Pat Romanski

Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer Nortel is giving enterprises the opportunity to trial and evaluate its communications applications portfolio over the Internet using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(2) (Amazon EC2). The platform also provides a sandbox-environment for the Nortel developer community to build innovative and complementary applications through new technologies such as Web services. "Nortel's decision to provide access to its communication enabled business solutions over Amazon EC2 is yet another indicator that cloud computing is the future," said Sheila McGee-Smith, president and principal analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics. "Today Nortel is giving their customers, application developers and business partners both a platform to create and test combining enterpri... (more)

Savvis Selects The Vitality Group to Help Improve Employee Health

Healthcare Innovation Journal The Vitality Group announced that Savvis, Inc. has selected its incentive-based wellness program to motivate and support Savvis associates as they take ownership of their personal health. Savvis, one of the largest IP network and hosting providers in the world employs more than 2,200 employees. The Vitality program will be made available to its U.S. employees... (more)

COMMCO Switches From SAP R/3 Cloud to NetSuite OneWorld

Cloud Computing Journal NetSuite announced that COMMCO LLC, a Kansas City-based distribution and light manufacturing company and a leading home improvement millwork distributor, is the latest company to successfully switch from SAP R/3 to NetSuite OneWorld, going live on time and on budget, and providing the Kansas City-based company substantial savings. In an effort to modernize its bus... (more)

Platform Computing Advances Cloud Computing for HPC

Cloud Computing Journal Platform Computing is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high performance computing (HPC) with two new offerings. The company announced the release of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster, a product that dynamically changes the operating systems and personalities of compute nodes managed by Platform LSF and Platform Symphony. It effectively increases application c... (more)

Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualization Platform for Clouds

Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the newest product set in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is designed to enable pervasive adoption of virtualization, with a comprehensive end-to-end solution combining a standalone hypervisor and powerful virtualization management. ... (more)