Red Hat Paves Open, Portable Path to the Cloud
Red Hat announced updates to its Cloud Foundations portfolio with a focus on openness and portability.
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Cloud Players Unite For Enterprise Private Cloud Initiative
Three cloud computing vendors and one systems integrator have teamed up to deliver a self-service private cloud play to the enterprise.
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TheEasyBee.com to Announce its “Web 3.0 Software of the Year” Award
Web 3.0 is here—or more aptly, it’s out there, just waiting to be tapped into. And TheEasyBee.com, an online directory of the best web-based software programs, can show you where to find it.
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OW2 Consortium will Support OpenStack with its Open Source Cloudware Initiative
OW2 Open Source Cloudware Initiative will collaborate with the OpenStack™ Community to provide users a fully open source cloud software stack.
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OSCON: Open source lazy about social Web services
While open-source coders have done a remarkable job of providing a complete open-source software stack, they haven’t kept up with the emergence of Web services, charges an executive from a prominent open-source foundation.
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How long will cloud’s reality trail the hype?
True believers see it as the future. Detractors call for caution. But what do they both agree on?
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NSF offers researchers high-performance computing time on advanced computing network
The coming round of one-year grants of computing time on the NSF’s advanced TeraGrid system give researchers access to more than two petaflops of computing power and 50 petabytes of online and archived data storage.
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NetSuite OpenAir Unifies Software AG’s Worldwide Services Organization
LONDON and SAN MATEO, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) / financial suites, today announced that Software AG (TecDAX: SOW), the global leader in Business Process Excellence, has achieved significant productivity gains by implementing the NetSuite OpenAir professional services …
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On cloud nine
Their families struggle to understand what they do at this globally recognised Gurgaon startup: Getting computers to run from a far continent. Coming in August: A desktop for Rs 5,000, reports Anika Gupta .
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