Agriculture Company Cultivates Cloud Strategy with BMC Software and Cisco UCS

Just as retailers mark the holidays to clear their store shelves, agriculture companies look to the planting season to support sales and growth. Monsanto Company is also relying on BMC Software (NASDAQ:BMC – News) Business Service Management (BSM) to keep its IT running during critical seed selling seasons while enabling a large-scale virtualization effort and migration to cloud computing.

SAP Brings Customers More Choices to Benefit From Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructures

SAP Details Product Plans for Managing Virtualized and Cloud Infrastructures, Outlines Strategy for Collaboration With Customers and Partners; New Reference Architectures for Solutions from Dell and IBM Plus Continued Collaboration With Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Means More Choices for Customers to Increase Agility and Reduce Total Cost of Ownership in Private Clouds

The Future of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT

The report examines, analyses, and predicts the evolution of Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Green IT, their current and potential markets, and estimated industry outlays (expenditures) on selected key technologies over the next five years. Virtualization and Cloud Computing are complex Information Technologies, each one consisting of over 30 individual contributing technologies.

New Microsoft cloud service brings together Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync

Microsoft Corp. today announced Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next generation in cloud productivity that brings together Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service. Office 365 makes it easier for millions more organizations to get and use Microsoft’s award-winning business productivity solutions via the cloud. With Office 365, people can work together more easily from anywhere on virtually any device, while collaborating with others inside and outside their organization in a simple and highly secure way.

LogLogic Releases First Full Service Virtual SIEM Appliance

LogLogic, the leading independent SIEM and IT data management provider, today announced the release of the industry’s first full-service virtual SIEM solution. Leveraging the recently released LogLogic 5 software, LogLogic’s MX Virtual delivers all the functionality of LogLogic’s hardware-based appliances via VMware technology