SuperVessel open access cloud for OpenPOWER
IBM has announced the availability of SuperVessel cloud, a development and learning environment for the OpenPOWER Foundation.
SuperVessel has been developed by IBM Systems Labs and IBM Research based in Beijing. It...
Xero ups the ante for online accounting
Life seems to be one big bowl of cherries for cloud-based accounting vendor Xero. At Xerocon US, it announced that subscriber numbers worldwide had passed the 500,000 mark. Not bad for...
Amazon Web Services email risks customer data
Amazon Web Services has begun to send out emails threatening to close customer accounts unless they provide large amounts of personal data via fax.
The emails started going out on 20th May...
OpenStack interoperability and federated identity
At the OpenStack Summit taking place in Vancouver Canada, the two big announcements from day one are interoperability and federated identity. Both of these announcements should help reduce the concern that...
Oracle brings Database as a Service to OpenStack
Oracle and Mirantis have announced that they will collaborate to bring Database as a Service (DBaaS) to OpenStack.
The plan is to enable Oracle Multitenant on the OpenStack Murano application catalogue making...
Mirantis to gain Platform as a Service
Mirantis and Pivotal have announced that they intend to integrate Cloud Foundry with OpenStack. The detail of the announcement was laid out in a blog by John Jainschigg, Technical Solutions Marketing...
ABBYY digitises CaixaBank
ABBYY has won a deal with CaixaBank, Spain's third largest bank, to digitise more then 25 million documents. The documents are part of an archive that CaixaBank inherited when it acquired...
CTERA releases enterprise Data Services Platform v5
CTERA has announced that after two years of work it has finally finished the CTERA Enterprise Data Services Platform v5. Citing it as a major milestone Liran Eshel, CEO and co-founder...
IBM Power powers ahead
IBM Power Systems has announced a number of new servers aimed at hybrid cloud, big data and analytics. Last week IBM announced two and four socket POWER8 appliances aimed at the...
FreeStor aims to unify data services
FalconStor has released FreeStor a software defined storage layer that the company claims will deliver unified data services. First announced back in February, FreeStor is being released in two phases.
The first...