Sunday, April 25, 2010

Cloud news 4/19 - 4/23

Last week’s key industry highlights below. Several key stories:

• CenturyTel to Buy Qwest in $22.4B Deal
• Ingram: Cloud Computing Is Coming, Are You Ready?
• Cloud Communications Alliance Formed at Cloud Expo
• CSC Launches Unified Communications as a Service
• Salesforce buys Jigsaw.com for $142M and 10% earn-out
• DotNetPanel Codebase Revised, Posted As Open Source On SourceForge.NET
• The Planet Turns to KVM For Cloud Virtualization
• Microsoft SMB Partners Expect IT Spending Growth (full report attached)
• Also several quarterly earnings reports from at&t, Verizon, VMware, and Citrix