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UK Government Opens CloudStore
Feb 21, 2012 |
UK's CloudStore aims to change the face of public sector ICT procurement by offering 1,700 services in an app-store format.
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Unified Computing Pioneer Transforms Business Model
Feb 20, 2012 |
CEO Pete Manca details Egenera's unusual journey from hardware vendor to software provider.
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Biotech Firm Doubles Down on Amazon Cloud
Feb 14, 2012 |
Connecticut-based biotech firm Metrum Research Group moves entire IT infrastructure to Amazon cloud.
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NSF Report Details National Cloud Agenda
Feb 13, 2012 |
The National Science Foundation (NSF) describes its support for cloud computing research in a 21-page report, submitted to Congress last week.
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Amazon Cuts Prices on S3 Storage Service
Feb 07, 2012 |
Depending on the amount of data used, Amazon S3 customers will see prices drop between 12-13.5%.
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A Handful of Giants: the Coming Cloud Cartels
Feb 06, 2012 |
A recent Forrester report predicts that by 2020 the vast cloud landscape will be under the control of a small number of companies.
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IEEE Identifies Continued Obstacles Toward the Global Adoption of Cloud Computing
Feb 22, 2012 |
As large enterprises make their move into the cloud, new challenges are exposed.
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Joyent Cloud Partners with enStratus to Deliver Cloud Management Capabilities
Feb 22, 2012 |
Alliance enables enterprise customers to use enstratus' cloud automation and orchestration tools to manage Joyent Cloud architectures or as part of multi-cloud automation and management solutions.
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Cornell University Researchers Grant Top Grade to Red Hat Storage
Feb 22, 2012 |
Ivy League university selects Red Hat Storage Software Appliance for highly available and scalable storage for data-intensive research projects including DNA sequencing.
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vCompute Rolls Out New vPOC Cloud to Address Continued Demand for Services
Feb 21, 2012 |
vCompute announced today that it has deployed and enabled a new vPOC (virtual point of compute) location consisting of thousands of cores in Houston, Texas.
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Parabon Announces Frontier 6 at Emerging Technologies Symposium
Feb 21, 2012 |
Frontier CODE development environment and frontier integration with Apache Hadoop top new features list.
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Univa Customer Growth Accelerates by 600 Percent
Feb 21, 2012 |
Univa announced it set sales records in 2011 on the heels of accelerating customer acquisition.
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February 22, 2012
- IEEE Identifies Continued Obstacles Toward the Global Adoption of Cloud Computing
- Joyent Cloud Partners with enStratus to Deliver Cloud Management Capabilities
- Cornell University Researchers Grant Top Grade to Red Hat Storage
February 21, 2012
- vCompute Rolls Out New vPOC Cloud to Address Continued Demand for Services
- Parabon Announces Frontier 6 at Emerging Technologies Symposium
- Univa Customer Growth Accelerates by 600 Percent
- HyperTransport Consortium Discusses Mission Critical Cluster Infrastructure for Cloud Providers and Scalable Datacenters
- Webair FusionCloud Guarantees 10,000 IOP/s per Instance
- CFN Services Unveils First Globally-Distributed, High-Performance Public Cloud for the Financial Markets
- vCider 2.0 with Cloud Cloaking Creates Secure Virtual Private Clouds Across Datacenters and IaaS Providers
- Unisys Announces New Release of Secure Cloud Computing Solution
February 20, 2012
- CohesiveFT Selected as G-Cloud 'CloudStore' Specialist Cloud Services Supplier
- Cloud Provider Memset Awarded a Framework Agreement for the Provision of G-Cloud Services
- NTT Communications Ticks All the G-Cloud Tender Boxes
- Rackspace Eyes Government G-Cloud Contracts
- GovDelivery Chosen as Cloud Computing Supplier for UK Government G-Cloud Initiative
- Barnsley IT Company Selected for UK Government's G-Cloud Project
February 17, 2012
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Deltacloud as a Top-Level Project
- CSC Launches 1.5MW Expansion at CoreSite's Boston and Northern Virginia Datacenters
February 16, 2012
- Startup Accelerator, Think Big Partners and Microsoft BizSpark Collaborate to Offer Startups $60K in Cloud Services on Windows Azure
- StackIQ Updates Rocks+ Infrastructure Management Solution
- Leading Cloud Thinkers to Government: Cloud Is Imperative for Better Collaboration, Better Service and Better Cost
- Eucalyptus Strengthens Executive Team, Hires CFO
- CGI Participates on the TechAmerica Foundation's State & Local Government Cloud Commission
- Entensys Announces GateWall DNS Filter Cloud on Amazon EC2 Platform
- Java PaaS Jelastic Announces Commercial Availability and Pricing in US and Europe
- CSC Honored at VMware Partner Exchange 2012
February 15, 2012
- GigaSpaces Announces New Cloudify Free Product Edition
- CloudNOW's Top Women in Cloud Awards Recognize Thought Leaders and Tech Pioneers
- Red Hat Expands Subscription Portability to the Cloud with Amazon Web Services
- SunGard Announces Solution Provider Relationship with Amazon Web Services
- Atos, EMC and VMware to Form an Open Cloud Computing Strategic Alliance
- Handbook of Data Intensive Computing Presents Comprehensive View of Data Intensive Computing Theory and Real World Applications in Academia, Research and Private Industry
February 14, 2012
- Biomax Launches the PEDANT Cloud Service
- DNAnexus Announces Strategic Alliances to Drive the Advancement of DNA-Based Medicine
- StratusLab Version 1.3 Released
February 13, 2012
- Nimbula Unveils Nimbula Director 2.0, Delivers Amazon EC2-Like Functionality to VMware Users
- Cloudscaling Announces First Open Cloud System Designed for Cloud-Ready Applications
- Eucalyptus Launches Enterprise-Class Cloud Test Lab at CoreSite's Bay Area Data Center Campus
- Brocade to Showcase Fabric-Based Networking Solutions at Cloud Connect Santa Clara 2012
- 6fusion Introduces Free Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere
- uptimeCloud Offers Real-Time Cloud Cost Monitoring for the Amazon AWS Cloud
- Citrix Announces Availability of CloudStack 3
- CloudTech-HPC Announces Call for Papers
February 10, 2012
- Global Information Technology Services Market to Reach US$1.2 Trillion by 2015, According to New Report
- JANET Announces New Cloud Framework
February 09, 2012
- GreenQloud Selects Verne Global's Data Centre Campus for Commercial Roll-out of Public Compute Cloud
- Engine Yard Doubles Revenues, Preps New Release
- Virtualization, Cloud to Boost Fibre Channel Market Growth, According to Dell'Oro Group
- The Pistoia Alliance Selects Eagle Genomics and Cycle Computing to Bolster Pharmaceutical R&D Practice
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Cloud Connect Speakers Reflect Industry's Growth and Challenges
This week's Cloud Connect conference in Santa Clara, Calif., exhibited all the energy and diversity of topics you might expect from one of the IT industry's fastest-growing sectors.
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Cloudnumbers Expedites Cloud-Based Supercomputing
Configuring a cluster on a public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services potentially requires a lot of work. The various steps involve setting up the machines, dealing with the security keys, installing the applications, negotiating the administration, and more. Most HPC users would prefer to avoid this time-consuming process if possible. That's where German startup Cloudnumbers comes in.
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