Media Alert: Cisco to Unveil Networking and Cloud Computing Innovations at Cisco Live SAN JOSE, Calif. – Next week at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, Cisco will host two news conferences to discuss strategy and unveil new technologies for networking and cloud computing. The news conferences will be webcast via the U-Stream service. Tuesday, July 12, 2011 What: News Conference: The Next Generation Network – With customers: VeriSign and HCL Who: Cisco Senior Vice President, Core Technology Group, John McCool When: 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. PDT Where: To view the live program or the replay, visit
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Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps - Part 1 I’m enjoying work at the moment. Google and Microsoft are at each others throats again along with their well-wishers, supporters and haters. I’m none of these so I’m happy to monitor the arguments and in some cases the ridiculous, ill-informed rants of those who hate anything released by a certain company. The release of Office 365 has fueled the debate and the debate brings out all the flaws which is one of the things I’m most interested in. With the P1 plan Microsoft seems to have gone for a straight fight
Metanga Enhances Microsoft Cloud Adoption MetraTech, a provider of agreements-based billing and compensation solutions, has launched its multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based billing solution, on Microsoft Windows Azure. Known as Metanga, this solution will help Microsoft’s customers to monetize their Windows Azure offerings. It facilitates the adoption of Windows Azure to new audiences and also make Microsoft’s cloud platform more relevant. According to MetraTech, this announcement highlights its relationship with Windows Azure and continues its business relation with Microsoft. Metanga is a native Windows Azure building block solution, which provides Microsoft’s independent software vendor (ISV) customers with the shortest path to cloud-based
Liberate I.T. Establishes Cloud Presence in NZ with NetSuite Liberate I.T. will offer NetSuite’s cloud-based business management software suites to businesses in New Zealand. Partnership with NetSuite, a provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, will allow Liberate I.T., to gain cloud presence in New Zealand. NetSuite was chosen for this agreement after a thorough evaluation by Liberate I.T. that will now provide implementation and support services by leveraging its domain knowledge in IT, as well as best practices serving a wide range of businesses. According to NetSuite, it was recognized by Liberate I.T. for solution maturity, cloud infrastructure,
SAN JOSE, CA and TOKYO — (Marketwire) – 06/17/2011 – With intense competition and more than 130,000 attendees at Interop Tokyo 2011, Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) won top distinction for its industry leading Brocade MLXe core router and Brocade VDX Data Center Switch. The Brocade MLXe Series router was selected from more than 300 highly competitive networking solutions for the Special Prize: Infrastructure Building Products and Grand Prix: ShowNet Product Section. Additionally, the Brocade VDX Ethernet fabric switch also won the Grand Prix: People’s Choice for the show. The Interop Best of Show awards were created to help network architects and
Dell: CEOs May be Expecting too Much from Cloud IT professionals see huge potential in the Cloud, but say that CEOs may be expecting too much, according to a Dell sponsored survey of information technology (IT) professionals by independent market research firm, Marketing Solutions Corporation. The survey findings clearly reveal gaps between IT professionals and their non-technical senior executives regarding the potential of cloud computing. About 47 percent of respondent said they were most likely to view cloud as an extension of long-term trends toward remote networks and virtualization. 37 percent percent of those surveyed said cloud is a radically
Equinix Cloud Data Center Hosts Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange June 2, 2011 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global cloud data center services, and Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx), which recently received authorization from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission to provide Automated Trading Services (ATS), today announced that HKMEx is hosting its production core systems in the Equinix Hong Kong (HK1) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center. HKMEx aims to provide standardized exchange-traded products on a transparent pricing platform to participants trading during Asia-Pacific market hours. The first contract will be a 32 troy ounce (1 kilo)
