Virtual Bridges Announces Support for OpenStack
Intel Capital Advances Software Ecosystem with $24 Million in Investments
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Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organization, today announced seven investments to drive continued innovation across the software ecosystem. The deals total over $24 million and include new investments in enterprise cloud automation software provider DynamicOps; building management software provider enLighted, real-time analytics provider Guavus; Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) for commerce company IP Commerce; and social games analytics service provider Swrve New Media…
How Cloud Computing Makes You More Competitive
Like many technologies, Cloud Computing was perhaps over hyped in the short run and its impact underestimated in the long run. If you are struggling to gain insights on where Cloud Computing technology is heading you are in luck because the CLOUD2 Commission was recently appointed by the Obama Administration to study the current state and future of Cloud Computing. These finding will be presented in a webcast on October 4, 2011 at 1:00 PM Eastern…
Cloud Computing: What You Need to Know About PaaS
Cloud computing discussions invariably begin with the "IPS" taxonomy: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. This taxonomy has the virtue of being comprehensible and neatly partitioning assessment requirements: …
Cisco makes predictions about future of mobile cloud computing
A post on ITBusinessEdge highlights a survey done by Cisco’s Internet Business Group, which asked 283 business users what they expected from the emergency of mobile and cloud computing.
According to the results, those surveyed were interested in storing personal and work-related content on the cloud through their mobile device, but less interested in doing so on a PC or non-smartphone. The results say that those surveyed prefer to use one device with a duel-persona capability rather than multiple devices. It also shows that in order for people to use the cloud on their mobile device, the experience will need to be seamless…
Network Diagramming Solutions Provider OPNET Announces New Capabilities for Managing Performance in the Cloud
Application and network performance management solutions enabler OPNET Technologies (News 
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"The concept generally referred to as cloud computing consists of a number of different approaches to delivering application services to users. These various approaches require different technologies for measuring end user experience. OPNET is taking a multi-pronged approach to end user experience management in order to cover the evolving needs of enterprises that are adopting cloud technology," noted Russ Elsner, OPNET‘s director of Application Performance Management Technology…
Department Seeks Balanced ‘Cloud’ Computing Solution
Defense Department officials are looking to balance efficiency, effectiveness and security while moving away from its decentralized network of computer servers and data centers and into “cloud” computing, DOD’s deputy chief information officer said today…
DreamFactory Launches Branded Partner Program for Cloud Apps
DreamFactory Software, the leading publisher for cloud computing platforms, is pleased to announce the release of the Velocity Partner Program, designed to instantly turn partner sites into SaaS destinations…
Gmail Makes You 80 Times Greener, Says Google
In its ongoing quest to convince businesses and individuals to abandon the archaic practice of operating their own servers and shift their IT operations to the cloud, Google has frequently asserted that cloud computing is more cost efficient than servers run on-premises.
Now Google can argue that the cloud is more energy efficient, too. Citing its own research, supported by related findings from the Carbon Disclosure Project and from a consulting professor at Stanford, the company says that Gmail is almost 80 times more energy efficient than in-house email…
HP Launches Cloud Service Beta
Carving out a space in the growing market for cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has launched a beta IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) offering, called HP Cloud Services, the company announced Wednesday.
The initial offerings, called HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, will provide compute and storage resources from HP’s own data centers. HP will use the OpenStack set of open-source cloud software tools to provide the foundation for these services. HP joined the OpenStack project in July…