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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…
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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?…
Grazed from The Drum. Author: Editorial Staff.
Almost three quarters of IT managers in the UK believe that cloud computing is not relevant to their business, according to new research.
Research carried out by global risk consultancy Protiviti, contacting 100 IT managers across the UK, found that 74% felt that cloud computing was not relevant to their business and that 8% who were using it, were only doing so for one or two services…
Blue-chip companies could reduce their carbon emissions by 50% if they migrate their data storage operations to the cloud, a new study says.
The study conducted by the Carbon Disclosure Project in London focussed on large IT companies in France and the UK and found that they could achieve large cost savings and carbon reductions by 2020 if they moved their IT systems to shared data networks…
Cloud-based solutions and virtualisation are among the top technologies tipped to take off in 2012, according to Quest Software, amid increasing demand for mobility and collaboration…
Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, is expanding its cloud-computing sales to the U.S. government, joining Google and Microsoft in seeking federal orders for Web-based services…