Brocade Completes Acquisition of Foundry Networks

Dec 19, 2008 | Brocade | SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec 19 -- Brocade today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Foundry Networks, a performance and total solutions leader for network switching and routing for $16.50 per share in cash.
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Splunk IT Search Adds Silver Lining to Cloud Computing

Dec 19, 2008 | Splunk | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 -- Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that leading next generation technology companies, including Coghead, Elastra, GoGrid, Mashery, and RightScale, have deployed Splunk IT Search to strengthen their offerings and reliably deliver services, applications, platforms and infrastructure, via the cloud.
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Top 10 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009

Dec 18, 2008 | Appirio | SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 18 -- As the year draws to a close, many companies are left wondering what next year will bring for this year's hottest technology trend -- cloud computing. To answer these questions, Appirio today released its top 10 predictions for how cloud computing will evolve in 2009 and the impact those trends will have on IT and business.
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Rackable Announces MobiRack Enclosures

Dec 18, 2008 | Rackable Systems Inc. | FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 17 -- Rackable Systems Inc., a leading provider of servers and storage products for large-scale datacenters, today announced the immediate availability of MobiRack, a new class of datacenter enclosures.
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CohesiveFT Partners w/ Virtual Iron to Automate Enterprise Deployment

Dec 17, 2008 | Virtual Iron | CHICAGO, and LOWELL, Mass., Dec. 17 -- CohesiveFT, the leader in automated software assembly, today announced it has partnered with Virtual Iron, a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software, to automate the deployment of Virtual Iron servers via the Elastic Server web-based factory.
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Sun Announces New Open Source xVM VirtualBox

Dec 17, 2008 | Sun Microsystems Inc. | SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 17 -- Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its high performance, free and open source desktop virtualization software, that offers the latest must-have features for developers and enterprise users.
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SOASTA, Savvis to Deliver Cloud Testing Service

Dec 17, 2008 | SOASTA Inc. | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 17 -- SOASTA, the leader in cloud-based testing solutions, today announced an alliance with Savvis Inc., a global leader in outsourced managed computing and network infrastructure for IT applications. The alliance will give Savvis customers a state-of-the-art, on-demand testing service in the cloud, enabling affordable, highly scalable load and performance testing of web applications and services.
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Parabon's Frontier Grid Platform Supports DCMA

Dec 16, 2008 | Parabon Computation | RESTON, Va., Dec. 16 -- Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of extreme-scale grid computing software and solutions, announced today a licensing deal for the deployment of the company's Frontier Grid Platform on 10,000 computers within the Defense Contracting Management Association (DCMA).
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Egenera Launches Dell / PAN System

Dec 16, 2008 | Egenera Inc. | MARLBORO, Mass., Dec. 16 -- Egenera Inc. today announced that the Dell / PAN System designed by Egenera is now available for shipment from Dell Inc. in North America. Built on proven Dell servers, industry-leading storage and standard hypervisor technologies, the Dell / PAN System is factory-integrated and delivered as a complete, turn-key solution.
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Seanodes Solves Storage Dilemma for Cloud Services Provider

Dec 16, 2008 | Seanodes | BOSTON, Dec. 16 -- Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions, today announced that cloud services provider Aenigma has developed a new multi-tiered storage infrastructure backed by Exanodes software to increase the reliability and performance of its High Availability Application Hosting Platform for as little as one-twentieth the cost of a similarly configured Fibre Channel SAN.
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GigaSpaces Announces XAP for MySQL Enterprise

Dec 15, 2008 | GigaSpaces Technologies | NEW YORK, Dec. 15 -- GigaSpaces Technologies today announced the availability of GigaSpaces' eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) for MySQL Enterprise, addressing the scalability and performance needs of demanding MySQL Enterprise customers.
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Rackable Systems Launches Data Center Leasing Program

Dec 15, 2008 | Rackable Systems Inc. | FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 15 -- Rackable Systems Inc., a leading provider of servers and storage products for large-scale datacenters, today announced the launch of a new leasing program designed to provide customers with an affordable way to stay ahead of the technology implementation curve by acquiring new technology and timely infrastructure assets.
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Scott Dussault Joins Demandware as Chief Financial Officer

Dec 15, 2008 | Demandware Inc. | WOBURN, Mass., Dec. 15 -- Demandware, developer of the only enterprise-class on-demand ecommerce platform, today announced the appointment of Scott Dussault to Chief Financial Officer.
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GTSI, Savvis to Deliver IT Solution to the Federal Gov't

Dec 15, 2008 | Savvis Inc. | ST. LOUIS, Dec. 15 -- Savvis Inc., a global leader in outsourced managed computing and network infrastructure for IT applications, today announced a strategic alliance with GTSI Corp., a leading provider of information technology (IT) solutions to the federal government.
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EMC Opens Data Warehouse Competency Center

Dec 12, 2008 | EMC Corp. | HOPKINTON, Mass., Dec. 10 -- EMC Corp., the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the opening of the EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Analytics Competency Center to support its ongoing commitment to help organizations achieve cost efficiencies and reduce "time to value" in data warehouse deployments.
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NET2S Receives DataSynapse Certification

Dec 12, 2008 | DataSynapse | LONDON, Dec. 11 -- DataSynapse, a world leader in dynamic application service management (DASM) software for the next generation datacenter, today announced that NET2S, a leading UK capital markets IT consultancy, has received Training and Certification to meet the growing demand for DataSynapse administration roles within the UK investment banking market.
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WaveMaker Announces First Open IDE for Cloud Computing

Dec 12, 2008 | WaveMaker Software Inc. | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 -- WaveMaker, the leading visual development platform for Web applications, today announced WaveMaker Cloud Edition. WaveMaker Cloud Edition is the first open source, integrated development environment (IDE) for cloud computing. WaveMaker Cloud Edition lets anyone quickly build great-looking web applications that deploy to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
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Dell, EMC Extend and Expand Strategic Alliance

Dec 12, 2008 | EMC Corp.; Dell | ROUND ROCK, Texas, and HOPKINTON, Mass., Dec. 9 -- Dell and EMC today announced a multi-year extension of their global alliance through 2013. In addition to extending the partnership, Dell and EMC will add the EMC Celerra NX4 storage system to the portfolio of Dell | EMC networked storage systems.
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IBM Delivers Cloud Service for Web Conferencing

Dec 11, 2008 | IBM | ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 11 -- IBM today introduced its the newest cloud service for Web conferencing, Lotus Sametime Unyte 8.2. IBM also announced a new distribution partnership with InterCall to deliver Lotus Sametime Unyte's intuitive online meeting capability to InterCall customers worldwide.
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Lockheed Speeds Geospatial Ops w/ Digipede

Dec 11, 2008 | Digipede Technologies | OAKLAND Calif., Dec. 10 -- Digipede Technologies, the leading provider of distributed computing solutions for the Microsoft Windows platform, announced that Lockheed Martin, a global security company, has grid-enabled its TOPSCENE mission rehearsal applications using the Digipede Network.
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Altair Adds Performance Analytics to GridWorks

Dec 11, 2008 | Altair | TROY, Mich., Dec. 11 -- Altair today announced the addition of a powerful new computing performance analytics tool to GridWorks, its suite of on-demand grid computing technologies.
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AT&T Opens First Datacenter in India

Dec 11, 2008 | AT&T Inc. | BANGALORE, India, Dec. 11 -- AT&T Inc. today announced that it has opened its first datacenter in Bangalore, India. The new datacenter will help meet the growing demand from multinational customers in India for online datacenters with highly resilient facilities, a wide range of IT infrastructure management services, supported by excellent customer services.
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VMware, HP Team on Datacenter Management

Dec 10, 2008 | VMware Inc. | PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 10 -- VMware Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced its intention to expand its strategic relationship with HP to include the joint development of management software solutions that manage both physical and virtual datacenter resources.
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Amazon Extends EC2 to Europe

Dec 10, 2008 | Amazon Web Services LLC | SEATTLE, Dec. 10 -- Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., today announced that it has extended Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Europe.
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Rackable Intros New Cloud-Optimized Server

Dec 10, 2008 | Rackable Systems Inc. | FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 10 -- Rackable Systems Inc., a leading provider of servers and storage products for large-scale datacenters, today announced the immediate availability of the C1002 server utilizing the company’s new high density, Eco-Logical half-depth chassis design.
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