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Microsoft to Set Up Cloud Research Center in Taiwan
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan’s economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company’s first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry. Cloud computing — the hosting and storage of services and data on remote centralized computers, is expected to cut…
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Cisco, EMC, VMware Take Pre-Packaged Data Center Solution Vblock to Channel Partners
Looking to make it easier for channel partners to deploy data center and cloud technology at customer sites, Cisco has formed a coalition with EMC and VMware which will create reference designs for an infrastructure architecture it calls Vblock which incorporates technologies from all three companies including Cisco’s Unified Computing line up of products. The…
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Cisco, EMC Reportedly Join Forces On Cloud Computing
(Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) and EMC Corp (EMC.N) are teaming up to sell a new line of networking gear, computers and storage equipment designed for use with cloud computing, according to sources familiar with their plans. The line of products, dubbed vBlock, position the two companies to better compete against IBM (IBM.N) and…
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Nirvanix Extends Cloud Storage Reach With Channel
The size of the cloud services market may be in dispute — Gartner predicts it will surpass $56.3 billion this year and hit $150 billion by 2013, while IDC finds the market far smaller, believing it won’t pass the $42 billion mark until 2012 — nobody disputes that it exists and that there is opportunity…
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Ingram Micro Offers Intermedia`s Cloud Email
VARs eyeing a cut of the cloud craze should take a closer look at Intermedia, Ingram Micro’s new partner in cloud-based email and collaboration tools. The two companies announced this week that they inked a deal to offer Intermedia’s hosted Microsoft email and collaboration solutions to Ingram Micro’s vast reseller community through Ingram Micro’s Seismic…
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If Google Apps is Hacked, Los Angeles Gets Paid
Google and its partner, Computer Science Corp., has struck a major blow to on-premise email software vendors by scoring a major cloud services deal with, according to press reports. The one catch: CSC will pay stiff penalties to the city of angels if its implementation of Google Apps suffers a security breach. Los Angeles plans…