Savvis Broadens Cloud Footprint With Massive Data Center Expansion
Grazed from CRN. Author: Andrew R. Hickey.
Cloud provider Savvis will undergo a massive data center expansion in North America in the second half of 2011, a move the company said is designed to increase its footprint to fulfill the increasing demand in cloud computing infrastructure and services…
Hexagrid Certifies Software Partners for Cloud Delivery
Hexagrid Computing, a leading developer of cloud enablement solutions, announces a new Software Certification Program that tests and promotes certified software solutions within Hexagrid’s worldwide network of enterprise, service provider, and reseller cloud communities…
Accelerating Cloud Deployment at Home and Abroad
By fundamentally transforming the way computing power is bought, sold, and delivered, the cloud is proving itself to be truly transformative. Industry by industry, sector by sector, enterprises are reimagining their back offices and offering products and services to customers in new, highly efficient ways that create widespread benefits for the economy…
Vembu Acquires CloudNucleus, Virtualization Based Data Protection Firm
Chennai based Vembu Technologies which provides cloud based data backup and recovery solution to SMBs has acquired CloudNucleus, a Chennai based company.
The deal is a mix of equity and cash and the acquisition will help Vembu strengthen its offerings in the areas of business continuity/disaster recovery, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and Bare Metal Recovery (BMR).
Federating Firewalls in the Cloud
When it comes to the security of cloud computing, there’s obviously a lot to be concerned about. But for all the talk about cloud security there hasn’t been much discussion about how to actually make managing security in the cloud a whole lot easier…
Red Hat Broadens Global Cooperation With Amazon Web Services and SAP on the Cloud
Red Hat, Inc, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced support for SAP(R) solutions running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This complements today’s separate announcement Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with Support for SAP Business Applications Now Available.
"Today’s announcement fortifies Red Hat’s continued effort to provide customers flexibility in software deployment options and innovations in cloud computing," said Gus Robertson, vice president of business development at Red Hat. "Now customers have even more choice in procuring and provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux, now SAP-certified and recommended to run SAP applications."…
Tech Data Adds IBM Cloud Services, Products to TDCloud Offering
Tech Data Corp. said that it recently added IBM Corp.’s cloud computing services and equipment to its TDCloud portfolio for its base of channel partners.
The IBM cloud computing solutions span Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (Paas), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions…
Bitcasa: Cloud Storage Startup Seeks to Change the Game
It’s no secret that cloud computing is one of the biggest trends on the technology scene, and one that is profoundly affecting the open source arena. As more and more companies, organizations and individuals leverage the cloud for applications, data storage and more, they are also changing the way storage itself works. Just consider Amazon and the enormous amount of data that it deals with in the cloud via Amazon Web Services. There is a new startup making waves with a very different approach to cloud storage: Bitcasa. It claims to offer infinite storage for $10 a month, and it is getting noticed…
Managing cloud risks
Adopting cloud computing may save money, but how does it change risk? The cloud allows the procurement of IT services from both internal and external suppliers to be optimized because the services are delivered through the Internet in a standard way. The cloud is not a single model, but covers a wide spectrum from applications shared between multiple tenants to virtual servers used by one customer and hosted internally…
Veddio’s New Nebula Dashboard Gives MSPs Cloud Control
Veddio’s new Nebula(TM) dashboard delivers a unified view for Managed Service Providers (MSP) and Integrators to profitably provision and manage the cloud computing needs of their savvy business customers and it debuts this week at MSPWorld in Austin, TX, booth 1414…