Terrapin Solutions Partners with The Planet to Offer Cloud Services
The Planet, the global hosting provider, on Monday announced that Terrapin Solutions, a Cloud Services Master Agency, is the company?s newest Charter Referral Partner, and joins its select portfolio of top-tier referral agents within the Partner Plus program. Through the partnership, The Planet is now the preferred cloud infrastructure provider recommended by Terrapin to its extensive network of more than 1,000 agents. Headquartered in San Ramon, Calif., Terrapin Solutions designs cloud solutions for businesses, based on technologies from cloud telephony, cloud computing and managed services providers. The company follows a consultative business model that focuses on designing optimal technology solutions that benefit both the client?s productivity and bottom line. Areas of focus include hosted voice-over-IP (VoIP), SIP trunking, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, call center operations and outsourced IT helpdesks.
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Social Innovation Clouds ? Harnessing Cloud for Public Sector Innovation
Cisco has proposed an upgrade to Michael Porter's cluster model for government. Implemented via Cloud this can enable next generation Social Innovation practices. Cloud Computing is such a compelling area for government investment because it offers multiple dimensions of business benefit, one of these being the ability to play an accelerating role in economic stimulation, critically important in our current climate. The technology can reduce the operational costs of IT but it can also provide for new ways of working, making available new SaaS applications that can directly enable exciting new growth programs, like Cisco's idea of 'Next Generation Clusters' aka 'Innovation Clouds'.
Scott C. Sanchez to Present on Cloud Security at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
Almost every survey about cloud puts "security concerns" at the top of the list. Real or perceived, security concerns in the cloud are causing serious grief for IT and security professionals. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Scott C. Sanchez, CISSP is Security and Privacy Officer at ScaleUp Cloud, will discuss the five stages of cloud security grief (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance) and how best to navigate them. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how they can move through the stages and to the cloud, with acceptable security and as little pain as possible.
IBM Closes Acquisition of Coremetrics
IBM on Monday announced the closing of its acquisition of Coremetrics, a a provider of Web analytics software. Coremetrics, based in San Mateo, CA, will expand IBM's business analytics capabilities by enabling organizations to use cloud computing services to develop faster, more targeted marketing campaigns. Coremetrics' offerings enable organizations across a wide range of industries to develop smarter marketing campaigns. Its software provides real-time intelligence on what customers are saying about products, content and services being offered to them, and enables clients to make fact-based, accurate decisions about marketing expenditures. As a result, marketing teams can gain deeper insight about their customers and present personalized recommendations, promotions and other sales incentives to customers wherever they interact with their brands including online, on mobile devices, through social media networks, kiosks and other more traditional channels.
EMC Announces Support for New IBM zEnterprise System
EMC Corporation, a provider information infrastructure solutions, on Monday announced support for the new IBM zEnterprise System and unveiled a range of new information management and protection capabilities for IBM System z environments to help customers accelerate their journey to the private cloud. Private clouds are about lower IT costs and improving agility and, to that end, customers are embarking upon a strategy of data center consolidation and virtualization. As a part of that strategy, mainframe systems are increasingly running mixed workloads, most notably multiple Linux images on System z. In a multi-year technology licensing agreement with IBM, EMC is delivering a range of new storage capabilities to support System z with the same leading features available for virtualized open systems platforms.
CA Technologies VP Jay Fry to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
Cloud computing is changing the expectations on IT and the opportunities for IT to create value. End users feel they can circumvent IT to get what they want and so are asking IT to deliver more cost transparency and agility. At the same time, the cloud provides unique opportunities for IT to roll out services more quickly and better manage costs, while delivering services that truly differentiate the business. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Jay Fry is Vice President, Strategy & Business Development for CA Technologies? Cloud Customer Solutions Unit, will talk about how the cloud will evolve the roles of across IT operations and application development teams, as well as how the relationship with business users is changing.
VMware Named ?Gold Sponsor? of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that VMware, the global leader in cloud infrastructure, has been named ?Gold Sponsor? of SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1?4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. VMware, the global leader in cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity. VMware accelerates an organization?s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. Organizations rely on VMware, its partners and its industry-leading virtual infrastructure platform, VMware vSphere, to energize their business through IT, while saving energy ? financial, human and the Earth?s. With 2009 revenues over $2 billion and more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware delivers the world?s most trusted solutions for cloud computing and virtualization, strategic initiatives that consistently rank as top priorities among CIOs.
Unisys Announces Second-Quarter 2010 Financial Results
Unisys Corporation has reported second-quarter 2010 net income of $120.2 million, or $2.77 per diluted share, compared with net income of $38.1 million, or $1.02 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. The current quarter results include a pre-tax gain of approximately $65 million related to the sale of the company's health information management (HIM) business. Second-quarter 2010 net income from continuing operations increased to $59.4 million, or $1.37 per diluted share, from $33.5 million, or 90 cents per diluted share, in the year-ago period. Operating results of the HIM business, and the gain on the sale, are being reported as a discontinued operation.
Are You a Cloud Architect? NJVC Needs YOU!!
If you are a cloud computing architect, have I got news for you! NJVC, one of the largest IT solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), is building a high performance cloud computing team. We help customers solve their toughest mission-critical IT challenges, enabling them to concentrate their resources on their core mission. While much of our work requires a security clearance, and having an active clearance would be a definite plus, don't let that stop you from exploring the possibilities. The currently open system architect position is located in Vienna, VA. The ideal candidate will be able to conceive, experiment with, and present Cloud Computing architectural approaches for information technology and systems, including software, hardware, and processes, in support of business needs. They will also be able to ensure architectural integrity and consistency across any cloud computing solution.
Nimsoft?s Andy Kicklighter to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
Monitoring requirements have fundamentally changed as a result of cloud-based services and offerings. Essentially, cloud-based solutions have become an extension of your business-critical environment, and to keep business services running smoothly requires a new approach to monitoring. Today, you not only need to monitor your traditional physical data center infrastructure and newer virtualized environments, but also your public cloud-based resources, often an internal private cloud environment as well, and if you are bringing to market a cloud-based service there is a third set of monitoring challenges. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Andy Kicklighter, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager for Cloud at Nimsoft, will focus on what you need to know about monitoring for each of these three scenarios, and how Nimsoft?s monitoring solution addresses these needs.