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Salesforce.com Launches Next Generation Sales Cloud
September 21st, 2012 : John RathThe annual Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference took over San Francisco this week, complete with big crowds, big keynotes, and several big cloud announcements. Read More
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BMW To Deploy HPC Clusters at Verne Global In Iceland
September 20th, 2012 : John RathBMW will be taking data center space in Iceland at Verne Global, where it will use modular data centers from Colt to support a group of high performance computing clusters that will be used to run simulations when designing new cars. Read More
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OpenStack Foundation Launches With $10 Million in Funding
September 19th, 2012 : Colleen MillerThe OpenStack Foundation officially launched today and began by hiring Jonathan Bryce, co-founder of the Rackspace Cloud, as its Executive Director. Through member dues and corporate sponsorships, OpenStack has secured more than $10 million in funding commitments as of September. Read More
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Cloud News: Peak 10, Oracle, Joyent
September 18th, 2012 : John RathPeak 10 launches Recovery Cloud, Oracle (ORCL) acquires SelectMinds, Joyent selected by Digital Chocolate. Read More
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M&A Action: Akamai acquires FastSoft
September 17th, 2012 : John RathIn this week's M&AS news, Akamai (AKAM) has acquired content acceleration software provider FastSoft, CA Technologies (CA) acquires Paragon Global Technology, and AMD invests in cloud-based gaming provider CiiNOW. Read More
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ProfitBricks Sees Performance as Cloud Opportunity
September 14th, 2012 : Rich MillerAchim Weiss and Andreas Gauger helped build Germany's 1&1 Internet into a web hosting juggernaut. With their new company, ProfitBricks, the duo hope to disrupt the cloud computing market with a high-performance infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering. Read More
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Amazon Launches Marketplace for Cloud Capacity
September 13th, 2012 : Rich MillerAmazon Web Services has launched the Reserved Instance Marketplace, creating a secondary exchange in which AWS users can buy and sell capacity that has been reserved for future use. Here's a video overview. Read More
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Cloud News: Citrix, Dell, IBM
September 12th, 2012 : John RathCloud roundup: Citrix (CTXS) invests in cloud platform providerCumuLogic, Dell adds Ramco ERP-as-a-Service. IBM Cloud selected by Toyota Boshoku. Read More
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PeakColo Raises $7.5 Million in Equity Capital
September 11th, 2012 : Rich MillerPeakColo has raised $7.5 million in growth equity capital from Meritage Funds and Sweetwater Capital, the company, and will use the money to fund its expansion into two additional geographic markets over the next year. Read More
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
