Red Hat to Buy Gluster for $136 Million Expanding in Cloud Computing
Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Niamh Ring.
Red Hat Inc. (RHT), a provider of open source software and services, agreed to acquire closely held Gluster Inc. for about $136 million in cash to expand in Internet-based computing.
Red Hat’s third-quarter and full-year fiscal 2012 earnings forecast aren’t changed by the deal, the Raleigh, North Carolina-based company said in a statement today. Integrating Gluster may make Red Hat’s fiscal 2013 operating margin excluding some items 150 basis points lower than fiscal 2012…
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ServiceMesh to Deliver Policy-Driven Cloud Security
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Cloud security consistently ranks as a primary concern in the adoption of cloud computing for enterprise customers. Unfortunately, most cloud management products require manual configuration of multiple security systems to provide end-to-end cloud security. This significantly reduces the core benefits of cloud computing’s rapid provisioning and lower operating costs…
Survey says that Cloud computing disappoints early adopters
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Being Smart about Cloud Security
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Oracle updates Enterprise Manager for the cloud computing era
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ADP Launches Just One Cloud-based Enterprise HR Portal
First and foremost, ADP has always been a data services provider, processing payroll information for corporations, and later adding human resources and tax services. You’d think, in the era of massive corporate data centers, these services might have already become antiquated. But it’s the handling of that data that’s been part of ADP’s value proposition. It is perhaps the original data management outsourcing specialist…
Node4 brings total flexibility to businesses with new cloud computing service offering
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