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 Qualcomm is restructuring to insulate its patents and its revenue-producing licensing business from the foibles of open source licensing.
Apparently it’s been spooked by all the wireless patent litigation that going on worldwide because Thursday it said that parent company Qualcomm ...Jun. 30, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 233 |
 10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11–14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ...Jun. 30, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,753 |
 “There is a common view among media and analysts that the cloud computing market will see rapid growth in the foreseeable future,” observed Alex Mei, Executive VP and CMO of OCZ Technology Group, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Companies will need...Jun. 30, 2012 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,625 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that CloudTimes has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
CloudTimes is a leading technology media property, dedicated ...Jun. 29, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 686 |
 A recent survey revealed user attitudes and adoption plans for cloud storage.
Nearly three-quarters of cloud storage users estimated they could recover their data within 24 hours
One out of every eight organizations that do not use cloud storage responded that it would take “more tha...Jun. 29, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 804 |
 The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the public availability of the OpenNebula Marketplace, an online catalog where individuals and organizations can quickly distribute and deploy virtual appliances ready-to-run on OpenNebula clouds. The new Marketplace is fully integrated with ...Jun. 29, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 523 |
 “The recent TOSCA initiative has made interoperability for cloud computing closer than ever,” observed Andrew Hillier, co-founder and CTO of CiRBA, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “However, until players like Amazon and Google join in,” Hillier con...Jun. 29, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,805 |
 The increased uptake in cloud service adoption is truly a worldwide phenomenon. New research published by Cisco Systems demonstrates the dramatic shift in attitudes towards cloud services in the UK and Ireland.The report -- entitled "Jun. 29, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 575 |
 “Exponentially increasing data volume, Internet access points and speed have made Big Data more accessible and therefore more practical,” noted Mike Carpenter, VP of Business Development at CARI.net, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Add social medi...Jun. 29, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,198 |
 Google has copied Amazon and wheeled out an EC2 Infrastructure-as-a-Service imitator at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco Thursday proving the scuttlebutt on the money.
It’s called Compute Engine and Google will rent out the spare stripped-down servers (Linux virtu...Jun. 29, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,170 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Spectator has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Spectator offers cloud computing education to an e...Jun. 29, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 551 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Security Alliance has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not...Jun. 29, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 676 |
 Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
The "super-sized" four-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp is a brief introduction to cloud computing carefully created and devised to help you keep up with evolving trends like Big Data, PaaS, APIs, ...Jun. 28, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 789 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Cent...Jun. 28, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 803 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that BoogarLists has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
With a qualified directory of more than 2,000 Venture Capita...Jun. 28, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 602 |
 “We are embarking on a critical journey where identity information becomes the key asset of the digital age,” declared Andy Land, Vice President of Marketing at UnboundID, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Land noted that “Facebook and Google make tr...Jun. 28, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,460 |
 ndependenceIT (iIT), provider of the complete Cloud Workspace, has announced its acquisition of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Veddio Cloud Solutions, a cloud services management platform and aggregator for managed services providers (MSP). The acquisition broadens independenceIT's custom...Jun. 27, 2012 05:46 PM EDT Reads: 240 |
 Compuware Corporation on Tuesday launched SpeedoftheWeb.org, a new free online cloud service that helps web application and site owners increase the speed of their most important web properties. This cloud service enables organizations to compare the speed of their website's performanc...Jun. 27, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 822 |
 Apparently the world is standing by waiting for Google to copy Amazon and wheel out an EC2 imitator this week at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco.
Google already has the platform-as-a-service App Engine and the S3-like Google Cloud Storage but the money is in IaaS...Jun. 27, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 981 |
 North Bridge Venture Partners has announced the results of its second annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey. Supported by 39 industry collaborators spanning established leaders, emerging, fast-growth companies, and startups – the 2012 survey captures current industry perceptions, sen...Jun. 27, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,367 |
 Eucalyptus Systems on Tuesday launched the Eucalyptus Authorized Education Partner (EAEP) and Authorized Consulting Partner (EACP) Programs. The EAEP Program enables Eucalyptus partners to deliver Eucalyptus authorized training courses using Eucalyptus Certified Instructors (ECI), whil...Jun. 27, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 648 |
 Red Hat is planning to commercialize its 13-month-old OpenShift PaaS later this year when it splits the widgetry into two initial tiers: FreeShift and MegaShift. Until then it’ll be available as a developer preview.
FreeShift will offer three small gears, the ability to auto-scale an...Jun. 27, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,000 |
 Appcore announced on Tuesday that continuityX, a provider of business continuity, disaster recovery and managed network services to medium-to-large scale enterprise businesses, has selected them as their primary provider to deliver cloud-based disaster recovery and application services...Jun. 27, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 671 |
 "It was my first time at a Cloud Expo show, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. But man, what a blast it turned out to be. Great exhibits, great audience, great floor traffic, great conversations with IT leaders and folks in the channel." With those words, Tom Gaydos - Director, Marketing...Jun. 27, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 988 |
 Cisco deal maker and chief strategy officer Ned Hooper, who brought Tandberg, WebEx, Scientific-Atlantic, Starent and NDS into the fold and administered Cisco’s $2 billion venture fund, is leaving.
According to a blog posting Tuesday by CEO John Chambers and COO Gary Moore, Hooper’s ...Jun. 27, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 951 |
 We already posted the main features of OpenNebula 3.6 Beta, which are of course fully supported by Sunstone. But we have been working also on the Sunstone visual appeal, and we will keep polishing the interface for the final release. Here are some preview screenshots.Jun. 27, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 663 |
 CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Backup version 2.9, an application that allows users to backup their data online to their cloud storage accounts such as Amazon S3, Windows Azure and Google Storage.
Disaster recovery planning is often times an afterthought that comes to light wh...Jun. 26, 2012 02:17 PM EDT Reads: 402 |
 The OpenNebula project has just announced the availability of the beta release of OpenNebula 3.6 (Lagoon).
OpenNebula 3.6 features a new hotpluging mechanism for disk volumes that supports attaching either volatile volumes or existing images to a running VM. OpenNebula 3.6 brings new ...Jun. 26, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 796 |
 Salesforce has bought SMB-focused corporate perks and employee rewards management start-up ChoicePass a year after the outfit drummed up $250,000 in seed money.
Its site will be shut down on June 30 and the team that put the operation together sucked up into Salesforce according to a...Jun. 26, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 953 |
 Enterprise IT managers are tasked with the mission to solve for the vast explosion of business data. As business data continues its relentless growth, building complex, tiered storage architectures is no longer practical. It has been nearly impossible to keep ahead of the explosion of ...Jun. 26, 2012 10:21 AM EDT Reads: 1,366 |
 Fujitsu has cut an OEM deal with Eucalyptus Systems to deliver a private IaaS cloud solution.
Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc is going to use Eucalyptus’ open source private cloud platform to power its pre-packaged NuVola Private Cloud Platform, otherwise consisting of Fujitsu’s x...Jun. 26, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 882 |
 The money in play for Quest Software jumped from $2.17 billion to $2.32 billion Monday morning.
The mystery bidder, believed to be Dell, that looked trumped a few days ago is back in the game after topping the $25.75-a-share offer made by Insight Venture Partners and Vector Capital, ...Jun. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,056 |
 Microsoft has, as leaked a couple of weeks ago, gone ahead and cut a deal to buy the Twitter-y enterprise social network Yammer for $1.2 billion cash to extend its cloud services and protect its revenue flank.
The four-year-old start-up and its 400 people will be sent to the Office...Jun. 25, 2012 10:28 PM EDT Reads: 568 |
 Astute Networks, Inc., a provider of Networked Performance Flash solutions for accelerating virtualized server, desktop, and cloud computing environments, has announced that it has closed financing in an over-subscribed $12 Million Series B funding round led by Samsung Venture Investme...Jun. 25, 2012 04:11 PM EDT Reads: 374 |
 MineralTree, Inc., maker of the cloud-based, secure payments solution specifically designed for small and medium businesses (SMBs), has received $6.3 million of venture financing. Led by Fidelity Growth Partners India with full participation from initial investor, .406 Ventures, the f...Jun. 25, 2012 02:58 PM EDT Reads: 464 |
 Microsoft is showing a way to enterprise mobility, albeit via a perilous path for its historic partners and channels.
Where goes Apple, there follows Microsoft. Where goes Microsoft, there follows the enterprise.
And so, the inevitability of mobile work and resulting higher productiv...Jun. 25, 2012 10:43 AM EDT Reads: 603 |
 Roger Sippl, who co-founded Informix a generation ago, then Vantive and Visigenic, all acquired after going public, is staging a comeback with new database widgetry that does real-time data integration from multiple sources in the cloud.
He’s been working on it for four years recruit...Jun. 25, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,368 |
 Dublin-based Vordel has spun up a newfangled API Server offering the enterprise a single platform to deploy APIs to cloud services and mobile users.
The widgetry builds on its application gateway technologies.
The company sees it as a simpler, more agile way to deploy apps and a qu...Jun. 25, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,203 |
 Tel Aviv-based Gizmox says it’s figured out how to salvage all those scads of Microsoft client/server desktop apps – pointedly the enterprise ones – transform them – relatively painlessly – into secured-by-design HTML5, and move them to the web, the cloud and mobile devices all without...Jun. 25, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,229 |
 Virtustream wants to move mission-critical legacy apps to the cloud where they’ll be 60% cheaper to run on-demand especially since they won’t have to be rewritten.
So it’s put out xStream 2.0, an update, which is supposed to move both web-scale applications and legacy applications to...Jun. 25, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,140 |
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