(Raleigh, N.C.) Last year, the cloud cognoscenti set out to clarify definitions. What is cloud? What isn’t cloud? What does it mean for the present and the future? This year, the focus is on adoption patterns and entry points — where enterprises are making use of cloud, finding value and gaining traction with their initiatives. (more…)

  (Durham, N.C.) PlazaBridge Group, LLC a leading services and commercialization firm, today announced the availability of SkyWrite™, a set of services and technologies designed to assist enterprises in commercializing internally built applications via Cloud Computing. Services include best practices in marketing and selling Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings to businesses and consumers. Technologies designed to re-engineer internal applications as Cloud Computing applications, including usage monitors, merchant payment utilities, data and communication security, identity management, database management and mobile application extensions, are also offered. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Large-scale computer hosting infrastructures offer a variety of services to computer users, including cloud computing – which offers users access to powerful computers and software applications hosted by remote groups of servers. But when these infrastructures run into problems – like bottlenecks that slow their operating speed – it can be costly for both the infrastructure provider and the user. (more…)

(Hamburg, Germany) Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, and Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today announced a partnership to deliver optimized and automated management of data center resources, in virtualized and cloud computing environments. Through the integration of Voltaire Unified Fabric Manager™ (UFM) software and Platform LSF, intelligent workload scheduling and resource allocation extends from the application layer all the way down to the network fabric layer. The combined solution enables high performance computing, data center and cloud computing facilities to more easily support constantly changing resource requirements and workloads inherent in those environments. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) rPath, an innovator in automating system deployment and maintenance, today announced that it has been ranked a Top 10 Cloud Foundation Company by BTC Logic, an inter-disciplinary business, technology, and creative consulting group; and the category winner for Cloud Management Tools within the AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 list. The list of Top 10 Cloud Foundation Companies is part of a larger research report, “The BTC Logic Top 10 Cloud Rankings,” a review of the Top 10 Cloud Companies in five categories. The free report and category rankings can be found at http://www.btclogic.com/pov/rankings.cfm. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) SIMtone Corporation, a privately held company delivering the first Universal Computing Platform, today announced its second generation of SIMtone “SNAP” Universal Cloud Terminals at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new devices are the first to break the $100 price barrier and deliver fast, powerful “on-demand” access to applications and media/communication services hosted on Windows, Linux or Media Virtual PCs. The resulting price and performance ratio is unachievable by traditional smartbooks, netbooks, laptops or desktop computers. (more…)

(Apex, N.C.) NCTechNews, North Carolina’s technology news source, is accepting submissions from business and organizations to be listed in the publication’s North Carolina Technology Resources Guide. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that its leading operating platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is driving further enterprise adoption of cloud computing. Building on the strong, long-term technology collaboration between Red Hat and Verizon Business, today Red Hat Enterprise Linux is offered as one of the first two operating system platforms available for Verizon Business’ new Computing as a Service (CaaS) solution. (more…)