iTWire Technology Feature - Cloud Services
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NEC and CA Technologies team to secure smartphones & tablets

NEC has teamed up with CA Technologies to develop a cloud-based security service based on CA technology that will be offered to telcos and content service providers to enable them to manage and secure their customers' smartphones and tablets.
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Akamai's Blaze acquisition garners front-end optimisation technology

Content delivery specialist Akamai has acquired Blaze Software, which has technology to optimise web page rendering.
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TestPro selects IBM smart cloud solution

Software testing services company, TestPro, has selected IBM’s smartcloud enterprise solution to increase the flexibility and timeliness of its IT service delivery.
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ITU progresses cloud interoperability

The International Telecommunication Union's Telecoms sector (ITU-T) Study Group 13 (SG 13) has created a new working party on cloud computing.
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Macquarie Telecom and Dell greenfield data centre sites added to AGIMO panel

Macquarie Telecom's 'greenfield' data centre site in Fairbairn ACT has been added to the Federal Government's data centre facilities panel, even though Macquarie has not yet committed to building a data centre on the site. Also added is a site owned by Dell at Hume in the ACT.
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Cloudy outlook for the NBN - but that's good news

A New Zealand study into the potential applications and demand for high-speed broadband services has concluded that cloud computing services for consumers could be a major driver.
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Cloud alliance sides with Optus on copyright

OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
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Amdocs enables service providers to enter connected home market

Some subscribers just want their ISP or carrier to provide the pipes and then stay out of the way. But that tends to mean low margins, so providers are keen to provide additional services. Amdocs Connected Home allows ISPs and carriers to compete with 'over the top' providers of services such as remote security, health monitoring, and entertainment.
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AIIA wheels out cloud big guns

Australia’s peak ICT industry body is bringing Vivek Kundra, the former White House CIO and author of the Obama government’s Cloud First policy to inject some “fact” into the debate surround cloud uptake. Today of course Mr Kundra is an executive vice president with Salesforce.com – a company with a vested interest in talking up the cloud.
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Eventbrite says g'day to Australia with a freebie

Eventbrite has localised its ticketing platform for Australia, and is providing event organisers with an opportunity to try its services at no charge.
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Brennan IT rounds out its cloud portfolio

Leading Australian managed services and cloud computing provider, Brennan IT, is bringing Microsoft Hyper-V to its cloud platform following the recent $1.5 million upgrade of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform as it gears up to meet what it says is rising demand for its cloud services.
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OutSystems grabs PaaS data centres contract with US army

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, OutSystems, has snared a major contract with the United States Department of Defense to assist with consolidation in 962 of the army's data centres across the US by 2015.
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AustralianCloud, KiwiCloud select independenceIT

Cloud services providers, Australian Cloud and Kiwi Cloud have selected cloud workspace solutions company, independenceIT, to deliver services to meet the expanding cloud needs of their customers.
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Court finds Optus' 'cloud PVR' service does not breach Copyright

Telstra, the AFL and NRL have lost the first round in their battle to have the Optus TV Now service ruled in breach of the Copyright Act. However they are expected to appeal the court judgement handed down today.
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Riverbed tops Gartner's WAN optimisation Magic Quadrant

Gartner has positioned Riverbed Technologies well ahead of competition in its latest Magic Quadrant for wide area network optimisation vendors.
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Cisco's new WiFi access point helps networks meet BYOD demand

Cisco has introduced a new Wi-Fi access point designed to meet the demands placed on enterprise Wi-Fi networks by the influx of smartphones and tablets into the corporate environment.
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Data balloons and cloud bursts prompt rethink

The challenges which enterprises are facing in terms of managing ballooning end user data stores, and information stored on virtual servers or in clouds, has prompted CommVault to update its Simpana suite of information management tools, bringing forward the release of some functions originally slated for inclusion in Simpana 10 which isn’t expected to be released before 2013.

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