eHosting DataFort believes that as the business models for Data center are rapidly changing with the increased adoption of managed services and the growing awareness of cloud computing that results in reduced costs, higherflexibility and lower risks. Yasser Zeineldin, CEO at eHosting DataFort said “Driven by the need to innovate and increase efficiency within their IT infrastructure to better serve customers,clients are now looking to make the transition to managed services and cloud computing.eHDF’s managed service offerings and experience with several organizations across the region are helping drive this evolution for customers,thereby enabling them to focus on new business initiatives.” Read More…

Microsoft today held a roundtable on Cloud Computing for the key CIO’s hailing from various prominent organizations in Qatar in association with its partners HP and Citrix. The roundtable offered CIO’s a different angle to approach technology utilisation in their organisations while moving their IT infrastructure into the Cloud. The roundtable also provided the CIOs with insights into how they could make the shift to cloud computing with a private cloud architecture which can dynamically allocate IT resources across business units, so that services can be deployed quickly and scaled out to meet business needs whenever they occur.Read More…

HP today announced the integration of 3PAR Utility Storage across the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to simplify scalable cloud computing, and introduced new storage solutions for virtualization and data deduplication. This integration enables clients to optimize cloud delivery with features like automated storage tiering to improve performance, and thin storage offerings to eliminate over-provisioning.Read More…

Cisco and BMC Software joined hands together to offer a new Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform, which will enable uutomation of large-scale cloud computing infrastructures. Both, the companies will align their product development roadmaps and technology architectures to offer worldwide customers a complete suite of solutions that simplify and automate the delivery of cloud services. This new joint solution helps cloud providers easily deploy end-to-end cloud services running on a cloud computing infrastructure that spans data center networks, computing systems, storage and applications.Read More…

SafeNet, a global provider of information security, has teamed with NetApp, an innovative storage and data management solutions provider, to offer a new approach to storage security solutions. This collaboration will provide customers with the ability to manage and protect their on-premise, cloud-based and virtualised data storage in a highly secure manner. According to a Gartner report, concerns about data location, data loss, and data security (privacy) are three of the top five barriers to cloud-computing adoption.
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