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Grazed from BUSINESS WIRE.  Author: PR Accouncement.

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS – News), the world leader in cloud-based remote support services, today announced that it has again been ranked number one in the remote support services market with more than 31.5% share by top analyst firm IDC. With offerings for both IT management and customer support, Citrix grew its share of the market by 14.5 percent from 2009¹ by providing solutions that drastically reduce costs and increase productivity. The remote-support market, IDC reports, is showing significant growth as companies seek comprehensive support options that increase productivity while drastically reducing the costs associated with IT and customer support management….

Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Business demand for rapid time-to-market and lower operational costs is driving cloud computing adoption and creating tremendous choice around cloud services available today. CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA – News) is helping simplify "cloud choice" with new and updated products and solutions for enterprises and service providers. The capabilities announced today advance the company’s strategy to enable cloud use and help both enterprise and service provider customers quickly deploy business services with the cost-efficiencies offered by cloud.

The term "cloud choice" describes the growing heterogeneity that includes traditional, cloud and hybrid application environments. Enterprises face a big decision today – if and when to move an application to the cloud. Once the decision is made to use cloud, enterprises must then select the right type of cloud – public, private, hybrid – based on the application and its current and future requirements….
 

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Hewlett-Packard is jumping on the OpenStack cloud computing bandwagon, a day after rival Dell unveiled a cloud computing solution based on the open-source software stack.

In a blog post July 27, Emil Sayegh, vice president of cloud services for HP, said the company had joined the OpenStack project, which was kicked off a year ago by Rackspace and NASA and now has almost 100 organizations on its membership list…

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Clint Boulton.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a set date with the Senate on Capitol Hill to discuss the search engine’s expansive Internet market power.

Schmidt, who served as CEO of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for a decade before co-founder Larry Page retook the reins in April, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Sept. 21 in Washington, D.C.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nicholas Kolakowski.

Grazed from BusinessCloud9.  Author: Claire Galbois-Alcaix

You may know your nimbostratus (take an umbrella) from your cirrocumulus (you probably won’t need one) but what about the difference between Cloud backup and Cloud archiving?  Or Cloud services and Cloud applications?

Grazed from ZD Net.  Author:  Rachel King.

Hewlett-Packard is the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to join in on the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.

HP already has plenty of its own cloud solutions for IT departments, ranging in scale as well as private and public. Nevertheless, because OpenStack is a collaborative effort and free for all under the Apache 2.0 license, lots of other tech companies have found some benefit in supporting the project.