It recently launched in Dubai a mobile cloud center which will provide a variety of cloud and data center services to companies in the region.
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The Cisco Global Cloud Index was developed to estimate global data center and cloud-based Internet Protocol (IP) traffic growth and trends.
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Tom is the CEO and co-founder of Centrify Corporation, a software and cloud security provider that delivers unified identity services across data center, cloud and mobile.
Last week Staples launched their App Center for cloud based business applications.
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Corporate IT remains one center of cloud computing, but more technology workloads are coming under the domain of business line managers.
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SeaMicro technologies offer substantial advantages in large data center and cloud environments.
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My views on the subject were strengthened today after a long conversation today with Simon Crosby, the CTO of the data center and cloud division at Citrix Systems (CTXS).
In the cloud department, Intel datacenter experts will team up with a separate group at Carnegie Mellon to form the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing (ISTC-CC, to initiates).
We will see more data center based cloud storage (both private and public) as well as user clouds with addressable storage in a home or small office NAS device or even in a mobile storage device.
Andy Park, Vijay Manwani, and Ravi Reddy previously founded data center software and cloud automation company BladeLogic, which was acquired by BMC Software in 2008.
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For example, you may choose to encrypt the data so if it moves away from the data center to the cloud, you have an extra layer of security.
In many appreciable ways, moving a data center to the cloud reduces the number of boxes CIOs and IT leaders need to check off their lists, but there are still issues to be aware of.
Rackspace took over an abandoned shopping mall in downtown San Antonio and built an amazingly scaled-up cloud hosting center.
The business ecosystem Watson epitomizes ranges from the chip and server makers, to Cloud data center builders and operators.
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SMBs often lack IT staff or expertise to address security and data issues, especially in the event of a cloud data center outage.
Compared to a fully virtualized data center, especially a data center that makes use of private or public cloud resources, a physical data center moves at a snails pace.
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In 2011, 30% of data center workloads were processed in the cloud, with 70% being handled in a traditional data center, but this is shifting very rapidly, Cisco says.
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Strategic services include Verizon Terremark cloud and data center services, security and IT solutions, advanced communications, and strategic networking.
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If Deltacloud succeeds, an application should be able to be created that can run on a VM in a data center, on a private cloud infrastructure, or on the public cloud without modification.
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Verizon Enterprise Solutions launched a comprehensive cloud and data center infrastructure portfolio specifically designed to help the health care industry meet the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic protected health information.
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In fact, in what was perhaps most interesting is the remark by CEO Steve Jobs that they are moving the Cloud to the center of the computing experience, and turning the Mac and PC into just another device.
The PaaS market is quickly becoming a center point for the fast growing cloud sector.
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He ran the cloud-based call center service LiveOps and currently has his hand (and funds) in some 45 startups.
SmartThings promises to let you do just that, offering a system that connects everyday physical objects to a cloud-based control center.
Finally, what would a data center discussion be without including the cloud.
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Secure, easy to manage, end-to-end solutions from the cloud to the data center to devices remain at the core of our value proposition to you.
Additionally, data center infrastructures need to enable shifts towards cloud computing and enhanced mobility, and applications will need to follow suit.
Customer contact center managers: Well-versed with cloud-based offerings such as LivePerson.
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