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Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Apigee, the API company, today announced that KT Corporation (NYSE: KT), South Korea’s leading telecom company, has chosen the Apigee Enterprise API platform to deliver and manage the application programming interfaces (APIs) for KT’s ucloud public cloud service. KT (formerly Korea Telecom) adds to the growing list of global telecommunications organizations working with Apigee to expand their third-party application ecosystems, including AT&T, Telefonica and the Wholesale Application Community (WAC).

"KT’s ucloud is an affordable public cloud infrastructure for on-demand elastic computing with a wide variety of APIs to fuel the ucloud software ecosystem. We are thrilled to work with Korea’s largest landline operator and mobile service provider to help drive continued innovation around the ucloud platform through APIs," said Chet Kapoor, Apigee CEO…

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Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded an Army Private Cloud (APC2) contract by the U.S. Army. This contract will enable warfighters to have global access to information and allow the Army to achieve higher levels of computing efficiency, security and flexibility.

Northrop Grumman is one of five companies selected to compete for the fixed facility task order awards under the APC2 program. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract is valued at $249.8 million, collectively, over a one-year base period with four one-year options.

APC2 will be the Army’s preferred vehicle to consolidate data centers and establish private clouds to provide on-demand provisioning for storage and systems…

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The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) today announced the availability of five new usage models focused on security and infrastructure, and an overview document on identity management in the cloud. These user-driven requirements are based on the most pressing cloud computing challenges faced by Alliance member organizations. The Alliance also announced the first sponsors of Open Data Center Alliance Forecast 2012, an event designed for IT leaders to harness the latest developments on solution delivery for the expected 2012 ramp in cloud solution deployments. Held on June 12 in conjunction with the 10th International Cloud Expo in New York City, ODCA Forecast 2012 will bring together hundreds of members of the Alliance, industry experts and leading technology companies to showcase how ODCA usage model adoption can accelerate ROI for businesses deploying cloud solutions and services…

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author: Frank J. Ohlhorst.

Cloud computing is taking the business world by storm, despite the efforts of those looking to enforce data governance controls and maintain the integrity of IT operations. In many cases, shifting processes, applications and data to the cloud can be a smart business move. However, without due diligence and proper planning, businesses could be opening themselves to previously unforeseen threats.

Nevertheless, the seduction of cloud services proves to be something far too difficult to resist for business units seeking agility and speed, especially when internal IT balks at meeting the apparent needs of a business unit. The contention between internal IT and business units has led to an explosion of unmanaged clouds, which reach across corporate departments and outside of the view of internal IT–a situation that can be summed up as a recipe for disaster…

Grazed from MicroScope.co.uk.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Ian Moyse, recently appointed UK sales director at web-based CRM vendor Workbooks.com, shares his perspective on the cloud.

Cloud is the big ‘C’ word in the channel right now, posing ‘C’onflict, ‘C’onfusion and ‘C’hallenges to the status quo. The IT industry is a fast-paced, constantly evolving beast, and yet the extraordinary speed at which cloud computing has come to dominate the landscape has caught many by surprise. On reflection, few would deny it was the Zeitgeist for 2011 and it’s likely to remain a much discussed topic in 2012.

We are seeing a channel landscape where partners are reporting a number of concerns around selling cloud, the key ones I have heard cited being; "I don’t want vendors to sell direct", "The margins are too low", "Where do I make service revenues?", "How do I make the transition to a different billing and commercial model?", "I want to bill my customer and not have the vendor doing it"…

Grazed from Talkin Cloud.  Author: Joe Panettieri.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c, announced today, is designed to help customers manage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. The new release surfaces about two weeks before Oracle (ORCL) hosts a private analyst gathering at its Redwood Shores, Calif., headquarters. If history is any indication, Oracle President Mark Hurd (pictured) will offer a cloud computing strategy update at that closed-door gathering.

First, the details on Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c. Oracle says it’s designed to help customers and IT service providers that need to manage traditional, virtualized and cloud environments built atop Oracle solutions…

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NephoScale continues to enhance its cloud services line card with the addition of seven new cloud server plans and is making the cloud more affordable with price reductions of up to 50% on existing cloud services. NephoScale has reduced prices across its entire range of cloud-based services including cloud servers, cloud storage and data transfer. As one of the most competitive IaaS cloud vendors in the market today, this announcement further validates NephoScale’s ability to deliver flexibility and value in cloud computing…

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Transcend Computing, an innovator in Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) for public, private and hybrid cloud computing, today announced that it has exited stealth-mode with the beta launch of StackStudio and StackPlace, which are available now as a web-based service. Transcend Computing was formed to help developers, enterprises and managed service providers to capitalize on the momentum of Amazon Web Services.

StackStudio is a visual, drag-and-drop online development environment for assembling multi-tier application topologies using the Amazon CloudFormation format. Application stacks assembled with StackStudio are ready to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on other public and private ACE platforms…

Grazed from RealWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has been awarded certification as a Cisco Cloud Infrastructure Partner in Germany, reinforcing the strong partnership between the two companies in the data centre market. Cisco has confirmed that NextiraOne Germany has achieved significant levels of competence in the integration and operation of its data centre solutions.

This certification relates to NextiraOne’s expertise in unified computing systems (UCS), including for example the new M3 family, but also in MDS systems, Nexus Switches and in Wide Area Application Services (WAAS). "This achievement is very important to us and for our customers," commented Dr. Bernd Ruppert, CEO of NextiraOne Germany. "Both enterprises and cloud services providers can be sure with this certification that NextiraOne has the profound knowledge and expertise required to be able to implement Cisco cloud infrastructures."…

Grazed from ITWire.  Author: Beverley Head.

Analyst Gartner today released the results of its Executive Programmes 2012 CIO Agenda survey, and while cloud computing led the pack last year, this year it’s been relegated to number three on the technology priority list, behind mobile technologies and analytics and business intelligence. According to Gartner it’s the productivity implications of smartphones and tablets which are driving this surge of interest.

A year ago it was cloud computing which led the way internationally, with local and international CIOs ranking it the lead item they wanted to address.

In terms of business priorities local CIOs nominated attracting and retaining new customers, increasing enterprise growth and reducing enterprise costs as the top three issues on the agenda…