Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services has announced it has completed an $85 million funding round, with European group Weather Investment II providing the majority of the round. Weather II was advised by Accelero Capital, an investment and management group. Both Weather II and Accelero focus on telecommunication and related media and technology companies that clearly hold promise in the rapidly and profoundly changing telecom and enterprise markets worldwide.

Telefónica Digital, the growth arm of global telecom leader Telefónica, is also participating as a strategic investor. Cloud-based services are a key focus area for Telefónica's new Digital unit, and Joyent's technology expertise in this area will help Telefónica enhance its product offering.

In searching for coverage from VMworld in San Jose, I came across this press release...

Wyse Unveils Expanded Strategy for Cloud Client Computing, Mobile Cloud Business Unit

Thin, Zero, and Cloud PC Client Offerings Combined with Integrated Management, Desktop Virtualization and Cloud Software Delivering the Most Complete and Secure Unified Communications Platform for True Cloud Computing

Mobile Cloud Business Unit to Focus on Management, Desktop Virtualization and Cloud Software on Next Generation Mobile Platforms

 IaaS Isn't Just Cloud Computing Fluff:  Survey

CRN Article by:  Andrew R. Hickey

Enterprises are latching on to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and projects are moving more swiftly than expected, according to a recent survey conducted by the Yankee Group.

Dell Buys Money-Losing 3PAR to Fluff Cloud Portfolio

written by:  Taylor Buley

Dell announced its pending $1.15 billion acquisition of 3PAR on Monday, sending the latter’s stock up 85% in mid-day trading.

Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat, and VMware also rank high up on a survey by IT consulting firm BTC Logic

Amazon and IBM are the "cloud champions" according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat, and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field.

All tech vendors are embracing the cloud. Even those that don't provide public cloud services are fighting to become the top builders of infrastructures to support emerging cloud networks.

A new quarterly report from BTC Logic, an IT consulting firm, attempts to rank the top cloud players, and puts them into seven broad categories: cloud foundations, infrastructure, network services, platforms, applications, security and management.

The increased use of virtualization on all common server platforms provides greater server utilization and efficiency. Efficiency gains in utilization are also attributable to the sharing of computing capacity when multiple tenants are hosted on a single software instance. It stands to reason that multi-tenant software contributes to the efficiency of provisioning and administration, which enables applications to be provided at much lower cost.

Multi-tenant software allows new customer organizations to be easily implemented without an elaborate and separate installation of the application for each customer or the subsequent administration and maintenance. Yet the separation of the customer data, even the perception of the application by the customer, is as if they have a separate application running on their own servers.

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 Informative post from CA World...

'Realizing IT to the Business Alignment with CA's Data Center of the Future' via The CA Cloud Storm Chasers by Meghan Stabler

 For those that are not here at CA World 2010 you are missing some of the most significant announcements in the recent history of CA. First was the renaming, or rather rebranding of the company from CA Inc, to CA Technologies. Why is that significant to me? Well this is my second ‘tour of duty' having left CA back in 2000 after five years as an SVP of Global Marketing. At that time CA ‘Software Superior by Design' was in the process of being rebranded to ‘CA, Inc.' Yet even with this shift in brand name, design, colors and high-level message we also introduced CA's vision and strategy for managing the Data Center of the Future. A future that is highly virtualized, that takes advantage of the various cloud types, and that incorporates everything from physical to virtual, mainframe to distributed and beyond. This is significant to CA Technologies and customers.

Net Neutrality in the US and the Digital Economy Act in the UK are attempts by Governments to start to legislate the Internet.Certainly the Digital Economy Act in the UK was written to prevent the piracy of film, music, photography etc. For what it's worth I don't agree with the measures in the Act, which gives the Government power to checktraffic and potentially block sites involved in the breach of copyright...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4012-Internet-Legislation-and-Piracy.html

With data sources growing exponentially and competitive pressures at an all time high, the need to synthesize and extract meaning is critical to success. Centrifuge provides businesses with the freedom to explore data, uncover new insight and improve decision-making...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3982-Interview-with-Tony-Agresta-VP-of-Marketing-for-Centrifuge.html

Mark Bregman, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Offcer, Symantec Corporation says that SaaS has the potential to be a game changer. In a conversation with Ashwani Mishra, Bregman talks about the company’s strategy in the security and storage areas and how it plans to...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3857-Interview-with-Symantec-CTO-Mark-Bregman.html