Cloud Computing

VMware, Inc., a provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced new VMware View™ Clients for Kindle Fire, Mac and Linux, along with updates to its popular VMware View Clients for Android and iPad. Offered as technology previews, the new VMware View Clients for Mac and Linux enable IT organizations to empower more agile, productive and connected workforce or school communities by providing an easy-to-access, high-fidelity desktop virtualization experience optimized for the device of their choice.

As part of a significant expansion in its cloud ecosystem announced today, Panzura, a leading provider of global cloud storage solutions, and Scality, scale out storage pioneer, announced full support for the Scality RING Organic Storage™ infrastructure, enhancing Panzura’s comprehensive public and private cloud storage solution for globally-distributed enterprises. These enterprises are increasingly embracing the PanzuraTM solution for seamless global file storage from edge to core due to its unrivaled levels of performance, security, and cost savings.

Nirvanix today announced that the University of Southern California (USC) will deploy over 8 petabytes of unstructured data on a Nirvanix Private Cloud Storage solution. The Private Cloud will be fully managed as a service by Nirvanix and will include digital content from multiple USC entities, including the USC Shoah Foundation Institute in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the USC Digital Repository, a division of the USC Libraries.

Ericom Software, a leading global provider of application access and virtualization solutions today announced Ericom AccessCloud – a new initiative aimed at facilitating the adoption of Cloud-hosted services, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Multi-tenancy, and billing and automatic provisioning solutions, by ISVs and cloud-hosting companies. Ericom AccessCloud provides a comprehensive solution for ISVs who want to both SaaS-enable their single tenant Windows client / server applications, and support their customers' migration of their IT services to a Cloud infrastructure.

Organic storage pioneer Scality and synchronization and collaboration specialist TeamDrive today announced the integration of Scality's cloud storage with TeamDrive's secure synchronization and collaboration solution. The result, a complete file-sharing and synchronization solution for private clouds, is aimed squarely at customers that want to provide a high degree of collaboration functionality and mobility, while also maintaining total security of data by encrypting data transfer and keeping it on their own infrastructure.

Parature, a global leader in cloud-based customer engagement software, announced today that Tacoma Community College selected Parature for online customer support to service its thousands of students, staff and faculty members, dramatically improving issue resolution times. Tacoma joins over 300 colleges and universities that rely on Parature’s cloud-based technology for their online customer support portal.