Companies establish HPC centers of excellence at DoE national labs, hope to advance computing

The company is moving from wholesale to "wholeservice" and has a new CEO and CFO to help it along

Venture funding will help scale the business and improve the DaaS platform

the company's own internal data center needs led to the creation of IT Operations Analytics tool that runs on HANA and provides the full view.

Wants to enable developers to write distributed apps without distributed-infrastructure expertise

Bare-metal cloud servers are a best-of-both-worlds alternative to dedicated hosting and VM-based cloud infrastructure services in some cases, but they do complicate data center capacity management for the service provider...

Managed service providers are often colocation customers, but what happens when what they're managing is located in the big public clouds?

Offering available to US-based customers initially and will be available for international customers in early 2016

Upgrades software for better problem resolution, use of common ops data sets across aps and infrastructure