Abiquo on Tuesday announced that its award-winning solution was selected by
Claranet to power its recently announced Virtual Data Centre offering.
Claranet's Virtual Data Centre is an integrated Infrastructure as a Service
offering available to the European market. Combining the provision of network
and compute resources, it offers a new way of managing infrastructure to
Claranet's customers, addressing the key proposition of cloud deployments:
the ability to control costs, scalability and speed of implementation.
Pete Malcolm, Abiquo CEO, noted that "Claranet is a great example of how
Managed Service Providers use our technology to build sophisticated,
self-managed cloud solutions for their customers."
Key to meeting Claranet's needs is the ability for its customers to have
complete control over their virtualized environments, not only in the
provisioning of virtu... (more)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta of their new storage
gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage
Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in
your data center site.
With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing
standalone gateway appliance products (e.g. Nasuni, Certa, etc) along with
those who have disappeared from the market (e.g. Cirtas). In addition to
gateway vendors, there are also those with cloud access added to their
software tools such as (e.g. Jungle Disk that access... (more)
London, United Kingdom, January 26, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Global Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) firm, Ospero, is proud to announce the launch of its new
"Distribution as a Service" (DaaS) offering, to mark the fifth annual
International Data Privacy Day on 28 January 2012.
With EC Justice Commissioner Viviane Redings’ "Privacy by Design" ethos at
its heart, Ospero’s new DaaS offering will help the software industry
prepare for forthcoming changes to the European Commission Data Directive to
be announced in Q1 2012 by Viviane Reding.
The Ospero DaaS platform is aimed at SaaS, ISVs a... (more)
The GC Community Cloud ITSS documentation stipulates the Cloud service
specifications that the Government of Canada plans to deploy, and can be used
by external commercial providers as well as internally by Shared Services
Canada users.
They provide technical design blueprints for security configurations to
ensure Cloud environments are compliant with Government of Canada standards.
Primarily they can be used as industry-wide product specifications because
they’re based on the NIST models that are now universally recognized as the
default Cloud Best Practices, and relate to how s... (more)
The previous blog talked about Municipalities beginning to move into a mode
where they not only buy in Cloud services, but they also become a seller of
them too.
Research analyst IDC calls these ‘Cloud Hubs’ in new insights they are
revealing about how this effect is already occuring in the USA, with
municipalities buying from ‘upstream’ State-level providers, and also
selling to them too.
It’s clear there is a very powerful story about the potential for new
revenue sources and local economic development, as well as a new mode of IT.
Government Cloud Hubs
The fundamental buildin... (more)
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