March 6, 2014
Attenda Limited, the Business Critical IT company, today announced that it is one of the UK service provider partners in the Equinix EMEA Cloud Ecosystem, providing its clients with direct access to an extended range of cloud services.
Equinix welcomes Attenda to its EMEA Cloud Platform Ecosystem
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Attenda Limited, the Business Critical IT company, today announced that it is one of the UK service provider partners in the Equinix EMEA Cloud Ecosystem, providing its clients with direct access to an extended range of cloud services. Platform Equinix enables Equinix to offer to its customers, and service providers like Attenda, who provide services delivered from within Equinix data centres, a range of connectivity options to deliver direct access to public cloud services, bypassing the Internet, to ensure increased performance, lower latency, increased security and higher availability.
For the second year in a row, 
Microsoft has begun giving a select group of federal customers the chance to put Microsoft’s new government-only cloud service through a series of private tests. "The processes, people, technology, and infrastructure are all in place. We want real-world test loads," for a shakedown cruise, said Greg Myers, VP of federal sales, in announcing the news Tuesday at Microsoft’s US Public Sector Federal Executive Forum in Washington.
SAP is introducing a set of new subscription pricing options for its Hana in-memory cloud computing platform, in a move that falls in step with the pay-as-you-go model common in the cloud computing industry. Customers were already able to bring their existing on-premises Hana in-memory database licenses to SAP’s infrastructure service.
Salesforce.com CFO Graham Smith couldn’t have picked a better time to leave the cloud computing giant, retiring at a time when a change of face at the CFO level probably wouldn’t make a major difference to investors. In its latest reported quarter, Adobe produced a large display of above-target financial numbers, demonstrated "stickiness" with all-time low attrition rates and soaring large enterprise deals, and continued to stoke interest in its new sales leadership and strategies with the recently-introduced Salesforce1 platform. Shares quickly rebounded from news of Smith’s retirement coupled with a wider GAAP loss.
Parallels is a vendor of hosting and cloud services enablement and cross-platform solutions for service providers. Established 14 years ago, Parallels offers a well-regarded software platform for its large service provider ecosystem and prides itself on its industry knowledge through Parallels Cloud University and consulting. The company’s annual Parallels Summit recently took place in New Orleans, ushering in the Mardi Gras season. No beads were thrown, but attendees were treated to a number of key messages. Here are some of the ones that stuck with me:
CipherPoint, the leader in data security solutions for structured and unstructured content in file sharing and collaboration platforms like Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft SharePoint Online, today announced its selection as the Most Innovative Cloud Security Solution of 2014 in Cyber Defense Magazine’s inaugural New InfoSec Technologies Awards.