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Cloud Carib Achieves VMware Cloud IaaS Solution Competency, Launches Offshore Cloud IaaS

Dec 31, 2012 | Secure, Bahamas-hosted virtual datacenters now offered to select clients; cloud platform of choice is VMware's vCloud technology stack, which is powering more than 8,000 service providers worldwide.
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Rajkumar Buyya Named Editor in Chief of New IEEE Computer Society Cloud Computing Journal

Dec 27, 2012 | Well known in the cloud computing community, Buyya will serve as editor in chief of the new journal IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
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Red Hat Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire ManageIQ

Dec 20, 2012 | ManageIQ's Enterprise Cloud Management and Automation Technologies extend the reach of Red Hat's open hybrid cloud solutions.
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GreenButton Identifies Top 2013 Cloud Computing Trends

Dec 18, 2012 | Industry leader in high performance cloud computing sees shifts in innovation, technology, IT governance and big data.
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Besol Launches New Relic for Tapp.In

Dec 14, 2012 | Besol announced that it has launched a partnership with New Relic, the all-in-one web application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter.
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ProfitBricks Launches Foundation for Startups

Dec 14, 2012 | ProfitBricks has launched its Foundation Program for startups to offer virtual data centers featuring user-defined network configurations.
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Chinese Businesses Take Hybrid Approach

Dec 14, 2012 | According to Strategy Analytics, a hybrid approach between traditional and cloud-based IT solutions is key to business clouds in China.
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Endocyte Combats Cancer with Medidata Clinical Cloud

Dec 14, 2012 | Endocyte has chosen Medidata Solutions cloud platform for the support of multiple ongoing clinical trials in the field of cancer therapy research.
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Cloudant Joins Cloud Tools for Rackspace

Dec 14, 2012 | Cloudant announced that it has joined the Cloud Tools program for Rackspace Hosting, and its NoSQL database as a service is available immediately for web and mobile apps.
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Sabalcore, CD-adapco Sponsor UM Formula SAE Team

Dec 14, 2012 | Sabalcore Computing and CD-adapco have teamed up to support the University of Missouri-Columbia (UM) Formula SAE racing team for the 2012-2013 season.
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CA Technologies Names Michael P. Gregoire CEO

Dec 13, 2012 | The Board of Directors of CA Technologies today announced the unanimous election of Michael P. Gregoire, 46, as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective January 7, 2013.
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EMC Helps Purdue Pharma Transform IT

Dec 13, 2012 | In partnership with EMC Corporation, Purdue Pharma L.P. has transformed its IT infrastructure with EMC, VMware and VCE technologies.
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Data Protection Lessons from Hurricane Sandy

Dec 13, 2012 | For businesses across the region, Hurricane Sandy meant putting their disaster recovery plans to the test – plans that only 35 percent of businesses actually have confidence in, according to the 2012 Disaster Recovery Index.
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StorageCraft Releases Cloud Services, ShadowProtect 5

Dec 13, 2012 | StorageCraft Technology Corporation launched StorageCraft Cloud Services as well as the latest version of StorageCraft ShadowProtect, its award-winning flagship backup and disaster recovery solution.
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Payrolling Selects Earthlink for Data Center Security

Dec 13, 2012 | EarthLink, Inc. announced that Mexico City-based Payrolling has selected EarthLink for a comprehensive, customized virtual data center solution.
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WHIPTAIL Raises $31 Million for Flash Adoption

Dec 13, 2012 | WHIPTAIL announced a $31 million investment, including strategic investments from flash-memory leader SanDisk as well as an unnamed Silicon Valley industry titan.
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Dell Expands Cloud Offerings

Dec 12, 2012 | As an early pioneer and an active leader in the OpenStack community, Dell is increasing its commitment to OpenStack as its open source cloud platform of choice for public and private cloud.
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Digipede Technologies Releases Digipede Network 3.1

Dec 12, 2012 | The Digipede Network 3.1 is now Certified for Windows Server 2012, Compatible with Windows 8, and fully supports .NET 4.5.
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EMC Unveils Smarts 9.1 for Virtual Data Center Management

Dec 12, 2012 | EMC Corporation announced significant enhancements to EMC Smarts software, further extending EMC's leadership in managing virtual data centers and cloud environments.
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ScienceLogic Enhances Private Cloud Management

Dec 12, 2012 | ScienceLogic Inc. announced enhancements to the company's data center and cloud management platform to give enterprise IT managers real-time and multi-tenant insight, visibility, and control over private cloud environments.
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Cloudyn-Scalr Partnership Delivers Integrated Management Platform

Dec 12, 2012 | Cloudyn and Scalr have partnered to enable integration of cost and infrastructure management.
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GlassHouse Talks Cloud Storage at UP 2012

Dec 12, 2012 | At this year’s UP Cloud Computing Conference, GlassHouse Technologies will participate in a panel to help address what enterprises need to know about maximizing the benefits of cloud storage.
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Apptio Launches Cloud Express for Public Cloud Management

Dec 12, 2012 | Apptio introduced Apptio Cloud Express, a free service that allows businesses to track the usage and costs of public cloud services including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows Azure, and Rackspace.
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Gov. Kasich 'Lights Up' Ohio's Broadband Pipeline

Dec 12, 2012 | During an unveiling of the completed upgrades to OARnet's ultra high-speed fiber optic network backbone, Governor John Kasich showcased how the technology will create and enhance academic partnerships with businesses statewide.
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Cloud Foundry Core to Be Cloud Elements App Foundation

Dec 11, 2012 | Cloud Elements announced that it has selected VMware and its Cloud Foundry Core as the foundation for its Cloud application development consulting practice.
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SLA-Aware Scheduling and Virtual Efficiency

Researchers from the Suddhananda Engineering and Research Centre in Bhubaneswar, India developed a job scheduling system, which they call Service Level Agreement (SLA) scheduling, that is meant to achieve acceptable methods of resource provisioning similar to that of potential in-house systems. They combined that with an on-demand resource provisioner to ensure utilization optimization of virtual machines.
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CloudSigma CEO Elaborates on Science Cloud

Experimental scientific HPC applications are continually being moved to the cloud, as covered here in several capacities over the last couple of weeks. Included in that rundown, Co-founder and CEO of CloudSigma Robert Jenkins penned an article for HPC in the Cloud where he discussed the emergence of cloud technologies to supplement research capabilities of big scientific initiatives like CERN and ESA (the European Space Agency)...
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Examining Questions of Virtualization and Security in the Cloud

When considering moving excess or experimental HPC applications to a cloud environment, there will always be obstacles. Were that not the case, the cost effectiveness of cloud-based HPC would rule the high performance landscape. Jonathan Stewart Ward and Adam Barker of the University of St. Andrews produced an intriguing report on the state of cloud computing, paying a significant amount of attention to the problems facing cloud computing.
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Datapipe and Verne Global's Green Cloud

Jun 17, 2013 | With that in mind, Datapipe hopes to establish themselves as a green-savvy HPC cloud provider with their recently announced Stratosphere platform. Datapipe markets Stratosphere as a green HPC cloud service and in doing so partnering with Verne Global and their Icelandic datacenter, which is known for its propensity in green computing.
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IBM's Guide to Cloud Based HPC

Jun 12, 2013 | Cloud computing is gaining ground in utilization by mid-sized institutions who are looking to expand their experimental high performance computing resources. As such, IBM released what they call Redbooks, in part to assist institutions’ movement of high performance computing applications to the cloud.
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OpenStack and the SDSC Research Cloud

Jun 06, 2013 | The San Diego Supercomputer Center launched a public cloud system for universities in the area designed specifically to run on commodity hardware with high performance solid-state drives. The center, which currently holds 5.5 PB of raw storage, is open to educational and research users in the University of California.
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Best Practices in Big Data Storage

05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.

Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

04/02/2012 | AMD | Developers today are just beginning to explore the potential of heterogeneous computing, but the potential for this new paradigm is huge. This brief article reviews how the technology might impact a range of application development areas, including client experiences and cloud-based data management. As platforms like OpenCL continue to evolve, the benefits of heterogeneous computing will become even more accessible. Use this quick article to jump-start your own thinking on heterogeneous computing.