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NZX trades dairy derivatives on BT Radianz Cloud

The New Zealand market operator NZX, which focuses on the securities, energy and agri-business sectors, now provides access to its trading and market data services to members of the BT Radianz Cloud community.
Asia Cloud Forum editors 14-May-2013
Red Hat cloud customers gets Enterprise Linux via AWS
In an expanded partnership with AWS, Red Hat will enable its customers to bring their own licenses to AWS. Its customers in all five AWS Regions can also purchase supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux via AWS EC2 and procure EC2 instances with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Asia Cloud Forum staff 05-May-2011
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Wisconsin-Madison Uni supports scientific computing on cloud
The University of Wisconsin-Madison co-established The Center for High Throughput Computing with Red Hat to co-develop the Condor technologies for enterprise use. The university has been using Condor technologies to support a broad range of scientific computing projects and organizations.
Asia Cloud Forum staff 05-May-2011
BMC Software and Red Hat co-offer hybrid cloud service
The two companies announce to co-deliver a hybrid cloud architecture, which will be delivered as an integrated platform that will include the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
Asia Cloud Forum staff 05-May-2011
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Survey: 53% of SMBs hindered by limited funding
While almost half of the respondents in eight APAC markets are planning a cloud implementation within the next 18 months, 53% of SMB respondents said that cloud is a priority but were concerned that limited funding may hinder cloud computing implementation.
Asia Cloud Forum staff 04-May-2011
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Dutch media group paves way for virtual data center
Media group De Persgroep deploys new Ethernet fabric switches to deliver hard-hitting news to its 9.4 million daily readers and online visitors. The new network solution will help virtualize the company's data center and provide a platform for cloud migration.
Asia Cloud Forum staff 04-May-2011
Gartner: CIOs should manage unexpected costs of cloud sourcing
Regardless of whether organizations source their IT services through internal or external resources, the life cycle is a critical area to plan and manage before adopting cloud services.
Asia Cloud Forum staff 04-May-2011
9 vendors join NetApp partnership to enhance cloud transition
Signed partners include BlueFire, Interactive, Internet Initiative Japan, Iron Mountain, Logicalis, Quest Software, Rackspace, Siemens IT Solutions and Services, and Terremark. Partners will be able to use NetApp's tools for technical training and support for marketing and sales.
StorageAsia Editors 03-May-2011
Savvis acquired by CenturyLink for US$2.5 billion
The combined strength of Savvis and CenturyLink after the acquisition will include 48 data centers located worldwide including Asia, over 1.9m sq ft of gross floor space, a total of national 207,000 route mile fiber network and a 190,000 mile global access network.
Asia Cloud Forum staff 28-Apr-2011
China, India and Australia take 72% of APEJ IT service spending
APEJ IT services spending in 2011 is expected to grow by 8.7% over 2010, with China, Australia and India contributing 72% to the total spending. The two biggest drivers of APEJ IT spending are outsourcing services and new IT projects specifically on "cloud" and "smart infrastructure."
Asia Cloud Forum staff 27-Apr-2011
New Philippine cloud provider ready to host next Facebook
Philippine-based infrastructure provider ArcusIT launched its cloud computing solutions to Philippine businesses in January and last week boasted to be able to host "the next Facebook."
Eden Estopace 26-Apr-2011