Alcatel-Lucent is promising more manageable cloud computing through Nuage Networks, an internal startup that is making its formal debut on Tuesday. Nuage has been Alcatel's wholly owned vehicle for developing its SDN (software-defined ...
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has approved CloudStack as a top-level project (TLP), helping the open-source cloud software effort further establish its independence from Citrix, which acquired the program's codebase in its 2011 ...
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Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds. Based in Mountain View, California, ...
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Pegasystems has partnered with Vormetric to boost its cloud security following a number of hacking attacks on high profile websites. There have been no attacks on Pegasystems, which is a provider of business process management (BPM) and ...
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VMware is reportedly preparing a public cloud offering that it would run itself, however VMware officials have refused to comment on the rumours – sort of. Late last week, the company’s vCloud Director Twitter account ...
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IBM's announcement this week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as the standard in enterprises. IBM along with Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Cisco, Red Hat and Rackspace, which helped ...
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IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as the standard in enterprises. IBM along with Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Cisco, Red Hat and Rackspace, which ...
When it comes to staying connected at 30,000 feet, tablets and smartphones now make up a whopping 67 percent of the devices being used to connect to the Internet through Gogo's in-air network. Tablets are now the preferred device at 35 ...
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No stranger to agriculture, the eighth plague of Exodus is back, but at least not over American crop fields. Sometimes described as “hell from above,” Egypt and the Middle East have been hit with a massive swarm of locusts some ...
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Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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Oil futures settled lower Monday after extending an overnight slide that saw the front-month NYMEX crude contract trade below $90/barrel for the first time since December 26. NYMEX April crude settled 56 cents lower at $90.12/b, while ICE ...
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Software AG said on Monday that the new Version 9.0 of its webMethods server suite will bring in-memory capabilities to the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The announcement was made ahead of the CeBit trade show, at an international press ...
Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be the foundation of the company’s cloud strategy moving forward, including a new product it ...
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A Citroen DS3 has formed the base of a custom-made diorama constructed to celebrate the French company’s success in the World Rally Championship (WRC), thanks to the partnership of nine-time consecutive world champions Sebastien Loeb ...
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Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by promoting interoperability and common standards. The alliance has gathered over 300 ...