Zurich Financial Services Group and CSC Sign New IT Services Contract in Europe and North America

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

CSC has signed a ten-and-a-half year master service agreement with Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) for data center and information technology (IT) infrastructure managed services. The master service agreement provides the framework for country specific agreements to be subsequently entered into by the local entities of each party. The master service agreement will become effective [...]

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Eutelsat Tooway Service Selected by SFR for its New Satellite Broadband Service for French Homes

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Eutelsat Communications announced the signature of a far-reaching contract concluded between its Skylogic broadband affiliate and SFR, one of the leading telecommunications operators in France. SFR has selected Tooway to meet demand for broadband from its customers beyond ADSL coverage. Called the ‘Satellite Internet Pack’ the new service supplied by SFR was launched today using [...]

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Platform Computing Announces General Availability of Platform ISF for Managing Private Clouds

Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced the general availability of Platform ISF, its dynamic IT solution for enterprises to build and run their private clouds. Responding to the cloud management requirements beyond what server virtualization can offer, Platform ISF creates a shared computing infrastructure from physical and virtual [...]

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Internet celebrates 40th birthday

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

By Simon Jeffrey
Today is the internet’s 40th birthday. Well, not exactly the internet but Arpanet – the Pentagon-funded research project that is the predecessor to the internet. Forty years ago, a simple message “Lo” (it was supposed to be “Login”, but the system crashed) was sent between two computers at two Californian research labs and [...]

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BT introduces virtual private network for remote workers

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

By Sally Whittle
BT has introduced a service that will allow remote employees to access corporate VPNs over the public internet.
The Hybrid VPN service, which is available in 130 countries, can be introduced across a business’s international locations quickly, as it uses the public internet, according to BT. It could also allow organisations to provide VPN [...]

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CSC Launches Cloud Assessment Service for Companies Moving to Cloud Computing

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Expanding on its current Cloud service offerings, CSC has announced it will launch a Cloud Adoption Assessment Service to help companies across the world identify the right business process and IT services when moving to the Cloud.
CSC’s Cloud Adoption Assessment gives businesses a head start in understanding the complexity of the Cloud Computing ecosystem. The [...]

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Worldwide sales of Ethernet access market rises to $935 million

Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Worldwide sales of carrier Ethernet access platforms rose about 17 percent year-over-year to $935 million in the rolling four-quarter period ending in the second quarter of 2009, according to the new Carrier Ethernet Access Platform (CEAP) Quarterly Market Tracker service published by Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), the market research division of TechWeb’s Light Reading (www.lightreading.com). CEAP [...]

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Cisco revs its acquisition engine

Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

By Marguerite Reardon
Network equipment giant Cisco Systems is feeling good enough about the economy to rev up its acquisition engine, pledging to spend more than $6 billion in a single month on smaller companies.
Cisco on Tuesday announced its third acquisition this month and its sixth acquisition so far this year. The company said it plans [...]

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