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Market Close Report: NASDAQ Composite index closes at 3,502.12 up 5.69 points

Tuesday's session closes with the NASDAQ Composite Index at 3,502.12. The total shares traded for the NASDAQ was over 1.74 billion. Advancers stocks led declining by 1.08 to 1 ratio. There were [...]


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5/21/2013 4:10 PM ET
[BRIEFING.COM][BRIEFING.COM] Stocks ended modestly higher as the S&P 500 climbed 0.2%, and the Dow added 0.4% to register its 19th consecutive Tuesday of gains.

The major averages saw little change during morning action, but afternoon buying interest...

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  • 7:07 PM   VMware ([[VMW]], [[EMC]]) officially launches its vCloud Hybrid Service, which allows clients to pair on-premise workloads with a VMware-run public cloud infrastructure. VMware claims the service supports more than 90 OS', has high-availability options, and allows public and on-premise workloads to be jointly managed. VMware also says it will offer [[SAP]] software, including Hana, "as a subscription service on premise and in the cloud." vCloud Hybrid competes with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure (perhaps the most direct rival), and Rackspace's OpenStack offerings. ITWorld calls it "ideal for a significant set of enterprise applications," but adds it's "no Amazon killer," given AWS' focus on low cost and ease-of-use.
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