IBM agreed to acquire Aspera, a start-up that offers software for accelerating data transfers. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Aspera claims its transfer technology can reduces transmission...
IBM announced a partnership with 21Vianet Group, a carrier-neutral Internet data center operator in China, to introduce a private cloud service in China. IBM will provide the physical point of...
Amazon Web Services announced plans to launch cloud services from Beijing, China in early 2014. China Net Center and SINNET will provide the infrastructure, network services, and CDN services. In...
The ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specifications Group (ISG) has accepted the first proof-of-concept application covering expected use cases. CloudNFV, which was set-up by CIMI Corporation President Tom Nolle,...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) delivered a 59-page report to the European Commission discussing the role of standards in cloud computing. The report aims to serve as a detailed...
Dell has extended its Cloud Partner Program to include Microsoft's Windows Azure services. Under a newly expanded strategic alliance with Microsoft, Dell will offer customers a central point of solution...
Dell will promote the Google Cloud Platform and its compute, storage and application services to developers and businesses worldwide through the Dell Cloud Partner Program beginning next year. “Putting the...
Dell and Red Hat agree to jointly develop enterprise-grade, private cloud solutions based on OpenStack. Under the deal, Dell becomes the first company to OEM Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack...
Oracle announced plans to integrate OpenStack cloud management components into Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, Oracle Infrastructure as a Service, Oracle’s ZS3 Series, Axiom storage...
MIOsoft announced an $8 million agreement to supply its enterprise application cloud platform to T-Systems International (TSI). TSI will use MIOsoft's MIOedge platform to provide mission-critical applications and services to...
Box announced partnerships with leading systems integrators, including Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, Volo Solutions, Statêra, 360 Cloud Solutions, ASMGi and 7 Summits, to help companies drive more value from their cloud...
IBM introduced a cloud storage toolkit for dynamically migrating data across multiple clouds. IBM said its new software employs a "cloud-of-clouds" approach that invokes the resilience of separate clouds to...
In a cosmetic change, Google updated the icons used to represent all of the services in its cloud portfolio. The update officially retires the "Sharkon" aircraft engine icon that has...
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