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A company that makes a cloud management system is getting a $14 million investment from Intel and others, which it will use to hire new employees. Adaptive Computing intends to use this money to add “dozens” of people to its staff, which now number around 75 employees, said Michael Jackson, COO and president of the [...]

Embarcadero Technologies will release later this month upgraded development tools for Windows and PHP as part of its RAD Studio XE suite. With the suite, Embarcadero will make accommodations for deploying cloud applications and also expects to battle Zend Technologies in the PHP development space. Embarcadero will officially announce the suite on September 1. [ [...]

The VMforce cloud platform in development by VMware and Salesforce.com will be most useful for customers with existing Salesforce deployments, but can technically be used to build any Java application, a VMware official says. The VMforce collaboration — billed as “the first enterprise cloud for Java developers” — was announced in April, but the technology [...]

Canonical is offering enterprises a chance to try cloud computing via a virtual appliance that bundles Ubuntu Linux with the IBM DB2 Express-C database running on the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) public cloud platform. The free appliance, which features Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04, also can be deployed in private cloud configurations. [ See InfoWorld's [...]

WSO2 is debuting on Tuesday an enterprise open source cloud platform, WSO2 Stratos, for application deployments. Billed as a hosted platform-as-a-service offering, Stratos enables IT professionals to deploy applications and services on private or public clouds. Capabilities are featured for portal, enterprise service bus, and application server capabilities, WSO2 said. Identity management and governance are [...]

WSO2 will launch on Monday WSO2 Cloud Platform, for extending SOA into cloud computing. Available as of November 16, the platform features the company’s Cloud Virtual Machines; Cloud Connectors, for secure cloud services; and multi-tenant WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service. [ Last week, a Unisys executive let slip that cloud computing can save money by eliminating U.S. jobs. [...]