Independent Bank Builds Private Cloud Foundation with EMC and VMware

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Independent Bank Corporation, a Michigan-based bank holding company with $2.9 billion in assets, deployed EMC and VMware solutions to virtualize, consolidate and streamline its storage and server environments for increased efficiency and flexibility, and to better protect its key data assets.

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

Wyse Highlights VDI Solutions for Cloud Computing at IPExpo 2010

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced its participation in IPExpo October 20th to 21st at Earls Court 2, London. As the UK’s largest end-to-end IT infrastructure event, IPExpo provides an ideal opportunity to see the latest advances from Wyse in its cloud, virtualization and wireless solutions. Wyse is participating in both the exhibition and the seminar sessions, and is located at Stand 466.

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.

Agiliance Introduces Cloud Risk Management

New Software Services for Cloud Risk Assessment, Monitoring and Assurance Target Compliance, Security and Threats in Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Environments. Agiliance Inc., the leading independent provider of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions, today announced its Cloud Risk Management solution – encompassing risk-driven readiness, operations and audit software services for fast-evolving virtualized environments.

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.

Enhanced SAS IT Intelligence Software Includes Cloud, Virtual Servers

IT managers can now extract the intelligence they need to better manage virtualized servers and cloud computing architectures. A new version of SAS IT Resource Management enhances performance management and capacity planning for mainframes, distributed systems, networks, and other platforms, also includes a business intelligence reporting environment.