Ylastic releases EU EC2 support
By Tarry Singh at 26 January, 2009, 11:20 am
Ylastic now supports the EU region and you can manage all of your EC2 resources within the EU easily. You can create,view,update and delete keys, groups, elastic ips, volumes, and snapshots within the EU. You can filter and search the AMIs across both US and EU, launch instances and manage them. Our daily PDF reports [...]
Read More >>VMworld Europe 2009: VMware expects over 5000 attendees!
By Tarry Singh at 14 January, 2009, 1:38 am
My serious advice to EMEA market is that they should not miss out the virtualization event in Cannes this year more than ever. Why? Well you will not find any one hanging around at VMworld. Not this year. All firms that are sending out their folks to VMworld are pretty serious about their business. No [...]
Read More >>RWE buys Dutch Energy firm Essent for €9.3 Bn
By Tarry Singh at 12 January, 2009, 10:08 am
Mr Grossman described Essent as the “perfect match”, which would help RWE tap the Dutch gas market as well as the retail market in both the Netherlands and Belgium.
Although Essent is much smaller than RWE – its €7.4bn turnover in 2007 was around one-fifth that of its German buyer – the acquisition will help RWE [...]
IBM signs a $100 million deal with Czech Finance Ministry
By Tarry Singh at 24 December, 2008, 11:45 am
IBM Czech Republic today signed an agreement worth approximately $100 million with the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic to deliver and implement the Treasury Integrated Information System. The contract was signed based on the recommendation of the tender commission nominated by the Czech Government.
The Treasury Integrated Information System is designed to enable [...]
EU lets Amazon EC2 in!
By Tarry Singh at 11 December, 2008, 8:24 am
In a move that will extend the Web’s biggest cloud to encompass much of the globe, the company that began as an online bookstore is opening its commercial server hosting platform to the EU.
The basic Amazon EC2 cloud services platform is now open to customers in the European Union. While this will bring Amazon’s managed [...]
CloudCamp Event on a Boat: Oct 30th 2008, Brussels!
By Tarry Singh at 8 October, 2008, 12:15 pm
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement [...]
Read More >>Amsterdam, Oct 21-24 2008: Gartner Data Center Summit, Are you coming?
By Tarry Singh at 5 October, 2008, 4:01 am
Are you going to be there. I’ll be meeting some industry friends there, do let me know if you can make it. Give me a call or mail me at tarry.singh (AT) gmail.com so we can meet up.
Agenda:
Flip through their online brochure
M&A : Euro weakens, Will Asian firms go after European companies?
By Tarry Singh at 26 August, 2008, 10:54 am
With Infosys buying in UK (although that may not have anything directly to do with the euro weakening, it was the pound that took the pounding that prompted Infosys to go strike).
Will the increasingly euro lead to Asia companies going after SI and other Consulting firms within the Euro such as CapGemini etc?
The Ifo index [...]
Indian Markets: Traning house Aptech ties with Italian firm
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2008, 11:15 pm
NEW DELHI: Learning solutions provider Aptech Ltd said on Thursday it had entered into a strategic tie-up with Italian training firm Seven Rings International to impart soft skills and corporate computing skill development among graduates.
Under the agreement, Aptech will be the exclusive training delivery partner in India for Seven Rings, which offers self development and [...]
Data Security breaches at both US and UK government installations!
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2008, 11:24 am
This only goes to show that stuff has leaked all the time. It’s time to secure those phreaking data theft and breaches!
Dear CIO, please read my lips:
Get a physical on your data security, get a barking dog like Gordon Ramsey in your shop and do the audit! Your trusted partner could have deployed some sub-contractors [...]
