Conservative Bank Treads Softly Into Cloud
As head of infrastructure at DZ BANK, Dr. Jan Vitt is cautiously leading the conservative German financial institution's investment into cloud. Germany, after all, has some of the most stringent privacy ...Full Article
Escrow Averts Service Provider Disaster
As more organizations rely on cloud service providers, they must consider how to handle unexpected outages that could impact day-to-day operations or the long-term capacity to access data or ...Full Article
Cloud Providers Must Spill Clients’ Secrets
Whether cloud falls under the bailiwick of IT or a business operation, gaining insight into data about usage, security, and other key metrics is an important – but sometimes ...Full Article
IBM Cloud Gets a Boost with Box Deal
IBM's partnership this week with Box, the enterprise collaboration software vendor, extends the reach of IBM's cloud services such as Bluemix along with its Watson artificial-intelligence technology to another ...Full Article
Red Hat Looks Beyond Enterprise With Samsung Deal
Amid a big week for the open source community, Red Hat announced a batch of new partnerships during its annual company event this week, including an alliance with consumer ...Full Article
Healthcare Cloud Adoption Driven by Use Cases
Healthcare organizations now rely on cloud to do more than support electronic medical records, recognizing the flexibility, efficiency, and productivity this architecture can deliver. " healthcare industry has lagged ...Full Article
Virtustream, Future EMC Unit, Gains U.S. Cloud Approval
Add Virtustream Inc., the cloud services and software provider acquired in May by EMC Corp., to the growing list of potential U.S. government cloud vendors. Washington-based Virtustream said Wednesday ...Full Article
Cisco Fills Out Intercloud Fabric Ecosystem
Cisco Systems this week rolled out what is says are the final pieces of its Intercloud Fabric that targets the growing enterprise shift to hybrid cloud infrastructure while allowing ...Full Article
Companies Enjoy Many Real Benefits of Virtualization
When it's time to adopt cloud, many organizations embrace virtualization as one of their initial steps in this transformative process. But in addition to setting the groundwork for a ...Full Article
Tight IT Budgets Could Slow Gov’t Clouds
The gears of government bureaucracy grind slowly, but gradually federal agencies are adopting cloud-based IT infrastructure and the enterprise tools it makes possible, according to a new market survey. ...Full Article