable in the cloud. IBM helps resellers excel in cloud computing by providing secure and reliable Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (Paas), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, which enable agile collaboration and simplify the deployment and technology needed to build and manage cloud environments.

"Tech Data has aligned with IBM to offer cloud solutions that enable resellers to implement a private cloud, as well as offer them the opportunity to sell IBM public cloud services such as Smart Cloud Enterprise and Managed Backup Cloud," said Chuck Bartlett, vice president and general manager of Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) at Tech Data. "Along with these IBM products and services, we provide the necessary training and technical support, as well as configuration and shipping services, on behalf of our resellers who are providing private clouds."…

Grazed from GeekWire.  Author: Todd Bishop.

Amazon Web Services this morning made a new pitch for running web apps on its cloud computing platform, introducing a feature called ElastiCache that promises to improve the performance of web apps such as social networks, games and media-sharing sites.

In basic terms, the system uses server infrastructure more efficiently to help web apps keep key bits of data in memory, for faster access than retrieving them from a disk-based database…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Ken Hardin.

Grazed from DOF Online.  Author: Paul Williams.

Cloud providers that store client data on shared or virtual servers must ensure that private customer information cannot be accessed in the event of a cyber attack or a server being hacked, according to search specialists, Simplexo.

On 9th August, Amazon’s EC2 Cloud computing service experienced another crash, which took down major websites like Foursquare, Netflix and Instagram, as well as millions of users. ..

Grazed from Globes.  Author:  Batya Feldman.

Cloud computing start-up Wanova Inc. has raised $10 million in its second financing round from Israeli funds Greylock Partners and Carmel Ventures, and US fund Opus Capital. Wanova is considered a hot cloud computing company and the investors did not bring in a new investor to prevent dilution of their stakes.

Wanova will use the proceeds to build global sales and support teams to service the surge in demand for the company’s holistic Desktop as a Service flagship product, Mirage. Last month, the company received a patent for its product, which provides enterprises with tools for the efficient management of terminals…

Grazed from CWDN.  Author: Adrian Bridgwater.