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Red Hat’s OpenShift platform as a service goes live
Open source software developer Red Hat on Tuesday announced the commercial availability of OpenShift Online, the company’s public platform as a service (PaaS) offering. Red Hat announced the commercial...
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Global IT market tightening its belt, says IDC
Worldwide IT spending with and without mobile devices in constant currency (local currencies converted into US dollar). Source: IDC Research house IDC recently revised down its expectations for growth...
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Tearing down the walls of vendor lock-in
Gary Calcott, technical marketing manager, Progress Software Imagine the feeling, you’re sitting in a tiny grey prison cell, by no fault of your own. You have been wrongfully convicted and locked...
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Pivotal releases enterprise distribution of Cloud Foundry
Pivotal says multi-cloud support and data services integration will help the company win broad enterprise buy-in Following announcements made toward the end of spring, Pivotal, a subsidiary of storage...
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Salesforce switches focus from SaaS to mobile PaaS
Salesforce says its new, consolidated PaaS will help enterprises access Salesforce data more flexibly Salesforce took the wraps off its Salesforce1 offering Monday, marking the company’s bid to be more...
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Red Hat updates cloud pitch, focuses on PaaS and hybrid cloud
Red Hat has reorganised to keep Open Stack, hybrid cloud and PaaS at the heart of its strategy for the forseeable future The maker of the popular enterprise Linux distro Red Hat announced an update to...
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Pivotal spins off Cloud Foundry, gains SAP and Rackspace support
Cloud Foundry is being spun off from its steward, Pivotal, and an open source Cloud Foundry Foundation is being created with support from existing sponsors as well as new ones like SAP and Rackspace...
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IBM pours $1bn into PaaS, expands SoftLayer-based services
IBM announced a $1bn investment into its platform as a service, BlueMix, and said its continuing to add a range of its software and middleware onto the SoftLayer platform Continuing its hardware...
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CenturyLink turns on high performance cloud service as big data advances in...
Jared Wray, chief technology officer of cloud at CenturyLink, and founder of Tier 3 and Iron Foundry CenturyLink announced the commercial availability of hyperscale high-performance server instances...
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Java PaaS CloudBees gets $11m in series C boost
CloudBees raised $11.2m in series c funding, the company announced Wednesday Beligum-based Java platform as a service provider CloudBees announced Wednesday that the company secured $11.2m in series C...
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Verizon appoints Siki Giunta as global cloud head
Siki Giunta, head of global cloud business, Verizon Communications US telco Verizon announced Friday that the company has appointed former CSC cloud head Siki Giunta to lead Verizon’s global cloud...
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Eclipse working on IDE that transitions between cloud, servers and desktops...
Flux is still at the proposal stage and incumbents with a vested interest in PaaS have shown strong interest Ottawa-based open source foundation Eclipse is coordinating a project focused on designing...
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AWS, Salesforce, IBM leading cloud, research firm says
Research published Wednesday sheds light on the leaders and laggards in cloud in terms of Q4 2013, with Amazon, Salesforce and IBM coming out on top On the heels of Google’s aggressive cloud services...
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Red Hat results show OpenStack, OpenShift interest high, commercialisation low
Red Hat reported a better-than-expect Q4 2013 last week, and is looking to target OpenStack and OpenShift commercialisation strongly this year With $400m in quarterly revenue and 15 per cent year on...
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ElasticBox scores $9m for multi-cloud app deployment offering
ElasticBox announced Wednesday that the company secured $9m in new funding Multi-cloud app deployment and management firm ElasticBox announced Wednesday that the company has secured $9m in a series A...
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Cloud marketplace AppDirect raises $35m
AppDirect announced Friday that the company has raised $35m Cloud services and management company AppDirect announced Friday that the company has raised $35m in a round of funding led by Mithril...
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Red Hat launches OpenShift Marketplace to attract independent ISVs
OpenShift Marketplace is intended to give enterprises quicker access to partner services and attract more ISVs and users to the platform Red Hat announced the launch of OpenShift Marketplace this week,...
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IBM consolidates cloud services in marketplace, bolsters PaaS play
IBM has launched a marketplace for its cloud services and other third-party services that can be integrated into apps built with BlueMix, the company’s Cloud Foundry-based platform Enterprise IT giant...
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Ericsson, NTT and Verizon among eight new Cloud Foundry members
Cloud Foundry added eight members to the fledging group including IT heavyweights Accenture and Capgemini, BNY Mellon, Ericsson, GE, Intel, NTT and Verizon. The news further cements its position as a...
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HP unifies OpenStack and Cloud Foundry offerings, pours $1bn in open source...
HP unified its OpenStack and Cloud Foundry-based offerings and announced $1bn investment over two years in open source cloud efforts Hewlett-Packard said today that it will unify its OpenStack and...
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