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VMware Inc. has developed three new courses for information technology professionals who are interested in attaining education and certification in cloud computing. The classes on VMware vCloud, VMware View and VMware vSphere tackle classroom training,  data collection and analysis and address each phase of the design process, the company said …

Oracle has acquired Red Hat partner Nimbula as Oracle aims to integrate Nimbula’s enterprise-ready cloud software into its offerings. Details of the deal were not disclosed and the two sides expect to finalize the sale by the end of June, the Triangle Business Journal reported Wednesday. “Nimbula's product is complementary …

VMware is preparing to launch a new public cloud service and inviting its customers to participate in an exclusive private beta testing initiative prior to launch, Search Cloud Computing reports. Beth Pariseau writes the cloud service will be based on VMware’s cloud products such as the vCloud director. Under the …

Verizon has won a blanket purchase agreement to provide cloud computing products and services to the Agriculture Department aimed at helping USDA manage resources and meeting federal mandates. The company will deploy its Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition infrastructure to 34 USDA organizations under the enterprise data center cloud BPA, awarded …

Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have finished migrating the Environmental Protection Agency to a Microsoft Office 365 collaboration and communication cloud infrastructure. More than 22,000 EPA email users are in the Office 365 for Government cloud environment, which contains email, calendars, scheduling and collaboration tools for internal and external use, the …

Joe Kava, Google vice president of data centers, has said the search giant uses 10 governing rules when forming its data center strategies, GigaOM reports. Speaking at the Green Grid Forum in Santa Clara, Calif., Kava said that Google plans to build data centers worldwide to serve different regions. Ucilia …

Microsoft has acquired start-up cloud monitoring company MetricsHub for an undisclosed amount in a move. MetricsHub participated for three months in the Accelerator, Microsoft’s mentorship program through which it invests in 10 cloud-developing startups, CNet reported Monday. Participants then present their products to Microsoft executives and investors. As part of …

IBM will base all of its cloud computing services and software in an open cloud architecture as the company is aiming to help customers use interconnected data for mobile computing and business analytics. The company also released a new OpenStack-based private cloud software program intended to help manage enterprise-grade cloud …

Federal agencies face a mandate to seek cloud computing resources first when searching for avenues to host data and information technology resources. Through its ongoing cloud coverage, TheNewNewInternet keeps readers abreast of how GovCon firms are working with agencies to help them transition into cloud environments and new product releases …

Deloitte has won approval to host the Labor Department‘s litigation data outside of the department’s firewall as DOL intends to move to a cloud computing environment. The professional services firm obtained the authority-to-operate following a review of its information management security policies and information technology infrastructure under the Federal Information …

SAP AG and Portugal Telecom have expanded their international partnership to provide customers and developers access to a SAP HANA platform-based system in a moved aimed to help organizations manage business challenges. PT will make the developer edition of the SAP Business One application, version for SAP HANA, available to …

EMC Corp.’s security arm RSA and Juniper Networks have agreed to share intelligence aimed at helping clients defend networks from advanced threats and access cloud-based corporate resources via mobile devices. RSA will integrate its Live threat intelligence delivery service into Juniper's Junos Spotlight Secure global attacker intelligence service, RSA said Monday. …

SAP AG and Ericsson have signed a deal to jointly market cloud-based machine-to-machine services in a move aimed at helping enterprises adopt the M2M platforms. Ericsson will combine its network operator infrastructure, technology, services and solutions with SAP AG's enterprise business solutions to create a joint M2M infrastructure under the partnership, …

VMware, Ospero Ltd. and CloudCredo are partnering to launch a virtual datacenter designed to help European Union-based customers comply with data sovereignty laws. The Cloud Foundry-based platform-as-a-service system runs on Ospero.vGrid via VMware’s vCloud Director to manage datacenter services setup for storage, networking and security, Ospero said Monday. Ospero says …

World Wide Technology will start offering NetApp‘s flash products along with its enterprise storage products in a move aimed at providing customers platforms to help manage data center operations. WWT will offer customers the newly-launched NetApp EF540 flash array with both hybrid as well as all SSD storage offerings, WWT …