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NJVC Paper Outlines Potential Benefits of Custom Cloud Software; Kevin Jackson Comments
Federal agencies that use platform-as-a-service in their cloud computing strategy can cut development costs by 50 percent, according to a recently released white paper by NJVC and Virtual Global.
In “Platform as a Service (PaaS): What Is It? Why Is It So Important?,” authors Kevin Jackson and Cary Landis outline why they believe PaaS…
CSC Designs Govt Cloud; James Sheaffer Comments
Published on 11 Jan, 2012 at 14:49 in Cloud | Viewed 21 times | No Comments
Computer Sciences Corporation recently released its infrastructure-as-a-service CloudCompute for Government system, which the company says is designed exclusively for U.S. federal agencies and government personnel.
The company said the multi-tenant community cloud was built under National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines.
“This cloud offering addresses the federal agencies’ need to comply with…
NOAA Email Now in Google’s Cloud
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has moved its email system to cloud-based Google Apps for Government, Google announced Wednesday.
Kennith Jackson, deployment manager at Google Apps, wrote in a blog post that it took six months to move NOAA’s 25,000 employees, contractors and associates to the new email platform.
NOAA CIO Joseph…
HP, Microsoft Partner to Deliver Public Cloud Services
HP Enterprise Services and Microsoft Corp. have announced a global, four-year initiative to deliver Microsoft’s communications and collaboration products via the public and private cloud.
Through the public cloud, Microsoft will deliver its collaboration and productivity tool Microsoft Office 365. A Microsoft release said the companies’ cloud solutions will shift information technology from…
Survey Says.. Businesses on Top of the Cloud
Throughout the last two years, cloud computing has emerged as the Swiss army knife of information technology within the business and government sectors.
The cloud has been marketed and implemented as a way to improve communication, speed up business operations, cut costs and reduce energy consumption.
A global survey, composed of 3,645 IT decision makers in eight different countries, was conducted independently by TNS and funded by CSC. The results provided some…
Cisco Outlines Cloud Community Framework
Cisco has been honing in on the cloud in the past week or so, with research about cloud traffic, a tweet chat, webcast and a packaged cloud system announced yesterday.
The company released information about its Cisco CloudVerse framework, with which Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior (@Padmasree) made herself available on Twitter for cloud trend questioning.
SuccessFactors to be an SAP Cloud Company
SAP America, Inc., a SAP AG subsidiary, recently announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with SuccessFactors for approximately $3.4 billion.
Through the agreement, a SAP subsidiary would acquire all outstanding common stock shares of SuccessFactors. SuccessFactors’ board approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2012.
As a result of…
Terremark Expands Silicon Valley Data Center Campus
Terremark, a Verizon Company, today announced the completion of the expansion of its data center campus, the Network Access Point West, located in Santa Clara, Calif.
The firm says the expansion of their center in the technology hub of Silicon Valley, Calif. is part of a global strategy to deliver…
HP, Alcatel-Lucent Alliance Puts Out Data Center, Cloud Solutions
With vast amounts of information needing secure means of storage, HP built on its alliance with Alcatel-Lucent in order develop joint data center solutions by integrating infrastructure technology and high-performance communications networks. The result: HP and Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Network Connect.
HP says DCNC has high-performance service routing, switching and optical transport capabilities and meets standards for data…
Cisco Report: Cloud, Data Center Traffic to Keep Going Up
Published on 29 Nov, 2011 at 16:33 in Cloud | Viewed 24 times | No Comments
Cisco released an index where it examined the data center and cloud traffic, through which it found all regions included in the study, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and North America, to be fully ready for basic cloud applications.
With most being cloud ready, the company found that the transition to cloud…
