Category: Alliance

Microsoft and Toyota in Cloud Computing Partnership

| April 7, 2011 | Comments (0)

Microsoft and Toyota have come together in a joint venture to build in-car services that will run on Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. The new features should begin to in Toyota’s electric and plug-in hybrid cars in 2012. Toyota intends to offer a full range of cooud servces to all its automobile customers by 2015. [...]

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VMware acquires EMC’s Mozy

| April 5, 2011 | Comments (1)

VMware is expanding its presence in the cloud computing market with the acquisition of EMC’s Mozy cloud-based data protection service. The deal was announced Monday by VMWare’s CTO Steve Herrod. According to a blog by Herrod, “VMware will operate the Mozy service on behalf of EMC without interruption”. No financial figures were mentioned for the [...]

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Texas Instruments to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5billion

| April 5, 2011 | Comments (0)

Texas Instruments announced Monday that it would buy longtime rival national Semiconductor for $6.5billion in cash. The deal, which is expected to close in six to nine months, sees Texas Instruments paying a substantial 78% premium at $25 a share to acquire National’s portfolio of 12,000 products.  The addition will result in a joint portfolio [...]

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Rackspace, Equinix and Dell form partnership to deploy OpenStack cloud platform

Rackspace, Equinix and Dell form partnership to deploy OpenStack cloud platform

| April 4, 2011 | Comments (0)

Rackspace, Equinix, and Dell on Wednesday announced a partnership to offer an OpenStack demonstration and test environment to customers. This test environment will enable the customers move cloud assets between data centers in different regions, and will be the first implementation of geographically dispersed data centers running OpenStack. In making the announcement, Vince DiMemmo, Equinix [...]

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Softbank Telecom partners with VMware

Softbank Telecom partners with VMware

| February 22, 2011 | Comments (1)

TOKYO (Nikkei)–Softbank Telecom Corp. said Tuesday it has formed an alliance with U.S.-based cloud computing giant VMware Inc. The telecommunications operator will adopt VMware’s technology to offer cloud computing services to corporate clients starting in July. Softbank Telecom is the first Japanese firm to offer cloud services certified by VMware and the seventh overall, following [...]

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Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition redesign their channel blueprint

Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition redesign their channel blueprint

| February 21, 2011 | Comments (2)

The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) company has returned to drawing board to design a reseller friendly go-to-market strategy that also involves distributors. The coalition was formed by Cisco, EMC and VMware in the summer of 2009 to punt private cloud building blocks dubbed Vblock and was later joined by Acadia, the venture between EMC and [...]

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Verizon to buy Terremark for $1.4 billion

Verizon to buy Terremark for $1.4 billion

| January 28, 2011 | Comments (1)

Verizon is set to buy Terremark, an information technology services company, for $1.4 billion, part of an effort from the wireless carrier to boost its cloud-computing abilities. The purchase offer of $19 a share in cash is a 35% premium over Terremark’s Thursday closing stock price of $14.05 a share. In a filing submitted to the Securities [...]

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IBM acquires Blade Network Technologies, gains cloud advantage

IBM acquires Blade Network Technologies, gains cloud advantage

| September 27, 2010 | Comments (0)

IBM is acquiring Blade Network Technologies, a developer of data center switching technology, in a move the company said will help it optimize IBM servers for cloud computing, business intelligence and other workload-intensive tasks. IBM did not disclose the financial terms of the acquisition, which it expects to complete by the end of the calendar [...]

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Trusted Computing Group eyes cloud security framework

Trusted Computing Group eyes cloud security framework

| September 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

The Trusted Computing Group Monday announced a working group aimed at publishing an open standards framework for cloud computing security that could serve as a blueprint for service providers, their customers and vendors building security products. Known as the Trusted Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Work Group, there are about 50 TCG members participating, including HP, IBM, AMD [...]

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Salesforce’s Chatter for the enterprise

Salesforce’s Chatter for the enterprise

| June 22, 2010 | Comments (0)

Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter and integrates them into the enterprise. According to [...]

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Salesforce's Chatter for the enterprise

Salesforce's Chatter for the enterprise

| June 22, 2010 | Comments (0)

Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter and integrates them into the enterprise. According to [...]

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Microsoft wins contract for cloud computing with University of Arizona

Microsoft wins contract for cloud computing with University of Arizona

| May 28, 2010 | Comments (0)

The University of Arizona at Tuscon – the state’s flagship university – recently announced that it has awarded Microsoft with its contract to handle the school’s planned shift to cloud computing. Starting next fall, the school’s students and faculty will use Microsoft’s Business Productivity Suite in place of their current email system. Both students and [...]

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IBM’s Evolving Cloud Computing Strategy

IBM’s Evolving Cloud Computing Strategy

| May 27, 2010 | Comments (0)

IBM announced that it has signed a pact with Ariba, under which that company’s software for tracking spending will become available in the cloud via IBM’s Lotus subsidiary. Earlier this week, IBM announced that it is acquiring Sterling Software, a provider of e-commerce software. Earlier this month, IBM acquired Cast Iron Software to gain access [...]

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IBM's Evolving Cloud Computing Strategy

IBM's Evolving Cloud Computing Strategy

| May 27, 2010 | Comments (0)

IBM announced that it has signed a pact with Ariba, under which that company’s software for tracking spending will become available in the cloud via IBM’s Lotus subsidiary. Earlier this week, IBM announced that it is acquiring Sterling Software, a provider of e-commerce software. Earlier this month, IBM acquired Cast Iron Software to gain access [...]

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Cisco buys CoreOptics

Cisco buys CoreOptics

| May 23, 2010 | Comments (1)

Cisco plans to acquire privately held CoreOptics, a maker of optical networking technology designed to help carriers handle an expected surge in IP traffic driven partly by the adoption of cloud computing. CoreOptics’ digital signal processing technology is intended to help service providers scale their IP networks while keeping costs down by making transmission more [...]

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SAP plus Cisco plus VMware plus EMC equals cloud computing

SAP plus Cisco plus VMware plus EMC equals cloud computing

| May 22, 2010 | Comments (0)

At the ongoing SAP Sapphire NOW conference taking place in both Orlando, Florida and Frankfurt, Germany, SAP announced that it has partnered with Cisco, EMC and VMware to help promote the use of cloud computing in the business community. Through the development of advanced SaaS business applications and reliable cloud-based data centers, the companies hope [...]

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