Thursday, July 7, 2011

TradeStation Extends Services Contract with Savvis for Market Data and Colocation Facilities

TradeStation has extended its existing services contract for network services for an additional two years, and is expanding the scope of the agreement with Savvis to include colocation facilities. Low-latency is a big factor for TradeStation.


View article...

Domino's Pizza chooses Rackspace hybrid hosting system in the UK

Domino's pizza has selected Rackspace's integrated cloud hosting and dedicated managed hosting service RackConnect to provide its online business demands. They will be paid in coupons!

Domino's Pizza chooses Rackspace hybrid hosting system for new online platform - SC Magazine UK

Cloud Lessons & LeMans Racing

I have to admit I hadn't considered motor sports and cloud together…

 

"Migration to cloud infrastructure and motor car racing have some interesting parallels. As Henry Ford II found out in 1964, just pulling together a team (solutions framework) with the right skills and components doesn't mean your plan is fool-proof. Factors outside the framework can still ruin your..."


View article...

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Are You Making Your Data Centers Cloud-Friendly?

From CIO.com: Data center construction is growing ever more complex and expensive as data center facilities expand to meet enterprises' seemingly limitless computing needs.


View article...

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

NetHosting Announces Support for CentOS 6

July 5, 2011 -- Web host NetHosting announced recently that its hosting services will support CentOS 6. CentOS 6 was supposed to be launched on Monday, according to the press release.


View article...

Forget public; private clouds: The future is hybrids! says Rackspace

The cloud is a platform, like that of the desktop and mobile industries, where the same issues occur. So how can these issues be alleviated? "Open source is the answer," according to Lew Moorman, Chief Strategy Officer and President of the Rackspace Cloud. "Just like Apache built the web, open source cloud solutions will drive standards to eliminate these issues."


View article...

NTT America Names New Executives in Support of MNC Customer Growth

NTT America has filled three key executive positions that focus on corporate sales and streamlined corporate processes.

Michael DeVito is appointed the new vice president for enterprise solutions. Reporting to the head of the Enterprise Solutions Business Unit, Mr. DeVito will have responsibility for both the business management and network services teams, which operate the Arcstar network, determine pricing, product marketing and bid management, and deliver enterprise sales. Mr. DeVito comes to NTT America with more than 20 years of leadership experience in building and managing highly successful technology services businesses in competitive global markets across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. He has held executive positions at BT Global Services, Equant Network Services (now Orange Business), Qwest and MCI. His strength in Fortune Global 1000 sales, leadership in enterprise network services and tenure in the industry will enable NTT America to better serve enterprise customers that have growth goals to expand their business globally.

Reporting to Michael DeVito, Bryan Tam has been promoted to vice president and head of enterprise sales. In this role, he is responsible for day-to-day management of the sales team focused on Fortune Global 1000 and multinational corporation (MNC) sales for public and private network services, colocation, unified communications and managed security services. Mr. Tam has more than 28 years of experience in management, solution selling and global relationship building. He joined NTT America 10 years ago and previously was regional vice president of enterprise sales for the Northeastern, Central, and Southeastern regions of the United States. Mr. Tam has significant sales experience with Fortune Global 500 companies, is an expert on information technology in China and India, and speaks several Chinese dialects. He is also actively involved in a variety of company-wide initiatives including NTT America's Kaizen (continuous improvement) programs.

To further strengthen NTT America and contribute to the next level of competitiveness, Jun Nojima has been appointed to the newly created role of chief administrative officer (CAO). In this role, Mr. Nojima will have responsibility for corporate marketing, human resources, corporate strategy and legal.  He will work to increase NTT America's efficiencies as an organization, while interfacing with other NTT group companies in a more holistic fashion. Mr. Nojima is a 23-year veteran of NTT, and brings a wealth of experience and contacts to the office of the CAO. Most recently, he led the Enterprise Solutions Business Unit as the vice president and head of sales and marketing, a position to which he was appointed in January 2010. Previously, Mr. Nojima was head of global marketing for NTT Communications at the Tokyo headquarters. He received his Masters of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in 2009.

"The wealth of experience with global 1000 companies that Mike, Bryan and Jun bring to the table ensures that NTT America has the best leadership to continue the growth of our business in the upcoming years," said Kazuhiro Gomi, president and CEO of NTT America. "We welcome Mike on board and congratulate Bryan and Jun on their new positions."