Alibaba's Aliyun cloud computing arm, is launching a global Marketplace Alliance Program (MAP) to boost public cloud services worldwide. The MAP program will provide enterprises worldwide with access to Alibaba...
Menlo Security emerged from stealth to unveil its Isolation Platform, a new technology that eliminates the threat of malware from key attack vectors, including Web and email. The solution does...
Equinix signed an agreement with Aliyun, Alibaba Group's cloud computing arm, to provide direct access to Aliyun's cloud platform via the Equinix Cloud Exchange in Hong Kong and Silicon Valley....
IBM has acquired Blue Box Group, a managed private cloud provider built on OpenStack. Financial terms were not disclosed. Blue Box, which is based in Seattle, provides a private cloud...
HP rolled out the latest version of its flagship integrated enterprise cloud solution, Helion CloudSystem 9.0, expanding support for multiple hypervisors and multiple clouds. HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 integrates HP...
ADVA Optical Networking introduced a new Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solution designed for Internet Content Providers (ICPs) and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). The ADVA FSP 3000 CloudConnect, which is available...
Palo Alto Networks has acquired CirroSecure, a Silicon Valley-based company with a solution for extending security into sanctioned, Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, like Box, Dropbox, GitHub, Google, Yammer,...
New Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certifications are being added to Cisco's training program. The curricula focuses on the ability to connect the unconnected,...
EMC Corporation agreed to Virtustream, a start-up headquartered in Washington, D.C. with offices in San Francisco, Atlanta, London and Dubai, for approximately $1.2 billion in cash. Virtustream offers a consumption-based...
Apcera, a San Francisco-based start-up developing an IT platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that enables enterprises to securely and transparently control the allocation and consumption of IT resources on premise and in the...
IBM is rolling out an expanded suite of Cloud OpenStack Services that allow customers to integrate applications and data across hybrid clouds including public, dedicated and local cloud environments. The...
Google announced a set of price cuts for its cloud services, saying its Google Cloud Platform is now 40% less expensive for many workloads. Reduced prices are in effect for...
Internap announced a new bare-metal service on the OpenStack platform that provides a high-performance IaaS option for devops teams to deploy mission-critical applications and big-data workloads on OpenStack. Specifically, the...
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