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There has been a lot of cloud computing provider activity in the last few days. Here is a summary of the latest from Amazon, IBM, Oracle, and Nasuni, a cloud storage startup. Plus, there are new partnerships between Eucalyptus and Terracotta, TIBCO and COLT, as well as, CA and NetApp.

Amazon Web Services rolled out a new, easy to use and helpful feature: New AWS Feature: Consolidated Billing They also announced a new feature for Amazon S3: Object Versioning.

IBM launched its cloud computing platform for the academic community. Initially targeting 20 colleges, with more to come later, IBM explained, "The new cloud will provide academia an opportunity to use IBM software at no charge without having to install and maintain it themselves."

Oracle, ever the changeling when it comes to cloud computing, has once again turned a corner by announcing a 50-city roadshow across the globe promising how attendees how they can learn to "break through the haze around cloud computing" with Oracle. Well, the about-face didn't take long...

Nausuni, a cloud computing startup, launched the public beta of its "advanced virtual file server provisioned by the cloud."

Eucalyptus Systems, an open source private cloud platform, and Terracotta, which makes software to improve the performance of Java applications, announced a partnership "to provide enterprises with an open source solution that maximizes data scalability and application performance in a private cloud environment."

TIBCO Software and COLT, a European provider of data, voice and managed services, announced that COLT "has selected TIBCO's cloud software to provide organizations throughout Europe with the ability to deploy and manage enterprise applications across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures in real-time."

CA and NetApp announced a partnership to help enterprise customers and service providers build public and private cloud computing infrastructure. The companies will integrate "CA’s virtualization, automation and service assurance offerings with NetApp’s storage management solutions."