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Grazed from PCWorld.  Author:  Nancy Gohring.

Amazon Web Services will introduce new capabilities for enterprises on Thursday, including identity federation and support for private network connections to AWS.

Its new Direct Connect service allows enterprises to establish a direct connection to Amazon from their data center or colocation provider. They’ll be able to run a private line to one of several Direct Connect locations planned around the world, starting with one operated by Equinix in Virginia. AWS’ Virginia data center is connected to that facility…

Grazed from PRNews Wire.  Author:  PR Announcement.

INTEROP Mumbai 2011 (http://www.interop.in), the leading and most comprehensive business technology event worldwide will be conducting sessions exclusively for cloud users. These sessions will be presided over by key speakers from leading solution providers who will provide valuable insights into the issues and opportunities in cloud computing…

 

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Scott Bils.

Four disruptive forces are causing executive teams to reconsider how the CIO function will add strategic value in a world where cloud computing, distributed architectures and mobile ubiquity are givens for future competitiveness…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Thomas Claburn.

Mobile developers see the heated competition between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems reshaping the markets for cloud computing, enterprise IT, and social networking. Industry analysts, however, aren’t quite ready to count Microsoft out.

A Q3 2011 survey of more than 2,000 mobile developers, conducted by cross-platform development toolmaker Appcelerator and research firm IDC, finds developers divided about whether iOS or Android will come to dominate the mobile enterprise market. Some 44% of respondents sided with Apple while another 44% sided with Google when asked which OS would prevail in the enterprise market. The chance of other operating systems becoming relevant to enterprises was deemed to be small: 7% said they believed Windows Phone 7 would emerge ahead, 4% bet on BlackBerry, and just 2% foresee webOS triumphant…

Grazed from PRNews Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Techaisle´s Cloud Computing research indicates that EMEA SMBs will be spending US$2.5 Billion on Cloud Computing in 2011 growing at a CAGR of 12 percent till 2015.

An estimated 35 million SMB users in EMEA are expected to use some form of Cloud by the end of 2011. UK, France, Germany will have a little more than 1 in 5 SMB Users on Cloud…

Grazed from V3 Virtual Cloud Summit.  Author:  PR Announcement.

Cloud computing is without doubt the biggest IT story for a generation. But the concept is a broad one, with definitions of "the cloud" varying from one IT professional to the next. Rates of adoption also vary massively: some businesses are still sceptical about the cloud, while others have completed full migrations.

The V3 Virtual Cloud Summit has been developed to offer tailored insights to specific groups. Whatever stage of planning or implementation your cloud project is at, wherever your specific area of concern lies, there is a session for you at this event. And, because you can experience the entire conference without leaving your desk, you need only attend the sessions that are relevant to you.

Using the latest Virtual Trade Show technology, we have created an online environment that brings you all the features and benefits of a conference, through your PC…
 

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Barbara Darrow and Carl Brooks.

As the business of hardware reselling goes the way of the dodo bird, smart solution providers are devising cloud-inflected services to take up the slack.

For example, GreenPages Technology Solutions will soon offer its own "data bus" that would help customers move data from on-premises data centers to hybrid and public cloud as well as remote desktop and server management as a service parlaying technology from BMC Software and CA…
 

Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author: David Strom.

We haven’t written much on Appistry, a St. Louis-based cloud data management and analytics applications vendor. So when it was in the news this week with raising a new round of venture funding, it seemed like a good time to cover it here…

Its product family is called CloudIQ and there are several different components. First is the CloudIQ Manager that configures the components and monitors their health. Next is CloudIQ Storage module, which allows Hadoop users to upgrade to their storage repository when you need more reliable operations and higher throughput. And finally there is CloudIQ Engine, which is used to build scalable analytical applications.  Its family is designed for those very large data-intensive apps that are proliferating around the Internet these days, such as in genomics, that require huge horsepower and have to scale up tremendously and do it quickly, too…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Microelectronics Technology Co. (pinksheets:MELY) (hereafter "The Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a letter of Intent for the purchase of all of the existing outstanding shares of Cloud Data Corporation.

The terms and condition of the share exchange have been finalized and the closing is subject to certain due diligence to be completed over the following weeks. It is anticipated that the transaction will close and be effective August 26, 2011…