By Patrick Seitz (from Investors.Com.) “Technology in 2012 looks exciting. Social networking leader Facebook will go public in a massive IPO. Apple is expected to launch a potentially game-changing television. Intel will debut a radically redesigned microprocessor. And Microsoft will come out with its make-or-break operating system, Windows 8. And social networking, mobile computing, cloud computing and digital delivery...
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By Nathan Eddy (from Channel Insider.) “LabTech Software, developers of a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution for managed service providers (MSPs), announced its integration with Reflexion Networks’ suite of email services to provide an automated way to ensure the integrity and health of hosted email services. LabTech’s integration monitors the availability of the Reflexion Total...
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By Steve Woods (from Technorati.) “Seriously, is Skynet just one small step away? Some tech genius at Amazon’s cloud computing complex figured out that the online shop and application hosting service could tie together its 300,000 online virtual computing cores, to perform, in concert, a whopping 240 trillion calculations/second, equivalent to 240 teraflops. Using a platform...
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By Rachel King (from ZDNet.) “Talking about the social enterprise is changing the entire focus of cloud computing from just reorganizing IT to revolutionizing businesses, according to Peter Coffee, vice president and head of platform research at Salesforce.com. Coffee recently spoke candidly with me about his predictions for what will be the major trends in enterprise...
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From Market Watch. “Etherios, a leader in enterprise cloud computing technology, today announced the opening of two new Solution Centers in response to the company’s rapid growth and its success in delivering cloud-based solutions for its clients. “With the rapid growth of enterprise cloud computing, our unique Solution Center designs in Chicago and Dallas...
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From MarketWire. “DataDirect Networks (DDN), the world’s largest privately held information storage company, today announced continued HPC market leadership in providing high performance, high capacity, massively scalable storage systems to the largest global supercomputers, as ranked by the November 2011 edition of the TOP500® list, available at www.top500.org. The latest TOP500 reveals a remarkable 50...
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By Shara Tibken (from The Wall Street Journal.) “Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM) agreed to buy rival Cotendo Inc., a maker of mobile-network acceleration software, for about $268 million in cash as the company expands its cloud computing offerings. Cotendo, founded in 2008, provides technology that accelerates the delivery of content through the Internet, also...
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By Craig Wolf (from The Poughkeepsie Journal.) “Marist College is pressing forward to create a “cloud computing” center, partnering with IBM Corp. in a major venture that its leaders believe can lead to thousands of jobs grown or retained in the Hudson Valley. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., visited Marist on Wednesday to pledge...
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By Prince Osuagwu (from Vanguard.) “Frontline computer and back end company, International Business Machines, IBM, believes that organizations that embrace the concept of smarter computing and are approaching computing in a different way, are likely to build and enhance easily, the infrastructure they already have. This is because they would have harnessed data and...
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From Market Watch. “LiveOps announced today that it has been named a finalist in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards program in the “Best Platform as a Service” category. The Cloud Awards is a premier international cloud computing awards program that recognizes and celebrates industry leaders and pioneers in the field of cloud computing. The...
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