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Global Knowledge Trains IBM Business Partners on SoftLayer Tech; Ed Bottini Comments

Global Knowledge has delivered learning services to help IBMâ€™s business partners acquire skills around SoftLayer cloud services. Global Knowledge will provide training services on the fundamentals of SoftLayer technology through a two-day course of lectures and hands-on sessions, Global Knowledge said Thursday. â€œThrough this program, our partners are gaining the skills they need to build […] More

by Jay Clemens July 18, 2014, 3:18 pm
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Unisys Partners with IBM, Deloitte to Centralize Pennsylvaniaâ€™s Data Centers

Unisys will collaborate with IBM and Deloitte Consulting to consolidate seven data centers of Pennsylvania into a hybrid cloud platform under a seven-year, $681 million contract, eWeek reported Thursday. Jeffrey Burt writes Pennsylvaniaâ€™s state agencies will have access to support services hosted in Unisysâ€™ data centers for their infrastructures, storage, security and database services. Unisys […] More

by Jay Clemens July 18, 2014, 2:41 pm
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Unisys to Help Pennsylvania Implement Cloud Computing System; Ron Frankenfield Comments

UnisysÂ will provideÂ the state of PennsylvaniaÂ with an on-demand, cloud-based computing environment that will work to unifyÂ seven data centers under a seven-year, $681 million contract. The company said MondayÂ the contract covers managed hosting services, self-provisioning and capacity on demand for computing resources based on business needs, technical services and project, contract and facilities management. IBM and Deloitte […] More

by Admin July 15, 2014, 9:29 am
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Verizon, Renfinity Forge Alliance to Help Users in Cloud Security; Renee McCown Comments

Verizon has partnered with Renfinity to offer Terremark enterprise cloud products withÂ Renfinity’s Secure Grid service in a combined package in order to help businesses, utilities and federal agencies secure their cloud infrastructures. The companies said Sunday that they aim to help users adopt bothÂ infrastructure-as-a-service software-as-a-serviceÂ platforms. “With Verizon we can deliver a much more robust security […] More

by Admin July 14, 2014, 12:42 pm
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HP Launches Cloud Encryption Offering

Hewlett-Packard Co. has unveiled a new cloud encryption tool for customers to protect sensitive data, Infotech Lead reported Thursday. HP designed the Atalla cloud encryption system to secure data residing in the cloud and on enterprise premises such as emails, payment data and electronic health records, according to the report. Financial institutions, retailers, energy firms, […] More

by Jay Clemens July 7, 2014, 10:14 am
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Harvard Business Review Study Links Cloud Computing to Increased Business Agility

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has released the findings of a studyÂ to evaluate the potential relationship betweenÂ cloud computing usage and how businesses have marked up their agility and competitiveness. Harvard Business Review conducted a survey of 527 HBR readers from large and mid-size organizations worldwide in order to find out the views of businesses and government organizations […] More

by Jay Clemens July 7, 2014, 7:35 am
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IBM’s Anne Altman: Hybrid Model to Play a Key Role in Gov’t Cloud Adoption

Anne Altman, general manager for IBM‘s U.S. federal business, suggests that a blend of public and private cloud elements could offer government agencies more control and better security, Nextgov reported Monday. She writes that the hybrid model is gaining traction in the federal market as agencies migrate their information technology functions to the cloud. “It […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman July 1, 2014, 6:29 am
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Red Hat Selects Genesys Cloud Contact Center Tool to Transform Customer Experience

Genesys today announced that the Business Edition on the Genesys Customer Experience Platform was selected by Red Hat to help transform customer experience in the cloud while striving to provide reliability and high-performance hybrid cloud technologies to customers worldwide. Red Hat chose the platform on their capability to offer a fully-integrated cloud-based customer experience, evaluated […] More

by Admin June 30, 2014, 2:04 pm
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Teresa Carlson: Enterprises Using Cloud to Store Big Data, Make Applications

Teresa Carlson, global public sector vice president at Amazon Web Services, has said the company is working to better communicate the value of cloud services to non-commercial organizations, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Mohana Ravindranath writes that Carlson spoke Wednesday at the annual AWS conference that drew executives from the government and nonprofit sectors to […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman June 27, 2014, 11:37 am
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BMC Unveils AWS-Based IT Mgmt Tool With USDA Funding; Robin Purohit Comments

BMC Software has introduced anÂ information technology management offering to the Amazon Web Services ecosystem in an effort to comply with the U.S. governmentâ€™s cloud policy. The Agriculture DepartmentÂ funded the launch of BMC Remedy OnDemand on AWS in order for the tool to meet the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program requirements, BMC said Monday. BMC […] More

by Jay Clemens June 24, 2014, 6:41 am
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DataDirect Networks Unveils Cloud Tiering Platform for DDN Lustre and GPFS Domains

DataDirect Networks has built on its offerings in managing parallel file system data by making its WOS-Bridge platform available for DDN Lustre and GPFS domains. DDN said that the introduction of the WOS-Bridge integration with DDN’s parallel file systems aims to help users manage, distribute and retain their data from the cloud to various data centers […] More

by Admin June 23, 2014, 10:37 am
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IBM, Egyptian IT Agency Partner on Cloud Development Project; Amr Talaat Comments

IBM Corp. has partnered with Egypt’s information technology development agency to provide cloud computing development competencies to software companies in the country with the goal of helping those firms grow their offerings. Independent software vendors will have access to IBM Cloud to develop and test information technology systems and IBM will mentor software developers on […] More

by Jay Clemens June 18, 2014, 11:46 am