Astadia Flexes Cloud Computing Muscle

September 8th, 2009 SAN MATEO, California and LONDON - - Zach Nelson, CEO of Top-Ten ERP Vendor NetSuite, to Give Keynote at Business Cloud Seminar Series - London Event 'How Cloud Computing and Business Management Suites are Forever Changing the Way Companies Run Their Business' to be Anchored by Industry Analyst and C-Level NetSuite Customer Executives NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced the first event in the NetSuite Business Cloud Seminar Series.

July 19th, 2009 MADRID - Panda Security (www.pandasecurity.com), The Cloud Security Company, today announced the general availability of the Beta2 version of Panda Cloud Antivirus (www.cloudantivirus.com), the industry's first and only free, thin-client, cloud-based antivirus which halves the impact on computer performance compared with traditional antivirus products. Users can download this new version for free from www.cloudantivirus.com or visit the official developer blog at blog.cloudantivirus.com.

June 24th, 2009 DUBLIN - - Draws on Skilled Workforce to Grow Intelligent Software IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new investments for its Ireland Development Lab to produce intelligent software, which help lower cost of operations; generate intelligence for quick growth; and build closer business relationships with customers, partners and colleagues. New jobs will be created for high value software engineering work at the lab, which addresses real-world issues such as environment protection projects and maritime affairs.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - NTT Europe Online Report Finds While Cloud Computing is Not High Priority, Demand Remains Strong for Online Software and Service Delivery Among UK Enterprises Sixty-seven per cent of Chief Information Officers and Chief Financial Officers in UK enterprises say they are either not planning to adopt cloud computing (35 per cent) or are unsure (32 per cent) of whether their company will adopt cloud computing during the next two years, according to a major new report from managed hosting (www.ntteuropeonline.com/) specialists NTT Europe Online. NTT's 'Cloud or Fog?' (www.ntteuropeonline.com/cloud_computing.html) report, which polled 200 CIOs and CFOs at large UK businesses, found that decision makers placed cloud computing at the bottom of their top ten strategic investment priorities for the next 12 months.

May 31st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud 3.0 adds new ease-of-use, Java development and Sun Cloud support Today at the CommunityOne West conference, Vertica announced an upgrade to its Vertica(R) Analytic Database for the Cloud that brings all the new features of the recently announced Vertica 3.0 platform to cloud computing customers. The new version also adds improved Java development capabilities, support for Sun's forthcoming Sun Cloud, and a number of new ease-of-use and management features.

May 18th, 2009 SAUSALITO, California - Joyent is offering a special Cloud Computing promotion at Enterprise Cloud Summit and Interop 2009 In mid Q1 2009, Joyent introduced the Zeus Accelerator, bringing the powerful Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) and load balancing software solution to the Joyent Cloud. The addition of the Zeus virtual machine has been met with tremendous approval by our customers.

April 28th, 2009 GLENDALE, California - - Panda Cloud Antivirus introduces radically new protection model with lightweight thin-client agent and real-time scanning-from-the-cloud -- Community-based protection system automatically classifies new malware in under six minutes with 50 percent less impact on PC performance Panda Security (www.pandasecurity.com/), a leading provider of IT security solutions, today announced the global beta release of Panda Cloud Antivirus, the industry's first and only free cloud-based antivirus thin-client with 50 percent less impact on PC performance compared to the industry average. Consumers can download the free product from www.cloudantivirus.com.

April 21st, 2009 MILPITAS, California - Adaptec Works with VMware to Further Next-Generation Computing and Enable Customers to Benefit from the Cloud OS Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), a global leader in storage solutions and VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program member, today announced immediate support for VMware vSphere(TM).

April 6th, 2009 DALLAS and LONDON - New release supports multi-currency for international customers Astadia, the leader in Cloud Computing consulting, and one of salesforce.com's leading system integrators, announced today at salesforce.com's Cloudforce London event a new release of its Marketing Desktop(SM) product to support international salesforce.com customers. The product, a Marketing Resource Management (MRM) solution, enables marketing teams to effectively manage their marketing resources seamlessly with Salesforce CRM and provides transparency to all activities to optimize resource performance, while continually measuring key metrics and program level return on investment (ROI).

March 24th, 2009 HUERTH, Germany - A conclusion, which could already be drawn in the forefront of WebhostingDay 2009, was confirmed not later than on the second event day: the conference, which took place from March 18-20 near Cologne, Germany was the world-wide largest event for the web hosting industry so far. With about 2,000 visitors and 55 exhibitors, WebhostingDay defied the general bad economic climate and was able to gather the most important members of the leading IT and Telco companies from all over the world to do some social networking and to learn some industry news.

June 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A British cloud enthusiast has claimed to have discovered a new type of cloud. According to a report in National Geographic News, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, began getting photos of "dramatic" and "weird" clouds in 2005 that he didn't know how to define.

January 19th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The world's latest visual computing technology was Tuesday showcased at 'Visual Computing Seminar' here with leaders from the government, industrial and corporate communities learning more about revolutionary technology and seeing hands-on demos. NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technology, organised the seminar in association with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a global network of entrepreneurs and professionals and Hyderabad Software Exporters' Association (HYSEA).

October 8th, 2009 LONDON - A video of a missile fired by Iran has amazingly captured a UFO flying across the sky, splitting a cloud in two. The clip was originally intended to capture the controversial launch of the Shahab-3 rocket.

March 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Women in their eighties were unable to increase muscle mass even after a three-month weight lifting programme targeted at strengthening the thigh muscle, according to a new study. The results are surprising because previous studies have found that resistance training is capable of increasing muscle mass, even for people who are into their 70s.

June 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday expressed concern over the use of money and muscle power in elections and said these needed to be curbed. Speaking in parliament, he said: "The growing use of money power in elections, muscle power, these are developments which need to be tackled if we have to maintain the health of our democratic polity." He also urged everyone not to encourage groups and individuals who seek to divide the country in the name of religion and caste.

April 16th, 2009 SYDNEY - Damaged muscles often heal themselves within a week in most people, according to a discovery by researchers. Muscles are damaged when they are used as brakes, as in downhill walking, where leg muscles are forced to repeatedly contract against gravity.

May 8th, 2009 TORONTO - Does massage after exercise really improve blood flow to the muscle and remove lactic acid and other waste products from the body? The answer is no, and to the contrary massage actually impairs blood flow to the muscle after exercise. 'This dispels a common belief in the general public about the way in which massage is beneficial,' says kinesiology and health studies professor Michael Tschakovsky of Queen's University, where the study was carried out.

April 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Grasping a glass or throwing a baseball could be an arduous task for the arm with over 30 muscles working in tandem. But now, researchers have found that stimulating groups of muscles instead of individual muscles could make it easier to control the limbs.

March 3rd, 2009 TORONTO - Lack of use of muscles leads to their quick loss, says new Canadian research. Researchers at Toronto's York University say muscles shrink quickly when they are not used.

May 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have now shown that skin cells can be coaxed to behave like muscle cells and muscle cells like skin cells. The fickleness of the cells, and the relative ease with which they make the switch, provide a glimpse into the genetic reprogramming that must occur for a cell to become something it's not.