Archive for Partnership

  • Dell Acquires 3PAR For $1.15 Billion Dell Acquires 3PAR For $1.15 Billion

    Moving deeper into IT services and cloud computing, Dell Inc. said Monday that it plans to buy 3PAR Inc., a high end data storage company, for $1.15 billion. Best known for sales of PCs to enterprises and consumers, Dell has been muscling its way into IT services since it acquired Perot Systems f...

  • Big Blue will work with governments and academia on Big Blue will work with governments and academia on “fundamentally new notion” of an interoperation hub.

    IBM said it plans to collaborate with European researchers to develop a computing architecture that will allow businesses to more easily blend cloud services from multiple providers. The effort aims to overcome one of the largest obstacles to broad adoption of cloud computing—complex and expens...

  • Microsoft Cloud Computing Center opens in Taiwan Microsoft Cloud Computing Center opens in Taiwan

    Microsoft opened a joint cloud computing center with Taiwan's economics ministry on Thursday at the Computex electronics show, and announced a plan to work with two local companies on new designs for servers meant specifically for cloud computing, the growing trend towards decentralized, virtualized...

  • Microsoft betting that India will lead the world in Cloud Computing Microsoft betting that India will lead the world in Cloud Computing

    NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corp sees India as the global hub for cloud computing, the concept of renting computing power that has taken the technology world by storm and in the words of the NYT, what Silicon Valley cannot seem to get its head out of. “India will not only see a surge in cloud computin...

  • IBM's Evolving Cloud Computing Strategy IBM’s Evolving Cloud Computing Strategy

    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...

  • Makes perfect sense - Wordpress and Windows Azure integration Makes perfect sense – WordPress and Windows Azure integration

    A free and open source plugin developed by Microsoft is the latest example of PHP and Windows Azure interoperability to come from the company, after various other offerings, including a PHP software development kit for the Cloud platform. By leveraging the plugin, customers running WordPress will...

  • Cisco buys CoreOptics Cisco buys CoreOptics

    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 scal...

  • SAP plus Cisco plus VMware plus EMC equals cloud computing SAP plus Cisco plus VMware plus EMC equals cloud computing

    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 applicati...

  • Google not too concerned about Microsoft's threat in the cloud Google not too concerned about Microsoft’s threat in the cloud

    Great article from PCworld: Of the challenges that could keep Google from reaching its goal of using Google Docs to move in to the enterprise, Microsoft may be one of the biggest barriers. Google and rival Microsoft are battling on several fronts: search, browsers, operating systems and o...

  • Recovery.gov Moved To Amazon Cloud Recovery.gov Moved To Amazon Cloud

    The federal government has moved Recovery.gov, the Web site people can use to track spending under last year's $787 million economic stimulus package, to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced Thursday. The...

  • IBM Partners with Netsuite IBM Partners with Netsuite

    Cloud-based business software provider NetSuite has announced a partnership with IBM (News - Alert) for connecting and integrating their respective cloud solutions. According to company sources IBM’s recent acquisition of Cast Iron Systems is behind the partnership between NetSuite (News - Aler...