Microsoft signs covenant with Chinese Linux vendor

Microsoft signs 'legal covenant' with Chinese Linux vendor ZDNet (blog) By Mary Jo Foley | August 23, 2011, 7:13am PDT Summary: Microsoft has signed a confidential legal agreement with Chinese Linux vendor CS2C and will be extending its Hyper-V Cloudprivate-cloud stack with the ability to run Linux. ...

Amazon turns back to core audience with new caching service GigaOm 23, 2011, 8:01am PT No Comments Amazon has been adding all kinds of features to attract enterprise users to its Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform, but today with a new caching product, it's turning its focus back to web developers. ...

Court Ruling Could Hurt Cloud-Based Music Services New York Times (blog) By BEN SISARIO In a case with potential implications for the new wave of “cloud” music services, EMI has won a partial victory against MP3tunes, a company that lets its customers store music files in online lockers. MP3tunes, founded in 2005 by the ...

Wanova raises $10M for desktop cloud management service VentureBeat “We run the desktop in the cloud as a service. That gives you all of the advantages of the cloudinfrastructure while leaving the experience of the end user unchanged.” Wanova's sales have tripled in the current year. Other companies such as Wyse have ...

States Pursue Sales Tax Revenue Vanishing Into Cloud of Computing Networks Bloomberg By Richard Rubin and Juliann Francis - Mon Aug 22 04:00:01 GMT 2011 The global cloud-computing market is expected to increase to $241 billion in 2020 from $40.7 billion in 2011, according to Forrester Research Inc. Photo Illustration: Bloomberg The ...

As Cloud Grows, So Does Importance of Security IT Business Edge (blog) By date: Cloud computing continues to grow into every corner of the enterprise. Our Ann All reports on the growing trend to view the cloud not only as a platform for delivering computing power and encapsulated applications, but also as a way to deliver ...

Fonality Makes its Cloud Telephony Solutions Mobile TMC Net Fonality HUD Mobile is the first-of-its-kind communications solution for small- and mid-sized businesses that delivers cloud-based VoIP with one secure interface. The Fonality HUD solution has been recognized in the cloud telephony industry for its ...

HP Extends Converged Storage Leadership With New Storage Federation Technology MarketWatch (press release) IDC estimates that by 2012, 85 percent of new applications will be specifically designed to be accessed in the cloud.(1) Agile delivery of these virtualized and cloud-based applications requires linking multiple storage systems together to act as a ...

Trend Micro updates web gateway security for broader, “Beyond the Browser ... Al-Bawaba Trend Micro Incorporated, a global cloud security leader, today announced the latest release of the company's web gateway solution, which now delivers even greater visibility and control over the growing use of cloud-based applications such as instant...

Intel Features RES Virtual Desktop Extender in Cloud Builders Program SYS-CON Media (press release) RES Software, the proven leader in dynamic desktop solutions, today announced the company's collaboration with Intel's Intelligent Desktop Virtualization initiatives as well as its Cloud Builders program. The announcement follows the company's ...

Acquia Expands Acquia Network With New Cloud Apps SYS-CON Media (press release) These apps are designed to complement Acquia Cloud, Drupal-optimized hosting for developers and enterprises. Insight: Developed by Acquia, Insight provides Drupal site owners with a dynamic, real-time, at-a-glance view into their sites. ...

Shift your Network to the Cloud | Citrix Blogs By Craig Ellrod Finally a technical seminar to help get your network ahead of the changes that cloud and virtualization are imposing. Citrix Blogs

NYT: Court Ruling Could Hurt Cloud-Based Music Services ... UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT Judge WILLIAM H. PAULEY III may have opened the door for future issues with cloud-based music services when he ruled MONDAY, AUGUST 22nd for EMI MUSIC in a suit against MP3TUNES.COM. Radio Industry News, New Music,. Tech Data and IBM Enable Resellers to Profit in the Cloud MarketWatch (press release) CLEARWATER, Fla., Aug 23, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Tech Data Corporation (nasdaqgs:TECD) today announced the expansion of its TDCloud offering to include IBM Cloud hardware, software and services, giving resellers additional resources to transform their ... More venture cash goes to the cloud ITworld.com By Chris Nerney Add a new comment Two cloud-based start-up companies have announced separate venture-capital deals as cloud technology continues to attract investors. Cloud desktop management software vendor Wanova said Tuesday it has secured a $10 ... Ingram Micro Cloud Now Offering BMC Remedyforce Help Desk Tool and SherWeb ... MarketWatch (press release) BMC Remedyforce is also available to Ingram Micro channel partners in the US "The Ingram MicroCloud services portfolio is growing rapidly to meet the dynamic needs of our channel partners here in Canada and in the US," says Renee Bergeron, ... Ruby on Rails cloud envelops PHP shop Register Engine Yard – a San Francisco startup offering a "platform cloud" for Ruby on Rails applications – is buying Orchestra, a Dublin-based outfit that provides a similar service for PHP applications. On Tuesday, Engine Yard announced a definitive agreement ... Salesforce Plots Social Cloud Onslaught With Yammer Integration, Rumored ... CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN With Salesforce.com's Dreamforce cloud conference kicking off next week, the reigning cloud kingpin is getting its ducks in a row to sharpen its strategy for the social enterprise, a plan that includes a new partnership and a ... Renewable Cloud Power Is Focus of New Project Internet Evolution (NYSE: HPQ) on software that will enable cloud computing systems to be powered by renewable energy sources with no loss of performance. As many businesses have discovered advantages to using cloud computing, there has been a huge increase in cloud ... M-Files for NetSuite Brings Easy Document Management to Leading Cloud ERP and ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) M-Files Inc., the developer of M-Files easy document management software and the cloud-based document management service M-Files Cloud Vault, today announced the availability of M-Files for NetSuite, a leading cloud ERP and financial software suite. ... Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps Have More Differences Than Similarities eWeek Microsoft may have deprecated this motto in favor of more cloud-centric terms, but “Software Plus Services” is the slogan that best sums up Microsoft's cloud applications approach. Every component that comprises Office 365 is available in both ... More Cloud News below--computing, storage, infrastructure, security