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What is Cloud.com worth? Computerworld By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld - Citrix Systems this week bought Cloud.com, a 70-employee start-up that makes cloud infrastructure software. At the same time, it acquired what may be one of today's most desirable tech domain names, cloud.com. ...

Moving to the Cloud? Find Out the Cost with SolarWinds' App PC Magazine By Samara Lynn SolarWinds has just released a new free tool that businesses can use to calculate the cost of moving virtual machines to the cloud. It's a handy app, because it takes the manual guesswork out of what it would take to move virtual ...

Microsoft: Security issues in cloud computing lead to partner revenue SearchITChannel.com LOS ANGELES -- At Microsoft's 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week, the software giant laid out its strategy for resolving enterprises' cloud security problems, and that strategy relies heavily on its channel partners. ...

Cloud and Performance… Myths and Reality Forbes (blog) Myth One: Cloud computing depends on the Internet. The Internet is slower than our internal networks. Thus, systems based on IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS clouds can't perform as well as locally hosted systems. Myth Two: Cloud computing forces you to share ...

AFTRA members ratify contract with new streaming fee for video games Los Angeles Times The so-called cloud-gaming fee -- the first of its kind -- was part of a new contract ratified Friday by members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The union, which represents about 70000 actors, recording artists and ...

Cisco Updates UCS Products, Cloud Strategy Data Center Knowledge On Wednesday Cisco Systems (CSCO) introduced new technology to increase the efficiency and security of cloud-based networks. Three new product additions advance Cisco's cloud strategy objectives of data center virtualization, network performance and ...

Google App Engine Cloud Availability Plummets, Sparks Outages CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google App Engine, the search giant's cloud development platform, suffered a massive performance hiccup on Thursday when availability dropped and knocked some user Web sites off line. According to Google's App Engine status ...

IBM Debuts Cloud-Based Marketing and Analytics Suite Destination CRM By Leonard Klie IBM today released a new cloud-based Web analytics and digital marketing suite designed to help organizations automate online marketing campaigns across channels, including the Web, email, chat, social media, and mobile phones. ...

Technolog from msnbc.com - Amazon Cloud Drive storage swells By Nidhi Subbaraman Just a day after the music-streaming service Spotify launched in the U.S., Amazon announced its plans for a new feature on its own cloud storage service — unlimited storage, for a brief bit, on CloudDrive. The offer applies to Amazon ... Newsvine - Technolog from msnbc.com...

How Much Do You Rely On Cloud Synchronization? By Joe Sirianni Not only is your sd card limited in size, but keeping data in the cloud, for the most part, has become more and more reliable over the years and if you lose or break your device you simply just get a new one, sign in and wallah, ... Android News, Rumours, and Updates

Simplify your customers' cloud migration planning with MAP 6.0 ... By Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team Planning a customer journey to the cloud just got easier. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.0 includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and privatecloud platforms. With MAP 6.0, you now ...Site Home

Choosing the Right Local/Cloud Hybrid Backup For SMBs By Daniel P. Dern Every good company does backups. (But not all -- see Are Your Files Backed Up? March 31 is World Backup Day.) This is where online backup comes in ... ReadWriteWeb

Ping! Zine » SMB Nation Launches Cloud Nation By Ping! Zine Editor Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Yesterday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), SMB Nation announced the launch of a new company known as Cloud Nation. Cloud Nation, which will operate as a separate entity, is intended to ... Ping! Zine

Smart Protection Network - Trend Micro USA Global threat data continuously updated and correlated in the cloud ensures automatic protection from threats wherever and however you connect. ... us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwatch/.../smart-protection-network/

How Increasing Cloud Reliance Affects IT Jobs - Slashdot snydeq writes "Kevin Fogarty takes a look at how the rise of cloud computing will impact IT jobs, outlining which roles stand to gain prominence in the ... it.slashdot.org/.../How-Increasing-Cloud-Reliance-Affects-IT-J...

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Citrix Cloud.com technology

Citrix's Cloud.com Acquisition Will Further Application Services InformationWeek The Cloud.com technology should allow Citrix to further its VDI and application streaming capabilities. By Mike Fratto, Network Computing Citrix systems is acquiring Cloud.com and, in the process, furthering their plans in cloud computing. ...

Microsoft: New VMware Pricing Makes VMware Cloud Costs 4x Microsoft's CRN Those executives also said that VMware is inverting Moore's Law by charging more to run a cloud on a per-virtual machine basis as the number of virtual machines increases. Microsoft executives made their comments during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner ...

Microsoft Opens Windows Server App Licenses To Amazon Cloud CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have teamed up to let Amazon cloud users run Microsoft Windows Server Application son their Amazon cloudinfrastructure. "Today, I am really excited to announce that AWS and Microsoft have ...

Cisco Offers New Cloud Capabilities in UCS, WAAS Products eWeek Cisco officials are looking to improve the efficiency, scalability and security of cloud computing environments through new products in its UCS and WAAS platforms announced at the Cisco Live show. Cisco Systems is rolling out new offerings to make ...

Feds race to the cloud Computerworld Tasked with adopting cloud computing as a first option in all IT projects, federal agencies are now grappling with the hard realities of making the policy work. By Mary K. Pratt Computerworld - The government sector is on a fast march to the cloud, ...

Clearing Up 'The Cloud' Virtual-Strategy Magazine By Brad Reinboldt (Profile) From offering IT greater flexibility to the appeal of lower infrastructure costs, cloud computing is the center of the technology conversation. Of course, with increasing popularity comes a plethora of opinions as to what ...

Red Hat Recognizes NTT Communications with Cloud Leadership Award MarketWatch (press release) NTT Communications launched its Biz Hosting Basic cloud service and joined Red Hat's cloudecosystem as a Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider in April 2010. Since, NTT Communications has utilized Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the ...

Microsoft v. Amazon, Google, Salesforce on selling cloud services The Seattle Times At its Worldwide Partners Conference this week in Los Angeles, Microsoft said it is providing new incentives for companies to sell cloud services, a strategy that differs from competitors Amazon.com, Salesforce.com and Google. ...

Cloud Provider Linode Launches NodeBalancer San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Linode, a leading provider of cloud infrastructure services, today announced the immediate availability of its managed cloud-based Load-Balancing-as-a-Service (LBaaS) offering - NodeBalancer. Now any Linode customer can balance incoming requests across ...

Getting Started with VMware's Cloud Foundry - ReadWriteCloud By David Strom As we mentioned earlier this week, VMware has come out with a slew of announcements. Though this weeks announcements from Citrix and VMware are all about infrastructure, you ... ReadWriteWeb

SEO Services in the Cloud [Sponsor] By Frank Reed The following post is from our SEO Channel Sponsor, Web CEO. Web CEO Online is a new project from the ... Marketing Pilgrim - Internet...

Buying the Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal Enter the Cloud.com guys. They know how to build clouds, and already have traction with service providers and enterprises alike. They have proved that they know how to make a cloud scale – and this is not as easy as it sounds. ... Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

peHUB » Forecast: Cloud (Computing) with a Chance of Storms Later By Jonathan Marino Private Equity Hub (peHub) is an interactive forum for the private equity community, which includes venture capitalists, buyouts professionals, attorneys, bankers, entrepreneurs, MBA candidates studying PE, and assorted hangers-on. PE Hub Blog

Cisco: We're all you need for cloud gear — Cloud Computing News By Derrick Harris At its Cisco Live event today in Las Vegas, Cisco rolled out a range of new features and products designed to convince companies that Cisco is all they need for their cloud network and server needs. But will customers actually buy into ... Structure — Cloud Computing...

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VMware expands Cloud Suite

VMware Expands Cloud Suite, Boosts Storage Abilities Wall Street Journal By Steven D. Jones Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES VMware Inc. (VMW), which helped create cloud computing, took steps this week toward creating an operating system for the cloud as well. In an announcement Tuesday, Chief Executive Paul Maritz said the company's ...

Citrix's Cloud.com Acquisition Bolsters Its Cloud Development Portfolio eWeek Citrix is seeking to build out its cloud infrastructure using assets acquired from Cloud.com. The cloud computing space remains incredibly dynamic. Citrix has finished its acquisition of Cloud.com, a provider of software-infrastructure platforms for ...

Microsoft partners with UK firm Yell to sell online ads and cloud services The Seattle Times The two companies said Tuesday they plan to sell search, mobile and local advertising as well as Microsoft's cloud services. Yell will sell Microsoft cloud services such as Office 365, Dynamics CRM (customer relations management) and communications ...

Microsoft: HP, eBay polishing Azure cloud-in-a-box (honest) Register WPC 2010 A year after they were announced and six months after they were to be delivered, Microsoft has offered a fleeting glimpse of its Windows Azure cloud-in-a-box appliance partnerships with HP and eBay. At its Worldwide Partners Conference (WPC) in ...

M-Files Cloud Vault Brings Easy Document Management Based on Windows Azure to ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) AP sources: Rebels gaining on Gadhafi regime 07.12.11 M-Files Inc., the developer of M-Files easy document management software and the cloud-based document management service M-FilesCloud Vault, today announced support for Microsoft Dynamics GP, ...

IT jobs: Winners and losers in the cloud era InfoWorld We survey the cloud's effects on nine classes of IT jobs: Architects and sys admins win, middle managers and tech specialists lose -- what about you? By Kevin Fogarty | InfoWorld There's a simple reason so many people say cloud computing will change ...

Startup launches new SaaS cloud monitoring solution, RevealCloud InfoWorld By David Marshall In the IT world, we're always looking for the next big thing, and for the last year or two, one of those next big things has been cloud computing. Unfortunately, numerous questions around the cloud have been holding it back. ...

Citrix Systems Acquires Cloud.com « Data Center Knowledge By Rich Miller Citrix Systems (CTXS) has acquired Cloud.com in a deal which will boost its position in the cloud computing market. The deal also underscores the growing role of open source software in building and deploying cloud platforms. Data Center Knowledge

Make: Online | Kinect Point Cloud Visualizer By Nick Normal I attended the NYC Hack and Tell Meetup last night and saw Lee Felarca give demonstrations of his "work in progress" Kinect hacks. Using openFrameworks, and written in C++, Lee said he was mostly just. Make: Online

Citrix buys Cloud.com to step up VMware competition — Cloud ... By Derrick Harris Citrix Systems has bought hot private-cloud startup Cloud.com, a move that immediately makes Citrix a leader in the quest to help companies build on-premise Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds à la Amazon EC2. Cloud.com brings an ... GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis...

Citrix Expands Services, Acquires Cloud.com by www.thehostingnews.com By THN News (The Hosting News) – Cloud.com, an open source cloud provider has been acquired by cloudtechnology and virtualization provider Citrix Systems, Citrix. www.thehostingnews.com

Citrix Buys Private Cloud Vendor Cloud.com - ReadWriteCloud By Klint Finley This morning Citrix announced its acquisition of Cloud.com, a company that sells virtualization infrastructure for building private clouds. Cloud.com brings with it a number of high profile ... ReadWriteWeb

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Dell's Cloud moves

With cloud initiatives, Dell hopes to catch wave of change that's sweeping ... Austin American-Statesman By Kirk Ladendorf Steve Schuckenbrock concedes that the term "cloud computing" has become something of an overused buzzword among computer types. The terms "private cloud," "public cloud" and "hybrid cloud" get thrown around way too much, ...

Keeping the 'cloud' secure Omaha World-Herald By Ross Boettcher The forecast for security on the Internet and in cloud computing has turned ominous, darkening after a string of cyber attacks exposed gaping flaws in the digital armor of some of the largest companies in the United States. ...

Cloud Computing 101: Protect Yourself Online Consumer Electronics Net By helle Hainer Cloud computing has certainly made life more convenient. The cloud allows you to back up photos and music in a Web vault, collaborate simultaneously on a document in Texas with a colleague in Tennessee, or buy something online with one ...

Dion's Weekly ETF Blog Wrap TheStreet.com First Trust hit a home run today with the launch of the first ETF that's a pure play on cloud computing, the ISE Cloud Computing Index ETF(SKYY). Even though trading is relatively choppy and weak, and many traders are taking extended vacations this ...

Cloud music: Google Music Beta vs. Amazon Cloud Player vs. iTunes ... By Sean Brunett A comparison of Amazon Cloud Player, Google Music Beta and iTunes in the Cloud. Android Central - Android Forums,...

Cloud Storage Vs Conventional Data Backup By Ben Lacombe Online backup, online storage or cloud storage has been the rage over the last few years and there have been many new providers and the numbers continue to grow. A steady rise in newer features of online storage has warranted a decline ... Planet Insane

IP-Converge introduces Google's cloud-based email continuity ... By a38c77c84a68365538a62009357af1e9 IP Converge Data Center Inc., the Philippine's first publicly listed Internet data center and cloudservices provider, has started to offer local enterprises protection from email outages and productivity disruptions through Google ... Enterprise Innovation RSS feed Carbon tax casts shadow over local data centre and cloud providers iT News By David Binning, Liam Tung on Jul 11, 2011 5:16 AM (3 hours ago) Australian data centres and cloud infrastructure providers are likely to be the hardest hit in the ICT industry when the Federal Government's carbon tax comes into effect from July 1 ...

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