May 11, 2011 Off

NoMachine and Deltaeffe Collaborate to Offer Hosted Desktops to Schools in the Cloud

By David
Grazed from OpenPR.  Author: PR Announcement.

NoMachine, award-winning provider of virtual desktop and application delivery software, and Deltaeffe, a leading service provider and supplier of innovative technologies, today announced a partnership that will feature NX as part of Deltaeffe’s Scuola Virtuale offering, or "Virtual School", allowing Italian schools to easily deploy and manage hosted virtual Linux desktops and applications in the cloud.

May 11, 2011 Off

Software-as-a-service company working in NZ changes its name

By David
Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: Editorial Staff.

A software-as-a-service company which provides services for New Zealand and other countries around the world has changed its name this week.

StepStone Solutions, which provides software-as-a-service solutions in talent acquisition and talent management, will be known as Lumesse from today, Tuesday, 10 May, the Grapevine Online reported.

The rebranding has been sparked by rapid growth in the company, which now has around 1,700 clients, including Heineken, PSA, Peugeot Citroen and Virgin Atlantic.

May 10, 2011 Off

BT to become a public sector network service provider

By David
Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Cliff Saran.

BT Wholesale is set to become a key supplier to Government Conveyance Network (GCN) services which will interconnect the Cabinet Office’s Public Sector Network (PSN) programme.

The GCN will be one of the enablers for shared services, cloud-based services and datacentre rationalisation, which will deliver benefits to the public sector while reducing cost and complexity.

According to a survey conducted by Cisco, the PSN could cut government IT costs by over 6%.

May 10, 2011 Off

Understanding Application Workloads Is the Key to Cloud Computing

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

Time again, when the discussion turns to whether cloud computing is a worthwhile endeavor, the conversation usually ends with it all depending on the type of application workload involved.

Unfortunately, that’s not much in the way of practical help, so the folks at CiRBA have come up with the Data Center Intelligence Tool, an analytics application that allows IT organizations to analyze the nature of any application workload and the systems required to support it.

May 10, 2011 Off

Citrix CEO: We’re Moving From the PC Era to the Cloud Era

By David
Grazed from Server Watch.   Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

Apple isn’t the only vendor that thinks we’re moving into the post-PC era. Citrix CEO Mark Templeton took the keynote stage at the Interop conference today detailing his vision of the post-PC era.