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Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) running Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server in its EU Region, allowing customers to access Windows-based compute resources for Europe and running on the AWS cloud. The AWS Management Console will p...Mar. 3, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,988
What, aside from a professional passion for the Enterprise IT possibilities of cloud computing, do IBM's Cloud CTO Dr Kristof Kloeckner, Amazon's VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels and Sun's Cloud SVP David Douglas have in common? The answer is that all three are giving a major keynote address ...
Cordys has launched the Cordys Enterprise Cloud Orchestration System (ECOSystem), a process-centric, flexible, responsive and cost-effective platform for the development of business applications in the cloud. Deployable as a complete Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution, this approach...
Sentry Data Systems announced the availability of the Datanex Platform to independent solution providers. The Datanex Platform is a healthcare focused cloud computing platform that allows solution providers to construct rich healthcare business intelligence applications and securely tr...
Acumen Solutions announced the launch of a dedicated Public Sector Cloud Computing Practice to offer customized SaaS solutions to meet the requirements of government agencies. Having won salesforce.com engagements at six federal agencies, Acumen Solutions also brings experience with Go...
Appirio announced its first international expansion into Japan. As part of this expansion, Appirio announced that it will be working closely with salesforce.com to lead the Force.com platform implementation at Japan Post. Japan Post offers postal, banking and life insurance services, s...
newScale announced a new solution that accelerates the adoption of data center virtualization and cloud computing while ensuring governance and reducing virtual server sprawl. This helps IT achieve the full promise of virtualization by lowering the previously untouchable “keep the ligh...
Salesforce.com has delivered Salesforce CRM Spring '09, the cloud computing solution for customer service and sales, to more than 51,800 customers as of October 31, 2008. Built on the Force.com platform, Salesforce CRM helps companies better serve their customers without the cost, risk...
Terremark Worldwide announced that its Enterprise Cloud platform has been selected by the U.S General Services Administration (GSA) to power USA.gov, the Federal government's official web portal. USA.gov, which is managed by the GSA's Office of Citizen Services and Communications, is a...
SYS-CON Events has announced that the leading business networking provider MeettheBoss.com will exhibit at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com,), which will take place March 30 - April 1, 2009, at the Roosevelt Hotel in the heart of midtown Manh...
CSC announced a companywide Cloud Computing and Software Services initiative to deliver software-as-a-service and managed-cloud-computing solutions to help clients manage data, lower operational costs and make collaboration across public and private networks easier and more effective. ...
Bridgeline Software, a developer of SaaS-based web application management software and award-winning web applications, has announced the release of iAPPS 2.5, which includes a series of enhancements for iAPPS Content Manager and iAPPS Analytics, Bridgeline's web content management and ...
Mezeo Software, a software developer of a deployable platform for cloud storage and a member of the BlackBerry Independent Software Vendor Alliance Program, has announces the availability of a BlackBerry application for its Online File Sharing and Collaboration solution - Mezeo Persona...
Dynamic Network Service has released the latest version of Dynect Platform and the general availability of Dynect Traffic Management, a DNS-based global server load balancer. The new solution gives network and system administrators a DNS-based alternative to hardware-based global serve...
Fortinet has announced the debut of a new web security appliance that provides application and XML firewalling to protect, balance and accelerate web applications, databases and the information exchanged between them. The new FortiWeb-1000B is a mid-to-large-enterprise product. FortiWe...
Rackspace has announced that Razorfish has selected Rackspace’s cloud hosting platform.Razorfish is working with Rackspace’s cloud hosting division, Mosso, to build consumer-facing websites and web applications that can handle large traffic spikes during major promotions and product la...
VMware announced it has teamed with BlueLock to provide infrastructure for Marian College. Together they built an internal cloud, which helped the school reduce its IT cost structure while improving the reliability and performance of its IT services. Marian College serves a student pop...
Solace Systems, a provider of hardware-based messaging middleware infrastructure and GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of application platforms for Java and .Net environments, have announced a joint "space bridging" solution that can coordinate interactions between applications acros...
SOASTA has announced its CloudTest Global Platform for load and performance testing Web applications and networks. The new CloudTest Global Platform enables companies of all sizes to simulate Web traffic and conditions by leveraging the elasticity and power of Cloud Computing. This pla...
Egnyte has unveiled a hybrid cloud/on-premise file server solution: Egnyte Local Cloud. Egnyte's Local Cloud blends a hosted online solution with an on-premise solution, providing small businesses up-to-date and complete access to their file servers, whether they have an Internet conne...
GridApp Systems has introduced GridApp Clarity 5.1, the next-generation version of its flagship database automation software. At the heart of Clarity 5.1 is support for databases deployed on Cloud infrastructures and database license compliance. Cloud computing, or IaaS (Infrastructure...
Financial firms succeed and fail based on the timing of the markets, and downtime can cost millions of dollars. To eliminate this risk, business continuity software provider Neverfail and Richard Fleischman Associates, a provider of outsourced technology and IT services, have teamed up...
Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice - the very essence of Cloud Computing - has become ever more crucial in today's challenging business landscape. But it can be a complicated and expensive task, which is why we're pleased to have the Chief ...
GLOBO has launched its new CitronGO! 'cloud' software. The new breed of open mobile communication software has the ability to turn any cell phone into a Smartphone. CitronGO! provides ubiquitous computing on a single screen as it supports, aggregates and integrates a variety of protoco...
Savvis has unveiled Savvis Cloud Compute, a new virtual data center hosting and private cloud computing solution providing enterprises with an opportunity to cut costs without having to sacrifice security or performance. With the introduction of an advanced customer portal, these new o...
Aster Data Systems and AppNexus have announced that AppNexus will deliver Aster nCluster Cloud Edition. The on-demand offering of the Aster nCluster high-performance analytic database system provides a multi-terabyte-scale cloud-based option for data warehousing and advanced analytics....
RightScale has announced that it has added the new Amazon EC2 Europe cloud infrastructure to the list of clouds supported by the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Amazon Web Services global and European Amazon EC2 customers now have access to RightScale's automated cloud managemen...
Voltaire has announced that it will design a next generation high-performance 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch module for IBM BladeCenter. The new IBM custom switch will deliver 100% faster InfiniBand connectivity to accelerate performance of applications running on BladeCenter. The new switc...
IBM has announced a new agreement with Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, to deliver IBM's software to clients and developers. The new "pay-as-you-go" model provides clients with access to development and production instances of IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSpher...
Enkata has launched its new First Call Resolution Metric Plug-in. The Enkata FCR Metric Plug-in provides call centers access to the company’s FCR algorithm and delivers it to existing call center scorecards and dashboards using a cloud-based subscription service. Enkata’s FCR metric wa...
MeriTalk announced the results of its Do It Yourself (DIY) Federal IT Bailout Report, identifying billions of dollars in potential Federal IT savings. Examining a three-year spending snapshot, the report identifies potential savings from Open Source, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing...
3Tera has announced the general availability of release 2.4 of the AppLogic cloud computing platform. The release includes commercial support for both 32- and 64-bit virtual appliances running the most popular datacenter operating systems Linux, Sun Solaris, Open Solaris and Microsoft ...
Zeus Technology has announced a partnership that will provide a more flexible and cost-effective cloud computing infrastructure to their customers. Zeus now provides its advanced ZXTM traffic management software within Joyent Accelerators - virtualized servers that deliver a highly sca...
Create a new Mosso-powered site – and even add some email accounts – in less than five minutes with Cloud Sites. Load-Balancing, clustering, and redundant storage are all inherited by applications automatically. From the first byte served, sites are hosted on advanced clustered technol...
In this Webcast recorded live at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo in San Jose, CA, VMware's VP of Emerging Business, Dan Chu, shares details of VMware's plan to leverage its technology leadership in virtualization to deliver reliable, mobile technology to its customers and service provid...
"In the spirit of onward and upward," wrote Google's VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, on the official Google Code Blog at the end of last week, "we have decided to shut down the Mashup Editor, currently in limited private beta, in favor of the more powerful App Engine infrastructure." ...
Bridging the interoperability gap between on and off premise cloud computing is emerging as a key requirement for enterprise adoption. In this session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, VMware VP, Preeti Somal, revealed how VMware and others are addressing this challenge to make sea...
As a solution provider it is vitally important you don't get locked into a specific vendor’s solution. This couldn't be truer in the world of on-demand or cloud computing. The way Amazon works is vastly different from Google, and different from Flexiscale. So how do you utilize the str...
Omer Trajman, responsible for Vertica's customer-facing technical team, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. For all the Cloud’s benefits, there are new considerations when it comes to a...
IBM has announced it is working with six universities to leverage IBM Blue Cloud solutions to speed up projects and research initiatives that were once constrained by time, limited or unavailable resources, or overloaded IT systems. The Qatar Cloud Computing Initiative, driven by three...
