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| July 29, 2013

French business ISP Nerim has announced the acquisition of Boost, a software as a service (SaaS) provider and hosting company based in France.Nerim, which specialises in DSL technologies and was among the first to offer ADSL services in France, says the acquisition will help strengthen the company’s pitch to existing customers and enterprises with a bundled connectivity and cloud / hosted services offering....

CloudBees | July 24, 2013

Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider CloudBees announced Wednesday that the company has acquired FoxWeave, a provider of cloud-based services and data integration.The terms of the deal have not been made public but the acquisition will see the addition of native data migration and synchronisation services offered by FoxWeave, meaning developers will likely have an easier time integrating a variety of hosted services and data sources into applications....

Telcos | July 23, 2013

With nearly two decades of experience spanning the telecoms and IT sectors, Kassir Hussain, director of technology at British Gas and former telco innovation lead sat down to speak with Business Cloud News about a range of topics including how the cloud forms the foundation of the company’s new connected homes initiative, and his thoughts on how his former employers – the telcos – are faring in the increasingly competitive cloud arena.At the end of last year British Gas launched a product called...

| July 09, 2013

Despite growth in the popularity of the cloud and virtualisation many organisations still depend on antiquated datacentre infrastructure for their IT services, according to a global study commissioned by networking specialist Brocade.Brocade surveyed “IT decision makers” in the UK, France, Germany and North America.The study highlighted that while three quarters of enterprises have updated their IT environments in the past three years, 91 per cent of IT decision makers believe their current IT i...