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Seems we are supposed to expect a line of servers called Cloudedge out of Dell this year that commoditizes species of the custom servers it makes for sites such as Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft Azure. They’d apparently go to folks who don’t buy in such bulk for private clouds and second-tier Internet companies, according to PC World. It’s thinking very energy-efficient and small but lacking redundancy so the user’s software will have to be able to work around failure. It’s also thinking of bundling them with VMware and Microsoft. They’d compete with IBM’s Idataplex, HP’s Extreme Scale-Out machines and SGI.

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gMap is a lightweight (only 2 KB in size) jQuery plugin that helps you easily embed Google maps in your web pages. gMap is very flexible, and you can customize it in many different ways by passing a JSON object (containing various custom properties) to the GMap() function.

You can specify location of your gMap object using longitude and latitude.  Additional features include ability to specify which controls you want, enable or disable zooming with mouse scroll-wheel , custom marker image, multiple markers, custom viewport position, and zoom.

Developed by Cedric Kastner; gMap jQuery Plugin is available for download under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.  You can find further information, demos & download on gMap Website.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that CSC, a provider of technology enabled business solutions and services, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, and SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo 2010 West, which will take place on November 1-3, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

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In the nascent years of Distributed Computing, a whole industry emerged; COTS. Off-the-shelf applications, or "commodity" programs became available.... Read more at VMblog.com.

Amazon’s EC2 and S3 have nothing to fear from Sun. Oracle says it’s going to blow the Amazon-aping Sun Open Cloud away. It doesn’t want to pursue the on-demand service, announced last March, a month before Oracle agreed to buy Sun, and promised for the summer, as a worldwide public cloud using OpenSolaris, Linux, Windows, Sun Grid Engine, ZFS, MySQL and Java running on Sparc and x86 blades complete with open APIs.

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