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Metamarkets, a leader in Big Data analytics, today announced it has won the award for Best Cloud Application at the 2012 Cloud Computing World Series Awards. Judged by an independent panel of industry experts, the awards were presented to winners at the 4th Annual Cloud Computing World Forum on June 12, 2012, in Earl's Court, London. Now in its third year, the Cloud Computing World Series Awards are widely regarded as a benchmark for the best of the best in the cloud computing industry.

Metamarkets gives today's organizations a revolutionary solution that allows customers to discover insights across billions of records. Helping companies of all sizes measure campaign effectiveness, compare historical supply and demand with current inventory, and improve overall operational performance, Metamarkets' data science-as-a-service solution helps business users use data to make better decisions. Metamarkets natively leverages cloud architecture, providing elastic scaling, lower total cost of ownership, and crucially speed at scale...

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Broadview Networks, a leading provider of hosted voice, data and cloud computing solutions, announced today that it has won the B2B Customer Strategy Award in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards.

Broadview has been in the forefront of adopting cloud-based services to improve its customers' operations, and as a leader in the cloud-based IP phone solutions market, has extended their expertise to cloud computing. Their suite of cloud computing services offers fully-managed enterprise-grade hosted business applications and infrastructure tailored to make it easy-to-use for the small- and medium-sized business...

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Callidus Software Inc., the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist in the 2012 American Business Awards in the "Company of the Year - Computer Software." CallidusCloud's Sales Effectiveness Suite was named a finalist in the "Best New Product or Service - Software - Cloud Application/Service" and "Best New Product or Service - Software - Financial Management Solution" categories, and CallidusCloud's website was named a finalist in the "Best Website - Computer Software" category.

"We are honored to be recognized in multiple categories at the 2012 American Business Awards," said Leslie Stretch, President and CEO, CallidusCloud. "We now have the broadest family of cloud-based, social selling products that will revolutionize sales by tapping into the competitiveness inherent to sales people, while fostering a culture of cooperative, collaborative and social selling. Our products help break down legacy silos to bring sales processes together as never before to truly unlock the potential of the sales team and drive performance against business objectives. This recognition reflects the value that our solutions bring to our customers and the commitment we have made to their success. I congratulate every member of the CallidusCloud family on this fantastic achievement."...

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Corent Technology, Inc., a disrupting innovator in the Cloud Computing space, announced that its key product - Corent multi-tenant Server(TM) - has been named a finalist in the Cloud Computing/Software as a Service (SaaS) category for the 2012 TechAmerica Foundation American Technology Awards. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner to be held on June 13, 2012 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.

"The caliber of this year's nominees was incredible. Our judges had their work cut out for them," said Jennifer Kerber, President of the TechAmerica Foundation. "We congratulate Corent Technology for their outstanding work and thank them for their contribution to the growth and innovation in the tech industry."...

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This evening's annual Codie awards for business software features a three-way tie in cloud computing, with Google, Keynote Systems, and Scribe Software all winning in the Best Cloud Application/Service category.

Given out by the Software & Information Industry Association, awards are intended to recognize "industry excellence," SIIA said. Award winners are being announced at an SIAA event in San Francisco. Categories range from Best Asset Management Solution, won by Flexera Software with its FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises, to Best Security Solution, won by Venafi Director, and Best Web Services Solution, awarded to Dell Boomi for its Atomsphere product...

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KineticD™, known for its cloud backup and data recovery services for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that Network Products Guide, industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named KineticCloud™ Backup a winner of the 7th Annual 2012 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards for Cloud Computing/SaaS. These industry and peer recognitions from Network Products Guide are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners from all over the world were honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 during the 7th annual dinner and presentations.

KineticCloud Backup provides SMBs with the latest data backup and recovery technology. Specifically designed to ensure optimized data protection for PCs, Macs, servers and databases, KineticCloud completely automates tedious administrative tasks by simplifying management of backup software and schedules across all systems and business locations...

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Cloud industry network EuroCloud UK (http://eurocloud.org.uk/) is aiming to highlight cloud computing's contribution to European economic growth with the launch this week of its Awards and a special event for cloud startups later this month.

Both link into Europe-wide initiatives being organised by EuroCloud across the continent. Winners of the UK Awards, to be announced in July, will go forward to compete to win the European contest in Luxembourg in October.

The UK's cloud start-up event on May 23rd is part of an event held simultaneously in 10 European countries. Attendees at every venue will view keynotes from Neelie Kroes European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda; Rainer Zinow, SVP On-Demand Strategy at SAP; and Forrest Lin of the Chinese Institute of Electronics. Local sessions will take place in between the shared keynote webcasts...

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Corent Technology, Inc., a disrupting innovator in the cloud computing space, announced that its key product - Corent Multi-tenant Server(TM) - has been named a finalist for the most innovative cloud computing product/technology in the TechAmerica Orange County High-Tech Innovation Awards. Now in its 19th year, this premier business event celebrates excellence and achievement in the region's technology industry, and honors local companies, individuals and products that drive innovation in Orange County.

"The technology community in Orange County are producing breakthroughs that advance cloud computing, e-commerce, medical device, hardware, software and telecommunications solutions around the world," said Bob Brunson, director of TechAmerica in Orange County. "As a strong indicator that the local technology economy is flourishing, we received nearly 100 nominations, including many from companies new to the competition. We congratulate all of the finalists and look forward to celebrating their achievements at the awards dinner."...

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Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, has been named one of the 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors for 2012 by Everything Channel's CRN. For the second year in a row, Wyse has been named as a cool cloud vendor for its portfolio of thin, zero and cloud PC client solutions coupled with its infrastructure management, desktop virtualization and cloud software to support desktops, laptops and mobile devices. The comprehensive list highlights the most innovative cloud vendors and solutions for the channel -- including storage cloud offerings, security cloud offerings, cloud apps, cloud infrastructure and cloud platforms to assist solution providers in navigating the cloud phenomena successfully.

"This year's Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors list is based on a cloud vendor's approach to creating an innovative product, or an innovative approach to supporting solution providers in the IT channel," said Kelley Damore, Vice President and Editorial Director CRN. "Specifically, these Cloud vendors help resellers transform themselves into true service providers and help organizations and enterprises take advantage of the ease, flexibility, scalability, elasticity and cost savings that leveraging cloud computing has to offer."...