Verizon Business Expands Asia-Pacific Cloud Capabilities

Brings Computing as a Service Offering to Hong Kong Data Center to Meet Growing Demand for In-Region Cloud Services. Adoption of cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region continues to grow dramatically, and Verizon Business is meeting that demand by extending its flagship cloud-computing solution into the company’s recently opened Hong Kong data center.

Virtuon Paves Fast-Track to the Cloud and Gives New Life to Old Applications

Virtuon announced today it has unveiled a Virtual Application service based on cloud computing and virtualization technology. The new service allows software developers to put their applications immediately in the cloud as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering with no development or rewrite effort.

Virtustream’s xStream Advisor Optimizes Cloud Computing Deployments

Virtustream introduced the xStream Advisor (ADvanced VIrtualization Strategic Opportunity Review), a structured multidimensional analysis and reporting solution with an integrated suite of software tools and professional services designed to deliver comprehensive analysis, reports and plans to prepare companies for cloud computing deployments.

Committee to Advance Identity Standards for Cloud Computing

The international consortium, OASIS, has formed a new group to address the serious security challenges posed by identity management in cloud computing. The new OASIS Identity in the Cloud (IDCloud) Technical Committee will identify gaps in existing identity management standards and investigate the need for profiles to achieve interoperability within current standards.