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PeakColo's Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing Platform Chosen by Subex

May 08, 2013 | PeakColo announces it has been selected by Subex, a global provider of Business Support Systems (BSS), to power its software and applications within PeakColo's hosted private cloud computing platform.
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Tier 3 Debuts Reseller Edition of Its Enterprise Cloud Services

May 08, 2013 | Announced today at Interop, the Tier 3 Cloud Reseller Edition is a new collection of branding and administrative features designed for the channel.
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ComputeNext Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Service Brokerage

May 08, 2013 | ComputeNext was chosen as a Cool Vendor for their e-commerce platform which aggregates cloud services and facilitates end-to-end transactions with rapid discovery and procurement of IT resources and infrastructure from a single point of access.
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Cloud-Ready GlusterFS 3.4 Beta Now Available

May 08, 2013 | With new features and enhancements in cloud, virtualization, and performance, the beta version of GlusterFS 3.4 brings high reliability, scalability, and data mobility to users and application developers.
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SAP Introduces SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

May 07, 2013 | Managed cloud service unveiled as new deployment option for SAP business suite powered by SAP HANA.
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Corent Technology Releases SurPaaS

May 07, 2013 | Corent Technology announces the first SaaS-enablement software platform.
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Report Says World Cloud Computing Market Revenues to Reach $35.6B in 2013

May 07, 2013 | Visiongain's analysis indicates that the total value of the global cloud computing services market revenues reach $35.6 billion by the end of 2013, driven by increasing adoption of cloud services from the enterprise side.
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Sprint Launches CloudCompute IaaS Platform

May 07, 2013 | Businesses can leverage the power of the cloud over a best-in-class network with a single provider uniquely positioned to unleash the full potential of their business critical applications.
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Citrix CloudBridge Accelerates Application Delivery from the Cloud

May 07, 2013 | Citrix announced the expansion of its CloudBridge product to incorporate wide-area networking (WAN) optimization capabilities from the industry-leading Citrix Branch Repeater product.
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WD And SanDisk To Create Solid State Hybrid Drives

May 07, 2013 | WD, a Western Digital company, and SanDisk Corporation today announced that the two companies are collaborating to introduce hybrid storage devices that feature flash memory technology from SanDisk and hard drive technology from WD.
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Dell Acquires Enterprise Cloud-Management Company Enstratius

May 06, 2013 | Dell today announced the acquisition of Enstratius, an award-winning enterprise cloud-management software and services provider that delivers single and multi-cloud management capabilities.
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Prashant Gandhi Joins Big Switch Networks as VP of Product Management

May 06, 2013 | Former Cisco ONE Controller and cloud networking executive joins the market leader in Open SDN.
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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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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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Hacking into the N-Queens Problem with Virtualization

Jun 19, 2013 | Ruan Pethiyagoda, Cameron Boehmer, John S. Dvorak, and Tim Sze, trained at San Francisco’s Hack Reactor, an institute designed for intense fast paced learning of programming, put together a program based on the N-Queens algorithm designed by the University of Cambridge’s Martin Richards, and modified it to run in parallel across multiple machines.
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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.