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Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) has some serious cloud mojo lately. The company attracted roughly 2,000 channel partners to its Citrix Summit 2012 partner event in San Francisco, from where the statistic emerged that an overwhelming majority of its VARs — 85 percent — see an opportunity to build private clouds using CloudStack. Add to that its headline-stealing move to submit CloudStack to Apache Hadoop at the start of April, and with this week’s Citrix Synergy gathering in San Francisco, …
HP‘s (NYSE: HPQ) recently announced HP Public Cloud initiative now has some elements in public beta, with a slew of companies immediately jumping in to offer technologies ranging from applications to mobility to security.
The HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network elements of HP Cloud Services are now officially open for use, although in beta form (which means there probably are some kinks yet to be worked out). The HP Cloud …
Utility metered cloud company 6fusion announced at the Citrix Synergy conference it has expanded its multi-hypervisor federated cloud to include the Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) and Open Source Xen platforms, adding to its existing support for VMware.
With these two announcements, 6fusion customers will be able to build and meter private and public cloud infrastructures with either VMware or Citrix platforms. As I noted in a previous blog, 6fusion’s distribution model is fully focused on its channel partners.
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Dell Services (NASDAQ: DELL) announced the first two offers in its newly launched Dell Cloud suite for SAP Solutions. Dell is targeting customers looking to move their SAP infrastructure by offering a set of SAP-certified cloud services in secure hybrid, public or private clouds. According to the Dell release, the SAP Solutions suite provides “the agility to easily integrate legacy applications and enables customers to expand beyond physical resources for ‘just in time’ resource allocation and incremental on-demand capacity.”…
Has Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) decided to drop the “Azure” name from some component services in its billing portal? Some Microsoft customers believe yes, but Redmond is saying no.
What started the latest rumor? Apparently, Microsoft shortened the names of its services in the portal, so now “Windows Azure Compute” will be “Cloud Services,” and “SQL Azure” will be listed as “SQL Database,” for example.
That move set the blogosphere all a-twitter, with folks wondering whether Microsoft was dropping the Azure …
Even as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) promotes its own cloud platforms (Office 365 and Windows Azure), cloud services providers (CSPs) and channel partners continue to launch Microsoft Lync, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and Exchange in their own clouds. The moves suggest there’s still a growing, thriving market for third-party CSPs that offer Microsoft’s business applications in the cloud.
Among the latest examples:
1. ITUtility.NET, a cloud services provider in Canada, recently launched Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 as a multi-tenant …
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist VMware (NYSE: VMW) threw a party this month to mark the one-year anniversary of its Cloud Foundry open platform as a service (PaaS) effort. And to show that the little one is plucky and chipper, VMware had on hand for the celebration some new partners and announced a new open source management system, as well as new tools for operating large-scale services. And for supporters of VMware, that’s better than cake and ice cream.
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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is at it again. This time the news from Seattle is Amazon Web Services’ new AWS Marketplace, an online app store that gives customers one-click access to software and technical services for creating products and running businesses. Billing is variable, the cloud standard, and users can choose an hourly or monthly basis for payments.
The other stakeholder in the AWS store is, of course, software developers and SaaS providers. The benefit for them, Amazon asserts, is …
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