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 —…
Alfresco prepares for the cloud through its Alfresco Enterprise 4.0, which will be the platform to run its content management software (CMS) in open-source. The release of Alfresco Enterprise 4.0 will allow the enterprise the ability to handle multiple clients at the same time and to allow them to improve their CMS services. This upgraded…
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…
Australia’s leading cloud platform, Brennan IT is completing its cloud portfolio and it recently announced that it will include Microsoft’s Hyper-V in the 2012 package. This is as they predicted that 15% of their cloud users will be running on Microsoft Hyper-V. The company sees Microsoft Hyper-V as the key ingredient to boost their cloud…
One of the best features of cloud computing is its ability to summon other compute-based business services. Cloud computing effectively allows enterprises to decide on acquisition and deployment cloud facilities. It provides them control over peak migration and requirement loads from consumers. This allows them to plan ahead the workload distribution requirements plus the cost…
A recent study conducted by the London School of Economics (LSE) said that cloud computing may boost the worsening global economic crisis. It will continue to increase business productivity while it shifts types of job requirements and competency skills. Respondents for the study were chosen from two key industries, smartphone services and aerospace. They inquired…
Mark O’Neill, director for innovation and delivery of Government Digital Services (GDS) recently announced that the new cloud public administration services will be released in spring 2012. He made the announcement in the last Cloud Expo event in London. The G-Cloud catalogue is expected to be released this February as the development and design of…
by Barry Murphy, Co-founder, eDJ Group Few topics are as hyped right now as The Cloud and social media. Both promise great benefits to companies; The Cloud can drastically reduce the costs of storing information and implementing software applications while social media enables more efficient collaboration and lets companies increase marketing and brand reach more…
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…