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Updates on how African educators are accelerating e-learning in schools, colleges and universities with cutting edge, affordable and simple to manage client virtualisation solutions

This report presents the findings of Imprivata's third annual survey about the adoption rates and benefits of desktop virtualization (as well as cloud-based applications and services) in healthcare.

The time we log into any terminal and run any app is getting nearer. The question is will VMware buy Sphere3D.

CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it is dropping its compute pricing for customers to reflect the efficiency gains from its recent public cloud 2.0 upgrade.

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced a partnership with CloudSigma, an innovative Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider based in Zürich, Switzerland.

Dumb terminals get intelligence. Phones become smart phones. Tablets sprout keyboards and become collapsible laptops. So much for the "post-PC" way of thinking.

The Clearing House will announce today that it will launch and operate an open platform that will make mobile payments more secure by changing how cardholder data is transmitted and stored. Called "Secure Cloud," this platform will tokenize cardholder data behind a bank's firewall once a bank customer has registered her mobile wallet with that issuer.

MinuteHound announces compatibility with thin client technology, allowing companies which are taking advantage of virtualization cost savings to also realize the savings and efficiency of the MinuteHound system.

BinWise, Inc., the leading cloud-based software managing restaurant beverage programs, is pleased to announce a partnership with Breadcrumb, an iPad-based POS solution which was acquired by Groupon, Inc

Kawasaki, Japan, June 18, 2013 - Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the development of a high-speed thin client gateway technology that allows existing web applications for PCs to be quickly displayed in the same way on smartphones, tablets and other smart devices (Figure 1). The technology even permits smooth control of software via a mobile communications environment (3G/WiMAX/LTE).

 SaaSID is celebrating a number of company milestones including a listing in the IDC report: "Tall and Small, Smart or Cool: European vendors to watch," following the launch of its Cloud Application Manager (CAM) software which provides SSO; manages web application features and audits web application use for compliance.

PALO ALTO, CA - March 26, 2013 - CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that its Chief Enterprise Solutions Officer Micheal Higgins will be speaking at Storage Networking World Spring 2013 in the industry perspective session Beating Storage Bottlenecks in the Cloud, being held Thursday, April 4 at 4:50 p.m. ET.

Joel Snyder of Networld World takes a look at the T410.

Vienna - 06 February 2013 - NextiraOne Austria has been awarded a contract for the design and implementation of a new infrastructure for a school in Vienna. The school - the Höhere Technische Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt (HTBLVA) in Spengergasse in Vienna - faced a growing problem that many organisations meet: with data an increasingly important asset, the ever-growing amount of data frequently paralyses an organisation's existing IT infrastructures, making the effective management of server and storage resources increasingly difficult.

CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, has been shortlisted in the 2012-2013 Cloud Awards Program in the category of Best Cloud Infrastructure.

Zurich, Switzerland - October 31, 2012 - After launching just six months ago, CloudSigma, the only international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced high growth and demand for its Media Services Ecosystem. Increasing its ecosystem members by 150 percent, CloudSigma has shown the real value of providing a collaborative public cloud environment designed exclusively for media industry service providers and production companies.

London, UK: 9 October 2012 - Praim, the global vendor and designer of Thin Client solutions, will make its UK debut at IP EXPO on 17 and 18 October at London's Earls Court 2, showcasing its latest hardware platforms and most recent software integrations.

San Francisco, Calif. - October 2, 2012 - CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). By attaining Gold Level membership, Oracle has recognized CloudSigma for its commitment to establish Oracle related knowledge in delivering a public cloud IaaS offering with the necessary resources, flexibility and customization companies require in today's dynamic IT environments.

Lenovo, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Samsung and others used the kickoff of the IFA 2012 trade show in Berlin, which runs Aug. 31 through Sept. 9, to introduce armloads of new devices. These products, from smartphones to all-in-one PCs, are intended to sustain them through the holiday shopping season and beyond, to help them participate in a tablet market growing more competitive with the upcoming launch of Microsoft Windows 8, and to make an impression on consumers and office workers alike before several big announcements later this year from Apple, whose products have a way of shifting the entire industry.

'Helix Nebula - the science cloud', set up earlier this year to support the massive IT requirements of European scientists and create a cloud computing market for the public sector in Europe, has today announced the initial deployment of its first flagship applications in high energy physics, molecular biology and natural disaster recovery.

 CloudSigma, the only international, customer-centric, pure-cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has partnered with Le Camping, a Parisian startup accelerator powered by Silicon Sentier, and its startup participant Skimm!, a mobile payment system provider.

Microsoft's Azure and RemoteFX technologies in Windows Server 2012 could be the key to deploying Office on tablet computers. From ZDnet Blog. Interesting on how it makes sense for iPad (or Tablet) to run Office as Thin Client

CloudSigma's distributed SSD storage solution, SigSTORE, achieves unprecedented cloud-based storage performance, availability and reliability, fostering further cloud adoption.

CloudSigma, the only international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced the launch of its Media Services Ecosystem, the first collaborative public cloud environment designed exclusively for media industry service providers and production companies.

Palo Alto, Calif. - March 20, 2012: CloudSigma, the only international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has joined cloud aggregator Besol's Tapp platform, a cloud infrastructure management service, still in Beta. 

Dell and Gratifon (Gratifon.com) has invented a voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) kiosk that connects consumers at tourist locations, hotels, airports, malls and supermarkets to any landline or cell phone worldwide at no cost. 

Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud suffered a worldwide meltdown. For almost 36-hours, Windows Azure Service Management was down.

San Francisco, March 1, 2012 - World premiere: California based thin software specialist Stratodesk is the very first company to present a full-fledged and completely ported version of its thin software solution for a future generation of thin clients.

Wired discusses cloud impact on MS and Sony with game stations and the evolution to internet thin client endpoints for best content wins.

CloudSigma's SSD Storage Eliminates I/O Bottlenecks and Allows for Higher Performance in Multi-Tenant, Public Cloud Environments

Today at VMworld® 2011 Europe, Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, reported organizations moving into a post-PC era built on VMware-based virtual desktop infrastructure optimised with Wyse cloud client computing solutions. Wyse is currently appearing at VMworld® 2011 Europe in the Solutions Exchange, Booth 111.

Information Week looks at SugarSync, Amazon, Microsoft, Box.Net, SpiderOak and Dropbox. We've been using Box.net lately and it is very nice.

LONDON — At the Office 365 launch, Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, gave the first admission that cloud data — regardless of where it is in the world — is not protected against the USA PATRIOT Act.

PLANO, Texas and ISTE, Philadelphia, Pa. - June 27, 2011 Interphase Corporation (NASDAQ:INPH) announces the launch of clouDevice™, a comprehensive cloud computing/desktop virtualization product line, offering schools, business entities, and government agencies a smart choice for IT departments implementing private cloud-based desktop virtualization. Supporting all major virtual desktop host environments and end-user types, the debut of clouDevice marks the company’s entry into the cloud computing market.

A startup company, victimized by Amazon EC2’s failure, tells its tale. It’s not pretty.

So how did the EC2 crash of Amazon resonate thru IT? Did Corporate IT raise the pointed finger a bit too quick (or did they miss Sony debacle).

CloudSigma AG, a leading European provider of cloud servers is pleased to announce the launch of the latest Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) servers for instant deployment in its cloud.

Company: CloudSigma AG, Release summary: Turn the threat into revenue generating opportunity with the new CloudSigma cloud server affiliate program launched today. Offering 15% lifetime commissions on referred accounts, the new affiliate scheme offers companies the opportunity to embrace and benefit from the transition to cloud computing.

Zürich, February 9th 2011– CloudSigma AG, a leading European provider of cloud servers, is delighted to announce the addition of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform to enStratus, a leading cloud infrastructure management solution.

Now you have your own Debian 6 cloud server available for instant deployment (with root access).

MORRISTOWN, NJ – January 26, 2011 -- this set of clearly-defined business and technical requirements for external private cloud services puts a stake in the ground for how business and technical agreements between enterprise customers and cloud service providers should be defined and managed.

Many electronic health records (EHR) application vendors are providing “cloud-like” solutions such as application hosting or software-as-a-service (SaaS) models.

Post on Getapps regarding Forbes CIO predictions on cloud and apps.

Summary of 2011 Virtualization predictions put together by virtualization.info

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, announced today the launch of a free edition of their popular Top 10 grossing business application PocketCloud for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Story by a small business owner (10 employees) on why he is now moving to the web.

The college will be replacing 1,200 PCs with Wyse zero clients - delivering students, faculty and visitors an improved desktop experience that also saves on operational costs and is significantly more energy efficient.

Marketing the cloud. Salesforce's Benioff wins one over Microsoft.

...said Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive. “So far the model seems to be the Android solution is particularly optimized for things that involve touch in some form and Chrome OS appears to be for keyboard-based solutions.”

New Office plug-in syncs documents to Google Docs to provide more reason to migrate from desk app to cloud app.

Can the term “cloud PC” go where the dreaded thin client couldn’t?

Wyse Technology is rebranding thin clients as 'Cloud PCs' with the launch of a new line of systems that run Windows 7, but boot from a private cloud rather than a local hard drive.

Interesting confluence of presence detectors in public environment integrating with the net and social networks.

New technology collaborations announced by Google & VMware targeted at enterprise sw developers. Spring Roo is example.

Road warriors in legal, healthcare , and sales are finding desktop virtualization a powerful ally in the quest to stay connected.

In our most recent InformationWeek Analytics End User Device Management Survey, desktops still held the top spot. But with VDI, an enterprise could dispense with $1,000 desktops or laptops and pay $279 to $499 for a thinner device with native 3G connectivity. Multiply those numbers by several hundred or thousand workstations, and you're talking real money. VDI costs on the back end for software, servers, and storage, but economies of scale around using an existing data center could still present a good TCO scenario.

Wyse expands mobile support with new Android version of PocketCloud (already supports iPhone and iPad). Users giving thumbs up on the Beta

Cloud demo environment with citrix receivers for Android, Blackberry, iPad and iPhone.

Map of security rankings of cloud computing of different countries (entire world) by Forrester. I wouldn't have predicted the U.S. position (similar to China).

Analyst builds argument that Azure offers not only cloud but on premise advantages via technology like Visual Studio and BizTalk. Not sure that we buy into the proposition that "Look what you can continue to do just on our servers" wins ultimately over "Look at what you no longer have to do..." model. Maybe investors will be persuaded.

ex-CIO of Google has a new book and gives interview to Forbes. Cloud computing. We especially like the comment, "The idea, basically, is to get your files off of the big hard drive that you're paying for, onto a big hard drive that someone else is paying for."

With all the hubbub about Snow Leopard and Windows 7, there's another operating system out there you may not have noticed that's getting a significant update: Ubuntu Linux.

Article on Information Week discussing Cloud Computing's gravitational tug on Ballmer/Gates/Microsoft and how their products are adapting. The age of the heavy laptop with Notes replicating the office is over.

Interview with Ed Sperling on Forbes and the transformation of servers from physical to virtual which is increasingly the case. No longer is Power the consideration, it's "cost optimization".

There’s an ongoing debate about the ability of cloud computing services to meet enterprise regulatory compliance requirements, including the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) standard that is essential for e-commerce.

First of many benchmark tests of cloud competitors and just how available those services are in real life.

24 June 2009 – The findings of a survey by document management software company, Version One (www.versionone.co.uk), has revealed that 41% of senior IT professionals admit that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is. Version One carried out the research with 60 senior IT professionals (IT directors and managers) across a range of UK public and private sector organisations. This research follows-on from a similar survey carried-out by Version One which highlights that two-thirds of UK senior finance professionals (finance directors and managers) are confused about cloud computing.

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EDS, an HP (NYSE:HPQ) company, and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT) have signed an agreement to market, integrate and deliver the Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite for enterprise customers.

This agreement extends to cloud computing HP’s long-standing relationship with Microsoft to provide communications and collaboration services. Together, the companies anticipate deploying these services to more than 5 million users.

Cloud computing resources question was raised by a member of Health Infomatics group we participate in. Health technology right now is one very hot potato so to speak.