ICT magazine

By including the new Red Hat virtualization-layer offering, IBM is making available another option for IT systems that didn't exist previously. - Red Hat, whose CEO, Jim Whitehurst, delivered the opening keynote of this week's Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, revealed March 16 that IBM has selected Red Hat's ...

Fujitsu is rolling out its Primergy CX1000 system for cloud computing environments. Fujitsus solution offers 38 rack servers in an enclosure, with shared power distribution and cooling components. In addition, the system is designed to conserve floor space and power. The Fujitsu offering will com-pete with similar solutions from the ...

Adobe's LiveCycle ES 2, a suite of Web services for building customer interaction applications atop Adobe technologies, recently became available in a managed services edition running on Amazon's EC2. The hosted edition of LCES speeds developers' paths to building LiveCycle applications, and benefits from an easy-to-use, Web-based console for interacting ...

McAfee is targeting SaaS providers with a new program that combines vulnerability scanning and security certification for cloud infrastructures. - McAfee is taking a swing at securing cloud environments with a new service aimed at software-as-a-service providers. Dubbed the McAfee Cloud Secure program, the service is essentially designed ...

With the acquisition of cloud computing specialist 3Tera, CA plans to integrate AppLogic with other technologies to provide customers with a set of tools for delivering, managing and optimizing cloud computing as part of overall enterprise IT environment. - IT management software company CA, Inc. announced a ...

Growth in the population of unstructured files will soon drive 75 percent of the demand for new storage capacity. By providing an allocation of cloud storage to users, storage and desktop services managers can effectively place storage management of user files into the hands of the departments, with built-in chargeback ...

CA is continuing its aggressive push to build up its cloud computing capabilities through acquisitions with the announcement that it plans to buy Nimsoft for $350 million. Nimsoft joins Cassatt, NetQoS, Oblicore and 3Tera in CA's series of cloud-related acquisitions. - CA is continuing to buy companies ...

The RSA conference seeks to use lessons from single-tenant data centers to build security into cloud computing infrastructures. - The RSA conference, held in San Francisco during the week of March 1, sought to catch the cloud computing wave, while the expo show floor was packed to the gills ...

Google March 9 launched the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store selling enterprises business applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps. This will provide third-party software developers, such as Appirio, Intuit, Atlassian and others, with a larger cloud computing channel into which to sell their applications. The Google Apps ...

At the RSA security conference, cloud security was top of mind for many, and none more so than the Cloud Security Alliance. Founded last year, the CSA is promoting best practices for securing cloud environments and educating users as to how the cloud can help secure other forms of computing. ...

Microsoft put heavy emphasis on the cloud this week, with CEO Steve Ballmer announcing during a March 4 discussion at the University of Washington that the company intended to use cloud functionality as the jumping-off point for its future products and services. In the meantime, Microsoft's issues with the European ...

Microsoft executives have indicated repeatedly that the company intends to stay in China and compete aggressively for the search and cloud-computing markets, despite some recent controversy in which Google briefly threatened to end its operations in China. Both Microsoft and Google lag behind homegrown Chinese search engine Baidu in that ...

At the RSA conference in San Francisco, Trend Micro CTO Raimund Genes discusses the company's plans for building private clouds within public clouds. - For Trend Micro CTO Raimund Genes, talking about the cloud is nothing new. But now, things are slightly different; instead of talking about Trend Micro ...

Cloud security was a key buzz phrase at this year's RSA conference in San Francisco this past week. But just what security concerns were top of mind - and how organizations should grade those risks - can be difficult to answer. - Most would agree cloud computing ...

Few companies are ready to accept cloud computingTHE hype surrounding “cloud computing” has become deafening of late. Your correspondent suspects the evangelists, promoters and others hoping to cash in on the computing-services-in-the-sky movement are getting nervous about the way corporate customers, big and small, have not exactly rushed to embrace ...

RightNow Technologies on March 4 introduced its Cloud Service Agreement, which it claims will give clients far greater flexibility in negotiating contracts for its software-as-a-service customer experience applications. RightNow CEO Greg Gianforte contends the Cloud Service Agreement will make it easier and less expensive for prospective customers to ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used a speech at the University of Washington to suggest that the companys strategy moving forward will focus primarily on the cloud. Ballmer cited a number of services and platforms, including Windows Phone 7 Series and Xbox Live, as particularly cloud-centric. Microsoft faces substantial competition in ...

It's true that experience can be the best teacher, but there also can be real-world costs to learning things on the job. If mistakes are made, those costs can be substantial for a company's bottom line. That has proven harmful to many IT management careers. So when you want to ...

When Cloud Sherpas released its SherpaTools platform to beta last month, it became the latest product from a growing line of companies looking to not only resell Google Apps, but grease the wheels for companies trying to implement the cloud computing software. CloudSherpas, LTech, Appirio and other resellers of Google ...

Google on March 1 bought Web-based photo-editing specialist Picnik for an undisclosed sum, adding another cloud computing tool to its arsenal. Picnik lets users import their photos from Picasa Web Albums, Flickr and the other aforementioned sites and make changes to them. Google will be working hard to integrate Picnik ...