Google Channel Chief To Cloud VARs: ‘We Need You’
Cloud computing creates tremendous opportunities from the channel, and cloud vendors will rely heavily on the channel as the cloud drives a technological sea change, Google (NSDQ:GOOG) Enterprise Director of Channels and Business Development Stephen Cho said…
Next Generation Preps for Cloud Containers
Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: Rich Miller.
Can Wales become a destination for modular data centers? Next Generation Data (NGD) has prepared the top floor of its massive facility in Newport, Wales to house containerized data centers.
The 140,000 square foot space includes just four pillars, which NGD executives say has made it ideal for a major modular deployment, perhaps for a U.S. cloud computing provider seeking to add capacity in Europe. The new space spans one of the three floors at the 750,000 square foot NGD facility, with the other two floors housing traditional raised-floor data center space…
US cyber chief says cloud computing can manage serious cyber threats
Grazed from Network World. Author: Michael Cooney.
The security of cloud computing is often debated but such debates seem to be over for the general tasked with running the United States military’s cyber command, who sees the technology not only as way to rein in IT costs but a way to more easily protect IT assets…
As Internet grows, an ’empowering influence’
The Internet accounted for 21 percent of gross domestic product growth in the world’s largest economies over the last five years, according to a new McKinsey report…
Cloud and SaaS tipped for top in 2012 technologies
Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS) and virtualisation are tipped for big things in 2012…
Amazon Looks to Increase Presence in Financial Services Cloud
Most big financial services companies have been eager to tout their own private clouds, but only a few have made a large move to public cloud offerings, citing security and compliance concerns. However, Amazon Web Services, the division of Amazon that runs its cloud computing offering, has been making inroads in the highly regulated financial services industry…
Cloud-computing firm enStratus raises $3.5M
Cloud-computing startup enStratus Networks Inc. has raised $3.5 million in venture capital in a round led by El Dorado Ventures
Minneapolis-based enStratus will use the funding for product development and to expand its sales and marketing teams…
Best Buy Acquires Cloud Provider mindSHIFT
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Rich Miller.
The Geek Squad has a new question: Want some cloud storage with that virus cleanup? Electronics retailer Best Buy has reached an agreement to acquire managed services provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million, the company said today. Best Buy says the deal will help extend its growth in the small and mid-sized business IT services, which is a focus of mindSHIFT’s business…
US Government Hits the Road with Cloud Details
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 Announces Major New Version of its Leading Enterprise Cloud Solution
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…