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16
Apr

EMC to Tackle Private-cloud Complexity With All-in-one VSPEX Platform

                EMC are going mid-market with their latest VSPEX offering.  This solution set is targeted in-between VBlocks and the DIY Private Cloud as a way to bring pre-packaged and certified EMC Cloud solutions to the mid-market.  This new solution set will give NetApp & Cisco’s Flexpods a run Read More, Comment & Share…

22
Mar

Rebuilding Enterprise IT Around Cloud Computing

                Below is an extract from another really great article from Bernard Golden at CIO.com and definetly worth a read for anyone that is offering or buying Cloud Computing solutions.  Reading this you might begin to understand the shift that is happening in Enterprise IT around Cloud Computing. Read More, Comment & Share…

21
Mar

Cloud Computing Boom Could Be Bigger than Dot-Com Boom

Cloud Computing Boom

                    After years of speculation and forecasts by industry analysts, the cloud computing era has arrived, according to the National Inflation Association, which predicts that by 2013, the cloud computing boom could surpass the dot-com boom of the early 2000s.Cloud computing, which has started to become Read More, Comment & Share…

9
Mar

Wimpy Cores vs Brawny Cores

 By Hosting Guru                     Just a quick one today with a quick look at massively parallel low power computing which Facebook and Google are extremely interested in but say that the ROI isnt quite there yet.  With 200 core chips available soon and 1000 core chips on Read More, Comment & Share…

5
Mar

20x 3kW Racks of Co-Lo for the Price of 2kW Racks

Data Centre

                  The first 20 racks sold this month will receive 3kW racks for the price of 2kW racks. This special co-location pricing is available for a limited time until the first 20 racks are sold. Racks are available in our Sydney or Melbourne facility. Orders must be Read More, Comment & Share…

1
Mar

NTT America and Integralis Partner to Ease Global Enterprise Cloud Deployments

NTT America

      Integralis Exhibits at RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco NTT America, a global infrastructure services provider and wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, and Integralis, a global provider of IT security and information risk management solutions, today announced an ongoing partnership to provide global enterprises with secure, high performance, streamlined and Read More, Comment & Share…

24
Feb

Hyper-Hybrid Cloud – More Cloud Hype or is Cloud Getting Real?!?

                      By Hosting Guru Another new Cloud term has recently started to surface, “Hyper-Hybrid Cloud”. What is it? Is it real? Do we need yet another Cloud term in what seems like a zealous Cloud obsessed IT industry?!? Well, this might actually be the first Cloud term that describes Read More, Comment & Share…

23
Feb

NTT Subsidiary Dimension Data takes on all cloud comers

    South Africa–based systems integrator Dimension Data is launching a mashup of its IT services and the cloudy infrastructure it acquired last year along with OpSource, in a new offering it calls Cloud Solutions. It’s no more crazy for a system integrator to fluff up infrastructure clouds than it is for the world’s largest Read More, Comment & Share…

21
Feb

NTT Communications Joins £60 Million UK Government G-Cloud Panel

        NTT Communications Ticks all the G-Cloud tender boxes Leading global provider of consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services wins tender for G-Cloud Infrastructure Services London – February 20th, 2012. NTT Communications, provider of consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises, announced Read More, Comment & Share…

10
Feb

NTT America | NTT America CTO Delivers Keynote at Carrier Cloud Forum

NTT America

  New York, NY – NTT America, a global infrastructure services provider and wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), today announced the company’s CTO, Doug Junkins, will present the service provider keynote at the Carrier Cloud Forum, an event hosted by Light Reading at the Cloud Connect conference in Santa Clara, CA. Read More, Comment & Share…

10
Feb

Oracle Spends Another Billion on Cloud Computing

Larry Ellison

                    Somewhere in San Francisco Mark Benioff has a big smile on his face. The CEO of Salesforce.com is sitting back and watching his rival Larry Ellison spend billions to try and compete in his cloud. Just months after spending $1.5 billion to take over RightNow Read More, Comment & Share…

6
Feb

The Rise of Cloud Computing on Wall Street – Wall Street & Technology

Wall Street & Technology

Looking to cut their capital expenditures on servers and applications, financial services firms are warming up to private clouds run outside their firewalls. As Wall Street continues to struggle with volatile markets, uncertain global economic conditions and vanishing profits, many firms are looking to reduce their capital expenditures. Targeting the costs of building data centers Read More, Comment & Share…

6
Feb

Footy fight shows how cloud computing can kill your business

TVNow

  The Federal Court handed Australian business a lesson: cloud computing can be a devastating disruptor that you need to understand deeply before someone uses it to kill your business. The lesson came in the Court’s decision that Optus’ TV Now service can continue to operate. TV Now is like a video recorder in the Read More, Comment & Share…

30
Jan

Cloud Computing Fueling Global Economic Growth: London School of Economics study – Forbes

Cloud Computing Economic Growth

The development of cloud computing will promote economic growth, increase productivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses, according to a new study by the London School of Economics and Political Science. The LSE study selected two industries, aerospace and smartphone services, and examined the impact of cloud computing on these Read More, Comment & Share…

17
Jan

Tech Giants Back Standard For Cloud Portability

Cloud Interoperability

              My Take> It’s not open standards based, but it has some big consulting and tech firms behind it. It will be very interesting to see where this leads.  I talked about this late last year as one of the key issues with Cloud Computing.  Corporate data portability between Cloud Read More, Comment & Share…