General Dynamics IT to Leverage Gravitant Cloud Offerings; Mohammed Farooq Comments
March 27, 2013 No Comment
General Dynamics Information Technology will utilize Gravitant Inc.’s new cloud services brokerage and management platform to support its new offerings intended to help government customers adopt secure and low-cost hybrid cloud computing. The cloudMatrix offering will help General Dynamics deploy cloud services brokerage offerings to state and local governments and federal agencies, according to a Gravitant statement. Mohammed [...]
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Cisco will buy cloud computing company SolveDirect for an undisclosed amount in a move aimed at growing its cloud computing products portfolio, Investor’s Business Daily reports. Hilton Romanski, Cisco’s head of global mergers and acquisitions, said the company is buying SolveDirect for its initiative aimed at helping customers transition to the cloud, Pete Barlas writes. [...]
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IBM has rolled out a new social collaboration management tool for enterprises looking to connect with clients on social media platforms. Notes and Domino Social Edition 9 aims to provide enterprise organizations a single access point for email, group activities, blogs, chat and other social collaboration applications, IBM said Friday. The company says the new [...]
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VMware Inc. has developed three new courses for information technology professionals who are interested in attaining education and certification in cloud computing. The classes on VMware vCloud, VMware View and VMware vSphere tackle classroom training, data collection and analysis and address each phase of the design process, the company said Wednesday. “VMware’s new design courses [...]
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Oracle has acquired Red Hat partner Nimbula as Oracle aims to integrate Nimbula’s enterprise-ready cloud software into its offerings. Details of the deal were not disclosed and the two sides expect to finalize the sale by the end of June, the Triangle Business Journal reported Wednesday. “Nimbula’s product is complementary to Oracle, and is expected [...]
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VMware is preparing to launch a new public cloud service and inviting its customers to participate in an exclusive private beta testing initiative prior to launch, Search Cloud Computing reports. Beth Pariseau writes the cloud service will be based on VMware’s cloud products such as the vCloud director. Under the evaluation beta, the VMware public [...]
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Verizon Wins BPA to Provide Cloud Services to USDA; Susan Zeleniak Comments
March 8, 2013 No Comment
Verizon has won a blanket purchase agreement to provide cloud computing products and services to the Agriculture Department aimed at helping USDA manage resources and meeting federal mandates. The company will deploy its Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition infrastructure to 34 USDA organizations under the enterprise data center cloud BPA, awarded through the GSA Schedule 70 [...]
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Lockheed, Microsoft Wrap Up EPA’s Office 365 Cloud Move; Stephanie Hill Comments
March 7, 2013 1 Comment
Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have finished migrating the Environmental Protection Agency to a Microsoft Office 365 collaboration and communication cloud infrastructure. More than 22,000 EPA email users are in the Office 365 for Government cloud environment, which contains email, calendars, scheduling and collaboration tools for internal and external use, the company said Thursday. Under a [...]
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Joe Kava, Google vice president of data centers, has said the search giant uses 10 governing rules when forming its data center strategies, GigaOM reports. Speaking at the Green Grid Forum in Santa Clara, Calif., Kava said that Google plans to build data centers worldwide to serve different regions. Ucilia Wang writes Google aims to [...]
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Microsoft has acquired start-up cloud monitoring company MetricsHub for an undisclosed amount in a move. MetricsHub participated for three months in the Accelerator, Microsoft’s mentorship program through which it invests in 10 cloud-developing startups, CNet reported Monday. Participants then present their products to Microsoft executives and investors. As part of the deal, MetricsHub has lifted [...]
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