Here is a roundup of a few select news items from today.

Read story – Active Power gets $10 million dollar flywheel order. Speculation says that Yahoo is the customer.

Read story – Mergers and Acquisitions in the data center market generated $12.3 billion in deal value in 2011.

Read story – Cloud computing lifts Hewlett-Packard stock to $42.

Read story – From the Consumer Electronics Show: Acer, Lenovo vie for a piece of the cloud.

Read story – Cloud computing workers wanted. A business intelligence firm claims more than 10,000 jobs requiring cloud computing skills were posted in the last three months.

Read story – Skytap announces the launch of over 1 million virtual machines.

Read story – New cloud computing jobs for 2012.

Read story – Cloud security breach inevitable as businesses underestimate security due diligence.

Read story – (Super)computing On the Cloud.

Read story – Cloud computing ‘to become more prominent in 2012’.