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Statera Announces Customization Services

May 06, 2013 | Statera announces the provision of custom SAAS, PAAS and IAAS configuration and management as part of its new Cloud Service Brokerage offerings.
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ACM Opens Participation Doors for Richard Tapia Diversity in Computing Event

May 06, 2013 | The conference, coming in February, will focus on groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in different arenas of computing. The event is set to be held in Seattle and attract those in many....
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AlwaysOn Selects Big Switch Networks as OnDemand 100 Winner

May 03, 2013 | Big Switch Networks today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Top 100 winners.
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CloudSigma Named Cool Vendor by Gartner

May 02, 2013 | CloudSigma has been named a Cool Vendor in the Cool Vendors in the European Cloud Computing Market, 2013 report, authored by Gartner.
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Heirloom Computing's ELPaaS Platform Faster than Mainframe Computing Alternatives

May 02, 2013 | The latest benchmark testing by Heirloom Computing revealed that the company's ELPaaS cloud platform for legacy applications is faster than mainframe computing alternatives.
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High Availability IaaS Now Standard for ProfitBricks

May 02, 2013 | ProfitBricks announced the availability of true High Availability virtual datacenters for business-critical cloud deployments.
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iSoftStone and IBM Launch Cloud Service Platform for SMEs in Northwest China

May 02, 2013 | iSoftStone and IBM announced a collaboration to build XB-CLOUD, a Cloud Service Platform for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Northwest China.
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FICO Unveils Analytic Cloud for Big Data

May 02, 2013 | FICO unveiled the FICO Analytic Cloud, for creating, customizing and deploying powerful analytic-driven applications and services.
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Brian Krzanich Elected Intel CEO

May 02, 2013 | Intel announced that the board of directors has elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer, succeeding Paul Otellini.
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NETGEAR Kicks Off $1,000,000 App Development Contest

May 01, 2013 | NETGEAR launched a Million Dollar App Contest to encourage software developers around the U.S. to create innovative apps.
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Actuate Integrates ActuateOne and BIRT onDemand with Amazon Redshift

May 01, 2013 | Actuate have integrated ActuateOne and BIRT onDemand with Amazon Redshift, AWS’s new petabyte-scale cloud warehouse service.
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CloudSigma Provides Resources for 2013 NASA Space Apps Challenge

May 01, 2013 | CloudSigma has provided free, compute resources for 2013’s NASA Space Apps Challenge participants.
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Embotics Joins OpenStack Community

May 01, 2013 | Embotics Corporation announced it has joined the OpenStack community.
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Citrix Announces Next Generation Global Channel Programs

May 01, 2013 | Citrix is launching two growth-oriented programs, an enhanced Citrix Solution Advisor (CSA) program and a new Citrix SaaS Advisor (CSSA) program.
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Axis Releases Hybrid SaaS Version of DMsuite

May 01, 2013 | Axis Technology Software announced the availability of its DMsuite platform in a "Hybrid SaaS" model.
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Virtual Instruments Has Rapid Adoption of VirtualWisdom

May 01, 2013 | Virtual Instruments announced rapid customer adoption of its infrastructure performance management platform, VirtualWisdom.
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Cisco MDS Storage Switches Certified By Hitachi Data Systems

May 01, 2013 | Hitachi Data Systems will integrate the Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director as part of its comprehensive portfolio of information solutions.
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Pramati Acquires Assets of WaveMaker from VMware

May 01, 2013 | Pramati announced the acquisition of certain assets of WaveMaker from VMware.
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1010data Releases Version 6 of its Cloud-Based Big Data Analytics Platform

May 01, 2013 | 1010data announced the release of Version 6 of its cloud-based Big Data analytics platform.
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Arista Enhances 7500 Modular Switching Platform

May 01, 2013 | Arista Networks announced enhancements to its Arista 7500 modular switching platform that enables Cloud Networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and millions of virtual machines.
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Applied Math Modeling Announces CoolSim 4.1

May 01, 2013 | Applied Math Modeling announced the availability of CoolSim 4.1 – the next revision of the company’s popular modeling software.
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Nimbix and Convey Partner to Expand Hybrid-Core Infrastructure

May 01, 2013 | Nimbix has partnered with Convey to expand its Convey hybrid-core infrastructure.
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SGI Providing Data Management Infrastructure at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

May 01, 2013 | SGI announced that iVEC and CSIRO have selected SGI to provide the massive data management infrastructure at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.
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A10 Networks Announces Thunder Series Platforms

May 01, 2013 | The new Thunder Series models consolidate stand-alone solutions encompassing ADCs and Server Load Balancers.
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Gluster Community Extends Charter to Multi-Projects

May 01, 2013 | Red Hat announced that the Gluster Community has extended its charter from a single project to a multi-project open source community.
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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud

Frank Ding, engineering analysis & technical computing manager at Simpson Strong-Tie, discussed the advantages of utilizing the cloud for occasional scientific computing, identified the obstacles to doing so, and proposed workarounds to some of those obstacles.
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Overcoming the Cloud Security Barrier for Financial Services

The private industry least likely to adopt public cloud services for data storage are financial institutions. Holding the most sensitive and heavily-regulated of data types, personal financial information, banks and similar institutions are mostly moving towards private cloud services – and doing so at great cost.
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Research Roundup: Toward a More Efficient Cloud

In this week's hand-picked assortment, researchers explore the path to more energy-efficient cloud datacenters, investigate new frameworks and runtime environments that are compatible with Windows Azure, and design a uniﬁed programming model for diverse data-intensive cloud computing paradigms.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud

May 16, 2013 | When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering

May 10, 2013 | Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud

May 08, 2013 | For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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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.