CA launches cloud product barrage: Can it boost growth?
CA on Wednesday stepped up its cloud computing push with a series of products designed to automate and manage data centers and allow customers to easily swap between various providers.
The initiative, dubbed cloud choice, revolves around deploying, planning, designing and delivering public and private cloud services…
Cloud Sherpas Buys Google Apps Cloud Services Provider in New Zealand
Cloud Sherpas has acquired a Google Apps reseller and cloud service provider (CSP) in New Zealand as part of a strategy to dramatically expand its business in the Asia-Pacific region. WaveAdept, based in Wellington, is the third company acquired by Cloud Sherpas, a top Google Apps partner, in the past six weeks. To cement its commitment to helping Asia-Pacific clients go Google, Cloud Sherpas has opened an office in Sydney, Australia…
Former NASA CTO Launches Nebula For Web-Scale Private Clouds
Large Internet companies such as Facebook and Google have each built their own private cloud computing infrastructure to save money and increase speed and efficiency. A new start-up, Nebula, founded by former NASA CTO Chris Kemp is providing open source-based technology so that any company can build its own private cloud computing system like those Internet giants…
DNA Sent to the Cloud
China-based DNA-sequencing giant BGI announced this month that it will take its business to the cloud, harnessing the power of a network of computers to analyze massive quantities of sequence data from clients around the world, reports Nature…
World Wide Technology Achieves Cloud Builder Certification from Cisco Systems
World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a market-leading systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions, announced today it has received Cloud Builder certification from Cisco. The Cloud Builder certification recognizes partners who design and implement cloud-ready infrastructures or fully provisioned private or public clouds. The designation validates WWT’s competency in three aspects of building clouds: Infrastructure, Management Applications and Cloud Professional Services…
Moving on from Cloud’s Trough of Disillusionment
Recent conversations with suppliers in the Cloud industry suggest that we’re currently experiencing the Trough of Disillusionment for Cloud Computing.
Hosting providers haven’t experienced customers beating down their door to buy Cloud hosting, and they’re giving up on the trend.
Does this mean that it is all just purely hype, with no substance?
Dell Launches OpenStack Cloud Platform Solution
OpenStack is getting a big vote of confidence from Dell.
Cloud and the next American century.
With the UK government yet to produce its own Cloud Computing national strategy, the Americans have been setting yet another example to follow with the publication of new guidelines on the potential of Cloud and how to procure services.
The Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in US Deployment of the Cloud (or Cloud2), a foundation composed of figures from the Cloud market including Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and VCE CEO Michael Capellas, has presented the federal government with a Cloud Computing roadmap.
All of GSA’s e-mail now in Google cloud
The General Services Administration has successfully migrated 17,000 e-mail users to Google Apps for Government, a secure cloud-based e-mail and collaboration platform, according to GSA Administrator Martha Johnson.
“It’s official! The U.S. General Services Administration is the first federal agency to successfully migrate its employees to a cloud-based e-mail service using Google Apps for Government,” Johnson wrote in a blog.
Avnet Launches Cloud Workshops, Assessments For End Users
Avnet (NYSE:AVT) Technology Solutions has launched two new cloud-computing services, cloud strategy workshops and cloud assessments to help VARs ramp up their cloud initiatives, according to the distributor.
The new services are offered under the CloudReady initiative Avnet launched last year, which most recently included the addition of cloud training programs.