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CA Automation Suite Enables Management of Multiple Hypervisors, Infrastructures
CA Technologies made a big splash in the cloud market this week with the launch of a spate of new updated products targeted to both enterprise customers and service providers interested in building out their public and private cloud offerings. Instrumental to the offerings is an integrated but free-flowing cloud system that avoids the kind…
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Cloud Sherpas Buys WaveAdept, a Google Apps Cloud Services Provider
Google Apps cloud service provider Cloud Sherpas announced it acquired WaveAdept, a Google Apps reseller and cloud service provider in New Zealand, as part of a strategy to expand in the Asia-Pacific region. WaveAdept, based in Wellington, N.Z., is the third company acquired by Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps partner, in the past six weeks.…
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GSA Goes Google With Help from Unisys, Tempus Nova
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has become the first federal government agency to shifts its more than 17,000 employees and contractors to the cloud by adopting the Google Apps for Government platform. The federal agency migrated its employees and contractors to Google Apps in a six-month period, and it just announced the completion of…
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Dell Launches OpenStack-Based IaaS Platform
Dell is hoping to give customers a turn-key open source cloud solution option as an alternative to proprietary, licensed software models with the launch today of Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution. With this first ever cloud solution based on the OpenStack platform, Dell’s banking on channel partners to help deliver open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service to customers and…
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IBM Announces New Cloud-Based Collaboration Services for Government
IBM has announced new cloud-based collaboration services to help U.S. federal government organizations adopt social computing. The new set of social collaboration services, delivered on IBM’s Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)-compliant Federal Community Cloud, addresses the administration’s drive to adopt a "cloud-first" policy which is designed to help the government improve its overall IT…
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First Church of Christ Scientist Goes Google
When The First Church of Christ, Scientist – a global church and international news organization – wanted to revamp its email systems to contain management costs for its global email network accessed by different types of end-user devices, cloud-based Google Apps seemed like a perfect fit. But the transition from the organization’s legacy on-premise Microsoft…