Going for Gold in the Olympic IT Infrastructure Event
Going for Gold in the Olympic IT Infrastructure Event
The countdown is on – we’re less than a month away from the London Olympics. While many are getting excited to watch their countries compete, there’s a group of people outside of the Games that are getting ready for their own competition of sorts. Nope, it has nothing to do with swimming or gymnastics, this new event is called the Internet crawl. Who’s competing? Anyone that has a business or is does business in London, whose cash flow relies heavily on Internet transactions. Thankfully, for this event multiple companies can share the podium. All they have to do to achieve gold is figure out a way to avoid having their services go down.
Think about this: Over 20 million tickets have already been sold for the Games. On top of that, there will be thousands upon thousands of world news and sports media in attendance. Combined, that equals a massive amount of smartphones, tablets and laptops churning out tweets and posting pictures, over and above the massive data volumes already generated daily by citizens of the U.K.
Google revealed its long-rumored device today — a 7-inch Nexus tablet running Android’s newest operating system flavor, 4.1 Jelly Bean. The pint-sized slate — which the company showed off at its annual Google I/O keynote event — is manufactured by Asus, known for making other Android tablets including the Transformer and the Transformer Prime.
Piston Cloud Computing announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Gridcentric, a virtualization optimization company, to include Gridcentric’s Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) technology in Piston Enterprise OS, which will support Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The exclusive licensing agreement assists enterprises in delivering secure, low-cost virtual desktops without complexity, according to Piston Cloud.
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Peak Positioning Technologies Inc. ("Peak") and its Chinese partner, LongKey-Hong Kong Ltd. ("LongKey") today announced the commercial release of their second-generation AiNi(TM) (Access Information Networks Instantly) Mobile Cloud Platform for smartphones, tablets and other mobile computing devices.
Avago Technologies AVGO +1.34% , a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, today announced the availability of production volumes of 120 Gbps multichannel optical transmitter and receiver modules for "inside-the-box" data-center applications and a CXP pluggable transceiver for board-edge "box-to-box" and "rack-to-rack" communications.
As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) goal of shifting up to 80 percent of its computing environment to the cloud by 2015, the EPA Office of Environmental Information has awarded CGI Federal Inc. (CGI), a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc. GIB 0.00% CA:GIB.A -0.17% a three-year, US$15 million contract. The contract was awarded under the GSA Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) BPA, through which CGI is accredited to deliver certified, secure government cloud services.
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