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Xtium, a provider of cloud computing services to businesses, raised an $11.5 million Series A round of investment from OpenView Venture Partners. As part of the funding, Scott Maxwell, senior managing director at OpenView, will join the company’s board. Xtium provides such services as disaster recovery and virtual hosting. The deal is the third in the Philadelphia area for Boston-based OpenView within the last month, following its investments in Monetate Inc. and NextDocs Corp…

It has more or less become passé to call Steve Jobs a visionary, but it never fails to surprise us just how forward thinking he’s always been.

Check out this video from 1997 where he gives an impromptu talk on cloud computing — "Never have I seen something more powerful than this computation combined with this network that we now have…in the last 7 years, do you know how many times I’ve lost any personal data? Zero. Do you know how many times I’ve backed up my computer? Zero."
 

Microsoft raised some eyebrows when Corporate VP Brad Anderson boldly proclaimed that, “Virtualization is not cloud computing.” While this statement garnered a lot of buzz due to its timing – Anderson said this during the VMWorld annual event – that doesn’t make this statement any less true…

EMC, well, at least its Greenplum unit has put together a thousand-node multi-tenant analytics platform to accelerate the development and testing of the disruptive but persnickety open source Apache Hadoop software.

That’s 1,000-odd hardware nodes or 10,000 nodes when you count virtual machines, along with 24PT of physical storage. In a word, that’s huge…

Grazed from ZD Net.  Author:  Rachel King.

Design is a sector where cloud computing has the potential to revolutionize multiple industries, according to Autodesk, the 3D design software firm and maker of AutoCAD.

Cloud computing has become “completely pervasive, totally accepted and people don’t really think twice about these things now,” explained Andrew Anagnost, vice president of suite, web services and subscriptions for Autodesk…

As the long-anticipated backlash against cloud computing begins, I want to thank technology journalist and IT consultant Frank J. Ohlhorst for making the strongest case yet for the anti-cloud camp… and in the process making the case for the cloud stronger than ever…

If you’re an IT solution provider not into cloud computing, you’re letting a substantial chunk of change pass you by. Spending on public cloud computing generates $21.5 billion in revenue according to IDC, and that number will balloon to $72.9 billion by 2015. You’ve got to play to win, as the saying goes. Here are five ways to approach that very lucrative market…

The current running joke in the IT industry is that everything is labeled “cloud.” Whether data center customers are leveraging the cloud or not, arguably every technology provider is claiming to either “consume” or provide services in the cloud…