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Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Start-ups in the Cloud ?? Challenges and Opportunities

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Saturday, June 12, 2010 -- Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Start-ups in the Cloud  Challenges and Opportunities. The global cloud computing market is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion by 2012, according to IBM based on various market estimates.

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Eucalyptus Snags MySQL CEO

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Eucalpytus develops open source, cloud software used to manage cloud deployment, and is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. Mickos was CEO of MySQL for seven years, and headed up the firm until its acquisition by Sun Microsystems--for $1 billion--in 2008.

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CloudBasic Launches Cloud Development Tools

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According to CloudBasic, its product allows nontechnical users to create cloud-based applications using familiar, C# and VB.NET scripting, Excel-type formulas, and SQL to create enterprise applications. The firm said it was founded in 2008. Tags: cloudbasic cloud computing software development excel. READ MORE>>.

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Eucalyptus Adds Windows VM Support

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Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , which develops open source, cloud management software, said today that it has launched the latest version of its Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) software with support for Windows virtual machines. Tags: windows enterprise cloud source open systems eucalyptus. READ MORE>>.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. Explain what Kazuhm does? They had probably 20 or 30.

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Interview with Kian Saneii, Independa

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One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. Cloud computing is also very important. What's the story behind the company?

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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“As voice API, voice broadcast and text messaging technology advances and cloud computing becomes increasingly sophisticated, more and more business – across all core market sectors — are discovering why cloud telephony is the future,” said Dinesh Ravishanker, CEO and co-founder, CallFire.