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Broadcom has agreed to acquire Dune Networks, a privately held maker of high-speed switch fabrics, for about US$178 million, the companies announced Monday.

It seems counterintuitive to suggest that the virtualization market hasn't already crossed the chasm1.

Symantec Corp. on Tuesday assured companies that computing on the cloud is both safe and reliable amid concerns raised by Microsoft Corp.

Excess heat from hundreds of computer servers to be located in the bedrock beneath Uspenski Cathedral, one of Helsinki's most popular tourist sites, will be captured and channelled into the district heating network, a system of water-heated pipes used to warm homes in the Finnish capital.

At its recent financial analyst day, AMD disclosed processor and platform roadmaps for 2010 and 2011.

Defining cloud computing has proven to be nearly impossible. Ask ten different people and you'll get ten different answers.

The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is Texas singer-songwriter Adam Carroll's drolly acerbic music, nicely understated for maximum impact: Beazer Homes USA, an Atlanta-based national home builder, has adopted Salesforce CRM to "enhance sales and customer care processes," according to consulting firm Bluewolf.

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EVEN technology pundits can sometimes be right. Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur and noted agent provocateur, recently argued that there is a simple solution to the woes of both Microsoft and big media companies.

November 28, 2009 12:00 AM James Whittaker is director of test engineering for Google, and author of How To Break Software: A Practical Guide To Testing .

FLEXIBILITY: A researcher said that close to 35 percent of SMEs in Taiwan use cloud computing, while ITRI called on the government to help companies adopt the system STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009, Page 11 The value of Taiwan s cloud computing services market is expected to reach NT$5.56 billion this year, up 12.8 percent from last ...

Centerstance today announced it has become an authorized reseller of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration tools.

For decades, the world's supercomputers have been the tightly guarded property of universities and governments.

Goldman Sachs' latest IT spending survey is out and it looks a tech-spending recovery is on the way for 2010.

Justin Rattner talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking Intel CTO Justin Rattner made his bones in the 1980s, pushing the supercomputing industry from unsustainably expensive, proprietary architectures toward affordable, off-the-shelf microprocessors.

Google is Google. It has a Midas touch when it comes to web-based applications and services so its easy to get wrapped up in anticipation about a web-centric operating system from Google.

The company has been named one of the top 150 fastest-growing companies on the Technology Fast 500.

Nexus, the leading provider of Advanced Technologies in the U.S., today announced the launch of the Nexus Solution Center in Irvine to help enterprises grow their Data Center 3.0 capabilities.

Progress Software has enabled more than 250 Independent Software Vendors to deploy thousands of on-demand applications.

The Department of Energy is launching a $32 million program to study how scientific codes can make use of cloud technology .

OpenAir, Inc., a NetSuite Inc. company and a leading provider of cloud computing professional services automation and services resource planning software, today announced that BearingPoint, a leading provider of management and technology consulting, has gone live with OpenAir to streamline services delivery processes and consolidate multiple point ...

CEOs in Technology on Ulitzer ParaScale, Inc . announced the appointment of Jack Norris to the company's executive management team as vice president of marketing and business development.

NetSuite has received IDCa s SMB Excellence Award in the Software as a Service and Cloud Computing category for providing innovative solutions to the small and medium-sized business markets .

There are multiple factors that led to the evolution of Cloud Computing. One of the key factors is the way Internet Service Providers matured over a period of time.

Mikayel 03:11:20 Tags : monitis, cloud monitoring, network monitoring, system monitoring, website monitoring, amazon ec2 monitoring, performance monitoring, internal monitori Until today, Monitis was providing monitoring only for Amazon's EC2 and S3 services.

Cloud computing is poised to win the title of most popular, and populist, buzzword of 2009.

Microsoft launched Windows Azure, its cloud-based services offering at the recent Professional Developers Conference .

Google can't lose with Chrome OS , even if it proves to be a failure as an operating system.

BitDefender , an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, recently posted the latest installment of its Total Security Podcast Series - a podcast series designed to provide users with helpful and up-to-date information on security challenges faced by businesses and consumers.

The promise of virtualization technology A- whether applied to the server, storage, client/desktop, application or network A- is to increase capacity, utilize resources more effectively and reduce costs.

Microsoft will use VeriSign Secure Sockets Layer Certificates, VeriSign Code Signing Certificates to safeguard cloud-based services and applications Nov 18, 2009 09:04 AM MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- -- November 17, 2009 -- VeriSign, Inc.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- Informatica Corporation , the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced Informatica 9 , the first data integration platform designed to enable the data-driven enterprise.

Cloud computing users face problems including loss of control over data, difficulties proving compliance, and additional legal risks as data moves from one legal jurisdiction to another, according to a assessement of cloud computing risks from the European Network and Information Security Agency .

Amazon.com is to high performance computing what McDonald's is to food: fast, cheap but with a limited menu.

Nvidia Corp. launches the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing market.

Amazon's cloud computing service should not be used for applications that require advanced security and availability, the Burton Group analyst firm says in a report accusing Amazon of secrecy regarding its cloud data centres.

In this week's special episode of the PC World podcast, editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, Melissa Perenson, and Nick Mediati discuss the just-announced Google Chrome OS.

IBM on Monday will unveil Blue Insight, a massive business analytics cloud that will hold more than a petabyte of data.

News Facts Today, Informatica Corporation a leading independent provider of data integration software, announced Informatica Cloud 9 , a comprehensive offering for cloud data integration, featuring: - Informatica Cloud Platform - a multi-tenant, enterprise-class data integration platform-as-a-service . - Informatica new and enhanced cloud offerings ...

Cycle helps cutting-edge companies across market segments, including Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Varian Inc.

AT&T Inc. today announced a new cloud-based computing service that gives businesses near instant on-demand access to computing resources via an online portal that can be paid for using a credit card.

RackspaceA Hosting , the world's leader in hosting and cloud computing, today announced a set of new product offerings that help businesses move their IT applications into the cloud.

AT&T on Monday rolled out a cloud computing system that mimics the approach of Amazon Web Services.

Riverbed Technology has a plan to help companies accelerate access to applications and storage resources that are located in a cloud computing environment and delivered over the Internet to private data centers, distributed branch offices and mobile end users.

Salesforce.com announced a new product today called Chatter, which it describes as Facebook and Twitter for enterprises .

There's been a general outcry lately about how vendor marketing organizations are abusing the cloud by force-fitting many new and existing products into the cloud computing mold.

Problems related to loss of control, problems with compliance and changes in jurisdiction stand out in a report on cloud risk assessment.

All this week at the Professional Developers Conference , Microsoft has talked about cloud computing, what many consider the next frontier.

Cloud storage provider Mezeo Software announced on Wednesday it has launched the Cloud Storage Strategy monthly newsletter, which will focus on cloud storage insights and observations from industry leaders.

When Ray Ozzie penned his Internet Services Disruption memo back in 2005, he had a pretty good idea where the computing world was going.

Chrome OS is a natural evolution of the work that's been done on the Chrome browser, Sundar Pichai, VP of product management, and Chrome OS engineering director Matthew Papakipos said when they unveiled it at Google's Mountain View campus on Thursday.

NetSuite Inc. , a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, and Aria Systems, Inc., a leading provider of on- demand billing and subscription management solutions, today announced a partnership that offers Aria's usage-based billing functionality as an integrated part of NetSuite's core billing engine.

Python scripting language use has increased by 45% since Spring 2008 according the an Evans Data North American Development Survey.

Citrix Virtualization on Ulitzer Citrix Systems today announced the groundbreaking new "Pay-as-You-Grow" pricing for its Citrix NetScaler line of application acceleration, load balancing and web security appliances.

Tightly coupled with NetSuitea s Native Inventory Management System, SmartTurn helps increase shipment and inventory accuracy.

We're here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual cloud computing event in San Francisco.

Atari and Cryptic Studios are going to launch a MMORPG based on the Star Trek universe in early February, and reading about it has made me rather teary-eyed for the old days of Empire.

Elastra Corp ., which provides application infrastructure automation, has upped the ante with the announcement this week of Elastra Cloud Server 2.0 Enterprise Edition .

Force10 Networks, a global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business, today announced it will resell the Advanced Service Edge products of AFORE, a provider of data center virtualization extension solutions, as an integral part of its industry-leading portfolio.

Netlist is demonstrating the world's first 16GB 2 virtual rank double-data-rate three, registered dual in-line memory module , HyperCloud.

The new partner suite includes additional API functionality, continuing VerticalResponse's efforts in SaaS and cloud computing by allowing third-party custom applications from within the software itself.

Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system.

Terry Kline likes Windows 7, the iPhone, PCs stored on USB drives, and cloud computing services.

IBM on Monday announced plans to deploy an internal cloud computing environment that will make more than a petabyte of information - the equivalent of 100 times the content of the Library of Congress--instantly available to employees under a project called Blue Insight.

Cast Iron Systems announced that it has won the Best of SaaS Showplace Award, presented by THINKstrategies, the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market.

Interop New York -- Cast Iron Systems , the #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration Company, today announced that Cast Iron CEO Ken Comee is speaking at the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop New York on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.

Effective of December 1, 2009, Gallmann joins visionapp from telecommunications vendor Avaya, where he served as Country Manager for Germany.

OnLive, the Internet-based interactive streaming service hyped as "the future of video games," is also capable of running on mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone, the company has claimed.

AT&T upped its cloud portfolio Monday when announced it was working with VMware and Sun to develop its own cloud computing service.' Much like other cloud computing offerings, AT&T's Synaptic Compute as a Service aims to give users scalable on-demand computing capacity that they can increase or decrease depending on their immediate needs and ...

IBM launched a new cloud computing service on Monday, aiming to take on companies such as Amazon.com Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc.

LTech's Single-On for Google Apps enhances IT security, while an update to Power Panel for Google Apps extends lifecycle features.

Cisco and EMC have delved further into cloud computing with two announcements. A joint venture with VMware called the Virtual Computing Environment coalition combines their virtualization, networking, computing and storage technologies.

Intalio, Inc., the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced that it would develop a Governance, Risk Management and Compliance application and a Partner Relationship Management application for use on top of its award winning Private Cloud Computing platform.

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Even though such services can hardly compete against the PlayStation 3, it looks like the father of PlayStation sees a lot of potential in such services.

Savvis Receives Spirit of St. Louis Technology Award ST. LOUIS, MO, , November 1, 2009 - Savvis, Inc., a global leader in outsourced internet infrastructure services for the enterprise, has announced that it has been chosen as the winner of the 2009 Spirit of Technology Award by the St.

WSO2 will launch on Monday WSO2 Cloud Platform, for extending SOA into cloud computing .

Citrix Systems, Inc. , today announced that Citrix CEO Mark Templeton will give the opening keynote presentation at Interop New York 2009, titled "Transforming Enterprise IT: From the Datacenter to the Desktop." In his keynote, Templeton will examine the virtualization and cloud computing landscape, distinguishing the reality from the hype in ...

With a full schedule on tap, the 2009 Microsoft PDC next week will tout efforts ranging from the company's Windows Azure cloud platform to plans for programming languages Session descriptions for the Los Angeles event reveal topics such as "Architecting and Developing for Windows Azure," "Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic" and "Software + ...

The European Space Agency plans to launch a new scanning satellite to map the stars in our galaxy in more precise form than ever before, and researchers supporting the project, called Gaia, are evaluating whether Amazon's cloud computing service can handle the mammoth processing task.

AMD has laid out its road map for processors through 2011, with an emphasis on a complete computing experience featuring stunning graphics and video.

As companies around the globe position themselves for economic recovery, Verizon Business has identified 10 business technology trends that will help companies grow their business in 2010.

Cisco Systems massively expanded its portfolio of collaboration technologies today, announcing 61 products, including a corporate-grade hosted e-mail system called Cisco WebEx Mail as well as a social networking application and a video system to help groups securely share video content and search capabilities.

Amazon Web Services LLC, the company's cloud arm, figures to push into Asia-Pacific in the first half of next year, so businesses can deploy its EC2 compute and S3 storage resources closer to their end users there to minimize latency and increase performance.

15 to 20, 2009. Also featured will be demonstrations of the company's new Tesla products based on its new GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi." Jack Dongarra, from University of Tennessee; Satoshi Matsuoka, from Tokyo Institute of Technology; Jeff Vetter, from Oak Ridge National Labs; as well as NVIDIA's own chief scientist, Bill Dally, are just a ...

This year's rank of 63 marks the highest achieved by Acxiom in its six consecutive years on the list.

InsideView, a Sales 2.0 leader, and NetSuite , a leading vendor of cloud computing business software suites, today announced InsideView for NetSuite, the first Social Intelligence application to bring social media to both CRM and ERP, optimizing core business processes that are essential to driving the success or failure of every business.

Online data management vendor Syncplicity on Tuesday released the Business Edition of its service that includes data collaboration, file management, backup and automatic synchronization between desktop and cloud applications.

We live in a time of constant, rapid change, and businesses need to respond to this change or risk losing their competitive edge.

Adaptec, Inc. today announced that its 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders originally scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 1:00 p.m., Pacific Time , has been canceled as a result of certain developments relating to the Consent Solicitation commenced by Steel Partners II, L.P. About Adaptec Adaptec provides innovative data center ...

Rackspace Hosting said Monday its profit for the third quarter jumped 45 percent - from $5.2 million to $7.6 million - compared with the same time last year thanks to strong growth in its managed hosting and cloud computing business.

Cloud computing firm NetSuite has teamed up with InsideView , a sales intelligence company, to create what they are calling a social intelligence platform.

Informatica Corporation , the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced Informatica 9, the first data integration platform designed to enable the data-driven enterprise.

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of business, information technology and communications solutions, is set to consolidate its position as the third largest ICT firm in Australia and New Zealand with key product launches and business growth plans for 2010, following the integration of two key acquisitions as well as success with ...

A man uses a laptop computer at a wireless cafe. Industry tracker Gartner forecast on Monday that revenue from Internet-based "cloud computing" will top 14 billion dollars annually by the end of 2013.

The combination of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster and Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 provides HPC users an efficient and flexible infrastructure management solution that maximizes resources while lowering costs associated with running cluster environments across both Windows and Linux.

November 4, 2009, 08:38 AM - There have been some disturbing tendencies to separate SOA and cloud computing.

Yahoo Traffic Server is an app server for builders of cloud services. The software package enables session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing for an entire cloud computing stack.

Platform Computing is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high performance computing with two new offerings.

ISLANDIA, N.Y., CA, Inc. today announced that three executives in the company's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit will participate in four panel discussions at Interop.

Siemens IT Solutions and Services has concluded a new partnership agreement with VMware to deliver innovative virtualization solutions to the marketplace.

"Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing" will be the topic at hand when Shelton Shugar, SVP of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, delivers his keynote at the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA.

Hype is a marketer's dream and IT's nightmare. While it helps the former generate excitement, it often obscures reality for the latter.

Ipswitch File Transfer division, a developer of comprehensive secure and managed file transfer solutions, today introduces MOVEit DMZ Hosted Services to provide a Software as a Service )-based managed file transfer solution.

Microsoft celebrated its 20th year in Taiwan by agreeing to open a joint cloud computing center with the island's economics ministry.

Upstart multicore, Linux-compatible chip maker Tilera don't need no stinking tier one server makers.

We are shifting toward online identity and social activity being integrated, rather than concentrated within discrete platforms Expect to see lasting changes coming from empowering individuals to work together Access to rich and diverse data sources has made the art of data analysis a defining skill of our time media planning & buying In 2009, ...

Vordel, a provider of governance products for Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture announced at VordelWorld, its annual user conference in Dublin, Ireland, the release of the Vordel Cloud Service Broker.

Man, it's great talking to folks who are actually taking a chance on new ways of doing things instead of just speculating about doing it.

SOASTA, a provider cloud testing, today announced that performance engineers can now build web application tests in Apache JMeter, the most popular open source load testing tool, and run them in SOASTA's Global Test Cloud.

VOIS, Inc., http://www.vois.com today announced IceWEB , Inc., www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of purpose built appliances and building blocks for cloud storage networks, has acquired a strategic interest in VOIS, Inc.

Microsoft is cutting the subscription costs for its on-demand application portfolio by 30% to less than A 7 per user per month.

I'll be joining John Favazza , vice president of research and development at WebLayers , on Nov.

A new group is being formed to decide codes of conduct within the emerging cloud computing industry.

Terry Kline likes Windows 7, the iPhone, a PC on a USB drive and cloud computing services.

Celebration, Fla. - November 05, 2009 - Libra OnDemand announces its selection as a finalist in the prestigious Force.com Forty Innovation Showcase, sponsored by Salesforce.com. The Force.com Forty is a yearlong program culminating at Dreamforce '09, held November 17 to 20, 2009, at San Francisco's Moscone Center.

Packaged software powerhouse Microsoft on Thursday released a paper outlining privacy concerns businesses should consider prior to leaping into the computing "cloud." Shifting to software being hosted online as services in the Internet "cloud" brings enormous economic potential as well as serious questions about protecting data, according to ...

IBMA announced new solutions for developers to create and deliver software in both public and private cloud environments.

The author of a Virtualization for Dummiesa TM shares tips on leveraging the cloud for development and QA In last week's post , I discussed why dev/test can be a good first use of cloud computing.

Much of the talk about cloud computing in data centers has been about enterprise workloads, but high-performance computing customers are getting some options as well.

NetSuite announced that COMMCO LLC, a Kansas City-based distribution and light manufacturing company and a leading home improvement millwork distributor, is the latest company to successfully switch from SAP R/3 to NetSuite OneWorld, going live on time and on budget, and providing the Kansas City-based company substantial savings.

Having gone through a couple of decades worth of technology conferences, a familiar cycle occurs.

Rackspace suffered another data center failure Tuesday that caused outages for its cloud computing customers, the third such incident since late June.

Nortel is giving enterprises the opportunity to trial and evaluate its communications applications portfolio over the Internet using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud .

Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry.

Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the newest product set in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio.

Productivity software provider RedPrairie plans to offer pre-integrated application modules on software developer NetSuite's cloud computing platform.

Cost savings generated by replacing U.S. workers with IT persons from India was cited as a benefit of private cloud computing Monday afternoon by a Unisys official at a technical conference.

Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration , which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing infrastructures.

Now this is interesting a proper mathematical calculation for using cloud computing to crack passwords, now Amazon has opened up their EC2 the cost of massive parallel processing power has come right down.

" 29 October 2009 - " To prepare for the holiday shopping season, many retailers build out their IT systems to accommodate the anticipated increase in online traffic.

With 600 million unique visits per month, Yahoo sees a large amount of traffic to its sites.

CNet was able to get an exclusive look inside one of the largest data centers in the world, owned by Microsoft to help power cloud-computing with Windows Azure.

Last week's announcement that the city of Los Angeles was moving to Google Apps was quite a blow to Microsoft.

Unisys announced Monday software and services that will enable organizations to deploy and run their own internal private clouds, as part of its strategy to offer customers a variety of cloud computing options.

The innovation coming out of the cloud computing market has, in many ways, made infrastructure startups interesting to venture capitalists again.

The long rumored partnership between networking giant and server wannabe Cisco Systems, server virtualization juggernaut VMware, and storage powerhouse EMC will be announced this week, according to various reports.

NetSuite Inc., a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, has brought the first cloud computing mobile ERP suite to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch.

It's nearly time to retire 2009, yet many conferences for the Linux and open source community are just about to happen.

Juniper Networks today announced that Juniper has reached a significant milestone with its Original Equipment Manufacturer relationship with IBM, announced in July.

Last week's virtual version of the roaming CloudCamp conference was a good opportunity to check the pulse of cloud computing's evolution.

Joyent, Inc. is very happy to announce that today we are beginning operations within mainland China.