Cisco to Acquire Piston Cloud Computing
A wave of technology industry consolidation continues as established companies coping with market disruptions tap into their cash reserves to both acquire new capabilities while seeking synergies in areas ...Full Article
Switch Between Public, Private Clouds with Connected Cloud
Canadian managed services and telecommunications provider Ormuco today unveiled Connected Cloud, a hybrid cloud that allows enterprises to switch between private and public cloud environments. Based on HP Helion ...Full Article
Cloud Survey Finds Improving Data Security
Despite ongoing concerns about security and privacy in the cloud, a new survey finds that cloud providers are steadily improving data security while the growing availability of private cloud ...Full Article
EMC Boosts Cloud Strategy With Virtustream Deal
EMC Corp. moved to flesh out its managed cloud services business with the acquisition of enterprise cloud software and services provider Virtustream in a deal valued at approximately $1.2 ...Full Article
IBM Leverages OpenStack for Hybrid Workloads
IBM said during this week's OpenStack Summit it would shift those open-source services to its SoftLayer public cloud infrastructure, allowing customers to move OpenStack workloads across hybrid clouds. IBM ...Full Article
Intel Looks to Secure Containers
The world's largest chipmaker is entering the application container fray this week with the introduction of Intel Clear Containers, an outgrowth of its lightweight Linux operating system development effort ...Full Article
OpenStack Gets Bare-Metal, Storage Support
The OpenStack Summit in Vancouver kicking off this week will showcase a host a growing list of initiatives aimed at extending cloud services capabilities based on the open-source cloud ...Full Article
Data Breach Costs Could Hit $2T by 2019
Data breaches focused primarily on "traditional computing devices" rather than emerging connected devices are expected to increase the cost of cyber crime to an estimated $2.1 trillion by 2019, ...Full Article
Bracket Puts Security Controls in Enterprise Hands
To further promote corporate adoption of public cloud, Bracket Computing this week added to its software-based Bracket Computing cells architecture a security suite whose controls never leave enterprise customers' hands. Public ...Full Article
