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Early stage.

Bromium says that now more than ever enterprise data faces security risks with the growth of new devices and application access as well as the increasing mobility within businesses. But cloud computing also leaves enterprise data and applications vulnerable to attack. Bromium’s technology promises to bring a more trustworthy computing infrastructure to enterprises who want to move to the cloud.

Enables companies to launch on-premise cloud infrastructure

Acquired by Citrix.

GigaOM article

OpenStack provides an open source cloud computing platform to create massively scalable public and private clouds. 

It was founded by Rackspace Cloud and NASA.

Cisco embraced OpenStack and as GigaOM states, is taking it a step further by contributing "Network as a Service" (NaaS) as a first-class OpenStack service on par with the computing and storage components that currently underpin the OpenStack platform. NaaS would give OpenStack developers the ability to easily create and manage virtual networks using simple APIs.

Virtualization management and monitoring software for the mid-market

In less than an hour, you can deploy a fully-functional network, applications, servers, storage arrays, and virtualized infrastructure.

Yahoo article

Agreed to acquired TriGeo for security, log and event management capabilities (see article)

VMware offers a suite of cloud computing services. They are also actively acquiring a suite of cloud-based enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities. vSphere is an overall operating system enabling companies to achieve datacenter virtualization.

Recent Launches:

Cloud Foundry is VMWare's strategic PaaS (Platform as a Service). It is open and supports multiple application development frameworks. It can be downloaded and run privately.

Horizon App Manager allows companies to manage security and access entitlements for employees to access cloud services, while keeping their passwords and entitlement directories behind the firewall. (Scobe video interview)

IT Management Acquisitions

Wavemaker : Allows non-expert developers to build web apps quickly and deploy them to the cloud (RC2, Rackspace, Eucalyptus or Opsource)

Digital Fuel : Financial Management for companies to measure ROI from their Cloud investments

Shavlik : cloud-based IT Managment for small end medium companies.

Collaboration and Productivity Acquisitions

Socialcast : Enterprise microblogging. Enables rapid discussions, town halls, questions.

Slide Rocket : Collaborative presentations. Powerpoint rebuilt for the web, with a shared slide library, live data from Google spreadsheets, Twitter feeds, and ether embedded widgets.

Mozy : Backup and storage in the cloud

Zimbra : Email server (like Microsoft Exchange) delivered as a cloud appliance