Category: News

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

IBM today unveiled its first ever Mobile Foundation, a comprehensive portfolio of software and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments — including laptops, smartphones and tablets.

Building on its recent acquisition of Worklight, the new foundation further expands IBM’s strategy to provide clients with a mobile platform that spans application development, integration, security and management…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

WHAT: Chris Pinkham, Co-Founder and CEO of Nimbula, will talk about what it takes to build the next generation infrastructure cloud at Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group’s IaaS Series. Nimbula was recently named a cool vendor in cloud management by Gartner for being innovative, impactful and intriguing. Before founding Nimbula, Chris conceived and developed the industry-leading public cloud Amazon EC2.

WHERE: Yahoo! Campus – Building C, 2nd Floor, Classroom 5 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA

WHEN: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. PT

REGISTER: To register, simply go to: http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/61828902/

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Following a period that has seen the company go from strength to strength in the Cloud Computing Sector in The Bahamas, Cloud Carib announced today that it has completed all requirements for the upgrade to Enterprise partner status, a highly respected designation of the VMware (NYSE:VMW) partner community.

"We congratulate Cloud Carib for achieving Enterprise status partner level with VMware”, said "Hector Luciano, Sales Director for VMware in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Thanks to partners like Cloud Carib’s support and commitment in the region, VMware continues to expand in the Caribbean offering premiere cloud computing and virtualization solutions for SMBs and enterprises”…

Grazed from Mashable Tech.  Author: David Politis.

A few weeks ago, a school administrator shared a story about how he tried to block Google’s chat feature, but his students created a workaround. They opened up a new Google Doc, shared it with friends, and used the sidebar chat to talk with each other.

Although the behavior was worrisome to the administrator, it was hard not to be impressed at how cleverly these 7th graders interacted with the software. These students literally grew up on Google’s products, and that’s largely thanks to Google…

Grazed from EurekAlert.  Author: PR Announcement.

Patients find "cloud" technology a faster, more efficient way to store and distribute their medical images than current options, according to the preliminary findings of an image sharing project led by The Mount Sinai Medical Center in conjunction with four other academic medical institutions. The Phase I results of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Image Share project are being presented today at the American Roentgen Ray Society Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.

Mount Sinai was the first site to go live in August 2011 and currently has about 190 patients enrolled in project. A total of about 600 patients are participating in all sites, which also include University of California – San Francisco, University of Chicago Medical Center, Mayo Clinic, and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore…

Author: Hoofer.

Another "cow" Easter Egg in Suse Linux distributions.   Simply append the "moo" switch to the zypper commandline and enjoy.  Not sure how this is supposed to depict a cow, but just use your imagination.

 

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Cloud Data Corporation, a  wholly owned subsidiary of Microelectronics Technology Corporation is pleased to announce Sproq.com,  next generation cloud application hosting.

Microelectronics Technology Corporation President Brett Everett is pleased to provide the following re-post of a previously published news article which gives an indication of the direction the Cloud Computing market sector is heading for the near future.

It appears that companies not established in the cloud sector are buying their way in an effort gain immediate market share…

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

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have struck a strategic deal that will end their patent litigation and put the substantial Barnes & Noble e-book library including college textbooks on Windows 8.  Microsoft is investing $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that is called Newco for the moment and is valued at $1.7 billion.

Microsoft will have 17.6% of the unit, which may or may not be spun off.

Barnes & Noble will pay Microsoft an unsung royalty for a patent-settling license that covers its Nook e-readers, which are based on a forked version of Android…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced a new community open source project to allow the Cloud Foundry(TM) platform-as-a-service to run on OpenStack. With cooperation from VMware(R), Piston Cloud is developing the Cloud Provider Interface that integrates OpenStack cloud infrastructure with Cloud Foundry. The company will distribute and support this new integrated capability in a future release of Piston Enterprise OS. This new project will be submitted to the OpenStack satellite ecosystem for future consideration as an OpenStack incubation project…

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services for businesses, today announced it has added VMWare’s vCloud Director to its hosting platform, giving IT managers more “self-service” options when needing to quickly reconfigure networking resources, move data between different clouds, or change virtual applications.

Integrated with Infinitely Virtual’s upgrade to VMWare’s vSphere5, VMware vCloud Director saves IT managers time and money by giving them more autonomy and control over important aspects of their virtual infrastructure…