Salesforce.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.
The 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.
IBM 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...
News 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...
Cordys 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...
The 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...
Although 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...
When considering public cloud options, it’s important to understand where there is a direct fit. This means that both key business stakeholders as well as IT executives will need to see the benefits of moving towards a public cloud “Infrastructure...
Technology industry heavyweight IBM announced its move into open cloud architecture, which includes a new cloud offering based on the open-source cloud OS, OpenStack. Here’s a look at the notable analysis and commentary from around the web.
Rackspace Hosting (RAX) is acquiring ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service (DBaaS) provider. The acquisition expands Rackspace’s big data play, allowing them to provide Open Cloud customers with demanding applications with a NoSQL DBaaS.
