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Investor’s Business Daily - The provider of Internet telecom services partnered with Virtual Computing Environment to speed up deployment of its cloud-computing services. VCE was formed by Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO - News) and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC - News) and is making its VBlock platform available to 8×8 (NASDAQ:EGHT - News) to help it accelerate its cloud-based products. With VBlock’s help, 8×8 will pursue larger enterprise and gov’t clients. 8×8 leapt 9.9% to 5.

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carstene writes “LaserMotive, winners of the 2009 NASA power beaming contest, has a new invention, a virtual comm or surveillance tower. It’s a quadcotper that can run indefinitely, powered by laser beam over a fiber optic cable. This allows the “tower” to reach great heights and avoids most laser safety issues.”

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holy_calamity writes “Cisco’s Cius tablet, due next month, is bulkier than the iPad 2 and has a smaller screen but it also

brings tricks other tablets don’t have. It can be connected to a keyboard, monitor and mouse to act like a desktop. Using an app to connect to a virtual desktop replicates a full PC experience, Cisco claims. The Cius also encrypts all data and is easily controlled by IT managers, who can control access to apps and other features.”

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Many of us are familiar with StarWind Software for the work they’ve been doing with delivering a free iSCSI SAN solution and their software for… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Oracle said Wednesday morning that it’s buying Pillar Data Systems, a 10-year-old storage house that belongs mostly to Oracle chief Larry Ellison.
It’s like the way Sun used to buy companies that belonged to founder Andy Bechtolsheim. That’s how Sun came by OpenOffice.
Oracle says the Pillar deal was cut by an independent committee of its board and is structured as a 100% earn-out with no upfront payment. The acquisition should close in July and whatever Oracle winds up paying is supposed to be immaterial.
Pillar makes highly scalable ZFS-based Axiom SAN Block I/O storage systems. Buying it is supposed to help flesh out the storage line Oracle got with Sun.

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DataCore Software, the industry’s premier provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that it has partnered with Alliance Solutions, Read more at VMblog.com.

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This week, AppHarbor announced an add-on API that will provide a self-service portal for third-party service providers. This new release lets… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Citrix Systems today announced an investment in Graymatics, a stealth mode company that is developing a highly scalable cloud platform for… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Zenoss, Inc. a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure today announced that Bill Karpovich,… Read more at VMblog.com.

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