US Technology Company AEC Partners and Videocon have placed their combined investment funding of $21 million for Nivio, a Palo Alto cloud computing company. Nivio is expected to use this funding to leverage their cloud services in Europe, India, Australia and West Asia. These services will provide cloud solutions for individuals, small and medium scale…

Craig Huitema of Cisco has an interesting viewpoint on the future of technology where the key elements include network virtualization and network switches. Cisco has put all efforts on their product and service updates plus enhancements particularly with its Catalyst network switches and Nexus. Huitema said business enterprises are faced with the challenge of upgrading…

independenceIT was recently chosen to boost cloud computing services for customers in New Zealand and Australia. They were tasked to deliver both custom and cloud applications; this was recently announced at the last MSPWorld 2012. Australian Cloud and New Zealand Kiwi Cloud chose independenceIT for their complete Total Freedom (TM) workspace. Both IT solutions provider…

HP recently announced a broad-based cloud initiative to address the rapidly evolving cloud-computing market opportunity across multiple markets: servers, storage, networking, software and services. It is a nuanced strategy that addresses direct sales of products and services to customers for cloud installations; indirect sales through channel partners; and partnerships with — and sales to —…

Fujitzu and ServiceMesh announced their partnership that is expected to bring together more enterprises from the public and private cloud. The partnership will open doors for ServiceMesh customers allowing them access to the global cloud platform of Fujitzu. Through this move, customers will now have access to building their own hybrid cloud at a much…

Joyent recently bagged $85 million of funding from several investors headed by major participant’s Accelero Capital and Weather Investment II Group. Other funding are also expected from Telefonica Digital plus existing support from Intel Capital, Liberty Global, Epic Ventures, El Dorado Ventures and Greycroft Partners. The series of funding will leverage Joyent’s public cloud services…

Everyone in the IT industry is wondering where the cloud services will be heading to after the issues on the strike hit recently. The American media industry and the FBI had been very open with their attack to MegaUpload, which was culminated with the arrest of Kim ‘Dotcom’ Schmitz in New Zealand. The attacks led…

Fujitsu currently launched its ValueCENTER(TM) gift card cloud management technology. The release of this ValueCENTER card will provide cloud solutions to gift cards and other stored value cards, plus this software will seamlessly integrate with on-premise and hosted enterprise systems through Fujitsu Hybrid Cloud Services for Windows Azure. This move will benefit consumers for it…

Piston Cloud Releases OpenStack Operating System pentOS OpenStack OS developer Piston Cloud Computing announced on Wednesday that it has launched its Piston Enterprise operating system, pentOS, to the general public. OpenStack is the fastest-growing open source project in the world, with over 2,321 contributors and 147 participating companies including Rackspace, NASA, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, AT&T, Arista Networks,…

KLAS recently conducted a survey of small clinics and hospitals and surprisingly found that 55% are already using cloud-based apps. It was from their storage, clinical applications, e-mail, communication systems and file or picture archiving. About 25% of the respondents said that they are already using remotely accessed health records. 58% of the respondents said…