Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into …
10 most powerful IaaS companies
The 10 most powerful IaaS companies, assembled by Network World with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, …
Open-source data mapping tool CartoDB provides customisable views
Vizzuality this week launched an open-source data-mapping tool CartoDB, promising an easy and customisable way for users to display their …
IT investments deliver profits: research
Investing in IT departments can have a bigger impact on a firm’s profits than similar spending on R&D and some …
Sony division moves services from AWS to OpenStack
The division of Sony that suffered a cyber attack last year, which led to a major PlayStation network outage and …
Amazon automates business processes with new cloud service
Amazon Web Services has launched Simple Workflow Service (SWF), which will allow enterprises to automate business processes across both cloud-based …
Aiming high
Oscar Rodrigues, CEO of Extreme Networks, who visited the region recently, talks about why his company is a force to …
Rackspace to offer support for clouds in other data centres
Rackspace for the first time plans to extend its support services to OpenStack cloud implementations that reside within the walls …
Intel’s McAfee unit agrees to buy NitroSecurity
Intel’s McAfee unit is acquiring NitroSecurity in an effort to speed up risk and threat assessment capabilities via its security …
Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced yesterday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS …
Promise in public clouds
SNIA’s recent survey suggests that many companies are currently using or planning to use public cloud storage offerings in North …
Amazon steps up service security for government agencies
Amazon is stepping up the security and access features of its cloud services in an effort to attract more government …
Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix yesterday launched its first product, a slim, virtualised server that is clustered together with solid state and hard …
Dell debuts cloud-ready system
Using OpenStack cloud software, Dell has created a package of hardware, software and services that organizations can use to deploy …
Mindware to distribute AMD Radeon
Mindware, a regional distributor of IT products in the MENA region, has signed a distribution agreement with HIS, to distribute …
Red Hat becomes cloud service provider
Red Hat officials never seem to stop talking about cloud computing, but until recently all the company’s efforts were targeted at …
RackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in
Rackspace’s contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary …
Stuck with a duopoly
Is the middleware market becoming a duopoly, with users locked in to either Oracle or IBM? Loosely defined as software …
Infor EAM strengthens regional presence
The new relationship will include a channel partner distribution agreement for Infor EAM in the Middle East and builds on …
Scammers get better tools for tapping social networks
New tools capable of quickly finding, gathering and correlating information about individuals from social networking sites and other public sources …