IBM announced plans to open a center of excellence in New York City to help financial services firms adopt open-source virtualization technologies. The company’s new Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) Center of Excellence in New York is the second such center established by IBM in the past five months; it opened the first last December in Beijing. The...
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Microsoft took advantage of its U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit last week to announce eight new public sector customers for its cloud-based Office 365. The new government and education customers are the City of Kansas City, Mo.; the City of Seattle; the University of Miami; California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State); the University of...
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Identity and access management (IAM) provider Aveksa, Inc., have partnered with GuidePoint Security, a cloud, mobile and application security provider. As part of this new partnership, GuidePoint Security will resell both Aveksa’s cloud-based and on-premise IAM solutions to its base of global customers. In addition, GuidePoint will provide valued-added...
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Taxi drivers and their passengers in San Francisco are about to take their trips into the cloud. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board last week said it will require all of the city’s 1,700 taxis to install equipment to collect real-time location and occupancy data to smart phone application developers, which will feed into a...
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Napier Park Global Capital has chosen Options, a provider of Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) products for the global capital markets industry, as the fund’s technology infrastructure. Napier Park, a Citigroup spinout, is an independent alternative asset management firm with about $6.8 billion under management. “Evolving market conditions have...
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