Author: David

August 17, 2011 Off

Infinitely Virtual’s New InfiniteApp Cloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

By David

Grazed from Press Media Wire. Author: PR Announcement.

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.

InfiniteApp Cloud–VDI is powered by Infinitely Virtual’s revolutionary Enterprise Virtualization Environment (E.V.E.), which includes features such as clustered NetApp SAN with RAID-DP, VMware HA clustering, clustered enterprise firewalls, and a 100% uptime guarantee…

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VMware Enlists Dell to Help Wage Cloud ‘Operating Systems War’

By David

Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Dina Bass.

VMware Inc. (VMW) is working with Dell Inc. (DELL) and the Ubuntu Linux operating system to spur adoption of its cloud-computing software, ratcheting up competition with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) for corporate customers.

Dell’s services arm will help install VMware’s Cloud Foundry program, while Ubuntu will begin including parts of the software, said Jerry Chen, a vice president at VMware. EnStratus Networks LLC, which lets companies manage cloud-computing software, also will support Cloud Foundry…

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nScaled Makes Cloud Computing a Reality for Law Firms

By David

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

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: Davis & Gilbert, Davis Wright Tremaine, Fitzpatrick Cella, Harper & Scinto, and Zuber & Taillieu. nScaled is also introducing new storage options for the risk averse legal industry, enabling organizations to address the specific backup, disaster recovery and compliance needs of the legal industry, while also making the implementation process easy and affordable…

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Cloud helps drive Dell’s growth

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Grazed from Cloud Pro. Author: Jennifer Scott.

Cloud computing has been credited with boosting Dell’s second quarter results to $15.7 billion.

Although the figures released today only showed a one per cent rise in revenues since last year, operating income rose 54 per cent to $1.1 billion and net income shot up 63 per cent to $890 million…

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Cloud Cruiser Launches Industry’s First Cloud Cost Management Solution for OpenStack

By David

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud Cruiser, the leader in cloud cost management solutions and a member of the OpenStack™ community, today announced the general availability (GA) of the Cloud Cruiser cloud cost management solution for OpenStack. It features ongoing workflow tools that provide management and accounting capabilities for optimizing capex and opex costs in heterogeneous cloud computing environments…

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CSC offers “on-premise private cloud”

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Grazed from Delimeter. Author: Renai LeMay.

Multinational IT services giant CSC this week launched in Australia a service which it described as private cloud computing infrastructure which could be hosted in customers’ own datacentres, giving them an additional option for migrating to the burgeoning range of infrastructure as a service platforms…

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Cloud Computing Technologies Embrace AS4 Standard

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Grazed from PR Web. Author: PR Announcement.

Drummond Group Inc., the trusted interoperability test lab and certification body, today announced its plans to conduct its first Drummond Certified™ AS4 Interoperability test in the first quarter of 2012. In addition to enabling interoperability for technologies such as cloud computing, AS4 is an emerging Internet messaging protocol that provides a standardized method for the secure and document-agnostic exchange of B2B payloads using Web Services from any location, anywhere in the world. Drummond Group’s AS4 interoperability testing is based on a proven test methodology developed to ensure that different products can work together to seamlessly exchange information…

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DARPA to help shield cloud networks from cyberattack

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Grazed from Defense Systems. Author: John Edwards.

With cloud computing rapidly emerging as a critical Defense Department mission support platform, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is asking commercial and academic computer researchers to help build stronger cloud networks…

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Cloud computing and the 4th Dimension

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Grazed from Business Innovations. Author: Ray DePena.

It’s time to think about time.

According to Wikipedia, in physics, spacetime is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum. In cosmology, the concept of spacetime combines space and time to a single abstract universe. But you know we’re not here to talk about physics, cosmology, or the universe, as interesting as they may be…

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New York researchers looking into clean power cloud computing

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Grazed from CenterBeam. Author: Editorial Staff.

In a move to extend green IT, researchers in New York are trying to figure out how to power cloud computing networks with servers that rely on wind or solar power, according to Renewables Biz’s website…