By Kathrin Hille (from Financial Times.) “NEC has agreed to set up a joint venture with Neusoft, China’s largest IT outsourcing provider, to offer cloud computing services in the country, the Japanese electronics company’s first move to offer such services outside its home market. The venture reflects high hopes among outsourcing services vendors that...
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From The Sun Herald. “SAN FRANCISCO — Citrix Systems today announced several key additions to its Citrix OpenCloud™ infrastructure platform for cloud providers. The new enhancements raise the bar in cloud interoperability, scalability and self-service – further extending the company’s leadership position as the most widely deployed provider of virtualization and networking solutions for the...
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By Chris Talbot (from Channel Insider.) “IT as a service, cloud computing, and virtualization security will dominate as major themes around this year’s VMworld as vendors, channel partners and customers converge on San Francisco’s Moscone Center for VMware’s big conference starting August 30, 2010. VMware CEO Paul Maritz is expected to expand upon the...
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By Cade Metz (from the Register.) “Dell and HP have once again traded bids as they tussle over storage outfit 3PAR. On Friday morning, Dell matched HP’s Thursday bid of $27 a share, and HP promptly re-upped the ante with a $30 a share bid, valuing 3PAR at $2 billion. Meanwhile, shares in the Fremont,...
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By Lisa Wang (from Taipei Times.) “Chunghwa Telecom Co (中華電信), the nation’s largest telecoms company, yesterday said it was considering raising capital spending this year to fund the construction of a new cloud computing data center. To cope with the construction, the company’s capital spending could exceed its target of 15 percent of its...
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By David Ranii (from News Observer.) “Red Hat, meet Shrek. Raleigh-based Red Hat, the Linux software company, announced Wednesday that DreamWorks Animation – the Hollywood studio behind the Shrek franchise and a host of other animated hits – plans to use Red Hat’s cloud computing software to help produce animated films. DreamWorks has been...
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By Frank Vinluan (from Triangle Business Journal.) “Startup technology company 6fusion announced Monday it has raised $3 million in a first round of funding that the company says it will use to establish its headquarters in the Triangle and expand its research and development efforts. 6fusion, whose technology is used by data centers, employs six....
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By Dave Rosenberg (from CNET.) “Nimbula, a provider of cloud infrastructure software and founded by former Amazon executives Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, on Monday announced that it has secured $15 million in its second round of venture capital funding led by Accel Partners. That brings total funding to more than $20 million. Current...
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From PRWeb. “Concierge Communications, a Tempe based master agency for communications and technology services, today announced that its Vice President, Clark Atwood, has been selected as the moderator for the Cloud Computing Crash Course at the Channel Partners Expo hosted by Phone Plus Magazine. The Channel Partners Expo is an event for the indirect...
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From PressReleases.Com. “Bangalore, India, August 18, 2010 — Logicmantra Solutions, a high end software service company based in Bangalore, India today announced cloud computing based application development services for Indian, North American and European market. Speaking at the event Mr. Ujjawal Kumar, CEO of Logicmantra Solutions announced that Logicmantra will invest considerable amount to...
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