Tag: cloud
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Microsoft Dynamics ERP Moves to the Cloud on Windows Azure
Microsoft is unveiling yet another front in its intensive battle for the cloud, with the announcement at its Convergence 2011 conference that the next major releases of the company’s enterprise-resource planning applications will be running on the cloud-based Windows Azure platform. By positioning its Dynamics ERP offerings as a hosted service, Microsoft expands further beyond… Read more
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IBM Pricing Help Offered to ISVs Pursuing Cloud
Looking to make it easier for systems integrators and ISVs to provide cloud services, IBM is offering two pricing and financing programs that will enable them to pay for services the same way customers consume them — as they go. For SAAS providers that offer IBM software in their monthly subscriptions to clients, IBM will… Read more
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Ingram Micro Partners on Cloud with IBM, Others
Technology distribution giant Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) will partner with IBM (NYSE:IBM), Intermedia and Fujitsu to enable partners to build out their own cloud offerings to customers, the companies announced at Ingram Micro’s VTN Spring Invitational in Chicago April 11. Ingram Micro made the partnership announcements amid a storm of cloud announcements in the technology industry,… Read more
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Dell Makes $1 Billion Investment in Cloud, Virtualization Infrastructure
Dell is investing $1 billion in its current fiscal year in new data centers, solution facilities and technologies designed to broaden its capabilities in such areas as cloud computing, virtualization and converged infrastructure. Dell’s strategy, announced April 7, includes building 10 new data centers over the next two years—which will be spread out around the… Read more
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IBM Debuts Enterprise Smart Cloud Offerings
IBM has jumped head first into the public cloud space with its new IBM SmartCloud enterprise-class, secure cloud offering that has been specifically created to meet the demands of businesses. IBM introduced its new SmartCloud offering at an April 7 event in San Francisco. In an interview with eWEEK, Ric Telford, IBM’s vice president of… Read more
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Dell Research Center Targets Cloud, Storage
(Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) plans to open its first research center in California’s Silicon Valley this year to focus on cloud computing, storage and networking technology, with hopes of hiring directly from the tech-focused region. The world’s No. 2 PC maker said Tuesday that the new site will help it consolidate much of its… Read more