• Citrix links cloud-based storage to SharePoint and Azure

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 May, 2013 17:01

  Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data on Azure.

• Rackspace to help customers debug their programs

  By Joab Jackson | 14 May, 2013 17:29

  Facing fierce competition in the market for cloud services, hosting provider Rackspace has pledged to help its users debug the programs they'll run on Rackspace's OpenStack platform.

• Optus Business restructure integrates Alphawest, NCS

  By Adam Bender | 02 May, 2013 13:12

  Optus has completed a business restructuring that integrates Optus Business with Alphawest and SingTel subsidiary NCS. The groups, which serve enterprise and government customers, previously operated separately.

• 10gen expands MongoDB with storage service

  By Joab Jackson | 30 April, 2013 20:51

  Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store.

• Amazon looks to move security appliances to the cloud, says CISO

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 April, 2013 09:52

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud.

• Enterprises look for help managing security logs

  By Ellen Messmer | 22 January, 2010 08:05

  Managed security services have been growing in popularity over the past several years, and the latest task enterprises are looking to offload to an outside provider is security information management.

• ANZ to Spend $500m on Managed Network and Services

  By Tim Lohman | 05 May, 2009 10:04

  Singtel-owned telco Optus is provide telecommunications and managed networks service to the ANZ bank under a new $500 million, five year contract.

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