Category: News

Grazed from FinancialPost. Author: Editorial Staff.

Business software company Open Text is buying cloud-technology provider GXS Group in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $1.17 billion. Open Text, based in Waterloo, Ont., will pay about $1.07 billion in cash and $100 million of its stock. When the deal closes, part of the cash portion of the purchase price will be used to repay some GXS debt.

GXS stockholders are expected to own about 2.1% to 2.4% of Open Text’s stock once the acquisition is complete. The company said the deal will expand OpenText’s information exchange and cloud service offerings, and expects the merged business will serve more than 80,000 customers once the transaction closes…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Antony Savas.

Apptio has unveiled a cloud-based system that allows enterprises to measure their IT costs and automatically compare them against industry peers. Apptio’s software-as-a-service (SaaS)system uses a combination of third-party benchmarking data from more than 3,000 organisations and its own anonymised customer service data.

Apptio’s new Cost Transparency solution automates the measurement of IT costs using the same categories and methods as its new IT Benchmarking solution, allowing customers to make direct annual or ongoing comparisons of costs against their industry peers…

Grazed from RedHat. Author: PR Announcement.

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the company, as one of the headline sponsors for this year’s OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, will be sharing updates on its OpenStack contributions, and how Red Hat aims to be a bridge for OpenStack to grow from a project to enterprise-grade product. Held at the AsiaWorldExpo, the OpenStack Summit brings together some of the industry’s leading technical minds to discuss the future of OpenStack and cloud computing.

The four day summit will feature keynote sessions by headline sponsors, break out sessions and demonstrations. Mark McLoughlin, consulting engineer, Red Hat, who is a member of OpenStack’s technical committee and the OpenStack Foundation’s board of directors, will also be a keynote speaker at the summit. McLoughlin’s keynote will happen on November 6, Wednesday, 9:45 am – 10:15 am (HKT)…

Grazed from Broadcom. Author: PR Announcement.

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today launched the first Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Controller to integrate a management controller with a high-performance network controller. The Broadcom BCM5725 device delivers a streamlined, power-efficient and robust Ethernet and manageability solution ideally suited for large data center and cloud environments. Visit www.broadcom.com to learn more.

As companies deploy public and private cloud environments, they require scalable, cost- and energy-efficient architectures that can support today’s cloud computing demands. The BCM5725 device replaces three separate components from existing server designs–including the baseboard management controller, GbE controller and system management firmware. With the BCM5725 device, Broadcom is delivering a configurable systems management solution to scale out new servers for high-performance cloud computing applications…

Grazed from WindowsITPro. Author: Pete Thurrott.

As we move more and more of our data and computing infrastructure into the cloud, the primary concern in many ways moves from technical concerns around performance, functionality, and the like to something more basic, even primal: trust. And when it comes to the cloud, it’s all about trust.

Oddly enough, trust might be a Microsoft strong point moving forward, especially when you consider that 58 percent of the firm’s revenues currently come from its enterprise customers. Those customers don’t just occupy the pole position in Microsoft’s customer list. They represent its primary growth opportunity as the company moves forward into its devices and services future…

Grazed from Investors.com. Author: Pete Barlas.

Twitter will get the attention this week, but the cloud will continue as an IPO rainmaker. Cloud companies are dominating tech initial public offerings in numbers and performance, even as Twitter gets set to make its much-anticipated IPO, likely this week. Meanwhile, trends continue to favor vendors that provide software that resides on the Internet cloud and is available for quick access as needed.

Cloud computing is fueling the growth of scores of startups that are challenging software giants Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL), IBM (IBM), SAP (SAP) and others that have been slow to adopt the platform. Companies with business models steeped in cloud-based computing accounted for the biggest share — 15 of 40, or 37.5% — of all tech-related initial public offerings in the 12 months ended on Sept. 30, says PricewaterhouseCoopers, in research produced for IBD. That’s up from 10 of 39, or 25.6%, in the year-earlier period…

Grazed from WhaTech. Author: Joe Austin.

Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider since 1986, today announced selection by ChannelPro Magazine as a 2013 All-Star technology vendor. All-Star vendors, distributors, and membership organizations were selected by ChannelPro Magazine readers as the most partner-friendly in the channel today.

The ChannelPro All-Stars is a professional guide created by the channel for the channel to serve clients in the computing marketplace. Comprised of vendors, professional associations, and distributors, the All-Stars guide highlights the partners ChannelPro readers go to for IT solutions and business development programs to help them thrive in today’s fast-paced business environment…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Web hosting and cloud services provider DreamHost has updated its OpenStack-based public cloud offering with the newly released Havana version. The DreamCompute beta is one of the first of many Havana-based public clouds to make it out of the gate.

With the integration of OpenStack Havana, DreamHost is now offering continuous integration and deployment for packaging and rolling out the latest open source cloud computing platform’s features, which include new security functionality. DreamHost plans to keep on top of OpenStack releases, upgrading its public cloud computing offering as new versions are launched…

Grazed from Channelnomics. Author: Larry Walsh.

Sophos Ltd.’s ascension to cloud computing aims to let solution providers offer cloud-based security services that complement or replace, but not compromise, legacy software and infrastructure investments. Unveiled last week, Sophos Cloud will offer endpoint security services in which solution providers and end users can buy and manage protection for PCs and mobile devices through a cloud-based portal. The goal is to simplify the deployment and management processes, resulting in enhanced protection.

“Cloud vendors have disrupted the channel with the cloud model. We’ve been careful as a channel-first company that when we go to the cloud, we do it in a channel-first manner,” said Bill Lucchini, general manager of Sophos’s Cloud Group…