Cloud

mindSHIFT Technologies, announced that it has acquired ORBIT Systems, an IT Managed Services company located in Minneapolis–St. Paul. mindSHIFT and ORBIT have closely aligned product portfolios, with leading cloud services offerings and high levels of customer service. This acquisition is instrumental in expanding mindSHIFT’s presence across North America and cementing […]

VMware, Inc. announced it has reached a milestone in delivering the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud® Datacenter services from BlueLock and Colt and beta services available from Verizon. VMware also introduced VMware vCloud Connector, a free plug-in that will allow all VMware vSphere® administrators to immediately […]

Cloud computing set to account for 80% of all computing provisioned through the Internet by 2020 While Xen Sandbox Clouds and Enterprise VMware cloud servers are now regularly outselling traditional packages including colocation and dedicated servers, Virtual Internet has issued a strong warning to IT decision-makers researching UK cloud hosts: […]

New Solution Delivers Advanced Cluster File System Capabilities for Storage Clouds Oracle has today introduced the Oracle® Cloud File System. The Oracle Cloud File System offers organizations a solution that extends cloud characteristics to their storage by enabling more effective storage pooling through a network accessible elastic storage cloud. Oracle […]

Joyent, announced SmartDataCenter 6, the newest version of its cloud operating system, an integrated suite of software and services designed for Service Providers and Enterprises to launch and operate public, private and hybrid clouds. Joyent was recently positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2010 Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new initiative to help organizations become social businesses with the broadest support for smart phones and cloud delivery models. With today’s news, IBM is introducing new software, services and programs that will help organizations integrate social networking concepts into business processes to accelerate collaboration, […]

VMware, Inc. has announced new consulting services and a new reference architecture to help speed enterprise adoption of hybrid cloud computing. Based on VMware’s extensive experience working with both enterprises and service providers to deploy VMware vCloud® environments, the vCloud Accelerator Service is part of VMware’s growing portfolio of vCloud […]

Atlantic.Net announced that it has enhanced its cloud computing offerings by teaming up with cPanel, a leading Web hosting control panel software provider. As a result of this partnership, cPanel/WHM is now available on Atlantic.Net’s cloud computing and hosting platform, complementing its existing cloud server offerings and resulting in an […]

Complementing the company’s enterprise-level VMware cloud servers, the new Xen Sandbox Servers present a wide range of benefits, including extraordinary cost-efficiency, performance and flexibility to name but a few. By offering you almost limitless options to scale up and down in terms of load balancing, hardware upgrading and the overall […]

IBM announced new partnerships and increased adoption of LotusLive public cloud services to help clients innovate faster, improve daily business interactions and increase business efficiencies. LotusLive provides organizations with integrated email, Web conferencing, and social networking and collaboration services through the IBM cloud. As part of today’s news, IBM announced […]

Hostirian, L.L.C., a leading provider of business-class shared, VPS, dedicated and colocation services, has launched BlogPossible, offering cloud-based WordPress, Joombla, osCommerce, Moodle and ZenCart packages for those customers with blogging requirements that extend beyond a normal shared hosting environment. Citing customer feedback, Hostirian has begun offering five state-of-the-art XEN (Citrix) […]

Zeus Technology, the only pure software-based application traffic management (Application Delivery Controller) company, today announced that AlertBoot, a leading provider of web-based full disk encryption, has chosen Zeus’ software-based load balancing solution, Zeus Traffic Manager, to support its migration from a hardware infrastructure to the cloud. Zeus was selected because […]