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Grazed from CNet.  Author: Greg Sandoval.

To some, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes might appear to be a foe of Web distribution.

Remember, he was the guy who last year compared Netflix with the Albanian army–the view that the popular company would remake film distribution was a little like saying the tiny country’s army would conquer the world. Time Warner has also made it clear Netflix subscribers won’t be streaming episodes of HBO hit shows, such as "True Blood" or "The Sopranos," anytime soon…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Alex Barrett.

When demand for an application suddenly spikes, IT folks make a mad dash to optimize resources, balance loads and add more hardware. And now, they’re considering another option — the cloud.

The marshalling of public cloud resources in response to usage spikes is a practice sometimes referred to as "cloud bursting." In this scenario, organizations pay only for the resources they use and forestall additional infrastructure purchases. But with most applications firmly ensconced on internal infrastructure, how does one even get there?…

Grazed from DatacenterDynamics.  Author: Phil Dawson.

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Mikael Ricknäs

A lightning strike in Dublin on Sunday caused a power failure in data centers belonging to Amazon and Microsoft, causing the companies’ cloud services to go offline.

lightning struck a transformer, sparking an explosion and fire which caused the power outage at 10:41 AM PDT, according to preliminary information, Amazon wrote on its Service Health Dashboard. Under normal circumstances, backup generators would seamlessly kick in, but the explosion also managed to knock out some of those generators…

Grazed from JCN Newswire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Fujitsu announced today the launch of a new cloud service for analytical simulations in the area of technical computing called TC Cloud. The new TC Cloud service, which will be introduced in phases beginning in the third quarter of 2011, is comprised of three services: (1) Analytical Platform Service, which provides a platform for conducting analytical simulations; (2) Analytical Applications Service, which provides analytical applications; and (3) Analytical Help Desk, which provides support for setting up and running analytical simulations…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author:  Kevin Kwang.

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Veronica C. Silva.

With cloud computing expected to catch on in the region in next few years, HP is helping the first adopters deploy cloud faster.

HP recently introduced new software solutions that are part of its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite that fast tracks delivery of applications within a single platform…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Dan Kusnetzky.

 

ElasticStack has been working on an open stack of software to help service providers and organizations start up their own clouds since 2008. The company has seen some success in Europe and recently (June 2010) entered the U.S. market…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Georgina Swan.

For all the talk of Cloud computing, the governance issue remains, for many enterprises, the great unknown. Cloud computing inevitably impacts business processes, making governance vital to managing risk and adapting to take advantage of new opportunities.

Industry body, ISACA, is looking to change that, issuing a new guide for implementing controls and governance…

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT – News), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that members of the Red Hat executive team will host a press conference that will be broadcast live via webcast at 12pm ET on Wednesday, August 10.

To view the live webcast, or to watch the replay, please visit: