How Cloud Computing Empowers the Agile Enterprise
Grazed from eBusinessPlanet. Author: David Deans.
Public cloud service adoption is already a mainstream phenomenon in most organizations. Meanwhile, many large enterprises see a private cloud in their future. But choosing whether to invest in building an internal cloud infrastructure or buy from a cloud service provider will become more challenging – in anticipation, savvy IT leaders are becoming brokers of dynamic business technology solutions.
Hybrid cloud resource management and progressive operational process adoption are the key focal points in preparation for this transition. Moreover, Line of Business demand for emerging use cases and just-in-time IT workload creation requires speedy access to a managed self-serve DevOps deployment model…
China Mobile’s Chongqing Data Center broke ground in the Chongqing Liangjiang International Cloud Computing Industrial Park on June 30th. This is one of the key projects for developing Chongqing’s cloud computing and big data industries. China Mobile’s new data center will cover an area of 120,000sqm and will be built in two phases. It is estimated that 4800 racks capable of hosting about 32,000 servers will be put into use when phase one is completed in 2016.
Cloud storage and content management company Box is fast becoming a focal point of the cloud computing era. While other cloud ventures such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite have become productive service providers, Box plods along with high cash-burn rates and an indeterminate exit strategy.
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its CA arcserve data protection business (arcserve) to Marlin Equity Partners (Marlin). Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the second quarter of fiscal year 2015 subject to certain approvals, were not disclosed.
Nuage Networks announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named its Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) as a 2014 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner. The Cloud Computing Excellence Award, presented by Cloud Computing magazine, recognizes companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.
CommVault today announced a series of new enhancements to the CommVault PartnerAdvantage partner program Service Provider (SP) Edition, designed to help service provider partners maximize revenue, profitability and growth opportunities through new leading edge tools, resources and solutions that support their specialized requirements.
Rackspace has been in the news lately not for its cloud computing products, but for the fact that it has been investigating the benefits of being acquired. And many suitors have been rumored. But now, two months after the acquisition rumors first started circulating, Rackspace’s board of directors may be investigating another option—going private.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a developer of standards for the U.S. government. According to their website, their mission is: “From the smart electric power grid and electronic health records to atomic clocks, advanced nanomaterials, and computer chips, innumerable products and services rely in some way on technology, measurement, and standards provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
On topics from algorithms to machine learning to robotics and more, Google publishes lots of research and is sharing the best of its 2013 findings. Google researchers write a lot of papers on topics including computing, data, statistics and more, and share them often with the world’s scientific community to drive innovation and new ideas.