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Dell acquires Enstratius
http://www.dell.com/Learn/us/en/uscorp1/secure/2013-05-06-acquisition-enstratius Dell today announced the acquisition of Enstratius, an award-winning enterprise cloud-management software and services provider that delivers single and multi-cloud management capabilities. Enstratius helps organizations manage applications across private, public and hybrid clouds, including automated application provisioning and scaling, application configuration management, usage governance, and cloud utilization monitoring. The acquisition of Enstratius further enhances [...]
Dell delivers Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise edition
http://www.dell.com/Learn/us/en/uscorp1/press-releases/2013-04-30-dell-software-foglight-enterprise Dell Software today announced the release of FoglightTM for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition (formerly vFoglight Pro). Building on the success of the Quest vFoglight™ Pro virtualization management solution, Dell has re-branded vFoglight to Foglight for Virtualization to better align the solution as a core component of the Foglight family, and has added performance monitoring support [...]
HP Launches Industry’s Most Complete Software-defined Network Fabric for Cloud
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1399084&pageTitle=HP-Launches-Industry%E2%80%99s-Most-Complete-Software-defined-Network-Fabric-for-Cloud#.UYA7ycrFyes PALO ALTO, Calif., April 30, 2013 — HP today unveiled an industry-leading data center network fabric built on HP FlexNetwork architecture, enabling business agility for clients by delivering two times greater scalability(1) and 75 percent less complexity over current network fabrics(2) while reducing network provisioning time from months to minutes.(3) As companies move to [...]
Security implications of public vs private cloud
http://www.zdnet.com/security-implications-of-public-vs-private-clouds-7000014299/ Summary: Nothing, it seems, is more confusing than the difference between public and private clouds, and beyond that, the safety and security implications of using either type of service. So, in this article, we run down some of the basics. This was an interesting article talking about security implications and thoughts around public and [...]
UK Govt adoption of cloud technologies continue
http://www.zdnet.com/uk/whitehalls-cloud-portal-hits-all-time-sales-high-7000014330/ Adoption of cloud services by UK government bodies grew sharply in March, with sales through the public sector’s CloudStore portal during the month reaching more than half that of the entire year before. Sales of services through the CloudStore, the online portal where IT buyers can access over 3,000 cloud services made available to [...]
Dell SecureWorks and Globalcom deliver Managed Security Services
http://www.dell.com/Learn/us/en/uscorp1/secure/2013-04-18-dell-secureworks-reliance-globalcom Dell SecureWorks today announced a reseller agreement with Reliance Globalcom, a Vanco Group company which provides integrated telecommunications services worldwide. Reliance will be working with Dell SecureWorks to deliver Managed Security Services (MSS) to its customers, offering them one solution to meet all their security and networking needs. Dell SecureWorks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) [...]
CA Technologies acquires Layer 7
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/22/ca-acquires-layer-7-technologies-to-connect-cloud-mobile-and-internet-of-things-as-api-market-starts-to-consolidate/ CA Technologies announced this morning that it has acquired API management company Layer 7. It is the second major acquisition of an API management company in the past week, signaling a consolidation of a market that larger companies see as vital for closing the gap between on-premise and online infrastructure and apps. Last week, Intel acquired [...]
HP MoonShot – the basics, an overview
A brief summary of a conversation with a colleague when asked about the HP MoonShot announcement as we spoke on the train home. Two aspects to the HP MoonShot solution, the system and the server itself, details are below and were from memory, so do double check the HP site. HP MoonShot system – the enclosure [...]
School chooses HP Sentinel Security software to reduce threats and improve learning
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1396459#.UXG7rsrFyes SANTA CLARA, Calif. — HP today announced that Ballarat Grammar, an Anglican school located in Victoria, Australia, has selected the HP Sentinel Security software-defined network (SDN) application, part of HP Virtual Application Networks, to block network security threats and enhance learning opportunities for students. Ballarat Grammar’s network supports 1,400 students and 200 faculty members, [...]
Dell announces SonicWall Hosted Email Security
http://www.dell.com/Learn/us/en/uscorp1/secure/2013-04-18-dell-sonicwall-email-security-cloud Dell today announced SonicWALL Hosted Email Security 2.0, a cloud-based service providing advanced, multi-layered email threat protection backed by world-class 24×7 online and phone support. Hosted Email Security offers powerful inbound and outbound protection from threats including spam, phishing, zombie and malware attacks at an affordable, predictable and flexible monthly or annual subscription price. [...]
