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Microsoft Research announced today on its website the preview of Project Daytona, an iterative MapReduce runtime for Windows Azure . Daytona was created by the eXtreme Computing Group and provides an alternative to Apache Hadoop,…
Gale Technologies, along with NetApp, demonstrated at Cisco Live 2011 the service tiering capabilities of GaleForce Turnkey Cloud solution which allows IT architects to design and publish infrastructure offerings as easy-to-use…
General Dynamics Corp. announced Monday that it has acquired Network Connectivity Solutions (NETCONN) Corp. , a provider of enterprise services and cloud computing to the U.S. Department of Defense. The value of the cash…
According to data compiled by the research firm IDC, the global revenue for servers deployed in public and private clouds is expected to approach $9.4 billion by 2015 . This revenue will mainly be driven by IT managers’ growing…
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services have agreed to let Amazon cloud users run Microsoft Windows Server Application on their Amazon cloud infrastructure. The partnership was made public on Wednesday at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner…
IBM Launches New Cloud-Based Web Analytics And Marketing Automation Solution IBM announced today a new cloud-based Web analytics and digital marketing suite to help organizations automate online marketing campaigns across all…
CenturyLink announced on Friday that it has closed the deal to buy the cloud computing company Savvis for $2.5 billion and prepaid about $546 million of Savvis’ credit facility debt. We have reported about this deal earlier.…
IBM announced today a new cloud-based Web analytics and digital marketing suite to help organizations automate online marketing campaigns across all online channels, such as web sites, social media networks, and mobile phones. The…
According to Larry Page, CEO of Google, Google+ already has 10 million users who are sharing 1 billion items every day, and Google’s +1 button (the Google version of News Feed) is being hit 2.3 billion times per day. Larry Page…
Microsoft is making noise with their new cloud plans in Los Angeles. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer started the annual business partner conference with a blast which was chosen for the key note address. The event…