Open source makes a lot of sense in rural areas and in third world countries. Lightweight and open source systems that are easy to use, and which allow normal users to become power users and contribute back to the open source community, can be ideal for countries like Cameroon, located in middle Africa. Source: Tech
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux now on Amazon's GovCloud
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The new offering, in which Red Hat manages base RHEL images, is available on an isolated part of Amazon’s cloud designed for U.S. government agencies RHEL is now available on Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud, an isolated part of Amazon’s cloud designed for U.S. government agencies. Source: Tech
CloudBees Raises $11m In Series C Financing
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Verizon Ventures Leads the RoundBrussels, Belgium – March 5, 2014 – CloudBees, Inc., the Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced it has closed an $11.2 million Series C financing round. The round was led by Verizon Ventures, the investment arm of Verizon Communications Inc. The round also included existing investors Matrix…
CloudSigma Partners with CompatibleOne to Allow for a Unified View of Computing Environments Across Locations
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Partnership Further Validates CloudSigma’s Commitment to Advancing Open, Flexible Cloud Environments Zurich, Switzerland – February 27, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that it is partnering with CompatibleOne, an open source, cloud-aware software platform that enables organizations to operate as a Cloud Services Brokerage. Through the…
Be Part of the Cloud-Enabled Infrastructure Evolution or Lose Your Competitive Edge, Telstra Global Tells Enterprises
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26 February 2014, LONDON: Speaking at Cloud Expo Europe in London, Nathan Bell, Director of Marketing, Products and Pricing at Telstra Global, told the packed conference that having cloud-enabled managed hosting will eliminate many of the overheads associated with traditional ICT, making it a crucial investment for any enterprise which hopes to succeed in the…
Why Multi-Cloud? Evolution, Freedom
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The ever-growing web as well as the `consumerization of IT` provide end users with an abundance of options and full discretion. We now understand the vital need to internalize the concept of spreading knowledge and information across a variety of applications and platforms as a means to thrive. Fortunately, we now have the opportunity to…
Breaking Down Enterprise Silos in the Cloud
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Are you re-creating existing technology silos in the cloud? If so, your entire enterprise investment in the cloud is at risk. From the perspective of IT, organizational silos seem to be the root of all problems. Every line of business, every department, every functional area has its own requirements, its own technology preferences, and its…
CloudBees And Verizon Add Enterprise PaaS To New Verizon Cloud
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Brussels, Belgium – February 19, 2014 – CloudBees, Inc., the Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced an agreement with Verizon Enterprise Solutions to make the CloudBees PaaS available on the new Verizon Cloud. This agreement is part Verizon’s ongoing strategy to add enterprise-class services to Verizon Cloud, the company’s new cloud…
Flexiant to play key role as Cloud expert for S-CASE project seeking to create a Developer Marketplace of Software Services
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Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator will play major part in Europe-wide project providing a cloud-based realm of services and tools for software developers to enable rapid software prototypingLondon and Edinburgh, UK – 7 February 2014 – Global cloud orchestration provider, Flexiant, today announced its involvement with the multi-national FP7 S-CASE project. S-CASE aims to provide cloud-based services…
IBM's suggestions for mid-market cloud security
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IBM gives recommendations that were designed to help mid-market decision makers think about and implement processes that would help make their uses of cloud computing services safer. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux