Cisco Survey Finds Business Leaders Back Cloud Collaboration Tools; Eric Schoch Comments
Cisco selected Forbes Media to survey business executives and examine how they view cloud-based collaboration as tools to achieve business outcomes and communicate across borders. The “Collaborating in the Cloud” survey shows a majority of business leaders believe cloud helps derive business results, cross-time zone partnerships, processes and new innovations beyond information technology, Cisco said [...]
Lockheed Martin has added information technology service integration and management to its cloud computing offerings for the U.K. government under the country’s G-Cloud program. The G-Cloud 3 framework agreement succeeds the previous G-Cloud 2 program and the company will offer the services through its solutions-as-a-service portfolio, Lockheed said Monday. Through the SolaS portfolio, the company [...]
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EMC, SAP and VMware have partnered to develop cloud computing products and services aimed to help information technology organizations manage processes in private cloud platform. The EMC Proven Solution aims to help customers move tasks that use SAP applications to the x86 platform so organizations can design, plan and operate cloud computing infrastructures, EMC said [...]
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HP Launches Cloud Service for Mobile Access to Enterprise Apps; Pete Karolczak Comments
April 5, 2013 No Comment
HP Enterprise Services has unveiled a cloud-based offering to provide users with secure mobile access to enterprise applications and data. The HP enterprise cloud services – mobility deploys tools and services that are meant to help secure access to and sharing of applications and file storage across multiple mobile devices such as tablet computers and [...]
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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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IBM released a new line of products for its smarter analytics and cloud solutions portfolio, eCommerce Times reports. Charles King wrote that IBM’s PureSystems and PureData systems, released last week, improved big data scanning on hard drives from 120 megabytes per second to 130 megabytes per second. The new products include IBM PureData System for [...]
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Shamun Mahmud: DLT Seeing Similar Trends In Private, Public Sector Cloud Adoption
January 22, 2013 No Comment
Shamun Mahmud, cloud security architect at DLT Solutions, highlighted recent survey findings from SailPoint in that firm’s annual market pulse survey on information technology mobility and cloud computing. In a blog post, Mahmud compared Sailpoint’s findings for the commercial sector to what DLT sees in the public sector. Mahmud wrote the rates of cloud adoption [...]
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Oracle is releasing a new platform aimed at helping organizations manage their own private cloud environments on their premises, the company said Tuesday. Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service on Premise platform is designed to give users visibility of their information technology systems and align processing capacity with changing workloads. Juan Loaiza, senior vice president of [...]
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HP Unveils New Big Data Training, Certification Initiative; Byron Berk Comments
January 10, 2013 No CommentHewlett-Packard is launching a new training and certification initiative intending to help organizations get their employees certified in big data. The company said the initiative, offered for the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, is for system administrators, database analysts and application developers that handle big data analytics. “Our partners and customers are eager to complete a [...]
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Cisco Systems predicts nearly two-thirds of all data center traffic will be based in a cloud environment within four years, Forbes reports. Citing the company’s Global Cloud Index, Joe McKendrick reports the company estimates global data center traffic to reach 6.6 zettabytes annually by increasing fourfold between 2011 and 2016. Global cloud traffic is the [...]
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