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NIMBOXX Receives 2014 Cloud Computing Product of the Year Award NIMBOXX™, creator of the atomic unit of the software-defined data center, announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named the company's all-in-one software-defined data center a 2014 Cloud … Continue reading →

After years of touting its cloud computing tech, Joyent open sources it Cloud computing provider Joyent has long been respected for its technological chops, but has struggled to find an identity among a sea of cloud providers and technologies with … Continue reading →

How software defined networking and cloud computing pave the way towards a … For an example, it will be possible in the medium-term to develop network functions and services, spanning L2-L7, as applications and execute them on virtual resources (e.g. … Continue reading →

Canonical Adds Ubuntu OpenStack Distribution for Open Source Cloud Computing Canonical has announced its own distribution of OpenStack, the open source cloud computing operating system, built on top of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux has already enjoyed the distinction of being … Continue reading →

Myths and Realities: A Cloud Computing Definition for SMBs The cloud is well on its way to becoming synonymous with computing in general, but many businesses still have not adopted the technology. Even as the industry settles on an agreed … Continue reading →

Clarifying DISA's Cloud Computing Role Terry Halvorsen, the Defense Department's acting chief information officer, is expected very soon to release a new policy revising the role the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) plays in brokering cloud services. The changes are … Continue reading →

UPDATE 2-Cloud computing services help boost Open Text profit (Adds CEO comments, analyst comments). By Tanvi Mehta. Oct 22 (Reuters) – Soaring demand for cloud services helped Canadian business software maker Open Text Corp's more than double its first-quarter profit. … Continue reading →

Snowflake Raises M, Introduces Cloud-based Elastic Data Warehouse Snowflake Computing is coming out of stealth mode with a big name CEO, new venture capital financing, and a plan to reinvent the data warehouse for the cloud. Redpoint Ventures led the … Continue reading →

ClusterHQ Receives 2014 Cloud Computing Storage Excellence Award Presented by TMC's Cloud Computing Magazine, the Cloud Computing Storage Excellence Award recognizes companies that have introduced or improved cloud storage solutions. “ClusterHQ is committed to solving the critical data portability issues … Continue reading →

Ellison: Oracle already dominates cloud computing Oracle CTO Larry Ellison famously dismissed the high-tech industry's “nonsensical” obsession with cloud computing just five years ago. Now, he calls it an “inflection point” for the company he founded in 1977. “Our cloud … Continue reading →

Red Hat CEO announces a shift from client-server to cloud computing Red Hat is in the midst of changing its image from a top Linux company to the future king of cloud computing. CEO Jim Whitehurst told me in 2011 … Continue reading →

Microsoft researchers explore 'job-centric' cloud model Elasticity — the ability to ramp up or down computing resources depending on need — is one of the key benefits of cloud computing. Not being shackled to their own, in-house hardware means organisations … Continue reading →

Cloud Computing? I'll Take an Industrial-Strength Version So, when companies hesitate to adopt the cloud, it's not because their executives don't understand how profoundly the technology can transform their operations. They realize that cloud computing can help provide broader access … Continue reading →

Cloud Computing: Cloud Growth Numbers Revised Upwards Growth of public cloud computing services is exceeding even earlier rosy predictions. Gartner now says that computing services will grow by as much as 19.6 percent his year, reaching $ 109 billion. This … Continue reading →

Iomart powers up cloud computing network Iomart said the potential for its cloud computing services remained “substantial”, with estimates suggesting that approximately 85 per cent of all servers are still located at a company's own premises rather than remotely. It … Continue reading →

IP Expo: Google claims cloud computing tools central to business innovation LONDON: Google has heralded the impact of cloud computing services for creating a new era of innovation within businesses by letting firms "play" with fast, flexible systems at a … Continue reading →

Cloud Computing, Hyperscale Datacenters and Extreme Low-Energy Servers … Three key server segments – hyperscale data centers, hosted virtual desktop (HVD) workloads and extreme low-energy (ELE) servers – will offer opportunities for growth through 2015, according to Gartner. "The server … Continue reading →

How Will Mainframes Survive In The Cloud Era? Cloud computing promises us flexible and reliable service delivery based on charging for what we use, but that's a model which mainframe computing has been using for decades. How will the use … Continue reading →

Tarra Curran: Cloudy income-tax exposure in cloud computing Software-development companies involved in cloud computing are facing a complex and unsettled tax-liability issue. And it is likely to grow as fiscal pressures create incentives for New England and other states to … Continue reading →

Cloud Computing: Friend or Foe of Kyotoism? Cloud Computing: Friend or Foe of Kyotoism? by Marlo Lewis on September 25, 2012. in Blog, Features · Tweet. Post image for Cloud Computing: Friend or Foe of Kyotoism? As I sit here … Continue reading →

Amazon Powers Nasdaq's New Cloud Computing Platform Nasdaq OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ ) has announced FinQloud, a new data management offering designed exclusively for the financial services industry. FinQloud will be powered by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) Web Services, the firm's … Continue reading →

Clean IT Means Clean Suppliers, Too Gary Cook is the senior I.T. sector analyst for Greenpeace International's Cool IT campaign, and the author of three evaluations of the growth in electricity demand associated with cloud computing, including the recent report … Continue reading →

Cloud computing standards debate heats up with CAMP formation "We end up with standards created to service technology providers, not the consumers," said David S. Linthicum, CTO and founder of cloud computing experts company, Blue Mountain Labs. Cloud computing standards … Continue reading →

The Brute Force Computing Revolution Autodesk has announced that it is selling design simulation software that works online, via Amazon's AWS cloud service. This continues the company's move into a lower-paying, hopefully higher-volume, world of mobile devices and cloud computing. … Continue reading →