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Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS) and virtualisation are tipped for big things in 2012…
Most big financial services companies have been eager to tout their own private clouds, but only a few have made a large move to public cloud offerings, citing security and compliance concerns. However, Amazon Web Services, the division of Amazon that runs its cloud computing offering, has been making inroads in the highly regulated financial services industry…
Cloud-computing startup enStratus Networks Inc. has raised $3.5 million in venture capital in a round led by El Dorado Ventures
Minneapolis-based enStratus will use the funding for product development and to expand its sales and marketing teams…
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Rich Miller.
The Geek Squad has a new question: Want some cloud storage with that virus cleanup? Electronics retailer Best Buy has reached an agreement to acquire managed services provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million, the company said today. Best Buy says the deal will help extend its growth in the small and mid-sized business IT services, which is a focus of mindSHIFT’s business…
With the UK government’s G-Cloud ambitions now public, there’s more activity across the pond where the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the first two volumes of a draft ‘roadmap’ for Cloud Computing…
Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud software company, today announced a major release of its award-winning software solution, which allows customers to build and manage global, robust, fully automated and governed self-service clouds. Version 2.0 will be demonstrated live at Abiquo’s booth at the Ninth International Cloud Computing Expo, which opens today at the Santa Clara Convention Center…
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced a technology partnership with Securisea, a leading Internet security consultancy specializing in cloud security and compliance. Focused on implementation and engineering for private cloud deployments, the partnership gives Piston Cloud customers access to Securisea’s consulting and implementation services for meeting complex information security challenges…
McAfee, an industry leader in cloud computing security, today announced its latest enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform. As the industry’s only single content-aware platform it secures all primary channels of traffic — email, web and authentication — moving between an organization and the Cloud to help organizations safely and efficiently take advantage of Cloud-based services and solutions. The Platform can be deployed as an on-premise appliance, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or a hybrid combination…
GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced its participation as a silver sponsor at Sys-Con’s 9th International Cloud Expo West Conference, the largest cloud computing event in the world, being held November 7- 10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif. Supporting multiple sessions in the event’s main agenda, GoGrid CEO, Warren Heffelfinger, CMO, Jeff Samuels and CIO, Mark Worsey are scheduled to present their perspectives on cloud computing infrastructure strategies based on their decade-long experience and industry leadership in Infrastructure Hosting and Cloud Computing…
Thinking about the cloud? Wondering what the heck it is? Want to know what your options are? Where do you start?
We are on the cusp of a transformative change in how we deliver services in the data center – cloud computing. Cloud computing as a term, has been around for quite a few years with a lot of hype and buzz, but its definition and terms related to it have been used to mean different things to different people. So what do I mean when am I talking about cloud computing?…