Category: News

A new survey of Texas voters shows strong agreement on the need to cut government spending at the state and local levels by leveraging new technologies, including Cloud computing, to reduce overhead. The survey, released today by Bluetext, found strong support for political candidates who find ways to cut spending, with more than three in four voters saying that using Cloud Computing to reduce spending is a good idea. Nearly nine-in-ten Texas voters say it is important for state and local government leaders to realize cost savings through better use of technology across agencies…

Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and services, and NavLink, a provider and enabler of managed Information Communication Technology (ICT), enterprise networking and cloud services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), today announced a two-pronged partnership: NavLink will deliver cloud services based on SmartDataCenter directly to its enterprise customers in the EMEA region from its data center in Nice, France, and the company will license Joyent’s cloud infrastructure platform to telecom operators and service providers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to enable them to offer cloud services to their customers…

Arista Networks, the cloud networking company today surpassed a major customer milestone with the announcement of 1000 customers in only three years. The widespread deployment of Arista EOS software and data center switches have resulted in significant momentum among leading global technology companies such as Verizon, MIXI, Chicago Board Options Exchange, SingTel and StumbleUpon…

Attunity Ltd. (OTC BB: ATTUF.OB), a leading provider of real-time data integration software, announced today that Attunity Replicate, its innovative data replication software with ‘click-2-replicate’ design, now supports loading data to Microsoft SQL Azure, helping organizations to capitalize on the value of cloud computing with the Windows Azure Platform. Attunity will present Attunity Replicate with support for SQL Azure at the PASS Summit, the premier conference for SQL Server professionals, October 11-14, in Seattle, WA…

The Homeland Security Department has aggressively embraced cloud computing, said DHS Chief Information Officer Richard Spires before an Oct. 6 House panel.

The department has identified 12 cloud services it has either already stood up or plans to do so over the next 24 months, Spires told the House Homeland Security subcommittee on cybersecurity, infrastructure protection and security technologies…

International Integrated Solutions, Ltd. (IIS), a leading provider of mission critical, highly available infrastructure solutions, announced the opening of its HP Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). HP Cloud Centers of Excellence enable clients to gain firsthand knowledge of, and directly experience, the benefits of cloud computing technologies such as accelerated service delivery and operational efficiency…

A study has found that nearly one in three small and medium enterprises (SMEs) plan to use cloud computing in the next year, more than for any other emerging technology.

CompTIA, an IT industry non-profit trade association, surveyed 400 IT and business professionals in UK SMEs about their views on emerging technologies…

For years, the dominant animation studios like Pixar and DreamWorks Animation made their cinematic magic via expensive computers that ran in data centers at the studios. Now the rise of cloud computing, which enables anyone to buy computer power on demand, is allowing smaller, independent animation firms to produce very slick work…

Researchers from North Carolina State University and IBM are claiming a major breakthrough in the way cloud computing architectures protect sensitive information.

They have developed a new, experimental technique to isolate sensitive information and workload from the rest of the functions performed by a hypervisor – without, they claim, significantly affecting the system’s overall performance…