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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (691)	7/7/2011 2:19:21 PM
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TAMPA, July 5, 2011 - Savtira Corporation (Savtira), a new provider of B2B Cloud Commerce solutions, today announced the company closed an equity funding round to develop and deliver its Cloud Commerce platform... savtira.com

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (691)	7/7/2011 2:31:06 PM
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Moving cloud storage to primetime requires new tech gigaom.com __________________________ Virtual Storage Startup Nutanix Emerges From Stealth nytimes.com By RILEY MCDERMID of VentureBeat April 19, 2011 Virtual storage startup Nutanix came out of stealth mode today, officially announcing $13.2 million in a first round of institutional funding. The company said it will take aim at the $20 billion market currently building private clouds for server or desktop virtualization and service providers building public clouds. The appliance leverages server-attached solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disks, enabling organizations to run virtual machines without requiring a complex and costly SAN (storage area network) or NAS (network attached storage) infrastructure. A NAS is a single storage device that operates on data files, while a SAN is a local network of multiple devices that operate on disk blocks. The Santa Clara-based startup claims that it essentially “does away” with the traditional SAN/NAS dilemma, by building “Google-like” scale-out architecture that brings computing and storage into a single tier. That means that virtual machines running on Nutanix’s appliances use high performance flash and hard disk storage from the cluster, thereby theoretically shrinking the data center, reducing capital and administration costs. If workable in real-time, that would mean Nutanix has one-upped competitors like EMC Corporation, Cisco Systems, NetApp, VMware and Hewlett-Packard by bridging the gap between a company’s hardware and its cloud storage. Nutanix said all its products are specifically designed from the ground-up for virtual servers and virtual desktops. “The offerings from traditional players are bundling existing compute, networking and storage solutions and lack true convergence,” founder and chief products officer Ajeet Singh told VentureBeat. “[We] bring data close to virtual machines, delivering convergence through a combination of scalable software and industry-standard hardware components,” said Singh. “[That] architecture provides cost, performance and manageability benefits that are not possible through mere bundling of servers and storage.” Singh was previously senior director of product management at Aster Data and prior to that worked at Oracle, where he was part of the early team that defined Oracle’s cloud computing strategy. The company was founded in 2009 and already includes one well-known Silicon Valley investor, Mark Leslie, the founding chairman and CEO of Veritas Software, on its advisory board. It received this round of funding from investors that include Lightspeed Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital. Copyright 2011 VentureBeat.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (691)	7/7/2011 4:18:22 PM
From: stockman_scott	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1685

The Top 100 Bloggers on Cloud Computing security.sys-con.com

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (691)	7/7/2011 6:55:58 PM
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iCloud and the Enterprise blog.moprise.com

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (691)	7/8/2011 3:43:46 AM
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IDC: Cloud Server Revenue to Reach $9.4 Billion by 2015 securityweek.com By SecurityWeek News on June 29, 2011 According to new research from IDC, worldwide revenue for servers deployed to public clouds will reach $3.6 billion in 2015 while private cloud server revenue will balloon to $5.8 billion. IDC's research found that public clouds are generally being built on simpler server hardware with a focus on energy efficiency, density, and cost control. The reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) for public clouds tends to be built into the software layer (through failover and virtualization). As a result, public cloud computing is a unit story with lower average selling values (ASVs) than an average x86-based server. IDC forecasts the number of servers shipped for deployment in public clouds will reach more than 1.2 million in 2015, representing a 2011-2015 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.1%. In contrast, private cloud systems are being built on higher-end hardware with more memory, I/O bandwidth, and advanced CPU capabilities. Private clouds are also more reliant on the hardware for their RAS capabilities. IDC expects more than 570,000 servers will be shipped for deployment into private clouds in 2015, representing a five-year CAGR of 22.4%. “Flying Blind in the Cloud,” an April 2010 study by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Symantec, found that a mere 20 percent of enterprises involve IT security in the cloud migration process and only 30 percent evaluate cloud services from a security perspective before deployment. In a recent SecurityWeek column, Marc Solomon of Sourcefire addresses some of the security challenges you need to take seriously before moving to the cloud, including Loss of Governance, Potential insecurity of shared infrastructure and Data Loss and Leakage.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (691)	7/8/2011 3:46:33 AM
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Cloud computing is entering companies with the momentum of a locomotive, writes CIO.com virtualization blogger Bernard Golden. Here, he shares the striking facts about cloud computing's present and future that he obtained while attending recent conferences on cloud computing... cio.com

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (691)	7/8/2011 7:08:16 AM
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EU plans US company cloud ban Rumour US makes our data protection laws a joke 08 Jul 2011 10:35 \| by Nick Farrell in Rome The dark satanic rumour mill is suggesting that the EU will ban cloud based services which are run by US companies. Our sources say that European commissions are incandescent with rage after discovering that the US intends to apply its Partriot Act to all cloud based services in Europe. Microsoft has already said that it will have to comply... Read more: techeye.net