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Washington Trust Selects EMC and VMware for Private Cloud

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that The Washington Trust Company, the nation's oldest community bank, has built a high performance, cost effective private cloud with EMC

Financial Services Provider Calls on EMC VNX and VNXe for 100% Virtualized Environment

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that Safe Systems, Inc., a managed service provider for community financial institutions, selected EMC

HP Extends Converged Storage Leadership with New Storage Federation Technology

HP today expanded its Converged Storage portfolio with HP Peer Motion, new federated storage software that enables clients to transparently move application workloads between disk systems in virtualized and cloud computing environments. ...

Benner, TBA Group create joint venture focused on cloud

Two Brazilian vendors have formed a joint venture for a a cloud-computing company. Benner Systems, the third-largest domestic supplier of business management software, and TBA Group, a leading information technology conglomerate in Brazil, announced they created a joint venture called GlobalWeb Corp. This company...

Report: $53B investment in domestic 4G could spell $151B contribution to GDP, create 771,000 jobs

A new report from Deloitte L.L.P. claims the mobile industry could invest up to $53 billion in so-called “4G” networks by between 2012 and 2016, contributing up to $151 billion in gross domestic product growth and creating up to 771,000 jobs.The report, “The impact...

HP pulls the plug on webOS hardware, puts PC business on notice

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) came out with news on rapid fire today. The company killed its webOS device business, leaving the webOS software destined for an anticlimactic end, and announced that its PC business might be separated into another company or spun off in another...

Brazil should offer incentives to help cloud computing providers

Cloud-computing service providers should install their infrastructure close to their clients to mitigate risks, said Gartner VP Gene Phifer, adding that as cloud service providers deploy that strategy, they will want to have their infrastructure throughout the world, including Brazil. As such, "the Brazilian...

Irish Government and ICT – A symbiotic relationship

Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News Editor Sylvie Barak recently had the chance to take a close look at the Irish technology sector during a recent trip to the country. She delivered a feature report for RCR Wireless News which includes the following extract and...

Irish Government and ICT – A symbiotic relationship

Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News Editor Sylvie Barak recently had the chance to take a close look at the Irish technology sector during a recent trip to the country. She delivered a feature report for RCR Wireless News which includes the following extract and...

Texas School District Gives EMC VNX an A+

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that Alvarado Independent School District, an Alvarado, Texas-based district serving 3,200 K-12 students, has replaced its Dell Compellent storage environment with EMC

Convenience Store Chain Chooses IBM to Collaborate in the Cloud

ARMONK, N.Y., - 16 Aug 2011: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Russell's Convenience is transforming its business with cloud collaboration technology from IBM. ...

Cloud computing is in its infancy, Gartner VP says

Every company will adopt cloud computing in the near future, and even now a lot of enterprises don’t know it, but they are using some kind of cloud services. According to consultancy firm Gartner, 70% of companies with more than 1,000 employees have not...

Carriers should sell cloud-computing services

Cloud computing has emerged as a top priority and a long-term, cost-effective solution to store content, both in the enterprise space as well as with consumers. As mobile and fixed broadband penetration in Latin America spreads, operators seeking to rise up the value chain should consider...

Telefonica May Buy Acens for 75 Million Euros, Economista Says

Bloomberg | June 7, 2011 | Manuel Baigorri Telefonica SA (TEF) is close to buying Acens, a Spanish company that specializes in cloud computing, for about 75 million euros ($110 million), El Economista reported, citing unidentified people close to the negotiations. .... Read full article here via Bloomberg

Equinix expands to South America with Brazil data centre purchase

TeleGeography | February 23, 2011 Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, in partnership with Riverwood Capital, a technology-focused private equity firm, has agreed to acquire 90% of ALOG Data Centers of Brazil for around USD127 million, with a call option to take 100%...

Research and Markets: Cloud computing end-user analysis – Mexico

Business Wire | January 17, 2011 | News Wire DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b7c4e6/cloud_computing_en) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Cloud Computing End-user Analysis - Mexico" to...

Megapay and MJV Successfully Launch Brazil Mobile Payment Service

Megapay | January 13, 2011 | Press Release Megapay and MJV announce the successful launch of its Mobile Payment service in Brazil. (PRWEB) January 13, 2011 Megapay, a division of Hong Kong based cloud computing giant Megaworld, in partership with MJV, a Brazilian company that combines technology...

SMEs, corporations eager to adopt cloud computing – NEC – Chile

Business News Americas | January 4, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Chilean SMEs and corporations are "eager" to adopt cloud computing, enabling them to see savings in total cost of ownership and energy expenses, Jose Ignacio Rio, product and presales manager for Chile with Japanese telecoms...