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News Gigas Hosts Its Cloud Hosting Platform at Interxion Madrid

17 May 2012

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Gigas, a Spanish company specialised in providing cloud hosting services, has decided to host its cloud service platform in Interxion’s Madrid data centre, from where it offers its services to its clients.

News Leading industry analyst firm selects FireHost for ‘Cool Vendor’ report in cloud security

16 May 2012

FireHost, a global secure cloud hosting company has been named one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Security: Services and Cloud Security for 2012. The report issued in April set out to identify vendors that offer innovative and enhanced technologies in cloud security that CIOs, CISOs and IT executives should consider when choosing a provider.  Earlier this year, FireHost was named in two Gartner Magic Quadrants as “One to Watch;” 2012 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, and 2012 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting.

Videos SmartCloud Provisioning

16 May 2012

IBM® SmartCloud™ Provisioning is an entry-level, infrastructure-as-a-service solution that allows quick cloud deployment. It provides automated provisioning, parallel scalability, integrated fault tolerance and a foundation for more advanced cloud capabilities. This low-touch private cloud environment offers near-zero downtime and automated recovery.

News Predicted Cloud growth places onus on the Service providers, says CIF

14 May 2012

New VMware research points to rapid increase in cloud IT

With a third of IT spend in Europe planned to go into cloud computing over the next 18 months, the stakes have never been higher for enterprises to understand what they are getting themselves into.

News EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus Cloud Database Is Now Available through HP Cloud Services

10 May 2012

Agreement Expands Cloud-Based Access to Postgres

EnterpriseDB, the leading worldwide provider of PostgreSQL and Oracle database compatibility products and services, today announced that its Postgres Plus Cloud Database is now available on HP Cloud Services. EnterpriseDB has configured its enterprise-class PostgreSQL Database-as-a-Service to be offered through HP Cloud Services, which provides a powerful new option for businesses tapping into cloud environments that are also seeking a dynamic and feature-rich database that is truly scalable.

News Virtustream Announces Cloud Partnership with nWorX Technologies JLT

09 May 2012

Leading Cloud Solution Provider Expands Geographic Coverage with Middle Eastern Partnership

Virtustream, Inc., the leading enterprise-class cloud solution provider, has announced that it has signed a partnership with nWorX Technologies JLT, based in Dubai, UAE to develop and deliver innovative cloud solutions and services in the Middle East, Africa, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) regions.

News Leading UK Charity Fusion Housing Implements Securstore Cloud Backup across its Organisation

09 May 2012

Fusion Housing, a respected housing support charity, has chosen Securstore, a market leader in enterprise Cloud Backup, to protect its mission-critical data across multiple sites. Fusion Housing provides a range of services to vulnerable individuals, including its financial Bond Bank, recycling, central services, learning, support and accommodation advice.

News Hiroshi Kobayashi appointed as new MD of Telehouse and KDDI Europe

09 May 2012

New MD shares vision at Frankfurt Data Centre Opening Ceremony

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres & managed ICT services and subsidiary of KDDI, has announced the appointment of Hiroshi Kobayashi as the new Managing Director of its European Division. Kobayashi-san succeeds Tokuji Mitsui and will be based in London, the European headquarters.

News NaviSite Launches NaviCloud Intelligent Storage

09 May 2012

Key Component for BCDR andManaging Big Data in the Cloud

NaviSite, Inc., a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, introduced NaviCloud Intelligent Storage (NCIS) that enables enterprises to store, manage, and protect distributed, unstructured content with a flexible and scalable solution. NCIS offers IT an easy to manage, secure and reliable managed cloud storage solution that complements existing storage and retention requirementswhile also addressing several new business needs around mobility and on-demand storage.

News Cloud services are now tailor-made for Syscom

09 May 2012

Syscom partners with Rise to offer customers hosted services

Rise, a provider of hosted services, has today announced that it will supply integrated business software solutions firm, Syscom, with a hosted services platform, in order to support its customers demand for a faster, more cost effective IT infrastructure

News 6fusion Expands Multi-Hypervisor Federated Cloud to Include Xen Customers

09 May 2012

Users can now use a combination of Xen Source, Citrix Xen Server, or VMware hypervisors across public, private and hybrid cloud environments

6fusion, the leading provider of utility metered public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure management solutions today announced multi-hypervisor support with the expansion of its cloud computing platform to support the Open Source and Citrix Xen platforms.

News Introduction of Akamai Terra Cloud Catalyst Allows Public Cloud Providers to Offer Industry-leading CDN Services to Customers

08 May 2012

New service makes it easy to integrate best-in-class Akamai CDN capabilities into third-party cloud provider platforms

Akamai^® Technologies, Inc., a leading cloud platform for delivering secure, high-performing user experiences to any device, anywhere, today introduced Terra Cloud Catalyst. Specifically designed for public cloud providers, Terra Cloud Catalyst can help make it easier for hosted storage, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors of all sizes to offer Akamai’s industry-leading content delivery network (CDN) services to their customers. Cloud providers further benefit from Terra Cloud Catalyst features such as incremental customer activation, pricing and billing models that closely align to the way they serve their users.

News Mimecast Extends Mobile Services to Windows Phone and Android

03 May 2012

Enterprise Mobility Boosted by Archive Search Capability for all Major Smartphone Platforms

Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving,continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has today announced that it is extending its mobile services to Windows Phone and Android. The Mobile Access apps – both available to download from today – mean that Mimecast is the first and only cloud email management vendor to offer archive search apps for all major smartphone platforms; Windows Phone, iPhone, BlackBerry and  Android.

News Enterworks Embeds Talend Enterprise Data Quality to Help Distributors Deliver Trustworthy Big Data

02 May 2012

Leading provider of multi-channel content solutions OEMs Talend Enterprise Data Quality to meet customers’ most complex big data quality requirements

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Enterworks, Inc., a market leader in solutions for managing and transforming a company’s product information into persuasive content for multi-channel sales, is deploying Talend Enterprise Data Quality to help customers cleanse and normalise large volumes of product data. With Talend, Enterworks is creating opportunities for distributors to improve the accuracy and quality of their big data, resulting in better inbound product content from suppliers and richer product content for dealer sales.

News Google Drive - a great way of sharing your files: with everyone!

01 May 2012

Data privacy should be paramount in the minds of today’s consumer. According to the Cloud Industry Forum 55 per cent of businesses cite privacy as a major concern when it comes to Cloud deployments. One would therefore think that this would be uppermost in the minds of solution providers.

News Media Friendly Chooses SkyDox’s Cloud-Enabled File Sharing and Collaboration Platform to Enhance Team Productivity

01 May 2012

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, file synchronization, file storage, and collaboration tools, announced today that it has been selected by Media Friendly to provide them with a productivity-enhancing collaboration platform. Media Friendly provides issues and crisis management training, media training, and public relations services for chief executives, directors, and managers from large enterprise and government organizations both nationally and internationally.

News GFI® Software Creates New Revenue Opportunity for Managed Services Providers with Managed Cloud Backup

01 May 2012

GFI MAX Managed Online Backup released as demand strengthens for backup services in the cloud

GFI Software today announced the addition of GFI MAX Managed Online Backup^™ to the GFI MAX RemoteManagement^™ managed services platform. The new service enables managed services providers (MSPs) to add secure data backup to the managed services they can offer customers at a time when demand for online backup continues to rise.

News IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards, recognise Rise

01 May 2012

Hosted services provider shortlisted for Service Provider of the Year

Rise, a leading provider of hosted services, has today announced that it has been shortlisted in the IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards, in recognition of its commitment to supporting its channel partners in the delivery of hosted and Cloud based IT solutions.

News UK cloud computing company iomart Hosting sponsors youth football teams

27 Apr 2012

iomart Hosting announces the first winners of its Host Your Kit competition

iomart Hosting has announced the names of the first 10 youth football teams that will wear its sponsored kit next season.

News Cloud providers should lead by example when it comes to security, says Claranet

26 Apr 2012

Report issued at InfoSecurity 2012 highlights lack of security offered to businesses by third-party suppliers

Managed services provider Claranet has highlighted the need for cloud and IT service providers to think about security in light of a report issued by PwC at this year’s InfoSecurity event in London. The report highlights the growing number of organisations that have suffered data breaches as a result of poor internal and external supplier security.

News Courion survey confirms need for managing user access in the cloud

26 Apr 2012

More than 64 percent of companies use cloud based apps in their organization;

37 percent are considering hosting IAM in the cloud

Courion Corporation, the leader in identity and access management (IAM) for access risk, today announced the results of a survey that confirmed cloud computing’s rapidly growing popularity and also uncovered concerns about protecting vital IT data and applications in the cloud.

News PwC findings supported but Security on premise and online require a similar approach, says Cloud Industry Forum

26 Apr 2012

PwC 2012 Information Security Breaches Survey asserts that more focus on security is needed for data stored in the cloud, but CIF believe the conclusion over simplifies the situation

Findings announced this week by PwC have shown that only 38 per cent of large firms using the cloud ensure that their data is encrypted and 56 per cent of small businesses do not check their external provider’s security levels. However a conclusion that widespread adoption of encryption of data remediates the issue oversimplifies the reality, costs and nature of risks asserts the Cloud Industry Forum.

News Zunicore GPU hybrid cloud offers best of virtualisation and network

25 Apr 2012

Zunicore, the cloud division of PEER 1 Hosting, today announces it is developing a GPU hybrid cloud solution to offer businesses the combined benefits of deploying physical hardware seamlessly alongside virtual servers via secured network hardware.

News 19 million cyber attacks blocked by FireHost in Q1 2012 - Web Application Attack Report

24 Apr 2012

Secure cloud hosting company, FireHost, has today revealed details about type and origin of web attacks that it has successfully blocked from causing harm to clients’ web applications and databases hosted at its secure US and European data centres during Q1 2012.

News Mimecast praised as Champion of email security by Bloor Research

24 Apr 2012

New Bloor Research report gives Mimecast’s email security ‘Champion’ status

Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, today announced that it has been placed in the Champion segment of a new Bloor Research InComparison paper. The report examines the email security market, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of key players in the space. It also features a Bullseye chart that ranks vendors as Champions, Innovators or Challengers, with Mimecast positioned closest to the middle and identified as the vendor most ‘fit-for-purpose’.

News Debriefing Software launches proven cloud-based Storage Resource Management solution in the UK

24 Apr 2012

Free, full-featured, 30-day trial version of Wizards Storage Portal® available

Debriefing Software today launched in the UK a non-intrusive, cloud-based, pay-as-you-use storage resource management (SRM) solution designed to reduce and optimise storage and backup CAPEX/OPEX for both mid-sized and large IT infrastructures.

News European cloud strategy to be presented at Cloud Computing World Forum

24 Apr 2012

The European Commission’s Megan Richards will present the results of its Digital Agenda for Europe consultations into cloud computing at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London.

The cloud computing strategy for Europe will be placed under the spotlight in seven weeks’ time, when some of technology’s biggest names come together for theCloud Computing World Forum, held at Earls Court, London, on 12 and 13 June 2012.

News Royal Ekutir Technology Ltd to Offer Securstore Cloud Backup to 300,000 Customers

24 Apr 2012

Royal Ekutir Technology Ltd has begun offering Securstore’s world leading Cloud Backup and Recovery services to its entire user base of around 300,000. The launch followed Securstore’s training visit to RETL’s Indian office.

News Magirus launches Cloud Computing Training & Certification across Europe

23 Apr 2012

‘Magirus Cloud: Foundations’ IaaS sales training is first module to be available

Magirus, a leading European IT solutions provider has announced today the launch of its Cloud Computing Training and Certification portfolio with ‘Magirus Cloud: Foundations,’ focussing on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The aim of this cloud computing training from Magirus Academy, the company’s specialist channel training division, is to educate on cloud computing and equip business partners with consultancy skills, hands on sales training as well as technical training in the future. The first module is targeted at sales representatives within business partner organisations and leads to certification supported by Colt. The goal is to ensure end-users receive the best possible advice and skills to assist them with their cloud computing implementations.

News FlexPod Is First Validated Data Centre Infrastructure for Private Cloud Enabled by System Centre 2012

20 Apr 2012

Customers Gain Speed and Flexibility with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0

For customers who are looking to benefit from the latest version of System Centre 2012 and the technologies that enable Microsoft’s private cloud, Cisco and NetApp today announced that the FlexPod™ shared infrastructure is the first data centre solution to be validated by Microsoft for the updated Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0. Through the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0 program, Cisco and NetApp have collaborated with Microsoft to help customers reduce infrastructure and application deployment time from days to hours while helping them achieve greater utilisation of their physical and virtual resource pools.

News Mozy Expanding Cloud Footprint within Enterprise into Europe

18 Apr 2012

Three Key Trends Fueling European Expansion: Increasingly Mobile Workforces, Smartphone and Tablet Use, and Acceptance of Online Backup Services

Mozy^®, the world’s most trusted provider of data protection and availability for consumers and businesses, is seeing increasing demand for its enterprise online backup solution based on some fundamental shifts in enterprise IT fueling that growth and, as a result, is launching its MozyEnterprise product in Europe.

News OnApp adds free Anycast DNS to the OnApp Cloud platform

18 Apr 2012

Enables cloud providers to out-manoeuvre Amazon Route 53

OnApp has announced general availability of OnApp Cloud 2.3.2, its cloud platform for service providers and enterprises.

News AlienVault Gives Mimecast Control and Visibility Over its Endpoint Devices

17 Apr 2012

The fully unified security architecture also helps the cloud service organization achieve ISO27001 certification

AlienVault, creator of OSSIM - the de facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), today confirmed how it has helped Mimecast gain valuable insight into the security events occurring on their grid. AlienVault’s OSSIM powered Unified Security Management Platform gives Mimecast an overview, compiled together in a control panel, that delivers visibility of what is happening in all its distributed data centers and remote devices. On top of the basic key service AlienVault’s solution also offers vulnerability scanning, executive reporting and network management.

Videos New Orleans Hornets and Mimecast

16 Apr 2012

Tod Caflisch, VP IT at New Orleans Hornets describes why he chose Mimecast and what it's been like working with Mimecast.

News Fast moving cloud hosting company, Zunicore, signs 3700 cloud businesses in its first four months

04 Apr 2012

Zunicore, the public cloud division of global IT hosting company PEER 1 Hosting, announces today that it has registered 3700 businesses just four months after its official launch in November 2011.  Zunicore, a professional-grade cloud service, offers businesses an innovative public cloud with enterprise-level compute power and reliability, packaged for project-sized consumption.

News NextiraOne – Experts in Complex Cloud Infrastructures

03 Apr 2012

Cisco certifies NextiraOne Germany as Cloud Infrastructure Partner

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has been awarded certification as a Cisco Cloud Infrastructure Partner in Germany, reinforcing the strong partnership between the two companies in the data centre market. Cisco has confirmed that NextiraOne Germany has achieved significant levels of competence in the integration and operation of its data centre solutions.

News Doyenz helps DataAngel protect leading barristers’ chambers with innovative business continuity service

03 Apr 2012

Switching to rCloud reduces CAPEX by 17% with a 55% reduction in per Gigabyte costs with critical application recovery in just 15 minutes

Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services has announced that BBS Network Communications Systems has reduced costs while improving recovery times for its Business Continuity Service by using Doyenz rCloud Technology.  BBS, an IT service provider with over 20 years’ experience, has deployed its Doyenz powered “DataAngel” service at QEB, a leading set of barristers chambers. DataAngel is helping to protect file servers and critical case management systems at QEB, a chamber that specialises in all aspects of family law from its offices in the Temple, London.

News Offices in the Cloud: how Virtual Offices benefit from flexible cloud services

02 Apr 2012

Vice President of IT Optimisation at Intergence predicts that by 2020, around 80 per cent of employees may be working outside their organisation

Dr Steven Turner, VP of IT optimisation consultancy Intergence, has outlined how using cloud services benefits mobile workers and those operating virtual offices that traditionally have to rely on high speed broadband links to their corporate data centres for connectivity.

News Jaspersoft Extends Partnership with Talend to Deliver Big Data Integration

02 Apr 2012

Open source BI leader extends Jaspersoft ETL with Talend’s big data integration technology, providing CIOs, data scientists, and BI Builders the flexibility to harness big data for advanced reporting & analysis

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Jaspersoft, maker of the world’s most widely deployed business intelligence (BI) software, has upgraded its original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Talend to include native support for big data environments in Jaspersoft ETL. 

News virtualDCS successfully launch their Virtual Service Provider (VSP) offering

30 Mar 2012

On Wednesday 21^st March 2012, Cloud Computing experts’ virtualDCS officially launched their innovative new service, which enables users to create custom Cloud solutions.

News Hexagrid and Cobalt Align to Engineer a Cloud Computing First in Disaster Recovery

27 Mar 2012

Built on the Hexagrid cloud computing platform, Cobalt Solutions launches the first cloud disaster recovery solution that provides true business continuity.

Hexagrid, a leading developer of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing solutions, announced today that Cobalt Solutions, a Las Vegas based data center solutions provider, has utilized Hexagrid’s cloud computing platform to launch the first ever cloud-based Disaster Recovery (DR) solution that offers true business continuity.  Hexagrid and Cobalt developed this solution to augment Cobalt’s already extensive DR portfolio of solutions which combine to offer businesses the most comprehensive opportunity to proceed with “business as usual” when disaster strikes.

News OnApp launches free version of OnApp Cloud, its leading cloud deployment and management platform

21 Mar 2012

Free version enables creation of Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds with off-the-shelf hardware, removing cloud entry barriers.

OnApp  has announced a new free version of OnApp Cloud, which is available for download today from http://onapp.com. OnApp Cloud enables service providers and enterprises to build and run their own public, private and hybrid clouds, quickly and easily. The free version of OnApp Cloud offers similar class-leading functionality, scalability and resilience as the full version. It’s an ideal platform for companies looking to test, develop and launch their own cloud services, free of charge.

News CloudSigma Joins Besol’s Tapp Platform for Cloud Infrastructure Management and Migration

21 Mar 2012

CloudSigma Opens up its Flexible, Customer-Centric IaaS Platform to Tapp Customers

CloudSigma, the only international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, has announced that it has joined cloud aggregator Besol’s Tapp platform, a cloud infrastructure management service, still in Beta. CloudSigma is the newest public cloud provider to join Tapp, opening up its flexible, customer-centric IaaS platform to current and future Tapp customers. With the Tapp platform, companies can not only deploy their infrastructure into a public cloud environment and manage their cloud servers more easily, but they can also migrate seamlessly between cloud IaaS providers, or fail over automatically in the event of a cloud outage.

News AMD Launches New Platform for Dedicated Web Hosting Providers

20 Mar 2012

New AMD Opteron™ 3200 Series Processor Family Changes Industry Economics for Single-Socket, Dedicated Hosting and Cloud customers

AMD today announced the latest solution as part of its ongoing Web/Cloud initiative with the launch of the newAMD Opteron™ 3200 Series processor. 

News Citrix streamlines delivery of cloud-hosted apps and desktops

19 Mar 2012

New Citrix Cloud Provider Pack provides powerful automation, app aggregation and mobility technologies for hosted cloud services

This week at WHD.global, Citrix is introducing a new “Cloud Provider Pack” for hosting providers delivering Windows apps and desktops as a hosted cloud service. This powerful new collection of enabling technologies, available exclusively to certified Citrix Service Providers (CSPs), makes it easy to set up “Windows-as-a-Service” hosting businesses that are simpler to run, less costly and better optimised for mobile devices.

News Cloud security worries should focus on data location, says Claranet

19 Mar 2012

Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study reveals 74% of respondents concerned about cloud security 

Cloud users say 'security' is their biggest concern according to a new survey, but the research does not provide detail on specific security worries. Managed services provider Claranet says that the most important security question that every cloud user needs to ask is: ‘Where is my data being hosted and how well integrated is a cloud service with network service?’

News FireHost launches secure cloud data centre in Phoenix, Arizona

15 Mar 2012

Offers greater flexibility and an ideal location for disaster recovery requirements

As part of FireHost’s global expansion, which saw the secure cloud host launch operations in Europe earlier this year, the company is now offering services at a state-of-the-art data centre in Phoenix, Arizona.  The Phoenix facility mirrors the innovative, secure cloud hosting environments FireHost has established in Dallas and London, and will allow customers an additional option in choosing where their servers reside.  This is another step in a line of offerings the company provides to ensure customers have the flexibility and control they want for their environments.  New and existing clients can now deploy secure cloud servers in any of the three locations directly through their MyFireHost customer portal.

News Mimecast Releases CSA STAR-Compliant Security Controls

15 Mar 2012

Cloud Services Provider Leads the Charge on Security Transparency

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, today announced that it has published its security controls in response to the standards set by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR). STAR encourages companies to post self assessments of their cloud services to prompt informed purchasing decisions. To date, Mimecast is one of only three industry-leading companies to have provided access to their security controls, the others being Microsoft and Solutionary.

News Masergy’s New Intelligent Internet Management Provides Network-Managed Control of Web Applications and Traffic

13 Mar 2012

Suite of Hosted Services Simplifies Network Security, Optimises Bandwidth
and Reduces Costs for Enterprises on the Masergy Global Network

Masergy today introduced Intelligent Internet Management (IIM), a network-based Internet security and content control solution that provides enterprises on the Masergy global network with detailed application control, proactive Web traffic monitoring and enhanced firewall features.

News Quest Software Meets Escalating Demand for User-Centric Approach to Managing Virtual Offices

13 Mar 2012

Today, Quest unveils its user-centric approach to workspace management that leverages the company’s proven expertise and industry-leading capabilities in desktop virtualisation, application migration and physical desktop management to deliver the most comprehensive solution on the market.

News SafeNet Deepens Cloud Capabilities with Acquisition of Cryptocard

12 Mar 2012

Acquisition Combines Leader in Data Protection with Cloud Visionary

In a transaction that will significantly broaden and deepen the authentication and cloud-based services it offers to clients, SafeNet, today announced that it has acquired Cryptocard, a privately held leader of cloud based authentication solutions.  Financial terms were not disclosed.

News virtualDCS is to launch their exciting new service at the Yorkshire Mafia conference

12 Mar 2012

On Wednesday 21^st March 2012, Cloud Computing experts’ virtualDCS are set to premier their new innovative Cloud service at the exhibition

Yorkshire based company Virtual Data Centre Services (virtualDCS) provide innovative ways to host business systems for companies around the world. The team specialises in Cloud services such as: Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, Recovery as a Service, Voice as a Service and Private Clouds.

News Six tips to cloud heaven by Peter Job, CEO of Intergence

09 Mar 2012

The IT industry is being transformed by cloud computing and 2012 is predicted to be the year this technology becomes main stream as the market for public cloud computing is set to reach US$5.8 billion by 2015. But the key challenge according to Peter Job, CEO at Intergence is how to optimise and fine tune an organisation’s infrastructure to best take advantage of the new technology. 

News Adapt named as an approved G-Cloud framework supplier

08 Mar 2012

Adapt to Offer Services Including its Enterprise Virtual Data Centre via the Government’s New CloudStore

Adapt, the independent IT managed services provider, has announced that it has been approved as a supplier for the G-Cloud services framework.  Joining the G-Cloud marketplace, Adapt will offer services including its Enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC) to the UK public sector via the new online portal, CloudStore

News Launch of Pulsant creates powerful new IT & hosting partner for the UK mid-market

08 Mar 2012

Market leading capability, nationwide network of datacentres and ‘personal touch’ will drive success

Today sees the launch of Pulsant, a powerful and leading supplier of Cloud and Managed Hosting services to the UK mid-market.  Formed by the combination and integration of Lumison, DediPower and Bluesquare Data, Pulsant is a £30 million turnover company which is poised for rapid growth fuelled by a £6 million 2012 investment plan that includes new staff, additional facilities and services as well as targeted sales initiatives.

News IMImobile Deploys IBM Software to Enhance Its Cloud Services Management

07 Mar 2012

Implements IBM SmartCloud Foundation to augment carrier-class service level management

IBM today announced that IMImobile, a global mobile data technology infrastructure and solutions provider to telecom operators, media companies and enterprises has deployed IBM software to enhance its existing service and cloud infrastructure management processes.

Videos Private Cloud with KDDI - Paul Green Arkessa

05 Mar 2012

Paul Green, Technical and Marketing Director of Arkessa speaks about private cloud architecture with Telehouse and KDDI. 

News Cloud email specialist finding increasing support for its email security solutions

05 Mar 2012

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving,continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has announced it has continued to gather momentum in the security channel by signing a number of significant new channel partnerships. These include Infosec Technologies, Security Partnerships, and LIMA Networks. Mimecast’s ability to tailor and structure bespoke proposals to meet the needs of each partner was the deciding factor for many of its new resellers.

Blog Twinterview with MIME co-creator, Nathaniel Borenstein

05 Mar 2012

Justin Pirie writes:Almost twenty years ago, Mimecast’s very own Chief Scientist Dr. Nathaniel Borenstein co-created the email format Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension protocol (MIME) and, in doing so, laid the foundations for email to become the world’s dominant personal and business communication tool.

News SecurStore Provides Cloud Backup for Enterprise Customer in Panama, Central America

05 Mar 2012

PanAmerica Capital Group, Inc, a leading financial investment and advisory firm based in Southern Central America has, in collaboration with its IT partner Manzilain Ltd, implemented SecurStore’s Cloud Backup and Recovery service to protect its business critical data.

News Red Hat To Host European Cloud Computing Tour Focused on Open Cloud Architecture

05 Mar 2012

7-city tour to feature Red Hat cloud experts and partners on strategies and technologies for building open clouds

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it will host a seven-city tour of one-day, cloud-focused events throughout Europe, kicking off on March 20 with presentations in Helsinki, Finland. The event series will cover strategies and best practices from Red Hat experts and partners on approaches for building open clouds.

News Claranet joins the Cloud Industry Forum

05 Mar 2012

Leading managed services provider becomes latest member of industry body

Claranet, the managed services provider, has today announced it has formally joined the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the industry body established to promote trust, security, and transparency within the cloud sector.

News Talend Empowers Apache Hadoop Community with Talend Open Studio for Big Data

01 Mar 2012

Based on award-winning open source integration technology, big data integration solution to be released under Apache Software License, bundled in Hortonworks Data Platform.

Talend, a global leader in open source integration software, today announced the availability of Talend Open Studio for Big Data, to be released under the Apache Software License. Talend Open Studio for Big Data is based on the world’s most popular open source integration product, Talend Open Studio, augmented with native support for Apache Hadoop. In addition, Talend Open Studio for Big Data will be bundled in Hortonworks’ leading Apache Hadoop distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform, constituting a key integration component of Hortonworks Data Platform, a massively scalable, 100 percent open source platform for storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data.

News Node4 launches cloud without the capital

01 Mar 2012

New n4Cloud will offer bespoke route to the cloud without huge upfront investment

Today, data centre and communications firm Node4 has launched n4Cloud, its new cloud infrastructure. n4Cloud is a high quality, high specification infrastructure that offers organisations flexibility by allowing them to build their own cloud-based solution using a ‘pick and mix’ approach.

News NetApp and Proact launch joint SaaS programme

01 Mar 2012

Go-to-market strategy brings Software as a Service to ISV’s

Proact, Europe's leading storage integrator and cloud services provider, is today announcing the launch of a joint commitment with global storage vendor, NetApp, which will assist independent software vendors (ISV’s) across the UK in delivering Software as a Service (SaaS) to their customers.

News Hundred not out for Rise’s channel partner programme

01 Mar 2012

Rise, a leading Gloucester based provider of Cloud computing services, is building on its success, which has seen it recruit over 100 UK based partners in just over two years, by holding two partner recruitment events in Manchester and Reading during March.

News Conexance acquires US firm, Marketing 1by1

01 Mar 2012

With this takeover, Conexance reinforces its positioning on the web and makes inroads into the international market

Conexance, a firm specialised in customer knowledge and shared databases, has acquired Marketing 1by1 and its SaaS software solutions,Campaign 1by1 and Web 1by1. This strategic move allows Conexance to offer a comprehensive proprietary range of solutions and to develop its activities internationally, most notably by entering the US market.

News GoGrid Successfully Completes SOC 1 (SSAE 16) Type II Audit

01 Mar 2012

IaaS Leader Safeguards Its Customers’ Cloud Infrastructure with Comprehensive Protection 

GoGrid today announced that it is one of the first cloud infrastructure providers to successfully complete its SOC 1 Statement of Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 (SSAE 16) audit. SSAE 16 is the new auditing standard developed in 2011 by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to replace SAS 70. This audit documents that GoGrid is financially reliable, and therefore is a safe partner for providing critical Internet hosting and data storage services. In other words, SSAE 16 defines a widely accepted, consistent way for organizations to disclose independently assessed information about the design and operation of internal controls related to the services they provide. 

News Cloudgermany.de Opens Cloud Testlab at Interxion

01 Mar 2012

INTERXION, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Cloudgermany.de will house its Cloud Testlab within Interxion’s Frankfurt data centre. This proof-of-concept test environment allows service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees.

News iomart Hosting takes UK digital media agency into the cloud

28 Feb 2012

New Brand Vision Group migrates to highly available virtual platform

iomart Hosting has delivered a highly available cloud platform to support the work of UK digital media agency New Brand Vision Group.

News NaviSite Introduces Enterprise-Class Desktop-as-a-Service

28 Feb 2012

NaviSite, Inc., a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services, today introduced an enterprise-class, cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Services (DaaS) offering that enables IT organisations to deliver virtual desktop services to local and remote users from the cloud with an increased level of security and management and the same functionality as traditional desktops.

Articles IT Services firm reduces client’s IT costs by 30 per cent with Cloud services - Case Study

27 Feb 2012

IT services provider Softwerx wanted to offer Cloud services to clients. The company worked with Rise, a firm that specializes in infrastructure-as-a-service, to develop its Cloud services. With the help of Rise, Softwerx reduces client’s IT costs and tailors services to their specific needs.

News Avere Improves Cloud Performance for Digital Domain by 25,000 Percent

27 Feb 2012

Company's NAS optimization solution slashes WAN latency for leading digital production house

Avere Systems today announced that Digital Domain Productions, a digital production company that has delivered innovative visuals for more than 80 movies including Titanic, TRON: Legacy and Real Steel, with work that has earned multiple Academy Awards, has implemented Avere FXT Series NAS appliances at a Las Vegas co-location data center to maximize IOPS and minimize latency of its cloud-based infrastructure to ensure quick access to massive amounts of computer-generated imagery data.

News Lack of understanding acting as main barrier to cloud adoption

27 Feb 2012

Perceived risks are causing delays to adoption, whilst fears over data sovereignty still reign

Perceived risks over service control and fears over data sovereignty are the key issues that are restricting UK organisations from implementing cloud services, according to recent research from Claranet, the managed services provider.

News SkyDox Awarded Accredited Vendor Status for Government G-Cloud Procurement Service

22 Feb 2012

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled file sharing, file synchronization, file storage, and collaboration tools, announced today that it has successfully completed the Government Procurement Service vendor tender process of the G-Cloud initiative and has been awarded a “Framework Agreement for the Provision of G-Cloud Services.”

News CohesiveFT Selected for inclusion is UK Government’s G-Cloud ‘CloudStore’

20 Feb 2012

CohesiveFT, leader in enterprise cloud control, is awarded a Framework Agreement to supply Specialist Cloud Services to the UK Government via it’s G-Cloud programme. The G-Cloud initiative intends to drive down IT costs, engage more with the SME tech suppliers, and increase the flexibility of procurement contracts. G-Cloud lists CohesiveFT's Cloud Container products and services for migration, networking, and orchestration on the ‘CloudStore.’

News Rackspace Eyes Government G-Cloud Contracts

20 Feb 2012

Rackspace advocates pay-as-you-go model for UK Government G-Cloud

Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been selected as a vendor to the government’s £60m G-Cloud framework. Rackspace can now supply Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and higher level Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies to UK Government departments. 

News Leading IT optimisation consultancy Intergence, announced as specialist cloud services supplier of G-Cloud

20 Feb 2012

Leading IT optimisation consultancy Intergence, a business focused on people and performance in IT infrastructure, has been announced as one of the suppliers of the UK Government’s cloud computing procurement initiative, G-Cloud.

News Mid-size businesses lead the way in cloud adoption

20 Feb 2012

Industry survey details mid-market adoption of cloud prevails in the UK

The mid-market is leading the charge towards the adoption of cloud computing, according to the latest research from managed services provider Claranet.

News Large System Integrators Losing Their Hold On Government Contracts As G-Cloud Partners Are Announced

20 Feb 2012

SMEs like Memset Lined Up To Bring Benefits Of Cloud To Public Sector

Award-winning British Cloud provider, Mesmet, has awarded a Framework Agreement for the provision of G-Cloud Services, says large system integrators are starting to loose their hold on government contracts as the G-Cloud partners are announced. 

News Skyscape Cloud Services awarded G-Cloud Framework Agreement

20 Feb 2012

Providing Assured Cloud Services to the UK Public Sector

Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured Cloud Services Company, today announced that it has been awarded the G-Cloud Framework from the Government Procurement Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office.

News SUSE Studio helps thousands easily deploy workloads into private and public clouds: SUSE unveils latest SUSE Studio user data

17 Feb 2012

Number of SUSE Studio users doubles in one year; number of cloud-ready application images in SUSE Gallery surpasses one million

SUSE today announced that the number of registered users building cloud-ready application images with SUSE Studio has more than doubled in one year to 233,500. Additionally, the number of cloud-ready application images built and maintained in SUSE Gallery surpassed one million. More and more customers worldwide are realising the convenience and time-to-market advantages of the industry's only solution available today that streamlines the configuration, deployment and management of cloud-ready application images. 

News 45% of European IT Decision Makers View Security and SLAs as Leading Barriers to Cloud, According to New Cloud Computing Survey from Interxion

17 Feb 2012

Insight into cloud trends reveals tremendous opportunity for Service Providers and System Integrators to support companies’ transition to cloud

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the results of its cloud computing survey, which found that 45% of European IT decision makers view a lack of security and service level agreements (SLAs) as  top concerns for  moving to the cloud. Created with service providers (SPs) and system integrators (SIs) in mind – two of the key groups supporting companies’ transition to the cloud – the survey results aim to provide a clear understanding of how organisations are using the cloud today and plan to be using the cloud tomorrow.

News OnApp Expands U.S. Presence With New Office, Strategic Hires

17 Feb 2012

North American growth in cloud computing market is key driver for expansion

OnApp, the leading innovator in cloud and CDN software, announced today that it is expanding its U.S. presence to support its rapidly growing North American business. The expansion includes a new office in Utah and key strategic hires across the States. OnApp also plans to grow its U.S. support staff by 50% in 2012.

News JDSU Introduces PacketPortal™

17 Feb 2012

Breakthrough Software Platform Enables Service Providers to Profitably Scale to Billions of Connected Devices and Unpredictable Bandwidth Demand

JDSU has introduced PacketPortal™, a Smart Network Application   Platform (SNAP), that allows communications service providers to profitably scale to unprecedented bandwidth demand while providing the highest quality subscriber experience.   PacketPortal uses microprobe technology to cost-effectively gather intelligence anywhere in the network for use with a suite of customer care, marketing and other applications.  These applications give service providers a new way to drive revenue, build strong brands and command subscriber loyalty.

News Netplan’s Public Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud® Powered Validation

16 Feb 2012

Netplan Internet Solutions Ltd has announced that its VMware public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud  services are underpinned by VMware's leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Netplan provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

News SolarWinds Launches Industry’s­­ First Affordably-Priced Product to Monitor Web Transactions from Cloud-Based Locations

16 Feb 2012

SolarWinds Releases Synthetic End User Monitor at Competitive Price

SolarWinds® continues to deliver powerful IT management software products at competitive prices with the release of SolarWinds Synthetic End User Monitor (SeUM) v. 1.5. SeUM allows system administrators and application support staff to monitor response time proactively for multi-step web transactions. 

News Barracuda Networks Integrates Next Generation Firewall and Cloud Web Security

15 Feb 2012

Unique Solution Provides Maximum Protection Both On- and Off-network, Offloads Intensive Security and Reporting Functions to the Cloud

Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security, networking and data protection solutions, has announced the integration of the Barracuda NG Firewall and Barracuda Web Security Flex. This integrated offering marks the first solution to combine powerful cloud-based Web filtering technology with next-generation firewall capabilities, providing maximum protection both on- and off-network, while offloading intensive security and reporting functions to the cloud.

News Scality RING Organic Storage: Rethinking Storage for the Cloud Era

15 Feb 2012

Storage at Scale pioneer demonstrates start-up success, big commercial deals, strong partnerships and widespread industry recognition

Storage at scale pioneer Scality's success in 2011 secured its position as a trailblazer for truly scalable, high performing, yet cost effective object based storage. 2011 was a landmark year for the San Francisco-based storage start-up that has invigorated the cloud storage space with the new concept of organic storage. The year's highlights started with a new multimillion dollar round of funding to fuel global expansion, a great deal of industry recognition, and ended with a raft of new customers and partners less than two years after the company's inception.

News Adaptive Federation from Ping Identity Extends Enterprise Identity Security Policies to the Cloud

14 Feb 2012

New PingFederate 6.6 enables custom user authentication methods and distributed attributes for a personalised, protected and compliant cloud

Ping Identity^®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced new adaptive federation capabilities in its PingFederate cloud identity management software that allow businesses to easily extend their existing security policies to the cloud.

News CloudBees Announces AnyCloud™ for Hybrid Deployment Flexibility and European Deployment Options

14 Feb 2012

AnyCloud Architecture Delivers Flexibility in Deploying Applications Across Hosted and On-Premise Cloud Environments, Brings Support to European Markets Immediately via AWS in Ireland, OVH in France

CloudBees, Inc. the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced the availability of AnyCloud™ for the hybrid deployment of production applications. AnyCloud provides CloudBees customers the flexibility to deploy and manage applications across a variety of data centre environments, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), other managed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, hosted data centre providers as well as on-premise, in enterprise data centres. Additionally, with the introduction of AnyCloud, CloudBees can now support customer deployments directed to specific geographies, including for the first time Europe.

News Media Management at Switch SuperNAP Just Got Easier with Nativ's MioEverywhere

13 Feb 2012

Private cloud solution offers flexible access for Studios and content owners

Nativ, a media technology company specializing in media management and workflow automation is providing a new way for North American content owners and creators to buy technology by giving them access to a content management solution that combines world-class security and connectivity with the flexibility of the cloud, on a transactional ‘on-demand’ basis.

News Janet signs framework with Liberata to provide Data Centre and Cloud services to Higher Education and Research sector

13 Feb 2012

Janet, one of the world's leading research and education networks, has today announced its framework agreement with Liberata IT Solutions to supply Data Centre and Cloud Services to the Higher Education and research community.

News Hybrid cloud attracting interest in a climate of budget and resource constraints

13 Feb 2012

• Budget constraints are seen as the biggest issue facing IT professionals, followed by lack of in-house resources and efficiency, according to survey by Vision Solutions and Frontier Technology
• Hybrid cloud singled out as preferred approach for those organisations looking at cloud computing

Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing markets, has announced that hybrid models are the most popular choice for companies looking at how they can make the most of cloud computing for their business needs. 46 per cent of those who thought they could use cloud computing opted for the hybrid model where both public and private cloud resources are used. This was followed by 41 per cent who would opt for private cloud on its own, and 13 per cent that would use public cloud platforms.

News LeanTaaS Embeds Talend Enterprise Data Integration to Enhance its SaaS Solutions

13 Feb 2012

Cloud-based lean analytic tools provider OEMs Talend’s integration solution into its SaaS platform

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that LeanTaaS, a provider of lean analytic tools running in the Cloud, has embedded Talend Enterprise Data Integration (formerly Talend Integration Suite) into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application platform that helps its customers accelerate and sustain improvements in operational performance through a suite of customised analytics, flexible data integration and an intuitive collaboration capability.

News Mimecast continues rapid growth with 50% revenue increase

13 Feb 2012

Leading cloud-based email specialist secures millionth user and is set to close this record fiscal year with $50m in recurring revenue and 5,000 customers

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has today announced record revenues for the nine months to December 31^st 2011, up almost 50 percent on the previous year. With revenues up to $36m (£22m) for the nine months ended December 31, 2011, Mimecast expects to achieve approximately $50m (£31m) in revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31^st 2012.

News GreenQloud Selects Verne Global's Data Centre Campus for Commercial Roll-out of its Truly Green Public Compute Cloud

10 Feb 2012

Verne Global to Serve as Primary Host for Compute Qloud™ and Storage Qloud™ Services

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has announced that GreenQloud®, the world’s first truly green public compute cloud, is basing its hosting service from the Verne Global data centre campus in Iceland.  GreenQloud, established in 2010, offers hosting and storage for the European and North American markets and can act a single hub for both markets.

News iomart Hosting carries out group wide virtualisation for office2office

10 Feb 2012

UK Government supplier migrates to iomart Hosting’s London data centre

Cloud computing and managed hosting services provider iomart Hosting has announced that it has carried out a group-wide virtualisation for office2office (o2o), the sole provider of offices supplies and Closed Loop document recycling services for the UK government

News Compare the Cloud Names Suresh Mandava and Dave Rokita of Hexagrid as Thought Leaders in Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing

07 Feb 2012

Hexagrid, a leading developer of Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud computing solutions, announced today that Compare the Cloud, a leading independent cloud comparison provider, named Suresh Mandava and Dave Rokita as premier thought leaders in the worldwide Infrastructure as a Service field.  Compare the Cloud made this announcement with the launch of a new cloud computing comparison website which brings together information and evaluation resources about trusted cloud vendors to ensure that customers find the right cloud solutions for the right price.

Articles Datacentres set for growth in Central and Eastern Europe

06 Feb 2012

Datacentres have experienced tremendous growth rates over the past five years, and now represent the most critical component of the Internet economy. Without datacentres, the emerging Cloud opportunities for agility and IT efficiency and increased competitiveness would not be possible to realise.

News Talend Selected by Leading Analyst Firm in “Who’s Who in Open-Source Data Quality” Report

02 Feb 2012

Talend, a global open-source software leader, has announced that it has been recognised by Gartner, Inc. for data quality in their recent “Who’s Who in Open-Source Data Quality (2012 Update)”[1] report.

News Interxion welcomes the European Commission's Cloud Partnership initiative

02 Feb 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, welcomes and supports the invitation from Neelie Kroes at the World Economic Forum in Davos to create a European Cloud Partnership.

News Data centre provider Node4 is the company to watch in 2012

01 Feb 2012

Ambitious plans and growing trends in cloud computing position Node4 as a company that will lead the pack this year

By 2014 more than 50% of global workloads will take place in the cloud, rising to 57% by 2015, predicts Cisco’s Global Cloud Index. For 2010, that number was just 21%. By 2015, one-third of data centre traffic will be cloud traffic. Cloud computing, and “meeting the big data challenge” are two of Gartner’s Top Ten strategic technology trends for 2012.

Articles Top Magazines Lower TCO - Case Study

31 Jan 2012

Condé Nast Digital Germany uses GoGrid to deliver content — securely, flexibly, and inexpensively

Condé Nast Digital Germany relies on GoGrid to distribute the high-quality content in several of Germany’s top print magazines over the web. When they visit the German-language sites for Glamour, GQ, and Vogue, readers find more than just the latest articles. Condé Nast Digital Germany provides them with archived content, communities, enhanced shopping, special microsites, and more. Reliant on advertising revenue, Condé Nast Digital Germany needs to keep its costs low while delivering an engaging experience to site visitors.

News Record Number of Exhibitors and Visitors for Data Centre World 2012

31 Jan 2012

Over 140 data centre vendors, resellers and equipment suppliers to showcase solutions between 29th February and 1st March 2012

A record number of exhibitors will attend the fifth annual Data Centre World exhibition and conference, taking place at London Olympia between 29th February and 1st March 2012. 

News “Health check essential before jumping into a cloud migration strategy”

30 Jan 2012

The IT industry is being transformed by cloud computing and 2012 is predicted as the year this technology becomes main stream as the market for public cloud computing is set to reach US$5.8 billion by 2015. But the key challenge according to Peter Job, CEO at Intergence, an independent IT infrastructure technology company, is how to optimise and fine tune an organisation’s infrastructure to best take advantage of the new technology.

News Talend Confirms Enterprise Open Source Leadership in 2011

30 Jan 2012

Open source innovator boasts 103 percent growth with accelerated customer adoption, technology innovation and community contributions 

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced significant corporate performance milestones in 2011, fuelled by increased industry demand for open source integration solutions, and marked by accelerated growth of its enterprise customer base, cutting-edge product development and continued contributions to the community. Heading into 2012, Talend is ideally positioned to further extend and consolidate its position as the leading provider of enterprise-grade open source integration solutions.

News Condé Nast Digital Germany Powers Secure, Flexible, Cost-Effective Content Delivery With GoGrid’s Cloud Infrastructure Services

30 Jan 2012

GoGrid’s Hybrid Architecture Helps Leading Global Publisher Meet Its High Standards for Data Security

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced that Condé Nast Digital Germany, publisher of top magazines including the German-language editions of Vogue and Glamour, relies on GoGrid cloud infrastructure services to distribute its content over the web. By taking advantage of GoGrid’s hybrid architecture, Condé Nast Digital Germany can control its costs and focus on innovation while providing a secure, high-performance experience to site visitors.

Articles Cloud service saves accountants 30 per cent on their IT costs - Case Study

27 Jan 2012

A case study for Rise and George Hay Chartered Accountants

Overview

Chartered accountant George Hay wanted to reduce its IT costs and implement an IT infrastructure that would grow with its business. The company worked with Softwerx, an IT services and software development firm, to deploy a Cloud infrastructure based on DataCenter on Demand technology. With the help of Softwerx, George Hay reduced its IT costs by 30 per cent and gained peace of mind from a new disaster-recovery service. 

News Richardson Eyres Adds Cloud to Managed Services Offering with NaviSite Partnership

27 Jan 2012

Leading provider of IT services to deliver NaviSite’s cloud-based enterprise services to UK customers

NaviSite Europe Limited, a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, has announced a new partnership with IT solutions and services provider, Richardson Eyres. The alliance marks a significant step forward for both companies, helping them to meet the rapidly growing demand for cloud-based managed services, and follows the recent launch of NaviSite’s UK cloud node.

News Infiniserv Launches, Providing Cloud Computing Without Limits

27 Jan 2012

Company Launches Three New Cloud Services To Grant Any Organisation The IT Infrastructure It Needs

Infiniserv, a C4L Company, has announced the launch of its three new cloud services, designed to give organisations the exact IT infrastructure they need under a price plan that suits them. Infiniserv provides virtual infrastructures ranging from single private servers to a whole data centre’s worth of machines, together with pricing plans ranging from per-minute to annual billing and in-house management of resources. This grants customers the flexibility to take on the precise service needed: from a single website server to an entire IT infrastructure to an elastic IT environment designed to deal with huge peaks in demand. As part of the C4L group, Infiniserv can also back up its services with total transparency, strict security policies, guaranteed CPU capacity and 100% guaranteed dedicated leased line connectivity.

News Vnetrix Delivers Cloud Services to Global Businesses in Hours Using CA Technologies Private Cloud Software

26 Jan 2012

Global managed service provider (MSP) uses CA AppLogic® turnkey cloud computing platform to easily deploy hosted applications and grow market share

CA Technologies today announced that Vnetrix, a U.K.-based managed service provider (MSP), has reduced the launch time for hosted cloud services from weeks to hours using CA AppLogic® software and is helping global customers, Universal Music and Atkins, to benefit from cloud-based operations. This fast-growing MSP, with a network of data centres spanning Europe and North America, is leveraging the CA Technologies AppLogic turnkey cloud computing platform to drive Business Service Innovation by reducing time-to-market for new business services, while simultaneously increasing margin.

News Magirus Clinches First Pan-EMEA Distribution Deal with Embotics

24 Jan 2012

Cost effective virtualisation and cloud management solution set to open up SME market for cloud consultancy services

Magirus, a leading European IT solutions provider has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Embotics, a Canadian company which is a leader in virtualisation and private cloud management software. The partnership represents Embotics’ first pan-EMEA distribution agreement.

News KDDI and Telehouse launch Telecloud

24 Jan 2012

New portfolio of enterprise Cloud solutions deployed within Telehouse’ state-of-the-art data centres

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT services, together with parent company, Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI, has launched a portfolio of enterprise Cloud solutions deployed within its state-of-the-art, highly secure data centres.

News 6fusion Releases Next Generation UC6 Cloud Console at Cloud Expo Europe

23 Jan 2012

New Release Improves Partners Ability To Manage And Scale In the Cloud

6fusion, a provider of utility-metered public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure management software and services, today announced the release of its next generation UC6 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) federation platform.  The company is previewing the technology at this week’s Cloud Expo Europe with general availability coming on February 1.

News iomart Hosting voted one of best web hosting companies

23 Jan 2012

UK managed hosting provider also recognised for cloud services

iomart Hosting is proud to announce that it has been voted one of the best web hosting companies and cloud service providers of 2011.

The UK cloud computing and managed hosting services provider was voted into third place, the highest placing of any European company,  in the prestigious HostReview Annual Web Hosting Awards, behind US companies Liquid Web and SoftLayer.

News It’s all about security

20 Jan 2012

End users number one concern is data security in the Cloud and yet this is FUD

The latest research from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has again highlighted end user concerns over migrating to a Cloud service model.  The research conducted in December 2011 highlighted that widely held view that many organisations cite their number one concern, namely the mitigation of risk, when committing data to the Cloud.

News Techgate plc's Trusted Cloud Computing Service Attains VMware vCloud Powered Validation

20 Jan 2012

Techgate plc, a leading provider of Cloud Infrastructure and Business Continuity services today announced that its Trusted Cloud Computing Service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Techgate plc provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

Articles Cloud communications and the converged data centre

19 Jan 2012

Alastair Mills, of recently launched Six Degrees Group, explores the use of data, network and voice services, and whether point solutions or converged services are the future. He also identifies the pros and cons that companies must assess before making the decision that is best for them. 

Until recently, there has been a very clear divide between telecoms and IT networks, and between voice and data, but that divide is starting to crumble. Telecoms companies are beginning to see which way the wind is blowing: Verizon paid $1.4bn to acquire Terremark earlier this year as part of its strategy of providing “everything-as-a-service” to business and government customers worldwide.

News Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks team up in the fight against ‘denial-of-service’ attacks by hackers

18 Jan 2012

Integration of Arbor’s Threat Management System into Alcatel-Lucent IP routers helps service providers counter the growing threat of attacks and ensures the integrity of their networks and cloud services

Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks, a leader in network monitoring and security solutions, have joined forces to tackle the growing threat of ‘distributed denial-of-service’ (DDoS) attacks by hackers.

News Datapoint teases contact centre industry with new Cloud service in the lead up to Cloud Expo Europe 2012

16 Jan 2012

Cloud-based customer contact offers businesses the flexibility and scalability to excel in service quality

Contact centres in the Cloud are set to move further in 2012 as organisations try to operate as cost effectively as possible, without compromising customer service as Datapoint prepares to launch its new Cloud offering at Cloud Expo Europe 2012. Visitors to stand 229 at the rapidly growing show, which takes place on 25 and 26 January in London, will get a hands on demonstration of Datapoint’s flagship contact centre application, Katalyst, as well as a preview of the company’s forthcoming Cloud release.

News ElasticHosts Launches across North America with scalable, easy-to-use Cloud Servers

16 Jan 2012

LA and Toronto data center openings add to existing locations to provide continent wide IaaS

ElasticHosts, the cloud server provider, has today announced its launch into North America. The company will open two new data center locations in Los Angeles, USA and Toronto, Canada, adding to its existing locations in London, UK and San Antonio, Texas. With a central, east and west coast presence sitting alongside London, ElasticHosts will now be able to provide its elastic, easy-to-use, pay-as-you-go cloud hosting to customers across North America.

News iomart Group named as one of Scotland’s Top 500 companies

13 Jan 2012

Business Insider names cloud hosting leader in its Top 500

iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting services, is delighted to announce that it has been named as one of Scotland’s Top 500 companies by Business Insider magazine.

Videos Mimecast iPhone App

13 Jan 2012

The Mimecast iPhone App delivers added value to the Mimecast iPhone users. It provides the ability to search for archived email using basic and advanced filters.

News FireHost Chooses Platform Equinix to Support European Expansion

13 Jan 2012

Equinix London and Amsterdam facilities selected to provide high-performance, secure cloud hosting services

FireHost, a secure cloud hosting company, today announced that it has selected Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data centre services, to support its imminent European cloud hosting service launch. Equinix’s state-of-the-art LD5 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in London will become FireHost’s primary data centre in Europe, with Equinix’s AM2 IBX in Amsterdam providing disaster recovery capabilities for the region.

News Cable & Wireless Worldwide and Equinix collaborate to deliver enterprise cloud platform

13 Jan 2012

• Building on the success of its successful Flexible Computing platform in the UK, C&W Worldwide expands cloud offering to customers globally
• Global enterprises will have access to world class data centre services in multiple countries

Cable&Wireless Worldwide, a global provider of mission critical communications, is collaborating with Equinix Inc., a provider of global data centre services, to become a one-stop shop for global enterprises that require best-of-breed data centre services.

News TelecityGroup Supports Amazon Web Services AWS Direct Connect in Europe

12 Jan 2012

Dedicated network connection to Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables flexible cloud solutions with lower costs, improved performance and increased bandwidth throughput

TelecityGroup, one of Europe's industry-leading providers of premium carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that AWS Direct Connect is now available in its London Docklands data centres.

News Netop Introduces Next Generation of Classroom Management Solutions With Launch of Netop Vision Pro

11 Jan 2012

World Leader in Classroom Management Software's Premium Solution Features High-Speed Screen Sharing, Other Capabilities to Accelerate Learning

Today at the BETT show, the world's leading event for education technology,  Netop introduced the next generation of classroom management software with the launch of Netop Vision™ Pro. A new powerful classroom management solution that combines ease of use with enhanced features for best- in-class performance, Vision Pro gives educators unsurpassed flexibility and control over student computer use, which ultimately results in improved student achievement. 

News SUSE Linux Enterprise Server now available on Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacentre Service

11 Jan 2012

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first Linux operating system available to customers through Dell's new public cloud offering; Dell joins leading cloud providers including Intel, 1&1, SGI and Verizon

SUSE today announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first Linux distribution for Dell’s new VMware software-based cloud offering, Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacentre Service. SUSE Linux Enterprise offers the broadest application portfolio, as well as optimisation with the VMware cloud infrastructure suite. Now, Dell customers can efficiently run a wide range of ISV applications, on demand with maximum performance, while receiving streamlined support from Dell and SUSE across the Dell public and private cloud offerings.

News Ping Identity Soars into 2012 on Cloud Identity Security Demand

11 Jan 2012

Sales Surpass $100 Million Since Company Inception

Ping Identity^®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced that demand for cloud identity security pushed annual revenue growth over 50% for the second consecutive year and enabled the company to surpass the $100 million mark in sales since its inception.  Nearly 800 enterprises, including 42 of the Fortune 100, and hundreds of millions of users now depend on Ping Identity’s standards-based cloud identity management solutions for both private and public cloud environments.

Articles Rackspace Defines Five Cloud Trends For 2012 – The Year The Cloud “Got Real”

10 Jan 2012

Infrastructural awareness comes to the fore alongside importance of open source, mobile and services

Rackspace Hosting, the specialist in hosting and cloud computing, has determined five trends that will be fundamentally important market-driving factors across the cloud computing landscape in the year ahead. As we now look to more refined and attuned levels of cloud adoption and deployment across every industry vertical, Rackspace’s Chief Technology Officer, John Engates, shares his vision for the cloud in 2012 and beyond.

News RapidSwitch goes ‘Extreme’ for cloud hosting

10 Jan 2012

Dedicated host offers HP-branded processing boost for virtualization hypervisors

RapidSwitch, a leading European supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, has announced an HP-branded ‘Extreme’ package for customers who want more processing power from their self-managed servers.

Articles Don’t fear the outsourcer, let it free you

10 Jan 2012

Outsourcing is often seen as a threat by an internal IT department, but according to Michel Robert, managing director of Claranet, this anxiety is misplaced.

On any given day, an IT department’s schedule will include a rather hefty chunk of day-to-day ‘housekeeping’ – tasks that are fairly mundane but necessary, not to mention time-consuming. And lets not forget maintenance of existing infrastructure and systems usually represents at least 80% of an IT department’s workload.  In the meantime, most IT departments are also being asked to address new business requirements without any additional staff.

News Adapt's eVDC achieves VMware vCloud Powered status

10 Jan 2012

Adapt, the independent IT managed services provider, today announced that its Enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC) service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are under-pinned by VMware’s leading virtualisation and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Adapt provides its eVDC VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

News Half of North West businesses will switch to cloud computing in 2012

06 Jan 2012

Businesses in the North West are planning to invest significantly in cloud computing in 2012, according to new research out today.

The survey of 1000 businesses – carried out by Manchester-based Melbourne Server Hosting – showed that half of all companies in the region plan to deploy the cloud over the next 12 months.

Videos Cloud Architectures with HDS and Brocade

06 Jan 2012

Brocade and Hitachi Data Systems Join Forces to Automate and Accelerate Cloud Adoption

This ESG video highlights the need for organizations to create and deploy more open and agile IT architectures in order to better respond to the business. It further describes how Brocade and HDS are working together to enable highly flexible, converged solutions by leveraging their open cloud architectures, Virtual Compute Blocks and Converged Data Center Solutions respectively, and avoid vendor lock in.

News Acision Cloud Services: on-demand, secure, scalable and globally connected Acision goes live with global data centre network to meet demand for mobile services from the cloud

05 Jan 2012

Acision, the global leader in mobile messaging, today announced the launch of an international network of cloud based data centres, enabling it to offer on-demand messaging services from within the Acision Cloud Service Store.

Articles Can business harness the benefits of the hybrid cloud without losing data privacy?

03 Jan 2012

Gary Sumner, CTO and founder of Datacastle, argues that businesses must centrally manage and enforce their data-security policies to cope with a growing panoply of cloud-services and endpoints

Radical changes in the way business stores its data are looming, with massive implications for data-security.

New Forrester research shows 66% of enterprises are moving their desktops, servers and data into the relatively uncharted territory of the hybrid cloud.

News Radware Joins OpenStack Community

15 Dec 2011

Radware joins the effort to develop the standard open cloud operating system and speed innovation in cloud technologies

Radware, a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centres, today announced that it has joined OpenStack, a global community of developers collaborating on an open source cloud operating system.

News CertiVox acquires crypto tools developer Shamus Software Limited

15 Dec 2011

Well known cryptographer Dr. Michael Scott to lead CertiVox Laboratories

CertiVox, an information security company, announced today that it has acquired Shamus Software Limited, creator of the renowned MIRACL cryptographic library.

Videos DataCenter.BZ Deploys an Energy-Efficient Cloud Infrastructure

13 Dec 2011

In an effort to keep up with rapid growth in demand for its premium data center services, DataCenter.BZ expanded its ultra-high-density data center in 2011. When turning up more than 22,000 square feet of raised floor space to support its high-density IT and telecom operations, DataCenter.BZ relied upon Emerson Network Power to optimize power and cooling efficiency and flexibility without compromising its 2(N+1) high-availability operational commitment.

News Radware to Deliver Attack Mitigation System Solution to Tier 1 Wireless Carrier in North America

12 Dec 2011

Solution based at the network perimeter will help protect against the new wave of multi-level attacks

Radware, a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced a $2 million sale of its Attack Mitigation System (AMS) security solution to a leading Tier 1 wireless carrier in North America.

News FireHost Looks Back on 2011; 50 Million Hacks Blocked and More Than 100 Percent Customer Growth

08 Dec 2011

Secure Cloud Hosting Company Prepares to Double Again in 2012

FireHost, a secure cloud hosting company, is planning substantial expansion in 2012 following a record-breaking year for the company. 2011 for FireHost included protecting customers from over 50 million cyber attacks, launching the industry’s first ever PCI DSS 2.0 compliant public cloud, securing $10 million in funding, and more than doubling its customer base.  New customers include many Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 companies such as Atlas Van Lines, Fossil, and Hamilton Beach.  FireHost continues to see considerable growth with its PCI DSS and HIPAA offerings.

Videos Solving Your Biggest Backup and Recovery Headaches

08 Dec 2011

In episode three of this series, Forrester Research analyst Rachel Dines answers questions about bacup and recovery in mixed environments and applications.

News Bi3 Solutions Embeds Talend’s Data Integration Technology to Power Cloud-based Social Media Intelligence Applications

08 Dec 2011

OEM offering “Powered by Talend” allows solving critical Big Data integration challenges for customers’ real-time, high-volume social media data

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Bi3 Solutions, the leading provider of Decision Intelligence Solutions, has embedded Talend Intergration Suite inside its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform to ensure that their applications can process and extract content from high-volumes of social media data.

Blog Mimecast iPhone App, Search your Email Archive on the go

08 Dec 2011

Orlando Scott-Cowley writes: Mimecast’s CTO, Neil Murray, said the future is all about client/cloud in his blog post about Gartner’s 2012 predictions. He closes the post by saying;

    “…the end user is king in our future and just about everyone else’s.”

Articles Private clouds demand a new approach to IT

06 Dec 2011

Cloud computing is still an abstract and intimidating concept for many businesses, and probably will be for some time. But companies can begin taking small steps toward cloud implementations by adopting private clouds and creating a hybrid environment. The key to cloud success is the ability to manage workloads – a combination of business processes (not just applications) to protect crucial information and create a more service-driven data centre.

News Platform Computing dramatically simplifies private cloud management for enabling enterprise Platform-as-a-Service

05 Dec 2011

Latest version of award-winning Platform ISF includes cloud application designer and incorporates Intel TXT support for enhanced virtualisation security

Platform Computing the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today launched Platform ISF 3.0, the latest release of its award-winning* software for building private and hybrid clouds. Designed to dramatically improve customer productivity when deploying and managing application services, the new version includes the Platform Cloud Application Designer, which allows customers to create reusable templates for deploying business applications in the cloud. The product also includes a completely redesigned user interface (UI), automated capabilities for application and service-level management, Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) support and a self-service portal aimed at easing cloud administration for IT and line of business managers. The new product is being demonstrated this week at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas at the Platform Computing Booth #37.

Videos 3 Powerhouses in one for Enterprise Security

01 Dec 2011

Raf Los, HPSW Strategy and Cloud Strategist, discuss the combination of Tipping Point, Fortify and ArcSight to bring together under one banner a powerhouse of enterprise security solutions.

News Mimecast Extends Mobile Strategy with Mobile Archive Access for iPhone

30 Nov 2011

Enterprises Can Now Maximise Employee Productivity and Flexibility with Archive Search Capability on the iPhone

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365,today announced that it has extended its mobile services to the iPhone. With the Mimecast iPhone App, employees gain a bottomless mobile inbox, and the ability to search and access archived emails from their mobile device. The new Mimecast iPhone App is free and available now for download from the App Store.

News King’s College London revamps IT infrastructure and deploys private cloud solution to support ‘Bring Your Own Device’ scheme for both students and staff

30 Nov 2011

World leading university upgrades networking infrastructure and moves to the cloud to enable roll out of flexible and mobile working solution

King’s College London (King’s), has today announced the completion of a three-year project with ICT services provider, Getronics, which has seen a revamp to its IT infrastructure to support a new mobile working strategy. The IT project, named ‘Access King’s Global Desktop’, involved upgrading the university’s networking capabilities and migrating to a private cloud platform delivered over the JANET network – the latter of which is seen as a first within the higher education sector. This move has enabled staff and students with an unparalleled user experience when it comes to mobile working. Staff and students are now able to access core applications and documents, from many devices, at any of King’s five London campuses. Users are supported by the highest levels of performance, resiliency and availability.

News HP Powers Move to Cloud for Enterprises and Service Providers

30 Nov 2011

HP advances clients’ cloud deployment, sourcing, security and learning

HP today announced new Cloud Solutions that advance deployment of private, public and hybrid clouds, enabling enterprises, service providers and governments to capitalize on emerging market opportunities.

News UniCredit Global Information Systems S.p.A. Global Markets & Treasury selects Platform Computing to deliver a private cloud environment

29 Nov 2011

Major financial institution leverages virtualisation to create shared computing platform for cost savings

Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, announces that UniCredit Global Information Systems S.p.A. (UGIS), the global information and communication technology (ICT) company of the UniCredit Group, a major European financial institution, selected Platform Computing to create a global, virtualised high-performance shared computing infrastructure for its global markets & investment banking and risk management applications to lower their costs and increase server utilisation.

News Mimecast named Security Vendor of the Year at 2011 CRN Channel Awards

28 Nov 2011

Cloud-based email management provider scoops prestigious UK award in recognition of its channel programme and security products

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving,continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has been named 2011 Security Vendor of the Year at the prestigious CRN Channel Awards.

News Ingram Micro (UK) Ltd joins the Cloud Industry Forum to further its intentions as a Trusted Cloud Broker

28 Nov 2011

Technology distributor becomes first in its class demonstrate its commitment to standards and transparency in the Cloud

Ingram Micro (UK) Ltd, a division of Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the largest global wholesale provider of technology products and supply chain management services, has formally joined the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) as part of its wider strategy of launching a portfolio of solutions under the brand of Ingram Micro Cloud.

News Doyenz forecasts top disaster recovery predictions for 2012

28 Nov 2011

Leading Provider of Cloud-Based Recovery Services Predicts the Demise of Cloud Storage in the SMB Market and a New Emphasis on Application Availability, Validation, and Web-based Management

Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced its disaster recovery-related predictions for the coming year. Chief revenue officer Eric Webster, an emerging thought leader in business continuity, predicts that the disaster recovery market will experience a flurry of changes as cloud computing technologies mature and automation drives greater cost and operational efficiencies.

News Agilisys Cloud Services signed managed IaaS contract with PDX

24 Nov 2011

Multi-national process technology firm standardises and streamlines IT with Agilisys Cloud Services

Multi-national process technology company PDX, has awarded Agilisys Cloud Services a three-year contract to provide a fully managed IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) worth approximately £1 million. The service will standardise and streamline PDX’s IT infrastructure in an end-to-end managed service covering: hosting, storage, provision of Microsoft technologies, backup and desktop support.

News iomart buys Scottish hosting company EQSN

24 Nov 2011

UK cloud computing and managed hosting company iomart expands its premium customer base

iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), the UK managed hosting and cloud computing services company, today (November 24 2011) announced that it has bought Scottish infrastructure service provider EQSN.

News Doyenz signs Blue Solutions as premier UK distributor

21 Nov 2011

100% channel model supported by UK data centre for innovative SMB business continuity solution

Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced Blue Solutions as its flagship UK distributor as it establishes itself in the UK market as a 100% channel centric business.

Articles Modern IT Infrastructures Demand New Approach to Monitoring and Management

21 Nov 2011

In an era of tight spending, reduced profit expectations, rising utility costs and environmental concerns, enterprise computing infrastructures are now increasingly reliant upon outsourced managed service and hosting providers thanks to the growing sophistication of virtualisation, SaaS, and cloud computing. Together, these trends are marking the beginning of what some believe will be a move to the “all cloud enterprise”, an organisation that relies solely on externally hosted services for its computing infrastructure. Whether or not this vision turns out to hold true for most enterprises, there is no doubt that external SaaS and cloud offerings are here to stay, and will play increasingly important roles in how enterprises deliver and consume business applications in the years ahead. 

Articles Outlook for 2012 - Data centre predictions

21 Nov 2011

Chris Smith, sales and marketing director, on365, a specialist in the planning, installing, management and optimisation of infrastructure and utility services, has identified the following key trends in the data centre industry for 2012, including new data centre monitoring tools, next stage equipment guidelines and some potential game-changing innovations by manufacturers and IT vendors.

Articles Ten Vital steps for Successful Cloud Computing Implementation

18 Nov 2011

Costas Galonis, CTO of Cloud provider Cirrus Stratus, takes you through the ten steps to check off on your to-do list before committing to the Cloud. 

If you are wading through the sea of words which has been written about Cloud computing in the last few months you can be forgiven for being a little confused. Not only is Cloud computing a new concept, the literature about it is also weighed down with new ideas and words such as virtualization, multi-tenancy etc. Since Cloud computing is a new way of doing business you have to be clear about what you are letting yourself in for. For some, the business benefits of Cloud are many – for others it will be the simple fact that Cloud allows a small business to stop worrying about its IT - something that distracts from its core function of running the business

News Doyenz launches rCloud to offer true business continuity to small and medium businesses across the UK

14 Nov 2011

Innovative solution gains local data centre, distribution and regional system integrators

Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has launched its rCloud service in the UK supported by a new distributor, local data centre and a growing community of value added resellers.

Videos Marketing Lessons from the Cloud

14 Nov 2011

Listen to Christine Heckart, NetApp CMO, give comment.

Articles Five steps to outsourcing your business IT functions to the cloud

14 Nov 2011

Outsourcing business IT operations to the cloud is a hot topic for companies at present. Many voices are extolling its virtues, with key benefits from cost reduction and increased business flexibility highlighted alongside the improved technological reliability associated with virtualised environments. 

Michel Robert, managing director, Claranet, states: “There is also, however, a current of concern coursing through IT departments, as questions are raised about the service levels, security and increased reliance on networks that an outsourced IT infrastructure will necessitate. So what practical steps should you take if you are considering outsourcing parts of your IT infrastructure from in-house physical servers to a remote, cloud environment? There are five key steps that a business should consider when putting together a business plan for moving to an outsourced cloud.”

Blog Cloud and the SME

10 Nov 2011

Marcie Terman, Business Development Director at DataFort writes: It seems that for some years, people have been trying to shove the concept of what is now called ‘Cloud Computing’ down our collective throats. Over 10 years ago Steve Jobs tried to herald the days where we would run applications on centralized computer mainframes that offered micro-leasing of software rather than outright purchase.

News Cloud adoption enabling business process innovation

07 Nov 2011

Interest in cloud services continues to increase but terminology still confuses and data sovereignty is key

Over half of UK businesses are seeing the adoption of Cloud based services as being more about business process innovation as opposed to just technical efficiency, according to the findings of survey undertaken by the Cloud Industry Forum in conjunction with The Guardian. 

News All men may have been created equal, but not all clouds are

07 Nov 2011

Cloud computing has dominated the IT agenda of late and is set to continue with the recent introduction of Apple’s iCloud and similar consumer services to the market.  But according to Michel Robert, managing director of Claranet, for business leaders, it can be hard to associate with mass-market clouds, and not enterprise-specific clouds.

News Interxion Launches Second Cloud Testlab at Its City of London Data Centre

28 Oct 2011

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the deployment of its second Cloud Testlab, a turnkey cloud hosting test environment enabling service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees.

News Statement on new Cloud Strategy and IT Implementation Plan

26 Oct 2011

The government continues to take an ambitious approach to reforming public sector IT and the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) welcomes the publication of its Strategic Implementation Plan.

Andy Burton, Chairman of CIF said:

News Timico selects BT iNet to deliver UK-wide private cloud services

26 Oct 2011

Timico, the independent internet and managed service provider, has selected BT iNet as its strategic partner to develop a new £5 million data centre.

News Enterprise leads the way on cloud acceptance

26 Oct 2011

68% of UK enterprises have adopted cloud

68% of enterprise business in the UK have either fully or partly adopted cloud technologies, according to a study commissioned by data storage and management specialist, NetApp.

News SoftLayer® Investing €55 million in New European Operation to Meet Growth Demands

26 Oct 2011

Company Extends Global Footprint with New European Headquarters and Data Centre in Amsterdam and Points of Presence (PoPs) in Amsterdam, London and Frankfurt

Expanding its global reach and IT hosting capabilities, SoftLayer^® Technologies today announced the opening of its new European headquarters and data centre in Amsterdam. Over the next two years the company will invest approximately €55 million in its European operations, which also includes new network PoPs in Amsterdam, London, and Frankfurt.

News Quest Software Updates NetVault Solutions to Enhance Enterprise Backup and Recovery

26 Oct 2011

Quest Software, Inc. has announced the availability of Quest NetVault^® Backup 8.6 and NetVault SmartDisk 1.5, the latest updates to the NetVault family of data protection solutions. NetVault Backup 8.6 enhances enterprise backup and recovery by delivering increased speed, scalability and platform support, while NetVault SmartDisk 1.5 takes deduplication a step further by supporting backups from network-attached storage (NAS) appliances.

News Citrix unveils “follow-me-data” fabric to enable the personal cloud

26 Oct 2011

New ShareFile cloud to become open platform for integrating data into other apps and services; first new Citrix products built on this platform announced

Today, at Citrix Synergy, the conference where cloud computing, networking and virtualisation meet, Citrix announced it is opening up its recently acquired ShareFile data cloud to create an extensible platform for sharing business data across a wide range of apps, devices and services. The company’s new “follow-me-data fabric” will make it easy for third-party developers and vendors to incorporate common data services like search, share, sync, secure and remote wipe into their solutions through a set of open APIs. Taking a platform approach will also make it easier to create dynamic mesh-ups that extend secure data sharing services to both new and existing apps, and ensure that user data can be accessed easily and securely from millions of business and consumer devices. Citrix also announced the first two products in its own portfolio that will be integrated into this open data fabric, Citrix Receiver, the company’s universal software client, and Citrix GoToMeeting, the award-winning collaboration solution.

News Hitachi Data Systems unveils roadmap for the Information Cloud and new cloud offerings

26 Oct 2011

Introduces new Hitachi cloud services and solution packages; provides update on BlueArc and ParaScale Integration

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today unveiled its plans for helping customers transform their data into actionable information and harness its power as a strategic asset for business insight and innovation. To accomplish this, Hitachi Data Systems has aligned its product and solutions portfolio around a 3-tiered strategy of infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud that builds on existing IT investments to provide a single virtualisation platform for all data.

News CloudSigma First Public Cloud to Add Support for Oracle Solaris

26 Oct 2011

Follows CloudSigma’s Open Cloud Approach, Giving Customers Unprecedented Flexibility and Control of their Virtual Data Centers in Public Clouds

CloudSigma, the international, pure-play cloud server and virtual data center provider, today announced the addition of Solaris, Oracle’s enterprise operating system, to its cloud platform, making it the first major public cloud to support Solaris. Solaris supports more than 11,000 third-party enterprise applications across a wide range of industries and was engineered specifically for cloud environments. Now, with CloudSigma’s added support, customers can benefit from Solaris’ advanced security, efficiency, scalability and performance in a public cloud with complete control and unprecedented flexibility.

News Mimecast Ranked Seventh Fastest Growing Technology Company in the UK in the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50

24 Oct 2011

Mimecast attributes its 3102% revenue growth to its unique unified email management platform, and the ongoing shift from on premise to cloud-based email systems

Mimecast has announced that it ranked number seven in the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a list of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years. Mimecast, which supplies cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, grew 3102% during this period. The company also came sixth on the London list.

News Red Hat Expands Cloud Ecosystem through Partnership with Virtustream

20 Oct 2011

Virtustream Named Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider and Announces Multi-Hypervisor Support for its Enterprise Cloud Platform, xStream

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Virtustream Inc., a leading provider of cloud software solutions and services, has announced that Virtustream has joined Red Hat's cloud ecosystem as a Premier Certified Cloud Provider.  With this, Virtustream has added support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to its xStream cloud platform and now offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux on-demand to customers.  Virtustream can now offer its customers a more scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure through enhanced support within a unified private and multi-tenanted enterprise cloud, and Red Hat customers can also now easily deploy on xStream.

News Insurance firm eases IT security and availability concerns with private Cloud

20 Oct 2011

Private Cloud means CCV has the service level the business demands and is in control of its data

Leading insurance intermediary Cullum Capital Ventures (CCV) has turned to Cloud services provider, InTechnology, to adopt the private Cloud to ease concerns over regulatory compliance and security.

Articles Is the Data Centre facing extinction?

20 Oct 2011

An industry viewpoint from Roger Keenan, managing director at City Lifeline

Enterprise data centres, government data centres, commercial data centres and colocation houses have seen a massive expansion over the last ten years or so. Every organisation in the world uses more computing power today than it did five years ago and five years ago used more than it did ten years ago.  Even small children who can barely walk use more computing power.  Is there any end?  And how can the world cope with the space and electrical power that all this computing needs?

News Exinda Accelerates UK Market Traction at IP Expo 2011 with Virtual WAN Optimisation Appliance

20 Oct 2011

New Product Enhances Cloud, Enterprise WAN Optimisation, Supports Mobile Road Warriors

Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimisation solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management, today announced a fully featured new virtual appliance, which delivers each of the key benefits delivered by Unified Performance Management with its hardware-based WAN optimisation solutions in a virtualised software load. Enterprises and service providers can use the Exinda virtual appliance to deliver WAN optimisation services to users and customers without having to use a dedicated hardware appliance.

News European Court of Human Rights and Web 2.0 Start-up SkyDox Collaborate

20 Oct 2011

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud-enabled collaboration and productivity tools for cross-functional and distributed teams, today announced that it has been selected by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to develop a new search engine platform for all ECHR legal ruling documentation hosted on its public-facing website. The new system will allow more than 4.6 million visitors a year to search and retrieve an ever-expanding library of more than 90,000 ECHR judgment-related documents in a more efficient and intuitive manner.

News Talend Expands OEM Program to Broaden Options for Embedding Integration Technology

20 Oct 2011

To meet increasing demand, the “Powered by Talend” program offers comprehensive features and products—including the industry’s first embeddable Big Data technology—to software vendors and SaaS providers

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced an expanded OEM Partner Program designed to help software vendors and SaaS providers embed enterprise-grade open source integration technologies in their offerings. With “Powered by Talend,” partners can leverage all components of the Talend Unified Platform, a set of robust and powerful data management and application integration technologies that deliver core functionality at a fraction of the cost of custom development.

Videos 2011 IT Capabilities & Needs Survey Results

20 Oct 2011

Protiviti's 2011 IT Capabilities and Needs Survey identifies top areas of concern for CIOs and their teams. This video offers a snippet of some of the notable findings of this survey which include virtualization and cloud computing, social media, security and privacy, regulatory change, and data classification and management are among their highest priorities.

Articles 2011 Information Technology Capabilities and Needs Survey

20 Oct 2011

More than 200 respondents, including CIOs, chief technology officers, chief security officers, and IT vice presidents and directors, participated in the study. Respondents answered more than 100 questions in three general categories: Technical Knowledge, Process Capabilities and Organizational Capabilities.

News Cisco Network Innovation Enables the Most Scalable Data Center Fabric on the Planet

20 Oct 2011

Cisco scales data center fabrics to more than 12,000 10GbE server ports – double the market’s next-best and at half the cost; Cisco firewall to raise the bar for virtualized security  

As Internet traffic volumes increase at exponential rates (by 2013 it’s predicted that there will be 56 exabytes (about 12.8 billion online movies) crossing the internet per month) the data centers that house and secure applications and data need to scale while remaining highly secure. Today, Cisco® introduced ground-breaking additions to its data center networking portfolio that address these needs and deliver unmatched architectural flexibility and scale for physical, virtual or cloud computing environments.

News Datrix partners with Siemens Enterprise Communications to deliver Cloud Services

20 Oct 2011

Datrix Cloud Services to be based on Siemens Enterprise Communications leading OpenScape Portfolio

Siemens Enterprise Communications, a premier provider of enterprise communications, has today announced that Datrix will launch its Cloud Services using its industry leading OpenScape portfolio, including OpenScape Voice, OpenScape UC Application and OpenScape Web Collaboration.

News iomart Hosting unveils vCloud

20 Oct 2011

iomart Hosting’s Public Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud® Powered Validation

iomart Hosting one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting, today announced that its iomart public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud® Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), iomart Hosting provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

News Doyenz Launches rCloud Disaster Recovery Service for Virtual Environments

20 Oct 2011

rCloud Provides SMBs with the Fastest Speed to Recovery in the Industry

Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced rCloud, a disaster recovery solution for SMBs that offers recovery for virtual environments in minutes instead of days.  Based on a deep level of automation, rCloud is the only cloud recovery solution that restores virtual production server environments in less than fifteen minutes, providing access to critical business applications.

News The Bunker adds Anderson Zaks to growing Financial Services customer roster

20 Oct 2011

Innovative international card payment provider moves to The Bunker for increased security, business continuity and PCI DSS compliance

The Bunker, providers of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that Anderson Zaks, one of the leading suppliers of international card payment processing software and services has moved its credit card transaction processing to The Bunker. Anderson Zaks has chosen The Bunker for increased security, business continuity and PCI DSS compliance.

News ActivIdentity Launches New Fraud Detection and Cloud Security Capabilities

18 Oct 2011

4TRESS Authentication Appliance Enables Enterprise and Banking Customers to Deploy a New Level of Multi-Layered Strong Authentication More Quickly and Affordably

ActivIdentity Corporation, a global leader in secure identity solutions, part of HID Global today introduced 4TRESS Authentication Appliance  that offers a complete multi-layered strong authentication, fraud detection and cloud security capabilities to enterprises, banks and ecommerce sites. The new 4TRESS Authentication Appliance FT2011 model provides more than 15 versatile strong authentication methods that can be used in conjunction with transparent new adaptive authentication and fraud detection techniques to achieve more security, more conveniently for end-users, and more affordably. 

News UNIT4 Becomes a Member of the Cloud Industry Forum

18 Oct 2011

Global business software company becomes the latest organisation to endorse CIF and its Code of Practice

UNIT4, a leading provider of business software for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC), today announced it has joined the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF). UNIT4’s accreditation to CIF will provide its customers with additional reassurance that its cloud services meet the requirements of the Code of Practice implemented by the industry body.

News Citrix accelerates cloud data strategy with acquisition of ShareFile

17 Oct 2011

Market leading provider of secure, cloud-based document sharing to form foundation of Citrix “follow-me-data” platform

Citrix Systems has announced it has completed the acquisition of ShareFile¹, a market leading provider of secure, cloud-based data storage, sharing and collaboration. The ShareFile product line makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to securely store, sync and share business documents and files, both inside and outside the company. ShareFile’s centralised cloud storage capability also allows users to share files across multiple devices and access them fromany location. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Articles Cloud cover for the Small Business

17 Oct 2011

The changing landscape for SMEs

Based in Northampton, Mooncomputers are a leading provider of small & medium sized business IT support and services. The company has been providing IT operations to the SME community, across a variety of verticals, for over ten years. 

News Agilisys Cloud Services Simplifies Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS)

17 Oct 2011

David Cotterell appointed Managing Director to spearhead private sector growth for Agilisys

Agilisys, one of the UK’s most innovative IT and business services providers, has expanded its cloud services offering by launching Agilisys Cloud Services, a managed IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) providing a suite of scalable, modular and customisable cloud services including infrastructure, co-location and hosting solutions, along with associated consultancy services, in Agilisys’ dedicated, highly secure, data centres across the UK.

News New Red Hat Solutions Enable Customers to become Intelligent, Integrated Enterprises

13 Oct 2011

Updates to JBoss Enterprise Service Bus, data services and business rules platforms drive complex event processing and active decision-making

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of significant enhancements to its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform and JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS) product lines. Together, updates to the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), data and business rules platforms enable a more intelligent, integrated enterprise by connecting applications and complex event processing (CEP) services across the enterprise.

News Interoute named European Unified Communications Service Provider of the Year in 2011 Frost & Sullivan European ICT Awards

12 Oct 2011

Interoute recognised for outstanding contribution to unified communications market

Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, today announced it has been awarded the title of Unified Communications European Service Provider of the Year in the 2011 Frost & Sullivan European ICT awards. Interoute received the award at a London awards banquet, on 29 September, where Interoute was commended for leading the way in making enterprise services available from within the cloud.

News ICM Joins the Cloud Industry Forum

12 Oct 2011

IT infrastructure and business continuity provider becomes latest member of industry body

ICM, the UK based cloud services business and part of the Phoenix IT Group Plc, has become the latest organisation to join the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the cloud sector.

Videos ESG on Cloud Storage

10 Oct 2011

Terri McClure, ESG Senior Analyst for IT infrastructure discusses the top criteria for success in cloud storage.

Articles Security and access issues in cloud need to be addressed

10 Oct 2011

Robert Rutherford, managing director of QuoStar Solutions, makes some very valid points about the rise of cloud computing, but there are two crucial considerations that also need to be considered by any company looking to make the switch, namely around security and access.

News Cloud is not a ‘one size fits all’ solution for SMEs, experts at Northdoor advise

10 Oct 2011

In association with the Cloud Industry Forum, Northdoor, the IT consultancy and solutions provider, hosted a breakfast seminar on 6^th October with a group of senior executives and business owners from around the London area.

Videos Mimecast BlackBerry Archive Search - How it works

06 Oct 2011

Mimecast BlackBerry Archive Search - Drive productivity - Put email archives at BlackBerry users' fingertips. Give your BlackBerry users the power to access their entire email archive via the default BlackBerry interface:

News NextiraOne appoints Aman Khan to lead Data Centre Business in Europe

06 Oct 2011

Increased Focus on Virtualisation, Fabric Computing and Cloud

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has announced the appointment of Aman Khan to lead its Data Centre Business for the NextiraOne Group.  The announcement highlights the growing importance of the data centre market for NextiraOne and supports its strategy to further develop its international Data Centre business, focusing on Virtualisation, Fabric Computing and Cloud solutions. The company continues to build on significant customer wins and its growing relationships with key technology and ecosystem partners.

News Dell joins the Cloud Industry Forum

06 Oct 2011

Cloud infrastructure and services provider recognises the importance of transparency, capability and accountability

Dell has furthered its dedication to cloud computing, announcing today that it has joined the UK Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the cloud technology marketplace.  The move demonstrates growth around Dell's Cloud Computing Solutions portfolio, offering customisation to meet the needs of hyperscale data centres around the world. 

Articles Supercomputing – The Silver Lining to the cloud

06 Oct 2011

A topic that has been, and will be on the mind of any CIO or IT manager is budget cuts. With the economic downturn still looming, this is something that every company has had to deal with. So as IT spending has been forced to be re-evaluated, we have seen more companies looking to hosting providers for their IT needs. Moving to a hosting provider can save money in many ways; firstly there isn’t the need to purchase servers as they can be leased through a hosted service. This eliminates the need to provide storage for them, power them, cool them or even provide maintenance for them. This will free up valuable resources internally. So as we continue to see more businesses move towards outsourced environments, we are also seeing more complex services venture into the hosted industry.

News SkyDox Upgrades Cloud Enabled Collaboration Platform to Drive Team and Individual Productivity

04 Oct 2011

• Customer-lead collaborative and cross platform functionality enhancements
• New improved user interface and augmented feature set  
• Extended file and folder-based structure improves simplicity and ease of use

SkyDox, a leading provider of cloud enabled content management, file sharing and collaboration platform for cross functional and distributed teams, today announced that it has launched a new version of its platform. The new version builds on two key attributes: ease of use and open cross-platform functionality; ensuring that users can drive efficiencies when collaborating with colleagues, suppliers, business partners and customers.

News Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative enters expansion phase

04 Oct 2011

Looking for 40 talented individuals to help build Green IT technologies

The Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative (GUCI), a group of interlinked technologies that offers a complete, end to end Green IT ecosystem, has launched a second phase of intense expansion.

News Symantec Unveils New Platform for Cloud Security at Vision Conference

04 Oct 2011

Symantec Corp., (Nasdaq: SYMC) at its Vision Barcelona event today, provided customers and partners their first look at Symantec O3, a new cloud security platform designed to protect all enterprise cloud applications and cloud infrastructures. Symantec O3 combines access control, information protection and compliance control in a single security solution, allowing enterprise customers to extend their internal security policies to public and private cloud services.

Videos Quest on the Board - IAM Framework Optimization

03 Oct 2011

Learn how to build identity intelligence into your IAM framework with Quest One Identity Solutions -reducing complexity, increasing security and compliance and empowering business control and visibility.

News Node4 brings total flexibility to businesses with new cloud computing service offering

03 Oct 2011

Data centre and communications firm Node4 will broaden its range of services by launching nCloud ˆ a brand new cloud-based infrastructure. nCloud is a high quality, high specification infrastructure that offers organisations ultimate IT flexibility by allowing them to build a bespoke solution that works hand in glove with business requirements.

News Mimecast Hits The Bloor Research Bullseye for Best Practice Email Archiving

30 Sep 2011

Bloor Research report gives Mimecast’s UEM ‘Champion’ Status for email archiving

Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, today announced that it has been placed in the Champion segment of a new Bloor Research InComparison Paper. The paper, which features a Bullseye chart that ranks vendors as Champions, Innovators or Challengers, examines the email archiving market, as well as evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of key players in the space.

News MobileIron and Accellion Partner to Provide Enterprises with Secure Mobile Device and Content Management

30 Sep 2011

Accellion Mobile Apps Available in MobileIron’s Enterprise App Storefront to Help Enable Mobile Security Management of Devices and Data

Accellion®, the award-winning pioneer in enterprise-class, secure collaboration and file sharing solutions, andMobileIron, the innovator in enterprise management and security for mobile devices and apps, today announced a partnership to help enterprises secure, manage and monitor mobile devices and the data shared via these devices. 

News Telehouse Europe joins the Cloud Industry Forum

30 Sep 2011

Co-location provider commits to transparency in the Cloud

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT services,  has joined the Cloud Industry Forum, the body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the sector. In joining Telehouse becomes the latest organisation to commit to achieving a common standard of best practice within the IT industry.

News Over two-thirds of IT directors worried about cloud sprawl

28 Sep 2011

Study highlights concern over spiralling costs as cloud-based services grow in popularity

Independent research commissioned by Opsview, the open source IT monitoring software provider, has revealed that 67% of UK organisations are concerned about the growing threat of cloud sprawl as cloud-based services become more popular across the enterprise. This is due to the speed and ease of deployment and the fact that staff can purchase services without the involvement of the IT department. With this in mind 57% of IT directors admitted to being concerned that as paid for cloud services start to be more widely used by employees, costs could spiral out of control.

News Stonesoft’s a2Cloud solution offers strong authentication with enhanced usability

28 Sep 2011

Network security provider Stonesoft, is today announcing the availability of its new Stonesoft a2Cloud solution. The solution offers secure access to the cloud with unparalleled usability and minimised TCA (Total Cost of Administration)/TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).

News Interoute announces three year ICT infrastructure and hosting partnership with UEFA

27 Sep 2011

Europe’s largest private cloud services platform to support UEFA’s entire business operations and online presence for next three seasons

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the governing body of football in Europe, has selected Interoute’s pan-European cloud services to support all its business, football competitions and events over the next three seasons. Interoute will host all applications and systems used directly by UEFA including its Football Administration and Management Environment (FAME) and the UEFA.com website.

Articles Popularity of cloud computing is continuing to soar

27 Sep 2011

Although not a new concept, the popularity of cloud computing is continuing to soar, says Robert Rutherford, Managing Director of, QuoStar Solutions. Many companies, however, are still unsure about what impact "moving to the cloud" will have on their business continuity plans

News Maxeler launches Maximum Performance Cloud Computing with MaxCloud

27 Sep 2011

High-performance dataflow computing now available in the Cloud

Maxeler Technologies, pioneer of Maximum Performance Computing and provider of complete acceleration solutions, today announced the launch of MaxCloud, the industry's first cloud implementation of a high performance dataflow computing system.

News Verizon Wholesale Cloud Services Speak Volumes With Communications Provider Global Gossip

27 Sep 2011

Computing-as-a-Service Provides Flexibility, Security and Reliability for the Australian-Based Company

Australia-based Global Gossip has turned to Verizon Global Wholesale for a robust cloud computing platform that supports the worldwide communications services provider’s 300 sites across Australia, Europe, Fiji, New Zealand, the UK, and the US.

News Mozy Improves Server Backup to the Cloud

27 Sep 2011

Enhancements allow larger file sets and provide dramatically faster backup service for businesses backing up servers to the cloud with MozyPro

Mozy®, the industry-leading online backup service from EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), today announced improved features to its MozyPro® server backup service, making it faster and easier to back up business servers to its world-class data centers. Specifically, Mozy announced today a 100X improvement in file scanning capacity for larger data sets while introducing the Mozy Data Shuttle^TM, a new service that transfers or “shuttles” an encrypted copy of big data sets from customers to Mozy’s data centers. These enhancements are designed to enable SMBs and larger businesses to back up servers to Mozy’s secure, off-site data centers without sacrificing time or performance associated with the initial backup of large file sets over the Internet.

Articles Product Review: Mimecast Unified Email Management

26 Sep 2011

The reviewer, Exchange MVP and creator of ExclusivelyExchange.com J. Peter Bruzzese, recognized the platform’s ease of use, and its deep levels of functionality, flexibility and integration.

It’s not often I find a product overwhelming (in a good way). Typically, I find products do what they advertise themselves to do within the Exchange realm with a feature or two that might impress me along the way. Where Mimecast’s Unified Email Management (UEM) blew me away is that it does everything it advertises so smoothly, through a single console. Through cloud-based, geographically dispersed servers, they provide a 100% service availability SLA (with stiff financial penalties) for their solutions as well.

News Mimecast’s Unified Email Management Solution Wins Gold in Product Review from Leading Exchange Community Website

26 Sep 2011

In-depth product review by Exchange MVP J. Peter Bruzzese says Mimecast’s UEM has ‘hit it out of the park’

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud-based emailarchiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365,  announces that its Unified Email Management (UEM) product has been confirmed as aMSExchange Gold Award winner following a detailed product review.  The reviewer, Exchange MVP and creator of ExclusivelyExchange.com J. Peter Bruzzese, recognized the platform’s ease of use, and its deep levels of functionality, flexibility and integration.

Videos Open Data Center Alliance and Open Compute Project Announce Collaboration @ IDF2011

23 Sep 2011

The Open Data Center Alliance and Open Compute project announce collaborative efforts to accelerate the development and adoption of cloud computing standards at the Intel Developer Forum 2011.

News Vision Solutions Partner Network Supporting Customers With Cloud Recovery

22 Sep 2011

More than 70 organisations across the UK rely on hosted business continuity and cloud –based disaster recovery solutions powered by Double-Take range of products

Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing markets today announced that more than 70 organisations in the UK are now relying on its real-time data replication products in order to protect their critical business data in the cloud. Through its Cloud Protection and Recovery Programme, Vision Solutions is working with 24 service providers in the UK to provide customers with simple effective business continuity and cloud recovery services that protect their critical IT systems and applications.

News Brocade Strengthens Application Delivery Switching Performance and Security for Cloud-Optimised Data Centres

21 Sep 2011

Compact Application Delivery Switch with the Highest Gigabit Ethernet Fibre Density Provides High Scalability, Efficiency and Flexibility

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) expands customer control with the introduction of the Brocade® ServerIron® ADX 1000F compact application delivery switches, which includes the benefits of combined copper and fibre connectivity. This extension to the award-winning Brocade ADX 1000 Series is designed to deliver increased customer choice and flexibility for cloud-focused service providers, financial institutions and governmental agencies while also setting the industry benchmark for application delivery switching performance, scalability and investment protection. The result is up to 50 percent power savings and improved data transmission reliability and security while also dramatically consolidating data centre rack footprint.

News Mimecast placed in Sunday Times Tech Track 100 for the second consecutive year

19 Sep 2011

Cloud-based email management company achieves average annual growth rate of 97% over three years

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, yesterday celebrated the news that the company has been ranked for the second consecutive year in the prestigious Sunday Times Tech Track 100.  Mimecast, which grew at an average of 96.79 percent over the last three years, was placed 16^th, reflecting the company’s rapid growth both within the UK and abroad.

Blog Gold Stars, for Mimecast’s Unified approach to Email Management

19 Sep 2011

Today is a brilliant day for us at Mimecast writes Justin Pirie...

We’ve been awarded a four star gold review by one of the worlds largest Exchange communities: MSExchange.org! The highest possible rating. I can’t express how excited we are here at Mimecast to have this well respected blog and community praise our service like this because these accolades don’t come every day and I wanted to explain in more detail why it matters so much.

Videos Bill Swanton Previews the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Applications Track

14 Sep 2011

Cloud, software as a service, social, collaboration, mobile, integration and intelligence technologies will have a significant impact on how applications are sourced and managed. The applications track focuses on how these forces will dramatically overhaul the application portfolio and require new skills for application leaders to balance new and legacy investments.

News ISACA’s Information Security and Risk Management Conference Features Cloud Computing and PCI DSS Guidance

12 Sep 2011

14 – 16 November in Barcelona, Spain

With security continuing to be one of the top priorities for C-level executives, ISACA has today revealed a number of key sessions at its annual Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) Conference in Europe. The three day event, to be held in Barcelona from 14-16 November, offers a fresh perspective on today’s challenges and future trends, including PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance, Cloud Computing and Data Loss Prevention. With a mixture of industry professionals and end user case studies, this year’s line will have a variety of speakers—including representatives from the PCI Council, Deloitte and Touche, Emirates General Petroleum Corp, Telefónica and VISA— all sharing their invaluable insight and expertise, but perhaps more crucially their experiences of overcoming these hurdles. Attending delegates will receive the advice and tools needed, complemented by an unrivalled business insight, to design and implement workflows and practices to overcome these concerns, some as soon as they return to the organisation.  

Videos IlliniCloud Video Case Study

12 Sep 2011

Jason Radford, System Administrator for IlliniCloud, a cooperative providing low cost infrastructure for the educational community, gives his view of how not to fear automation. Virtualization and Cloud can translate into high degree of automation and can dramatically increase cost savings.

Videos Server Cloud Canada

12 Sep 2011

Enhance your IT Infrastructure and cloud services with Blade System Matrix

News The Open Group releases guide “Cloud Computing for Business”

12 Sep 2011

Leading global IT standards organisation introduces new book providing guidance and best practices for enterprises to maximise ROI fromcloud computing

The Open Group today announced the immediate availability of its new book, Cloud Computing for Business, which takes an in-depth look at cloud computing and how enterprises can derive the greatest business benefit from its potential. The publication is part of the ongoing work of The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group, which exists to create, among buyers and suppliers, a common understanding of how enterprises of all sizes and scales of operation can use cloud computing technology in a safe and secure way in their architectures to realise its significant cost, scalability and agility benefits.

News MobiDM 4 manages mobility from the cloud

06 Sep 2011

Mobility ecosystem for Mobile Device Management, Application Management and Security

Enterprise mobility specialist VeliQ introduces the 4th generation 'Mobility as a Service' (MaaS) solution for the platform-independent management of mobile devices and applications in companies. MobiDM 4 goes considerably further than Mobile Device Management solutions, with extensive functionality for application management and security. ICT managers can use it to simply manage the fast-growing penetration of Bring Your Own device by employees and the use of business apps through an enterprise app store in the cloud. MobiDM 4 is also extended with support for role-based user rights, context-aware functionality and a software development kit (SDK) for the addition of complementary functionality by partners.

News Dimension Data Launches Data Cetnre Networking Assessment Service

06 Sep 2011

Data centres are at the beginning of the most important transition since the move away from mainframes

Traditional network architectures and network technology will not deliver the performance and functionality needed to support the fully evolved and virtualised data centre.  That’s according to specialist IT services and solutions provider, Dimension Data which announced today the availability of its Data Centre Networking (DCN) Assessment service that helps organisations implement a future-state data centre architected to support their future IT strategy and business objectives.

News Mimecast launches archive search capability for BlackBerry® to increase mobile workforce productivity

01 Sep 2011

Unified Email Management provider launches first email archiving solution to integrate with the BlackBerry email application, with more mobile platforms to follow

Mimecast®, the leading supplier of cloud based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, today announced its new email archiving service for BlackBerry smartphones. The new Mimecast service aims to increase mobile workforce productivity by giving users access to their entire personal archive through their standard BlackBerry email interface. Users will be able to search and view their Mimecast personal archive from a BlackBerry handset, copy email from the archive to their inbox, and reply and forward archived messages.

News Cloud Industry Forum joins Third Party Assurance initiative

30 Aug 2011

CIF partners with business assurance initiative to help organisations overcome third party security risks

The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) today announced it has partnered with the Third Party Assurance Centre (TPAC), a business assurance initiative, formed to help minimise outsourcing risks. Other industry bodies partnering with TPAC include the Information Security Forum, Cloud Security Alliance, Common Assurance Maturity Model, and the Payment Card Industry board of advisers. 

Videos Birketts Exchange 2010 Migration Case Study

30 Aug 2011

Watch Birketts Exchange 2010 Migration Case Study with Mimecast. Learn More about Mimecast Exchange Migration Assist Offerhttp://www.mimecast.com/migrationassist

News EnterpriseDB Announces Postgres Plus® Cloud Server

26 Aug 2011

First PostgreSQL database-as-a-service Supports Public and Private Clouds including Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus and Bare Metal Deployments with Oracle Compatibility Features

EnterpriseDB, the leading worldwide provider of PostgreSQL and Oracle compatibility products and services, today announced Postgres Plus® Cloud Server, a full-featured, enterprise-class PostgreSQL database-as-a-service (DaaS) for public and private clouds with support for Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus.  In addition, Postgres Plus® Cloud Server can be used outside the cloud as an easy-to-use scale-out database architecture for bare metal deployment in standard data centers.

News Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch

26 Aug 2011

Verizon Communications Inc. announced today that it has acquired CloudSwitch, an innovative provider of cloud software technology, in a deal that will simplify the move to the enterprise cloud and help to boost industry adoption.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Videos Jewelry Television Chooses Wyse Cloud Client Computing

26 Aug 2011

Return on investment is one of the hallmarks of information technology. It's typically measured in dollars saved or dollars earned; sometimes in time savings, other times in uptime.

News UK hosting leader iomart Hosting helps internet consultancy reduce servers

25 Aug 2011

HBS internet goes virtual with iomart Hosting

Cloud computing and managed hosting leader iomart Hosting has helped UK consultancy HBS Internet to virtualise.

HBS Internet services 150 clients across the UK and Europe, ranging in size from multi-nationals and large organisations right down to the smallest of businesses, providing them with broadband, hosting, SEO services, web maintenance, web design, backup services as well as mail and file transfer management. It also helps clients with their IT and web infrastructure giving valuable commercial advice and support.

Blog IT Pet Peeves: Email

16 Aug 2011

Orlando Scott-Cowley from Mimecast writes:Email has evolved to be one of the most important and relied upon forms of communication and collaboration within the workplace. Unfortunately, the second email goes down, employees are often quick to either blame IT or jump to another email service during the downtime.

News Platform Computing recognised for second consecutive year at International Business Awards

12 Aug 2011

Company earned Distinguished Honouree medal for ‘Company of the Year’ in computer software for growth in cloud management and business analytics

Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, has earned a Distinguished Honouree medal for accomplishments in computer software in the “Company of the Year” category in the 2011 International Business Awards (IBA).  The International Business Awards are the only global business awards programme honouring great performances in business. As a 2011 honouree, Platform Computing was selected for applying its already solid foundation in grid and distributed computing to address the evolving needs of IT infrastructure, marking the company’s entry into enterprise-ready solutions that support business analytics and private cloud management. This is the second consecutive year Platform Computing has been honoured by the IBA. In 2010, Platform ISF, the company’s dynamic cloud management software, was recognised in the “Best New Product of the Year - Computer Software” category.

News Memset joins the Cloud Industry Forum

12 Aug 2011

UK-based IT hosting company becomes the latest organisation to join CIF and to support its Code of Practice

Memset has announced it has formally joined the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), an industry body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the sector.

Videos Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips migrate to the cloud

12 Aug 2011

Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips migrating to Exchange 2010 with Mimecast

News Iconnyx launches ‘Quick Start Cloud’ package

11 Aug 2011

A comprehensive bundle of IT services for growing SMBs

Iconnyx unveils its Quick Start Cloud solution - a complete outsourced IT managed service powered by cloud-based systems - and wins its first Quick Start Cloud clientParagon Personnel.  The new product wraps together IT services, support, hardware maintenance and internet connectivity into a comprehensive solution that provides businesses with an easy-to-implement IT infrastructure and a reassuring step into cloud-based technologies.

News UKFast Helps You Access Apps in the Cloud

09 Aug 2011

As recent figures suggest that mobile working has tripled in the last twelve months, internet hosting specialist UKFast has launched the latest product in its cloud services range – CloudApps.  

Videos Cloud Enabling Your Data Center: Security and the Cloud

09 Aug 2011

In the fourth of a series of videos, Joe Anthony (IBM Director, Security, Risk & Compliance Product Maagement) discusses security in the Cloud and the IBM Security Framework.

Videos Cloud planning and assessment

09 Aug 2011

Brian Che from the cloud business unit at Red Hat talks about some of the reasons why and how enterprises choose to deploy cloud technology for their IT infrastructure. He also highlights some of the flexible cloud offerings from Red Hat that allow companies choice in how, where, and how quickly they bring cloud into their IT.

News Rackspace Launches Critical Sites In Europe For Crucial Connectivity

08 Aug 2011

Rackspace Strengthens Enterprise Services for EMEA Customers with Launch of Critical Sites for Extreme Mission-Critical Deployments

Rackspace® Hosting has announced the European launch of its Critical Sites service. Designed to serve customers whose online presence is ‘extremely mission-critical’, Critical Sites delivers enterprise-level web hosting solutions and customer-facing applications and web services.

Blog The Eerie Quiet of your Junk Folder

08 Aug 2011

Spam volumes on the Internet are down on this time last year. Great news, we can all relax and stop worrying about our Junk or Quarantine folders or that missing million dollar order that might he hiding therein.

News Cloud is just as fast as conventional hosting environments

28 Jul 2011

The cloud can be at least as fast as conventional hosting environments, says a new report by cloud performance experts Intechnica.

The report, called How Fast is the Cloud?, also highlighted that when the total cost of ownership is considered, the cloud is a competitive solution that businesses cannot ignore.

News Citrix reports second quarter financial results

28 Jul 2011

Quarterly revenue of $531 million up 16% year-over-year

Second quarter GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.43 up 70% year-over-year

Second quarter non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.57 up 38% year-over-year

Citrix Systems, Inc. today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 ended 30 June, 2011.

News ControlCircle earns ISO/IEC 20000:20005 certification

25 Jul 2011

ControlCircle, a leading managed services provider, today announced that it has attained International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)/IEC 20000:20005 certification for its UK operations centre demonstrating its leadership in IT service management.

News Cloud Industry Forum supports new research but calls for more clarity within the cloud sector

22 Jul 2011

A recent survey from independent industry analyst house, IDC, highlighted five deciding factors of respondents purchasing cloud solutions: security, stability, reliability, integration and costs. The findings of the IDC report largely reflect those of CIF’s independent research, which was released earlier this year.

News HP Helps Enterprises Advance Development for the Cloud

22 Jul 2011

Service virtualization and application life cycle intelligence solutions accelerate application delivery

HP has announced new software solutions that improve collaboration among application delivery teams, enabling organizations to accelerate business innovation and lower operational costs.

News SUSE launches next generation of award-winning SUSE Studio

22 Jul 2011

SUSE Studio 1.2 accelerates application deployment across physical, virtual and cloud environments

SUSE has announced the availability of SUSE Studio Version 1.2. The latest update to the award-winning development platform helps customers more easily build, update and manage application images across x86, public cloud and IBM System z* deployments, significantly reducing the overhead associated with managing a heterogeneous IT environment.

Videos Email Security: The Salvation Army UK Declares War on Spam Attacks in the Cloud

21 Jul 2011

Email Security threats brought messaging at The Salvation Army UK to a literal standstill. The effect of spam attacks at one time rose to inbox volumes of 90 percent. To keep communications channels open, CIO Martyn Croft wanted an email security provider who could provide a flexible yet cost effective anti spam attack solution for the organization's 800 centers and 5,500 email users

News Leading ITC suppliers Westcoastcloud and Forensic Software partner to offer complete e-safety solution for schools

18 Jul 2011

Comprehensive cloud e-safety solution praised by childcare expert Professor Tanya Byron

Two of the UK’s leading suppliers of e-safety, Westcoastcloud and Forensic Software, have partnered up to offer the most comprehensive online child protection solution yet to the education sector.

News UKFast Helps You Access Apps in the Cloud

15 Jul 2011

As recent figures suggest that mobile working has tripled in the last twelve months, internet hosting specialist UKFast has launched the latest product in its cloud services range – CloudApps.  

News Red Hat Recognised with HP AllianceONE Partner of the Year Award for Cloud Computing Leadership

13 Jul 2011

Red Hat wins HP Cloud Computing ISV category in 2011 awards program

Red Hat, Inc., today announced that it has been recognised for the second consecutive year with an HP AllianceONE Partner of the Year award.  In the 2011 awards program, Red Hat was selected as the winner of the HP Cloud Computing ISV category for the Red Hat Cloud, HP Edition solution.

News Simplexo joins the Cloud Industry Forum

11 Jul 2011

UK based technology company becomes latest organisation to join CIF and to support its Code of Practice

Simplexo today announced it has formally joined the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), an industry body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the sector.

News Run Autodesk software in a 'Private Cloud Environment'

11 Jul 2011

London based company IMSCAD have taken on the role of supporting over 1000 Autodesk resellers across EMEA. They will be delivering Citrix based solutions to end users to complement the new 2012 ‘Citrix Ready’ versions of Autodesk’s software. 

News First secure Cloud search application launched by Simplexo

07 Jul 2011

SearchYourCloud provides users with a unique level of security and accessibility

Simplexo, the UK search specialist, has announced the launch of ‘SearchYourCloud’, an ultra-secure service that enables users to search information stored in the Cloud, all with one click. 

Videos LOVEFilm - Case Study

05 Jul 2011

Why LOVEFiLM Uses an Email Secure Server in the Cloud

News The Cloud Industry Forum views Star’s messaging for their Cloud Alliance with great scepticism!

05 Jul 2011

Star has re-badged and re-shaped a club of friendly vendors whom they have historically worked with to supposedly meet the needs of British SMEs transparently – NONSENSE say the Cloud Industry Forum, it’s just a commercial partner programme of non-competing businesses!

Andy Burton, Chairman of the Cloud Industry Forum, stated: “Whilst CIF believe the Cloud is a great place for businesses to collaborate and will change the way in which the IT supply chain is structured and operates, recent statements by Star’s employee Grant Tanner (quelle-surprise its Business Development person), seems to infer that its creation of its Cloud Alliance is somehow above reproach and only operates in the end user’s commercial interest.

Videos NetApp's new Cloud launch

01 Jul 2011

Jeremy Wallis discusses NetApp's new Cloud launch

News Platform Computing brings MapReduce to the enterprise

29 Jun 2011

Platform MapReduce provides enterprise-class MapReduce distributed runtime engine
across multiple distributed file systems to improve ROI

Platform Computing today announced the availability of Platform MapReduce, the industry’s first enterprise-class, distributed runtime engine for MapReduce applications. Platform MapReduce enables enterprise businesses to focus on moving MapReduce applications into production by providing enterprise-class manageability and scale, high resource utilisation and availability, ease of operation, multiple application support and an open distributed file system architecture, including immediate support for Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Appistry Cloud IQ, with additional support coming soon. Platform MapReduce is built on the company’s core technologies, Platform LSF and Platform Symphony, currently powering the most demanding, mission-critical distributed computing workloads at Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries.

News Verizon to Bolster Epsilon’s Data Security With Innovative New Security Technologies

29 Jun 2011

When leading marketing services firm Epsilon wanted to further bolster the security of its global email platform, it tapped Verizon for an innovative cloud-based security solution that will help it stay a step ahead of cybercriminals.

News Outsourcery launches 'CloudSmart'

27 Jun 2011

Microsoft’s worldwide Hosting Partner of the Year 2010, and leading Cloud Service Provider Outsourcery, is launching CloudSmart, its latest campaign supporting its InPartnership programme designed to help partners take advantage of the rapidly increasing opportunity presented by cloud. The market for cloud is growing exponentially as illustrated by Forrester Research’s revised global cloud market value figure of $241 billion by 2020, compared with the $40.7 bn predicted last year for the same time frame.

News ControlCircle wins NetApp Service Provider of the Year Award 2011 - 27 June 2011

27 Jun 2011

ControlCircle today announced it had been awarded the NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) Service Provider award for 2011.  The NetApp UK & Ireland Partner Awards 2011 recognise the best-performing partners in the NetApp network and reward outstanding sales performance for design and implementation of NetApp storage and data management solutions.

Articles LawWare - Case Study

27 Jun 2011

LawWare has grown by 20% since working with hosted infrastructure expert Rise to launch LawCloud, a hosted version of its practice-management software.

News Interxion Joins the Cloud Industry Forum

22 Jun 2011

First colocation data centre to join CIF and help drive best practice in the cloud

Interxion today announced that it has joined the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the cloud sector. The partnership illustrates Interxion’s dedication to the cloud and support in achieving a common standard of best practice within the IT industry.

News iland Europe selects TelecityGroup for European cloud service launch

22 Jun 2011

Powergate facility to house iland’s vCloud ‘virtual data centre’ service

iland, the global cloud infrastructure provider, has chosen TelecityGroup, Europe's leading provider of premium network independent data centres, to launch its latest cloud offering in Europe. iland will use TelecityGroup’s state-of-the-art Powergate facility in London to launch its iland vCloud services, a VMware vCloud Powered solution, and increase its physical presence to meet the demand for high-availability cloud computing infrastructure services in the region

News Outsourcery launches own cloud platform with O-Cloud

21 Jun 2011

Outsourcery throws down the gauntlet with latest multi-million pound investment

Cloud Service Provider Outsourcery, has today announced the launch of its cloud platform. Called the ‘O-Cloud’, it has been built using the latest technologies from world leading partners HP and Microsoft and is a result of two years planning; 2,000 hours of engineering and testing; and a multi-million pound investment. 

News NaviSite Launches New UK Cloud Node

21 Jun 2011

NaviSite’s Enterprise-Class Managed Cloud Services Now Available Through European Data Centre

NaviSite, Inc.has announced the launch of its first European cloud node, located in Woking, UK. NaviSite has already established a strong reputation as a leading provider of innovative cloud-based solutions for enterprise customers.  The new UK cloud infrastructure will provide European enterprises access to NaviSite’s Managed Cloud Services (MCS) – helping them comply with local regulations while eliminating network performance issues caused by long-distance broadband connections to offshore data centres.

Articles Global produce labelling leader Sinclair International achieves cost-savings, rationalisation and performance improvement via virtualised storage

21 Jun 2011

Having pioneered the development of automatic fruit labelling systems nearly 30 years ago, UK firm Sinclair International now operates in 35 countries worldwide. With a 100% focus on the global fresh produce sector, Sinclair provides customers with an unmatched combination of fruit labelling equipment, labels and service - all from a single, reliable source, with its network of subsidiaries and partners all linking to one global data centre/ERP system in Norwich.

Articles Opening for business: your new cloud?

20 Jun 2011

Transform your infrastructure into public or private cloud with ten tips for choosing a cloud management system

Cloud computing is high on the agenda for all UK businesses, particularly for companies with substantial IT infrastructure – hosting providers, and large enterprises.  

News Mimecast closes record year with 57 percent revenue growth and more than 1,000 new customers

20 Jun 2011

Growing demand for cloud services helps drive email specialist’s most successful year to date

Mimecast® has today announced a 57 percent rise in revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31^st 2011[1].  During the same period, Mimecast’s global customer base grew from 2,700 to almost 4,000.  The company also saw a surge in user numbers as the company’s average deal size rose, adding 340,000 users to the grid to reach a total of 906,000. The company expects to pass the million user mark in the second quarter of this fiscal year.

Videos Knight Frank Interview

17 Jun 2011

Owen Williams, Partner & Group Head of IT at Knight Frank, talks about their global email strategy.

News Private Cloud strengthens as cyber hacking intensifies

15 Jun 2011

News today indicates a US Senate website has become the latest victim to serious cyber hacking amongst a catalogue of high profile organisations such as the IMF, Amazon and Sony. Last week, the Ministry of Defence reported they had suffered twice as many cyber security incidents in the last 12 months, with the NHS also confirming that it had suffered serious attacks. Prior to that the US defence giant Lockheed also told the White House that they had suffered from serious cyber attacks.

News Zeus Achieves Highest Performance on Cisco UCS Platform

15 Jun 2011

Tests Reveal Zeus Traffic Manager Delivers exceptional web-application performance speeds with Cisco

 Zeus Technology, the pioneers of Application Delivery Controller software, today announced results of joint testing with Cisco that show Zeus Traffic Manager on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS).

News The commercial framework for cloud services lags behind the innovative solutions emerging across the market

14 Jun 2011

End users seek comfort on reliability, control, integration and security of hosted services

The cloud is creating a greater sense of capability and collaboration, and compelling financial benefits, which can, if not checked, drive contractual and operational ambiguity, according to the latest research issued by the Cloud Industry Forum.

News Outsourcery shows Cloud intent following appointment of ‘Hosting Star’

09 Jun 2011

James Griffin joins Outsourcery from Star

Outsourcery has appointed James Griffin as Director of Product Strategy, as it continues to focus on becoming the number one Cloud Service Provider (CSP) in the UK. James will be responsible for driving Outsourcery’s cloud strategy, including hosted applications, cloud infrastructure, unified communications and mobility. 

News Talend Enables Unified Integration in the Cloud

08 Jun 2011

Open source leader brings first comprehensive unified integration platform to the cloud; Enabling seamless integration in hybrid environments

Talend today announced Talend Cloud, its Cloud-enabled Integration Platform and the first comprehensive unified integration platform for the cloud and hybrid IT environments. An extension of the recently announced Unified Integration Platform, Talend Cloud offers elasticity, ubiquity, extensibility, security and reliability to those organisations looking to ensure the integrity of their integration processes, whether on-premise, in the cloud, via SaaS or in hybrid environments.

News Interxion and CoreSite Announce Transatlantic Cloud Computing Data Centre Alliance

08 Jun 2011

Interxion has announced a cloud computing-focused data centre alliance with CoreSite (NYSE: COR), a U.S. provider of powerful, network-rich data centres. The alliance addresses dual-continent demand from cloud companies looking for data centre space in Europe and the U.S. as well as cloud customers of both companies looking to expand internationally. The transatlantic cloud data centre alliance reduces the risk and challenges involved with international data centre sourcing between Europe and the U.S. with Interxion and CoreSite providing a seamless sourcing process and similar cloud-optimised peering/network access and colocation environments.

News NextiraOne’s new Unified Building Services Division completes its Comprehensive Data Centre Portfolio

07 Jun 2011

The Communications Experts become The Infrastructure Experts with Turnkey Data Centre Design and Build Solutions

NextiraOne has completed the transformation of its Data Centre business proposition in the UK with the launch of its Unified Building Services division. This brings together all the physical infrastructure aspects needed for the creation of powerful effective Data Centres for NextiraOne’s private and public sector customers in the UK. It represents the final step in NextiraOne’s Data Centre strategy of creating a comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio covering physical infrastructure, network architecture, storage and virtualisation.

Videos Case Study: Enterprise Housing and Boomi

07 Jun 2011

Barton George of Dell talks to Pradip Sitaram, CIO of Enterprise BP, a not for profit that builds afforadable housing across the US. Pradip talks about using Boomi and the problems it solved for them. This interview took place at the Cloud Expo in New York: 6/6/11.

News Clouded Views on Data Security

07 Jun 2011

Many businesses are uneducated on the security of cloud technology and are missing out on its potentially business-changing benefits as a result.

A panel of IT security experts gathered at a round table event, held by hosting specialist UKFast, to inform businesses of the different security issues associated with various cloud platforms. They warned business owners not to rule out a move to an internet-based IT infrastructure because of inaccurate generalisations about the safety of cloud that are hyped by the media.

News CIMtrek Partners With HubOne

31 May 2011

Cloud integrator HubOne has announced that it has signed as a partner of Cloud migration vendor CIMtrek to use and resell CIMtrek to migrate LotusNotes/Domino applications to Microsoft Online Services, Microsoft BPOS, and the forthcoming Microsoft Office 365 cloud platforms. 

News Ixia & the Lippis Report Complete 10GE Open Networking Performance & Power Tests for Data Centre Clouds

27 May 2011

Ixia’s iSimCity Hosts Lippis Report 10GE Tests for Industry’s Only Comparative Report on 10GE Switch Performance and Power Consumption

Ixia and The Lippis Report today announced the completion of the second round of a series of open industry data centre network performance and power consumption tests. The tests will provide the industry with comparative performance and power consumption data across several 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switch devices. These tests are the first of their kind, and provide network stakeholders with real-world data that compares and contrasts different 10GE equipment manufacturer products for data centre fabrics.

News Citrix Announces GoToManage Monitoring for XenServer

27 May 2011

Cloud-based IT Management Platform Enables SMBs and IT Consultants to Consolidate Monitoring of Physical and Virtual Servers

Today at Citrix Synergy™, the event where virtual computing takes centre stage, Citrix Systemsannounced Citrix® GoToManage® Monitoring for XenServer®. The latest capability of GoToManage solves a key challenge for SMBs and IT consultants in monitoring both physical and virtual servers distributed among dispersed offices and data centres.

Videos DMS Cloud Foundation

26 May 2011

David Mitchell Smith from Gartner discusses DMS Cloud Foundation.

News Platform Computing cited positively in industry report on private cloud market

25 May 2011

Independent analysts evaluated 15+ vendors across 10 criteria

Platform Computing announced today it was among the vendors highlighted in a May 2011 report from Forrester Research, Inc. entitled “Market overview: private cloud solutions, Q2 2011.” The report examines vendors using customer references, a compulsory 30 minute demonstration and written responses.  The market overview examines the landscape of vendors providing solutions designed to accelerate the implementation of an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud in a customer’s data centre. Across the 15 vendors that were able to meet the criteria to be considered for the report, Platform Computing received the highest score possible for role based access control (RBAC) and virtualisation support, as well as scores of three or higher out of four possible points in six of the ten categories evaluated in the market overview. 

Articles Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions, Q2 2011

25 May 2011

Over the past year, client inquiry questions have evolved from “What is cloud?” to “What vendors should I consider?” This market overview examines the landscape of vendors providing solutions designed to accelerate the implementation of an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud in a customer’s data center. Several standard criteria and a selection of differentiating factors are examined. All the solutions evaluated provide the core IaaS functions: self-service, standardization, automation, and pay-per-use. In this market we found five solution types emerging: 1) enterprise systems management vendors; 2) OS/hypervisor vendors; 3) converged infrastructure solutions; 4) pure-play cloud solutions; and 5) grid-derived solutions. Each brings the core IaaS features as well as unique differentiating value.

News As Cloud Computing usage continues to escalate, risk consultancy Protiviti warns organisations to carry out appropriate risk management tests

23 May 2011

Protiviti Inc., a global business consulting and internal audit firm, has today warned organisations to have a clear understanding of the risks associated with the implementation of cloud computing, as the number of UK organisations adopting cloud-based solutions steadily rises.

News Full backing for European Commission Consultation on Cloud Computing

23 May 2011

Cloud Industry Forum ready, willing and able to add to the debate at the heart of Europe

The Cloud Industry Forum has warmly welcomed the news that the European Commission has launched a public consultation on the benefits that cloud computing can deliver.

Videos Seagate and HP Assure Cloud Services

23 May 2011

Hear about the unexpected surprises and experiences of cloud services adoption in this Q&A between Seagate IT Manager Steve Katz and Paul Muller, HP Software, VP of Strategic Marketing.

Videos Wyse and Microsoft discuss cloud PCs and OS licensing

20 May 2011

Andre Beuchat, Wyse Technology, and Michael Hoyt, OEM Partner Account Manager, Microsoft Corporation, discuss the benefits of cloud PCs and how Microsoft licenses the OS for them

News Cloud Hype Giving Way to Adoption

20 May 2011

No business should ignore the opportunities that cloud technology presents the results from those that have dabbled are compelling!

This was the warning issued by a panel of business IT experts who gathered at a round table event held by hosting firm UKFast this month.

News Barracuda backup servers now features "private cloud" capabilities for offsite data redundancy

19 May 2011

New Site-to-Site Replication Features Broaden Data Storage Options for Customers Beyond Local and Cloud Backup

Barracuda Networks today launched site-to-site replication capabilities for the Barracuda Backup Service, a market leading solution that allows companies to efficiently back up their data both locally and offsite without the hassle of tapes or other removable media. This enhancement allows customers to deploy a “private cloud” by enabling one Barracuda Backup Server to replicate data to one or more Barracuda Backup Servers housed locally or deployed at other locations for disaster recovery.

News NetIQ adds identity, security and select data centre lines from Novell; announces new executive leadership team

19 May 2011

Powerful combination of solutions, deep expertise and global support delivers greater customer value

NetIQ Corporation, a business unit of The Attachmate Group, today announced it will add the complete portfolio of Novell identity and security solutions and selected Novell data centre solutions to the NetIQ business unit solution portfolio. The combination of these technologies into one business unit further deepens the NetIQ focus on identity, security and compliance management, IT operations management, virtualisation and cloud computing. Under the leadership of Jay Gardner, president and general manager of NetIQ, the management team will spearhead the company’s objectives of reducing IT cost, complexity, and risk for its customers.

Videos VMware's Paul Maritz

19 May 2011

EMC TV sits down with VMware CEO Paul Maritz at EMC World.

News ChannelCloud UK/Ireland Joins the Cloud Industry Forum

17 May 2011

Recent entrant to UK market joins growing channel presence in industry body

ChannelCloud UK/Ireland has become the latest company to join the Cloud Industry Forum, the body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the sector.

News Fasthosts Standardises on ScienceLogic Cloud Management and IT Operations Platform

16 May 2011

ScienceLogic Provides Centralised Management of Dynamic, Hosted Resources and Speeds Delivery of New Service Offerings 

To enhance and optimise service delivery across its large managed hosting infrastructure as well as offer new virtualisation and cloud monitoring services to its customers, Fasthosts Internet Ltd has chosen the ScienceLogic^™ Inc. IT operations and cloud management platform. Using ScienceLogic EM7^™, Fasthosts’ internal IT staff, channel partners and end customers now have access to personalised views into performance and availability across the shared resources that support the Fasthosts Web hosting business, the largest in the UK, as well as its Rise subsidiary, which provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing services exclusively through its partner network.

News Cloud Technology solutions inks deal with CIMtrek to augment its IBM Lotus to Google Cloud Migration capability

13 May 2011

A partnership deal has been signed by two of the leading cloud migration solution providers that will enhance the transition process for millions of Lotus Notes users.

The partnership between Cloud Technology Solutions (CTS), the Google Enterprise Partner, and CIMtrek, which provides the tools to migrate legacy applications to Cloud platforms, will deliver an easy and cost effective way of migrating, testing and supporting legacy business processes on a massive, secure, cloud infrastructure. 

News announced the implementation of cloudgermany.de’s cloud computing infrastructure at Interxion’s data centre campus in Frankfurt.

12 May 2011

Interxion has announced the implementation of cloudgermany.de’s cloud computing infrastructure at Interxion’s data centre campus in Frankfurt.

News UKFast Breaks Through the Cloud

12 May 2011

Hosting solutions specialist, UKFast, has addressed the concerns of growing internet businesses with its new innovation: MyCloudStack. The flexible solution breaks down the elements of dedicated cloud hosting and makes it simple for businesses to advance into private cloud computing.

Videos Cloud computing from hype to reality

12 May 2011

Riverbed's Senior Director of Product Marketing for Steelhead shares his thoughts on what he he has learned after a day and a half at Interop.

News Titan Internet wins double gold

05 May 2011

Titan Internet gains Microsoft Gold Hosting and Server Platform Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network

Cloud hosting specialist Titan Internet has today announced that it has achieved not one but two Gold Competencies for its technological expertise from global software giant Microsoft. 

News Force10 Uses Intel Expressway Cloud Access 360 for Cloud–Bursting and SaaS Application Deployment

05 May 2011

Intel Corporation will help deliver secure “cloud-in-a-rack” by integrating Intel® Expressway Access 360 for Single Sign On and Account Provisioning into Force10’s Open Automation Framework

Force10 Networks, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an agreement designed to integrate cloud single sign-on (SSO) with Force10 top-of-rack (ToR) switches utilizing cloud access control software from Intel Corporation.

News Logicalis brings IBM Business Analytics to the Cloud

04 May 2011

IBM Power™ Systems Power 795 to Fuel IBM Cognos Business Analytics Cloud Services

International solutions provider, Logicalis, today announced the launch of its IBM Power 795 cloud platform, featuring a range of business analytics hosted services based on IBM Cognos.  The launch will offer customers access to powerful business intelligence and business analytics solutions without the need to acquire, deploy and operate their own hardware infrastructure.  Logicalis also announced its IBM Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, enabling customers to leverage services such as on-demand disaster recovery, application test and development, or full application hosting.

Blog Being Open about Virtualization and Cloud Interoperability

04 May 2011

Byline: Dave Stevens, CTO and Ken Cheng, Vice President of Service Provider Products, Brocade

At Brocade Tech Day last year in New York, we described virtual machines, or VMs, as the “new atomic unit of work” in IT for both service provider and enterprise customers. This concept is based on the fact that VMs allow applications to be encapsulated and detached from the underlying infrastructure and are portable, combinable and manageable as separate entities. For this vision to be fulfilled, we believe that the IT industry needs to agree upon standards and interoperability mechanisms that facilitate the fluid movement of VMs between public and private cloud infrastructures, regardless of the technology or the provider.

News Major Study Finds Rapid Adoption of Hosted Email Compliance

03 May 2011

Cloud-based archiving meets regulations, reduces risks and costs

Financial institutions are rapidly moving to hosted email compliance and storage services to deal with increasing costs, risks and regulations, according to a study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study was commissioned by Bloomberg Vault, a service that helps corporations globally meet compliance, regulatory and eDiscovery requirements.

News Sony PlayStation Network’s security incident and Amazon’s operational outage are not about the Cloud!

03 May 2011

Recent market issues underpin need for standards and transparency in the Cloud

There is a clear temptation for the nay-sayers of Cloud computing to say “I told you so” when high profile events the like we have seen over recent days with Sony and Amazon come to light. However, the issues that impacted these businesses are not heightened because they are online services rather than on-premise, quite the contrary in fact, most credible online services take availability and security incredibly seriously as it underpins the essence of their businesses.  The reason they are high profile is the level of public awareness of their brands, driven by historical growth and successes, and therefore, compounds the potential number of individuals and organisations impacted. But what lessons should we learn.

Videos GoGrid's Software Licensing in the Cloud - Image Rights Management & Zeus Technology

03 May 2011

This interview with GoGrid and partner Zeus Technology discusses the GoGrid Exchange, an ecosystem of GoGrid Partner Server Images and GoGrid's new Image Rights Management (IRM) for cloud software licensing. Interviewed are Raja Srinivasan (VP of Cloud Computing - Zeus) and Paul Lancaster (Manager of Cloud Ecosystems - GoGrid). Interview conducted by Michael Sheehan (Technology Evangelist - GoGrid)

Videos Cloudscaling on Arista Networks CloudVision®

03 May 2011

Randy Bias, chief technology officer, Cloudscaling discusses Arista's EOS.

News Ubuntu 11.04 Cloud Servers with full root access & Free Trial

03 May 2011

CloudSigma AG is pleased to announce the launch of the latest Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) servers for instant deployment in its cloud. CloudSigma customers can now enjoy the new features of Ubuntu's new release in the form of instantly deployable high performing cloud servers.

News Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative launches recruitment drive

28 Apr 2011

Growth in demand for energy efficient and highly scalable cloud computing needs talented individuals

The Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative (GUCI), a group of interlinked technology vendors striving to help organisations build innovative new datacenters, has launched a major recruitment drive to attract visionaries  to build the next generation of cloud architectures.

News Platform Computing marks launch of Symphony 5.1 with significant momentum in financial services market

27 Apr 2011

Sales increase among Fortune 500 and global customers; company introduces latest version of industry standard distributed SOA middleware product

Platform Computing has seen strong momentum and continued revenue growth in the financial services (FS) market over the past year.  Organisations are ramping up their investments in Platform Symphony, which is geared toward enabling improved efficiency for distributed service oriented architecture (SOA) applications at lower cost.  In addition, global demand for all of Platform’s offerings—including cloud, cluster, grid and MapReduce solutions — doubled year over year, with the company signing a number of marquee North American and European brand accounts, many of which rank in the Fortune 500.

Videos Cloud Computing and Storage Management

26 Apr 2011

Milan Patel, of IBM, speaks about storage management within the cloud environment. Cloud computing is exciting for companies, as it allows them to focus on end-user experience without worrying about the individual pieces comprising the IT infrastructure. Storage management plays a key role. Companies need to ensure all data is available to users, in a timely fashion, and applications perform at highest level.

News Force10 Networks introduces Open Automation 2.0 as part of Open Cloud Networking initiative

26 Apr 2011

New development community portal and ScriptStore enable open exchange of SmartScripts

Force 10 Networks today announced Open Automation 2.0, a major expansion of its Open Automation Framework – a standards-based approach to network automation that optimises data centre network performance and efficiency and lays the foundation for cloud-based services. Open Automation leverages new “open” elements within the modular Force10 Operating System (FTOS) software that streamline the data centre network fabric’s ability to participate in automated, policy-driven, real-time workload allocation in response to changing application and service demands. Open Automation 2.0 extends these capabilities with the debut of the DevExchange development community and ScriptStoreSM, an open exchange for SmartScripts.

Videos Cloud Sourcing

20 Apr 2011

Gartner analysts discussing trends in Cloud Sourcing

News Portugal Telecom Expands Use of Red Hat Solutions

20 Apr 2011

Leading Telecom Operator Deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Maximize Technology Flexibility

Red Hat, Inc. today announced that Portugal Telecom, a global telecommunications operator offering multimedia services in Portugal and developing international markets, has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as it moves toward an open source and open standards infrastructure.

Videos Bootstrapping Your Cloud Application

15 Apr 2011

This video helps you see how Oracle Fusion Middleware is vital to bootstrapping your cloud applications with existing data. Data can be customer, partner, supplier, or sales related data --but it's critical that it be available from the start of any cloud application. Let Oracle show you the solutions available to bootstrap your cloud applications with success.

News Red Hat Expands Cloud Computing Partnership with NTT Communications

15 Apr 2011

Leading communications provider extends use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as part of its cloud offering

Red Hat, Inc. has announced that NTT Communications, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundation of its cloud computing and hosting service offering, Biz Hosting Basic.  

Videos SaaS and the Channel- What is happening?

14 Apr 2011

Justin Pirie talks to Anders Trolle-Schultz. You can see Justin's related Blog post here.

Blog SaaS and the Channel- What is happening? Part #2

14 Apr 2011

Justin Pirie writes: In my first post Anders and I looked at how Cloud is changing the traditional IT supply chain and discussed some of the transformation that needs to take place.

News European Businesses Look to the Cloud to Drive Business Agility, Not Just Save Cost

14 Apr 2011

Pan-European research shows that enterprises are putting the cloud at the heart of their IT strategy, with 48 percent seeing it as key to empowering agility and business performance

As organisations strive to compete in today’s economy, with workers demanding instant access to information wherever they are, the cloud is becoming a critical part of modern business strategy. Supporting this trend are the results from a new research project1 from Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) indicating that 48 percent of European businesses are already actively deploying cloud architectures, with more than half of respondents citing business agility as the key driver. Cost-savings, operational or capital, were of secondary concern at 16 and 14 percent, respectively.

News Cloud Industry Forum partners with Cloud Security Alliance

12 Apr 2011

Leading Cloud bodies aim to align activity to drive best practice in cloud service provision

Two of the leading names in the Cloud industry have agreed to collaborate in a drive to increase best practices in cloud service provisioning.

News Cloud acceptance in UK organisations widening rapidly

11 Apr 2011

UK technology market leads a global trend

Almost half (48 per cent) of all organisations in the UK are already using some form of cloud service, with larger companies more likely to use them, according to the findings of the most comprehensive survey undertaken into trends by the Cloud Industry Forum.

Blog At the heart of government

11 Apr 2011

Breda O'Shea writes: The cloud is making waves of that you can be sure. And you certainly know it is making an impact at every level of the economy when you are called to give evidence to Parliament on its impact and potential.

Articles Transition to the cloud

11 Apr 2011

There will be many ways in which the Cloud will change the way we do business. Awareness of the benefits of cloud computing has grown greatly and its not all about cost savings. One theme is already emerging. Businesses are becoming more like the technology itself: more adaptable, more agile, more networked and more specialised.

Videos HP Software & Solutions Information Management

05 Apr 2011

Erik Moller discusses results of an HP commissioned global information management study, as well as at HP's new information management products and services

Read the related Press Release here.

Articles Cloud Computing Standards: The Great Debate

05 Apr 2011

Justin Pirie, Director of Communities and Content for Mimecast, takes a look at the ongoing debate around cloud standards.

Recent research conducted by Mimecast has found that a large proportion of businesses are now using some form of cloud service, with a further 30 percent planning on adopting more cloud services in the future. Fashionable new architectures within the technology industry are not unusual. However, even allowing for a certain amount of bandwagon jumping, this rate of cloud adoption has been considerable.

News Green Grid Endorses European Data Centre Sustainability Award

05 Apr 2011

The Green Grid has given its endorsement to the Green Award for Sustainability in Data Centres, to be presented at the annual Data Centres in Europe Awards which takes place on June 2^nd in London

News UKFAST Joins Cloud Industry Forum

04 Apr 2011

UK hosting provider joins the expanding cloud industry body to drive best practice and transparency for end users

UKFAST, a managed server and enterprise business hosting provider that specialises in customer service excellence, has just become the latest organisation to join the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), established to promote trust through operational and commercial transparency within the sector.

Blog The Forecast is Cloudy with 100% Chance of Exploding Data

30 Mar 2011

Roger Klorese writes: When we look at cloud service providers, we see lots of different uses of the term, from innovators who are defining new paradigms of scalable, elastic, pay-as-you-go Software-, Infrastructure- and Platform-as-a-Service at the one end to legacy hosting and colocation providers who have glued some cotton balls on the outside of their racks and called them "clouds." (I like to think of them as "The Cloud" vs. "the cloud.") Whether fully or partly cloudy, though, one thing is certain: the greatest cost and the biggest obstacle to cost-effective elasticity is the biggest growth factor: the continuous and dramatic expansion of data, both structured and unstructured.

News Platform Computing announces support for MapReduce

30 Mar 2011

Company brings history of enterprise-class distributed computing to “big” data analytics with support for Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model

Platform Computing has announced the company is now bringing enterprise-class distributed computing to business analytics applications that process “big” data using the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model. Based on more than 18 years of industry leadership in workload management for high performance computing (HPC) applications, Platform Computing’s analytics solutions are a natural expansion of the company’s distributed computing experience built on the company’s core technologies, Platform LSF and Platform Symphony.

News New Citrix NetScaler DataStream technology addresses explosive growth in cloud, mobile and corporate data

30 Mar 2011

NetScaler is first service delivery networking system to introduce native database protocol and SQL intelligence for cost-effective scalability and security

To address the exponential growth in cloud, mobile and corporate data, Citrix Systems today unveiled a breakthrough new DataStream technology in its popular NetScaler service delivery networking product line. NetScaler is already firmly established as the delivery infrastructure of choice for most of the world’s largest consumer websites and cloud providers, touching an estimated 75 percent of all internet users each day.  Leveraging its expertise in web applications, NetScaler becomes the industry’s first service delivery controller to extend the benefits of scalability, availability and security for the web tier to the data tier for both enterprise IT and cloud and mobile providers.

Videos Intel Cloud Builders: Cisco Cloud Computing

30 Mar 2011

Lew Tucker, VP and CTO of Cloud Computing, Cisco Systems, talks about interoperability amongst cloud computing solutions and the participation of Cisco in the Intel Cloud Builders program. Lew also discusses how Cisco brings together compute, storage, and networking, combining the flexibility of software and performance of hardware to bring out the optimal solutions to its customers.

News Budget boosts broadband as Government’s ‘Plan for Growth’ fuels business in the West Country

25 Mar 2011

Rise welcomes promise of ‘superfast broadband’ to drive business growth

Following the Budget announced by the Chancellor on 23 March 2011, Rise, a leading Gloucester based cloud computing solutions company, has welcomed the promise of public investment in superfast broadband.

Articles Open Network Automation is Critical to the Virtual Data Center

25 Mar 2011

Mr. Kerravala is a distinguished research fellow at The Yankee Group, leads the Research Council and is chartered with the responsibility of providing thought leadership to the research organization. Comprising senior research leaders, the Research Council provides outreach to clients and the broader Yankee Group community, as well as ensures that the company's research agenda addresses the needs of business leaders. Kerravala drives the strategic thinking of the research organization and helps shape the research direction.

News Scality Partners with Gladinet to Unleash Mass Adoption of Cloud Storage

24 Mar 2011

Gladinet will seamlessly drive customers’ take-up of cloud storage all over the world, leveraging Scality’s vast and worldwide network of StaaS providers, built upon the software vendor’s innovative object-based storage system.

Cloud storage system pioneer Scality has announced a partnership with Gladinet, a leading cloud gateway software vendor, to provide an end-to-end cloud-based storage solution to help drive cloud adoption for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and enterprises with multiple branch offices.

Videos Trend Micro's CEO Eva Chen and Cloud Security

22 Mar 2011

Eva Chen Interview - Trend Micro CEO, Eva Chen, discusses the challenges and opportunities of cloud security

News OnApp’s $25 million “Cloud-In-A-Box” giveaway to dispel cloud hosting cost and complexity myth

22 Mar 2011

Free software and services offer launched at WHD 2011

OnApp has revealed a unique offer for hosting providers at the WorldHostingDays 2011 exhibition today – dispelling myths about the cost and complexity of setting up a cloud hosting operation. OnApp will give away 500 “Cloud-In-A-Box” packages that give recipients the opportunity to get cloud hosting software and services, worth well over $50,000, free of charge. There are 500 boxes available to WHD 2011 attendees on a first come, first served basis. OnApp is a Diamond Sponsor at WHD 2011, and the total value of OnApp’s Cloud-In-A-Box offer is in excess of $25 million.

News Cloud Company iomart Hosting sponsors the 2011 UK Green IT Awards

17 Mar 2011

Major Tech Companies set to be honoured for outstanding environmental performance at UK’s leading Green IT Awards Event

iomart Hosting, one of the UK’s leading managed hosting and cloud computing companies, is proud to announce that it will be involved with this year’s 2011 UK Green IT Awards as a headline sponsor.

News Wall Street Journal names WAN optimisation specialist Silver Peak 'Next Big Thing'

17 Mar 2011

WAN Optimisation leader makes second annual list of venture-backed companies with greatest promise to succeed

For the second consecutive year, Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, has been named on the Wall Street Journal’s Next Big Thing list, which ranks the top venture-backed companies across all industries.  Silver Peak is one of only 14 returning companies to the list of 5,740 potential candidates evaluated.

News RF Code Signs ITM Communications as First UK Partner

16 Mar 2011

Specialist in Energy Efficient ICT Infrastructure becomes First UK partner for Innovative Wire-free Environmental Monitoring and Asset Management to Support Green Agenda and Cloud Computing

RF Code, a leading provider of active IT asset management and wire-free environmental monitoring solutions, has announced ITM Communications Ltd as its first certified partner. This announcement follows the February launch of the RF Code European Channel Program. Bringing a depth of industry knowledge to the field of energy efficient ICT design, implementation and support, ITM has completed both sales and technical training on RF Code solutions.

Videos Discover the HP Cloud Infrastructure: Customers Speak

16 Mar 2011

Discover the versatility of an HP infrastructure for Cloud deployments.

News TelecityGroup’s Frankfurt Gutleutstrasse data centre to ensure security and resilience of SaaS services for media and publishing industries

15 Mar 2011

Digital Technology International (DTI™), an integrated solutions provider for digital and print publishing, today announced it has chosen TelecityGroup as its data centre partner in Europe to support its launch of DTI Cloud, the company’s high performance Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) publishing platform.

News iomart Group completes Maidenhead Data Centre Expansion

14 Mar 2011

New fit out creates fully flexible, powered and resilient space to meet growing cloud hosting demand

iomart Group, one of the UK’s leading managed hosting and cloud computing service companies, has today announced the completion of the second phase of an expansion programme at its Spectrum House, Maidenhead data centre.

News Prosodie selects Q1 Labs to meet strict online gambling security regulations for major French client

14 Mar 2011

Largest independent security intelligence provider helps GENY infos meet regulatory compliance through high-value cloud services

Q1 Labs today announced details of a successful project by Prosodie which is helping its client GENY infos meet tough French government regulations to ensure the security of cloud-based gambling sites.

Videos Microsoft HIMSS 2011 - Interview with Andre Beuchat of Wyse Technology

11 Mar 2011

Microsoft's Cindy Hibble, Industry Partner Account Manager, talks with Andre Beuchat, Alliance Manager, about Wyse's cloud client computing solutions for the healthcare industry.

News Small business calls for super-fast broadband roll-out in rural areas

10 Mar 2011

Cloud Industry Forum backs calls to get Britain working

Despite the fact that the Government has just announced that it is moving ahead with the second wave of funding for super-fast broadband across the UK, the Cloud Industry Forum has warned that unless Britain increases its regional broadband coverage with high speed services, then the economic recovery will be impeded.

News Restrictive email policies creating hidden security risks for business

09 Mar 2011

Second part of the Generation Gmail Report by Mimecast reveals that employers must provide flexibility for email users if they are to protect their corporate IP from leaking outside the organisation

Mimecast today announced the second instalment of its Generation Gmail Report; an international study investigating how attitudes to work email use are evolving and the differing ways in which employers are managing this core communication channel.  The report indicates that IT departments are fighting a losing battle in seeking to constrain employees’ behaviour through policy alone. Findings suggest that a new approach is needed in order to empower employees while protecting corporate intellectual property and ensuring the business complies with the relevant regulations.

Videos F5 and IBM: Cloud Computing Reference Architecture

09 Mar 2011

Building a dynamic, agile enterprise cloud can be a daunting task. F5 and IBM have created a reference architecture that will accelerate the design and deployment phases and help ensure a successful enterprise cloud architecture.

Articles Cloud Computing: Business Benfits with security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives

08 Mar 2011

As CxOs search for ways to meet ever-increasing IT demands, many are closely examining cloud computing as a real option for their enterprise needs. The promise of cloud computing is arguably revolutionizing the IT services world by transforming computing into a ubiquitous utility, leveraging on attributes such as increased agility, elasticity, storage capacity and redundancy to manage information assets. The continued influence and innovative use of the Internet has enabled cloud computing to utilize existing infrastructure and transform it into services that could provide enterprises both significant cost savings and increased efficiency. Enterprises are realizing there is a potential to leverage this innovation to better serve customers and gain business advantage.

News Claranet’s cloud to accommodate De Vere’s ambitious online strategy

08 Mar 2011

De Vere Group selects Claranet’s private cloud to consolidate its hosting platform, support online campaigns and boost revenue

Leading independent hotel and hospitality group, De Vere Group, today announced that it has chosen long-term network provider, Claranet, to implement a flexible, reliable and cost-effective dedicated virtual hosting solution (also known as private cloud). De Vere will rely on Claranet’s private cloud solution to host and manage its range of mission-critical applications and websites. The platform will provide the foundations to support the Group’s recently launched online and e-commerce strategy aimed at driving traffic to its websites and boosting revenue.

News ISACA’s EuroCACS Conference Demystifies the Cloud

08 Mar 2011

Global business and information technology (IT) leaders will meet at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security (EuroCACS) Conference in Manchester from 20-23 March to share the latest guidance on key IT security and governance issues facing enterprises today. Hosted by ISACA, a global association of 95,000 IT professionals, EuroCACS will examine topics such as virtualisation, outsourcing, governance, risk and compliance, social computing, social networking and human factors, and cloud computing.

Videos Intel Cloud Builders' Day in the Cloud

07 Mar 2011

Intel Day in the Cloud brought together industry analysts, press reviewers and Cloud Builders member companies in a deeper lab-focused engagement. Intel provided insight into progress to-date on its cloud vision and discussed how the company addresses customer concerns with technology innovation. Additionally, attendees got a closer look at the Cloud Builders program to learn more about how ecosystem collaboration helps shape and enhance the portfolio of Reference Architectures.

Blog Assessing the Appalling Austin Enterprise Email Events

07 Mar 2011

Nathaniel Borenstein writes: Today’s news brings the announcement of a legal case that will test whether it is permissible, in Austin, Texas, for government officials to use private email to conduct public business.  None of us at Mimecast are authorities on Texas law, which will (properly) decide the case.  But we know a lot about the purposes, strengths, and weaknesses of enterprise email systems, and we’ve recently been studying the startlingly widespread use of personal email for company business.  Some of what we’ve found may be relevant to the Austin case.

News Loughborough Uni Sports Hybrid Cloud with Logicalis

04 Mar 2011

Logicalis and Loughborough University strike strategic partnership to deliver long-term ICT efficiencies via Cooperative Cloud

Loughborough University is to deploy Logicalis’ Cooperative Cloud to cost-effectively meet the long-term capacity demands of its growing research, teaching and enterprise services.  As part of a strategic IT partnership, Logicalis
will design and build an on-site, bespoke private cloud fully integrated with an off-site, cooperative hosted cloud. This single, scalable architecture will provide unlimited scope for future capacity provisioning and is set to save the University over 640 metric tonnes of CO² per annum and significant cost-savings.

News Cryptosoft launches first encryption service platform

02 Mar 2011

First scalable solution designed for on-premise, virtualised, hosted and cloud deployment reduces cost and complexity of managing cryptography while retaining the value of existing security management tools and processes

Cryptosoft,  ‘Encrypt anything to anywhere’, has announced the launch of its flagship encryption solution as the first dedicated platform built from the ground up to offer scalable encryption for any data type, from any application delivered to any destination.

News OnApp Certifies DedicatedNOW as a Cloud Service Provider

02 Mar 2011

Managed web host builds D-I-Y clouds for growing hosting companies

OnApp has certified DedicatedNOW as an OnApp Cloud Service Provider, and announced a new partnership with the company to offer cloud hosting infrastructure as a service to web hosting providers. DedicatedNOW’s customized private cloud service includes servers, SAN storage and bandwidth, plus OnApp’s cloud management software, for a monthly fee. It offers web hosts a simple and affordable way to launch their own cloud hosting products without the capital investment and running costs associated with building their own cloud infrastructure.

News First results of the ‘Frankfurt Cloud’ project presented at CeBIT 2011

02 Mar 2011

• Application ran error free during five-month stress testing period
• Smooth operation of even extremely heterogeneous applications
• High-capacity data centre environment - a key factor for reliability and high availability

Interxion has announced jointly with Deutsche Bank, Goethe University in Frankfurt and GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy Ion Research the first results of the project initiative ‘Frankfurt Cloud’. For this project a cloud computing infrastructure housed in Interxion’s Frankfurt data centre campus, has been exposed to continuous stress tests under controlled scientific observation to evaluate its security, performance and reliability.

Videos Simplifying Virtualization and Managing the Cloud - Part 2

28 Feb 2011

In this six part series, Quest Software Chief Technologist Dmitry Kaganski, Quest Software Solutions Architect Ken Cline and Blue Canopy President and CEO Bradley Schwartz discuss methods for simplifying virtualization and cloud management.

Videos Simplifying Virtualization and Managing the Cloud

25 Feb 2011

In this six part series, Quest Software Chief Technologist Dmitry Kaganski, Quest Software Solutions Architect Ken Cline and Blue Canopy President and CEO Bradley Schwartz discuss methods for simplifying virtualization and cloud management

News Juniper Networks introduces QFabric: The foundation of data centres for the next decade

25 Feb 2011

New Paradigm in Data Center Fabric Provides Breakthrough Scale, Speed, Savings and Simplicity to Power the Cloud Computing Era

Juniper Networkshas unveiled QFabric, the world’s first true data center fabric.  An outcome of “Project Stratus,” Juniper’s multiyear data center network research and development initiative, QFabric delivers quantum leap improvements in data center performance, operating cost and business agility, from the enterprise to the large scale cloud provider. Engineered as a simplified, highly scalable data center network solution, QFabric enables a superior approach to building and securing virtualized data centers that eliminates the tradeoff between quality of experience and economics that plagues today’s legacy networks. 

Videos Thomas Kurian on Easy Application Configuration

24 Feb 2011

In this segment from OpenWorld 2010, see Thomas Kurian, Oracle EVP Product Development, with Ted Farrell, SVP, demonstrate the power of 'easy application configuration' using Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware.

News RSA attendees “wary of the cloud”

24 Feb 2011

Overtis identifies user activity management in the cloud as the missing element

Overtis has commented on the finding that IT managers are still wary of entrusting their most sensitive data to cloud service providers. Panelists at the RSA security conference in San Francisco reported that IT managers often opt for a hybrid model, where critical data is stored on dedicated servers and only the least sensitive information is stored in multi-tenanted environments.

News FrontRange Joins Cloud Industry Forum

23 Feb 2011

Latest industry vendor to join rapidly growing Cloud standards group

FrontRange Solutions today announced that it has become the latest company to join the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), established to promote trust, security and transparency within the sector.

Blog Citrix Betting Big on Cloud App Delivery

23 Feb 2011

Bill Burley writes: This is an exciting time to be at Citrix, and at the intersection of the two hottest IT trends - desktop virtualization and cloud computing. In fact, we've seen our Citrix Service Provider (CSP) program grow exponentially over the last year, with more than 800 cloud providers certified to use Citrix technology to deliver apps and desktops from the cloud to tens of thousands of subscribers.

News Conseal Security Selects iomart Hosting to Provide Secure Platform for Delivering Cloud-Based Security Solutions

22 Feb 2011

Web and Server Hosting Specialist Will Underpin the Launch of Conseal’s Innovative Products for Securing Data

Conseal Security today announced that following an extensive evaluation of the market, it has selected iomart Hosting to provide the online delivery platform for its cloud-based security remote management console and remote device authentication solutions.

Blog Why Is Email So Complicated? Part 562: People Lie About What They Want

21 Feb 2011

Nathaniel Borenstein writes: Email software is written by programmers, most of whom think of themselves as software engineers.  They approach their tasks, for the most part, with a highly rational set of techniques.  In the best of cases, this includes a careful analysis of user requirements, a specification of software functionality, and a decomposition of that functionality into a rational, modular architecture.  In short, programmers approach the business of building software as a rational and coherent task.

Blog Why Is Email So Complicated? Part 562: People Lie About What They Want

21 Feb 2011

Nathaniel Borenstein writes: Email software is written by programmers, most of whom think of themselves as software engineers.  They approach their tasks, for the most part, with a highly rational set of techniques.  In the best of cases, this includes a careful analysis of user requirements, a specification of software functionality, and a decomposition of that functionality into a rational, modular architecture.  In short, programmers approach the business of building software as a rational and coherent task.

Videos Citrix and Intel Cloud Builders

18 Feb 2011

Simon Crosby, CTO Data Center and Cloud Division at Citrix, discusses the company's cloud computing strategy and its participation in the Intel Cloud Builders program, including the development of a Reference Architecture.

Deleted IDC predicts that public cloud computing spending set to soar by 2014

15 Feb 2011

Fast growth companies drive adoption

International Data Corporation’s (IDC) latest report predicts public Cloud spending will rise dramatically by 2014 with hosted email and other Cloud applications looking at wide-spread adoption in the next three years.  The organisation expects revenues to rise by 21.6 per cent between 2009 and 2014 as various sectors, including the professional services, communications and media, increase their use of the technology.

News Outsourcery launches CRM Online as industry focus on Cloud intensifies

14 Feb 2011

Salesforce.com under threat!

Microsoft’s leading Cloud partner in the UK, Outsourcery, has launched Dynamics CRM Online for customers looking to benefit from the latest Cloud technology. 

Videos Roy Guillen - Dell DCS General Manager

14 Feb 2011

Dell's cloud computing evangelist Barton George talks to Roy Guillen, Dell Data Center Solution GM about what makes DCS, DCS and what success looks like for him.

News ISACA’s EuroCACS Examines Data Protection, Cloud Computing and Social Networking 20-23 March 2011

11 Feb 2011

David Smith, the deputy commissioner and director of data protection for the United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office will discuss the challenges posted by personal privacy expectations from customers and regulators—and how IT professionals can strengthen public confidence in data protection—in his keynote presentation at ISACA’s European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference (EuroCACS). This year, the event will be held 20-23 March in Manchester—one of the top 20 places to visit according to the New York Times’ “41 Places to Go in 2011.”

News Claranet makes senior appointments to drive growth of cloud services across EU

03 Feb 2011

Claranet today announced four senior appointments as the business sets its sights on growth across Europe. The appointments mark the beginning of a new stage in Claranet’s evolution as a managed services provider. Following recent investment in a market-leading virtual hosting infrastructure and the ongoing development of its networking services, Claranet is set to capitalise on the growth in demand for cloud services across Europe.

News OnApp 2.1 extends leadership in cloud management software for hosts

03 Feb 2011

Free update enables hosting providers to offer private cloud services, extends cloud resource billing capabilities and adds KVM hypervisor support

OnApp has extended its lead in cloud management software for hosting providers, with the launch of OnApp 2.1. OnApp software lowers the entry barriers to cloud hosting, enabling hosts to offer fully-featured cloud services without huge up-front investment in software, infrastructure and integration. OnApp 2.1 introduces features that make cloud hosting accessible to a wider range of hosts, with new options for private clouds, cloud resource billing and resilience, and KVM hypervisor support. 

Videos HP Private Cloud Solution for Oracle: Evolution not revolution

02 Feb 2011

HP Private Cloud Solutions for Oracle deliver enterprise availability and performance plus the foundation for private cloud computing where resources are pooled and shared for efficiency.

News ControlCircle Opens Asia-Pacific Operations

31 Jan 2011

Expansion comes amid global growth in cloud computing and virtual technology outsourcing

ControlCircle today announced the opening of its Asia-Pacific operations in Singapore.  ControlCircle APAC will provide regional marketing, sales and support for ControlCircle’s growing portfolio of blue-chip clients expanding in the Asia Pacific region.  Stephen Harrison, former CEO Cellnet Pty Ltd Australia is appointed General Manager (GM) APAC and will spearhead ControlCircle’s expansion into one of the fastest growing markets in the world.

Videos Cloudy Future Equals Sunny Forecast for Enterprises and Service Providers

31 Jan 2011

Why is cloud computing a compelling economic proposition for enterprise? Who will be the most trusted providers of cloud services? Learn what opportunities cloud computing will open to service providers.

Videos Data Centre World 2011

28 Jan 2011

This year Data Centre World, the UK’s largest and fastest growing exhibition and conference for data centre managers, professionals, distributors and channel partners will deliver more than ever before with more sessions, more theatres and more exhibitors.

Over the 2 days of the event you will be able to attend 48 sessions and gain knowledge and insights from some of the industry’s key players.

Register here for FREE!

News Citrix connects Amazon Web Services to enterprise XenServer customers

27 Jan 2011

Citrix to deliver optimised cloud solutions for Windows and XenServer customers worldwide using Amazon Web Services

Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced it is providing engineering support to Amazon for the optimisation of Citrix products and Windows applications that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  This effort will further enhance interoperability and performance of Windows workloads on AWS, while ensuring continued innovation for the Xen virtualisation platform. Citrix will also work to extend these optimisations to on-premise deployments of its commercial server virtualisation platform, Citrix XenServer, making it easier for customers to seamlessly migrate workloads between enterprise datacentres and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).  As a result, AWS customers will be able to take advantage of the extensive expertise Citrix provides in virtualising and optimising the delivery of Windows workloads.

News UKSolutions keeps World Cruising Club data safe and secure in the ‘cloud’ and pirates at bay

26 Jan 2011

Joint venture enables over 1.6 million sailors to stay connected via ‘cloud’ computing services to international sailing events / Stability of Noonsite  benefits cruising sailors globally

UKSolutions has cast off with World Cruising Club (WCC), ensuring that more than 1.6 million people can access data on global sailing events, from locations around the globe.  The very nature of the events run by WCC means that people require access to information and data from all over the world, and courtesy of UKSolutions’ Cloud Computing provision, WCC can provide 100 per cent website uptime. At the same time the company has been entrusted by WCC to host Noonsite, the global information portal for cruising sailors. The website provides data from anti-piracy activity to port facilities, weather and tax issues pertinent to yacht owners.

News TM Forum delivers industry’s first set of Enterprise-Grade External Compute Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Requirements

26 Jan 2011

Ground-breaking work by TM Forum’s Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council delivers first-ever handbook for defining and managing external compute IaaS deployments

TM Forum today announced the release of their new “Enterprise-Grade External Compute IaaS Requirements” document. Produced by the Forum’s Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC), this set of clearly-defined business and technical requirements for external private cloud services puts a stake in the ground for how business and technical agreements between enterprise customers and cloud service providers should be defined and managed.

Videos Red Hat - Cloud & Virtualization

26 Jan 2011

Industry leaders give comment on working with RedHat.

News Platform Computing announces industry’s most complete application-centric software for private cloud management

26 Jan 2011

Platform ISF 2.1 empowers enterprises with choice across heterogeneous resources

Platform Computing, the leading independent cloud management software provider, today announced the general availability of Platform ISF 2.1, a new release of its modular software for building and managing enterprise private clouds.  Platform ISF’s unique application-centric approach enables customers to support multi-tier applications in addition to provisioning infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (middleware) as services. Customers benefit with a solution that can support the entire application lifecycle from dev / test to production-ready application clouds in as quickly as 30 days.

News jclouds and Libcloud add CloudSigma coverage

26 Jan 2011

CloudSigma AG today announced inclusion in the jclouds and Libcloud interoperability standards. Customers of CloudSigma can now develop cloud infrastructure based on either standard and deploy it seamlessly across multiple clouds including CloudSigma, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, GoGrid and many more.

News Imperva Strengthens Cloud Footprint With PartnerSphere Cloud Alliance Program

25 Jan 2011

More Than A Dozen Major Industry Cloud Vendors Achieve Certification

Imperva today announced its PartnerSphere Cloud Alliance Program (PCA), designed to enable Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP), Hosting and Cloud Providers to deliver best-in-class data security for their cloud data centers.  The program sets parameters for select partners, helping MSSP customers identify cloud service providers whose technologies and services have been certified by Imperva.

News Melbourne makes "Serverlove"

19 Jan 2011

Melbourne has launched Serverlove – a new cloud computing service.

The new service – which has been billed as ‘the most flexible choice for server hosting’ – went live this month following a period of extensive development and Beta testing in which over 100 customers trialled the product. 

News Equinix and OpSource team to accelerate global delivery of scalable cloud solutions

19 Jan 2011

OpSource Joins Platform Equinix to expand service footprint, enhance performance and advance collaboration with company’s 3,700 customers to grow revenue.

Equinix and OpSource have announced an agreement to deliver enterprise-class cloud and managed hosting solutions to Equinix’s ecosystem of more than 3,700 customers across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. OpSource becomes part of Platform Equinix, which combines business ecosystems and a global footprint of state-of-the-art IBX (International Business Exchange) data centres for enabling companies such as OpSource to accelerate business growth.

News TechnologyOne heads into the cloud

17 Jan 2011

TechnologyOne has announced its cloud computing offering, TechnologyOne C2, promising to help customers migrate to the cloud to realise major operating and capital expenditure savings.

Videos Cisco and The Cloud

17 Jan 2011

A conversation around Cisco's Cloud strategy with Lew Tucker, CTO, Cloud Computing and Neil Wu Becker, Corporate Communications.

News EuroCloud UK welcomes European board to landmark meeting in London

14 Jan 2011

Microsoft and NTRglobal join cloud industry leaders from across Europe for first live webcast of EuroCloud UK event

Cloud industry leaders from across Europe will converge in London next week for the first UK-hosted board meeting of fast-growing trade network EuroCloud (http://eurocloud.org/). Now entering its second year of operations, EuroCloud is active in more than two dozen European countries, providing a focal point for cloud industry collaboration and advocacy. 

News Building a Cloud that Fits: BMC Software Offers Policy Control and Customisation to Cloud Customers

13 Jan 2011

As cloud computing continues to top the list of priorities for IT organisations, BMC Software is at the forefront of helping customers embrace the next important phase in cloud computing, namely, controlled customisation of cloud environments to meet each organisation’s specific needs.

News Survey shows HPC users experimenting with private and public clouds

06 Jan 2011

Nearly half of user organisations using cloud report a positive experience.

Sixty-two percent of high performance computing (HPC) users have experimented with private or public cloud, according to a survey of delegates performed by Platform Computing at the Supercomputing Conference (SC’10) in November 2010. HPC users cited a number of ways they are evaluating private cloud infrastructures, including building shared infrastructures (36 percent) and bursting existing workloads (15 percent). Users are also experimenting with offloading applications or workloads to run on public cloud infrastructures (23 percent).

News Cloud Security Alliance Announces Appointment of EMEA Strategy Advisor

05 Jan 2011

Raj Samani has been appointed as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) EMEA Strategy Advisor, it was announced today.

The role is a non-compensated role that is intended to advise the CSA on best practices and a roadmap within EMEA, as well as support existing and developing CSA Chapters where appropriate within EMEA.  The CSA is a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

News Wick Hill announces the availability of LogLogic 5, with support for the newly launched VMware vCloud™ Director

04 Jan 2011

More secure, more compliant cloud computing

VAD Wick Hill announces the availability of LogLogic 5, with support for the newly launched VMware vCloud™ Director. LogLogic®, a leader in SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and log management, will provide full support for VMware vCloud™ Director, as part of its LogLogic 5 product offering.

Videos 1:1 with Gerald Penaflor on Brocade's latest VDX family

03 Jan 2011

How Brocade's latest VDX family helps enterprises fulfil their cloud computing needs in a simplest, most cost-efficient manner

News Economy wobbles as growth figures downgraded

03 Jan 2011

Cloud computing adoption could provide much needed boost to the economy in 2011

Britain’s rapid move out of recession experienced a blow as surprise figures revealed third-quarter growth of 0.7%, still healthy but below previous official estimates of 0.8%. The full impact of the Chancellor’s £81 billion cuts will be felt early next year and coupled with increase in VAT will mean even more pressure on the economy.

News 2011 - the year IT security enables Cloud adoption

23 Dec 2010

Every year CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) polls its security experts for their predictions on what to look for in the coming year with respect to prevailing threats and industry shifts.

News Software for detecting Cloud environment failures

22 Dec 2010

Fujitsu has launched a software package for managing network monitoring services available only in Japan.

News BP Signs $400 Million Global Hosting Services Agreement with HP

21 Dec 2010

HP to simplify, standardize server infrastructure; enable cloud computing services

HP Enterprise Services UK Limited today announced BP International Limited has signed a five-year outsourcing services agreement valued in excess of $400 million.  

News Cloud Computing Survey Points to Arrival of “Cloud Thinking”

16 Dec 2010

CA Technologies-sponsored Study Shows Large Firms Embracing Both Public and Private Cloud

Cloud computing is coming of age in large enterprises, according to a new study of North American and European IT professionals conducted by Management Insight on behalf of CA Technologies.  The group surveyed IT professionals in organisations with 1,000 to 10,000-plus employees, revealing that enterprises are active in the cloud, and their virtualisation efforts are contributing to broader interest in cloud computing.  The results also indicate a shift toward approaching IT using “cloud thinking,” accelerating the uses of cloud computing and helping to align IT decision makers and implementers around common goals of efficiency, flexibility and scalability. 

Videos Introducing EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform for Storage

15 Dec 2010

Hear Mike Feinberg, Senior Vice President, EMC Cloud Infrastructure Group discuss the industry's first self-service cloud enablement platform for storage, EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform. 

Blog Paradigm Shift: Changing Times in the Channel

15 Dec 2010

Justin Pirie writes: I’m on my way this morning to speak at the IAMCP UK Member meeting at Microsoft London. That’s the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners to you and me. The people who actually deliver Microsoft solutions to customers and handle 95% of Microsoft Revenue.

News StoneGate IPS Attains ICSA Labs Certification Across All Models

13 Dec 2010

StoneSoft today announced that the entire StoneGate Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) suite of appliances has successfully attained ICSA Labs Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Certification.

News SAS earns privacy certification for SAS Solutions OnDemand

13 Dec 2010

TRUSTe audit of SAS cloud infrastructure is preparation for US-EU Safe Harbor filing

A successful audit of the SAS Solutions OnDemand infrastructure by TRUSTe, the leading online privacy seal and services provider, validates the commitment of SAS, the leader in business analytics, to protecting customer data in the cloud.

Videos Leo and the cloud

10 Dec 2010

HP's new CEO addressed the company today to talk about our recent excellent business results and about the future of the company. When asked by an employee about HP's role in the cloud he didn't hesitate to share his vision for HP's many roles in the cloud - from being an infrastructure provider to a maker of cloud-aware personal productivity tools. He also spoke about HP's position as a company that develops software that helps manage and run the cloud.

Videos Live demo of Cloud Steelhead during Riverbed Cloud Launch

10 Dec 2010

Bob Gilbert demonstrates Riverbed's Cloud Steelhead product at the Into the Cloud event in NYC

Videos Acceleration to the Cloud

09 Dec 2010

Enterprises are embracing data center virtualization and cloud services to achieve cost savings, but even more important, to support business agility—it is not a matter of if, but rather how much and how fast.

News Cloud computing adoption could give EU top 5 €763bn boost over five years

07 Dec 2010

2011 the year of  Cloud and a ‘third industrial revolution’

Research by the Centre of Economics and Business Research (CEBR) reports that widespread adoption of cloud computing could give the top five EU economies a 763bn euro boost over five years and create 2.4m jobs. The report suggests that the rapid uptake of Cloud computing service offerings (will make them) progressively cheaper as economies of scale take hold and service offerings mature. The findings are backed up by analysts such as Gartner which predicts that by 2012, 20% of companies will not own their own IT assets.

Videos EMC Introduces New Virtualization & Cloud Computing Training and Certification Programs

07 Dec 2010

EMC's Howard Elias and Sanjay Mirchandani discuss the industry's most comprehensive cloud architecture training and certifications, which enable IT professionals to maximize benefits of virtual data centers and cloud computing.

News Cisco announces intent to acquire LineSider

03 Dec 2010

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately held LineSider Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of network management software that helps customers build the network services necessary to securely create and deploy cloud computing infrastructure. Based in Danvers, Mass., LineSider will enhance Cisco's ability to rapidly provision network services.

News The Lippis Report and Ixia Stage Open Networking Performance and Power Tests for Public and Private Data Centre Clouds

03 Dec 2010

Ixia’s iSimCity hosts Lippis Report series of 10 GE tests to provide first comparative data on 10 GE switch performance and power consumption

Ixia today announced that it has teamed with Nick Lippis of the Lippis Report to sponsor a series of open industry data centre network performance and power consumption tests. The goal of the tests is to provide the industry with comparative performance and power consumption data across several 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switch providers using Ixia’s breakthrough Xcellon-Flex™ load modules.

Blog Black smoke or green cloud?

03 Dec 2010

At PEER 1, we know the responsibility we hold when it comes to addressing environmental issues. As a member of The Green Grid, a global consortium of leading IT organisations focused on data centre efficiency, we are committed to minimising power consumption and improving energy efficiency.

News Mimecast Ranked Fifth Fastest Growing Technology Company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2010

26 Nov 2010

Mimecast attributes its 7,579% percent revenue growth to the huge potential of delivering smarter, more secure email services through the cloud.

Mimecast today announced that it ranked number five on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2010, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years. Mimecast grew 7,579% percent during this period.

News Samlink turns to IBM for new services agreement

25 Nov 2010

IBM to manage the IT infrastructure of over 400 bank branch offices and deploy a cloud learning environment.

News Fujitsu launches Private Cloud service

25 Nov 2010

Fujitsu has announced the immediate availability of its new Private Cloud Service, offering private clouds as an outsourcing service that includes server/storage virtualization and automation, as well as a dedicated cloud-computing environment, only in Japan.

News Outsourcery collaborates with BBC, BAFTA and Microsoft to host carbon calculator for the television industry

25 Nov 2010

Microsoft’s worldwide Hosting Partner of the Year 2010, and leading Cloud services and unified communications company Outsourcery is pleased to announce that it will be working in collaboration with the BBC, BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) and Microsoft and host the UK’s first carbon calculator for the television industry. The calculator (known as Project Albert) is being used by the BBC as part of its sustainability drive to cut carbon emissions and reduce energy consumption by 2013, was launched yesterday.

Videos Unified Email

24 Nov 2010

Mimecast founders, Peter Bauer and Neil Murray talk about managing email & asynchronous data in the Cloud.

Articles How to incorporate cloud computing into your BC plan

23 Nov 2010

The term ‘cloud computing’ has been widely adopted by the technology industry to describe any on-demand services provided via the internet. It has had a drastic impact on businesses and the technology channel. 

As we begin to emerge from the hype around ‘cloud computing’ many businesses are seeing it with more clarity and are focusing on how the cloud will fit into their existing infrastructure, services and solutions.  Cloud can be used as a way of accessing a wide variety of services from security, data backup and storage to IT infrastructure, enterprise applications and business continuity.

Many organisations are still nervous about offering cloud services but in these new lean times, the allure of being able to pay as you go is gaining traction. Cloud solutions should be no different to standard solutions.

News Outsourcery sees Cloud Code of Practice essential to the future of the industry

23 Nov 2010

Founding CIF member Outsourcery helps drive governance

The European Union decision to fund a three-year research project that intends to allay security concerns about the Cloud industry was announced today. Despite growing adoption there are still concerns, and the project will develop a variety of technical components and policies designed to make Cloud computing more secure. This morning the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) launched aCloud industry code of practice.

News 2011 - the year IT security enables Cloud adoption

22 Nov 2010

Every year CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) polls its security experts for their predictions on what to look for in the coming year with respect to prevailing threats and industry shifts.

Articles Oracle Cloud Computing

15 Nov 2010

Cloud computing is a significant advancement in the delivery of information technology and services. By providing on demand access to a shared pool of computing resources in a self-service, dynamically scaled and metered manner,  cloud computing offers compelling advantages in speed, agility and efficiency. Today, cloud computing is at an early stage in its lifecycle, but it is also the evolution and convergence of several trends that have been driving enterprise data centers and service providers overthe last several years.

News Mimecast Launches Support for Microsoft BPOS, Extending the Business Benefits and Reducing the Risks of Migration

15 Nov 2010

Integrated service offers support for BPOS migration, granular eDiscovery and long-term email archiving, and a 100% service availability SLA

Mimecast has today announced support for Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS), easing migration headaches and extending the business benefits of Microsoft’s latest messaging and collaboration tools. 

Videos Accenture's take on OpenStack -- Open source cloud platform

11 Nov 2010

Dell's cloud evangelist Barton George interviews Accenture partner Joe Tobolski on day one of the OpenStack design summit

News “Private Cloud” takes centre Ssage at Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2010

09 Nov 2010

Hyper-V Cloud programs will help customers and partners accelerate private cloud deployment.

News Dell Services and Symantec expand strategic partnership to deliver cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions

09 Nov 2010

Dell Services and Symantec have announced an expanded strategic partnership under which Dell Services will utilize Symantec’s e-mail security platform as the security engine for its Email Management Services (EMS) portfolio of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. The partnership will utilize Symantec Hosted Services’ state-of-the-art, cloud-based security services to bring new e-mail security features and improved functionality to Dell’s EMS customers and channel partners, providing them with increased e-mail protection and availability.

News Millennium Stadium and Cisco to transform the fan experience with Europe's first StadiumVision deployment

09 Nov 2010

Cardiff-based stadium is first in Europe to deploy Cisco StadiumVision to deliver new experiences in sports and entertainment.

News Unisys debuts web-based solution enabling clients to standardize delivery of IT services to their users

04 Nov 2010

Hosted software-as-a-service offering helps clients provide uniform levels of IT support to their end users while lowering costs of multiple platforms.

News Microsoft hosts leaders from across Europe to discuss European competitiveness

04 Nov 2010

Speaking to leading figures from government, industry and academia from across Europe at the Government Leaders Forum Europe (GLF) in London, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer called for a new level of collaboration across industry and with government to advance progress on critical economic and social challenges in Europe. He focused his remarks on the role of technology, and cloud computing in particular, in driving transformation, especially in public sector, and underlined Microsoft’s commitment in Europe towards this goal.

News Dell to acquire Boomi

04 Nov 2010

Dell has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration leader Boomi to help businesses reap the full value of cloud computing. Powered by its revolutionary AtomSphere technology, Boomi offers the industry’s only pure SaaS application integration platform that takes the cost and complexity out of integrating applications by allowing easy transfer of data between cloud-based and on-premise applications with no appliances, no software and no coding required.

News IBM launches Federal Community Cloud for government organizations

04 Nov 2010

IBM has launched a new Federal Community Cloud specifically designed to help federal government organizations respond to technology requirements more quickly.  The secure, private cloud environment is part of IBM's established and dedicated Federal Data Centers (FDC) that provide secure and comprehensive certified computing capabilities to federal government clients.

Videos Always On Email: Law Firm Manages Email in the Cloud for Business Continuity

03 Nov 2010

Luke Corley, IT Manager at law firm, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson in Baton Rouge Louisiana, talks about moving their email to the cloud.

Videos UDS N Interview with Mark Shuttleworth

29 Oct 2010

UDS N Amber Graner interviews Mark Shuttleworth

News Corporate Express selects Cisco, EMC and VMware to virtualise for increased business agility and energy efficiency

28 Oct 2010

Corporate Express, a $1.16 billion supplier of products for the office with 40 locations across Australia and New Zealand, is extending its commitment to virtualisation in the data centre with its selection of technology from Cisco, EMC and VMware.

News Fujitsu to Provide Cloud Services to Chiba Prefecture

28 Oct 2010

Shared e-procurement system reduces prefectural and municipal costs by approximately 50%.

Articles Claranet launches virtual hosting services; bridging cloud gaps

26 Oct 2010

Tier1 Research analyst, Antonio Piraino writes:  UK (and France) based Claranet has been working rapidly on making its cloud services generally available in rapid succession over the past few months. In September, the company launched its Managed Virtual Hosting to complement its managed dedicated virtual server environments – or private clouds.

News Interoute provides Europe’s enterprises secure cloud hosting solutions

26 Oct 2010

Interoute’s Geneva Security and Hosting Operations Centre attains ISO 27001

Interoute today announced it has received ISO 27001 certification for its Hosting and Security Operations Centre (SHOC) in Geneva.  The internationally recognised 'best practice' security management standard assures enterprises of Interoute’s continuous commitment to securing their critical data.

Videos An Introduction to Informatica Cloud

25 Oct 2010

Sohaib Abbasi, Informatica Chairman and CEO, and Juan Carlos Soto, Informatica SVP and GM, provide an overview of Informatica Cloud

News New virtual hosting services from Claranet represent the next stage in cloud evolution

25 Oct 2010

Unique three-tier combination of cloud services gives businesses unprecedented flexibility, reliability and cost control

Award-winning managed services provider, Claranet, has announced the launch of a three-tier virtual hosting service offering that will meet the complex, varied and rapidly changing hosting requirements of UK and EU businesses.

News Gartner identifies seven major CEO concerns CIOs should address

22 Oct 2010

With the increased reliance on IT from business leaders, it’s important for CIOs to understand the concerns of CEOs and the implications they may have on IT, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts have outlined the seven major concerns from CEOs that CIOs should address.

News IBM takes action to improve Cloud security

21 Oct 2010

New services and IBM Research innovations reduce barriers to cloud adoption.

News Fujitsu develops inter-Cloud data security technology

21 Oct 2010

New data leakage prevention technology in cloud computing environments.

Blog Event: The Content Crisis- Driving Down Customer Acquisition Costs

21 Oct 2010

Justin Pirie writes: It’s been a little while since I’ve posted on this blog- but I felt it was time to give an events update as there is some really good stuff happening and readers don’t seem to be getting the best of me these days…

Articles Force10 Networks Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure

19 Oct 2010

The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership(TCO) — as well as being the focal point for green IT initiatives.

News CA Technologies Support for VMware vCloud™ API to Enable Process and Workload Automation in Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds

14 Oct 2010

Today at VMworld 2010 Europe, CA Technologies announced plans to integrate CA IT Process Automation Manager with the VMware vCloud™ API. The integration, which is under development using the VMware vCloud API in BlueLock’s VMware-based public cloud, is intended to enable process automation and orchestration for providing and consuming virtual resources in the cloud. It also will empower customers to deploy and manage virtualised workloads in VMware vCloud-based private, public and hybrid clouds.  

News UK Cloud Vendors Call for Unity on Standards

13 Oct 2010

Growth in cloud adoption relies on consistent standards, best practices and certifications, says industry forum EuroCloud UK

 Newly emerging standards and certification schemes for cloud computing best practices must dovetail together to avoid confusing customers, says EuroCloud UK (http://www.eurocloud.org.uk), the fast-growing industry body for SaaS and Cloud vendors. The organisation will meet to discuss collective actions with other industry bodies next Wednesday, 20th October in London. 

News L7 Solutions Deploys Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to Support Cloud Computing and Vblock Deployments

12 Oct 2010

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Provider Delivers Added Value with 24/7 Monitoring And Customized Reporting to Key Clients.

Videos Five Cloud Computing Players

12 Oct 2010

Dave Sobel has his head in the clouds. Check out his run down of give hot cloud computing players to watch in the SMB space.

Articles If Your Head’s In the Cloud, Keep Your Feet on the Ground!

11 Oct 2010

Keep an eye on the must-have requirements of Cloud-based network security

While some of the technical underpinnings that make up the Cloud’s ‘secret sauce’, are relatively recent innovations, the business case for managing critical IT functions as services – inside or outside the firewall - is not a new concept. At the end of the day, the Cloud is just another way to outsource IT functions, and the same fundamental concerns that exist with more mature outsourcing offerings need to be addressed – such as, how does an organization manage its security and compliance posture when critical systems and data are hosted or managed by a third party? 

News BT benefits Norfolk schools

08 Oct 2010

BT has signed a contract with Norfolk County Council Children’s Services to provide a Virtual Data Centre (VDC) service which will help them manage their ICT (Information and communication technologies) overheads by moving applications, storage and security into the cloud. The VDC service removes the need for physical hardware and will free up resources, enabling learning services to be provided to over 100,000 pupils and students in more than 400 schools across Norfolk.

Videos On the eve of the London Symposium

08 Oct 2010

Gareth Spence and Stephan Rettenberger look ahead to this year's London Symposium and explore some of the hot topics that will be discussed, including cloud computing

Articles Mainframe―The Ultimate Cloud Platform?

08 Oct 2010

CA Technologies today announced the results of a new independent study revealing that 81 percent of IT organisations in the U.K. believe the mainframe is an essential component of their cloud computing strategy. Over 300 IT decision makers in ten countries responded to the CA Technologies commissioned survey, “Mainframe―The Ultimate Cloud Platform?” 

Videos Gregor Petri from CA speaks at 360ºIT 2010: Part 2

07 Oct 2010

Part 2 of an interview with Gregor Petri, Advisor on The Cloud at Computer Associates speaks about Virtualization and The Cloud at 360ºIT The Infrastructure Event in Earls Court on 22-23 September 2010. Brian McKenna Interviews

Videos Gregor Petri from CA speaks at 360ºIT about The Cloud

07 Oct 2010

Part 1 of an interview with Gregor Petri, Advisor on The Cloud at Computer Associates speaks about Virtualization and The Cloud at 360ºIT The Infrastructure Event in Earls Court on 22-23 September 2010. Brian McKenna Interviews

News Survey reveals widespread and accelerating enterprise adoption of private clouds

06 Oct 2010

Novell  has announced the results of a new Harris Interactive survey of more than 200 IT leaders at large enterprise organisations. The survey, sponsored by Novell, reveals much broader adoption of cloud computing than has been suggested by previous research, and shows accelerating momentum behind developing private cloud infrastructures. The research strongly suggests cloud computing -- both public and private -- will be an increasing part of the mix of resources deployed by enterprise IT organisations, and that companies are particularly interested in simplifying management across their integrated physical, virtual and cloud environments.

News Scality to develop Cloud Storage services for Tiscali

06 Oct 2010

Tiscali, one of the main independent Telecommunication companies in Italy, has selected Scality and its object-based RING storage platform to develop its own public cloud service platform in Italy.

News Mimecast Makes Email Easy for Macmillan Cancer Support

04 Oct 2010

Mimecast today announced that it has been selected by leading charity Macmillan Cancer Support to provide  email services to the organisation’s 950 users.  

News Fujitsu launches On-Demand IaaS Public Cloud service

01 Oct 2010

Fujitsu has announced the availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in Japan, starting October 1, 2010. This new IaaS public cloud service will enable customers to utilize servers and other ICT infrastructure across a network on an on-demand basis.

Videos Email Continuity: Engen Solves Bandwidth Challenges In-the-Cloud

01 Oct 2010

South Africa poses challenges of high cost of bandwidth combined with spam attacks and power outages. Engen manages email high availability and spam issues in the cloud using Mimecast. Engen uses Mimecast Email Stationery feature to position its brand with thousands of World Cup fans worldwide.

News GreenQloud taps Scality's technology to launch world's first truly green cloud service

30 Sep 2010

GreenQloud's service powered solely by Icelandic geothermal- and hydropower

GreenQloud has announced a technology partnership with Scality, the pioneer of object-based cloud storage. The move will allow the Icelandic cloud service provider to launch its range of groundbreaking services later this year to users around the world.

Videos Aurecon Manages Email Continuity & Spam with Mimecast

27 Sep 2010

South Africa poses challenges of high cost of bandwidth combined with spam attacks and power outages. Aurecon manages email high availability and spam issues in the cloud using Mimecast. Aurecon executives can now access email anywhere in the world even when the email system is down. Email Continuity, Email Security, Email Archiving, Bandwidth, Anti-Spam

News IT Managers’ Migration Fears are Slowing Adoption of Exchange 2010

27 Sep 2010

New research finds the majority of organisations are planning to migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2010 but uncertainty remains over the need to upgrade existing hardware and software

Mimecast today announced the results of The Exchange Report, an exclusive study examining the IT department’s attitude to Microsoft Exchange and plans for future email strategies. The Exchange Report, sponsored by Mimecast, is based upon a survey of 250 IT decision makers at large UK organisations.  

News RackSpace API compatibility added by CloudSigma

27 Sep 2010

CloudSigma AG today announced the launch of a new RackSpace API emulator for its customers. The API emulator is designed to extend compatibility of its cloud to the RackSpace API which also forms the basis of the new OpenStack initiative.

News Oracle unveils Exalogic Elastic Cloud

23 Sep 2010

The world’s only integrated middleware machine delivers unprecedented Java application performance.

News HP delivers Private Cloud solutions for Oracle Applications

23 Sep 2010

HP has announced integrated private cloud solutions customized for Oracle applications that significantly shorten and simplify the deployment process.

News Cloud-Computing Services represents 10 per cent of spending on external IT Services in 2010

23 Sep 2010

Cloud-computing services consumed from external service providers (ESPs) are estimated to be 10.2 per cent of the spending on external IT services, according to a worldwide survey by Gartner, Inc.

Videos Finding Competitive Advantage in Cloud Computing

23 Sep 2010

Martijn Van Zoeren of Dutch Cloud is a cloud computing specialist. Dutch Cloud helps customers integrate cloud computing into there business processes seamlessly. He relies on IBM to deliver standardized components that he can use to help companies change the way they interpret data. IBM is helping companies integrate cloud computing into there business processes to keep up with the changing landscape 

Videos Meet Dave Episode III: Migration Menace

22 Sep 2010

Dave is in the process of upgrading to exchange 2010 this will lead to extended email downtimes and the laborious task of migrating his companies data.... but all is not as it seems... Dave is connected to Mimecast and the migration turns out to be near seamless.

News AccelOps Advances Integrated Data Center And Cloud Monitoring For Service Providers And Large Enterprises

22 Sep 2010

AccelOps has announced expansion into the service provider and large enterprise markets with the release of AccelOps SP (Service Provider) edition. The platform provides extensive visibility, proactive alerting, analytics flexibility and service insight for managing multiple customers/divisions across on-premise, off-premise and cloud environments. AccelOps delivers an intelligent and cost-effective means to meet service levels, increase efficiency and capitalize on new service delivery opportunities for service providers and large enterprises.

News Scality Launches Open Source Cloud Program with $100,000 Incentive Fund for Software Developers

22 Sep 2010

Scality has announced plans to open-source the Software Development Kit (SDK) of its patented RING technology. As a kickoff incentive, Scality is offering contributing developers bounties from a $100,000 USD fund.

News The Bunker adds an Ultra Secure lining with its Secure Hybrid Cloud proposition

16 Sep 2010

The Bunker is pleased to announce its Secure Hybrid Cloud proposition, delivering all the benefits of a scalable and flexible hosting environment, but with the ultra secure peace of mind afforded by a solid SLA (Service Level Agreement) and years of experience delivering security and business continuity.

Blog Affordable Cloud DR is Here

15 Sep 2010

Jeff Echols writes: While many CommVault users have been interested in cloud storage as a low-cost, long term repository for backup & archive data, the more interesting topic is what can be done to the data once it gets to the cloud. By far, the most frequent user request centers on disaster recovery (DR). This week, CommVault and Rackspace announced 'Cloud DR', an affordable solution that combines enterprise class data management software with on-demand cloud infrastructure.

News “Hybrid cloud model will help the channel grow as IT evolves” says Influential entrepreneur

15 Sep 2010

Kristof De Spiegeleer, Chairman of the Board, Zenith Infotech Europe to present the case for innovative channel focused technology at upcoming cloud computing forum

Serial entrepreneur and high-tech visionary Kristof De Spiegeleer will give his first UK presentation in many years at the upcoming Cloud Computing Forum 2010 this September. De Spiegeleer will outline a counterpoint to the hype over cloud computing that suggests that a hybrid model using an innovative new class of customer premises “appliance” is vital for the adoption by small and medium business in partnership with the channel.

Blog Cloudonomics

10 Sep 2010

Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO writes: One of the lingering concerns about cloud computing is determining when it does or doesn’t make economic sense. There is certainly a crossover point at which either the requirements of scale or level of service are such that the cost of the cloud exceeds that of a more traditional approach. However, determining where that point lies and the specific drivers that influence it, has been a subject of much debate.

News Zeus makes Cloud Balancing and Bursting a reality

07 Sep 2010

The newly released Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform enables enterprises to deliver fast, secure and available applications across any combination of Physical, Virtual and Cloud IT infrastructures

Zeus Technology today announces the general availability of the Zeus Elastic Application Delivery (ZEAD) platform. The solution enables organisations to deliver fast, secure and available applications across any combination of Physical, Virtual and Cloud infrastructures.

Videos NetApp and Gale Technologies - Virtualizing Oracle test and Development

06 Sep 2010

NetApp and Gale Technologies - Virtualizing Oracle test and Development on VMware

News EMC transforms management of the Private Cloud

03 Sep 2010

Further powering its customers' journey to the private cloud, EMC has announced the beta program for EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager 2.0. This new offering completely transforms infrastructure management by unifying, and making service-driven, the management of network, compute and storage layers. Ionix UIM 2.0 will empower companies to more easily make the transition from physical to virtual to private cloud infrastructures by unifying and automating the management of Vblock™ Infrastructure Packages, an element of the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition formed by Cisco, EMC, and VMware.

Articles Cloud computing: resilience is the key to success

03 Sep 2010

Our 21st century society has become so used to change and new developments that genuinely progressive concepts are initially not recognised by many people. There is then a rush to implementation once the benefits become obvious. Virtualisation is a good example of this, with the technology being around for a decade before its benefits really became understoodand appreciated.

We are now on the cusp of a significant evolution in information technology, one which has the potential to completely change how organisational IT is provisioned, managed and protected. Welcome to cloud computing.

News CiRBA announces enterprise-class analytics platform for capacity & efficiency management

01 Sep 2010

CiRBA Version 6.0 adds unique cross-functional dashboards to enable executives, capacity managers, and operations to collectively manage efficiency and risk across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure.

News Citrix expands leadership in Open Cloud Computing

31 Aug 2010

Citrix Systems has announced several key additions to its Citrix OpenCloud™infrastructure platform for cloud providers. The new enhancements raise the bar in cloud interoperability, scalability and self-service – further extending the company’s leadership position as the most widely deployed provider of virtualization and networking solutions for the open cloud. To further accelerate its OpenCloud strategy, Citrix also announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire VMLogix, a leading provider of virtualization management for private and public clouds.

Videos HP and SFR

31 Aug 2010

Cloud Services Enablement for IaaS:Join HP and SFR's partnership announcement, as CMStv's Martyn Warwick interviews Tim Marsden about the news and what it means for HP.

News Quest Software Delivers Advanced Private Cloud Automation Platform

30 Aug 2010

Quest Cloud Automation Platform 7.5 Delivers Comprehensive Cloud Capacity Management, Self-Service-Enabled VM Migration, and Revamped Reporting with Chargeback

News 3PAR Utility Storage strengthens Nissho's support

26 Aug 2010

3PAR has joined forces with Nissho Electronics in Japan to address the needs of virtual datacenters and the cloud computing service business in Japan. As part of this enhanced partnership, Nissho has become the first member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile Program in Japan to offer 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED disaster recovery services based on 3PAR Remote Copy.

Videos An IT Cloud Computing Roadmap from Intel IT

26 Aug 2010

IT Cloud Computing: Intel IT has defined a path for building and implementing a private cloud for the enterprise. This is a significant shift to a new enterprise architecture based on a cloud computing approach. Cloud computing is a shared, multi-tenant environment built on a highly efficient, automated, virtualized infrastructure. In this video, you'll see how Intel IT's office and enterprise private cloud not only increases efficiency and agility, but also offers high availability without additional cost, and improved capacity management. This roadmap is based on extensive experience -- Intel IT operates a massive worldwide computing environment, supporting about 78,000 Intel employees and 100,000 servers.

Videos Selling Entertainment Insurance from the Cloud

26 Aug 2010

Brad Hodges, CIO The Truman Van Dyke Company and New Empire Entertainment Insurance Services, Inc. discusses the challenges of selling entertainment insurance and how he uses cloud computing to help gain efficiencies in his operation.

News Novell announces Cloud Security Service

25 Aug 2010

Novell has announced the general availability of Novell Cloud Security Service. Part of Novell’s WorkloadIQ product portfolio, Novell Cloud Security Service gives cloud providers the ability to deliver secure access and compliance in the cloud for their customers.

News Platform Computing introduces low cost starter pack for private cloud

25 Aug 2010

Platform ISF Starter Pack provides architects with an immediate private cloud sandbox with minimal risk or investment

Platform Computing today announced the availability of the Platform ISF Starter Pack, an out-of-the-box, end-to-end software product and services offering for companies to quickly set up a private cloud. It provides a low risk, low cost way to evaluate private cloud, enabling architects and IT managers to get a cloud sandbox environment up and running in less than 30 minutes. For only US$4,995, the Platform ISF Starter Pack includes a one-year Platform ISF license for 10 sockets, consulting, training and support.

Videos About Cloud.com

25 Aug 2010

Cloud.com CEO Sheng Liang shares some insights regarding his company.

Videos Exchange 2010 Architecture Design with Virtualization- Can I virtualize it all?

25 Aug 2010

One of the strategies we keep hearing about to cope with Exchange 2010 sprawl is Virtualization- but there are some interesting gotcha's, especially with Database Availabiltiy Groups, or DAG's as they are known.

Articles Transformational DR in a hybrid universe: Physical, Virtual, Cloud

23 Aug 2010

Virtualisation and Cloud Computing have been touted for the last few years as the panacea for the IT industry and, in a time of economic uncertainty, both have the ability to help companies get the most out of their existing server and storage infrastructure. With both technologies at the forefront of the IT debate once again, what effect are they having on the backup and recovery arena?

News Zenith Infotech Europe signs first partners for "On-Premise Cloud" Appliance with integrated off-site managed services

19 Aug 2010

Leading Edge and Cloud.nl begin evaluation and customer trials for innovative turnkey solution to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of buying, installing and managing an entire server, desktop, storage and networking architecture for small and medium business.

Zenith Infotech Europe has shipped the first production models of its revolutionary Smart Style Office product, the first “On-Premise Cloud” solution to provide a completely scalable IT environment from within a single device. SmartStyle Computing® is a private cloud solution, which replaces conventional hardware and infrastructure with virtual desktops, servers and networking. It includes advanced features that provide more reliability and flexibility than traditional IT systems: auto provisioning of servers/desktops, a built in dispersed storage SAN, 15 minute snapshotting, golden image technology, automatic failover, and much more! Following its tradition of creating Service Provider Enabling solutions, Zenith Infotech also bundles its full 24/7 monitoring & NOC.

Videos BT's Chief Scientist talks Cloud

17 Aug 2010

Cloud evangelist Barton George interviews J.P Rangaswamy, BT's scientist at the OSCON cloud summit.

Articles Cloud Solutions for Enterprises

17 Aug 2010

Recent surveys have shown a steady increase in enterprise adoption of cloud-based services, with numbers reaching as high as eighty-three percent in the US alone. In parallel, some enterprises have begun the process of deploying private clouds as a way to benefit from having cloud-based services in an on-premise data center.

News Verari renames and moves forward as Cirrascale

13 Aug 2010

Cirrascale has announced the launch of its new business providing industry-leading independent blade-based cloud computing and cloud storage platforms for conventional and containerized data centers. Cirrascale, originally organized under the name “Verari Technologies”, acquired the intellectual property and other assets of Verari Systems in January 2010.

Articles Authenticating the cloud

11 Aug 2010

While much has been discussed about the security of applications and data in the cloud, there’s a blind spot when it comes to authentication. Dave Abraham, CEO at Signify sheds light on the issue.

We can certainly expect to hear more about cloud computing in the next few years. Gartner puts it at the top of its Technology Trends list for 2010 and estimates that worldwide cloud services revenue will surge to more than $150 billion in 2013.

Articles Elastic Cloud Computing

10 Aug 2010

Following the hype through 2001 as we move into the second half of 2010 cloud computing is becoming less a dream of the marketers and true contenders are starting to claim their market share. Both private and public sector organisations are starting to migrate some or all of their IT infrastructure to a virtual network. Last January the Cabinet Office announced that a UK cloud computing strategy could save up to £3.2bn a year. Industry analyst, Martin Hingley or IT Candor, predicts the UK cloud computing market will be worth £119bn by 2013.

Blog How much data is too much data?

10 Aug 2010

Gareth Spence writes: The explosion of data being generated and transported across the world’s networks is a topic that often consumes a great deal of time in the storage and enterprise community. I often find myself engaged in discussions on data transport using terms such as gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes and even zettabytes. However, there are times when these words are thrown around with alarming casualness and this was reinforced today when I came across the graphic below.

News TM Forum Sees Sunny Future for Cloud Services at Management World Americas

10 Aug 2010

Boeing, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deutsche Bank, Washington Post and Schumacher amongst global leaders at TM Forum’s Cloud Summit

With the Cloud Services promise meant to transform the way enterprises operate today, TM Forum is at the forefront, announcing their Cloud Summit at Management World Americas 2010, (November 9-11, Orlando, FL.).

Articles Optimising application delivery in a virtualised world

06 Aug 2010

Server virtualisation has dramatically changed the landscape in the datacentre but server consolidation is just the beginning of what can be achieved. Owen Garrett, Cloud Computing expert at Zeus Technology, explains.

News Hype cycle shows two generations of EA

05 Aug 2010

Gartner, Inc.'s 2010 Hype Cycle for enterprise architecture (EA) reveals that two generations of EA, one currently focusing on IT-oriented practices and the other rising to focus on integrating and engaging with the business. The Hype Cycle also shows how EA will further evolve and how enterprise architects will utilise and govern EA within the business in the next 10 years.

Articles Cloud Buyers' Decision Tree

05 Aug 2010

This White Paper describes a Decision Tree that could be used to help you discover where Cloud opportunities and solutions might fit in your organization. It is put forward for discussion, with the intention that this discussion, and validation in the field, will result in a practical tool for use by enterprises.

Blog Seagate Positions Itself in the Clouds

04 Aug 2010

David Szabados writes:

Although Seagate’s core business is hard drive manufacturing, there are numerous business development teams within the company that work with outside OEMs and customers to explore technologies and implementations for the future. One significant area Seagate has continued to look at during the past several years has been the emergence of cloud computing.

Articles Shifting The Mix: A Practical Approach To Making IT More Strategic

03 Aug 2010

Today’s IT budget is spent mostly on “keeping the lights on”. In fact, roughly 70% of the budget is spent on sustaining and running existing capability while only 30% is spent on providing new capabilities to the business. The business, together with IT, needs to find ways to increase the value created by the existing and new investments in IT.

News Siemens orchestrates the cloud

03 Aug 2010

Bespoke options for customers to be enhanced with VMware vCloud partnership

Siemens IT Solutions and Services has signed a global virtualisation deal to become a VMware vCloud^™ service provider partner. This will complement the options available to its customers via Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments from the VMware vSphere^™ platform.

Articles Building Return on Investment from Cloud Computing

03 Aug 2010

Cloud Computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This enables users to avoid over-provisioning and under-provisioning, to improve cost, revenue, and margin, and to provide new business services based on new ways of operating.

Videos Building Return on Investment from Cloud Computing

03 Aug 2010

This video with Mark Skilton from CapGemini and The Open Group introduces the whitepaper, "Building Return on Investment from Cloud Computing" which you can download here.

News Mimecast Launches Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, Easing Migration Concerns for Administrators

29 Jul 2010

Innovations include greater policy control, load reduction on Microsoft Exchange and automated message management controls

Mimecast today announced support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, easing migration headaches and controlling costs while unlocking the immediate benefits of Microsoft’s newest 64-bit architecture. Avoiding expensive on-premise management overheads and removing the need for .PST files, Mimecast’s Unified Email Management (UEM) suite of services now fully supports Microsoft Exchange 2010 and provides a single-platform approach to archiving, security, continuity and policy control; integrating seamlessly into customers’ existing – or newly planned – IT infrastructures.

News Platform Computing survey: Private clouds high on IT execs agenda in 2010

29 Jul 2010

Increased awareness of private cloud benefits influence drivers for adoption

Demand for private clouds remains undiminished in 2010, with 28% of organisations planning a deployment in 2010, according to the third annual benchmark survey of delegates by Platform Computing at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'10) in June. While the level of intent to deploy is the same as in 2009 (also 28%), the main drivers have changed dramatically, reflecting improved awareness and understanding of the benefits of private clouds. As the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, Platform Computing has been tracking adoption of private clouds and the drivers for uptake.

Videos Ubuntu & the Cloud: Canonical's Neil Levine

28 Jul 2010

Dell's cloud evangelist Barton George interviews Canonical VP Neil Levine at OSCON. Neil talks about what is in store cloud-wise in the upcoming ubuntu releases over the next year.

Videos Global IT Council

28 Jul 2010

Daryl Plummer and David Cappuccio introduce the benefits you can get from the Global IT Council. View a related webinar: http://is.gd/dDyip

Videos 3 SaaS Drivers

28 Jul 2010

Robert Desisto explains three main reasons companies are looking to SaaS. Check out Free SaaS research from Gartner

News Saginaw school learns about virtualization

27 Jul 2010

Saginaw Intermediate School District (ISD) has replaced a legacy storage area network (SAN) and fully embraced virtualization in its centralized data center built on DataCore, VMware and Xiotech. Saginaw ISD’s VMware- DataCore-based cloud for servers and storage serves as both a centralized data center and a hosting service for the majority of school districts in the county.

Articles How cloud is affecting business continuity solutions

27 Jul 2010

Cloud Computing has had a drastic impact on businesses and the technology channel. Many organisations are still nervous about offering cloud services but in these new lean times, the allure of being able to pay for only what you need when you need it, the proposition underpinning the Cloud, is gaining traction.

Articles Data Protection and Disaster Recovery within the Cloud

27 Jul 2010

Cloud computing is an increasingly persuasive business model for many organisations, and especially for those with remote offices or for small-to-medium (SMB) businesses that are looking for cost-effective technology offerings. Analyst firms predict significant growth and use of the cloud for data storage; however, SMBs and start-ups are, in fact, more likely to adopt these services into their IT infrastructures than large enterprises.

News IBM expands Cloud Computing capabilities

23 Jul 2010

IBM has announced a new IBM Cloud Computing Competence Center in Ehningen, Germany, which will provide a broad range of cloud solutions and services to clients locally and internationally. Located in Ehningen, Germany, home to IBM's largest data center in Europe, the new facility will host a range of technology platforms and optimized service delivery processes, enabling its clients to harness the immense potential offered by cloud computing.

News IBM unveils zEnterprise system

23 Jul 2010

IBM has announced the zEnterprise mainframe server and a new systems design that allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7 and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized system. The new mainframe is also the most powerful and energy-efficient mainframe ever.

News A ClearPath into the Cloud?

23 Jul 2010

Unisys-hosted solutions give ClearPath clients new, cost-efficient options to source IT infrastructure for application development and modernization.

News DataCentre Expo’s Visitor Marketing reaches over 1 million internationally

23 Jul 2010

DataCentre Expo’s visitor marketing plan is extremely high-profile, with a ‘global reach’ of over 1 million recipients.

Email broadcasts, off-the-page advertisements, online advertising and press coverage will really take off throughout July and August. The marketing campaign has already produced impressive results with appearances in: IT Mittelstand, eWeek and Network Computing, DV Dialogue, Manage IT and of course TheDataChain.

News Cloud Computing confidence expected to drive economic growth

22 Jul 2010

The flexibility of cloud computing could help organizations recover from the current global economic downturn, according to 68 percent of IT and businesses decision makers who participated in an annual study commissioned by Savvis.

News Cloud computing delivering on its promise but doubts still hold back adoption

22 Jul 2010

The majority of IT departments now use cloud-based applications, with users reporting better security and lower costs.

Articles Top reasons why businesses should not fear the cloud

21 Jul 2010

Cloud computing is gaining momentum, but has yet to become a widespread phenomenon. Many organisations see the (public) cloud as a solution purely for a few hosted software applications, but would not dream of running their vital business processes anywhere but on their own premises. Cloud computing is not a new concept, however. It has been evolving since companies understood the impact the internet can have on service delivery and management – from Network Computing, Application Service Provision (ASP), Utility Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS) and now, cloud Computing.

News CIOs vote for The Cloud

20 Jul 2010

Colt has published the results of a European CIO survey that demonstrates that awareness of cloud services among CIOs and senior IT decision makers has increased by over 20 per cent in just seven months. Over 68 per cent of CIOs and their peers are now saying that they are familiar with cloud technology. The UK has the highest levels of awareness (77%) followed by Germany (75%), France (71%) and Italy (66%). Spain has the lowest levels of familiarity with cloud services, with 58 per cent of CIOs and their peers saying they are familiar with the technology.

Videos Dimension Data Talks Video, Collaboration

20 Jul 2010

Raoul Tecala from Dimension Data discusses the importance of collaboration and how Cisco helps along the way.

Articles “Spend analytics: A gift from IT to the business”

19 Jul 2010

Cloud-based IT services are far cheaper than attempting to develop a similar system in-house so why build one? Don't is the recommendation.

News New hybrid cloud offered to UK Channel

19 Jul 2010

- Independent data centre’s new hybrid cloud platform focuses strongly on security and compliance offerings -

UKSolutions (UKS), one of the countries largest privately owned data centre specialists, today unveiled a new hybrid cloud platform as a wholesale package for the UK Channel. The solution can be divided and used in conjunction with individual and bespoke requirements, importantly providing the security of the private cloud, while also incorporating the flexibility and cost saving ‘pay as you go’ model of the public cloud.

News Rosslyn Analytics launches world's first - and fastest - fully automated cloud-based spend data integration service for IT managers

19 Jul 2010

Rosslyn Analytics releases new whitepaper, “A Gift from IT to the Business: Cloud-based spend analytics” Download the whitepaper here.

Rosslyn Analytics today launched the industry’s first fully automated spend data integration service developed specifically to accelerate the speed, ease and scalability in which IT organizations obtain, integrate and deliver spend data across the enterprise. This new cloud-based service, RA.Pid^®, enables CIOs to significantly improve process efficiencies, increase productivity and enhance the business and technology agility of their IT organizations to support the information needs of business users.

Videos Passwords and Credit Card Numbers Hacked! SQL Injection Explained

15 Jul 2010

How hackers steal your private information from websites.

Articles Change the Channel Please

14 Jul 2010

Where are we now?

Every so often the technology channel has to adapt to changing economies and technologies. 2009 saw the start of one of these channel changes with the onset of a recession. Despite the initial belief that the technology industry would not be hit by the recession a survey of 270 CIOs by Datamonitor confirmed that 23% of senior executives felt budget cuts stopped them winning business and new technologies seemed more of a nice to have than a necessity, many were happy to "make do" with what they had already paid for.

News SourceFire offers Cloud-based Security through Amazon Web Services

12 Jul 2010

Open Source Snort with Sourcefire VRT Rules Protects Cloud Deployments from the Latest Threats

Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), the creator of Snort® and a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced that it is delivering cloud-based Intrusion Prevention services, based on its award-winning open source Snort technology. Snort and Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) rules are now available through the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in the form of an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), enabling customers to proactively monitor network activity for malicious behavior and provide automated responses.

Articles Managing the Cloud: An Even Greater Need for IT Cost Transparency

12 Jul 2010

While there is considerable controversy about what technologies and approaches constitute “Cloud Computing,” the overall idea is that customers can buy and use computing on demand. The computing power resides on the Internet – the Internet is often represented as a cloud in architecture diagrams– and people access this computing power as they need it via the Internet.

News Tuning up Cloud provisioning

09 Jul 2010

In a move focused on enabling customers to build and deploy cloud-like IT platforms faster and more easily than ever before, Fujitsu is introducing the powerful system management software ServerView Resource Orchestrator. The technology is an integral part of Fujitsu’s standardised global cloud platform, announced in April.

Videos Terremark Sees Growth for Enterprise Cloud

08 Jul 2010

Randy Rowland has a lengthy track record working with enterprise users on virtualized platforms and clouds, first at Data Return and now at Terremark Worldwide, where he services as Senior VP of Product Development. At the recent Structure 2010 conference, we spent a few minutes with Randy discussing the current state of cloud computing adoption by enterprise customers and the federal government market, where Terremark has had some high-profile wins.

Blog How the Cloud Changed World's Oldest Newspaper

07 Jul 2010

Bernard Golden writes:

Recently I was in London, speaking at the Cloud Computing World Forum. From my perspective, it was an ideal event: large enough to have a critical mass of interesting vendors and attendees, and small enough to support quality conversation. If you've been to any of the large U.S. cloud shows, you'll know how hard it is to accomplish the latter quality at them - they're packed and conversations are reduced to sound bites. Of course, the conference being located in Britain, there was less tolerance for over-the-top claims and marketing hype, which was also a refreshing relief.

News EMC to acquire data warehouse vendor Greenplum

07 Jul 2010

EMC will continue to offer all current Greenplum products

EMC has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Greenplum Inc., a provider of data warehousing software that is used to build large cloud computing infrastrutures.

News On-campus private cloud for JAIST

06 Jul 2010

Service launched for 1,500 students, faculty, and administrators with goal of 90% server capacity utilization.

Videos Hitachi Cloud Services: Instant IT from Hitachi Data Systems

05 Jul 2010

Adopt cloud at your own pace! More data is being created than ever before and unstructured data is the predominant data structure that needs to be managed in new and more intelligent ways. Hitachi Cloud Services offer delivery models that provide instant IT. It services on demand enable organizations to gain advantage in their marketplace -- scaling without additional capital expense.

Videos Citrix and Intel's latest Xeon Processors

05 Jul 2010

Watch how Intel and Citrix work together to ensure that Citrix runs optimally when run on Intel's Xeon processors.

News Architectural flexibility for virtualisation and The Cloud

02 Jul 2010

Cisco has introduced new technology that supports its Data Center 3.0 strategy to help customers increase the flexibility of their data centers as they become more virtualized and cloud-based. The new technology advances Cisco's underlying unified fabric capabilities that help customers enhance the efficiency of information delivery in physical and virtualized data center environments, and manage public and private cloud resources more effectively.

Videos Andrew Butler highlights Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit 2010

01 Jul 2010

As a Data Center professional you are expected to "do more with less" and be a key enabler towards business growth and manage business change. Find the nuggets of fresh learning and knowledge that will show the business why they should count on you and how you can help the business look beyond the cost discussion to new opportunities for growth.

News EAP refines cloud roadmap

30 Jun 2010

Available for the first participants in early July, Cable&Wireless Worldwide's Early Adopters Programme (EAP) is intended to refine the roadmap to the adoption of cloud computing for enterprises. The programme will help shape the consultative approach and migration strategies C&W Worldwide will use to help its customers move to its enterprise cloud computing solution.

Blog Everything Old is New Again, or DCaaS (Dead Cat as a Service)

30 Jun 2010

Roger Klorese writes:

(When I'm at a loss for a quick breezy title of my own to sum up the subject at hand, I resort to song or album titles. Thanks this time to the late Peter Allen – I considered Leonard Cohen's "New Skin for the Old Ceremony" instead, but, on the one hand, it might be too obscure... still, on the other, it's Leonard Cohen! But to the point...)

You can't swing a dead cat these days without hitting a pundit talking about cloud computing. (For that matter, there's probably an online service that will rent you a virtual dead cat to swing for $0.07 an hour, and market it as Dead Cat as a Service, or DCaaS.)

Videos Raimund Genes on Cloud-based Security

30 Jun 2010

Trend Micro CTO, Raimund Genes, discusses the benefits of Smart Protection Network, Trend's cloud-based security technology. Smart Protection Network is powered by web, email and file reputation to provide protection from today's latest web-borne threats.

Videos Noel Dickover, Co-Founder of Crisis Commons discusses cloud computing

29 Jun 2010

Noel knows cloud inside and out having seen its use in the federal enterprise, but also as a crucial component of crisis response.

News Music to clients' ears?

28 Jun 2010

Savvis Symphony, one of the broadest lines of cloud services on the market, officially launches today with the release of Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), a new cloud computing offering from Savvis, Inc. that provides clients with 100 percent enterprise-class cloud.

Blog Assessing Risk in the Virtual Data Center

28 Jun 2010

Brian Gracely from Cisco writes:

Having lived through both the Internet bubble in 2001 and the Housing/CDO bubble in 2008, we’re all too familiar with what happens when large inter-connected entities start having problems. It can often be like watching dominos fall. Things were really great when the systems appeared to be working according to the plan, but then “the plan” got sidetracked and bad things started happening that weren’t on the radar.

Videos Marten Mickos, Eucalyptus CEO

28 Jun 2010

Dell's cloud evangelist Barton George, interviews Marten Mickos, Eucalyptus' recently appointed CEO. Recorded at the GigaOM Structure conference in San Francisco

News New Opteron platform designed for Cloud and Hyperscale data centers

25 Jun 2010

AMD has introdicedthe new AMD Opteron 4000 Series platform. This is the first server platform designed from the beginning to meet the specific requirements of cloud, hyperscale data center, and SMB customers needing highly flexible, reliable, and power-efficient 1 and 2P systems. This platform is also available for high-end embedded systems such as telecom servers, storage, and digital signage.

News Data Centre Expo & Green Data Center Alliance

25 Jun 2010

The Green Data Center Alliance and Data Centre Expo have reached an agreement to promote power saving initiatives in the data center.

News Over 2000 Attendees Registered for the Cloud Computing World Forum

25 Jun 2010

Over 2000 senior IT decision makers are now registered to attend the Cloud Computing World Forum – www.cloudwf.com – next week, 29 June to 1 July 2010 at Olympia Conference Centre, London.

The leading three day conference and expo will feature the most complete conference agenda around cloud computing and software-as-a-service, with leading suppliers, integrators and end-users all taking part.

Videos Cloud Meets Virtualization and Linux

24 Jun 2010

The VAR Guy FastChat Video interviews Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst during Red Hat Partner Summit 2010. Whitehurst discusses Red Hat's Linux, JBoss Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) moves, and Red Hat's role in cloud computing.

Videos Cisco and Red Hat Innovations

24 Jun 2010

Learn about breakthrough advancements from Cisco and Red Hat for data center innovation, performance, and business results.

News Amazon Veterans Launch Company to Deliver Amazon EC2-like Services Behind the Firewall

24 Jun 2010

At the Structure 2010 conference on cloud computing, Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, former Amazon executives who led the development of the Amazon EC2 public cloud service, today announced that they are launching Nimbula. Nimbula's business and technology focus is on blending EC2-like scale, agility and efficiency with private infrastructure customization and control.

News Verizon Business Introduces Cloud-based ‘Storage-as-a-Service’

24 Jun 2010

New Offering Answers Enterprise Need for More Flexible, Cost-Effective Corporate Data Storage Solution

Corporate data continues to grow exponentially, and companies are looking for a better way to store and retrieve it. Verizon Business is addressing this pressing IT issue by introducing a new cloud-based offering, Verizon Cloud Storage, and a complementary suite of data-retention IT consulting services.

Videos Cloud Security Doesn't Matter

24 Jun 2010

An interpretation from the blog post: "Cloud: Security Doesn't Matter" by Chris Hoff

Blog Digging for Data

23 Jun 2010

Chris Sweetapple writes:

I’ve recently been introduced to the idea of ‘search styles’. Despite using Google or other search engines almost every day of our lives, it seems – if they’re anything like me – that most of us don’t really think about how we search for information. It seems natural: you log on, you type in the name of the theme park you’re going to at the weekend, and after a few clicks, you’ve managed to find the directions you were after.

News Worldwide Cloud Services market to surpass $68 billion in 2010

22 Jun 2010

Worldwide cloud services revenue is forecast to reach $68.3 billion in 2010, a 16.6 per cent increase from 2009 revenue of $58.6 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The industry is poised for strong growth through 2014, when worldwide cloud services revenue is projected to reach $148.8 billion.

Articles How virtualization helps companies transform their approach to IT.

22 Jun 2010

Virtualization made its way into the mainstream data center with a strong cost-reduction value proposition centered around a straightforward tactic: server consolidation.

Blog Understanding the Resources of "The Cloud" within IT

21 Jun 2010

Scott M Herold writes:

I have just returned from a great week meeting customers and partners across Germany. This was my third trip to Europe this quarter. During this time, I've had a chance to visit customers and partners across UK, Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany. One thing remains abundantly clear, people still don't seem to understand "The Cloud". This is globally across both the US and Europe, so I'm definitely not singling out one region over the other. I'm of the opinion of "Who can blame them?" The marketing behind "The Cloud" is absolutely hideous. Everyone and their mother (seriously, my mom actually asked me about "The Cloud") is using the term to describe everything from Facebook to "Look, my application has a web console so it's in the cloud".

News Mimecast Signs Deal with Mumtalakat

21 Jun 2010

Mimecast has announced that it has signed a deal to provide its cloud-based technology to Bahrain Mumtakalat Holding Company (“Mumtalakat”), the investment company for Bahrain.

Articles Powering IDE’s Cloud Solutions

21 Jun 2010

IT outsourcer IDE already had their own data centre, but it was filling up fast. Instead of building a new one, they decided to take space from an external data centre operator.

Videos Quest on the Board OnDemand Solutions

21 Jun 2010

Watch Dmitry Sotnikov, Director of Cloud Solutions, explain how Quest OnDemand services fully protect your data.

News Pacnet delivers next-generation Internet

17 Jun 2010

Pacnet, Asia's leading independent telecommunications service provider, has completed the deployment of a highly scalable Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) based on the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) platform. Pacnet aims to take advantage of the system's innovative features to help increase business profitability, service scalability and operational efficiency while meeting customers' demands for higher bandwidth capacity and greater service flexibility.

News Brocade achieves network simplification

17 Jun 2010

Brocade has introduced unique converged fabric-based innovations designed to radically simplify network architectures. These new innovations will help enable the seamless transition to highly virtualized infrastructures where information and services are available anywhere in the cloud.

Videos How to Deploy a Secure Cloud Computing Environment

15 Jun 2010

Risk management, compliance, standards, security, and other factors have to be kept in mind by government agencies as they deploy cloud computing technologies in their organizations, whether private, public or hybrid clouds.

News Free Workshop Agenda Announced at the Cloud Computing World Forum

15 Jun 2010

The Cloud Computing World Forum (www.cloudwf.com) has announced its Free to attend workshop agenda for the show taking place on the 29^th June to 1^st July at Olympia Conference Centre, London.

Articles Limited Investment in DR Tools Yields Big Returns for Small Financial Firm

15 Jun 2010

When JKMilne Asset Management relocated its offices from Pittsburgh to Fort Myers, Florida, it decided to leave its servers behind. The institutional investment management company runs its systems from a collocation center in Pittsburgh, far from the reach of hurricanes. JKMilne manages more than $1.7 billion of financial assets and must comply with numerous financial industry and federal data retention and security requirements. Even with these large responsibilities, JKMilne is a small company, with just one IT employee. It must carefully balance its strict business continuity and data management requirements against the support and budget limitations of a small business.

Videos Partly Cloudy

15 Jun 2010

Chris Wolf discusses the progression of cloud technology and governance and the perspective that IT needs to take or face losing their jobs.

Videos An Introduction to CloudSwitch

15 Jun 2010

John Considine, discusses how their Cloud Isolation Technology helps customers overcome the four primary barriers to enterprise cloud computing by allowing them to securely move their existing applications and data into the cloud.

News Eversheds LLP Embraces the Cloud with Mimecast Email Management

14 Jun 2010

Mimecast has announced that it has been selected by Eversheds LLP, one of the world’s largest full service corporate law firms, to provide SaaS-based emailsecurity, continuity, policy control and archiving across all regions.

News Agility in The Cloud

11 Jun 2010

Novell and Fujitsu announce a partnership to deliver cloud solutions that provide customers with the flexibility to scale IT infrastructure needs based on business demand. Through the partnership, Fujitsu will run its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for Server solutions using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. Additionally, Fujitsu will leverage Intelligent Workload Management (IWM) software from Novell for Fujitsu’s Dynamic Infrastructure services. The cloud resources will be available across Continental Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.

News IBM selects top-of-rack switches

11 Jun 2010

BLADE Network Technologies' RackSwitch 1Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches have been selected by IBM for inclusion in the IBM System x option portfolio. BLADE's RackSwitch products provide enterprise data centre networking capabilities for IBM System x, including IBM Virtual Fabric, BLADE's VMready Virtual Machine-aware networking and lossless DCB/CEE networking.

News Transmode sets the industry standard for Low Latency Transport at 4 nanoseconds

11 Jun 2010

Transmode has announced latency performance of up to 1000 times better than comparable solutions for applications such as algorithmic trading, cloud computing, data center interconnect and video distribution.

News Focus on Cloud Business Models and the Current Marketplace at the Cloud Computing World Forum

10 Jun 2010

Cloud computing business models and the current marketplace will come under the spotlight at the 2^nd Cloud Computing World Forum (www.cloudwf.com) taking place June 29 to July 1, 2010 at the Olympia Conference Centre, London.

News New Datacenter Solutions From Dell Deliver Efficiency And Performance Without Compromise

10 Jun 2010

Customers in the ‘Virtual Era’ demand IT solutions that drive efficiency, rapidly deliver business value and drive innovation without locking organizations into proprietary technology. Harnessing more than 25 years of expertise in meeting customers’ requirements, Dell today unveiled new technology, services, management tools and business ready solutions that preserve choice and help customers reduce the time required to build, manage and maintain an efficient datacenter.

News Bright future for European Cloud Providers

10 Jun 2010

The majority of Europe-headquartered public cloud providers are expecting their business to expand this year. 85% of the organizations surveyed for IDC's European Cloud Provider's Technology Investment Survey indicated that they expected their business to expand. The majority (70%) expected growth through demand from their local markets, with 30% looking at new geographic opportunities.

News 2020 is a key outsourcing date

09 Jun 2010

An annual study commissioned by Savvis predicts the number of companies that outsource their IT infrastructure will increase globally from 17 percent today to 64 percent in 2020.

Videos Low-latency networking

09 Jun 2010

ADVA Optical Networking's Jim Theodoras and Angelica Barriga discuss low-latency networking

News PromonLogicalis Wins Cisco Global Technology Excellence Partner of the Year

08 Jun 2010

PromonLogicalis announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit global award for Technology Excellence Partner of the Year. Logicalis Group was also presented with a further seven awards spanning Latin America and Europe. Cisco unveiled the winners April 28 at its annual channel partner conference in San Francisco.

News Zurich launch for pan-European infrastructure service

04 Jun 2010

CloudSigma AG, a Swiss cloud computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, has launched its pan-European operation in Interxion's Zurich data centre. CloudSigma selected Interxion for its connectivity-rich, highly scalable and flexible data centre space in Zurich.

News Hybrid Cloud the 'next big opportunity'

04 Jun 2010

A new report by consulting firm BroadGroup reveals that enterprise adoption of Private Cloud will accelerate over the next five years, and will boost the opportunity for third party data centre outsourcing. But hybrid cloud is seen as the next major opportunity where efficiencies can be gained by using public cloud for non-critical applications.

News A Modular, Scalable, Data Centre with a PUE of 1.13

03 Jun 2010

A statement like that is surely worthy of a spot in the next episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Last week I was treated to a revolutionary facility tour. The invitation to see this new facility was nearly ignored, thinking it would be yet another container tour. The PR gambit sent through was a bit vague and in truth, as the old adage goes, if it sounds too good to be true...you know the rest!

Videos BladeRoom Cooling System

03 Jun 2010

This is a short clip on the innovative BladeRoom cooling system.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on the BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency, BladeRoom's Plug & Play and BladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos The BladeRoom System

03 Jun 2010

Last week I toured this facility before it was broken up and transported to its new resting space with a well reputed hosting provider and re-assembled over the recent Bank holiday weekend.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, BladeRoom's Scalabilty, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Plug & Play.

Videos BladeRoom Monitoring

03 Jun 2010

Watch this clip to learn about BladeRoom's remote monitoring systems.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Resilience

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Resilience

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Maintenance

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Maintenance

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Plug & Play andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom Plug & Play

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Plug & Play capability.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency and BladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Scalability

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Scalability.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency and BladeRoom's Plug & Play.

Videos Writing Code for Many Clouds

03 Jun 2010

This is the presentation delivered by Justin Kitagawa, GoGrid's Lead Senior Software Engineer, on a panel at the Cloud Connect Event 2010 titled "Writing Code for Many Clouds". Justin provides an overview of the GoGrid API which can be used to programmatically control GoGrid's Cloud Infrastructure.

Videos Three Data Centres: One Vision

03 Jun 2010

What is the common theme behind three types of data centres, namely, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure/Hosting as a Service, and Enterprise Back Office. Force10 investigates.

Videos Micro-Modular Data Centre

02 Jun 2010

The R.A.S.E.R. is 42U, vendor neutral, enclosure that can completely replace the building shell portion of a standard data center. The unit can provide the equivalent of up to 130 square feet of high-density, fireproof floor space with 42,000 BTU of closed loop cooling applied directly to the equipment. Equipped with industry standard 19" racks, the R.A.S.E.R. can accommodate the worlds most high-tech equipment including powerful blade servers for a true Tier IV data center.

Videos Changing The Rules of Networking

02 Jun 2010

HP's acquisition of 3Com creates a robust set of end-to-end networking solutions that deliver better business outcomes to a full spectrum of customers, from Fortune 100 enterprises to SMB

Blog Paradigm Shift - TWIS#27- Google I/O coverage in depth

02 Jun 2010

• Google I/O news- Google TV- is TV going to be the next cloud battleground and opportunity?
• Google announces “enterprise” partnership with VMware- fails to put enterprise ready SLA’s into the mix but extends PaaS options
• Google tries it’s hand at solving the perennial SaaS distribution problem- announcing the Chrome Web Store
• Android in numbers- it’s growing FAST
• Google launches S3 Competitor- Google Storage for Developers
• Evernote continues to showcase their numbers and make the case for Freemium- new Video
• API festival at Gluecon! How people are solving the problem of Glueing SaaS and Cloud together
• But customers aren’t thinking about Glue says Information Week research…
• Sinclair Schuller on Cloud Architecture
• Reuven Cohen on the coming of Clouds from a historical hosting perspective
• Bessemer CEO conference coverage- Great Design and User eXperience essential
• In other news, Microsoft, Salesforce, Ray Wang, Xobni and Banks in the Cloud.

News Colleges sign “one-stop shop” IT deal with Calyx

01 Jun 2010

Colleges Northern Ireland (CNI) has signed a £3 million four-year contract with Calyx to provide managed services and a technology refresh across 47 College campuses. The IT specialist was selected by CNI, the representative body of the six regional Colleges, to be the single provider to educational facilities with wide-ranging and complex requirements.

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Videos "Get Your SaaS Off My Cloud"

27 May 2010

This video is doing the rounds...if you have 1:17 over a cuppa... An interpretation from the blog post: Get Your SaaS Off My Cloud by Lori MacVittie.

Videos VMware and EMC - The Value of EMC VPLEX in the Virtual Data Center

27 May 2010

Learn from VMwares Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer and Senior VP of R&D, about the breakthrough technology that allows dynamic application and data movement over distance.

News The death of DIY?

26 May 2010

Survey commissioned by Digital Realty Trust shows that a majority of companies that plan to increase their data centre space will do so with a third party.

News Rackspace Expanding Cloud Services to the UK; Building on Cloud Growth

25 May 2010

Rackspace® Hosting has announced that it plans to bring public cloud services to the UK by the end of the year.

Videos Unified Compute Platform

25 May 2010

Hitachi Data Systems Unified Compute Platform is the industry's first open and cohesive platform for enterprise data centers and cloud deployment. Protect investment and reduce operating expense with servers, storage, networks and applications as a collective unit. The Unified Compute Platform features multi-hypervisor support and an open API. Check out www.hds.com for more information.

Videos Security and Compliance Cloud Challenges

25 May 2010

Join Bret Hartman, Chief Technology Officer, RSA, the Security Division of EMC, as he discusses the challenges that cloud computing can pose organizations, including outsourcing, as they build a strategy to protect their mission-critical information, like SAP, in the cloud.

News Optimising virtualized data center management capabilities

21 May 2010

Solution streamlines management of next-generation data center, including public and private cloud infrastructures.

Videos Double-Take Software's Double-Take Cloud Solution Overview

20 May 2010

Cloud recovery and backup from Double-Take provides on-demand data recovery in a cloud computing environment

Videos Cloud Computing - Why IT Matters

19 May 2010

Here is a brilliant video of Simon Wardly from Canonical giving his thoughts on the Cloud. It has already had over 24,500 views, and is well worth watching.

News JSE Listed Securities Companies Look to the Cloud For Compliance Silver Bullet

19 May 2010

Johannesburg - The increasing pressure on financial companies to tighten up governance and compliance has created a rapid surge in the uptake of ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) technology solutions that quickly and effectively address this. Many JSE-listed stock-broking companies, including Kagiso Securities, Afrifocus, Cadiz Financial Services Group and Barnard Jacob Mallet (BJM), have all adopted the cloud-based email management solution, Mimecast.

Blog Four Disaster Recovery Options for Virtualized Environments

19 May 2010

Robin Howard at Double Take writes:

Virtualization is great for saving money and resources, but if you lose a virtual server you have larger bigger problems than if you had just lost a single server. While no company wants to put their business at risk by under-protecting their VMs, nobody likes to spend more than they have to on non-productive expenditures like insurance.

News System Integrator MTI Launches Enterprise Backup as a Service

19 May 2010

New Cloud Backup Service Now Meets Businesses-Level Requirements

MTI has unveiled its Cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS) offering for businesses, one of four new service sets to be launched under the MTI Insight Services banner. The other three groups will be MTI Consult (Consultancy Services), MTI Create (Project Services) and MTI Care (Customer and Managed Services).

News IBM opens Development Laboratory

18 May 2010

IBM has opened a new systems software development laboratory in Manchester. With a focus on IBM Power Systems, the engineers in the Lab develop optimisation, security, and virtualisation software to help clients manage emerging workloads designed to reduce data centre costs.

News StrataScale Powers Public Cloud Services with Isilon IQ

18 May 2010

Provider of Next-Generation Hosting Solutions Deploys Isilon Scale-out NAS to Deliver New Virtual IT Offering, Driving Business Growth while Reducing Capital and Operating Costs

Videos It's all about the Networking

18 May 2010

Brian Savory from ADVA Optical Networking discusses applications educational institutions can deploy when connected to high-capacity optical networks, North America stimulus projects and Cloud Computing

Blog Talking the Cloud Talk, Walking the iPhone Walk

13 May 2010

John Pescatore from Gartner writes:

I spent a day last week in St. Louis with several Gartner enterprise clients, and then yesterday I spent the morning with a Gartner federal government clients in Charleston, SC. Pretty much everywhere we started out talking about what they need to think through about security issues around future use of public cloud computing services, but almost invariably ended up spending much more time about how to deal with the here and now of managers and users demanding to use iPhones and iPads and Android phones.

News Fortify Software Joins Cloud Security Alliance

11 May 2010

Leader in Software Security Assurance Offers Guidance & Expertise for Organizations to
Produce “Cloud-Ready” Software

News Gartner says worldwide IT Services revenue declined 5.3 percent in 2009

06 May 2010

Worldwide IT services revenue totaled $763 billion in 2009, a 5.3 percent decline from 2008 revenue of $805 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.

Videos The Private Cloud

06 May 2010

Tom Bittman from Gartner discusses the trend of private cloud computing vs public cloud computing.

News Centrix Software Announces Release of WorkSpace iQ™

05 May 2010

New solution allows organizations to monitor and meter application delivery and consumption across virtual and physical data center resources; supports IT charge-back policies

News New NetScaler Solutions Bring Cloud Economics and Elasticity to the Virtual Datacenter

04 May 2010

Citrix Systems unveiled its new Citrix® NetScaler® 9.2 release along with three powerful new NetScaler MPX™ hardware appliances and a new high-performance NetScaler VPX™ virtual appliance.

Videos Barracuda Networks

30 Apr 2010

Michael Hughes @ InfoSecurity 2010 talks about Barracuda and the role they play in the market.

Videos Rockline Mimecast Casestudy

30 Apr 2010

"Mimecast had everything we needed, and more. Email managedment is completely covered." - Perry Fritz, Rockline Industries

News Iron Mountain Enhances CloudRecovery Solution for Microsoft DPM

29 Apr 2010

Iron Mountain’s CloudRecovery Solution includes Support for DPM 2010, Increased Scalability, and Added Disaster Protection across Microsoft applications such as Hyper-V, Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server

Videos Redstone @ InfoSecurity 2010

29 Apr 2010

Martin Blackhurst from Redstone Managed Services talks about how Redstone provides its customers with secure access for their business intelligence.

News Enhanced network and IT operations management

28 Apr 2010

EMC has announced key enhancements to its flagship IT infrastructure monitoring and analysis portfolio, EMC Ionix for IT Operations Intelligence (formerly Smarts). The new technologies provide core network management functionality to help customers transition from a physical to virtual IT infrastructure – and eventually – a private cloud model.

News Verizon and Novell unveil cloud-based security solution

28 Apr 2010

New on-demand ‘identity-as-a-service’ offering provides enterprises with more control, strong security when accessing applications in the cloud.

News F5 Unlocks True Potential of ‘On-Demand IT’

28 Apr 2010

New BIG-IP release helps extend enterprise data centre architecture to the cloud through holistic ecosystem supporting the dynamic nature of applications and data

News Mellanox's New Gateway System Boosts Application Performance, Reduces Datacenter Complexity

28 Apr 2010

BridgeX BX5020 Gateway enables 40Gb/s converged datacenter fabrics with seamless connectivity to Ethernet LANs, iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs

Videos Simple - JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5

28 Apr 2010

With JBoss, your SOA solution is simple to develop, deploy and manage, on top of being responsive to business change. Because it's based on open standards, it will work with everything else. And that means you're in control.

News The world’s first Enterprise Java Cloud?

28 Apr 2010

Salesforce.com and VMware have announced a partnership to jointly deliver, sell and support a new enterprise Java cloud called VMforce™.

Videos Control Circle's Mobile monitoring & management application

27 Apr 2010

Damian Milkins from Control Circle talks about of their mobile application for monitoring and managing your services via a mobile phone.

News Cyber-Ark’s New Privileged Identity Management Suite Delivers Complete Security and Audit Control for Organizations’ Most Powerful Users

27 Apr 2010

Addition of On-Demand Privileges Manager Delivers Granular Access Control and Personalized Security for Integrated, Cost-Effective Protection Against Data Breaches and Insider Threats

News Pillar Data Systems Gives Customers More Control over Disaster Recovery, Storage Performance and Efficiency

27 Apr 2010

Pillar Data Systems today delivered several new features that increase the performance, efficiency and ease of management for its award-winning Pillar Axiom storage system. These new additions build on the Axiom’s unique Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities and ensure greater flexibility and reliability for storage administrators.

News Fujitsu launches global Cloud strategy

23 Apr 2010

Fujitsu’s global cloud strategy has been developed through the company’s real experience in working with customers on cloud computing services as well as the trialling and delivery of solutions across the world.

News Hi-tech spending to increase

23 Apr 2010

Marketing spending among high-tech and telecom providers (HTTPs) is picking up in 2010, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 44 per cent of 2010 HTTP marketing budgets will be flat compared with 2009, 41 per cent will increase and only 15 per cent are likely to decrease. This compares favorably to 2009 when more than half of providers' marketing organisations took cuts in their budgets compared to 2008.

News New IBM Storage Products Reduce Cost, Complexity of Managing "Big Data"

22 Apr 2010

Help Clients Prioritize, Classify Data for Workloads Like Real-time Analytics

IBM has announced new storage products -- part of its 2010 lineup of workload-optimized systems -- that are designed to reduce the cost and complexity of storing vast amounts of data while making it easier for clients to apply analytics and gain insight from the data.

Videos Data Explosion Driving Big Changes in Storage

22 Apr 2010

IBM vice president Doug Balog on the challenges driving steep growth in the storage market and what companies need to do to meet them

News Cross-platform, Cloud-connected data protection appliance solution

19 Apr 2010

– i365’s EVault for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager is a collaboration with Microsoft that has resulted in the first and only heterogeneous disk-based data protection solution that allows IT managers to extend Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 across non-Microsoft platforms and into the Cloud, using i365’s EVault data protection software and Cloud-Connected storage solutions infrastructure. EVault for DPM on Dell hardware is scheduled to be available in June and can be ordered today through i365 and Microsoft channel partners.

News DataCentre Expo set for Dusseldorf

16 Apr 2010

Europe’s first fully dedicated, expo led data centre event will take place in Düsseldorf, 16^th – 17^th Sept 2010.

Videos Kevin Dean Interxion Cloud Ready Colocation Data Center

15 Apr 2010

Kevin Dean, Chief Marketing Officer at Interxion, is speaking on how the carrier neutral datacenter is one of the four key enablers of cloud computing and how they can be leveraged to optimise the delivery of Cloud computing services. Kevin takes the opportunity to highlight the importance of a reliable network infrastructure for Cloud computing and how organisations can build highly resilient, scalable Cloud computing data center environments.

News Gartner says worldwide IT spending to grow 5.3 per cent in 2010

12 Apr 2010

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.4 trillion in 2010, a 5.3 per cent increase from IT spending of $3.2 trillion in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. The IT industry will continue to show steady growth with IT spending in 2011 projected to surpass $3.5 trillion, a 4.2 per cent increase from 2010.

Articles Managing IT in tough economic conditions

09 Apr 2010

We are all feeling the effects of the economic situation facing the world markets today, and IT is no exception. In past economic downturns, those companies that focused on cost containment and process improvement emerged in a stronger position. During the current financial implosion, businesses must look at their expenses and determine where they should spend and where they should cut in order to ride out the storm.

News Additions to Data Center 3.0 portfolio

08 Apr 2010

Cisco has introduced continued innovation and additions to its Data Center 3.0 portfolio, designed to reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity, provide better support for data center virtualization, and improve business agility to deliver strategic competitive advantages.

Videos Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010

08 Apr 2010

Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010. For more information, see our events page.

Blog Debut Cloudhackers Cloud Demo Hack Day

08 Apr 2010

jclouds project founder Adrian Cole (see his video talking about the benefits of using Cargo to automate app deployment to vCloud Express) updates us on recent cloud discussions that we want to share with our vCloud blog fans.

News Consolidation and the Cloud

01 Apr 2010

Leading global manufacturer removes local servers from branch offices while reducing costs and improving employee productivity.

News Targeting the internal Cloud

31 Mar 2010

3PAR has expanded its alliance activities with Citrix to target internal clouds, including becoming a Citrix Ready Partner, ongoing certification of the 3PAR InServ Storage Server with Citrix XenServer, and collaboration to integrate the 3PAR Utility Storage platform with Citrix StorageLink technology under the Citrix Ready Open Storage Program.

Videos Classify & Collect by Iron Mountain

31 Mar 2010

Iron Mountain's Connected Classify & Collect offering simplifies the collection of laptop and desktop data for eDiscovery

News Savvis expands range of Cloud infrastructure solutions in the UK

30 Mar 2010

Savvis Symphony Open public cloud now available from Slough data centre.

Blog Will Google be your next ISP, Telco or Internet?

29 Mar 2010

Pete Gerr from HDS writes:

While Google has been making headlines on dry land from its challenges in China, the company’s investment in a $300 million ultra-highspeed fiber optic link to Japan is nearly ready to begin paying dividends

Blog thedatachain of thought2

24 Mar 2010

"The notion that a single converged data center network makes for fewer switches and ports, resulting in a simpler network consuming less power and cooling, is flawed, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner research shows that a converged data center network requires more switches and ports, is more complex to manage and consumes more power and cooling than two well-designed separate networks."

News SaaS Cloud platform for Onboard Retail Solutions

23 Mar 2010

Onboard Retail Solutions has signed a three year contract with Attenda to manage the multi-tenanted infrastructure for its SaaS application delivery.

News Force10 unveils Open Automation initiative

22 Mar 2010

Force10’s Open Automation initiative aims to transform data centre infrastructure into a streamlined, efficient and policy-driven cloud computing fabric.

News Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX1000 Platform ‘rewrites’ cloud computing price-performance rules

22 Mar 2010

Fujitsu unveils revolutionary scale-out ‘Cloud eXtension’ architecture, does away with need for hot aisle.

Videos Borderless Networks

19 Mar 2010

Wales, a constituent nation of the United Kingdom with a population of 3m people, is on course to become the first country in the world to achieve the Cisco vision of a completely borderless network embracing all of its public services.

News Intel launches its most secure data center processor

17 Mar 2010

Second-generation High-K Metal Gate 32nm processors blend security, performance, energy efficiency.

News A-Server to unveil DAAS.com V2 at world's largest Cloud Computing event

15 Mar 2010

A-Server will launch a new version of its Datacenter-as-a-Service platform at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Computing Expo which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. A-Server, a silver sponsor for the event, will unveil its fully configured and installed cloud rack solution tailored to the needs for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Cloud Service Providers, offering rapid deployment of reliable, flexible and cost effective cloud computing.

News GTS CE selects Ciena to improve service delivery in Romania