New Hughes Cloud Services & Hosting Solution Helps Build Cloud and Manage Data

EchoStar Corporation and its subsidiary Hughes announced their new Hughes Cloud Services & Hosting solution for businesses of all sizes and industry.

Hughes Cloud Services & Hosting provides companies with one site or with hundreds of sites a solution platform that includes rack space, software as a service, cloud computing infrastructure design and complete corporate IT management.

The…

HP Launches Private Beta Cloud Services

Earlier this week, HP invited customers to participate in the HP Cloud Services private beta program. The services include HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage. HP is offering early access for users to test and provide input on these initial cloud services.

According to the HP invitation, both offerings are based on HP’s world class…

CSC Signs 10-Year, $900+ Million Dollar Managed Services Agreement

CSC today announced it has signed a ten-year contract with a U.S. based global multi-brand commercial products manufacturer to provide information technology and infrastructure managed services.

The contract is a 10 year agreement and has an estimated value of more than $900 million effective on Sept. 1, 2011. In leveraging CSC’s delivery centers, the client will be able to…

DoD in Search of Balanced Cloud Solution; Robert Carey Advises

Defense Department officials are looking to balance security, efficiency and effectiveness in moving away from a decentralized network of computer servers and data centers and into cloud computing, Department of Defense deputy chief information officer said yesterday.

“We must balance all three,” said Robert J. Carey, who is also the deputy assistant secretary of defense for information management,…

Terremark Expands Brazilian Data Center

Terremark, a Verizon company, today announced the latest expansion of its São Paulo, Brazil data center in an attempt to meet continual customer demand for their IT infrastructure solutions in Latin America.

The NAP do Brasil is now capable of housing approximately 100,000 servers making it the one of the largest multi-tenant data centers in the region. The NAP…

VMware Introduces New Platform for Enterprise Database as a Service

Today at VMworld 2011, VMware announced a new database provisioning and operations solution designed to deliver a database as a service model for the enterprise.

VMware vFabric Data Director will give IT the ability to control and manage a growing set of heterogeneous databases through policy-based automation. According to VMware, vFabric will also extend the benefits of…