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 >>

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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 flexibility than currently offered by "consumer" clouds such as Amazon, GoGrid and FlexiScale. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

BlueLock serves its clients by providing the people, expertise and IT infrastructure in a world-class, SAS 70 certified data center. The company provides Virtual Cloud Computing through Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) where clients subscribe monthly to just the right amount of computing, storage and bandwidth capacity needed today with the ability to grow "on demand" in the future. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

CloudStorm is the New Style Event set up by Companies offering Innovating Solutions in Cloud Computing! Expands events to more locations. Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

By enabling the ZCloud API, a storage cloud immediately becomes a potential destination of ever-growing eco-system of backup-to-cloud applications, including Amanda - the world's most popular open source backup project. The storage cloud vendor does not need to worry about specifics of backup and recovery process. Instead they can continue to focus on scalability and robustness of their core offering. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Leading providers of business and infrastructure software today announced the availability of a joint solution stack that delivers complete Business Intelligence (BI) on the cloud. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR), today announced that it will present at the Next Generation Data CenterTM (NGDC) event, held August 12-13 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. The conference is focused on complete solutions for 21st century data centers and related new technologies. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant in Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation. Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Ping Identity®, the leader in Internet Identity Security, today announced it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to help develop and promote industry best practices for cloud computing security assurance. Ping Identity CTO Patrick Harding will serve as a member on the CSA Advisory Council, sharing Ping Identity’s experiences in developing secure Single Sign-On to the industry’s leading SaaS applications including Salesforce, Google Apps, WebEx, Concur, SuccessFactors and other. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Penguin Computing, experts in high performance computing solutions, today announced the immediate availability of “Penguin on Demand™” – or POD – a new service that delivers, for the first time, a complete high performance computing (HPC) solution in the cloud. POD extends the concept of cloud computing by making optimized compute resources designed specifically for HPC available on demand. POD is targeted at researchers, scientists and engineers who require surge capacity for time-critical analyses or organizations that need HPC capabilities without the expense and effort required to acquire HPC clusters. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that CEDAR document technologies, a leading provider of technologies and services for print and electronic customer communication platforms, chose 3PAR Utility Storage to consolidate and expand its storage infrastructure. With 3PAR, CEDAR has improved the performance of its Managed Service offerings, accommodated a 5x increase in transaction volume and reduced total cost of storage by nearly half a million dollars. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Verizon Business has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to help promote security within the "cloud" -- services delivered over the Internet. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Today GoGrid, the Cloud Computing service from ServePath, released version 2.0 of its award-winning Cloud Computing Infrastructure solution. With this release, GoGrid users now have the ability to create personal server images, known as MyGSIs. MyGSI stands for "personal GoGrid Server Image," a "Golden Master" server image that can be customized, saved and stored for future deployments. Users are now able to create new servers from stored MyGSIs via the GoGrid web portal or API quickly and easily. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Livedrive, the fast growing online storage provider, has added online backup functionality that allows customers to automatically backup important documents, photos, videos and other files from their PC to their cloud storage. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

SoftLayer™ today extended its industry-leading Application Programming Interface (API) to enable control of the company’s CloudLayer™ Computing and CloudLayer Storage services. The API is an interface that allows customers to give their systems automatic, remote access and control of SoftLayer services. It integrates with third-party and custom software, providing seamless provisioning, management, monitoring, and information retrieval from SoftLayer systems including accounting, inventory, DNS management, and many others. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Storwize Inc., the leading provider of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced that Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co, Ltd has chosen the company’s capacity optimization solution to significantly reduce storage and operational costs associated with their CAD and image application data. Storwize solutions are deployed at hundreds of customer locations worldwide enabling organizations to achieve significant and immediate ROI by dramatically reducing their cost of storage and associated infrastructure footprint, power, cooling, and administrative costs. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today discussed its results for the quarter ended July 31, 2009. The Planet provides quarterly updates to its customers, business partners and prospects with information relative to new initiatives and its progress. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Revel Consulting, a leading business and IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of its Cloud Computing Practice, providing business solutions for both software companies transitioning to web-delivered services, as well as businesses incorporating web-based technologies into their day-to-day operations. Cloud computing, which encompasses software-as-a-service (SaaS), is any business or end-user service that is scalable, elastic, and provided to customers via the Internet. An early pioneer in this space, Revel has been providing cloud consulting services since the industry’s inception. This experience allows the firm to service an industry which according to Gartner, Inc. will see revenues reach $150 billion by 2013. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

ElephantDrive Inc., a leader in online backup, online storage, and remote access has partnered with Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) to bring simple and effective cloud storage to students. The service is designed to make it easy for students to enable automated protection of all their digital assets - from class notes and term papers to music files and photos. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world's leader in hosting, has announced its new Private Cloud offering, which allows customers to run the centrally managed VMware virtualisation platform on private dedicated hardware environments. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Visual WebGui, the Web & Cloud Application Development Platform, announces the creation of a Wiki page designed to provide a new interaction zone for Visual WebGui users to read, post, and share development knowledge. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading supplier of security and governance solutions for web-oriented and service-oriented architectures, has partnered with 3tera to offer its award winning security and management gateway for the 3tera cloud computing platform. The Layer 7 virtual appliance allows adding service access control, security, SLA enforcement, availability management and API metering, all on-demand, for applications running in the Cloud. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

3Leaf Systems, a pioneer of technologies that enable dynamic clouds, today announced that an industry standard x86 system powered by 3Leaf technologies crushed the previous SPECjbb 2005 performance record of x86-based systems by a factor of two and set a new world record, coming in #1 on the overall SPECjbb list. The winning system is powered by only 32 Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 8384-based systems. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Automation and virtualization leader, Parallels, today announced that its hosting provider partners are seeing an uptick and increased demand for its Parallels Automation offering, which delivers applications like Microsoft Hosted Exchange in a software as a service (SaaS) model. Hosters, telecommunication providers, and MSPs are leading the industry trend and providing hosted e-mail services to SMBs in a cloud model, with capabilities that were historically only available to large Enterprises. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Today Voxel, the global leader in Internet infrastructure services including managed hosting, content delivery and cloud computing, announced agreements with Beijing-based Candis Group LTD and Shinetech Software Inc. for use of its cloud computing and content delivery network (CDN) services in Asia. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, today announced it was recognized as a visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for “Integrated Software Quality Suites” for 2009. The study assessed selected test management and test automation vendors according to their ability to execute and completeness of vision. Among the criteria used for evaluation were innovation, market understanding, marketing and sales strategy, product strategy and business model. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Online Community Established to Help Companies Develop Strategies for Business IT C-4 Issues: Cost Containment, Compliance, Continuity and Carbon Footprint Reduction. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Several new IT industry technologies will be announced at OpenSource World™, Next Generation Data Center™ (NGDC™) and CloudWorld™ next week in San Francisco IDG World Expo, producer of the events, announced today. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Cloud applications, computing, and storage are just emerging on the scene, yet there is a rapid heightening of interest in all things cloud. Google and Amazon popularized the concept, now businesses of all sizes and types are interested in its potential. With the availability of cloud storage-enabling solutions, many service providers and hosting companies are investigating new cloud storage service offerings. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in solutions for automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced that Sony Pictures Imageworks, Inc., has selected rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. Using the rPath solutions, Sony Imageworks will automate the packaging, deployment and maintenance of the digital character animation and visual effects applications used to create its award-winning movies. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Vordel, the XML network management company, today announced that its hugely popular Web Service security and stress test tool, Vordel SOAPbox will be available for free as of today. Already in use by thousands of developers in public and private sector institutions around the world, Vordel SOAPbox enables organizations to test the performance, compliance and security of their Web Services for free. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

enStratus Networks today announced the availability of the latest Amazon Web Services (AWS) management features providing a complete management solution for customers. The company also announced today the continued growth of the business with a 66% increase in server launches in July. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader in extensible network security and connectivity solutions, today announced that it is acquiring privately-held BorderWare Technologies of Toronto, Canada. BorderWare Technologies is a leading e-mail and Web security content and threat management platform provider for mid-sized enterprises, government and service providers. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, today reported results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, which ended June 30th, 2009. Revenue for the first quarter was $44.5 million, an increase of 4% compared to revenue of $43.0 million for the same period a year ago, and a decrease of 8% compared to $48.5 million in the prior quarter, which ended March 31st, 2009. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based IT labs, today announced support for application compatibility testing on Windows 7, Microsoft’s highly anticipated follow up to Vista. Using Skytap, customers can quickly and cost-effectively spin up a virtual sandbox in the cloud to ensure applications run correctly on the new operating system. For a limited time, Skytap is offering team access to Skytap’s Virtual Lab SaaS application, Windows 7 virtual machine templates and 1,000 hours of testing time for $250 per month. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Nimsoft, the alternative to Big 4 IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that it is positioned in the Challengers Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s recently released “Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis” research report. - Claude the Cloud Archtitect << MORE >>

SoftLayer Technologies™, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today began offering Parallels® Plesk Panel as an optional service with CloudLayer™ Computing Instances. The extension of Parallels Panel to the company's cloud computing solution gives SoftLayer customers even more control and operational efficiency for these exceptionally scalable environments. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Symmetry Corporation today announced it is now an SAP(®) hosting partner and its hosting service has been certified by SAP, marking an important development in the relationship between Symmetry and SAP. Symmetry passed a rigorous audit by SAP to achieve certification of its hosting services. This is further confirmation of Symmetry's proven methodology for managing SAP application-based environments. G. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

According to a new survey by research and consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, manual configuration errors are wreaking havoc across IT organizations, not only impacting developer and staff productivity, but also causing significant delays in the roll out of customer-facing web applications. These errors are resulting in application downtime costing companies as much as $72,000 per hour. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

-Enigmatec Corporation Limited, the leader in enterprise datacenter automation, announced today that managed cloud computing pioneer PrimaCloud will deploy Enigmatec's run book automation software for rapid provisioning and management of its customers’ virtual private datacenters (VPDCs) in the cloud. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Point Zero Media are pleased to announce there inaugural event – The Cloud Computing World Forum – www.cloudwf.com – taking place on the 1st of October at 76 Portland Place, London. - Claude the Cloud Computing Architect<< MORE >>

Delve Networks, a leading provider of video platforms, announces a strategic relationship with Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, that will enable Delve to offer customers a comprehensive and innovative video publishing solution that includes video management and delivery including support of next generation variable bit rate streaming technologies. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, the leading vendor of governance and security solutions for application services, today announced it has concluded a reseller agreement with SOFTCON IT-Service GmbH. SOFTCON is now offering Layer 7’s SOA and cloud-based security and governance solutions to its customers in Germany and Austria. SOFTCON expects this agreement to strengthen its position in the area of application and Web service delivery. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

IceWEB, Inc. www.iceweb.com, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with a technology and energy focused fund (the “Investor”), which has offices in New York and California, under which the Company has secured a $3 million investment (the “Investment”). - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, today announced that its 2010 consumer solutions, which include Panda Antivirus for Netbooks, Panda Antivirus Pro 2010, Panda Internet Security 2010 and Panda Global Protection 2010 are now being sold in retail stores throughout the US. Major chains that sell Panda Security products include Fry's Electronics, Micro Center, Office Depot, Office Max and Staples. Consumers can also purchase through major online retailers such as Amazon.com and Newegg.com. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Zscaler, Inc., the market leader in cloud-delivered, multi-tenant Security as a Service (SaaS), today announced that Sub-Zero, the recognized industry-leader in high-end refrigeration units, is leveraging Zscaler SaaS service to protect their headquarters, branch offices and mobile road warriors in distributed locations from Web security risks. Zscaler enforces Internet business and security policies. The Zscaler service also significantly lowers IT costs while providing a strong solution for reporting, replacing one described only as “broken.” - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Hostway Corporation, a global leader in enterprise class hosting solutions, announced today the availability of a new line of advanced server plans, powered by Intel’s next generation processor technology, the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. Intel’s state of the art micro-architecture in the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series provides breakthrough virtualization performance and enterprise class features. Hostway has packaged a full range of new server plans based on the Dell™ PowerEdge™ platform, including the Quad Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series , SATA or SAS hard drives with hardware raid, and prices beginning at $349 per month. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) and Acxiom® Corporation (NASDAQ: ACXM) today announced a partnership to deliver enterprise-class on-demand Information Governance solutions. The new service is immediately available. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

BM today introduced the Smart Analytics System, the industry's first comprehensive offering that brings the power of analytics to clients in just a matter of days. With today's news, IBM is taking advantage of its unique combination of software and hardware technology, industry knowledge, Research math sciences and services expertise to help clients make more informed decisions faster than ever before -- accelerating the pace of building a smarter planet. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Quantivo, the leader in on-demand behavioral analytics, today announced that its SaaS service is now hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2. Quantivo changes the expectations of customer analytics by offering a high-performance, highly scalable and highly reliable computing infrastructure for a fraction of the cost of traditional advanced analytics solutions. Now any company or department can quickly answer the most difficult customer behavior questions in minutes and immediately capitalize on all sales, marketing and customer service opportunities. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Verari Systems®, a premier developer of independent blade-based computing and storage platforms for the data center with the highest density, availability, and energy efficiency in the market, today announced that a major cloud services provider -- with worldwide operations -- has deployed a second-generation Verari FOREST Container to support its popular cloud services platform. Selected for its alignment with the cloud services provider’s commitment to environmental sustainability, Verari’s award-winning FOREST Container maximizes flexibility while cutting energy costs exponentially and boosting computing performance to new levels. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Vordel, the XML networking management company, today announced at the Burton Catalyst Conference the general availability of Vordel 5.2, its suite of application networking products. Vordel 5.2 enables enterprises to connect their applications to Cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, SalesForce.com, and Microsoft Azure. Vordel benefits enterprises by resolving the complexity of connecting SOA and Cloud-based services and providing a secure and transparent environment for this process. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has been named to 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 >>

CloudBench Applications has been selected for Force.com's Final 40 Partner Showcase after demonstrating its BasicGov web-based software for local governments at Salesforce.com's Innovation Showcase in June. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are demonstrating tremendous support for the SUSE® Appliance Program from Novell, the industry's first, complete, end-to-end appliance solution that enables ISVs to rapidly build, update, configure and go to market with fully supported software and virtual appliances. These ISVs are taking advantage of the comprehensive go-to-market support for appliances offered by Novell, including distribution channel, joint marketing, pricing, and redistribution agreements that reduce the time to get an evaluation or production appliance ready for the market. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Novell today announced a comprehensive program and group of technologies that for the first time enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to rapidly build, update, configure and go to market with fully supported software and virtual appliances. The SUSE® Appliance Program is the only offering that enables ISVs to customize a fully supported, mission-critical operating system and then build and test a complete software stack, making Novell the only vendor to provide a complete, end-to-end appliance solution for ISVs. Built on top of the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, the SUSE Appliance Program will transform the way ISVs package and distribute their software offerings, enabling them to quickly deliver existing applications to physical, virtual and cloud computing environments, reduce sales cycles and pursue new market opportunities. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced an open ecosystem of industry-leading solution partners to accelerate adoption of low latency, scale-out Ethernet fabrics for enterprise data centers and cloud computing environments. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

While the promise of the cloud has piqued the interest of many IT administrators, adoption of Internet-based applications has been slowed by perceived barriers that have left many waiting to make the move from private networks to the public backbone. But for those who have been resistant to utilizing the cloud because they are concerned that their interactive applications might place too large of a burden on their Internet connection, bandwidth concerns need not be an issue say experts at Asankya. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

PivotLink, the leading provider of business intelligence solutions delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), today announced it has been selected by IT research and advisory services firm Burton Group for the single sign-on interoperability event during its Catalyst Conference North America 2009 on July 29, 2009 in San Diego, California. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that Managed Health Care Associates, Inc. (MHA) has saved 50% on storage CAPEX by consolidating onto a single, highly virtualized 3PAR InServ® F-Class Storage Server. With 3PAR, MHA has doubled storage performance and improved VMware® server performance while the hyper-efficient design of the InServ F-Class has also lowered MHA’s OPEX, reducing datacenter power consumption by 30% and storage administration time by 80% as compared to MHA’s previous storage environment. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

The popularity of cloud storage is anything but up in the air, as more and more businesses and consumers ground themselves in this data accessing, management and editing strategy. Toffa International’s (http://www.toffa.com) cloud storage application, GooSync, provides synchronization between Google’s widely used Google Calendar and mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. Recent updates to the market-leading software include upgraded infrastructure, a new helpdesk feature and enhanced scalability. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process innovation and Cloud orchestration, has launched an innovative service to enable telecom operators, application and communication service providers, and outsourcers to provide their own Cloud Services for business customers of any size. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS), a global leader in outsourced internet infrastructure services for the enterprise, today announced a three year managed IT services agreement with Ricoh Americas Corporation to host DocumentMall, its Software-as-a -Service (SaaS) document management solution. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Intacct, a leader in cloud financial management and accounting applications, announced today that FlightWorks has selected Intacct as its new financial management system. Intacct will help FlightWorks improve its financial reporting processes, increase employee efficiency, contain capital spending and ascend to new levels of profitability by modernizing its financial applications and making the move to cloud computing. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, has launched a new version of its Corporate Software Solutions or CSS: Panda Security for Business, Panda Security for Business with Exchange and Panda Security for Enterprise. These solutions include an improved version of Panda AdminSecure, the console that allows administrators to manage the network security from a single point. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Memopal launches Cloud Search 2.0, the second release of the search engine already available free of charge for all Memopal users. Some new features include real-time indexing, suggestions based on user habits and, in private beta, file content searches. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Symplified, the cloud security company, today announced that it will demonstrate here how its SinglePoint™ Cloud Identity and Access Management solution provides centralized, granular access control, single sign-on (SSO), and auditing for leading cloud applications, identity providers, and federation protocols by integrating with user data and directories located inside enterprise firewalls. As part of the cloud SSO Interoperability demonstration hosted by Burton Group, Symplified will showcase how SinglePoint addresses policy enforcement, regulatory compliance, and directory integration challenges associated with deploying Google Apps, Salesforce.com, Microsoft’s new identity federation platform, and other on-demand resources. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

nStratus Networks announced today that Alvenda has deployed its ecommerce ShopletsTM on the enStratus Cloud Management Platform. Shoplets (shop-able advertisements) provide customers the ability to purchase products without getting “clicked off” the Web site they were browsing. The enStratus solution enables Alvenda to ramp quickly, securely and cost-effectively for major online retailer clients. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Compliance Research Group (CRG), an industry analyst firm focused on IT risk management and compliance, has completed its latest Research Brief on cloud computing compliance and IT security. The brief, Managing Compliance and Security for Cloud Computing, provides insight on how a top-down view of all IT resources within a cloud-based location can deliver a stronger management and enforcement of compliance policies. CRG analysts recommend compliance and security managed from a cloud platform to properly monitor and control a mix of sensitive information resources located in both cloud-based and enterprise applications. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Mezeo Software Corp. (www.mezeo.com), the leading provider of a deployable platform for cloud storage, today announced that Mezeo President and CEO Steve Lesem will participate in a panel discussion at HostingCon 2009. The panel, “Offering Cloud Services to Your Customers,” will discuss how hosting providers can increase profits by providing cloud services. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

MultiFactor Corporation, an innovator in Single Sign-On 2-factor authentication, web application security and VPN Authentication solutions, announces the strongest, most flexible authentication and provisioning solution on the market is now available for Salesforce.com. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Univa UD, a leading provider of software solutions for enabling dynamic IT environments, today announced UniCloud 2.0, a major new release which includes unique capabilities for enabling private, public and hybrid cloud environments. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) and leading provider of STorage-as-a-Service (STaaS) for backup and archiving, announced that it has signed its first European customer for its recently launched Virtual File Store™ service - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

B2B integration specialist Hubspan has teamed with IBM to roll out a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) integration platform aimed at reducing the cost and complexity of business connectivity and integration. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

WorkXpress, the world’s most functional Platform as a Service (PaaS) without programming, has signed BMG Technology of Southeastern Pennsylvania to a new value added reseller (VAR) partnership agreement. BMG Technology has been a technology implementation leader since opening its doors 10 years ago. With their experience and both local and national sales reach, BMG will support the expansion and growth of WorkXpress to new vertical markets and locales. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Enterprises, ISVs and cloud computing providers can learn how to determine which server-based enterprise applications make the most sense to move from the datacenter to a cloud computing environment in a special webcast featuring AppZero and leading industry analyst firm Gartner. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

SpamTitan, a leading producer of email security solutions, today announced a number of compelling statistics from its recent cloud computing research. Approximately 68% of online users use some form of cloud computing, defined as any web based activities that involves storing data and/or accessing online applications (such as webmail services, services that involve the storing of personal photos, videos, computer files or applications such as Google Documents or Adobe Photoshop Express). - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, today announced its worldwide barometer on the status of security at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)(1). According to the study, which surveyed 5,760 companies worldwide, 44 percent of the more than 1,400 US respondents have recently been infected by Internet threats. Worldwide, 58 percent were affected, with Brazil showing the highest infection rate at 86 percent. Only 8 percent of SMBs in Germany reported infections. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

CohesiveFT (http://www.cohesiveft.com), the leader in on-boarding solutions for virtual and cloud computing infrastructures, today announced it has partnered with Capgemini (http://www.capgemini.com), one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The agreement will make CohesiveFT's VPN-Cubed and Elastic Server product families the preferred cloud server assembly and cloud security and control solutions for the Capgemini Cloud Computing Center of Excellence. Capgemini will now use CohesiveFT's products as key components of their data center to cloud or hybrid cloud solutions for enterprise customers. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Sogeti, a premier provider of information technology services, today announced it will be hosting an event in the Columbus, Ohio area geared to help companies gain strategic insights about collaboration and cloud computing. The event will be held July 29th from 7:30 am to 10:00 am at the Creekside Conference & Event Center in Gahanna, OH. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

SpamTitan are delighted to announce that they have once again appeared on the CRN Emerging Vendors List. “SpamTitan anti-spam software continues to successfully help thousands of companies worldwide to rid users’ inboxes of spam, viruses and other email threats’ said Ronan Kavanagh CEO of SpamTitan Technologies. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Storwize, Inc., the leading provider of online data reduction solutions today unveiled its new Storwize Partnerwize Program. The new and comprehensive program is designed to support the growth of Storwize channel partners’ bottom lines by delivering the right mix of incentives, infrastructure, and enablement tools to be successful in the rapidly emerging market for online data reduction. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Tarmin Technologies™, a leading provider of intelligent secondary storage infrastructure and active archival solutions, today announced that GridBank™ 1.5 seamlessly integrates with the Nirvanix cloud storage platform. With GridBank, customers can effortlessly and securely tier, migrate and archive their file and SharePoint® data from expensive primary on-site storage to Nirvanix’s cost-effective cloud storage environment. Using GridBank’s highly secure connectivity to the Nirvanix cloud platform, organizations can take full advantage of the all-encompassing business benefits and feature sets of GridBank, while experiencing the flexibility and cost reduction of the Nirvanix cloud storage model. Tarmin has integrated with Nirvanix’s APIs allowing for complete GridBank integration with the Nirvanix cloud. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the RightScale Cloud Management Platform is the first solution that lets users create, manage and automate IBM DB2 Express-C 9.7 database software on the cloud. Now, RightScale users can more easily build, test and deploy applications on leading clouds such as Amazon EC2 using the most advanced version of IBM DB2 directly from the RightScale platform. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

With security frequently cited as the top barrier to enterprise adoption of cloud computing, leading IT executives will debate the cloud security argument at a special panel session at Open Group Toronto 2009. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

MX Logic, the world's largest independent provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) messaging security solutions, today implemented several new enhancements to its complete line of email, Web, disaster recovery and message archiving services. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that Juniper and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) are continuing to broaden their strategic relationship by entering into an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) agreement that will enable IBM to provide Juniper's Ethernet networking products and support within IBM's data center portfolio of products. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Virtualization and automation leader Parallels, today announced that Lunarpages, a leading Web hosting company, is leveraging Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to deliver its customers Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting services. The solution is available on both Windows and Linux servers and provides a cost effective solution for businesses that have outgrown shared hosting, and do not need the full capacity of a dedicated server. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, today announced a Performance Certification Program designed to enable companies deploying software in the Cloud, at hosted data centers, or behind corporate firewalls to certify that their website has been tested and has met or exceeded industry benchmarks for performance at peak levels of user traffic. Whether due to cost, complexity or lack of resources, the vast majority of web applications and sites have not been tested at normal user volumes, much less for unexpected spikes in traffic. The user community has become the testers for most Web 2.0 sites, a risk that has proven very costly time and again. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Boomi, the market and technology leader for on-demand integration, today announced record business results on all fronts for the first half of 2009. The company continues to build on its successful momentum by adding more than 100 customers from January to June 2009 and doubling its record growth rate from 2008. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

enStratus Networks today announced the expansion of the enStratus Cloud Management Platform to Windows applications. This new release makes enStratus the first to have complete application management in the Amazon Cloud across a range of platforms including Windows and Linux. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

CA (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that Tim Brown, vice president and chief architect of CA's Security Management business unit, will present a standalone session on "Cloud Computing Privacy and Security Issues" at The Open Group Conference, 3rd Security Practitioners Conference in Toronto. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage software solutions, today announced that Founder and CTO Cameron Bahar will speak on cloud storage technology trends for service providers and hosting companies at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 12, 2009. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Novell will unveil the industry's first cloud computing security service that provides identity and access management for hosted applications and hosted storage, as well as a compliance reporting suite, at the upcoming Burton Group Catalyst Conference, July 29 - 31 in San Diego. Based on more than 60 cloud-related patents and patent applications, the Novell(R) Cloud Security Service enables Cloud Providers and Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors to ensure their offerings meet the strict security and compliance standards required by global businesses. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Zoho today announced the Zwitch program for Salesforce.com, which lets Salesforce.com users easily migrate to Zoho CRM, the award-winning, affordable customer relationship management application for organizations that want to run their businesses online. With several users switching from Salesforce.com to Zoho frequently, this program is aimed at helping ease this transition, while driving down costs and delivering better value for their money. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Digi-Data Corporation, a leader in the software-as-a-service industry, announced today that the company's subscriber base has just surpassed one million customers. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today the 3PAR Cloud-Agile program, a new partnership initiative to promote the adoption of cloud computing and cloud-based services offered by leading providers with infrastructures powered by 3PAR Utility Storage. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), a leader in Cybersecurity, today announced its Virtual 3D Partner Program, providing cloud computing companies and OEMs the ability to leverage the new Sourcefire Virtual 3D Sensor™ and Sourcefire Virtual Defense Center™ to efficiently and effectively increase customer protection. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Symplified, the cloud security company, today announced that its Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Darren Platt will present a session at the CloudWorld Conference in San Francisco on the challenges and pitfalls associated with enforcing access control policies and auditing usage of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Mr. Platt is a recognized expert on identity management, and co-authored the AuthXML specification which was the precursor to the SAML identity federation standard. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today outlined details of its Security-as-a-Service strategy, designed to provide consumers, small to mid-sized businesses and large enterprises with a comprehensive set of security products delivered as a service in the cloud. This strategy builds on McAfee’s core strengths in threat prevention, its diverse software-as-a-service portfolio and industry-leading global threat intelligence, powered by McAfee Avert Labs. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Panda Security (http://www.pandasecurity.com), The Cloud Security Company, today announced the general availability of the Beta2 version of Panda Cloud Antivirus (http://www.cloudantivirus.com), the industry's first and only free, thin-client, cloud-based antivirus which halves the impact on computer performance compared with traditional antivirus products. Users can download this new version for free from http://www.cloudantivirus.com or visit the official developer blog at http://blog.cloudantivirus.com. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Xsigo Systems, the technology leader in I/O virtualization, announced today that PrimaCloud, a leading managed cloud computing services provider, has deployed the Xsigo I/O Director as the foundation of its new service offering. The virtual I/O architecture allows customers to provision a complete virtual private data center in just five minutes, a task that would otherwise require days or weeks. With Xsigo, PrimaCloud maintains 99.99% uptime at 50% less cost and in 85% less physical data center space than would otherwise be possible. Capital and operational cost savings enabled by Xsigo virtual I/O are expected to exceed $1 million in the company's first year of operation. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

Altor Networks, provider of best-in-class virtualization and cloud security solutions, today announced that Comprehensive Health Services (CHS) is using the Altor VF virtual firewall in a mission-critical production environment to ensure compliance in their virtualized environment. Compliance with stringent data privacy laws governing healthcare, government and financial institutions are mandatory and specific to how information such as social security numbers and health information must be protected. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process innovation, and Cloud Harbor, Inc., an emerging leader in the cloud computing revolution, today announced a partnership that names Cordys as the core technology provider for the new Cloud Harbor Business Operations Platform. This strategic partnership also appoints the Cloud Harbor Business Operations Platform as the official Cordys Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider for the U.S., Mexico, Central America and South America, and enables Cloud Harbor to sell other Cordys products including on-premise server licenses, training and professional services. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced that it has been selected for the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 list in the category of "Cloud and Infrastructure." The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets. rPath was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of analytics, management, and governance solutions for APIs and cloud services, has been selected by TrueCredit.com to help manage the online consumer credit product leader's "Consumer Connect" initiative, which will be syndicated through partners via APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

WorkXpress, the world’s most functional Platform as a Service (PaaS) without programming, signed its newest value added reseller (VAR) partner, Visao, LLC of Florida today. The relationship represents the sixth partnership agreement signed within the past month by WorkXpress. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

The Web has evolved far beyond browser capabilities, limiting the usability and practicality of cloud storage and cloud services. In response, Gladinet (http://www.gladinet.com/index.htm), a company with a goal to transform the Internet into a virtual PC by integrating cloud services directly onto a PC desktop, has surfaced as today's first ubiquitous cloud storage client. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced the results of a recent independent sustainability impact study of the company's Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that reveals significant business energy-saving benefits for NetSuite customers who rely on the company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Ecommerce software to streamline key business processes. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

MokaFive™ today announced that Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning has selected MokaFive Suite to power their mobile computing program. One of the premier polytechnic institutes in Canada with the largest and most advanced mobile computing program in the country, Sheridan will use MokaFive Suite to support more than 5,000 students on a ‘Bring Your Own PC’ (BYOPC) model. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in hosting, today announced the availability of the public beta of its Cloud Servers® API. Cloud Servers, part of the company’s portfolio of cloud services, is a leading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that provides inexpensive compute capacity that can be instantly sized allowing businesses to pay only for what it uses—as needed. Through the open, standards-based API, Rackspace Cloud customers can now manage their cloud infrastructure with greater control and flexibility. The API, for example, enables elastic scenarios as users can write code that programmatically detects load and scales the number of server instances up and down. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, today announced that it has been named to the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services (On Demand)” published July 2, 2009, and written by Gartner analysts Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlin. - Claude the Cloud Architect<< MORE >>

GigaSpaces Technologies, a leading provider of application middleware platforms for Java and .NET environments, announces the launch of eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) 7.0, an enterprise-grade application server for deploying and scaling distributed applications. XAP 7.0 is the only product providing all middleware functions for the entire application stack within a single platform. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process innovation, has announced the general availability of its industry-leading Business Operations Platform (BOP-4). - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Saugatuck CEO McNee Models Cloud Evolution at CloudWorld Conference Cloud Computing and Platform-as-a-service examined according to real-world research and models - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

eXludus Technologies, the leading developer of multi-core system capacity management, virtualization and provisioning solutions, today announced that it will be part of a team of electronic design automation (EDA) and cloud computing experts to offer a free workshop during the Design Automation Conference 2009 (DAC09) in San Francisco. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

As a leader in the software-as-a-service industry, Digi-Data Corporation is excited to announce its next-generation Internet storage platform. Digi-Data offers an integrated suite of software applications - creating a comprehensive solution for data protection, media content management and remote access to data. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the industry's only open solution set to deliver intelligent security and performance across all enterprise locations. Juniper Networks Adaptive Threat Management Solutions , based on a dynamic security infrastructure, are the first to deliver security at scale that is both identity aware and application aware, now enabling consistent application delivery and performance across the distributed enterprise — including data center, campus, branch, remote and partner/extranet locations. Juniper empowers customers to reduce risks that threaten the distributed enterprise and their window of vulnerability from months to minutes or seconds. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

PreEmptive Solutions announced today at Microsoft Corp’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 the immediate availability of application monitoring and management support inside the Windows Azure platform from Microsoft. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

xkoto (http://www.xkoto.com), the database virtualization company, today reported record revenues for the second quarter of 2009, a 170 percent growth over the same period last year. The company benefitted from the increasing demand for continuous availability and scale-out solutions in both IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server environments. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

oltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced that the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has selected Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switches and Unified Fabric Manager (UFM™) software for an HP supercomputer dedicated to cloud computing research. KIT’s new supercomputer will serve as one of the centers of excellence for Open Cirrus™, an open cloud computing research testbed designed to support research into the design, provisioning and management of services at a global, multi-data center scale. Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

FastScale® Technology, Inc, provider of award-winning software platforms for next generation data centers, today announced the introduction of FastScale Composer Suite 3.0 Enterprise Edition. The flagship product in FastScale's integrated family of software platforms and solutions, the new FastScale Composer Suite is the most advanced solution on the market for building, optimizing, managing and deploying server software in physical, virtual and now cloud-based environments. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

At its Cloud Standards Summit here this week, OMG(TM) today announced a collaboration with leading technology Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) to coordinate and communicate standards for Cloud computing and storage.Organizations expected to participate in this round-table style collaboration include: the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the Open Grid Forum (OGF), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Bluewolf (www.bluewolf.com), the leading provider of next-generation, agile consulting services, announced that REACH Air Medical Services, a provider of air medical transport services, will be deploying Force.com Sites from salesforce.com to automate membership renewals and drive innovation around their expanding membership services program nationwide. REACH is leveraging Bluewolf's new cloud service offering SprintPack to deploy their salesforce.com solutions. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced its participation in the National Defense University's first ever Cloud Computing Symposium to be held on July 15, 2009 at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that ThomasNet is using Force.com Sites to run its online recruiting efforts. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

NewServers Inc., the leading provider of Hardware as a Service (HaaS) dedicated cloud servers, today announced that the company's revenues grew by 100 percent for the first half of 2009 compared with 2008, which allowed the firm to add new employees and add new markets during a challenging technology market. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

BlueArc® Corporation today introduced the BlueArc Mercury™ series: a premium, network storage platform that delivers exceptional business and technological benefits to the commercial midrange market. A leader in scalable, high-performance unified network storage, BlueArc designed the Mercury platform to deliver its award-winning data management, scalability and performance in a midrange solution that overcomes the storage challenges faced today by an ever-increasing number of customers. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Hexaware Technologies, a leading provider of IT & BPO services and consulting, today announced a strategic partnership with SOASTA, Inc., the leader in cloud testing. The partnership is a key component in Hexaware's strategy to expand its premiere testing services with a new cloud-based solution. Hexaware will integrate SOASTA's CloudTest On-Demand service into their existing offering to provide its customers with a turnkey cloud testing service to achieve and maintain highly reliable web sites and applications. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS), a global leader in IT infrastructure services, today announced that industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc., has positioned Savvis in the leaders quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services (On-Demand). - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

As cloud computing evolves, combinations of cloud services will be too complex and untrustworthy for end consumers to handle their integration, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that as cloud services are adopted, the ability to govern their use, performance and delivery will be provided by cloud service brokerages. These brokerages will use several types of brokers and platforms to enhance service delivery, and, ultimately, service value. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Cirrhus9, today announced the availability of its new C9 CSP Platform. The new CSP offering makes it possible for Service Providers and Technology Companies to rapidly generate new revenue by offering turnkey cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to their clients. This low cost cloud computing infrastructure and managed services offering is powered in part by 3tera’s award winning AppLogic cloud computing platform and managed by Cirrhus9. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

GoGrid, a leader in Cloud Computing Infrastructure Hosting and the Cloud Computing division of ServePath, LLC, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the Visionaries quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On Demand)" report.- Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Nirvanix, the premier enterprise cloud storage service provider, today announced that it has successfully completed the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) Type II audit that verifies that its control processes have been formally evaluated and tested by an independent accounting and auditing firm. In addition, Nirvanix security and control processes have been audited and approved by multiple Fortune 50 organizations, reinforcing Nirvanix's position as the premier enterprise cloud storage service. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

SoftLayer Technologies™ today announced that it has been listed in the "Niche Players" quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for "Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On-Demand)" released July 2, 2009. Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

In an upcoming webinar sponsored by rPath and Active Endpoints, industry experts will explore what it takes to establish a self-service application deployment model. Attendees will also see a demonstration of a self-service process in action. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Univa UD, a leading provider of software solutions for enabling dynamic IT environments, announced today that Corus Automotive has chosen Univa to provide them with a solution for private cloud enablement of high-performance computing (HPC) applications. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Platform Computing, the leader in grid and cloud computing software, today announced that Platform will be enabling Singapore's largest commercial grid computing service with its technology. Platform will be providing virtual machine management and high performance computing (HPC) software to Alatum, Singapore's cloud computing utility. Alatum, established by SingTel in conjunction with partners including Platform, delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ecosystem to businesses and public sector organizations within Singapore and across Asia. Platform's software helps manage the infrastructure behind this large scale cloud computing project, equipping enterprises with on-demand and pay-as-you-go access to data center compute resources and software including HPC and business applications. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Hostway Corporation, the global Web services leader, announced its acceptance into the Microsoft BizSpark program as a Network Partner. Now technology start ups that join Microsoft Corp.’s popular business accelerator program can receive virtually free software to run on the advanced server solutions they lease from Hostway. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

WorkXpress, the world’s most functional Platform as a Service (PaaS) without programming, announced the signing of their newest partnership, an original equipment manufacturing (ISV) arrangement with Strategy-Driven Performance of Denver, Colorado. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Zetta, Inc., provider of the industry’s first enterprise cloud storage service, today announced that is has appointed sales veteran Tom Govan to its senior management team as head of worldwide sales. Govan brings more than 25 years of technology sales experience, most recently driving software- and storage-as-a-service revenues at Iron Mountain’s Digital Services western region. Govan now leads a growing direct and channel sales organization focused on rapidly expanding the customer base of Zetta’s Enterprise Cloud Storage Services across a broad range of Financial Services, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Technology, and Educational organizations. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

OpSource™, the leader in Web operations, today announced that StructureIT, a leading financial software consultancy, has successfully deployed OpSource On-Demand™ to streamline and advance financial process management. StructureIT offers software and consulting services that help financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank and Spain’s Santander Bank, manage, administer and report on transactions. StructureIT chose OpSource On-Demand to provide the infrastructure for its solutions because of OpSource On-Demand’s unmatched reliability, security and credibility in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketplace. - Claude Cloud << MORE >>

Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, today announced that PandaLabs, Panda Security's laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, announced the findings from its second quarterly report of 2009 and determined that Trojans accounted for 70 percent of all new malware between April and June 2009. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On Demand), 2009 report1. The Magic Quadrant depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

Altor Networks, provider of best-in-class virtualization and cloud security solutions, today announced the Altor VF 3.0 virtual firewall with integrated intrusion detection. Developed using VMsafe APIs, the Altor VF offers robust defense-in-depth virtualization security with mission critical reliability and value through breakthrough fast-path performance. - Claude the Cloud Architect << MORE >>

OpsWise announces first Workload Automation Broker for the cloud. As enterprises shift workload to the cloud, the need for workload automation is mission-critical. Automation Center can be fully deployed as a cloud solution or manage cloud resources from the traditional data center. Automation Center can also automatically identify resources and begin transmitting workload to these resources as they become available providing workload portability. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today moved to overcome CIOs’ concerns about security of data in the cloud, cited by organizations and industry analysts as the top impediment to adopting cloud computing for business needs. Unisys unveiled an innovative cloud computing strategy and solutions portfolio for organizations to move enterprise application workloads securely to tailored cloud environments with greater confidence in maintaining the integrity of critical information. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Nirvanix, the premier enterprise cloud storage service provider, today launched a new version of its corporate website focusing on solutions that have been developed based on feedback from customers during the past two years. These solutions fulfill the exacting business needs of enterprises in various industries, including media and entertainment, financial services, life sciences, service providers and healthcare, or for enterprise business use such as offsite data protection, Tier N storage, distributed content and collaboration and embedded storage. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers. The program enables industry leaders in cloud computing to become certified to offer Red Hat technology solutions. Premier Cloud Provider Partners will collaborate with Red Hat on technical support, security updates, hardware certification, sales and marketing, and business models. As part of the announcement today, cloud computing pioneer Amazon Web Services will extend its technology relationship with Red Hat to become the first Red Hat Premier Cloud Provider Partner. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

AppLabs, the world's largest software testing and quality management company has announced the results of a survey it undertook recently to showcase the growing interest in the adoption of Cloud Computing. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Paglo, the IT management SaaS leader, announced today a breakthrough new service for indexing, searching, and visualizing log data. The new Log Management application enables IT professionals to automatically capture and store their logs and instantly search and analyze them. It is the newest application on the Paglo IT management SaaS platform and adds to the existing inventory discovery, server and VMware virtualization monitoring, and network management capabilities. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced integration between its BIG-IP® solutions and VMware vSphere™ 4 and VMware vCenter™ Server, together creating a scalable and extensible platform that allows IT administrators to dramatically improve organizations' control over virtual environments. Working in concert, VMware vCenter™ Server and F5® BIG-IP® solutions enable customers to dynamically provision application resources, reduce costs, and maximize the automation and agility of their IT infrastructures. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Centerstance, the leading provider of business consulting around cloud computing services in the Pacific Northwest was ranked nineteenth in the Portland Business Journal's annual list of the Fastest-Growing Private 100 Companies in Oregon. The full list appears in the June 19th issue of the Portland Business Journal. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Apparent Networks today released survey data showing that a significant number of network managers are delaying the deployment of next-generation applications because of network concerns outside of the manager's control. Apparent Networks is analyzing the results from the survey, which targeted hundreds of network managers and was conducted from the end of May until early June, to provide the best advice so that these managers can become "network heroes." - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that VMworld® 2009, the leading virtualization event, makes its return to San Francisco August 31–September 3, 2009 at Moscone Center. With more than 11,000 attendees expected and more than 180 sponsors and exhibitors, including AMD, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, Intel, NetApp, Terremark and SunGard, VMworld 2009 will spotlight how virtualization is revolutionizing the next generation of computing. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced expansion and continued momentum of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP). The VSPP is designed to enable IT service provider partners—solution providers that offer cloud-based IT services to customers outside their traditional datacenters—to leverage the VMware platform, including VMware vSphere™ 4, to offer external IT infrastructures for customers so they can increase or reduce compute capacity based on business demands. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, and WWF, the global conservation organization, announced today an international cooperation agreement between the two organizations to help protect the environment. With this international agreement, Panda Security will dedicate part of its revenue to actively supporting different WWF environmental protection initiatives around the world. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

ThinkGrid, provider of business IT on demand, today launches its cloud storage service for organisations that need to retain ever-increasing amounts of data, but lack the capital to invest in high-cost, on-site storage. Customers can now benefit from this enterprise-class data storage solution on a pay-as-you-go basis. The service is based on the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform(TM) and offers a range of advantages, including back-up and disaster recovery as well as business collaboration. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, today announced three senior appointments. Dave Murphy has been appointed Senior Vice President and Brad Johnson Vice President of Strategic Partners, both reporting to Tom Lounibos, CEO of SOASTA, Inc. In addition, Tal Broda has been appointed Vice President of Engineering, reporting to Ken Gardner, Executive Chairman. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

An Atlas V 401 rocket carrying two lunar satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:32 p.m. EDT on June 18th in what is being described as America's first step to the lasting return to the moon. One of the satellites, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), will begin to provide high-definition imagery of the moon once in orbit with a copy of all data stored on the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network™ via CloudNAS®, a software based gateway to secure enterprise cloud storage. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Vitria Technology, Inc., today announced a partnership with Motio, Inc., that will enable IBM Cognos users to seamlessly integrate their Business Intelligence content along with other data sources into customizable and flexible dashboards generated by Vitria’s Operational Intelligence (OI) software. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Zscaler, Inc., the market leader in cloud-delivered multi-tenant Security as a Service (SaaS), today announced the immediate availability of Safe Search for Microsoft Corp.’s newly-released Decision Engine, Bing. With a Safe Search solution like Zscaler’s, companies can further enforce appropriate access to Web content--including explicit images and videos. Without properly controlling access to search content, organizations invite risk and liability. And whereas with traditional software or hardware appliances similar deployment would have taken months, Zscaler was able to add this protection to its service within days of the availability of Bing. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

ewServers Inc., the leading provider of Hardware as a Service (HaaS) dedicated cloud servers, today announced a strategic partnership with high performance computing (HPC) provider Scalable Informatics that will provide cloud storage solutions capable of supporting HPC. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SecurityBuzz, a weekly threat and security podcast by MX Logic, today posted a special cloud computing podcast with Scott Chasin, co-founder and CTO of MX Logic. Credited with inventing the first web-based consumer email system and the first IP-based commercially hosted messaging service, Chasin will discuss cloud computing and how it's transforming the way companies do business and think about traditional IT. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Neptuny presented the new version of CaplanTM, the solution designed to "make Capacity Planning easy". CaplanTM version 3.1 introduces several improvements in terms of the core architecture, supported out-of-the-box connectors and user-level features. In particular, an integrated development environment, named Caplan Integration Studio (CIS), has been introduced as an Eclipse plug-in to further facilitate the development of custom connectors, reports and dashboard views, and thus enabling customers to easily take advantage of full CaplanTM capabilities. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company,today announced the general availability of its newest version, Phurnace Deliver™ 3.6 and Phurnace WebSphere Portal Deliver™ 3.6. The latest release focuses on increased ease of use and troubleshooting of environments, including enhanced features specifically developed for IBM® WebSphere Portal®. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

eGain Communications Corporation (OTC BB: EGAN.OB), the leading provider of multichannel customer service and knowledge management software, on-site and on-demand, today launched a program that will allow enterprises with obsolete and non-integrated systems for customer service management to easily switch to eGain's top-rated solution for multichannel customer service. The promotion is available immediately to US and Canadian businesses that have existing on-site deployments from the vendors listed later in this announcement. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), a global online IT business hosting provider, has launched its CloudXcelerator™ program, which enables PEER 1 partners to develop, test and run their cloud applications on PEER 1’s IT hosting infrastructure. Apprenda, the creators of SaaSGrid, a powerful Cloud Application Server for rapidly building and commercializing Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, joins PEER 1 as its first CloudXcelerator partner. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Amitive, Inc, the pioneer of Community Supply Chain Management (C-SCM), today announced that the company has been selected by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine for the 2009 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100. Built on a cost-effective, low-risk SaaS platform and delivered in a cloud computing environment, Amitive Unity is transforming supply chain management (SCM) for companies that depend on outsourced manufacturing with the first customer-specific "SCM in the Cloud" enabled solution. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS), a global leader in outsourced managed computing and network infrastructure for IT applications, today announced it has achieved Cisco Powered designations for Savvis’ Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Application Transport Network (ATN) by meeting the standards to achieve Cisco Powered designations for Managed TelePresence™ Network Connection. The company also announced that it has achieved Cisco Powered designations for Managed MPLS-VPN, Managed Firewall and Managed IDS/IPS services. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Qualys®, Inc., the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced that Isabelle Theisen, CSO of First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ: FADV) and Philippe Courtot, Qualys Chairman and CEO, will co-present at The Gartner Information Security Summit in Washington, D.C., June 28-July 1, 2009. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Zscaler, Inc., the market leader in cloud-delivered multi-tenant Security as a Service (SaaS), today announced that API Group a manufacturer of specialized packaging materials with businesses located in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific has selected it for powerful Web 2.0 security protection. Zscaler will enforce Internet business policies, manage employee Web usage, and protect API Group globally against online threats and risk. << MORE >>

CommVault announces it is one of three companies selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards finalist in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Storage Solutions. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOUCE NETWORK << MORE >>

NYSE Euronext (NYX), the world's most diverse exchange group, and Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the companies are working together to design a state-of-the-art, ultra-low latency core network for NYSE Euronext's new consolidated global data centers. Located in the greater New York and London metropolitan areas, NYSE Euronext's two new data centers will be the primary operational infrastructure supporting several billion daily transactions and quotes across diverse asset classes and geographies, and will be instrumental in NYSE Euronext's effort to consolidate the total number of its global data centers from ten to four. Expected to be operational in 2010, the new facilities will provide much greater network scale and efficiency, with plans to utilize Juniper's Data Center Infrastructure Solutions and advanced data center fabric technology to support an unprecedented internal latency of 50 microseconds roundtrip. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOUCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Sonic Solutions(R) (Nasdaq: SNIC), today announced that it is partnering with Fujisoft Incorporated to deliver premium entertainment to the Nintendo Wii game console. Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow(R) will be providing Hollywood content, beginning with new releases and catalog titles from Paramount Pictures, for Fujisoft's video-on-demand service in Japan, called "Minna no Theater Wii" (Everyone's Theater Wii). The companies will continue to work together in order to expand the range of entertainment available for virtually instant streaming to the TV via the popular game console. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

WhiteHat Security, the leading provider of website risk management solutions, and Imperva, the data security leader, today announced that SuccessFactors, the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, continues to raise the bar for enterprise cloud computing with new security standards powered by both companies' integrated solutions. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Building on its Collaborate with Confidence announcement in April, Cisco today unveiled a set of solutions that concentrate on data security across corporate networks. In a world where business trends are revolving increasingly around collaboration, cloud computing and mobility, the latest Cisco® security solutions help businesses protect sensitive customer and employee data while enforcing regulatory compliance and protecting their brands. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced that its switches now power more than 50 percent of the InfiniBand deployments — more than double the share of any other InfiniBand systems vendor — on the 33rd edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers released yesterday. InfiniBand is the only industry-standard clustered interconnect that continues to increase share on the TOP500 list with a 25 percent growth rate compared to June 2008. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced Open MPI Accelerator (OMA™) software that significantly increases the performance of Open MPI-based applications in server and storage environments by nearly 30 percent. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Nimsoft, the Big 4 alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Nimsoft has achieved VMware Ready Optimized status. This designation indicates that the Nimsoft Monitoring Solutions (NMS) has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK) today announced the successful completion of the previously announced private placement of $420 million of its 12% senior secured notes due 2017 at an issue price of 95.134%. The offering was made to qualified institutional buyers and to certain non-U.S. persons in offshore transactions in accordance with Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Denim Group, an IT consultancy that develops secure software and helps organizations assess and mitigate risks with their existing software, announced today that it has entered into a Professional and Consulting Services Partner Agreement with Rackspace(R) Hosting (NYSE: RAX: 13.06, 0.78, 6.35%), the leader and specialist in hosting. Through this relationship, Denim Group will provide application security services for Rackspace and its clients. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Opalis Software Inc., the market leader in IT process automation software with some of the largest customers in the world, today announced that Charles Crouchman, Opalis CTO and Seneca Louck, Dow Chemical’s Enterprise Systems Management Architect will be presenting at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit 2009. More information on the session can be found on the Gartner Data Center Conference website. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company, and Appirio (www.appirio.com), a cloud solution provider, today announced that ServoTerra has built and deployed an asset planning application and B2B trading exchange built entirely on the Force.com platform and the new Force.com Sites capability. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Oracle today announced the first Oracle Virtual Partner Kickoff, an online event providing information and strategies for partners to successfully plan and engage with Oracle for the next fiscal year. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

- Company acquires franchises in Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom; has now bought seven franchises since Investindustrial, other shareholders joined in 2007 - Company has also launched new companies in Japan and China, taking over operations pre -- Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, today announced that it has bought 100 percent of its Swedish, Finnish and UK franchises, furthering the aggressive investment plan started in 2007 with a view to consolidating the company's international assets. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Technology industry veterans Bob Lozano and Eric Marks today announced they are co-authoring the "Executive's Guide to Cloud Computing," to be published by Wiley and available in Fall 2009. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Tap In Systems announces support for Amazon's CloudWatch monitoring APIs as part of its Cloud Management Service (CMS). CMS is an on-demand service that monitors cloud or data center resources from the cloud. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Intel today announced its partnership with Netmagic Solutions Pvt Ltd for its Business Exchange Programme, the online technology marketplace for Small and Medium Businesses (SMB), resellers, ISVs and application providers in the IT managed services space. Intel's Business Exchange (Intel BX) is a programme that assists solution providers to bid for customer businesses that focus on SMBs, integrating offerings with bundled software and hardware, and stand-alone business applications. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Zscaler, Inc., the market leader in cloud-delivered multi-tenant Security as a Service (SaaS), today announced a further development in its ability to anticipate emerging threats ahead of the market and provide customers with rapid protection. This through a new partnership with Microsoft that provides advanced security vulnerability information through the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). MAPP is the arm of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) that releases monthly security bulletins. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Intacct, a leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applications, today announced that OpSource™ is using the Intacct Financial Management Solution to improve global business management, streamline and automate revenue recognition and enhance reporting and analytics to boost business performance. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN), the global leader in on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, today announced Keynote Transaction Perspective(R) 9.0, a greatly enhanced version of the company's flagship and market-leading Web site monitoring service specifically designed for the 'Next Web' applications of today and tomorrow. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Strangeloop Networks ™ Inc., a leading provider of solutions that accelerate dynamic web applications developed with Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework, announced today that iCOMcept, an IT consultancy firm based in Germany, has selected Strangeloop’s AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance to ensure optimal performance and scalability for their internal ASP.NET applications, and those applications of their rapidly growing customer base. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Isilon® Systems (NASDAQ: ISLN), the proven leader in scale-out NAS, and Storwize, the leading provider of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced they have partnered to deliver an integrated primary storage solution based upon Isilon's scale-out NAS products and the Storwize STN-6000 appliance. The new solution delivers industry-leading scalability, performance, and usable capacity, enabling customers to reduce storage acquisition and management costs, while significantly improving data center efficiency. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Asankya™ today announced the general availability of its RAPIDnet Cloud Acceleration Network™ service. The RAPIDnet service provides up to a 40X performance improvement for Internet applications and delivers the reliability, security and global consistency necessary to make users productive anywhere in the world. As a result, corporate, SaaS and government customers can now deploy interactive, cloud applications and data services delivered over the Internet without the need to utilize expensive private dedicated networks or build out multiple data centers to support users worldwide. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Caringo Inc., the leading provider of content storage software enabling clustered storage for active and archive content, today announced volume shipments of its new CAStor(TM) 3.0 "Cluster in a Box" software, which creates easily scalable, self-managing clustered content storage that suits cloud and scalable, file storage infrastructures. Version 3.0 allows a virtual CAStor storage cluster to be implemented in one multi-core server. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Caringo Inc., the leading provider of content storage software enabling clustered storage for active and archive content, today released CloudFolder, a free applicat ion for Windows that simplifies storing any files and folders to a CAStor(TM) cluster. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Nirvanix, the premier enterprise Cloud Storage service provider, today announced that Samba Tech is utilizing the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network™ (SDN™) as the content storage and delivery method for its SaaS-based rich-media management platform that enables major media groups and enterprises in Latin America to efficiently communicate with their audiences. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

HP today announced new consulting services to help enterprise customers consider incorporating the cloud as part of their broader IT strategy. The new offerings, including the HP Cloud Discovery Workshop and HP Cloud Roadmap Service, are part of a larger portfolio of HP consulting services for enterprise customers who are looking to efficiently drive business benefits from the cloud. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Host Analytics, the leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) corporate performance management (CPM), added to its senior management team with the appointment today of Kelly Bodnar Battles to Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Battles’ comes to Host Analytics from Cisco Systems via its acquisition of IronPort Systems, where she was a key member of the leadership team that successfully grew the company and positioned it for a highly valuable exit. In her new role Ms. Battles will be responsible for all finance and accounting functions as well as Legal and HR. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Zoho today announced Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint http://www.zoho.com/sharepoint, which lets users work with Zoho online collaborative productivity applications to create, view, and edit files stored in Microsoft SharePoint. A video tour of Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5VQErRSnd0. Zoho will discuss this announcement further with media, analysts, and end users via an open conference call. Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

In a short white paper, rPath makes the case for taking the lessons of strong version control learned in software development and applying them to the world of IT operations, where the management of deployed software systems is typically manual and chaotic. With strong version control as the basis for managing running systems, deployment and change becomes automated, controlled and predictable—resulting in a lower overhead, more compliant and responsive model for systems management. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Nokia Siemens Networks and Juniper Networks, Inc., (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, are combining their respective strengths in Optical and IP networking to create a solution that brings the two complementary technologies closer together. The integrated IP-Optical solution will provide operators with a highly flexible, reliable and cost efficient way to scale their networks to manage growing volumes of data, voice and multimedia applications. The scope of cooperation includes the development of cost-optimized 10G, 40G and 100G IP over DWDM solutions with management integration and GMPLS control plane interworking. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

ThinkFree, Inc., a leader in next-generation office productivity solutions, delivers a complete self-hosted web office environment to corporate users with its ThinkFree Server Enterprise offering. Easy to set up and manage, with automatic updates, ThinkFree Server Enterprise does not require any installation on client terminals. Documents, spreadsheets and presentations can be opened, edited, created and collaborated on within the web browser. Companies can thus significantly reduce software support, maintenance and licensing costs. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

As cloud computing begins to move beyond the pure hype stage and into the beginning of mainstream adoption, Gartner, Inc. has identified the five attributes of cloud computing. By using these attributes, it is possible to see how strongly a cloud solution (or service) adheres to the cloud computing model. Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and SpringSource Hyperic, the leading provider of web application performance monitoring and management software, today announced that SpringSource Hyperic HQ, the company’s award-winning application and infrastructure management software, is now available through the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Starting today, organizations can use SpringSource Hyperic HQ directly from the fully automated RightScale Platform to monitor the availability and further manage the performance of their cloud applications. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Pivot3®, Inc, the market leader in storage-centric computing, today announced the second-generation Pivot3 Serverless Computing™ platform with enhancements to performance, reliability and functionality. The Pivot3 Serverless Computing Array is the first and only storage area network (SAN) system that simultaneously hosts server and storage applications on shared x86 hardware called Cloudbanks. Pivot3 will be demonstrating the upgraded Serverless Computing solution at Structure 09, the GigaOm Network Cloud Computing and Internet Infrastructure event held in San Francisco, Calif., June 25, 2009. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has named online payroll service SurePayroll a winner in the SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards, which annually recognize the top software products and new business models in Software as a Service (SaaS). SurePayroll received the "Most Innovative Small and Medium-Sized Infrastructure Software" award based on excellent customer service, ease of use and add-on services as outstanding features. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Five9, the leader in on-demand call center software announced today that TMone, a leading provider of business process outsourcing for the front office has deployed Five9 Virtual Call Center Suite integrated with on-demand CRM from Salesforce.com across all call center agents to deliver high-quality customer experience on behalf of their large enterprise clients. Moving the call center and CRM infrastructure to cloud computing solutions from Five9 and Salesforce.com resulted in several recent large enterprise client wins for TMone. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Storwize Inc., the leading provider of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor. CRN’s Emerging Technology Vendor list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovation and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company today announced that Parker Harris, Executive Vice President Technology, at salesforce.com, will present at the Wachovia Equity Conference on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 10:15 am (EDT) / 7:15am (PDT) in Boston, MA. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN), the leading data infrastructure provider for the most demanding, content-intensive environments--including hundreds of the world’s largest photo, video, online gaming, music, social networking sites, broadcasting, post production, and high performance computing facilities, today announced Web Object Scaler (WOS), a scalable, multi-site cloud storage system designed to solve the performance, scalability, and infrastructure management challenges created by global content creation, storage and distribution. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

MX Logic® today announced the global expansion of its massively scalable, multi-tenant MX SecureNet Platform. With established facilities in the United States and Japan, MX Logic has extended its Software as a Service (SaaS) platform into Europe and Asia with new facilities in London and Hong Kong. The expansion positions the company and its channel partners to offer a complete portfolio of email and Web security, message archiving, and disaster recovery services to international and multi-national businesses and corporations. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

LiveOffice, the leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email hostingemail continuity solutions, today announced the availability of its LiveOffice Mail Archive plugin for Spiceworks’s community of more than 700,000 information technology (IT) professionals. While Spiceworks is the first to provide the IT industry with free network management software, LiveOffice is the first to provide its community members with a free plugin for email archiving. This application helps users better manage their messaging environments and eliminates the need for mailbox quotas and PST file storage, while also ensuring that email is always accessible and available with a built-in continuity feature. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental compliance, sustainability and GHG information management software, announced today a key release of their ePortal platform, which incorporates both enhanced corporate sustainability reporting tools and Web 2.0 collaboration tools, provided by Alfresco Software (www.Alfresco.com), the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced the general availability of the Grid Director 4700, a 40 Gb/s InfiniBand director switch which offers the lowest latency in the industry. Combined with Voltaire’s Unified Fabric Manager (UFM™) software, also released today, the solution provides blazing performance, scalability and ease-of-use for large, high-performance scale-out data centers. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that it will participate in Structure 09 in San Francisco on June 25. Juniper leaders will contribute to this one-day event by engaging in sessions aimed at educating the industry about the opportunities presented by the future cloud paradigm. Specifically, Juniper executives will speak to the role of networking in cloud computing. Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Platform Computing, the global leader in grid and cloud software, today announced a new software product for managing private cloud environments from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Conference in New York City. Platform ISF is the first end-to-end cloud management product for enterprises to build and run their private clouds. It is the centerpiece of Platform’s cloud strategy and will be made available for beta in June with general availability planned for the Fall. - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

On October 22nd and 23rd, The Netherlands will host the Second International SOA Symposium; the largest and most comprehensive SOA event for practitioners! - Claude the Cloud Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leader in messaging middleware and content networking hardware, and Adaptris, a leading provider of SOA-ready