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Oracle Buys Nimbula as Tech Giants Wake to Cloud Potential
March 13th, 2013 : Jason VergeLarry Ellison might love the cloud after all. Oracle has acquired open cloud player Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software. Read More
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Defeating Cyber Threats Requires a Wider Net
March 13th, 2013 : Bill KleymanAs more organizations and users utilize the Internet, there will be more data, more management needs, and a lot of worries around security. The big push around cloud and the modern cloud-ready data center really revolves around IT consumerization and newly available resources. Just like any infrastructure, the bigger and more popular it gets – the bigger the target. Read More
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Salesforce.com To Sell $1 Billion in Notes, Commits to Renewables
March 13th, 2013 : John RathSalesforce.com (CRM) announced its intention to offer $1 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes, and said it will work to steadily increase the amount of renewable energy used in its data center operations. Read More
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Virtualization: The Next Frontier…
March 12th, 2013 : Bill KleymanThe data center industry has moved way beyond simple server virtualization, and is exploring new avenues to make virtualization an even more powerful platform. Let’s take a look at some of these newer approaches to virtualization. Read More
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IBM Watson Could be Offered as Technology as a Service
March 12th, 2013 : John RathIBM Watson - a cognitive computer - starred on Jeopardy! a few years ago. Today, IBM is experimenting with offering a way to reach Watson through a cloud service, and recently asked USC students for creative ways to apply Watson to business and social challenges. Read More
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Verizon to Help U.S.D.A. Move to the Cloud
March 12th, 2013 : John RathNews from the cloud computing sector includes developments from Verizon, HP and Dell. Verizon will be moving federal agencies to its enterprise federal cloud product; Dell expands Master Data Management cloud solution; and HP was selected by Molson-Coors. Read More
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Cordys Enables Cloud Brokerage For Telcos, Service Providers
March 12th, 2013 : Jason VergeCordys believes its diverse platform of services form the ideal platform to help businesses transition to the new cloudy world. Cordys helps companies move from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to providing a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and serving as a cloud broker of partner services offered atop that platform. Read More
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Markley Launches Cloud, as Colo & Cloud Boundaries Continue to Blur
March 11th, 2013 : Jason VergeThe Markley Group in Boston is offering cloud services, making it the latest facilities-centric provider going after hybrid customers. Markley is the owner of One Summer Street, one of the prominent multi-tenant data center hubs serving Boston, so the news marks the continuing blurring of colo and cloud. Read More
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Why Anti-DDoS Services Matter in Today’s Business Environment
March 7th, 2013 : Bill KleymanAlthough the Internet has been around for a while, the boost in cloud computing has increased the utilization of WAN services. Any organization now using the Cloud or some type of Internet-based service must be aware of the security risks that come with the platform. With the evolution of the modern data center – and [...] Read More
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
