Category: Partnership
Microsoft and Toyota in Cloud Computing Partnership
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. [...]
Rackspace, Equinix and Dell form partnership to deploy OpenStack cloud platform
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 [...]
Salesforce buys Radian6 for $340 million
Salesforce.com has announced its fourth acquisition in as many months, with the purchase of Canadian startup Radian6 for $340 million in cash and stock. The deal, according to Wednesday’s announcement, will be concluded by July 31 2011 with the payment of about $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock for the company. The [...]
Cisco to bolster cloud offerings through acquisition of newScale
Cisco plans to build its cloud services capabilities by its acquisition of newScale, a cloud portal software developer with about 2 million users worldwide. NewScale is a privately held company that develops software which enables businesses to more efficiently provision resources across their IT environments. Through its service catalog and self-service portal, newScale enables IT [...]
Vargatron Hits A Home Run Into The Clouds With their New Baseball App
A developer called Vargatron has come up with an ingenious cloud based application for the iPad. Named Pennant, this program is set to become the ultimate ‘bible’ for any baseball fan worth his salt. Pennant is enormous – allowing you to look up, compare and review the records, statistics, and performances of all professional baseball [...]
Softbank Telecom partners with VMware
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 [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health’s Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health's Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition redesign their channel blueprint
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 [...]
Verizon to buy Terremark for $1.4 billion
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 [...]
HP cloud computing comes to the UK
HP is making its biggest move into cloud computing with the introduction of private and public cloud infrastructure and services hosted in the UK. Unveiling Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute, the company said the new technology allows UK businesses to store and process data in HP datacentres in hosted private clouds or in a multi-tenancy public cloud [...]
Rackspace brings the cloud to the UK
Rackspace today officially announced the extension of its cloud computing infrastructure into the UK, with several services provided from datacentres in the country designed to reassure organisations with strict data protection and service level requirements. The hosting firm, which is Amazon Web Services’ main rival in the cloud computing space, will be offering its cloud-based [...]
Minnesota moves e-mail to Microsoft’s cloud
Minnesota said Tuesday that it is moving its messaging and collaboration services to Microsoft’s cloud computing platform in an effort to address multiple issues — including an aging workforce, increasing red ink and a desire for shared services. Approximately 33,000 state workers in Minnesota will be affected by the move, which could be one of [...]
Minnesota moves e-mail to Microsoft's cloud
Minnesota said Tuesday that it is moving its messaging and collaboration services to Microsoft’s cloud computing platform in an effort to address multiple issues — including an aging workforce, increasing red ink and a desire for shared services. Approximately 33,000 state workers in Minnesota will be affected by the move, which could be one of [...]
IBM acquires Blade Network Technologies, gains cloud advantage
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 [...]
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 for $3.9 billion [...]
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 expensive integration work. “Up until now, organizations have had to invest [...]
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 expensive integration work. “Up until now, organizations have had to invest [...]
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 computing services. When the project was first announced last November, officials [...]
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 computing [...]
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 month, IBM acquired Cast Iron Software to gain access [...]
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 month, IBM acquired Cast Iron Software to gain access [...]
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 be able to take advantage of the storage capacity [...]
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 scale their IP networks while keeping costs down by making transmission more [...]
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 applications and reliable cloud-based data centers, the companies hope [...]
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 office software. And the office software front is heating [...]
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 office software. And the office software front is heating [...]
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 move marks a milestone for the Obama administration’s cloud computing initiative. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said [...]
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 – Alert) and IBM. Cast Iron Systems allows customers to connect on-premise applications and business [...]
