3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, today announced that it received a revised proposal from Hewlett-Packard Company (“HP”) to acquire all of 3PAR’s outstanding common stock at $33 per share, which is an increase from its previously announced offer price of $30 per share. << MORE >>

MomentumSI, a leading IT services consultancy that helps enterprise companies transform IT processes and infrastructures into strategic advantage, today announced “The Perfect Private / Hybrid Cloud,” a free white paper that further details the industry’s first integrated, self-service private and hybrid cloud offering. The enterprise solution, delivered by MomentumSI, was announced last week and demonstrated this week at VMworld, and is comprised of best-of-breed platforms from newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus Systems. << MORE >>

NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, today announced that it has signed Melbourne-based Techplus Distribution as the distributor for its HyperIP® WAN optimization software in Australia and New Zealand to keep pace with the growing demand for the industry’s premier virtual WAN optimizer. Techplus is a leading Value Added Distributor in Australia, specializing in bandwidth management and with a focus on products providing quality of service, wide area file services and WAN optimization. << MORE >>

Today at VMworld 2010, 3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced that cloud computing market leaders in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) segments have combined the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server with VMware vSphere™ to build agile and efficient cloud infrastructures for their shared, virtualized “utility” service offerings. << MORE >>

Nasuni™, the leading gateway to the cloud, today announced that it will be offering free use of its service to proactively protect business-critical files of companies within hurricane-prone areas of the United States. New Nasuni customers in specific Gulf Coast and southern Atlantic Coast states are eligible to safeguard and protect files by sending them to the cloud via the Nasuni Filer without incurring a charge of the company’s flat monthly fee for three months if they sign up from September 1 through the end of hurricane season on November 30.<< MORE >>

Today at VMworld 2010, Vordel, a provider of fast, safe connectivity for SOA and Cloud Services announced that its Vordel Cloud Service Broker is the first product of its kind to provide management for the VMware vCloud™ Director. VMware vCloud Director enables enterprises to manage a hybrid environment of their own datacenters and multiple Cloud service providers. Vordel Cloud Service Broker with VMware vCloud Director enables enterprises to obtain the same level of control and visibility of their cloud infrastructure as they have of on-premises infrastructure. << MORE >>

Today at VMworld 2010, F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), a global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), announced the demonstration of a new solution that enables enterprises to more easily augment the capacity of their data centers with external cloud resources. This use case, sometimes referred to as “cloudbursting,” has traditionally required time-consuming manual monitoring and intervention. Developed in collaboration with VMware, the solution works closely with VMware vCloud™ Director and the VMware vCloud API to monitor application response times and apply business policies that can augment local resources with on-demand cloud-based resources when predetermined thresholds are met. This ensures that organizations can meet their Service Level Agreements (SLAs) despite unpredictable application loads, and with a minimum of capital investment. << MORE >>

Today at VMworld 2010, F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), announced an integrated solution supporting VMware View™ 4.5 that optimizes user experience, delivers critical security, and enhances the performance, scalability, and availability of back-end VMware services. F5’s new Application Ready Solution for VMware View 4.5 offers desktop virtualization users convenient single sign-on (SSO), secure access, and high-performance PC-over-IP (PCoIP) protocol handling through the BIG-IP® Edge Gateway™ solution; high availability and scalability through the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM®) solution; and documented expertise with deployment guidance based on thorough testing between F5® products and VMware View 4.5.<< MORE >>

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F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that SpringCM, an award-winning cloud enterprise content management platform, uses F5® BIG-IP® solutions to meet rapidly growing customer demand. The enhanced application performance and virtual server infrastructure optimization that F5 products deliver are vital to achieving the cost-effectiveness, reliability, and performance required for an enterprise-class cloud service. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that it has joined forces with Nissho Electronics in Japan to address the needs of virtual datacenters and the cloud computing service business in Japan. As part of this enhanced partnership, Nissho has become the first member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile Program in Japan to offer 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED disaster recovery services based on 3PAR Remote Copy. As a 3PAR channel partner, Nissho has sold 3PAR Utility Storage, including the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server, in Japan since 2003. With this expanded partnership, Nissho has strengthened its ability to support customers developing cloud-based infrastructures for both internal and external service delivery.<< MORE >>

NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, and Veeam Software, innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery and systems management solutions for VMware virtual datacenter environments, announced today they will partner to supply free HyperIP® software to customers who license Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware. << MORE >>

Coalition Brings Process and Automation Maturity to Private and Hybrid Clouds; Responds to Independent Research Firm Report—“You’re Not Ready for Internal Cloud”—with Enterprise-Ready Offering at VMworld 2010<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), has been named one of the world’s fastest-growing companies, according to FORTUNE. F5 is ranked No. 64 among what FORTUNE calls “the world’s supercharged performers” on its 2010 list of 100 Fastest-Growing Companies. F5, the only company in its market space to make the list of 100, ranks No. 17 among the top technology companies. << MORE >>

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The rise of public cloud services such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace have paved the way for a fundamental transformation in enterprise IT. This transformation isn’t about a wholesale migration of workloads to the public cloud. It’s a transformation by example, where existing IT organizations are recast to look a lot more like a public cloud service.<< MORE >>

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All companies understand the necessity of backing up corporate data. Yet many struggle to find a backup solution with easy access to the cloud storage service of their choice. That’s why Gladinet, (http://www.gladinet.com), the Cloud Storage Access Platform company, has just unveiled Gladinet Cloud Backup which allows enterprises and SMBs to backup their files, databases, and system state to any cloud storage service. This new option meets the specific needs of organizations seeking to leverage the economic benefits of cloud adoption. << MORE >>

Zenoss Inc., the corporate sponsor of Zenoss Core, today announced the release of the 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey. Based on more than 950 completed surveys gathered at the USENIX Large Installation System Administration conference each year from 2006 and 2009 and within the Zenoss open source systems management community from 2007 through 2009, the survey’s purpose was to determine usage patterns for systems management software and particularly the usage of open source software to solve IT management needs of large organizations.<< MORE >>

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Moonwalk Inc. today announced that it has finalized an agreement with QStar Technologies. Under the agreement, the Moonwalk technology has been implemented to manage the migration of files for Windows and NetApp environments. << MORE >>

The organizers of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), building on their 25 years of leadership and expertise in supercomputing events, introduce the inaugural ISC Cloud’10 conference to be held October 28-29, 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany. << MORE >>

NoMachine announces the appointment of Flowsoft as Value Partner level in recognition of their commitment to providing successful IT solutions with NX for nearly five years. Located in Israel, Flowsoft is a software and systems solution provider specializing in Linux consulting and support for server-based solutions and mobile environments. << MORE >>

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IBM Poland (NYSE: IBM) and the Wroclaw University of Technology today announced an agreement to establish the first university cloud computing center in Poland. As part of the partnership, the Wroclaw University of Technology will create a new academic curriculum, making cloud-focused courses available to more than 1500 students. << MORE >>

Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp. << MORE >>

LinMin, maker of award-winning IT automation software LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning™, today unveiled Linux-based LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0 with Cloud, hosting and corporate data center enhancements. Today’s release, which has been in development for nearly a year, also offers improvements in security, platform support and ease of integration with IT applications, including control panels and Cloud orchestrators. << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced the availability of comprehensive SOA federation capabilities in its Repository Manager product. These capabilities help customers share software development asset information effectively within and outside the enterprise, govern how this information is shared, and integrate this information throughout the organization’s heterogeneous software development ecosystem. << MORE >>

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Virtual Bridges, makers of the VERDE™ suite for virtual desktop management and provisioning, today reported its third consecutive quarter of growth across the company, including new customers, worldwide partners, and hiring in sales and development. The market reception of VERDE 4 launched in April highlighted the quarter, significantly increasing sales activity worldwide. << MORE >>

Siemon, a global leader in network cabling solutions, is proud to announce that its products can be implemented as a part of IBM’s enhanced Enterprise Modular Data Center (EMDC) program. EMDC is a large data center design concept which uses pre-engineered design strategies allowing customers to meet unpredictable business and IT demands. By building to a design that allows customers to increase density and footprint as required, clients can scale their data centers when needed without disruption to existing operations. << MORE >>

WorkXpress was named an Up-and-Coming Cloud Computing Vendor by BTC Logic. The Up-and-Comers segment is drawn from a database of smaller, innovative firms that offer novel approaches to specific Cloud problems that BTC believes warrant wider attention. BTC sees Up-and-Comers as potentially being interesting to IT executives who already have a broad view of the Cloud. << MORE >>

Zenoss Inc., the corporate sponsor of Zenoss Core, today announced the general availability of Zenoss Core 3.0 under the GNU General Public License (V2). Fueled by the 85,000-member Zenoss community, the newest release features an updated user interface to improve usability giving users a complete view of all IT infrastructure -- physical, virtual and cloud computing. Beyond its new functional capabilities, Zenoss Core has been integrated with multiple open source IT automation projects, providing a framework for improved functionality and enabling better prevention of service failures. << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating system deployment and maintenance, today announced “Connecting the Software Supply Chain,” a free, technical white paper that defines the integrated software supply chain that enables organizations to automate and streamline IT system construction and change. “Connecting the Software Supply Chain” is available now. << MORE >>

Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks in tiered NAS with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, today announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers. << MORE >>

CharTec, the SMB channel’s leading “Hardware as a Service” (HaaS)/sales trainingprovider, today announced a custom-built business continuity solution that allows Managed Service Providers to deploy backup and disaster recovery as a service. The CharTec BDR (Backup Disaster Recovery) appliance is an Intel® based server solution that provides Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Replication of virtual images to the cloud with nightly self testing to make sure the backups are successful. << MORE >>

Nimbus Data Systems Inc. today announced its new S1000 enterprise flash system, providing 10 TB of solid state capacity per shelf, scalable to 250 TB within a single file system. << MORE >>

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Helping people work online, Zoho today announced the Zoho Projects Bug Tracking Module, a powerful issue submission and bug tracking system that helps organizations and teams submit, track and fix software bugs.<< MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, today announced that it will provide KANA Software, Inc., with virtual private data centers (VPDCs), managed services and disaster recovery solutions to support KANA’s enterprise customers worldwide. KANA’s solutions help many of the world’s largest companies manage their customer service experiences. KANA chose Layered Tech to deliver hosted infrastructure for its customers worldwide because of Layered Tech’s strong global presence, flexibility and highly scalable services. << MORE >>

A recent lab validation report by DeepStorage.net confirms that NetEx HyperIP® significantly boosted Hyper-V Live Migration speed across a variety of emulated WAN links between geographically dispersed locations by as much as 16X. The software provides organizations with the ability to migrate running virtual servers between data centers and remote offices for disaster recovery, business continuity purposes without the need for dedicated, high-bandwidth, low-latency connections.<< MORE >>

Solutionary, cloud security provider, today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to help support the growth of cloud computing. Solutionary is participating as a featured speaker at two upcoming cloud industry events: The Cloud Security Alliance at Black Hat, July 28 – 29 and Cloud Security Alliance Congress, November 16 – 17. The events will focus on cloud security best practices for organizations, with Solutionary discussing policy for organizations in the cloud. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that CentriLogic, a leading provider of Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, and Data Center solutions, has become the first member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner program in Canada. CentriLogic has chosen the 3PAR InServ® F-Class Storage Server to power its multi-facility Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage platforms. In addition, as a 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED partner, CentriLogic has chosen 3PAR Remote Copy software to deliver Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service. << MORE >>

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UShareSoft, provider of tools for cloud-ready and virtual software appliances, today announced a new ISV Partner Program, enabling members to ramp their software to the cloud in under an hour, through privileged access to UShareSoft's unique UForge appliance factory. ISVs can also integrate their software into the UForge catalog, gaining a new route to market. Additionally, UShareSoft customers will benefit from a growing number of enterprise applications in the catalog, providing greater flexibility in building “instant-on” appliances with open-source software. << MORE >>

Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software, and Scality, the developer of object storage software, announced today that they have partnered to provide large web hosters, ISPs and telcos with massively-scalable e-mail and cloud storage. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that Smarsh, the managed service leader in secure, innovative, and reliable email archiving solutions, has deployed 3PAR Utility Storage within its secure cloud infrastructure. Smarsh deployed a highly scalable 3PAR InServ® T-Class Storage Server to support its Microsoft® SQL Server® database, and a second T-Class array to handle backup and recovery. As a result, the hosted service provider reduced its database storage footprint by 66%, storage capacity requirements by 45%, and provisioning time by 40%.<< MORE >>

Nasuni™, creator of the industry’s first gateway to the cloud for primary storage, today announced the availability of a free white paper, Understanding Security in Cloud Storage, which addresses the top security concerns in the cloud and offers information on how businesses can take advantage of cloud storage without compromising security. << MORE >>

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xTuple, the leading provider of commercial open source business management software for growing companies, today announced the release of the latest version of xTuple’s flagship product and the expansion of the xTuple Cloud Service. New features of the open source ERP software include a QuickStart Wizard for easy system set up and an xTuple Desktop interface with sample graphical workflows for sales, CRM, accounting, purchasing, and manufacturing.<< MORE >>

Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks in tiered NAS with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, today announced that GX Technology (GXT), a leading provider of advanced seismic solutions to oil and gas companies worldwide, has chosen its FXT Series for its demonstrated ability to improve application response time and shorten project completion cycles.<< MORE >>

Nirvanix, the premier enterprise cloud storage service provider, today launched hNode™ – an unparalleled hybrid cloud storage solution that combines the scalability, ease of management and compelling economics of public cloud storage with the security and control of private cloud storage. Nirvanix’s hNode provides large organizations with the flexibility to comply with even the most stringent corporate and legal data retention policies by containing data to within their facilities while still enabling policy-based data transfer to the Storage Delivery Network (SDN) for optimizing business processes and workflow – globally.<< MORE >>

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Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental compliance and information management software, has introduced an accreditation process for analytical laboratories to deliver analytical data into Locus’ award winning, cloud-based Environmental Information management (EIM) system. A growing need exists for a standardized format for transmitting environmental electronic data. There are more than 15 different standards in use in the U.S. alone, most of which are antiquated. Standards in the rest of the world also lack consistency leading to increased processing costs by all consumers of analytical data. The Locus EDD accreditation process is intended to help industry and analytical laboratories drive standards, consolidation, and ultimately, the creation of error-free defendable datasets.<< MORE >>

Ocarina Networks, the leading provider of end-to-end deduplication solutions for online storage, today announced the availability of an embedded version of its award-winning ECOsystem for OEMs that provides a consistent, compatible and integrated solution to intelligently reduce storage and network costs while providing end-to-end benefits that improve storage workflow operations such as backup and replication.<< MORE >>

The fancy word for this was “disintermediation”—a fundamental shift in the value chain that rendered a set of participants irrelevant. It’s a concept that got a whole lot of ink in now-defunct and previously high-flying “new economy” publications.<< MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating system deployment and maintenance, today announced that company Founder and CTO, Erik Troan, will be speaking at DevOps Day USA 2010 to be held at the LinkedIn Corp. offices in Mountain View, California on Friday, June 25, 2010. << MORE >>

Nasuni, the leading gateway to cloud storage, today announced a bold challenge to industry skeptics: Successfully reveal the contents of the file stored in the cloud by a Nasuni Filer, and win $5,000. The announcement, which follows on the heels of a release detailing the top 5 security concerns facing any cloud service, marks the start of a multi-pronged campaign to demonstrate that these concerns are surmountable.<< MORE >>

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Helping people work online, Zoho today announced Zoho Wiki 2.0, the company’s online portal for group collaboration and content sharing. With individual workspaces and fine-grained access controls, Zoho Wiki 2.0 takes an enterprise focus that promotes team collaboration within an organization and with clients, partners and other third parties.<< MORE >>

Digitiliti, Inc. (OTC: DIGI), the leader in Operational Business Intelligence for small to midsized enterprises, today announced Coolcat Inc., a leader in content and network security for government and the private sector, has implemented Digitiliti’s DigiLIBE™ Virtual Corporate Library, a comprehensive solution for managing, controlling and accessing unstructured data.<< MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating system deployment and maintenance, today announced its new video series, “System Automation Unplugged: Technical Whiteboard Sessions on Next-Generation IT Automation Topics.” << MORE >>

Helping people work online, Zoho today announced that Zoho Invoice and Zoho Creator Helpdesk have been integrated with Google Apps and are now available in the Google Apps Marketplace™. Zoho Creator Helpdesk is also available in the Zoho Marketplace, the company’s online store for ready-to-use business applications built with Zoho Creator online database software. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that, in order to take advantage of the steady growth of the cloud and utility computing markets, it has signed up a new partner and increased its headcount in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) by more than 40%, with a focus on expanding its sales and customer services teams. Offering a new approach to storage architecture and a storage platform purpose-built to power the delivery of enterprise-class services via the cloud, 3PAR has taken advantage of the increased adoption of cloud computing in EMEA to grow operations over the past 12 months. << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced it had been selected as one of the SD Times 100 winners for 2010. For the past eight years, the SD Times editors have used the award process to spotlight the industry’s top leaders, innovators and influencer. The editors look for companies that set industry’s trends that become market standards. This year the 100 winners were placed into 12 separate industry categories. << MORE >>

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Cloud-based storage as a service includes inherent vulnerabilities, but they need not prevent a business user from taking advantage of its economies and flexibilities. Here are the five most important ways to address data security in cloud-based storage infrastructures. << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced its award winning Service Manager product version 6.0. Service Manager 6.0 provides advanced virtualization, management, security, monitoring and mediation capabilities for SOA and Cloud Service, implemented using a state-of-the-art OSGi-based architecture. SOA provides the foundation for a successful transition to an Enterprise Cloud Operating Model. << MORE >>

Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental compliance and information management software, was recently awarded a greenhouse gases (GHG) verification contract by Air Products (NYSE:APD). Air Products serves customers in industrial, energy, technology and healthcare markets worldwide with a unique portfolio of atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials and equipment and services. << MORE >>

Autonomic Resources,an IT and service integration firm serving the U.S. federal government, announced today the availability of two leading open source solutions, SugarCRM and Jaspersoft, under the General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule. As a GSA contract holder for these and other solutions, Autonomic meets pre-qualified technical and pricing requirements, making the procurement process fast, flexible, and cost-effective for federal government agencies. Additionally, SugarCRM and Jaspersoft are now available on Apps.gov, a service provided by GSA as a source for Cloud computing applications. << MORE >>

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The 2010 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’10) concluded its 25th meeting with the largest attendance ever – 1,998 registered participants – and the exhibition, with 151 of the world’s leading supercomputing vendors and research organization showcasing their ideas.<< MORE >>

Digitiliti, Inc. (OTC: DIGI), the leader in Operational Business Intelligence for small to midsized enterprises, today announced that it has been chosen as a speaker at the Storage Decisions conference at the Hilton Chicago hotel, June 9th.<< MORE >>

Mezeo Software™ (www.mezeo.com), the leading provider of a deployable cloud storage platform, today introduced the Mezeo Ready Program, which features a comprehensive portfolio of technologies that enable Mezeo based storage cloud solutions. All Mezeo Ready solutions are carefully evaluated and tested, and are seamlessly integrated with the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform. << MORE >>

AgilePath Corporation, a leading IT management consulting firm, today announced the release of its "Cloud Computing Playbook™ Business Discovery Template" for complementary download from www.agile-path.com. AgilePath's "Cloud Computing Playbook™ Business Discovery Template" describes the necessary information to complete a Cloud Computing assessment and determine an organization's Cloud computing readiness. << MORE >>

Businesses looking to boost the performance of their NAS environments typically look at a variety of potential upgrades to solve their problem, from adding more hard disk drives (HDDs), short-stroking HDDs, installing Flash PCI cards or SSDs, or upgrading to higher performance and much more expensive NAS filers. But these solutions can increase costs unnecessarily, offer minimal performance increases and are short-term solutions that cannot scale to keep pace with a company’s need to serve new clients and applications, according to Avere Systems, a company focused on delivering Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions.<< MORE >>

Nasuni™, the leading gateway to cloud storage, today announced that it has partnered with Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) to offer customers a simple, scalable and cost-effective online storage solution that leverages the power of the cloud. << MORE >>

The 2010 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’10) opened on Monday, May 31, with an unprecedented 1797 registered attendees as the conference marked its 25th anniversary. << MORE >>

Cloud Expo Europe, the annual European event in the industry-leading International Cloud Expo series produced by Cloud Expo, Inc., is being held June 21-22, 2010, in Prague in the Czech Republic.<< MORE >>

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Rightrix Solutions, creators of IndicThreads.com software development portal & the annual Conferences On Java & Software Quality are pleased to announce the 1st IndicThreads.com International Conference On Upcoming Technology. The technology for the 1st conference in 2010 is "Cloud Computing".<< MORE >>

ReliaCloud, a national cloud computing infrastructure company, has launched a full channel program centered on their enterprise-class infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing offering.<< MORE >>

Cypress Communications® is proud to announce that its hosted VoIP and hosted unified communications solution, C4 IP®, has been recognized again with the 2009 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award. Presented by the Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®), the award distinguishes companies that brought ground-breaking advancements to unified communications technology in the past year. << MORE >>

Customers of the Nasuni™ Filer, the industry’s first gateway to the cloud for primary storage, are praising the all-in-one approach to data storage and protection for its usability, value, and simplicity, the company reported today. As trial users upgrade to customer status, they receive additional reporting features, for which the company is getting rave reviews as well as continued positive feedback for its storage-as-a-service technology that provides unlimited cloud capacity in the form of a virtual appliance.<< MORE >>

Neoedge Pte. Ltd (Telecoms and IT) announced this morning that Ashnik's Sachin Dabir and Metanoia Partners' Nigel K J Dye will be co-chairing for the Mobile Cloud Computing ASIA 2010 conference which will be held on 14-15 July at Carlton Hotel Singapore.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) today announced new enablement resources designed exclusively to empower channel partners worldwide to successfully market, sell and deploy Juniper's high-performance networking solutions. The value proposition behind Juniper's 'new network' changes the economics of partnering for Juniper Networks Partner Program and creates additional opportunity for partners to add more value by reducing network cost and complexity. The new Juniper Networks Learning Academy and the Juniper Networks Global Marketing Resource Center will be featured at the company's regionally-based, annual Partner Conferences taking place this month around the globe.<< MORE >>

THINKstrategies, Inc., the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market, announced today that WaveMaker has been named the latest winner of THINKstrategies' new Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today's cloud computing solutions. << MORE >>

Digitiliti, Inc. (OTC: DIGI), the leader in Operational Business Intelligence for small to midsized enterprises, today announced Northland Systems, a global provider of innovative data center and network products and solutions, will be offering Digitiliti’s DigiLIBE™ Virtual Corporate Library, a comprehensive solution for managing, controlling and accessing unstructured data, to their worldwide customers. << MORE >>

In response to international recognition of the need for industry to increase its water reporting efforts, Locus Technologies (Locus), leader in cloud-based environmental compliance and information management software, has expanded its award winning Environmental Information Management (EIM) software to include water quality foot printing capabilities for businesses. << MORE >>

The Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit – Europe is the premier forum for executives in the hosting, cloud computing, datacenter and Internet infrastructure sectors.<< MORE >>

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As the Google I/O conference gets underway, Google Storage seems to be a major focal point. For example, according to TechCrunch, “Google will be announcing a new service that is a direct competitor with Amazon’s S3 cloud storage. Google’s service will be called Google Storage for Developers, or ‘GS’. We also hear that the service will be positioned to make it very easy for existing S3 customers to make the switch to Google Storage.” This may be true, but the service will be geared towards developers who are able to leverage it using a REST API.<< MORE >>

This year, the International SOA Symposium and the co-hosted International Cloud Symposium will be held in the heart of Berlin, at the Berliner Congress Center. This event will once again be the world’s largest conference dedicated to SOA and Cloud Computing, boasting an agenda of 80 expert speaker sessions and numerous panels, working groups, and contests.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) has been honored at The World Vendor Awards 2010 for Best Brand Campaign with its 'The New Network is Here' campaign. The award was presented during a ceremony in London on May 5, and was the inaugural event in a new annual scheme. The World Vendor Awards judging panel described Juniper's winning campaign as a company-wide effort, including support from the CEO, and strong use of social media. The panel also mentioned that Juniper has done an excellent job communicating its new branding strategy to the market.<< MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, today announced that it has signed an agreement with JDA Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, to provide dedicated hosting, storage, virtualization and managed services. JDA will consolidate hosting from three data centers with Layered Tech, which will eventually provide and manage the infrastructure that powers the supply chain management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions relied upon by JDA’s more than 6,000 customers.<< MORE >>

The Up 2010™ cloud computing conference is an annual review of cloud computing developments, on the cloud's impact on world economy and society, and an aggregation point for the study of future trends. << MORE >>

Hostway Corporation, a global leader in infrastructure and Web application hosting, announced today that it will deliver “Kick-It”, a campaign to support humanitarian organization Right To Play in developing countries through the sales of Windows Server. << MORE >>

If you can’t make it to Hamburg for ISC’10, the 25th International Supercomputing Conference, you can still catch some of the program highlights via live streaming over the web. << MORE >>

Esker, a leader in document process automation solutions and an SAP® software solution partner, today announced its participation as a diamond-level exhibitor at SAPPHIRE® NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference, May 16–19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. These co-located events bring together SAP customers, partners and industry experts for knowledge sharing and networking to gain insight and drive business results.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) today announced its new 'dynamic security model' that delivers world-class network security to the data center of the 21st century. Juniper's dynamic security model uniquely helps IT adapt to new user behaviors and changing data flows resulting from virtualization, Web 2.0 and cloud services deployments at scale. Juniper's data center security products help enterprises and service providers move beyond today's limited security architectures, to the high-performance identity-aware data center paradigm, while dramatically reducing cost and complexity, and improving application visibility.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) today introduced a new enterprise services portfolio, Juniper Care Plus, designed to protect high performance network investments while increasing reliability and operational effectiveness, and lowering operating expenses. Juniper Care Plus, expected to be available in Q4 of this year, will build upon the award winning Juniper Care set of services for device level support, extending mission critical support for enterprise customers.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) today unveiled new software, services, systems and partnerships that will help enterprise IT dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of data center networking while also improving application and business performance. The 'new network' for data centers is fueled by critical innovations in automation, virtualization and fabric technologies, which can cut time to operation by up to 50 percent and eliminate up to 35 percent of data center networking capital expenditures. The company also announced new switches and the delivery of new routers that yield up to a five-fold and eight-fold improvement in network performance, respectively.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR) today introduced new software and services that significantly improve the automated provisioning, management and support of enterprise and data center networks. The software applications help businesses of any size dramatically lower the cost of data center operations, while enhancing user experiences through improved service delivery, reliability and security.<< MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced today that the California Department of Water Resources has realized immediate value with an enterprise SOA Governance infrastructure build using SOA Software’s industry-leading products.<< MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that leading UK managed hosting provider and 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner Ultraspeed has deployed the 3PAR InServ® F-Class Storage Server in its new carbon-neutral datacenter in Amsterdam. This new remote datacenter is a global Internet interconnection hub that uses leading-edge technologies and runs solely on renewable energy. Ultraspeed also stated plans to introduce new disaster recovery services as part of its 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED offerings, which leverage 3PAR Utility Storage and 3PAR Remote Copy for flexible, robust cloud-based disaster recovery. << MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) is hosting a global webcast to discuss innovative technology and services that will help customers transform the economics and experience of data center networks by eliminating layers of cost and complexity in legacy networks.<< MORE >>

Join OMG's own Vice President of Technology Transfer, Jon Siegel along with a panel of leading industry experts at the upcoming BrightTALK Cloud Computing Summit, a free, interactive webcast titled "Accelerating Cloud Adoption via Standards & Collaboration."<< MORE >>

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Upcoming Cloud Computing Events for Monday May 17th by @TheCloudNetwork<< MORE >>

Caringo Inc., the leading provider of content storage software enabling clustered storage for digital content, today announced CAStor™ 4.0, a significant upgrade to its object storage platform that extends the business value of CAStor, providing powerful new features, improving on operational and reporting efficiency and adding an innovative adaptive power conservation technology, Darkive™. << MORE >>

Kontiki, the leading provider of enterprise video solutions, announced today that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. has selected Kontiki’s Enterprise Video Platform to deliver high-quality video content to employees’ desktops worldwide. Starwood is a leading global hotel and leisure company with 145,000 employees and a presence in nearly 100 countries. << MORE >>

Releasing .NET applications into production is complex, manual, cumbersome and excessively costly for even the best-run IT organizations. The reason? Today’s .NET production environments are diverse assemblies of scripts and manual processes cobbled together by harried operations engineers trying to cope with unstable, rapidly changing applications and exploding scale. And there are scarcely few tools and automation available to IT operations groups who deploy, configure, maintain and troubleshoot .NET applications.<< MORE >>

Ocarina Networks, the leading provider of end-to-end deduplication solutions for online storage, today announced Electronic Discovery service providers LDiscovery and SFL Data (formerly SF Legal) have implemented the Ocarina ECOsystem deduplication solution to improve business performance and reduce infrastructure costs pertaining to the retention of legally regulated documents and files. << MORE >>

Caringo Inc., the leading provider of content storage software enabling clustered storage for digital content, today announced CAStor™ 4.0, a significant upgrade to its object storage platform that extends the business value of CAStor, providing powerful new features, improving on operational and reporting efficiency and adding an innovative adaptive power conservation technology, Darkive™. << MORE >>

As cloud storage becomes more mainstream, moving from predominately offsite backup and archiving to enterprise-class primary storage, the number of vendors jumping into the marketplace is quickly growing. Finding the best way to gets files to the cloud is an important step in leveraging the benefits of cloud technology for a company's particular business. With more and more cloud gateways being announced, here are the top five issues companies should consider before making a purchasing decision, according to experts at Nasuni™, creator of the industry’s first gateway to the cloud for primary storage. << MORE >>

This entry was reposted from DoubleCloud.org, a blog for architects and developers on virtualization and cloud computing.<< MORE >>

@TheTechGang announces the addition of @OpineIT to their network.<< MORE >>

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NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, today announced it has adopted subscription-based pricing for its award-winning HyperIP® software WAN optimizer, a move that reduces up-front costs and simplifies budgets for mid-tier users, cloud and service provider partners. << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating system deployment and maintenance, today announced that it will support the Microsoft Windows operating system with a new solution for automated deployment of applications built using the Microsoft .NET Framework. This announcement extends the reach of rPath’s next-generation system automation solutions beyond the enterprise Linux market. << MORE >>

Following closely on the heels of its launch of CloudAFS, Gladinet (http://www.gladinet.com) has released Cloud Desktop v2.1. This update adds Mezeo Storage to the long list of cloud services supported by the cloud service company. Other supported services include Amazon S3, Azure, ByCast, EMC Atmos, Google Docs, Nirvanix and more.<< MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, announced today a new SOA Planning Governance product that augments the SOA Governance capabilities of IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). << MORE >>

ActiveVideo Networks™, the global leader in cloud-based interactive television solutions, today announced that it has completed an acquisition of TAG Networks, adding the world's most scalable network game platform to its CloudTV interactive stre<< MORE >>

NetEx®, the leader in WAN optimization software, today announced that its HyperIP® product has achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that HyperIP has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed as such on both the VMware Partner Product Catalog and Virtual Appliance Marketplace. << MORE >>

ISC will be held from May 30 – June 3, once again in Hamburg. The 2010 agenda consists of a half-day session of tutorials, a four-day conference and a two-and-half day exhibition. The conference and exhibition will convene in the Congress Center Hamburg, while the tutorials will be held at the University of Hamburg, which is a short walk from the convention center.<< MORE >>

Vordel, a provider of Cloud and SOA governance products, today announced that it is hosting its inaugural French Vordel Gateway User Group meeting in Paris on May 6. This event is on the back of the company's continued expansion across Europe, and its stand-out performance in both France and Belgium with the addition of several major new accounts. During the year ended 2009, Vordel scored major contract wins in the Financial Services and Public Sector markets with leading Blue Chip accounts including BNP Paribas Fortis Bank Belgium, the EU Council, La Poste and Caisse des Depots. Vordel enables these enterprises to improve the management of SOA and Cloud-linked applications to ultimately deliver greater business efficiencies, reduce time to market for new services and generate below the line cost savings. << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the results of rigorous Application Delivery Controller (ADC) testing comparing F5® BIG-IP® solutions to Cisco ACE and Citrix NetScaler devices, with F5 demonstrating significant performance advantages. Alongside these results, F5 has also made available its transparent testing methodology and a performance testing guide, as well as comprehensive device configurations, precise definitions, extensive factual data, and the real-world scenarios devised for this comparative evaluation.<< MORE >>

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Upcoming Cloud Computing Events for Monday May 3rd by @TheCloudNetwork << MORE >>

Acumen Solutions, a leading business and technology consulting firm that specializes in leveraging cloud computing applications for business support systems in the cable MSO industry, announced today that it has been chosen by a selection committee of cable company Chief Information Officers (CIOs) as a finalist in the first-ever CIO.IT | Competition, a competitive program of solution-based presentations scheduled for the CIO.IT program at The Cable Show 2010, May 11-13, 2010, in Los Angeles, where the company is exhibiting at Booth 2139. Acumen Solutions also announced that it will demo cable IT applications on the CTAM Tech Tour during the Show and recently participated in a cloud computing applications webinar hosted by Multichannel News: “Soar in the Cloud: Taking Cable’s Business Ops Higher” which aired on April 27th and is now available on-demand. << MORE >>

Once again, Gladinet (http://www.gladinet.com), the world's leading cloud computing solution provider, has just unveiled Gladinet CloudAFS(TM), a new approach to data storage management that attaches cloud storage to existing file servers and intelligently manages data transfer between the two tiers (local-cloud).<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced enhanced BIG-IP solution capabilities delivering new security services for applications deployed in the cloud. Application security provided by F5 solutions, including BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™, BIG-IP Edge Gateway™, and BIG-IP Application Security Manager™, ensures that enterprise applications and data are safe even when deployed in the cloud. The new BIG-IP Version 10.2 software enhances F5’s security offerings, enabling customers to lower infrastructure costs, optimize application access, and secure applications in the enterprise and the cloud. << MORE >>

Vordel, a provider of Cloud and SOA governance products, today announced at the Infosecurity Europe conference that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance as a corporate sponsor member. Vordel is joining the alliance to help advance the control of data exchange between public, private and community clouds and to drive trust and reliability for Cloud Computing.<< MORE >>

Ocarina Networks, a leading provider of data-reduction solutions for primary storage, has won Bio-IT World "Best of Show" award for its Ocarina ECOsystem solutions in the IT Hardware Infrastructure category. << MORE >>

TheBDEvent, a technology networking and business development-only event, today announced two special forums for its June 2010 conference to be held June 15-17 in Boston, Mass. at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. Both new forums will feature highly interactive discussions with audience participation from top executives at large system integrators as well as growth-stage small companies. << MORE >>

LinMin™, maker of award-winning IT automation software LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning™, today announced its support for the provisioning and imaging of systems running Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Edition, released by Canonical every two years. << MORE >>

F5 announced today a new generation of BIG-IP software that helps extend enterprise data center architecture to the cloud, and enables enterprises and service providers to realize the potential of ‘On-Demand IT’ through a dynamic services model. To help customers unlock the power of ‘On-Demand IT,’ F5 is detailing a comprehensive approach that integrates disparate technologies for application delivery, security, optimization, data management, and infrastructure control—all critical technologies needed to realize the true flexibility and agility of virtualization and cloud computing solutions.<< MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member. As the first storage vendor to join the CSA, 3PAR brings expertise and leadership in utility storage to help define best practices and guidance for secure data storage and management in cloud computing environments. Specific areas of focus include: disaster recovery; secure administrative segregation of users, hosts, and application data; and data “lock down” to aid eDiscovery and enterprise compliance. << MORE >>

Nimbus Data Systems Inc. today unveiled Sustainable Storage, a new vision and architecture for enterprise network storage that fundamentally reshapes IT infrastructure with next-generation performance, efficiency, and automated management. With the new Nimbus S-class storage systems, organizations can meet the challenges of rapidly accelerating IO demands and spiraling datacenter costs that traditional disk-based arrays cannot. << MORE >>

Hostway Corporation, a global leader in infrastructure and web application hosting, announced today that it has partnered with Stratavia, a market leader in IT automation, to launch NetDBAs; a revolutionary, enterprise-class database automation solution that simplifies the management of corporate databases and can be consumed cost effectively as a service.<< MORE >>

CloudAsia 2010 will be held in the week of 3 - 7 May 2010. The program will cover industry & R&D presentations, discussions, panel discussions and collaboration sessions covering a range of issues related to Grid and Cloud computing. CloudCamp, Open Cirrus Day and Hadoop for Users Training will also be held.<< MORE >>

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Cloud industry leaders will gather to discuss leading trends in cloud computing, including a comparison of Cloud Platform providers, VC Cloud interest, and workshops examining costs, management, security, and development. The conference will include a demo session featuring the hottest companies leveraging various cloud computing platforms, presenting startups will be enterprise oriented. << MORE >>

THINKstrategies is pleased to be supporting the FVG CLOUD Channel which will launch a streaming interactive production titled Cloud Computing: Set to Unleash a Perfect Storm in Business, hosted by Peter Fingar, on CIO.COM's Cloud Computing Page, in mid-July.<< MORE >>

Zenoss Inc., corporate sponsor of the award winning open source IT monitoring and management solution Zenoss Core, today announced the release of over 10 community-developed open source cloud monitoring and virtualization management software extensions (called ZenPacks). These extensions to Zenoss Core enable users to monitor popular cloud computing applications via Zenoss’ open source management software. << MORE >>

A text messaging-based pilot project -- "SMS for Life" -- managed in the IBM cloud -- has helped to save lives from the grips of malaria over the last several months. has helped to save lives from the grips of malaria over the last several months. The pilot, launched by IBM, Novartis, and Vodafone, together with Roll Back Malaria and the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, tapped into a combination of smart technologies including mobile phones, text-messaging and intuitive Web sites. The combined project delivered, tracked, traced and managed the supply of anti-malarial drugs in sub-Saharan Africa. << MORE >>

Apache Lucene EuroCon 2010 is the first dedicated Lucene and Solr User Conference in Europe. This conference provides professional training on Lucene and Solr as well as a unique opportunity to learn from the search experts in two educational tracks. This conference is sponsored by Lucid Imagination, the commercial entity committed to providing Lucene and Solr expertise and support.<< MORE >>

The Cloud Computing Asia-Pacific Congress (Cloud APAC 2010) is the only event to bring together executives, IT professionals and developers to drive cloud computing growth and innovation in Asia-Pacific. Cloud APAC 2010 is specially designed for senior IT and line of business executives evaluating and making purchasing decisions in the areas of on-demand infrastructure and software services.<< MORE >>

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Zenoss Inc., corporate sponsor of the award winning open source IT monitoring and management solution Zenoss Core, today announced a partnership with Puppet Labs along with the delivery of an integrated open source solution for automating data center and cloud infrastructure management. << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced Repository Manager Version 6.2. Repository Manager enables enterprises to understand what services and software assets exist, where they are located and how each fits into a company's business and technical landscape. By providing a context for understanding and assessing existing software assets, Repository Manager serves to automate the path to SOA and Cloud, enabling customers to rapidly develop, govern and deploy services within the SOA service lifecycle.<< MORE >>

A newly created cloud-computing consortium hopes to drive development and adoption of the first nationwide high-definition enterprise voice and data network in the IP “cloud.” Called the Cloud Communications Alliance, the group has formed this week in New York City at the Cloud Computing Expo.<< MORE >>

For the first time in 2010, European Identity Conference will be co-lated with CLOUD 2010.<< MORE >>

Nasuni™, creator of the industry’s first gateway to the cloud for primary storage, announced today that the Nasuni Filer has passed the beta stage and is available for immediate download. << MORE >>

CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-grade Unified Communications for business users, today proudly acknowledges how its Unified Communications technology is helping assure the continuity of thousands of European businesses in the wake of the Icelandic volcano eruption. << MORE >>

Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced that its Director of Cloud Computing, Doug Willoughby, will discuss how deploying cloud-based, borderless applications impacts performance management this week at SYS-CON’s Cloud Expo 2010 Conference in New York City. The session, titled: “Performance Management for Composite Applications,” will take place on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 1:45 p.m. ET.<< MORE >>

BlackArrow, a leading worldwide provider of advanced advertising solutions for New Television platforms, today announced it has closed $20 million in Series C financing. The round was led by strategic investor NDS Group - the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, and included existing investors Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners. << MORE >>

A brief examination of hardware appliances problems and how the VSA solves those problems clearly shows why the hardware appliance is dying. << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars/Webcasts for Monday April 19 by @TheCloudNetwork<< MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events for Monday April 19 by @TheCloudNetwork<< MORE >>

Proving that charging a low monthly fee doesn’t have to mean sacrificing quality, web hosting company webhostingpad.com continues to build a growing collection of industry awards recognizing its position as a leading provider of web hosting services. Host Insight, a web site that tracks detailed information about known web hosting companies and ranks each based on critical factors like uptime, value, support, performance and software has named webhostingpad.com as its pick for Top Overall Host for 2009. << MORE >>

Atlantic Metro Communications, a full-service Internet Solutions Provider of Managed Hosting, Colocation, IP Bandwidth, Dark Fiber and Metro Transport services, announced today it has integrated R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) into all of its Cloud Hosting offerings.<< MORE >>

Digitiliti, Inc. (Pink Sheets: DIGI), the leader in Operational Business Intelligence for small to midsized enterprises, today announced DigiLIBE™, a groundbreaking information management solution that solves fundamental problems associated with managing, controlling and quickly accessing unstructured data. DigiLIBE is a simple, integrated Virtual Corporate Library (VCL) system with policy-based applications to protect, control and secure data from its point of origin to final disposition. << MORE >>

Cypress Communications®, a leading provider of hosted unified communications and hosted VoIP solutions, has been included in Gartner’s “Critical Capabilities for Unified Communications as a Service” report. The research evaluates and scores Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solutions based on 8 critical capabilities: fixed and mobile telephony with unified communications, messaging, audio and web conferencing, video conferencing, presence/IM, multitenant, as well as service and support. Cypress’ hosted unified communications solution, C4 IP®, is reviewed in the report.<< MORE >>

ON24, Inc. : www.on24.com/ , the global leader in webcasting and virtual event solutions, announced today the launch of an open webcasting platform which enables customers to create completely custom experiences and integrate applications developed by third-party developers. This open cloud platform also enables enterprises to deliver "social webcasts" and features enhanced interactivity capabilities. The result is a more immersive end-user experience, increasing engagement and effectiveness.<< MORE >>

The Event Processing Symposium 2010 program committee, in cooperation with OMG™, today announced new featured sessions for Event Processing Symposium 2010: Profiting from Continuous Intelligence, to be held in Washington D.C., on May 24-25, 2010. The Call for Participation is open through April 15, 2010.<< MORE >>

Vordel, a provider of Cloud and SOA governance products, today announced its revenue results for Q1 2010. This quarter has proved to be the most successful in the history of the company with a 55% increase in revenue compared to the previous quarter and a massive 85% increase on results from Q1 2009. In Q1 2010, Vordel has added 10 enterprise customers in new markets including Retail, Human Resources and Online Gaming, as well as generating business in the Banking and Government sectors. Some recent new customer signings include the Dept. of Homeland Security, US Dept. of Justice, FAA, ASR Nederland, BNP Paribas Fortis Bank, 3, Barclays Bank and an OEM partnership with Bull Group. << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating system provisioning and maintenance, today announced enhancements to the intelligent patching capabilities of its next-generation system automation platform. Specifically, rPath now automates inventory discovery, allows users to “cherry pick” updates and errata for incremental updates, and simplifies the user experience for Linux patching and system administration. To encourage Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite users to try the rPath platform, the company has launched its “Satellite Swap-Out” promotional offer. For existing RHN Satellite customers, rPath will match or beat their current subscription to RHN Satellite with a richer, more complete solution. << MORE >>

Open-Xchange announces availability of software that enables hosters and SaaS providers to replace Plesk Webmail in shared hosting environments with Open-Xchange business-class e-mail and groupware -- providing users with additional PIM (Personal Information Management) features at no extra cost with an option to move to full groupware, as well as support for mobile devices. << MORE >>

NetSuite, Inc., a vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, announced that hundreds of channel businesses and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), including Amazon Web Services and Google, have signed on to sponsor NetSuite's upcoming annual partner conference, SuiteCloud 2010. << MORE >>

Learn the latest techniques, tips, and tools for high performance SOA & Cloud Computing. Burst the bubble that says you can’t have both the agility & loose coupling that SOA & Cloud Computing offer and high performance at the same time. Learn from industry practitioners on the best ways to guarantee SOA & Cloud implementations perform at the level you need.<< MORE >>

Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, today announced that it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2010"1 report by Gartner Inc.<< MORE >>

Abtech Systems, a provider of enterprise technology solutions, has teamed with manufacturing vendor partner Pano Logic to introduce The Pano System, the greener answer to tedious desktop replacement and maintenance. << MORE >>

Three OSS Imperatives: Customer, Cost & Cloud Virtual Tradeshow a one-day Light Reading and Heavy Reading virtual event.<< MORE >>

Burton Group is pleased to offer the following complimentary Cloud events to add to your Catalyst experience.<< MORE >>

Public sector IT buyers do not want use of the proposed government G-Cloud to be mandatory, according to a new report. K2 Advisory's report "Cloud Computing – A Step-Change for IT Services," which analyses the developing market for cloud services, reveals scepticism from public sector IT buyers.<< MORE >>

eSilo, a leading provider of comprehensive online data backup, storage solutions and data management services, today announced the appointment of technology industry veteran Jerry Jeffries as its CEO. With more than 20 years of proven experience in executive leadership roles at technology and networking organizations, Jeffries was enlisted to help the company expand its market share for its Storage-as-a-Service offerings. << MORE >>

Green IT will be on the agenda at the Green Enterprise Forum (http://www.greenenterpriseforum.com) taking place on the 1st July at the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum at Olympia Conference Centre, London.<< MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars/Webcasts for Monday April 12 << MORE >>

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On Tuesday, April 27th, ResourcePlus Shows & Events will host the first State of the Cloud Executive Conference, a one-day conference at the Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center, aimed at educating senior-level executives on the benefits of implementing cloud computing solutions into current business models. << MORE >>

Enterprise IT professionals recognize the value of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for enabling new business applications, more effectively interacting with partners and customers, and responding to changing market conditions with greater agility. However, real-world SOA implementations are often stalled by integration complexity, risk mitigation concerns, and more recently with questions on how to effectively extend SOAs to the cloud.<< MORE >>

Esker, the leader in document process automation solutions, today announced the release of a new SaaS (software as a service) solution to automate sales order processing. This new solution from Esker offers companies a real alternative to traditional software for cost reduction and productivity improvement — via a simple Internet connection. << MORE >>

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Hostway Corporation, one of the world’s largest infrastructure and web application hosting companies, today announced that it has completed the SAS 70 (Statement of Auditing Standards No. 70: Service Organizations) Type II audit for four of its North American data centers. The SAS 70 Type II process provides assurance that Hostway delivers fully secure, reliable, effective operating environments with the proper controls for conducting high availability IT and Internet operations. << MORE >>

Growth in system scale, accelerated change and the expectation for zero-latency IT are forcing a transformation in enterprise IT. The focus of this transformation? The intersection between development and operations, a longstanding bottleneck and the primary barrier to agility, responsiveness and business value. Movements such as “DevOps,” manifestos such as The Visible Ops Handbook, and new automation technologies have emerged in support of this transformation. << MORE >>

Gizmox, the developer of the Visual WebGui web/cloud applications platform, launched Visual WebGui 6.4 Beta 2, it’s fully fledged version which, for the first time, enables every developer to develop complex business web & cloud applications without discriminating against less experienced developers or requiring access to deep pockets. The release of the new version is a major departing from the developer arena's one tier system that, until now, has been reserved for the more experienced. The accessibility to all developers is complemented by the platform benefits which ensure that the applications will run the fastest and be the most secure on the web and cloud. << MORE >>

In K2 Advisory's report "Cloud Computing: A Step Change for IT Services," which analyses the developing market for cloud services, the report's author Dr Katy Ring, Director, K2 Advisory says that the benefits of Cloud Computing can provide the business flexibility to help companies operate more effectively in the current economic climate. However, the report finds that adoption rates by smaller organisations of public cloud and SaaS services from vendors such as Amazon and Google will outpace the adoption rate of enterprises by a factor of two. By 2015 for organisations below 1,000 employees, a third to half of IT spend is likely to be with public cloud providers.<< MORE >>

Cypress Communications® announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has named C4 IP® as a 2009 Product of the Year. As the leading hosted VoIP and hosted unified communications solution for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs), C4 IP delivers an array of functionality to help users connect, communicate, collaborate and continue®. This is the 21st award for C4 IP and the 25th award Cypress has received for product excellence and innovation. << MORE >>

Thomas Kaehler*, CEO of Communology took a closer look of on Enhanced Location Awareness. << MORE >>

Avere Systems, the company setting new performance and efficiency benchmarks in tiered NAS with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, unveiled a new channel partner program for its FXT Series of appliances. The new program is designed to expand Avere’s footprint into targeted vertical and geographic markets, leveraging the proficiency of proven storage resellers with specific application expertise and regional market experts. Avere has already signed ten new partners under the program.<< MORE >>

NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, today announced that its award-winning HyperIP supercharges the performance of the industry's widest range of storage replication applications across Cisco networks without the complexity and interoperability issues of third-party hardware devices.<< MORE >>

IBM announced today that Woodward Control Solutions will access a high performance cloud environment from Nimbis Services and IBM to simulate and design aircraft components. With cloud-based simulation, Woodward will avoid building physical prototypes of its products and so deliver them to market 80 percent faster while generating half the waste from materials.<< MORE >>

The Distributed Computing Industry Association (www.DCIA.info), a trade organization with more than one-hundred Member companies, including peer-to-peer (P2P), cloud computing, and social networking software developers and distributors, Internet service providers (ISPs), content rights-holders, and service-and-support companies, today announced the agenda and principal speakers for its upcoming P2P & CLOUD MEDIA SUMMIT. << MORE >>

In this exclusive half-day event, featuring Amazon.com CTO Dr. Werner Vogels, learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers enterprises a scalable, cost-effective, flexible, and secure cloud computing platform. The AWS on-demand resources combined with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) allow you to use your choice of operating system and programming tools for moving your corporate applications into AWS, helping you spend less time procuring or managing IT resources and more time focusing on your business.<< MORE >>

Join us in a strategic thinking forum where leading DC area IT executives will discuss key strategies for 2010 for the CIO's office related to constantly evolving technology in today's fast paced world in a lively, interactive environment. Agenda/Discussion: Cloud Computing Solutions and Remote Infrastructure Support<< MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars/Webcasts for Monday April 5 << MORE >>

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ReliaCloud announces a case study showcasing its highly scalable and cost-effective cloud server product. After running out of capacity in previous years, the advertising agency Preston Kelly found the on-demand capacity they were looking for with cloud computing.<< MORE >>

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Ping Identity®, the leader in Internet Identity Security, will share real-world examples of effective identity management in the Cloud at SaaS/Gov 2010, April 5, 2010, in Washington, DC. Ping Identity security and federated identity management experts will be on hand to share real customer use cases, product demos and insights into how new technologies and third-party services are meeting critical requirements around Single Sign-On in the Cloud. << MORE >>

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The continued growth of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is helping to reshape government IT. The combination of a lower upfront investment commitment, combined with increased business agility, ease of use and potentially lower longer-term costs are driving accelerating use of SaaS. Planning for, implementing and achieving ROI from SaaS requires government IT and users take an active role in the selection, management and measurement of new Cloud- and SaaS-based offerings. << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating system provisioning and maintenance, today announced “Achieving Visible Ops with Intelligent System Automation,” a free white paper that offers a practical approach to intelligently automating Visible Ops release and change processes to transform and accelerate IT, reduce cost and mitigate risk. “Achieving Visible Ops with Intelligent System Automation” is available now.<< MORE >>

Cloud Telco 2010 - Early Bird Registration! - Register for the conference before the 2nd of April, 2010 and save 30% on the regular registration fee.<< MORE >>

Hostway Corporation, a leading global provider of Web hosting and cloud hosting services, today announced the closing of a $110 million debt and equity financing with a consortium of investors to support its continued growth plan. The transaction was led by Veronis Suhler Stevenson along with Fortress Capital, Regiment Capital and Phoenix Life. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed.<< MORE >>

In today's challenging economic environment, technology startups say they struggle to bring new ideas to market. In response, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today opened its resources to these companies in a new initiative designed to help this next generation of entrepreneurs capture emerging business opportunities in fast-growing industries such as energy and utilities, health care, telecommunications and government. << MORE >>

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Cloud Telco 2010 confirms Agenda<< MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, today launched its new cloud storage solution called LT Depot, which is powered by the Mezeo™ Cloud Storage Platform. LT Depot gives customers the ability to create and select scalable, reliable and secure storage for their application and storage needs without incurring significant capital expense. << MORE >>

Cloud-based business applications (SaaS), infrastructure (IaaS) and emerging development and deployment platforms (PaaS) are dramatically reshaping the entire IT ecosystem. The combination of a lower upfront investment commitment, combined with increased business agility and potentially lower longer-term costs are driving accelerating adoption among all buyer segments (globally). At the same time, the shift to the cloud is dramatically disrupting and reshaping traditional channels, enterprise ecosystems, and routes-to-market – for on-premise ISVs, and for both traditional and pure-play Cloud Master Brands. << MORE >>

Zoho today announced that it is adding a domain registration module to Zoho Business, powered by GoDaddy.com. Available directly at http://domains.zoho.com/biz/domain.do, the Zoho Domains module lets users quickly and easily register their domains and host their businesses online in Zoho Business. << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced Policy Manager 6.0 with advanced Policy and security Federation for SOA and Cloud Services. SOA provides the foundation for a successful transition to an Enterprise Cloud Operating Model. Providing the right level of control over distributed, heterogeneous systems and platforms requires the effective policy governance provided by Policy Manager version 6.0. << MORE >>

NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, today announced that its award-winning HyperIP® acceleration software has been added to NASA's Scientific Engineering Workstation Procurement IV (SEWP IV) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract through a reseller agreement with Technica Corporation, an innovative provider of high-quality IT solutions for both government and commercial networks.<< MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars/Webcasts for Monday March 22 << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events for Monday March 22 - Conferences, Seminars, etc. << MORE >>

Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, has taken another significant step in its virtualized product strategy with the launch of ExpandView Virtual. ExpandView is a fully featured centralized management system that overcomes the challenges associated with large scale deployment, configuration, proactive reporting and alerting across its range of physical and virtual Accelerator devices, and within physical or virtual environments.<< MORE >>

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to go online with its commercial cloud service for software development and test. IBM, which already delivers a test and development cloud for internal use, is now allowing enterprise and government clients to extend their environments on an IBM Cloud. Following a successful beta program, IBM is working with partners in cloud management, cloud security and software development and testing support to provide businesses with a unique mix of flexibility, scalability, enterprise-grade security and control for development and test on the IBM Cloud. << MORE >>

2nd CfP: INTERNET 2010 || September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spain - Call for Papers<< MORE >>

The 25th International Supercomputing Conference – ISC’10 – will feature four keynote presentations, one each morning of the conference, focusing on a wide spectrum of topics, from efficient “scaling up” and “scaling out” of HPC servers to how IT and the Internet are increasingly modernizing Chinese society in terms of commerce and politics.<< MORE >>

Likewise, the leader in delivering integration and authentication software for mixed networks, today announced a technology licensing agreement with VMware, enabling Likewise software to be directly integrated and included with VMware vSphere™. << MORE >>

Red Eagle Services announces the opening of registration for their RESCouncil evening networking event in San Antonio,TX on April 1, 2010. At RESCouncil San Antonio, dozens of experts, pundits, and influential guests will gather for an evening of networking and discussion on the topics of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Cloud Computing. Open to public enrollment and attendance, the RESCouncil events provide a way to encourage dialogue, networking, and communication within the SOA, EA, and Cloud communities. << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars/Webcasts for Monday March 15 << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events for Monday March 15<< MORE >>

TheBDevent, a technology networking and business development-only event, today announced details for its June 2010 conference, to be held June 15-17 in Boston, MA at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. Registration is now open and is limited to 200 qualified senior executives in the storage, networking, security, virtualization and cloud computing industries.<< MORE >>

The SecureCloud 2010 conference today announced it has published the agenda for its inaugural cloud security conference, which will be held from March 16 - 17 at the Majestic Hotel and Spa in Barcelona, Spain.<< MORE >>

Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental compliance and information management software, and Overhoff Technology Corporation, the world’s leader in the design and manufacture of Tritium monitors and radiation monitoring systems, have partnered to offer a complete Tritium monitoring solution for the nuclear industry using Overhoff’s Tritium instrumentation and Locus’ award winning Cloud Computing software. << MORE >>

VolunteerACT, a new application built on top of Apprenda’s SaaSGrid, the industry’s leading SaaS Application Server, will debut at SXSW Interactive tomorrow. The new SaaS application built by UVision Consulting creates a private workspace and outreach portal to help charitable organizations of all sizes, publicize their cause and organize volunteers, encouraging both collaboration and productivity. << MORE >>

Ping Identity today announced open registration and a full lineup of sessions and speakers for the 2010 Cloud Identity Summit. Change leaders, visionaries, architects and business owners will converge at Colorado’s Keystone Resort July 20-22, 2010, to forge a new era of cloud security via identity. << MORE >>

CloudStorm, a cloud computing event has announced that its next events will be in London, Köln, Antwerp, New York, Düsseldorf and Amsterdam. << MORE >>

Cordys Process Factory and Mashapps bring business process management (BPM) capabilities to Google's suite of communication and collaboration tools. Google's 25 million users and 2 million businesses can now use Cordys to create and deploy situational and mashup applications in the cloud - in just minutes with no coding or IT involvement<< MORE >>

Nasuni™, the company that recently unveiled the industry’s first gateway to the cloud for primary storage, today announced that Nirvanix has been added to its list of cloud storage providers. Nirvanix, the premier enterprise cloud storage service provider, will provide Nasuni customers with unlimited cloud capacity, allowing companies to use and pay for only what they need, when they need it. << MORE >>

Zoho today announced it has added Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects to the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. From a central location, millions of Google Apps users can now subscribe to and access Zoho business applications, which are tightly integrated with Google Apps. To learn more, visit zoho.com/googleapps.<< MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today the introduction of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software for autonomic, sub-volume storage tiering with 3PAR InServ® F-Class and T-Class Storage Servers. In addition, 3PAR announced support for the STEC MACH8IOPS Solid State Drive (SSD), a new class of cost- and power-efficient SSDs. With this announcement, 3PAR has become the first high-end storage array vendor to deliver autonomic storage tiering for enterprise and cloud datacenters. The combination of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization, 3PAR SSDs, and the massively parallel, highly virtualized InServ Storage Server allows 3PAR customers to meet service level targets for approximately 30% lower cost than with Fibre Channel drives alone. << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars/Webcasts Monday March 8 -> << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events Monday March 8 -> << MORE >>

Locus Technologies, the industry leader in Cloud Computing-based environmental compliance and information management software, announced today the addition of Jennifer Peterson as a Project Manager with the Information Management Group (IMG). << MORE >>

Zenoss Inc., corporate sponsor of the award winning open source IT monitoring and management solution Zenoss Core, today announced the general availability of Zenoss Core version 2.5.2 under the GNU General Public License (V2). As part of this release, Zenoss Core now offers new monitoring capabilities for the Xen Hypervisor via the Zenoss Xen monitoring plug-in, or Xen Virtual Hosts ZenPack.<< MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating system provisioning and maintenance, today announced it is adding support for configuration management to its system automation solution. Effective immediately, rPath will support interoperation with key open source configuration management tools, including Reductive Labs’ Puppet, Cfengine, and Opscode’s Chef. During the second half of 2010, the company will introduce native support for configuration—including native implementation of a configuration management engine—to be delivered as part of its Project Javelin roadmap. << MORE >>

Virtual Bridges, developers of the VERDE™ suite for desktop virtualization, and ZSL, a leading ISV and global software solutions and services provider, today announced a worldwide reseller agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the Virtual Bridges VERDE suite will be an integral component of ZSL’s PowerCube DaaS (Desktop as a Service) packaged service offering. << MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, today launched its new partner program during the Channel Partners Conference & Expo 2010 in Las Vegas. The new program is designed to engage partners who want to include the best dedicated hosting, virtualization and cloud computing technologies as part of the overall services and value delivered to their end-use customers. << MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that it will showcase its latest network security solutions at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, March 1-4, 2010. In the RSA Pavilion, Juniper Networks will demonstrate Junos Pulse, the company's integrated multi-service network client software that closes a significant security gap for enterprises and improves productivity for mobile employees.<< MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars/Webcasts Monday March 1 -> << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events Monday March 1 -> << MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that John C. Lincoln Health Network is building an end-to-end integrated network infrastructure that includes Juniper's switching, security technologies and network management solution in order to support its new data center that connects more than 3,500 employees and a medical staff of more than 1,100 physicians in Phoenix.<< MORE >>

Traditional IT and business leadership strategies and tactics will be of limited effectiveness in a Cloud-based environment where anyone can do practically anything they want or need to. Thus, how user organizations plan for and manage Cloud IT will have to improve upon established practices and policies. IT, Finance, and line-of-business executives must learn and use new, combined management tactics when it comes to Cloud IT.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced the Junos Innovation Fund, a new corporate venture capital initiative that will invest in groundbreaking companies focused on improving the experience and economics of networking. The $50 million fund expands Juniper's efforts to create and deliver an ecosystem of technologies, software and applications built on the open and secure Junos software platform, which allows companies to directly program multiple layers of their networks and quickly and efficiently create new services while enabling rich user experiences, revolutionary economics and fast time to market. << MORE >>

NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, today announced that its award-winning HyperIP® software-only WAN optimizer is the only product on the market that is primed for the intersection of two critical IT trends – virtualization and cloud storage/computing – enabling an unmatched flexibility for enterprises to quickly and easily migrate, replicate backup and recover cloud-based data wherever it is deployed around the world. << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars for Monday February 22<< MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events for Monday February 22.<< MORE >>

Virtualized security software appliances are playing a vital role in helping Internet Service Providers (ISPs) combat ever increasing levels of spam according to SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of powerful yet easy-to-manage spam and web filtering software. SpamTitan’s sales for the financial year ended 31 December 2009 showed a clear trend among ISPs for Cloud-, VMware- and ISO image-based anti-spam appliances. << MORE >>

The 25th International Supercomputing Conference – ISC’10 – the leading HPC event in 2010, introduces four new special sessions to address some of the biggest challenges in science, industry and technology today.<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced availability of a free trial version of its new virtual appliance, the BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM)™ Virtual Edition (VE). The combination of virtual and physical Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) is a major milestone in delivering on F5’s vision for dynamic IT infrastructure. The free trial is now available at http://www.f5.com/trial/. << MORE >>

Aylus Networks™, the mobile industry's leading provider of solutions for mobile broadband, announced today that they will unveil the latest version of their media switching & RCS family of products at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, February 15 - 18, 2010. Aylus will demo these products along with their solutions for managing the mobile network bandwidth explosion at suite # 4.6HS07, located in Building 4 on level 6. Their CEO, Shamim Naqvi, will be on hand to demo his company's latest offerings and to discuss the best ways to solve the most pressing bandwidth and services issues in today's mobile network. << MORE >>

Building on its commitment to fuel innovation from the core to the client, Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) today announced several new and expanded partnerships that will yield software and solutions for mobile operators to improve the experience and economics of their networks.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) today unveiled new mobile security software that closes a significant security gap for enterprises, improves productivity for mobile employees, and enables mobile providers to monetize security services for mobile workforces. Available in Q2 2010 for popular mobile devices, Junos Pulse is the industry's first downloadable client software that provides secure connections across smartphones, notebooks and netbooks to a broad range of corporate applications. Based on the world's most scalable SSL VPN technology, Junos Pulse delivers built-in mobile security in an extensible software platform to enable new service models for operators. << MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that Sprint Nextel Corp. has reached an agreement to purchase its Juniper SRX Series Services Gateways, which will enable the company to securely deliver mobile data services.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that Nokia Siemens Networks has certified four new security solutions that integrate Juniper products for fixed and mobile networks. As part of the two companies' global partnership, the new solutions are fully-tested and ready for easy deployment and rapid service enablement. Wireless industry leaders like T-Mobile have already successfully deployed these solutions.<< MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Webinars Mon Feb 15 -> << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events for Monday Feb 15<< MORE >>

Nasuni™ today unveiled its gateway to cloud storage, the Nasuni Filer. This is a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file storage and protection. Targeting the mid-market, Nasuni’s solution eliminates the need for incremental storage hardware, and the resulting capital expense, to manage unstructured file growth. When it comes to primary or nearline storage, companies are looking to save money while maintaining control. << MORE >>

In updating its latest Technology Audit of recently released Neptuny Caplan™ 3.2, Ovum confirms its conclusion that Caplan™ is the “the future in capacity-planning solutions”[1] and is “impressed with its ease of use combined with its depth of capability.” << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced deployment guidance and test results that illustrate and validate the value of deploying F5® and VMware solutions in concert to extend live migration capabilities across long distances for VMware vSphere™ 4 environments in a secure, accelerated manner. << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events Mon Feb 8<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) today announced a new generation of silicon that will enable customers to quickly, efficiently and non-disruptively upgrade existing T Series Core Routers, the most widely deployed core router in the world, to a full duplex slot capacity of 250 Gbps without service interruption. The new chipset lays the foundation for a total capacity of 4 Tbps in a single, half-rack system, ensuring that customers can continue to scale the T Series in line with rapidly accelerating service, subscriber and bandwidth growth.<< MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, today announced that it has received a growth equity investment provided by a group of investors led by Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm. Layered Tech’s two primary existing investors, Enhanced Equity Fund, L.P., and Pangloss International, also participated. << MORE >>

The Cloud Computing Architect launches Cloud Computing Certifications Blog for the latest announcements and training related to Cloud Computing.<< MORE >>

Sharing information digitally is essential for businesses today. As the size and volume of information being shared continues to increase exponentially, e-mail network bandwidth suffers. Enterprises turning to Accellion-in-the-Cloud for efficient and secure managed file transfer are seeing impressive results in improved e-mail performance and reduced e-mail storage. << MORE >>

Cloud Telco 2010 Conference - Call for Papers now open.<< MORE >>

Network Automation - How to successfully reduce OPEX?<< MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events Mon Feb 1 by @TheCloudNetwork<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the new BIG-IP® Edge Gateway™ product, providing enterprise organizations with a high performance, next-generation remote access solution that delivers LAN-speed application performance for remote and mobile workers. This solution effectively solves the challenges that enterprise IT personnel face due to the massive growth of mobile and remote users. With BIG-IP Edge Gateway, F5 provides the first Application Delivery Controller (ADC) on the market that unifies secure SSL VPN access, dynamic access and optimization control, and application acceleration for remote users—regardless of the device or access network—on a single, scalable platform.<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced two new management solutions, Enterprise Manager™ 2.0 software and the Enterprise Manager 4000 hardware platform. These new offerings enhance F5’s management solution portfolio and provide customers with improved visibility, automation, and network health monitoring capabilities to ensure optimum performance and streamlined administrative control. << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced the expansion of its industry-leading application delivery services portfolio. Building on the recent announcements of BIG-IP® v10.1’s unique web security capabilities and functionality supporting the intelligent scaling of mobile infrastructures, F5 is introducing additional advanced Application Delivery Controller services and products designed to support enterprises’ efforts to move toward a more dynamic data center, reduce infrastructure costs, enhance workforce efficiency, and simplify access policy enforcement. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today two new 3PAR InForm® software plug-ins for VMware vSphere™ and VMware vCenter™ Server which provide virtual machine (VM)-aware snapshots, rapid online VM recovery, and VM-to-storage mapping. Together, 3PAR Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere and the 3PAR Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter Server enable joint 3PAR and VMware customers to simply, efficiently, and non-disruptively protect, recover, and manage virtual machines and related storage resources in their virtual datacenter and cloud computing environments. << MORE >>

Upcoming Cloud Computing Events Mon Jan 25 to Fri Jan 29 by @TheCloudNetwork << MORE >>

Locus Technologies was recognized as one of the leaders in software for greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and reporting by Massachusetts-based research firm Groom Energy Solutions. Their Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) report, titled “2010 Enterprise Carbon Accounting: An Analysis of Corporate-Level Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Reporting and a Review of GHG Software Products,” is available online at www.groomenergy.com. This report comes only weeks after UtiliPoint International, Inc., a key utility and energy industry analysis and consulting firm, in a similar report recognized Locus as one of the oldest and most comprehensive providers of GHG software. << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has joined the NetApp® Alliance Partner Program as an Advantage Alliance Partner. F5 is collaborating with NetApp to provide customers with unified application and data delivery solutions to enable more agile and dynamic data centers. << MORE >>

CloudCamp, an organizer of local events to exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies, today announced the first OpsCamp for systems management and cloud development professionals. OpsCamp is an event aimed at bringing together IT professionals who are interested in the evolution of systems management and application deployment as it bridges physical and virtual infrastructure and especially cloud computing technologies. The event will be a participant driven unconference style event made popular by events like BarCamp, Bloggercon and Mashup Camp. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today a major expansion of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile Program to accommodate increased interest from hosting service providers experiencing substantial growth in the demand for cloud-based services.<< MORE >>

The Cloud Slam Conference, which brings together leading companies and visionaries in business, technology, and cloud computing to showcase the hottest opportunities for driving profitability through sustainability, today announced call for proposals. Taking place March 23-25, 2010 as virtual event , the conference is also proud to announce it has gathered more than 700 attendees passionate about cloud computing. These announcements reflect a growing trend involving companies that have committed to developing best practice cloud strategies for the emerging global economy that requires innovative, viable and profitable models for business success. << MORE >>

A survey of 150 information technology decision makers at small and large companies across the country by ReliaCloud, a national IT infrastructure company based in Minneapolis, found that three-quarters of companies identified the development of cloud computing as a priority for 2010. << MORE >>

SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of powerful yet easy-to-manage spam and web filtering software, today announced that it has again outperformed the leading industry brands in the latest Virus Bulletin Spam awards. In comparative tests featuring 15 of its nearest rivals, SpamTitan combined the highest spam catch rate with a very low false positive ratio. This result earned SpamTitan the much coveted Virus Bulletin Award along with strong independent endorsement for its highly effective and easy to use spam filtering solution. << MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has developed a new virtual private data center (VPDC) platform with levels of managed services, security and flexibility via a proprietary API that were previously unavailable in an integrated offering. The new platform is a hybrid cloud computing infrastructure that gives customers a virtualized environment on dedicated servers within Layered Tech data centers, as well as levels of flexibility on how to securely access their VPDC, whether by dedicated lines, VPN or Internet. << MORE >>

The Global Security Challenge, together with HP Labs, has launched the first Cloud Security Challenge competition to explore radically new ideas and game-changing solutions in order to make cloud computing more secure.<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today introduced Performance Blade 200 (PB200) hardware for the company’s VIPRION® solution. The PB200 is designed to support the growth, availability, and performance requirements of content and service providers, as well as large enterprises. << MORE >>

NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, today announced that it is adding support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V server virtualization software to its award-winning HyperIP® acceleration software, expanding its market leadership in optimizing data movement for virtualized infrastructures to the Microsoft platform. << MORE >>

As we head into 2010, technological companies and experts are making their predictions as to what the New Year can expect to bring while reviewing the best of 2009. Navot Peled, CEO of Gizmox, has three personal resolutions to share with developers and the IT community, focusing on commitments that he is making. << MORE >>

Five Reasons to use PathView Cloud - Free Tool << MORE >>

The Energ-IT project has been set up to focus on Green IT. The main aim of the project is to develop solutions that can be used to reduce power consumption in data centers.<< MORE >>

Nasuni™, a startup company preparing to offer a gateway to cloud storage, announced today it has secured $8 million in Series A funding from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Nasuni, founded to democratize cloud storage and make it feasible for more businesses, is led by technology veterans with a long track record in data access, storage, and protection.<< MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has been named a 2009 InfoWorld 100 Award winner for its automated server provisioning platform, called “Astro,” which delivers added operational efficiency and frees up staff to focus more time serving unique customer needs and developing new and advanced service offerings. The Astro platform integrates back-end processes with customer-facing systems to deliver added flexibility to customers, while reducing the server provisioning process to approximately 30 minutes, down from the industry standard of 48 to 72 hours. << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced “Eight IT Predictions for 2010,” an animated short video that offers a lighthearted view of what the future holds for enterprise IT.<< MORE >>

CloudShare, formerly IT Structures, today announced it has received $10M in series B financing from Sequoia Capital, Gemini Capital, and Charles River Ventures (CRV). The company plans to use the investment to fund product development and expand its go-to-market capabilities.<< MORE >>

Cypress Communications® today announced that its Executive Vice President of Marketing, Frank Grillo, has accepted an invitation to speak at TMC’s ITEXPO East 2010, held January 20-22 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. In a session entitled “Unified Communications and the Virtualized Enterprise,” Mr. Grillo will discuss the paradigm shift from premises-based technologies to “as a service” solutions, also known as cloud services. The session will take place on January 21 at 8:30 a.m.<< MORE >>

Forum Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Crosscheck Networks, Inc., today unveiled a first-of-its-kind identity broker hardware appliance, Forum STS. The announcement was made in conjunction with the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2009 taking place this week at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. << MORE >>

For companies still contemplating whether they should make such a move to the cloud, experts at Asankya say to consider these following seven issues for a better understanding of the technology’s true value.<< MORE >>

SOA Software today announced a new product to extend the capabilities of the IBM WebSphere Service Registry Repository (WSRR). This new product called Policy Manager for IBM WSRR complements the policy management capabilities of WSRR enabling customers to define policies for services and service consumers regardless of their platform and can audit the policies implemented and enforced by the platform in a closed-loop process<< MORE >>

Virtual Bridges announced today the immediate availability of the newest version of its virtual desktop infrastructure suite with the release of Virtual Bridges’ VERDE™ 3.0 software. The software is used by organizations of all sizes to dramatically lower the total cost of ownership of desktop computing. << MORE >>

Esker, the leader in document process automation solutions, announced today that it has signed an agreement worth more than $800,000 with a leading provider of telecommunication and media services in Southeast Asia. Esker will implement end-to-end automation of procure-to-pay document processes as part of the company’s supplier management portal project. << MORE >>

Hostway Corporation, one of the world’s largest hosting and web application providers, announced today the expansion of its existing hosted storage solutions with the availability of an Enterprise-Class Shared SAN (storage area network) product. Shared SAN will augment existing hosted storage offerings which include direct and network attached high performance storage arrays, For customers with high volume and/or high performance requirements, the range of add-on storage solutions can cost effectively augment the internal storage available with each dedicated or virtual server. << MORE >>

Fujitsu today announced it will be offering end-to-end enterprise cloud services designed to help enterprises and ISVs in North America quickly reap the cost and agility benefits of reliable, secure cloud computing. Fujitsu enterprise cloud services will let companies migrate existing multi-platform and multi-vendor mission-critical systems to enterprise clouds. Clients moving to the cloud will minimize their capital expense-intensive investment in technology and instead purchase a service that can be tailored to meet their specific business requirements, allowing them to align their IT costs with revenue. << MORE >>

SOA Software today announced its Atmosphere cloud services governance initiative. The Atmosphere initiative creates a unifying brand for a suite of SOA and cloud services governance products the company will deliver through 2010. The Atmosphere products will help companies realize the enormous cost and agility benefits possible with the combination of SOA and Cloud services governance. << MORE >>

Neptuny, the leading solution provider for IT Performance Optimization and Capacity Management, today launches Caplan™ 3.2, the recognized solution that makes “Capacity Planning easy” for large data centres and networks. The new version of Caplan will help solve the thorny problem facing organisations that need to allocate IT costs to departments or divisions based on utilization or allocation of IT resources based on what they have used. Caplan 3.2 will provide effective support to the IT department to enable them to get better visibility of the costs of their IT infrastructures which is key in the economic climate today when budgets have been tightened. Caplan 3.2 also provides support for consolidation and virtualization as well as enhanced features to generate future scenarios to enable the alignment between IT resources and business initiatives. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today 3PAR Policy Advisor for Dynamic Optimization, new software that adds further autonomic policy management and automation capabilities to 3PAR Dynamic Optimization for 3PAR InServ® Utility Storage Servers. Policy Advisor works by analyzing how the InServ’s virtual volumes use physical disk space. The software then automatically makes intelligent, non-disruptive adjustments to ensure optimal volume distribution and storage tiering across storage server resources. << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that the BIG-IP® Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM™) Application Delivery Controller will provide U.S. government agencies and partners with the most trusted real-time DNS Security solution available. By implementing a unique dynamic security signing policy, BIG-IP GTM protects customers’ DNS infrastructures against various attacks and ensures that organizations can meet the mandated DNSSEC 2009 compliance requirements, while reducing their management costs and maintaining the intelligent flexibility of dynamic DNS solutions. << MORE >>

The commentary addresses how a model for “mass customization” of software systems blends flexibility and control — satisfying the needs of “apps” and “ops.”<< MORE >>

Neptuny, the leading provider of Performance Optimization and IT Resource Management solutions for large data centers and networks, today announced that Xen Optimization Group, an innovative consulting firm offering professional services mainly in performance management and the capacity planning area, has joined the Neptuny Business Partner Program. << MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, today announced that it is ranked No. 36 on the 2009 Dallas 100™, the SMU Cox Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship’s annual list honoring Dallas’ 100 fastest-growing, privately held companies. To qualify for the Dallas 100, companies must be independent and privately held, headquartered in the Dallas area, and have a three-year sales history reflecting growth. << MORE >>

Neptuny, the leading provider of Performance Optimization and IT Resource Management solutions for large data centers and networks, today announced that Enteros, an innovative software and services company specializing in Enterprise Production Performance Management, has joined the Neptuny Business Partner Program. << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced enterprise-focused productivity and management enhancements to the rPath release automation platform. The upgrades refine the functionality and user experience of the industry’s first fully version controlled release automation solution, meeting the needs of each stakeholder in the enterprise release management process. These upgrades are the first product delivery against “Project Javelin,” which extends rPath’s unique system version controlled management model into the broader data center automation market. << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced a management solution for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux® operating system. The move expands the rPath release automation platform beyond operating systems such as Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu to include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This provides Red Hat customers a solution for low-overhead, compliant system provisioning and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. << MORE >>

There was a time, very recently, when software vendors could stand on the sideline and wait to see how the game would play out. Unfortunately, the time for watching is over. The market has spoken, made the more real by ongoing economic uncertainty that has clearly impacted on-premise providers greater than their SaaS brethren. Software-as-a-Service should be considered for any business application of any complexity and criticality. ISVs that still hesitate to develop and provide SaaS versions of their business software – whether pure-play or hybrid SaaS/on-premise offerings – are about to be left behind. << MORE >>

Zoho today announced the immediate availability of Zoho Recruit, its easy-to-use applicant tracking system that helps staffing agencies, recruiting professionals and HR departments to source, track and hire the right candidates. Zoho Recruit automates the entire hiring process — from creating and posting job openings to recruiting new employees — so recruiters can spend less time on those steps and more time getting the right candidate.<< MORE >>

Nirvanix, the premier enterprise cloud storage service provider, will demonstrate its enterprise cloud storage offerings at the 28th annual Gartner Data Center Conference, a three-and-a-half day event covering storage, servers and operating systems, infrastructure, virtualization beyond the implementation stage, IT operations, business continuity and disaster recovery, in Booth No. K9 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas December 1-4. << MORE >>

SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of powerful yet easy-to-manage spam and web filtering software, today announced that its SpamTitan anti-spam solution was awarded Gold-level status in the latest Virus Bulletin Anti-Spam Test. SpamTitan was participating in this prestigious industry test for the very first time. The Virus Bulletin is an independent global publication specific to the field of viruses and related malware.<< MORE >>

NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, today announced an expansion of its endorsement of VMware virtual infrastructures with support for VMware’s vCenter Converter with HyperIP for industry-leading acceleration for movement of converted virtual machines images across WANs.<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), and Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), the leading, global provider of converged IP performance test systems, today announced the results of performance validation of the F5® top-of-the-line VIPRION® Application Delivery Controller (ADC). The VIPRION ADC was tested with its full complement of four blades, delivering industry-leading layer 7 and SSL performance. Ixia’s IxLoad, XM12 platform and Acceleron-NP load modules were used to exercise the ADC to its limits. << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc., (NASDAQ: FFIV) the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that RelayHealth has chosen F5® BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM™) and Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM™) to optimize the performance and availability of its web-based retail pharmacy applications. RelayHealth provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to facilitate the exchange of information between pharmacies, hospitals and health systems, payors, physicians, and patients. At RelayHealth, F5 solutions help support an infrastructure that securely processes approximately 11 billion retail pharmacy financial and clinical transactions each year. << MORE >>

At the SC09 Conference today, a group of leaders in the networking industry announced a key milestone in the migration to 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology by successfully demonstrating a multivendor 100Gbps routing and optical network. In this demonstration, 100Gbps of test data (generated by an Ixia test set) was transmitted from Portland to Seattle through a single slot on the Juniper Networks(R) T1600 Series Core Router, populated with a new 10x10GbE physical interface card (announced separately by Juniper today) via an Infinera optical system, over Level 3 and Internet2's nationwide fiber-optic network. The data was then looped back to Juniper's T1600 Series Core Router in Juniper's booth on the SC09 show floor in Portland. << MORE >>

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the world’s largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics, which will provide IBM sales teams and developers new levels of insight to better meet the needs of clients worldwide. The cloud will launch initially with more than a petabyte of data, the equivalent of more than 300 billion ATM transactions. << MORE >>

Forum Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Crosscheck Networks, Inc., today unveiled the latest version of its flagship product, Forum Sentry. The announcement was made in conjunction with the OWASP AppSec 2009 Conference, the largest application security conference in the United States, taking place this week at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today three new platform enhancements designed to automate and streamline storage server provisioning, particularly in clustered and virtual server environments. 3PAR Autonomic Groups, new utility storage software designed to enhance datacenter agility and efficiency, enables users to create volume groups on 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers that simplify, automate, and expedite storage provisioning, monitoring, and data protection in clustered and virtual server environments.<< MORE >>

Jake Sorofman, VP of Marketing - rPath shares his top 8 Predictions for the coming year.<< MORE >>

Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., creators of the leading open source private cloud platform, today announced the first major update of the open source Eucalyptus cloud computing software since it was launched. The latest version of Eucalyptus features new multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management for improved scaling, enabling users to seamlessly overlay their Eucalyptus cloud on top of virtually any existing IT infrastructure, regardless of size or configuration. Eucalyptus now also includes new monitoring capabilities to deliver ongoing visibility into the status of an organization's on-premise cloud. << MORE >>

Billing capability is an important ingredient in business success and sustainability in the Cloud. Effective billing and payment solutions are essential in enabling monetization, providing agility in competitive situations, managing the channel, and reducing operational costs for any Cloud services provider. << MORE >>

Vordel, a provider of governance products for Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), today announced at VordelWorld its annual user conference in Dublin, Ireland the release of the Vordel Cloud Service Broker. The Vordel Cloud Service Broker aggregates and manages multi-domain services. This creates a trusted environment for enterprises to leverage the benefits of Cloud Computing. << MORE >>

At Zoho, we have been banging the drum on the coming new era of competition, thanks to the cloud, in software and how that is going to pose a serious threat to the stratospheric 90% operating profits that Microsoft enjoys on its Office suite. And sure enough, the news that Microsoft Drops Prices of Cloud Apps caught our attention. << MORE >>

Crosscheck Networks, Inc., a leader in Web services testing, simulation and security, today announced immediate availability of SOAPSonar 5.0. << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced a new F5 Management Pack® solution for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager that allows joint F5 and Microsoft customers to dynamically manage application delivery in virtual environments. F5 also updated its Application Ready Solution portfolio to support Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. << MORE >>

StarWind Software, a global leader in storage virtualization and a pioneer in iSCSI storage, today announced a release of the fifth-generation of its flagship product StarWind 5.0, an iSCSI SAN software platform which turns any industry-standard x86 or x64 Windows server into a fail-safe, fault-tolerant storage that will be continuously available even in the event of failure. With this new release, StarWind redefines high availability storage by offering this enterprise-class technology, which was previously only available in high-end storage products, to small and midsize companies at an affordable price. This combination of true active-active high availability and affordable price is unprecedented. << MORE >>

CloudStorm, a European focused cloud computing event has announced that Paris will be the third location on its tour around major European cities. The event, funded equally by its participants, provides a showcase of cloud computing solutions covering a wide range of areas including application development and deployment, infrastructure, storage, video management and SAAS from leading European technology vendors.<< MORE >>

Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., creators of the leading open source private cloud platform, today announced that Eucalyptus software is the engine behind the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), a new cloud computing solution packaged in the latest version of the popular Ubuntu distribution. UEC including Eucalyptus will ship with every copy of Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition (announced today), which is fully supported by Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project. Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition with the UEC (powered by Eucalyptus) will be available for free download at www.ubuntu.com starting October 29. << MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech) today announced that it ranked number 60 on Technology Fast 500™, Deloitte LLP’s ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the five year period from 2004–2008. Layered Tech grew 3,182 percent during this period.<< MORE >>

Solid-state storage is increasingly becoming an attractive alternative to the over-provisioning and management headaches of traditional hard disk drive arrays in many IT infrastructures. Leveraging the benefits of solid-state storage in a dedicated appliance is a smart move for businesses, enabling companies to improve application performance, leverage existing IT investments and cut costs, according to experts at Dataram Corporation [NASDAQ: DRAM], a worldwide leader in the manufacture of high-quality computer memory, storage products and software. << MORE >>

Nirvanix, the premier enterprise cloud storage service provider, today announced a Channel Partner Program that helps solutions providers capitalize on the growing interest in cloud services.<< MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today the introduction of several new software capabilities for the 3PAR InServ® Storage Server to give cloud and enterprise datacenters increased resilience and agility at a lower cost than traditional storage arrays. Together, these new software features from 3PAR—Synchronous Long Distance Remote Copy, Persistent Cache, and RAID MP (Multi-Parity)—help protect 3PAR Utility Storage customers against disasters, preserve service levels in the event of a component outage, and protect against double disk failures. These features are designed to work with the InServ platform to deliver the robust functionality demanded by Tier 1 datacenters, the cost structure attractiveness of Tier 2 environments, and the agility of a highly virtualized infrastructure. << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced that Fujitsu has adopted its release automation platform to automate and standardize the process of creating, provisioning and maintaining software systems across physical, virtual and cloud environments. << MORE >>

Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based IT labs, today announced that numerous software vendors, including Acresso, HP, OpenText, and SchemaLogic, have collectively delivered over 100,000 software demos and proof of concepts (POCs) to their customers using Skytap’s cloud platform. << MORE >>

Hostway Corporation, one of the world’s largest hosting and web application companies, announced today that it will add network services to the portfolio of products offered by its Enterprise Services business division. The new Network Services Group will offer IP transit, Layer 2 VPN (transport), IPV6, distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, and customized bandwidth management solutions to new and existing wholesale and retail customers. << MORE >>

Hostway Corporation, one of the world’s largest hosting and web application companies, announced today that it has formed a new business unit to provide dedicated and managed servers, cloud applications, colocation and other hosted computing and infrastructure solutions. This new unit has been given the name of “Hostway Enterprise Services” and will operate as a strategic business unit within the Hostway Corporation family of companies. << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced that Scott Dietzen has joined the rPath board of directors. Dietzen was formerly SVP of applications for Yahoo!, president and CTO of Zimbra, and CTO of BEA Systems. An acclaimed technology architect, advocate and entrepreneur, Dietzen brings his catalyzing influence to the rPath mission to reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise application delivery across traditional, virtual and cloud-based environments. << MORE >>

Asankya today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDC Top 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnDC 100 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities that contribute to the renewed and continued prosperity of our country. Asankya was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz. << MORE >>

Zoho today announced that Zoho Projects, the company’s online project management and team collaboration application is now integrated with Google Apps. The move brings Zoho Projects to Google Apps users, complete with unified login and embeddable gadget options. Zoho Projects for Google Apps will soon be available in the Google Solutions Marketplace. Additional information on this integration is available here.<< MORE >>

Without deep context, ideas may be pleasing to the ear—propped up by the rhythm of language and logical arguments. But for thought to really hit home, it must be supported by adequate context—context that allows audiences to identify, to internalize, to empathize. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today the introduction of several industry-first, next-generation thin technologies designed to reduce the up-front cost of a storage technology refresh by up to 60% as compared to legacy arrays and keep costs low over time by keeping storage thin. << MORE >>

The Xpack is an integrated hardware, operating system and web management solution for the cloud desktop. The Moderro Xpack is part of a new wave of cloud/virtual technologies that are proving to be valuable assets for government institutions and public venues that require a simple, secure, green technology solution for libraries, kiosks and government information centers. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner Attenda Limited, the Always On Managed Services provider, has become the first European member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile program to offer its clients 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED and 3PAR Cloud-Agile: SECURED services. << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that it plans to integrate F5® BIG-IP® access solutions with Oracle Identity Management software to centralize web application authentication and authorization services, streamline access management, and reduce infrastructure costs.<< MORE >>

At its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled plans for a new Smart Business System called IBM Information Archive, a universal archiving repository for all types of content that addresses the complete information retention needs of midsize and enterprise clients faced with managing an increasing volume of information. << MORE >>

At its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced its intention to enter the cloud storage space with the launch of the IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud, IBM Information Archive and new consulting services. << MORE >>

Avere Systems, an emerging company focused on delivering Demand-Driven StorageTM solutions, today unveiled its FXT Series of NAS appliances that dynamically move data between Solid State and HDD tiers, yielding higher performance and lower costs while avoiding over-provisioning of storage capacity, inefficient use of limited data center space and wasted power consumption. The FXT Series is ideal for organizations looking to improve the current performance of their storage networks while significantly driving down the cost of their existing architectures. << MORE >>

Ricoh Company, Ltd., a global leader in digital office solutions, today announced the general availability of the “quanp.on 2.2” upgrade for its visual online service “quanp.” The upgraded Windows client combines a centralized taglist with its signature visual search features to help users quickly and easily organize their digital life memories (photos, videos, documents) in the cloud. quanp has also added features and updates to its browser interface, known as “quanp.net.” The new features have prioritized user feedback collected during beta testing. The quanp beta is now being, at the same time, expanding to more testers residing in the US.<< MORE >>

ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce have signed an historic Affirmation Agreement supporting the ICANN model of international multi-stakeholder and bottom-up governance of the global Internet addressing system. << MORE >>

Dataram Corporation [NASDAQ: DRAM], a worldwide leader of advanced memory solutions, today unveiled the XcelaSAN® storage optimization appliance, the industry's first solution to seamlessly deliver up to 30x performance improvement to existing applications.<< MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that Horizon Data Center Solutions (HDCS) has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage to enable their newly announced FlexSafe CloudSM. Founded in 2008, the up-and-coming datacenter and managed services provider (MSP) chose 3PAR Utility Storage as the foundation for its cloud computing services based on the superior efficiency, agility, and scalability of 3PAR’s highly virtualized InServ® Storage Server platform. << MORE >>

At CloudStorm, you will receive in 100 minutes an update of the latest trends and products in Cloud Computing, followed by a mini expo and networking opportunity.<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, announced today its position in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers from Gartner, Inc.<< MORE >>

StorMagic®, a fast-growing developer of iSCSI SAN management software for virtualized server environments, today announced that it has expanded its channel network in the United States, Europe, and Australia. By contacting StorMagic or one of its resellers, end-users can obtain a promo key for a free copy of the SvSAN™ software, with no expiration date, and management up to 2 TB. << MORE >>

Nirvanix, the premier enterprise cloud storage service provider, today announced the first of its CIO Roundtables, a series of events bringing together senior IT executives for the purpose of exchanging ideas about the adoption and integration of cloud storage. These events will be held in major cities across the country and focus on vertical implementations of cloud storage in the financial services, life sciences, media and entertainment industries. The informational event will present the challenges faced in keeping up with growing amounts of corporate data, enabling compliance, and the significant benefits of cloud storage for enterprise users. The first event will be held in New York on October 20th, 2009.<< MORE >>

Zoho today announced Zoho Discussions, the company’s product that allows businesses and organizations to create internal and external communities. With Zoho Discussions, organizations can improve their support experience through customer support forums, conduct customer research and get insights on preferences with product idea boards, and create intranet discussion forums for internal conversations. << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that cloud-based email archiving provider LiveOffice has saved more than half a million dollars by reducing capacity requirements, administration costs, and power consumption after deploying 3PAR Utility Storage. LiveOffice also reduced their datacenter footprint by 66% as a result of replacing three legacy storage arrays with a single 3PAR InServ® T-Class Storage Server. << MORE >>

"What is far more interesting to me is defining the future of IT, which almost certainly embodies aspects of what most people would recognize as cloud computing. Whether the future of IT is cloud itself is a silly tautological question since we haven’t defined cloud in the first place."<< MORE >>

Asankya today announced that it has partnered with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a trusted government IT solutions provider, to market and sell its Asankya RAPIDnet™ Application Delivery Network (ADN) service to government and military markets through Carahsoft's General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Storwize Inc., the leading provider of online capacity optimization solutions, today announced that former EMC and Avamar executive, Ed Walsh, has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer. Walsh takes the reins at the fast growing company from Gal Naor who was appointed President of the company and will be focusing on the company's strategic direction. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today a new alliance partnership with Exanet to expand the options for file services on 3PAR Utility Storage by supporting Exanet ExaStore® Clustered NAS Servers. Exanet’s Clustered NAS allows organizations to utilize for file system deployments the same efficiency, scalability, and performance benefits that 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers provide for block-level storage consolidation. Several customer sites have successfully deployed 3PAR and Exanet file services environments, including AudienceScience in Seattle and Interactive One, a division of Radio One in New York that runs top-ranked social networking site BlackPlanet.com as well as news and entertainment websites. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Avere Systems, a startup company focused on delivering Demand-Driven Storage solutions, announced it has secured $15 million in Series A funding from Menlo Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. Avere is pioneering the use of multiple storage media in a new scalable architecture that provides enterprise storage customers with breakthrough reductions in cost, space and power. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that Internet marketing agency and paid search specialist TrafficBroker has consolidated onto 3PAR Utility Storage to triple administrative efficiency and reduce capacity requirements within its datacenter. With 3PAR, TrafficBroker has gone from a complex and poorly performing environment to a highly agile and efficient virtual datacenter running on a single, consolidated 3PAR InServ® Storage Server. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Neptuny, a leading solution provider in Performance Optimization and Capacity Planning solutions, today announced the launch of their Business Partner Program. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental software, announced today that it has expanded its flagship product EIM to include a module for nuclear facilities information management and reporting. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Neptuny received a huge interest and attendance at the latest VMworld, which took place in San Francisco last week, where Neptuny was exhibiting. While this is not surprising in the light of the general increasing interest for Capacity Planning, it is worthwhile mentioning that during the general sessions of the Partner Track, VMware top representatives mentioned Capacity Planning among the major hot topic for the evolution of virtualized infrastructures - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Storwize Inc., the market leader in online data reduction, today announced that it has joined the Hitachi Data Systems Technology Alliance Program to offer real-time compression to Hitachi Data Systems’ storage customers. Storwize solutions are deployed at hundreds of customer locations worldwide, enabling organizations to achieve significant and immediate ROI by dramatically reducing their cost of file-based storage and associated infrastructure footprint, power, cooling and administrative costs.- Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, announced today that Financial Express, the largest distributor of fund data in the UK, has successfully completed the deployment of a new generation of Radware network and application security devices to protect two UK data centres. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

To show financial services firms on Wall Street how to take control of complexity, rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, will present a keynote session on real-life successes and strategic approaches to managing complexity in high performance computing environments. The keynote is part of the 2009 High Performance Computing on Wall Street conference to be held September 14, 2009, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. A sponsor of the conference, rPath will be exhibiting in booth 222. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

C2C, a leading provider of messaging system enhancements, today announced a new edition to its award-winning family of email archiving products called ArchiveOne Express®, specifically designed for organizations with 20 to 200 Microsoft® Exchange mailboxes. ArchiveOne Express will help them improve mail system capacity and performance and also meet compliance and e-discovery requirements. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

ArtinSoft, a leading provider of automated software transformation technology, and Gizmox, the developer of the Visual WebGui rich Internet, Cloud & SaaS application development platform, today announced the formation of a new strategic alliance between the companies to provide migration services for upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 applications to DHTML, Microsoft Silverlight 3, and the Windows Azure platform. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Three companies at the forefront of redefining television -- ActiveVideo Networks, Neotion and eventIS -- today announced that they will demonstrate at IBC how cloud-based solutions can significantly increase the availability of interactive TV services on CI Plus enabled televisions. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

STEALTH Software,a Dutch software development organization dedicated to enabling a broad spectrum of organizations to become operationally more efficient and effective, today announced the STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra™ Collaboration Suite , using Caringo™ CAStor™ as the infrastructure for its message storage. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Virtualization and automation leader, Parallels, today announced partnerships with Microsoft, VeriSign and InterNetX, to launch the inaugural Parallels APAC Summit, the first large-scale Asia-Pacific version of Parallels established annual US event. The one-day event, to be held on 25th September 2009 in Singapore, gives participants access to firsthand updates from industry leaders on the future of cloud computing and its opportunities. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has ranked second on the 2009 Tech Titans Fast Tech Five-Year Listing by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), the largest technology trade organization in Texas. The Tech Titans Fast Tech Award annually recognizes the fastest-growing technology companies in the DFW Metroplex, based on percentage of revenue growth during five-year or one-year periods. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Intalio, Inc., The Private Cloud Company, announced a strategic partnership with Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage. Through this partnership, Mellanox Technologies will supply its world leading InfiniBand adapters and switches used by the Intalio|Cloud Appliance as a unified networking fabric. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Hostway Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and global provider of enterprise-class hosting solutions, announced today the availability of a new line of virtual servers and cloud services based on Release 2 of the Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, the leader in SOA security and governance, today announced that it has certified its solution portfolio against Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and is now part of the JBoss Certified ISV Program. Layer 7 is the first XML gateway to be added to JBoss' partner ecosystem and will help customers enhance mission-critical security and operation aspects of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that managed global IT service provider and 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner DataPipe now offers differentiated virtual private array (VPA) and disaster recovery (DR) services as part of their Stratospheretm cloud services, which are powered by 3PAR Utility Storage. DataPipe is the first member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile program to offer its customers value-added 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED and 3PAR Cloud-Agile: SECURED services through this program. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

WorkXpress, the world’s most functional Platform as a Service (PaaS) without programming, launched EventPro Strategies’ (EPS) new event management software today in record time. The new cloud computing based software created for EPS will be the cornerstone of their business providing a range of capability including talent registration, event creation, event staffing, talent communication, event management, event accounting including online timesheets and reimbursement, and management reporting. This vast functionality is handled using five separate portals including talent, client, staff, accounting, and management. Each portal provides only the needed functionality and access while allowing for use anywhere utilizing multiple browsers and mobile devices. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Zoho today announced a relationship with VMware designed to give customers a streamlined approach to running Zoho applications in their own data centers, leveraging the industry-leading VMware platform, which has been adopted by thousands of customers. Zoho will demonstrate the new deployment approach, which relies on VMware vSphere™ 4, in the VMware vCloud™ Pavilion at VMworld 2009 to be held August 31–September 3, 2009, at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

OpSource, Inc., the leader in Cloud operations, today introduced OpSource Cloud™, the first Cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public Cloud with the security, performance and controls the enterprise demands. Emphasizing security, OpSource Cloud provides every user with a Virtual Private Cloud within the public Cloud, allowing them to determine their own degree of Internet connectivity. Now in private Beta, OpSource Cloud will be unveiled at VMworld next week and will be publicly available on October 2, 2009. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

IceWEB's (OTC Bulletin Board: IWEB) wholly owned subsidiary, INLINE Corporation (www.inlinecorp.com) announced that optional software modules are now available for Iplicity allowing organizations to virtualize underlying storage for Virtual Machines. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that its BIG-IP® version 10 software continues to be well-received by customers worldwide. In April, F5 released BIG-IP v10, as part of its vision to unify application and data delivery services. Thousands of enterprises and service providers have downloaded BIG-IP v10 software to help streamline application delivery and reduce CapEx and OpEx costs. F5 continues to enrich the BIG-IP solution with more Application Ready Templates and a new release of Enterprise Manager™, which helps customers planning an upgrade from previous versions of BIG-IP to the most recent 10.0.1 release. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today announced the availability of its leading data management and analytics servers including Sybase® SQL Anywhere®, Sybase IQ, and Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment. With these products, customers will have the ability to quickly develop and deploy on-demand data systems for mobile, analytics and transactional applications. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

In an effort to provide ongoing education on Cloud Computing, this seminar will address how to improve your business's competitive position in the face of shrinking budgets and ever increasing operational complexity. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

Inc. ranked Centerstance #20 in Oregon and #1177 nationally on its annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. The list is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced that it now supports The Rackspace Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace™. With this announcement, software systems packaged, deployed and maintained using the rPath release automation platform are ready-to-run on The Rackspace Cloud's infrastructure as a service product, Cloud Servers. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

BLADE Network Technologies Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, and Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) announced that the two companies are kicking off a global co-marketing campaign at VMworld to accelerate the adoption of converged networking in the datacenter. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental software, announced today the appointment of Eric Applegate as the Director of Sales. Reporting to Neno Duplan, President and CEO, Mr. Applegate is tasked with driving Locus’ continued global sales success. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect<< MORE >>

Altor Networks, provider of best-in-class virtualization and cloud security solutions, and the Nielsen Company, the world’s leading supplier of marketing, media and TV ratings information, will be teaming up to deliver a compelling session on virtualization security best practices. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it remained the worldwide market share leader in the Content Security Gateway Appliance market for the second calendar quarter of 2009, according to a recent report from Infonetics Research. Blue Coat increased its market share in the second quarter to 23.6 percent. Blue Coat has led this market since Infonetics initiated tracking at the beginning of 2007. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, announced strong customer traction for VMware’s industry-leading virtualization platform. In the first half of 2009, more than 21,000 new customers have purchased VMware solutions—equivalent to an average of 121 new customers per day. In addition, VMware vSphere™ 4 has reached more than 350,000 downloads in the first 12 weeks of general availability— at an average rate of 140 downloads per hour. According to a recent poll on www.vmware.com, approximately 75 percent of customers that responded are upgrading or plan to upgrade to VMware vSphere™ 4 within the next six months. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced it is the first service provider to offer hosting services for SAP® solutions on its cloud computing platform. Through its innovative Enterprise Cloud infrastructure, Terremark will be able to leverage its secure, top-tier data centers with access to massive and diverse network connectivity to provide customers a new, cost-effective model for hosting their SAP solutions in a live production environment. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect<< MORE >>

PrimaCloud, a pioneering managed cloud and virtual IT services provider, announced today that it has deployed the Xsigo I/O Director as the foundation of its data center interconnect strategy. The Xsigo I/O Director enables PrimaCloud to break the barriers of I/O throughput seen in existing cloud computing offerings, allowing end customers to experience application performance levels that would previously have been achievable only in purpose-built private datacenters. Additionally, Xsigo's virtual I/O infrastructure allows PrimaCloud to automatically provision cost-effective virtual private datacenters for its customers within minutes. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect<< MORE >>

To address the growing need to manage hybrid virtual and physical infrastructures with multiple network operating systems Arista Networks today announced vEOS (virtualized Extensible Operating System), integrated networking software that peers with VMware vSphere™ 4 and manages the VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch to link physical and virtual machines to network policy and profiles. With vEOS, IT organizations can now move workloads from physical servers to virtual machines and to cloud infrastructures while maintaining segmentation, trust boundaries, and policy control. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, today announced that its software-only HyperIP for VMware optimization is the first industry solution to support the migration and acceleration of live VMotion images between VMware virtual machines over existing IP WAN connections. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, today made several announcements underscoring its rapid growth and broad industry support as the largest cloud security initiative on a global basis, including the news that numerous leading corporations in the fields of cloud computing and security have joined the Alliance. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

Cypress Communications today announced that its executive vice president of marketing, Frank Grillo, will be discussing the value of hosted and managed IT services with top law firm CIOs during the G100 Forum at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) 2009 conference. The forum, which will take place on Monday, August 24 from 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., is an invitation-only event that brings together CIOs from the 100 largest law firms in the world. Mr. Grillo’s session, entitled “The Virtualized Law Firm: More Functionality and Reduced IT Spend,” will be held from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of industrial-strength API management and cloud governance solutions for leading enterprises, SaaS and media companies, today announced the preview launch of Apigee, a Web site that provides analytics, protection and control for APIs and mashups. Apigee enables API providers to understand usage, protect their application and enforce API terms of use, while developers using APIs can use Apigee to get visibility into the actual service levels of the APIs they consume. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced the results of a survey that shows how large enterprises are implementing cloud computing. The study reveals that among large enterprises, cloud computing is gaining critical mass, with more than 80 percent of respondents at least in trial stages for public and private cloud computing deployments. Additionally, despite the maturing rate of adoption of cloud computing among enterprises, the study shows that there is considerable confusion and concern around the definition of cloud computing. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental software, was recently chosen NASA/Ames Research Center 2009 Small Business Subcontractor of the Year. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

Appirio (www.appirio.com), a cloud solution provider, today announced a new cloud-based professional service automation (PSA) solution. Built completely on the Force.com platform and designed for the world’s most sophisticated professional service organizations, Appirio Professional Services Enterprise™ delivers end-to-end support for managing people, projects, customers and transactions. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that Mary Kay®, one of the largest direct sellers of skin care and color cosmetics, has reduced storage capacity and associated energy requirements by 50 percent by deploying highly virtualized 3PAR Utility Storage. With 3PAR, Mary Kay has reduced storage costs by 20 percent and achieved an administration time savings of 60 percent over legacy storage, which is not virtualized. Since deploying 3PAR, Mary Kay has not only reduced CAPEX and OPEX, but has also significantly increased high availability in their storage environment. In addition, 3PAR Utility Storage has given Mary Kay superior performance and scalability in their storage infrastructure, enabling the cosmetics giant to better meet customer demands. - Claude Cloud the Cloud Computing Architect<< MORE >>

Dataram Corporation [NASDAQ: DRAM], a worldwide leader of advanced memory solutions, today announced plans to launch a unique storage product line that will deliver application performance improvements as well as cost savings without the need for an expensive storage upgrade or replacement. This product launch supports Dataram's corporate strategy to deliver data center solutions that optimize performance, leverage existing IT investments, and make measurable reductions in the total cost of ownership associated with these assets. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Today GoGrid, the Cloud Hosting service from ServePath Dedicated Hosting, officially announced that its core cloud computing infrastructure hosting product is out of beta. GoGrid version 2.0 was released on August 6th, 2009, which included the important MyGSI feature that gives users the ability to create personal server images for rapid server cloning or parking. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Inc. magazine today ranked Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech) No. 622 on its third annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Catbird, the pioneering leader in security and compliance solutions for virtual and cloud networks, today announced that V-Security 2.0 is now McAfee Compatible and is interoperable with McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) software. The integration of V-Security with McAfee ePO software enables McAfee customers to gain comprehensive virtual network visibility into the ePO database as they add virtualized platforms into their physical data center. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced the NetSuite "Cash for Clunkers" incentive program. For the first time, a cloud computing solution provider is offering direct incentives to help businesses turn off and turn in their antiquated on-premise software and hardware, pare back their electricity use, and switch to an efficient, cutting-edge, on-demand business management software suite. With NetSuite Cash for Clunkers, companies can realize all of the total cost of ownership benefits and productivity gains associated with switching to NetSuite, and be compensated for abandoning their current legacy, on-premise platform. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

OpenAir, Inc., a NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N) company and a leading provider of cloud computing professional services automation (PSA) and services resource planning (SRP) software, today announced the latest customers from the Asia Pacific region to choose OpenAir to automate key processes for project management, resource management, time and expense tracking, and project accounting. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Kontiki, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise video delivery solutions, today announced that its solution is being used by Europe’s leading retail beauty chain, Sephora, a division of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) and the world’s leading luxury products group, to deliver high‐quality corporate communication and training videos to employees. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

GoGrid, the Cloud Computing division of ServePath, today announced a strategic partnership with Stratonomic to offer Disaster Recovery (DR) in the cloud – Cloud Recovery™ - for hosted web applications. With Stratonomic and GoGrid, anyone can have an affordable, enterprise-level DR environment set up and available in the cloud. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, will showcase its HyperIP® for VMware software, bringing unmatched capabilities for accelerated data movement across a virtualized infrastructure at VMworld 2009, August 31 to September 3 at the Moscone Center in San Francsico, Booth #1739. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that, by choosing 3PAR Utility Storage to virtualize, consolidate, and expand its storage infrastructure, Martin’s Point Health Care has reduced their total cost of ownership for storage by more than 60%. Since deploying 3PAR Utility Storage, Martin’s Point has reduced capacity purchases by 25%, cut server and storage administration time by 75%, improved both performance and scalability, and eliminated the downtime previously experienced with their legacy storage infrastructure. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

The repeated Twitter hacking exposes the complex and serious security issue on the web. Unfortunately for Twitter (Google Apps, Facebook, and others), the problems have unfolded in a public arena, forcing them respond quickly to calm users and resulting in a short term solution (that clearly has not been working!). - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

oyent, the leading vendor in Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing, announced today that it is taking the proven performance and reliability of Sun Microsystems’ MySQL database to a whole new level by offering optimizations to the Joyent Cloud for MySQL. Joyent and Sun’s database group have teamed up to create Virtual Appliance templates for MySQL. - Claude the Cloud Computing Architect<< MORE >>

A-Server, a specialist in Cloud Computing, has announced SymetriQ as the first European service provider customer for its Cloud Computing platform DAAS.com (Datacenter-as-a-Service). SymetriQ will launch its Enterprise Public Cloud in August from a Data Centre near London offering a fully scalable Cloud Computing platform aimed at enterprise customers who require higher level service agreements and greater