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Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick to Provide Powerful Server Management Tools for the Cloud Computing Era

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:21:28 +0000

Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick to Provide Powerful Server Management Tools for the Cloud Computing Era
Rackspace® Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, today announced its acquisition of Cloudkick™, the creator of award-winning web applications for easy and efficient cloud-server management.

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Adobe hits $1B in quarterly revenue for first time

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:21:27 +0000

Adobe hits $1B in quarterly revenue for first time
IDG News Service – For the first time in the company’s history, Adobe Systems has generated over $1 billion in revenue within a single fiscal quarter, it reported Monday.

INFO-TECH

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:21:19 +0000

INFO-TECH
PRIVACY: How a blog paying system became WikiLeaks’ only financial source Imagine a Facebook “Like” button, which rather than simply allowing you to express your approval of a blog, photograph or video online, would dole out a small amount of your cash to its author too.

The First Bank of Delaware Selects Vision Solutions to Migrate and Protect Critical Workloads

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:21:22 +0000

The First Bank of Delaware Selects Vision Solutions to Migrate and Protect Critical Workloads
Double-Take(R) Availability, in Conjunction With Double-Take(R) Move, Provides Easy and Cost-Effective Migrations, High Availability and Data Protection

Investors placing bets on 2011

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:21:39 +0000

Investors placing bets on 2011
Investors will be taking advantage next week of the some of the last remaining trading days of the year to place their bets on what will be the winners of 2011.

How VMware Differs from Amazon Web Services in its Approach to Importing Virtual Machines

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:21:15 +0000

How VMware Differs from Amazon Web Services in its Approach to Importing Virtual Machines
Amazon Web Services (AWS) importing VMware images is a bit like the Hotel California. You can check in but you can never leave. That’s VMware’s view about AWS importing VMware virtual machines. Without any real export features, AWS is locking in customers that want to extend its virtualized infrastructure to a public cloud environment. Matthew Lodge is senior director of cloud services for …

Fujitsu Sells Smart Meters To U.S. Utility – Nikkei

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:22:34 +0000

Fujitsu Sells Smart Meters To U.S. Utility – Nikkei
Fujitsu Sells Smart Meters To U.S. Utility – Nikkei

Amazon Moves VMware’s Virtual Machines to the Cloud

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:21:41 +0000

Amazon Moves VMware’s Virtual Machines to the Cloud
Amazon Web Services has announced a new feature called VM Import, which allows IT departments to move virtual machine images from their internal data centers to the cloud.

Yahoo’s offing of Delicious a reminder of cloud risks

admin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:22:14 +0000

Yahoo’s offing of Delicious a reminder of cloud risks
The blogosphere is abuzz over Yahoo’s decision to pull the plug on its social tagging and bookmarking service Delicious, not to mention several other s

Commerce Dept. suggests new privacy regulations

admin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:24:01 +0000

Commerce Dept. suggests new privacy regulations
New 88-page report suggests, but stops short of formally endorsing, new laws regulating data collection, data breaches, and cloud computing privacy.