Government Cloud

Businesses should strategically think through cloud technology options before making an investment, Kevin King, director of corporate communications at Verizon Enterprise, wrote in a Wednesday blog post. King says that enterprise resource planning applications for financial and supply chain management account for a large percentage of cloud deployments and such investing behavior will likely to continue going […] More

The U.S. Defense Department has been gradually switching from physical information systems to a software-based virtual infrastructure, VMware executive Bill Rowan writes in a Defense Systems opinion piece. Rowan, vice president of VMware’s DoD team, says the shift is driven by the current fiscal environment as well as federal data center consolidation and desktop virtualization initiatives. “Today, […] More

SoftLayer has announced the opening of a new data center in Toronto as part of the IBM cloud company’s $1.2 billion investment to expand its presence worldwide. According to SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby, there is a need to provide a local facility for the growing number of Canadian enterprises that require cloud service solutions. “We […] More

IBM has received a U.S. patent for a new system the company built to help enterprises manage geographically dispersed cloud data in accordance with the law. The company said Friday it designed the cloud management technique for organizations to find a location or change the place where they keep their business data. Sandeep Ramesh Patil, an IBM […] More

IBM will deploy email and collaboration tools at Narayana Health in an effort to help the medical institution’s employees and stakeholders connect to a centralized information technology infrastructure. Narayana Health administrators and employees will have access to business class email, a calendar and contact management tool through a cloud environment by using IBM iNotes via Cloud, IBM […] More

Amazon Web Services and XO Communications have extended their AWS Direct Connect agreement to provide network connectivity for access to cloud at speeds of 50 to 500 megabits, adding to the current service supporting speeds of 1 to 10 gigabits. “Companies of all sizes are now looking for reliable, more secure access to cloud resources through direct […] More

Jim Reinhart, chief operating officer for development and operations at QTS, said the company has added hybrid connectivity to its enterprise cloud offering to give clients more options to fulfill their information technology requirements. “Our strategy for the QTS Enterprise Cloud has always been to make it scalable and cost-efficient for our customers, whose information […] More

Autonomic Resources has added new features to its cloud service offering in an effort to give government agency customers direct access to the platform. The company designed the new ARC-P On Premise to replicate the cloud platform on agency premise in order to deliver services that are similar for both physical and virtual machines, Autonomic […] More

Peruvian firm Khipu has adopted IBM company SoftLayer’s cloud platform to deploy its distance education program for teachers. The number of facilitators and instructors that use the Moodle e-learning platform has grown since its rollout in late 2013 as Khipu sought to adopt a flexible infrastructure, IBM said Thursday. IBM company said the result is a more robust platform to […] More

IBM and Computer Sciences Corp. have extended their partnership to develop services intended to help customers move into cloud environments. Jim Smith, executive vice president and general manager of CSC’s global business services, said Thursday that the company aims for the partnership “to modernize, mobilize, integrate, secure and manage the evolving global application ecosystem.” “As […] More

A MarketsandMarkets report on the healthcare cloud computing market forecasts the industry will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 20.5 percent in the years leading up to 2017. Revenue for health-focused cloud offerings worldwide is projected to grow from $1.8 billion in 2011 to $5.4 billion in 2017, MarketsandMarkets said Tuesday. The report indicates […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has joined Amazon Web Services‘ partner network to deliver integrated cloud computing offerings in the private and public sectors. Charles Onstott, vice president for cyber, cloud and data science at SAIC, said Thursday that the partnership with AWS is part of SAIC’s cloud portfolio growth strategy. “The ability to successfully integrate emerging […] More